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...by Charlotte M. Yonge A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Heir of Redclyffe by Charlotte M. Yonge is a publication of the Pennsyl... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ...pity! How did it happen?’ ‘Never mind,’ she answered; ‘it will last a long time in wa- ter.’ ‘It was very unlucky—I am very sorry—especially because o... ...k of apoplexy yesterday evening, and never spoke again, though for a short time he knew me. We hope he suffered little. Markham will make all arrangem... ...on, thank you,’ replied Philip. ‘I must see about my leave; only we should first settle when to set off.’ 8 The Heir of Redclyffe This arranged, Mr. ... ...ween Hugo de Morville, who murdered Thomas a Becket, and his namesake, the first Baronet, who lived in the time of William of Orange, when the quarrel... ... absorbed, his eyebrows relaxed, a look of earnest interest succeeded, his countenance softened, and when Fra Cristoforo humbled himself, exchanged fo... ...e. Note the tokens of divine grace, His ardent eyes, what a spirit, what a countenance is His; yet His very resemblance to His mother denotes sufficie... ...w; but he has no constitution, there is a tendency to low fever, and if he meets with any severe illness, it will go hard with him.”’ ‘How glad I am I...

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Excerpt: The History of Tom Jones, A Foundling by Henry Fielding: Volume Two, Containing Books IX through XVIII.

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...elding: Volume Two, Containing Books IX through XVIII is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ..., for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ... true and genuine in this historic kind of writing, from what is false and counterfeit. Indeed, it seems likely that some such mark may shortly become... ...ither to the great impoverishing of book sellers, or to the great loss of time and depravation of morals in the reader; nay, often to the spreading o... ...are in a pretty high de gree necessary to this order of historians. The first is, genius, without a full vein of which no study, says Horace, can a... ...re both historians of our order, were masters of all the learning of their times. Again, there is another sort of knowledge, beyond the power of lea... ... and be capable of feeling. The author who make me weep, says Horace, must first weep himself. In reality, no man can paint a well which he doth not f... ...ain purposes in their intention, which, though tolerated in some Christian countries, connived at in others, and prac tised in all, are however as ex... ... but to be sure the servants make no scruple of saying as how her ladyship meets men at another place—where the house goes 584 The History of Tom Jone...

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...Excerpt: Chapter 1. Lakeside was a pleasant little town of five or six thousand inhabitants, and a rather pretty one, too, as towns go in the Far West. It had church accommodations for thirty-five thousand, which is the way of the Far West and the South, where everybody is religious, and where each of the Protestant sects is represented and has a plant of its o...

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...Contents THE $30,000 BEQUEST ............................................................................................................................................. 5 A DOG?S TALE ...................................................

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... i i i i n n n n n A PSU Electronic Classics Series Publication The $30,000 Bequest and Other Stories by Mark T wain (Samuel L. Clemens) ... ...and Other Stories by Mark T wain (Samuel L. Clemens) is a publication of the Penn sylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnish... ............................................ ........................ 143 THE FIRST WRITING MACHINES ....................................................... ...climbed steadily up, a hun dred dollars a year, for four years; from that time forth his wage had remained eight hundred—a handsome figure in deed, ... ...h—like himself—a dreamer of dreams and a private dabbler in ro mance. The first thing she did, after her marriage—child as she was, aged only ninetee... ...and crusty. Sally had tried to make up to him once, by letter, in a bygone time, and had not made that mistake again. Tilbury now wrote to Sally, sayi... ...; they were in every board of directors of every prodigious combine in the country; and still as time drifted along, the millions went on piling up, f... ...ths right along as fast as they turned up. It is the first wrong step that counts. Every Sunday they put in the whole day, after morning service, on i... ...is appear ance. Not a murmur is heard from her lips. On the contrary, she meets him with a smile—she caresses him with tender arms, with all the gent...

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............... 6 CHAPTER I JULIUS CAESAR. B.C. 55 ........................................................................................ 6 CHAPTER II THE ROMANS IN BRITAIN. A.D. 41?418.......................................................... 8 CHAPTER III THE ANGLE CHILDREN A.D. 597.................................................................... 10 CHAPTER IV THE NORT...

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... Young Folks’ History of England by Charlotte M. Yonge is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ...ould not do for him. Julius Caesar heard that a little way off there was a country nobody knew anything about, except that the people were very fierce... ...ame again the next year, and forced their way a good deal farther into the country, they saw chiefly bare downs, or heaths, or thick woods. The few ho... ...its of their walls are to be seen still, built of very small bricks. Some- times people dig up a bit of the beautiful pavement of col- ored tiles, in ... ...el faces, and they ought to be heirs with the angels in heaven.” From that time this good man tried to find means to send teachers to teach the Englis... ...t, King of the West Saxons, who reigned at Winches- ter, is counted as the first king of all England. His four grand- sons had dreadful battles with t... ...sent his wife Emma, and her children, leaving his eldest son( child of his first wife), Edmund Ironside, to fight for the kingdom as best he might. Th... ...s the sands in this bay when the tide is low, but when it is coming in and meets the rivers, the waters rise suddenly into a flood. So it happened to ...

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Excerpt: The Divine Comedy, Volume Three, Paradise [Paradiso] by Dante Aligheri, trans Charles Eliot Norton.

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...Contents CANTO I. Proem.?Invocation.?Beatrice and Dante ascend to the Sphere of Fire.?Beatrice explains the cause of their ascent.......................................................................................................................................................... 6 CANTO...

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... Charles Eliot Norton A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The Divine Comedy, Volume Three, Paradise [Paradiso] by Dante Aligheri, tra... ...aradiso] by Dante Aligheri, trans Charles Eliot Norton is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...t. John appears,with a brightness so dazzling as to deprive Dante, for the time, of sight................................................................ ...so fix himself upon it. And even as a second ray is wont to issue from the first, and mount upward again, like a pilgrim who wishes to return; thus of... ...en, the true home of the soul. 9 Dante – Paradise If I was divested of my first doubt by these brief little smiled- out words, within a new one was I... ...oint out to me the Bears. Ye other few, who have lifted tip your necks be. times to the bread of the Angels, oil which one here subsists, but never be... ...ustice. 3 The abode of all the blessed is the Empyrean,—the first circle, counting from above; but there are degrees in blessed- ness, each spirit en... ...Dante – Paradise this has my preceding speech been so precise. On this ac- count it was necessary for the Hebrews still to make offer- ing, although s... ...he Papal palace at Viterbo. He is the only Pope of recent times whom Dante meets in Paradise. 35 The famous doctor of the Church, patriarch of 36 Bo...

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Excerpt: This publication of The Divine Comedy of Dante - Purgatory, Translated by H.F. Cary.

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...Excerpt: My dear Walkley, you once asked me why I did not write a Don Juan play. The levity with which you assumed this frightful responsibility has probably by this time enabled you to forget it; but the day of reckoning has arrived: here is your play! I say your play, because qui facit per alium facit p...

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...rman: A Comedy and a Philosophy by George Bernard Shaw is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnishe... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ... with which you assumed this frightful responsibility has probably by this time enabled you to forget it; but the day of reckoning has arrived: here i... ...rdly fifteen years since, as twin pio- neers of the New Journalism of that time, we two, cradled in the same new sheets, made an epoch in the criticis... ...at is why we insist on beauty in our performers, differing herein from the countries our friend William Archer holds up as examples of seriousness to ... ...nience—of not explaining yourself, I have had to discover this for myself. First, then, I have had to ask myself, what is a Don Juan? Vulgarly, a libe... ... piously ever after. After these completed works Byron’s fragment does not count for much philosophically. Our vagabond libertines are no more interes... ...s and ghosts and “womanly” women. As to mere libertinism, you would be the first to remind me that the Festin de Pierre of Moliere is not a play for a... ...rd of himself, an atrocious egotist in his disregard of others. Here Woman meets a purpose as imper- sonal, as irresistible as her own; and the clash ...

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...Excerpt: Heartbreak house is not merely the name of the play which follows this preface. It is cultured, leisured Europe before the war. When the play was begun not a shot had been fired; and only the professional diplomatists and the very few amateurs whose hobby ...

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...HEARTBREAK HOUSE: A FANTASIA IN THE RUSSIAN MANNER ON ENGLISH THEMES by BERNARD SHAW 1913-1916 A Penn State... ...te Electronic Classics Series Publication Heartbreak House: A Fantasia in the Russian Manner on English Themes by George Bernard Shaw is a publicatio... ...ional class suburb in Europe, these intensely Russian plays fitted all the country houses in Europe in which the plea- sures of music, art, literature... ...the stables, miserably discontented; and hardy horsewomen who slept at the first chord of Schumann were born, horribly misplaced, into the garden of K... ... these books, and the Monday morn- ing to read in the daily paper that the country had just been brought to the verge of anarchy because a new Home Se... ...e struck at last she struck with a vengeance. For four years she smote our firstborn and heaped on us plagues of which Egypt never dreamed. They were ... ...nded in each destroying the other to an extent doubtfully reparable in our time. It may be asked how so imbecile and dangerous a creed ever came to be... ...d by that of the soldier driving his spear through Archimedes. But by that time there was no coinage: only paper money in which ten shillings called i... ...my husband, Mr Mangan [she indicates Hector]. MANGAN [going to Hector, who meets him with outstretched hand]. Very pleased. [Turning to Ellie]. I hope...

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... Street, Boston, on January 6, 1706. His father, Josiah Franklin, was a tallow chandler who married twice, and of his seventeen children Benjamin was the youngest son. His schooling ended at ten, and at twelve he was bound apprentice to his brother James, a printer, who published the ?New England Courant.? To this journal he became a contributor, and later was for a time i...

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...n with introduction and notes edited by Charles W. Eliot is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnish... ...her o t his or her own wn wn wn wn risk. risk. risk. risk. risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyo... ...gland Courant.” To this journal he became a contributor, and later was for a time its nominal editor. But the brothers quarreled, and Benjamin ran awa... ...its nominal editor. But the brothers quarreled, and Benjamin ran away, going first to New York, and thence to Philadel phia, where he arrived in Octo... ...but in 1764 he was again despatched to England as agent for the colony, this time to petition the King to resume the government from the hands of the ... ...e of French society; and with such success did he conduct the affairs of his country that when he finally returned he received a place only second to ... ... Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin 4 dence. He died on April 17, 1790. The first five chapters of the Autobiography were com posed in England in 17... ... AUTOBIOGRAPHY 1706 1757 TWYFORD, at the Bishop of St. Asaph’s, 1771. The country seat of Bishop Shipley, the good bishop, as Dr. Franklin used to ... ...otway; for where all the rain that falls on a street runs from the sides and meets in the middle, it forms there a current strong enough to wash away ...

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...Excerpt: Preface By Way Of Criticism. These studies are collected from the monthly press. One appeared in the New Quarterly, one in MacMillan?s, and the rest in the Cornhill Magazine. To the Cornhill I owe a double debt of thanks; first, that I was received there in the very best society, and un...

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...iar Studies of Men and Books by Robert Louis Stevenson is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnishe... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ... in the Cornhill Magazine. T o the Cornhill I owe a double debt of thanks; first, that I was received there in the very best society, and under the ey... ...hese nine worthies have been brought together from many different ages and countries. Not the most erudite of men could be perfectly prepared to deal ... ...s implies a grasp upon the very deepest strain of thought in Scotland, – a country far more essentially different from England than many parts of Amer... ...ly different from England than many parts of America; for, in a sense, the first of these men re-created Scotland, and the second is its most essentia... ...the proper shad- ows on the portrait. It is from one side only that he has time to represent his subject. The side selected will either be the one mos... ...have gone far to wipe away the guilt of slavery. But in history sin always meets with condign punishment; the generation passes, the offence remains, ... ...ith; and hence there are for the dramatist many resultant limita- tions in time and space. These limitations in some sort ap- proximate towards those ...