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...The Wings of the Dove by Henry James The Wings of the Dove by Henry James The Wings of the Dove by Henry James A PENN STAT... ...Henry James A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The Wings of the Dove by Henry James is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Unive... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any per- son using this document file, for any purpose, and in... ..., which Kate never did; it being a relation in which Kate could but mutely listen. She couldn’t indeed too often say to herself that if that was what ... ...n the line of his vision; he saw them, large and black, while he talked or listened, take, in the bright air, singular positions. Sometimes the right ... ...ne might explain, the parties to every relation. Kate did explain, for her listening friend; every one who had anything to give—it was true they were ... ...ing, by the array on the side facing her, that she was in fact among small Dutch pictures. The action of this was again appreciable—the dim surmise th... ...d of Palazzo Leporelli to see all the elements of the business compose, as painters called it, differently. It began to strike him then that departure...

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...r by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katharine 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 18202-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ... without dig- nity; in fact, it resembled the well-known brow given by all painters to Saint Peter, the man of the people, the roughest, but withal th... ... the old couple seated motionless in their armchairs, like Chinese images, listening to their daughter, and admiring her with all the powers of their ... ...ts graceful suppleness, and in the serpentine curves laboriously sought by painters and sculptors,—curves which Nature herself draws so delicately wit... ...d in one of those old, defaced, half ruined windows the brushes of the old Dutch painters loved so well. When some stranger, surprised or interested b... ...to a species of inward delirium. 31 Balzac Silent and self-contained, she listened as much to herself as she did to others. Feeling within her the mo... ...iration. You love flowers for themselves, whereas I love them as I love to listen to fine music. So, as I was saying, the secret of a mass of things e...

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...Excerpt: The Champion Of His Country. When young Nevil Beauchamp was throwing off his midshipman?s jacket for a holiday in the garb of peace, we had across Channel a host of dreadful military officers flashing swords at us for some critical observ...

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...Series Publication Beauchamp’s Career by George Meredith 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... ...they were sure he would defend them. The men he addressed were civil. They listened to him, sometimes with smiles and sometimes with laughter, but app... ...mpany better than that of his equals, and learnt more from them. They also listened deferentially to their instructor. The conversation he delighted i... ... who would, he said, infallibly have made a parson of him. ‘I’d rather en- list for a soldier,’ Nevil said, and he ceased to dream of rebel- lion, and... ...y. I never saw anything like it.’ ‘That repartee wouldn’t have done with a Dutchman or a T orbay trawler,’ said Stukely Culbrett. ‘But let us hear mor... ...that is, those views are out of politics; they are matters for the police. Dutch dykes are built to shut away the sea from cultivated land, and of cou... ...sea from cultivated land, and of course it’s a part of the business of the Dutch Government to keep up the dykes,—and of ours to guard against the mob...

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...Excerpt: PREFACE; This book is essentially a desultory book, the result of intermittent observation, and often, no doubt, of rash assumption. Having been written in Paris, at odd moments, during the last two years of the war, it could hardly be more than a series of disjointed notes; and the excu...

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...Table of Contents: Preface, 1 -- I ?First Impression, 4 -- I, 4 -- II, 6 -- III, 8 -- II? Reverence, 10 -- I, 10 -- II, 13 -- III, 15 -- III? Taste, 17 -- I, 17 -- II, 17 -- III, 18 -- IV, 21 -- IV? Intellectual Honesty, 24 -- I, 2...

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...obal Language Resources, Inc. All rights reserved. Based on the first edition of 1919. Electronic text created by Sara Triggs. Contents Preface . . . ... ...EIR MEANING 1 PREFACE T his book is essentially a desultory book, the result of intermittent observa tion, and often, no doubt, of rash assumption. H... ...ion. Having been written in Paris, at odd moments, during the last two years of the war, it could hardly be more than a series of disjointed notes; an... ...een contradictions, and his sharp outlines will become blurred with what the painters call “repentances.” From this twilight it is hardly possible for... ...nversation is known to be so good that the other guests have been invited to listen to him. Even so, he must give them a chance now and then, and it i... .... But above all they are not to air their views in the presence of men worth listening to. The French care passionately for ideas, but they do not exp... ...om happens. Women (if they only knew it!) are generally far more intelligent listeners than talkers; and the rare quality of the Frenchwoman’s listeni... ...ould not count in our artistic and social inheritance, since the English and Dutch colonists found only a wilderness peopled by savages, who had kept ... ...long continuance and a race that has had a recent beginning. The English and Dutch settlers of North America no doubt carried many things with them, s...

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Excerpt: The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Volume Two.

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...Contents THE GENIUS AND POETRY OF POPE........................................................................................ 7 MORAL ESSAYS .....................................................................................................................

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...AN A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Volume Two is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Un... ...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... ...for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Volume T wo, the Pennsylvania State University, Electron... ...g than of that thorough and genial insight which sympathy produces. He has listened at the keyhole, not by any “Open Sesame” entered the chamber. He h... ... double day. The monarch then his solemn silence broke, The still creation listen’d while he spoke; 74 The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: V ol. 2 ... ...s, I feel the pain, And he that smarts has reason to complain. Do what you list, for me; you must be sage, And cautious sure; for wisdom is in age: Bu... ...s to thy ... Espouse the nation, you ... What can thy H— 103 ... Dress in Dutch ... 50 Tho... ...o’er ‘em lies Each gentle clerk, and, muttering, seals his eyes, As what a Dutchman plumps into the lakes, One circle first, and then a second makes; ... ...ght from Boeotian to Boeotian roll? 50 How many Dutchmen she vouchsafed to thrid? How many stages through old monks she rid...

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...Excerpt: It was about the beginning of September, 1664, that I, mong the rest of my neighbors, heard in ordinary dis course that the plague was returned again in Holland; for it had been very violent there, and particularly at Amsterdam and Rotterdam, in the ye...

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...A Journal of the Plague Year by Daniel Defoe A JOURNAL OF THE PLAGUE YEAR being observations or memorials of the most remarkable o... ...lic before. A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication A Journal of the Plague Year by Daniel Defoe is a publication of the Pennsylvania Sta... ...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... ...tion. These had spe- cious titles also, such as these: – ‘ An eminent High Dutch physician, newly come over from Holland, where he resided during all ... ...I remember that any one of those families miscarried. Among these, several Dutch mer- chants were particularly remarkable, who kept their houses like ... ...t our ships or corre- spond with us; indeed we stood on ill terms with the Dutch, and were in a furious war with them, but though in a bad condition t... ...nly venture but lose their lives on that sad occasion. I was once making a list of all such, I mean of all those professions and employments who thus ... ..., the great crisis and extremity of the infection, it can be no com- plete list. As to inferior people, I think there died six-and- forty constables a... ... in the two parishes of Stepney and Whitechappel; but I could not carry my list oil, for when the violent rage of the distemper in September came upon...

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...books* one by Mr. Grant White on England, one on France by the diabolically clever Mr. Hillebrand, may well have set people thinking on the divisions of races and nations. Such thoughts should arise with particular congruity and force to inhabitants of that United Kingdom, peopled from so many different stocks, babbling so many different dialects, and offering in its exten...

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...ER VII: THE MANSE .......................................................................................................... 48 CHAPTER VIII: MEMOIRS OF AN ISLET .................................................................................... 53 CHAPTER IX: THOMAS STEVENSON ? CIVIL ENGINEER...................................................... 58 CHAPTER X: TALK AND TA...

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...Preface: When I first saw Mr. Osgood?s beautiful illustrated edition of The Lady of the Lake, I asked him to let me use some of the cuts in a cheaper annotated edition for school and household use; and the present volume is the result. The text of the poem has given me unexpected trouble. When...

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... Twenty-six through Fifty) by William Makepeace Thackeray is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is fur- ... ...y. This Portable Document file is fur- nished 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... ...e for awhile indulging in her usual mood of selfish brooding, in that very listless melancholy attitude in which the honest maid- servant had found he... ...ip. At Chatham he followed the parades and drills with great assiduity. He listened with the utmost attention to the conversation of his brother offic... ...aby’s cradle, while Jean and Jeannette were out getting in the hay. As our painters are bent on military subjects just now, I throw out this as a good... ...nd as soon as he had used him would fling him off with scorn? He would not listen: and so, as Dobbin, upon those days when he visited the 0sborne hous... ...d stories. He described the different pugilistic qualities of Molyneux and Dutch Sam, offered playfully to give Lady Jane the odds upon the Tutbury Pe...

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...Excerpt: Accusations of ingratitude, and just accusations no doubt, are made against every inhabitant of this wicked world, and the fact is, that a man who is ceaselessly engaged in its trouble and turmoil, borne hither and thither upon the fierc...

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...Excerpt: After a voyage, during which the captain of the ship has displayed uncommon courage, seamanship, affability, or other good qualities, grateful passengers often present him with a token of their esteem, in the shape of teapots, tankards, trays, &c. of precious metal....

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...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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...Excerpt: All elections begin with a bustle before beginning to describe an election in the provinces, it is proper to state that the town of Arcis-sur-Aube was not the theatre of the events here related. The arrondissement of Arcis votes at Bar-sur-Aube, which is forty miles from Arcis; consequently there is no deputy from Arcis in the Chamber....

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...ies Publication Dombey & Son Volume 1 by Charles Dickens is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity. This Portable Document file is fur... ...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... ...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... ...the very pink of general propitiation and politeness. From a long habit of listening admiringly to everything that was said in her presence, and looki... ...s time you roused yourself a little? Eh?’ She bent her ear to the bed, and listened: at the same time 14 Dombey & Son looking round at the bystanders... ...s, and the umbrella-mender, and the man who trilled the little bell of the Dutch clock as he went 28 Dombey & Son along. It was soon gone again to re... ...You can let her come and go without regarding me.’ The child shrunk as she listened—and was gone, before her humble friend looked round again. However... ... journeys to Banbury Cross and back, took sharp note of the furniture, the Dutch clock, the cupboard, the castle on the mantel-piece with red and gree... ...ting from his supper a quarter of a round of bread and a fragment of moist Dutch cheese, as the beginning of a stock of provision to support him on th...

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...Edith Wharton A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Un... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any per- son using this document file, for any purpose, and in... ...ocument or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton, the Pennsylvania State University, Electroni... ... yellow braids carefully dis- posed on each side of her muslin chemisette, listened with downcast eyes to M. Capoul’s impassioned wooing, and af- 6 T... ...young enquirer, a candid Thorley, who was evidently preparing to enter the lists as the lady’s champion. “The very worst; I knew him at Nice,” said La... ...Our grandfathers and great-grandfathers were just respect- able English or Dutch merchants, who came to the colonies to make their fortune, and stayed... ... Count de Grasse, and the van der Luydens, direct descendants of the first Dutch 36 The Age of Innocence governor of Manhattan, and related by pre-re... ...at es- tate on the Hudson which had been one of the colonial grants of the Dutch government to the famous first Governor, and of which Mr. van der Luy... ...here’ll be no such thing as Society left.” VII. MRS. HENRY VA N DER LUYDEN listened in silence to her cousin Mrs. Archer’s narrative. It was all very ...

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...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... ...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... ...ary KETOS, GREEK. CETUS, LA TIN. WHOEL, ANGLO-SAXON. HV ALT, DANISH. W AL, DUTCH. HW AL, SWEDISH. WHALE, ICELANDIC. 4 Moby Dick WHALE, ENGLISH. BALEI... ...ck. Another version of the Whale-Ship Globe narrative. “The voyages of the Dutch and English to the Northern Ocean, in order, if possible, to discover... ...s mast- 56 Moby Dick head and sit on the hatches there where you sit, and listen as you listen, while some one of you reads me that other and more aw... ...ptain Ahab; doesn’t speak much; but, when he does speak, then you may well listen. Mark ye, be forewarned; Ahab’s above the common; Ahab’s been in col... ... it’s very punctual then. I went down to supper. After sitting a long time listening to the long stories of some sailors who had just come from a plum... ... all sorts of scales; see what we whalemen are, and have been. Why did the Dutch in De Witt’s time have admirals of their whaling fleets? Why did Loui...