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And Gulliver Returns Book V : My Visit to Singaling

By: Lemuel Gulliver XVI

...0 “. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS” --In Search of Utopia-- Book 5 Our Visit to Singaling The Pearl of Southeast A... ... 1 “. . . AND GULLIVER RETURNS” --In Search of Utopia-- BOOK 5 MY VISIT TO SINGALING by Lemuel Gulliver XVI a... ...their homes and compete with men in every field. And while traditions die hard, and the happy expectation of parenthood hides within most of our bre... ...ng happened in other trades. Most printing jobs were done from a computer disk--not from typesetters.. And this technological evolution has accelera... ... factor in the minds of the Oriental leaders whose multi- 9 millennial history is not based on the pragmatism of profit found in the West. But, as... ...t was a seemingly impossible task requiring insightful leadership and the hard work of the population. Along the way he suppressed some free speech,... ..., 20% of your U.S. population will be over 65. Your increasing population drives cars more, sits in traffic more, creates more global warming and inc... ...ians, particularly to Chinese and Indians. It has been obvious throughout history that we all want our families and our societies to be as similarly... ...tes may be unaffected by the fame, and certainly many fulfill their power drives thru sport, it should not be seen as the highest achievement in a so...

...Overpopulation is responsible for many of our planet's problems--global warming, the lack of fresh water, poverty, high gasoline and food prices, air and water pollutions, the scarcity of natural resources, the excess of wastes and their proper disposal, and even ...

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The Portrait of a Lady

By: Henry James

...wn as afternoon tea. There are circum stances in which, whether you partake of the tea or not—some people of course never do—the situation is in itse... ...f delightful. Those that I have in mind in be ginning to unfold this simple history offered an admirable setting to an innocent pastime. The implemen... ... history offered an admirable setting to an innocent pastime. The implements of the little feast had been disposed upon the lawn of an old English cou... ... entirely theoretical, you know; it doesn’t seem to affect his spirits. I’ve hardly ever seen him when he wasn’t cheerful—about as he is at present. H... ... too rich.” 6 Portrait of a Lady “Oh, I say,” cried Lord Warburton, “you’re hardly the person to accuse a fellow creature of being too rich!” “Do you... ...given it marching orders and it had been trudging over the sandy plains of a history of German Thought. Suddenly she became aware of a step very diffe... ... plenty of other subjects, there are subjects all round you. We’ll take some drives; I’ll show you some charming scenery.” “Scenery’s not my departmen... ...ny more than she. But she had seen only half his nature then, as one saw the disk of the moon when it was partly masked by the shadow of the earth. Sh... ...lready transferred to a sheet of immaculate paper the delicate, finely tinted disk. His back was turned toward the door, but he recognized his wife wit...

...ew hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea. There are circumstances in which, whether you partake of the tea or not--some people of course never do--the situation is in itself delightful. Those that I have in mind in beginning to unfold this simple history offered an admirable setting to an innocent pastime. The implement...

...Table of Contents: CHAPTER 1, 1 -- CHAPTER 2, 10 -- CHAPTER 3, 15 -- CHAPTER 4, 22 -- CHAPTER 5, 28 -- CHAPTER 6, 38 -- CHAPTER 7, 46 -- CHAPTER 8, 54 -- CHAPTER 9, 60 -- CHAPTER 10, 66 -- CHAPTER 11, 77 -- CHAPTER 12, 83 -- CHAPTE...

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Across the Plains

By: Robert Louis Stevenson

... Across the Plains by Robert Louis Stevenson is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furn... ...ersity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in... ...ed on my shoulders, and in the bag of my railway rug the whole of Bancroft’s History of the United States, in six fat volumes. It was as much as I cou... ... dry. For my own part, I got out a clothes-brush, and brushed my trousers as hard as I could till I had dried them and warmed my blood into the bargai... ... come to tears that night, for the experi- ment was interrupted. An elderly, hard-looking man, with a goatee beard and about as much appearance of sen... ...forefathers’ misconduct as we continue to profit by ourselves. If oppression drives a wise man mad, what should be rag- ing in the hearts of these poo... ...ry and warm and full of inland perfume. MEXICANS, AMERICANS, AND INDIANS THE HISTORY OF MONTEREY has yet to be written. Founded by Catholic missionari... ...f Carmel. Only one day in the year, the day before our Guy Fawkes, the Padre drives over the hill from Monterey; the little sacristy, which is the onl... ... ever and again and one after another, a boat flitting swiftly by the silver disk. This mass of fishers, this great fleet of boats, is out of all prop...

... CHAPTER I - ACROSS THE PLAIN........................3 CHAPTER II - THE OLD PACIFIC CAPITAL........38 CHAPTER III - FONTAINEBLEAU VILLAGE COMMUNITIES OF PAINTERS...............................52 CHAPTER IV - EPILOGUE TO ?AN INLAND VOYAGE?................................................................. 68 CHAPTER V - RANDOM MEMORIES.................79 CHAPTER VI - RANDOM M...

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The Poems

By: George Meredith

...ge Meredith A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Poems of George Meredith by George Meredith is a publication of the Pennsylvania ... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ......................................................................... 302 HARD WEATHER ................................................................. .................................................................. 474 FOREST HISTORY ...................................................................... ...O’er the ashes of the sun, Till the day and night are done; Then when dawn drives up her car - Lo! it is the morning star. Love! thy love pours down o... ...umn to thy bale; The eddy of the leaf Must be brief! Sing up to the night: Hard it is for streaming tears T o read the calmness of the spheres; Coldly... ... mighty arms Outspread, that reach the horizon round, The great South-West drives o’er the earth, 40 And loosens all his roaring robes Behind him, ov... ...ill hear her wailing for her child! Whatever dim tradition tells, Whatever history may reveal, Or fancy, from her starry brows, Of light or dreamful l... ...brown tresses nodding interlaced! * * * Large and smoky red the sun’s cold disk drops, Clipped by naked hills, on violet shaded snow: Eastward large a...

Excerpt: The Poems of George Meredith by George Meredith.

........................... 23 THE WILD ROSE AND THE SNOWDROP ............................................................................. 24 THE DEATH OF WINTER .......................................................................................................... 25 SONG .......................................................................................................

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The Iliad of Homer

By: Pope, Alexander, 1688-1744

....S.A. .S.A. A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The Iliad of Homer, trans. Alexander Pope with notes by the Rev. Theodore Alois Buckl... ...otes by the Rev. Theodore Alois Buckley, M. A., F . S. A. is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...of conservatism, or the impos- tures of pluralist sinecures in the Church. History and tradi- tion, whether of ancient or comparatively recent times, ... ... is no less pertinacious and exacting in its demands. In brief, to write a history, we must know more than mere facts. Hu- man nature, viewed under an... ...d it not be, since my arrival? asks Mackenzie, observing that “poplars can hardly live so long”. But setting aside the fact that we must not expect c... ...rations Onomakritus, and the other literary friends of Peisistratus, could hardly have failed to notice, even with- out design, had they then, for the... ... the sandy shore. In empty air their sportive javelins throw, Or whirl the disk, or bend an idle bow: Unstain’d with blood his cover’d chariots stand;... ...loud condensing as the west-wind blows: He dreads the impending storm, and drives his flock To the close covert of an arching rock. Such, and so thick... ...in; He flies more fast, and throws up all the rein. Far as an able arm the disk can send, When youthful rivals their full force extend, So far, Antilo...

Excerpt: The Iliad of Homer, translated by Alexander Pope with notes by the Rev. Theodore Alois Buckley, M.A., F.S.A.

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A Modern Utopia

By: H. G. Wells

...assics Series Publication A Modern Utopia by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...an educational process instead of dealing with it as a thing with a future history, and if I made this second book even less satisfactory from a liter... ...the solemnly impatient parasite of great questions. He likes everything in hard, heavy lines, black and white, yes and no, because he does not underst... ...ality I sought, finally failed. Then I hesitated over what one might call “hard narrative.” It will be evident to the experienced reader that by omitt... ... You figure us upon the high Gotthard road, heads together over the little disk that contrives to tell us so much of this strange world. It is, I imag... ...an so great a freedom with so strong an inducement to effort? The economic history of the world, where it is not the history of the theory of property... ...eaned several thou- sands of houses in the dale above, and for all that it drives those easy trams in the gallery overhead, is yet capable of as fine ... ...g stress that pursues the weekly worker on earth, that aching anxiety that drives him so often to stupid betting, stupid drinking, and violent and mea...

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The Prince and the Pauper

By: Mark Twain

...tronic Classics Series Publication The Prince and the Pauper by Mark Twain (Samuel L. Clemens) is a publication of the Pennsylva- nia State Universi... ...ion of the Pennsylva- nia State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this d... ...still back, three hundred years and more, the fathers transmitting it to the sons and so preserving it. It may be history, it may be only a leg- end, ... ...rly all night long. Broken heads were as common as hunger in that place. Yet little Tom was not unhappy. He had a hard time of it, but did not know it... ...with his thoughts busy with the shadowy splendours of his night’s dreams. He wandered here and there in the city, hardly noticing where he was going, ... ...looked one to the other in deep tribulation for counsel. But behold, here was a dead wall, and nothing in English history to tell how to get over it. ... ...hat miscarriage were like holding the unborn babe to judgment for sins com—” “Out of my sight, idiot! Thy prating drives me mad! Hold! Whither art fly... ...bulky a thing as the Seal of En- gland can vanish away and no man be able to get track of it again—a massy golden disk—” Tom Canty, with beaming eyes,...

...Contents. I. The birth of the Prince and the Pauper. II. Tom?s early life. III. Tom?s meeting with the Prince. IV. The Prince?s troubles begin. V. Tom as a patrician. VI. Tom receives instructions. VII. Tom?s first royal dinner. VIII. The question ...

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A Tramp Abroad

By: Mark Twain

... A Tramp Abroad by Mark Twain (Samuel L. Clemens) is a publi... ...y Mark Twain (Samuel L. Clemens) is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any ... ...ost exciting and astonishing spectacles I ever struck. He never stopped to take a look anymore—he just hove ‘em in and went for more. Well, at last he... ...he corrected him- self, saying — “Sir,” —and went on with his discourse. 17 A Tramp Abroad It is said that the vast majority of the Heidelberg studen... ...es in the Castle grounds, using their whips or canes to illustrate some new sword trick which they have heard about; and between the duels, on the day... ...no great deal of it, yet it was called the “Spectacu- lar Ruin.” Mark Twain 74 LEGEND OF THE “SPECTACULAR RUIN” THE CAPTAIN OF THE RAFT, who was as f... ...t seven hundred years ago in ferreting out the choic- est nooks and corners in a land as priests have today. A big hotel crowds the ruins a little, no... ...l see it do the rest of its rising anyway.” In a moment we were deeply absorbed in the marvel before us, and dead to everything else. The great cloud-... ...en seemed to glide out of it by its own volition and power, and become a dim specter, while the next pinnacle glided into its place and blotted the sp...

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The Odyssey of Homer

By: Pope, Alexander, 1688-1744

...nder Pope A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Odyssey of Homer trans. Alexander Pope is a publication of the Pennsylvania State... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...f conservatism, or the impos tures of pluralist sinecures in the Church. History and tra dition, whether of ancient or comparatively recent times, ... ... and exacting in its demands. In brief, to 4 The Odyssey of Homer write a history, we must know more than mere facts. Hu man nature, viewed under an... ...rations Onomakritus, and the other literary friends of Peisistratus, could hardly have failed to notice, even with out design, had they then, for the... ...only these, but a great many more equally bad. With equal sagacity, Father Hardouin astonished the world with the star tling announcement that the Æn... ...divide their jovial hours; In areas varied with mosaic art, Some whirl the disk, and some the javelin dart, Aside, sequester’d from the vast resort, A... ...strews the flood. So the rude Boreas, o’er the field new shorn, Tosses and drives the scatter’d heaps of corn. And now a single beam the chief bestrid... ...rt: Athwart the spacious square each tries his art, 237 Pope To whirl the disk, or aim the missile dart. Now did the hour of sweet repast arrive, And...

Excerpt: The Odyssey of Homer translated by Alexander Pope.

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Moby-Dick or the Whale

By: Herman Melville

...Moby Dick or The Whale HERMAN MELVILLE 1851 IN TOKEN OF MY ADMIRATION FOR HIS GENIUS, This book is Inscribed TO NATHANIEL HAWTHO... .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176 42 The Whiteness of the Whale . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 184 43 Hark! . . . . .... ...ing the sea before him into a foam.” Tooke’s Lucian. Extracts 5 “The True History. ” “He visited this country also with a view of catching horse whal... ... an incredible quantity of oil will be extracted out of one whale.” Ibid. “History of Life and Death. ” “The sovereignest thing on earth is parmacetti... ... old established family in the land, the Van Rensselaers, or Randolphs, or Hardicanutes. And more than all, if just previous to putting your hand into... ...e house, for everywhere else the congealed frost lay ten inches thick in a hard, asphaltic pavement, — rather weary for me, when I struck my foot agai... ...y say that it fared with him as with the storm tossed ship, that miserably drives along the leeward land.The port would fain give succor; the port is ... ...ed investiture. Thou shalt see it shining in the arm that wields a pick or drives a spike; that democratic dignity which, on all hands, radiates witho... ...the sun and tropic token pieces. Here palms, alpacas, and volcanoes; sun’s disks and stars; ecliptics, horns of plenty, and rich banners waving, are ...

... and brain; I see him now. He was ever dusting his old lexicons and grammars, with a queer handkerchief, mockingly embellished with all the gay flags of all the known nations of the world. He loved to dust his old grammars; it somehow mildly reminded him of his mortality....

...Table of Contents: Etymology, 1 -- Extracts, 3 -- 1 Loomings, 15 -- 2 The Carpet-Bag, 20 -- 3 The Spouter-Inn, 24 -- 4 The Counterpane, 36 -- 5 Breakfast, 40 -- 6 The Street, 42 -- 7 The Chapel, 45 -- 8 The Pulpit, 48 -- 9 The Serm...

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Moby Dick; Or the Whale

By: Herman Melville

...s Publication Moby Dick; or The Whale by Herman Melville is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Uni- versity. This Portable Document file is furn... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ..., and beating the sea before him into a foam.” —Tooke’ s Lucian. “The True History.” “He visited this country also with a view of catching horse- whal... ...an incredible quantity of oil will be extracted out of one whale.” —Ibid. “History of Life and Death.” “The sovereignest thing on earth is parmacetti ... ...d family in the land, the V an Rensselaers, or 16 Moby Dick Randolphs, or Hardicanutes. And more than all, if just previ- ous to putting your hand in... ...e house, for everywhere else the congealed frost lay ten inches thick in a hard, asphaltic pavement,—rather weary for me, when I struck my foot agains... ...y say that it fared with him as with the storm-tossed ship, that miserably drives along the leeward land. The port would fain give succor; the port is... ...ed investiture. Thou shalt see it shining in the arm that wields a pick or drives a spike; that democratic dig- nity which, on all hands, radiates wit... ...the sun and tropic token-pieces. Here palms, alpacas, and volcanoes; sun’s disks and stars; ecliptics, horns-of-plenty, and rich banners waving, are i...

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Diana of the Crossways

By: George Meredith

...George Meredith A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Diana of the Crossways by George Meredith is a publication of the Pennsylvania St... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...the fair Diana would let loose her silvery laugh in the intervals. She was hardly out of her teens, and should have been dancing instead of fastened t... ...d that is all. The position is one of the battles incident to women, their hardest. It asks for more than justice from men, for generosity, our civili... ...much, to have their tender senti- ments considered, it cannot be said that History requires the 10 Diana of the Crossways flaying of them. A gouty Di... ...t the basis of her woman’s nature was pointed flame: In the fulness of her history we perceive nothing histrionic. Capricious or enthusiastic in her y... ...I fail to cherish it in every fibre the fires within are waning,’ and that drives like rain to the roots. She says of the world, generously, if with t... ...stane’s request. It was a delicious afternoon of Spring, with the full red disk of sun dropping behind the brown beech-twigs. She remembered long afte... ...line of the country road bearing on Caen. The wind had sunk. A large brown disk paused rayless on the western hills. ‘A Dacier ought to feel at home i...

...Excerpt: Chapter 1. Of Diaries and Diarists Touching The Heroine. Among the diaries beginning with the second quarter of our century, there is frequent mention of a lady then becoming famous for her beauty and her wit: ?an unusual combination,? ...

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The Poems of Emily Dickinson

By: Martha Dickinson Bianchi

...son Bianchi A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Poems of Emily Dickinson is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. T... ...ty. This Por- table Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...t made it dear. There is a fitting a dismay, A fitting a despair. ’T is harder knowing it is due, Than knowing it is here. The trying on the utm... ...re is love. CI A FACE devoid of love or grace, A hateful, hard, successful face, A face with which a stone Would feel as thoroughl... ...d firmaments row, Diadems drop and Doges surrender, Soundless as dots on a disk of snow. 178 V ON this long storm the rainbow rose, O... ...ne, As numb to revelation As if my trade were bone. As far from time as history, As near yourself to-day As children to the rainbow’s scarf, ... ... Such houses have alway. The neighbors rustle in and out, The doctor drives away. A window opens like a pod, Abrupt, mechanically; Somebody f... ...wn: Nobody knew his father, Never was a boy, Hadn’t any playmates Or early history. Industrious, laconic, Punctual, sedate, Bolder than a Brigand, Swi...

...Introduction: The poems of Emily Dickinson, published in a series of three volumes at various intervals after her death in 1886, and in a volume entitled The Single Hound, published in 1914, with the addition of a few before omitted, are here collec...

...nity....................................................176 Part Five The Single Hound .....................................................251 Index of First Lines.....................................................................327...

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The Heir of Redclyffe

By: Charlotte Mary Yonge

...tte M. Yonge A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Heir of Redclyffe by Charlotte M. Yonge is a publication of the Pennsylvania Sta... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...out this fortnight; and this is to go to the horticultural show. Sam would hardly trust me to 5 Yo n g e bring it in, though it was my nursing, not h... ...ented or suffered more than he. Who writes?’ ‘His grandson—poor boy! I can hardly make out his let- ter.’ Holding it half a yard from his eyes, so tha... ...nge, when the quarrel began with our branch of the family. Do you know the history of it, aunt?’ ‘It was about some property,’ said Mrs Edmonstone, ‘t... ... ‘It was curious to see how Guy could rattle on to him, pour out the whole history of his doings, laughing, rubbing his hands, springing about with an... ...t more enthusiastic,’ said Guy. ‘I suppose it is his plain good sense that drives away that sort of feeling, for he is as near heroism in the way of s... ...of early manhood. He looked up, and saw that the last remnant of the sun’s disk was just disappearing beneath the horizon. The victory was won! But Gu... ...o.’ ‘What! Are you going to believe them, too?’ ‘Never!’ ‘It is that which drives me beyond all patience,’ proceeded Charles, ‘to see Philip lay hold ...

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The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley Volume 2

By: Thomas Hutchinson

...THE COMPLETE POETICAL WORKS OF PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY VOLUME 2 OXFORD EDITION. INCLUDING MATERIALS NEVER ... ... 2 OXFORD EDITION. INCLUDING MATERIALS NEVER BEFORE PRINTED IN ANY EDITION OF THE POEMS. EDITED WITH TEXTUAL NOTES BY THOMAS HUTCHINSON, M. A. EDITOR ... ...disturbed the only rest That was the portion of despair! Subdued to Duty’s hard control, _5 I could have borne my... ...t most worthy of thy hate. Be thou, then, one among mankind Whose heart is harder not for state, Thou only virtuous, gentle, kind, ... ...ed in Switzerland, July, 1816 (see date below). Printed at the end of the “History of a Six Weeks’ Tour” published by Shelley in 1817, and reprinted w... ...Shelley makes the following mention of this poem in his publication of the History of a Six Weeks’ Tour, and Letters from Switzerland: ‘The poem entit... ... that Spirit Of which ye are but a part? Drops which Nature’s mighty heart Drives through thinnest veins! Depart! _45 Wh... ...chill wind, languid as with pain Of its own heavy moisture, here and there Drives through the gray and beamless atmosphere. 110 V olume Two FRA FRA F... ...t dread risk _85 Aghast she pass from the Earth’s disk: Fear not, but gaze—for freemen mightier grow, And slaves more feeble,...

Excerpt: The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley, Volume One.

............................................................................................................................... 19 Oh! there are spirits of the air, ..................................................................................................................................... 19 TO WORDSWORTH. ................................................................

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The Portrait of a Lady

By: Henry James

...ENN S TAT E ELE C T R O N IC CLAS SIC S SERIES PUBLICA TIO N The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univers... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...f recovering, from some good standpoint on the ground gained, the intimate history of the business—of retrac- ing and reconstructing its steps and sta... ...s, if one could do so subtle, if not so monstrous, a thing as to write the history of the growth of one’s imagination. One would describe then what, a... ... (which is usually the one that tips the balance of interest): press least hard, in short, on the consciousness of your heroine’s satellites, especial... ...ntirely theoretical, you know; it doesn’t seem to affect his spirits. I’ve hardly ever seen him when he wasn’t cheerful—about as he is at present. He ... ...lenty of other subjects, there are subjects all round you. We’ll take some drives; I’ll show you some charming scenery.” “Scenery’s not my department;... ... more than she. But she had seen only half his nature then, as one saw the disk of the moon when it was partly masked by the shadow of the earth. She ... ... trans- ferred to a sheet of immaculate paper the delicate, finely- tinted disk. His back was turned toward the door, but he recognised his wife witho...

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Jane Eyre

By: Charlotte Brontë

...lassics Series Publication Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ... wildly before a long and lamentable blast. I returned to my book—Bewick’s History of British Birds: the letterpress thereof I cared little for, gener... ...ke a slave-driver—you are like the Roman emperors!” I had read Goldsmith’s History of Rome, and had formed my opinion of Nero, Caligula, &c. Also I ha... ...ath, by any tie? It must have been most irksome to find herself bound by a hard-wrung pledge to stand in the stead of a par- ent to a strange child sh... ... should have that fit: I wonder if she saw anything. Missis was rather too hard.” Sarah came back with her; they both went to bed; they were whisperin... ...me. “How do you do, my dear? I am afraid you have had a tedious ride; John drives so slowly; you must be cold, come to the fire.” “Mrs. Fairfax, I sup... ...ious gaze roused me. Awaking in the dead of night, I opened my eyes on her disk—silver-white and crystal clear. It was beautiful, but too solemn; I ha... ...glimpse of sea between two rocks; the rising moon, and a ship crossing its disk; a group of reeds and water-flags, and a naiad’s head, crowned with lo...

...Preface: A preface to the first edition of Jane Eyre being unnecessary, I gave none: this second edition demands a few words both of acknowledgment and miscellaneous remark. My thanks are due in three quarters. To the Public, for the indulgent ear it has inclined t...

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The Trial or More Links of the Daisy Chain

By: Charlotte Mary Yonge

...enn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Trial, or More Links of the Daisy Chain by Charlotte M. Yonge is a publication of the Pennsylvan... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ... much otherwise here,’ said Richard. ‘No,’ said Ethel; ‘it is the peculiar hardship of our wed- dings to break us up by pairs, and carry off two inste... ...k up their employments— Ethel writing to the New Zealand sister-in-law her history of the wedding, Mary copying parts of a New Zealand letter for her ... ...te as troublesome as the most ardent self-devo- tion could desire; and the hardships and disagreeables, though severe, made no figure in history—nay, ... ...ire; and the hardships and disagreeables, though severe, made no figure in history—nay, it required ingenuity to gather their existence from Meta’s br... ...gret, that Dr. Spencer advised him not to mention it. After Aubrey’s first drives, Dr. Spencer declared that the best way of invigorating him would be... ...ed; but on the stile, there was undoubtedly a mark containing human blood- disks; T om proved that both by comparison with his books, and by pricking ... ...ou more than all. I do believe the possibility of a love affair absolutely drives people mad: and now they must needs saddle it upon poor Tom—just the...

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Ordeal of Richard Feverel

By: George Meredith

...eorge Meredith A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Ordeal of Richard Feverel by George Meredith is a publication of the Pennsylvania ... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...ty folding Thames: a man of wealth and honour, and a some- what lamentable history. The outline of the baronet’s story was by no means new. He had a w... ...the fitful darkness that ever and anon went leaping up the wall. She could hardly believe her senses to see the austere gentleman, dead silent, droppi... ...paces beside her with professional stiffness. “One who does not suffer can hardly assent,” the curate answered, basking in her beams. “Ah, you are goo... ...Too dainty for their uses. 40 Ordeal of Richard Feverel ‘An Age that drives an Iron Horse, Of Time and Space defiant; Exulting in a G... ...e he was growing to be lord of kingdoms where Beauty was his handmaid, and History his minister and Time his ancient harper, and sweet Romance his bri... ...ward, streams of amber, melting into upper rose, shot out from the dipping disk. “What Sandoe calls the passion-flower of heaven,” said Ri- chard unde... ...nham. Recognize her. It is the disunion and doubt that so confuses him and drives him wild. I confess to you I hoped he had gone to her. It seems not....

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Bleak House

By: Charles Dickens

...g Chapters One through Thirty four by Charles Dickens is a publica tion of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in ... ...ment for the threshold of a leaden headed old corporation, Temple Bar. And hard by Temple Bar, in Lincoln’s Inn Hall, at the very heart of the fog, si... ...broadcast by the ill fated cause; and even those who have contemplated its history from the outermost circle of such evil have been insensibly tempted... ... the doll the story of my birthday and confided to her that I would try as hard as ever I could to repair the fault I had been born with (of which I c... ...led there in the dark as to what knowledge Mr. Jarndyce had of my earliest history—even as to the possibility of his being my father, though that idle... ...ave the cat there!” says the surgeon; “that won’t do!” Mr. Krook therefore drives her out before him, and she goes furtively downstairs, winding her l... ...our high office, but unhappily for me, I can’t undo the past, and the past drives me here!’ Besides,” he added, breaking fiercely out, “I’ll shame the... ...ak House – Vol. One “That’s Jo,” says Mr. Snagsby. Jo stands amazed in the disk of light, like a ragged figure in a magic lantern, trembling to think ...

...Preface: A Chancery judge once had the kindness to inform me, as one of a company of some hundred and fifty men and women not labouring under any suspicions of lunacy, that the Court of Chancery, though the shining subject of much popular prejudice (at which point I thought the judge?s eye had...

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The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley

By: Thomas Hutchinson

...THE COMPLETE POETICAL WORKS OF PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY VOLUME 1 OXFORD EDITION. INCLUDING MATERIALS NEVER ... ... 1 OXFORD EDITION. INCLUDING MATERIALS NEVER BEFORE PRINTED IN ANY EDITION OF THE POEMS. EDITED WITH TEXTUAL NOTES BY THOMAS HUTCHINSON, M. A. EDITOR ... ...eptember 6, 1819, “is now being transcribed,” an expression which he would hardly have used if he had himself been the copyist. He wished the proofs t... ...th all the correctness possible, and of, at the same time, detail- ing the history of those productions, as they sprang, living and warm, from his hea... ...e notes appended to the poems I have endeavoured to narrate the origin and history of each. The loss of nearly all letters and papers which refer to h... ...r night Lowered o’er the snow-clad rocks and frozen soil, Where scarce the hardiest herb that braves the frost Basked in the moonlight’s ineffectual g... ...e or weep; _2160 50 50 50 50 50. A Woman sitting on the sculptured disk Of the broad earth, and feeding from one breast A human babe and a you... ...e, my paramour, Waits for us at the feast—cruel and fell Is Famine, but he drives not from his door Those whom these lips have kissed, alone. No more,... ... _540 Which sunrise from its eastern caves Drives, wrinkling into golden waves, Hung with its precipices proud, From t...

Excerpt: The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley, Volume One.

.................................. 7 PREFACE BY MRS. SHELLEY TO FIRST COLLECTED EDITION, 1839. ......................... 16 POSTSCRIPT IN SECOND EDITION OF 1839. ........................................................................ 21 PREFACE BY MRS. SHELLEY. TO THE VOLUME OF POSTHUMOUS POEMS PUBLISHED IN 1824...................................................................

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Main Street

By: Sinclair Lewis

...LASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION Main Street by Sinclair Lewis is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...lway station is the final aspiration of architec- ture. Sam Clark’s annual hardware turnover is the envy of the four counties which constitute God’s C... ...hrough it before the three o’clock bell called her to the class in English history. She sighed, “That’s what I’ll do after college! I’ll get my hands ... ... that up in the library? Well then, suppose you do!” 9 Sinclair Lewis The history instructor was a retired minister. He was sarcastic today. He begge... ...New England reborn. Mankato lies between cliffs and the Minne- sota River, hard by Traverse des Sioux, where the first set- tlers made treaties with t... ...ich Carol knew nothing—potato-planters, manure-spreaders, silage- cutters, disk-harrows, breaking-plows. A feed store, its windows opaque with the dus... ... Prairie and of the several adjacent Gopher Prairies which she had seen on drives with Kennicott. In her fluid thought certain convictions ap- peared,...

...Excerpt: This is America--a town of a few thousand, in a region of wheat and corn and dairies and little groves. The town is, in our tale, called ?Gopher Prairie, Minnesota.? But its Main Street is the continuation of Main Streets everywhere. The story would...

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House of Mirth

By: Edith Wharton

... E DITH WHARTON A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION House of Mirth by Edith Wharton is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer... ...ity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...e purpose. It struck him at once that she was waiting for some one, but he hardly knew why the idea arrested him. There was nothing new about Lily Bar... ...hall like it better.” She waited while he cut the lemon and dropped a thin disk into her cup. “But that is not the reason,” 8 House of Mirth she insi... ...rry the first man who came along.” “I didn’t mean to imply that you are as hard put to it as that. But there must be some one with the requisite quali... ...d to all the reviews dealing with book-collecting in general, and American history in particular, and as allusions to his library abounded in the page... ...leapt into her brain before she was conscious of reading them, told a long history—a history over which, for the last four years, the friends of the w... ...e an- swered with a laugh: “I don’t see how one can very well take country drives in town, but I am not always surrounded by an admiring throng, and i...

...Excerpt: Selden paused in surprise. In the afternoon rush of the Grand Central Station his eyes had been refreshed by the sight of Miss Lily Bart. It was a Monday in early September, and he was returning to his work from a hurried dip into the country; but what was Miss Bart doing i...

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Bleak House

By: Charles Dickens

...sics Series Publication Bleak House by Charles Dickens is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in ... ...ment for the threshold of a leaden headed old corporation, Temple Bar. And hard by Temple Bar, in Lincoln’s Inn Hall, at the very heart of the fog, si... ...broadcast by the ill fated cause; and even those who have contemplated its history from the outermost circle of such evil have been insensibly tempted... ... the doll the story of my birthday and confided to her that I would try as hard as ever I could to repair the fault I had been born with (of which I c... ...led there in the dark as to what knowledge Mr. Jarndyce had of my earliest history—even as to the possibility of his being my father, though that idle... ...ave the cat there!” says the surgeon; “that won’t do!” Mr. Krook therefore drives her out before him, and she goes furtively downstairs, winding her l... ...our high office, but unhappily for me, I can’t undo the past, and the past drives me here!’ Besides,” he added, breaking fiercely out, “I’ll shame the... ...eak House – Dickens “That’s Jo,” says Mr. Snagsby. Jo stands amazed in the disk of light, like a ragged figure in a magic lantern, trembling to think ...

...Preface: A Chancery judge once had the kindness to inform me, as one of a company of some hundred and fifty men and women not laboring under any suspicions of lunacy, that the Court of Chancery, though the shining subject of much popular prejudice (at which point I thought the judge?s eye had ...

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Night and Day

By: Virginia Woolf

...ssics Series Publication Night and Day by Virginia Woolf is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Por- table Document file is furn... ...ty. This Por- table Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...and the sigh annoyed Ralph, and he exclaimed with irritation: “It’s pretty hard lines to stick a boy into an office at seventeen!” “Nobody wants to st... ...question that she should put any more household work upon herself. No, the hardship must fall on him, for he was determined that his family should hav... ... Cromwell cutting the King’s head off. Some of the most terrible things in history have been done on principle,” she concluded. “I’m afraid I take a v... ...other asking for news of John, and to her aunt replying with the authentic history of Hilda’s engagement to an officer in the Indian Army, but she cas... ...time she was in fancy looking up through a telescope at white shadow-cleft disks which were other worlds, until she felt herself possessed of two bodi... ...ng, tempted them to sit upon a seat in a glade of beech-trees, with forest drives striking green paths this way and that around them. She sighed deepl...

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Hesiod the Homeric Hymns and Homerica

By: Hugh G. Evelyn White

...ns, and Homerica, edited by Hugh G. Evelyn-White (1914) is a publica- tion of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...gainst the Lapithae and the aid furnished to him by Heracles, and with the history of Aegimius and his sons. Otto Muller suggests that the introductio... ... the world and the wars of heaven. In the end there existed a kind of epic history of 21 Hesiod, The Homeric Hymns, and Homerica the world, as known ... ...animals, and the office of messen- ger from the gods to Hades. The Hymn is hard to date. Hermes’ lyre has seven strings and the invention of the seven... ... ere this the tribes of men lived on earth re- mote and free from ills and hard toil and heavy sickness which bring the Fates upon men; for in misery ... ... burn white bones to the deathless gods upon fragrant altars. But Zeus who drives the clouds was greatly vexed and said to him: (ll. 559-560) ‘Son of ... ...pe is queen of Epic po- etry. (4) Earth, in the cosmology of Hesiod, is a disk surrounded by the river Oceanus and floating upon a waste of waters. I... ...ste of waters on which, according to early Greek and Hebrew cosmology, the disk- like earth floated. (25) i.e. the threshold is of ‘native’ metal, and...

...Excerpt: This volume contains practically all that remains of the post- Homeric and pre-academic epic poetry. I have for the most part formed my own text. In the case of Hesiod I have been able to use independent collations of several MSS. by Dr. W.H.D. Rouse; otherwise I have depend...

................................................................................................................................................. 9 Life of Hesiod ............................................................................................................................................................... 10 The Hesiodic Poems ....................................

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The House of the Seven Gables

By: Nathaniel Hawthorne

...l Hawthorne A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The House of the Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne is a publication of the Pennsylv... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...ed the manner in which the ro- mance is interwoven with incidents from the history of the Hawthorne family, “The House of the Seven Gables” has acquir... ...REFA A A A ACE CE CE CE CE WHEN A WRITER calls his work a Romance, it need hardly be observed that he wishes to claim a certain latitude, both as to i... ... portion of the actual substance of the dish offered to the public. He can hardly be said, however, to 8 The House of the Seven Gables commit a liter... ...aule had addressed him from the scaffold, and uttered a prophecy, of which history, as well as fireside tradi- tion, has preserved the very words. “Go... ... too, which had long been climbing overhead, and unobtrusively melting its disk into the azure,—like an ambitious dema- gogue, who hides his aspiring ... ...hat veteran wine-bibbers count it among their epochs to have tasted it! It drives away the heart- ache, and substitutes no head-ache! Could the Judge ...

...Introduction: In September of the year during the February of which Hawthorne had completed ?The Scarlet Letter,? he began ?The House of the Seven Gables.? Meanwhile, he had removed from Salem to Lenox, in Berkshire County, Massachusetts, where he occu...

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The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley Volume 3

By: Thomas Hutchinson

...THE COMPLETE POETICAL WORKS OF PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY VOLUME 3 OXFORD EDITION. INCLUDING MATERIALS NEVER ... ... 3 OXFORD EDITION. INCLUDING MATERIALS NEVER BEFORE PRINTED IN ANY EDITION OF THE POEMS. EDITED WITH TEXTUAL NOTES BY THOMAS HUTCHINSON, M. A. EDITOR ... ...did devise hath featly done. 8. 8. 8. 8. 8. ... And through the tortoise’s hard stony skin At proper distances small holes he made, And fastened the c... ...o famous Pylos, seeking his kine there, And found their track and his, yet hardly cold, And cried—’What wonder do mine eyes behold! _285 37. 3... ... immortal car The beam-invested steeds whose necks on high Curve back, she drives to a remoter sky A western Crescent, borne impetuously. ... ... nearer, see, the melancholy form Of a great ship, the outcast of the sea, Drives miserably! And it must fly the pity of the port, ... ...nd more perpendicular to the ecliptic. The strong evidence afforded by the history of mythology, and geological researches, that some event of this na... ...position of an event without a cause, a voluntary action without a motive. History, politics, morals, criticism, all grounds of reasonings, 168 Volum... ...ne of Antistrophe 1a (line 86 of the ode)—Aghast she pass from the Earth’s disk—which exceeds by one foot the 10th lines of the two corresponding divi...

Excerpt: The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley: Volume Three.

................................................................................................................... 27 HOMER?S HYMN TO THE EARTH: MOTHER OF ALL .................................................................................. 28 HOMER?S HYMN TO MINERVA................................................................................................................

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