...ion A Second Home by Honore de Balzac, trans. Clara Bell 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... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18202-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of lit- ... ...e in rainy weather the gut- ter water was soon deep at the foot of the old houses, sweep- ing down with it the dust and refuse deposited at the corner... ...iquaries still find historical curiosities to admire. For instance, on the house then form- ing the corner where the Rue du T ourniquet joined the Rue... ...f the chains put up every night by the watch to secure public safety. This house, remarkable for its antiquity, had been con- structed in a way that b... ... those when, brought together by one of those country festivities known in Normandy as /Assemblees/, they could steal a glance at each other from afar... ...a hundred thousand francs a year, belonged to one of the first families of Normandy. His appointment to be Presiding Judge would have been the steppin... ...u, Father?” she asked with filial solicitude. “Ah! I only wish,” cried the Normandy priest, “that all the woes inflicted on you by the hand of God wer...

...Excerpt: The Rue Du Tourniquet-Saint-Jean, formerly one of the darkest and most tortuous of the streets about the Hotel de Ville, zigzagged round the little gardens of the Paris Prefecture, and ended at the Rue Martroi, exactly at the angle of an old wall now pulled down. Here sto...

...i by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katherine Prescott Wormeley 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... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...he author of the “Comedy of Human Life” at Heidelberg, was born at Caux in Normandy. He was the author of a book entitled “The Causes of Moving Forces... ... make head against factions and ambitions like those of the Guises and the house of Bour- bon, against men such as the two Cardinals of Lorraine, the ... ...k and so defeat, successively, the Guises who were seeking the ruin of the house of Valois, the Bourbons who sought the crown, and the Reformers (the ... ... woman who had the eyes to see this future and fought it bravely. That the house of Bourbon was able to succeed to the house of Valois, that it found ...

...Excerpt: When we think of the enormous number of volumes that have been published on the question as to where Hannibal crossed the Alps, without our being able to decide to-day whether it was (according to Whittaker and Rivaz) by Lyon, Geneva, the ...

...Stray Pearls Memoirs of Margaret De Ribaumont Viscountess of Bellaise By Charlotte M. Yonge A Penn State Electronic Classics Series P... ...A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Stray Pearls: Memoirs of Margaret De Ribaumont, Viscountess of Bellaise by Charlotte M. Yonge is ... ... Ribaumont, Viscountess of Bellaise by Charlotte M. Yonge is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ... against the deputies, made no further answer, and dismissed them to their houses without the slightest redress. The Assembly was never to meet again ... ...leration for the Huguenots registered at Nantes. The peculiarly oppressive house-tax, with four more im- posts proposed in 1648, gave the Parliament o... ...ten, I am an English woman by birth, having first seen the light at Walwyn House, in Dorsetshire. One brother had preceded me—my dear Eustace—and anot... ...rself in a little house in the Faubourg St. Germain, whence she escaped to Normandy, her husband’s Government, hoping to raise the people there to dem...

Excerpt: Stray Pearls: Memoirs of Margaret De Ribaumont, Viscountess of Bellaise by Charlotte M. Yonge.

...I. A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: Volume One, with Memoir, Critical Dissertation, and Expl... ...ation, and Explanatory Notes by the Rev. George Gilfillan 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... ... own. He became acquainted with Dryden’s works, and went to Wills’s coffee-house to see him. He says, “Virgilium tantum vidi.” Such transient meetings... ...eep interest in the success of this undertaking, recommending it in coffee-houses, and introducing the sub- ject and Pope’s name to the leading Tories... ...ge disgust at the conflicting parties of the period, he had retired to the house of a clergyman, and an intimacy commenced which was only terminated b... ...iam I. 42 ‘Himself denied a grave:’ the place of his interment at Caen in Normandy was claimed by a gentleman as his in- heritance, the moment his se...

Excerpt: The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: Volume One, with Memoir, Critical Dissertation, and Explanatory Notes by the Rev. George Gilfillan.

...Contents LIFE OF ALEXANDER POPE.................................................................................................................................. 6 PREFACE2......................................................................

...on Cousin Betty by Honoré de Balzac, trans. James Waring 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... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of lit- ... ...either to the Roman Prince, nor to the representa- tive of the illustrious house of Cajetani, which has given more than one Pope to the Christian Chur... ... Bellechasse and the Rue de Bourgogne, at the door of a large, newly-build house, standing on part of the court- yard of an ancient mansion that had a... ...n part of the court- yard of an ancient mansion that had a garden. The old house remained in its original state, beyond the courtyard curtailed by hal... ...inuated compliments for his son’s ben- efit, and restored the child to the Normandy nurse who had charge of it. Celestine, on her part, gave the Baron... ...his is what I wish, my child. Your Duc d’Herouville has immense estates in Normandy, and I want to be his steward, under the name of Thoul. I have the... ...u are al- ways after the women, and you would be dancing attendance on the Normandy girls, who are splendid creatures, and get- ting your ribs cracked...

...Excerpt: It is neither to the Roman Prince, nor to the representative of the illustrious house of Cajetani, which has given more than one Pope to the Christian Church, that I dedicate this short portion of a long history; it is to the learned commentator of Dante....

...blication Two Penniless Princesses by Charlotte M. Yonge 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... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...ery tender or affection- ate, and had the haughty demeanour with which the house of Somerset had thought fit to assert their claims to royalty. The cr... ...e con- dition of her young ladies, so different from the splendours of the house of Somerset, Ankaret saw that Eleanor was as fit 12 Two Penniless Pr... ...ed as an intimation that supper was ready, at five o’clock, for the entire household, and all made their way down—Jean first, in all the glory of her ... ...cot- land, whereas the Beauforts were for peace. As a vigorous governor of Normandy, he had not commended him self to one whose sympathies were French... ... obliged to yield to the general voice, and, recalling his own nephew from Normandy, send the Duke of York to defend the remnant of the English conque... ...l have you and your lady safely conducted without ransom to the borders of Normandy or Brittany, as you may list.’ ‘And think you, sir,’ returned Elea...

...le, standing on steep rocks above the North Sea, was not only inaccessible on that side, but from its donjon tower commanded a magnificent view, both of the expanse of waves, taking purple tints from the shadows of the clouds, with here and there a sail fleeting before the wind, and of the rugged headlands of the coast, point beyond point, the nearer distinct, and showing ...

... Maid Marian by Thomas Love Peacock 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 i... ...Editor, Hazleton, PA 18201 1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of lit... ...yet a most bountiful dispenser in all liberality: the chief regulator of her house hold, the fairest pillar of her hall, and the sweetest blossom of ... ...c temperament: he was lineally descended from the re doubtable Fierabras of Normandy, who came over to En gland with the Conqueror, and who, in the ... ...ws by the hour?” “Did you ever hear me,” said the baron, “rail myself out of house and land? If I had done that, then were I a knave.” “My lover,” sai... ...an too.” “How can he be an honest man,” said the baron, “when he has neither house nor land, which are the better part of a man?” “They are but the hu... ...n they are well roasted and smoking under my nose? What title had William of Normandy to England, that Robin of Locksley has not to merry Sherwood? Wi... ...” “Excellent laws,” said the baron: “excellent, by the holy rood. William of Normandy, with my great great grandfa ther Fierabras at his elbow, could...

...Excerpt: Chapter 1. Now come ye for peace here, or come ye for war? ?The abbot, in his alb arrayed,? stood at the altar in the abbey-chapel of Rubygill, with all his plump, sleek, rosy friars, in goodly lines disposed, to solemnise the nuptials of the beautiful Matilda Fitzwater, daughter of the Baron of Arlingford, with the noble Robert Fitz-Ooth, Earl of Locksl...

...NSON A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Familiar Studies of Men and Books by Robert Louis Stevenson is a publication of the Pennsylv... ...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... ...r for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Familiar Studies of Men and Books by Robert Louis Stevenson, the Pennsylvania State Universi... ........................ 107 CHAPTER VI – FRANCOIS VILLON, STUDENT, POET, AND HOUSEBREAKER .........117 CHAPTER VII – CHARLES OF ORLEANS ................... ...iner in conception than that voice from the people heard sud- denly in the House of Lords, in solemn arraignment of the pleasures and privileges of it... ...k a farm, married, and, like an emigrant in a new country, built himself a house with his own hands. Pov- erty of the most distressing sort, with some... ...d the duke sang, in a truly patriotic vein, the deliverance of Guyenne and Normandy.* They were liberal of rhymes and largesse, and welcomed the prosp... ...ivial side. The duke perhaps cared less for the deliverance of Guyenne and Normandy than for his own verses on the occasion; just as Dr. Russell’s cor... ...ily exampled out of his own mouth. When Alencon stood accused of betraying Normandy into the hands of the English, Charles made a speech in his defenc...

...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 ...

...Contents PREFACE BY WAY OF CRITICISM. ........................................................................................... 4 CHAPTER I ? VICTOR HUGO?S ROMANCES ........................................................................ 15 CHAPTE...