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...Series Publication The Princess by Alfred, Lord Tennyson 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 per- son using this document file, for any purpose, and in... ...or, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Document File pro- duced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...r courses, children of despair.’ ‘Poor boy,’ she said, ‘can he not read—no books? Quoit, tennis, ball—no games? nor deals in that Which men delight in... ...r countrywoman, I your old friend and tried, she new in all? But still her lists were swelled and mine were lean; Y et I bore up in hope she would be ... ... fight, But now fast barred: so here upon the flat All that long morn the lists were hammered up, And all that morn the heralds to and fro, With mess... ...beasts of prey And prospered; till a rout of saucy boys Brake on us at our books, and marred our peace, Masked like our maids, blustering I know not w... ...myself the shadow of a dream: And ere I woke it was the point of noon, The lists were ready. Empanoplied and plumed We entered in, and waited, fifty ... ...ht, and she that was, became Her former beauty treble; and to and fro With books, with flowers, with Angel offices, Like creatures native unto graciou...

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...tt Wormeley A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Vicar of Tours by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley is a publi... ...s 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... ...oor canon could 7 Balzac put in was a bed, a table, a few chairs, and the books he possessed. The apartment was like a beautiful woman in rags. But t... .... The Abbe Birotteau spent the first days of his mourning in verifying the books in his library, in making use of his furni- ture, in examining the wh... ...tteau. “I hope you are not going to litter up my dining-room with your old books!” “They are books I wanted,” replied the Abbe T roubert. “Mon- sieur ... ...hampion, and strengthened his valor by useful counsel until he entered the lists, so the sly old fox had said to the baroness at the last moment: “Don...

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...GRISLY GRISELL or THE LAIDLY LADY OF WHITBURN: A TALE OF THE WARS OF THE ROSES By Charlotte M. Yonge A Penn S... ...Electronic Classics Series Publication GRISLY GRISELL, or The Laidly Lady of Whitbern is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Uni- versity. This P... ...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... ...w I shall never be wedded to her daughter—let the wench live or die as she lists!” That was not by any means the opinion of the Lady of Whitburn, and ... ...re a sponge, and spite of all my Lady Mother’s bounties to the place, what lists he do but turn out the poor maid for lack of a dowry, not so much as ... ...Harry may roam from Church to shrine, from Abbey to chantry, so long as he lists, but none of us will brook to be ruled or misruled by the foreign wom... ...he left the hall she made up a bundle of needments, and in it her precious books and all the jewels she had inherited. That Thora did not follow her w... ...singing to him, telling some of her store of tales, or reading to him, for books were more plenti- ful at Bruges than at Sunderland, and there were ev... ..., and said her prayers backward, and had un- 129 Charlotte M. Young known books.” “Did your squire tell this, or was it only the men?” “My squire! Po...

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Excerpt: Sartor Resartus. The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdrockh.

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...Life of John Coleridge Patteson: Missionary Bishop of the Melanesian Islands By Charlotte Mary Yonge A Penn State Electronic C... ...lotte Mary Yonge A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Life of John Coleridge Patteson: Missionary Bishop of the Melanesian Islands by ... ...ry Bishop of the Melanesian Islands by Charlotte M. Yonge is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...;’ and had grown choice in the adorning of his room and the binding of his books, though he never let these tastes bring him into debt or ex- travagan... ..., but still I shall find great interest in my work as I go on, and reading books for the second or third time is light work compared to the first stod... ...th the aid of Hurwitz’s Grammar and Bernhard’s Guide to Hebrew Stu- dents, books familiar to Cambridge men, he was soon able to read the Psalms in the... ...n my mind about it. Sometimes I think these Banks Islanders may be evange- lists beyond the limits of their own islands. So many of the natives of oth...

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...ssics Series Publication Stalky & Co. by Rudyard Kipling 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... ...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... ... seek Beetle and McT urk in their house form-room. They were stowing away books for a quiet afternoon in the furze, which they called the “wuzzy.” “A... ...t again approvingly, and was silent. McTurk and Beetle had taken out their books and were lying on their stomachs, chin in hand. The sea snored and gu... ...y had vanished. “Looks like no end of a mess,” said Beetle, collecting his books and mathematical instrument case. “A week in the form-rooms isn’t any... ... the notices, where a newspaper cutting was thumb- tacked between callover lists. “By gum!” quoth Stalky, uncovering as he read. “It’s old Duncan—Fat-... ...bel of matters personal, provincial, and imperial, pieces of old call-over lists, and new policies, cut short by the roar of a Burmese gong, and we we...