...Don Quixote by Miquel de Cervantes Translated by John Ormsby 1922 edition of Ormsby’s translation. Part One A Penn State Electronic Classics Series P... ... One by Miquel de Cervantes, trans. John Ormsby, 1922 ed. is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furni... ...iginal site of the family, was at Cervatos in the north-west corner of Old Castile, close to the junction of Castile, Leon, and the Asturias. As it ha... ...sent offshoots in various directions, Andalusia, Estremadura, Galicia, and Portugal, and produced a goodly line of men distin- guished in the service ... ... own. He was born at Alcala de Henares and baptised in the church of Santa Maria Mayor on the 9th of October, 1547. Of his boyhood and youth we know n... ...tion of verses by different hands on the death of Isabel de Valois, second queen of Philip II, published by the professor in 1569, to which Cervantes ... ...ther.” On his return to Spain he found his old regiment about to march for Portugal to support Philip’s claim to the crown, and utterly penniless now,... ...From many a rascally and ruffian crew. If the fair Dulcinea, your heart’s queen, Be unrelenting in her cruelty, If still your woe be powerless t... ...ris. With these and such like bits of Latin they will take you for a gram- marian at all events, and that now-a-days is no small honour and profit. “W...

...Don Quixote by Miquel de Cervantes Translated by John Ormsby 1922 edition of Ormsby’s translation A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication... ...ote by Miguel de Cervantes, trans. John Ormsby (1922 ed.) is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furni... ...iginal site of the family, was at Cervatos in the north-west corner of Old Castile, close to the junction of Castile, Leon, and the Asturias. As it ha... ...sent offshoots in various directions, Andalusia, Estremadura, Galicia, and Portugal, and produced a goodly line of men distin- guished in the service ... ... own. He was born at Alcala de Henares and baptised in the church of Santa Maria Mayor on the 9th of October, 1547. Of his boyhood and youth we know n... ...tion of verses by different hands on the death of Isabel de Valois, second queen of Philip II, published by the professor in 1569, to which Cervantes ... ...ther.” On his return to Spain he found his old regiment about to march for Portugal to support Philip’s claim to the crown, and utterly penniless now,... ...From many a rascally and ruffian crew. If the fair Dulcinea, your heart’s queen, Be unrelenting in her cruelty, If still your woe be powerless t... ... the flask he repeated more than eighty paternosters and as many more ave- marias, salves, and credos, accompanying each word with a cross by way of b...

...Don Quixote by Miquel de Cervantes Translated by John Ormsby 1922 edition of Ormsby’s translation Part Two A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Pu... ... Two by Miquel de Cervantes, trans. John Ormsby, 1922 ed. is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furni... ...th the fidelity and respect he had always observed towards her, spurn- ing queens, empresses, and damsels of all sorts, and keeping in check the impet... ...elve thousand volumes of the said history in print this very day. Only ask Portugal, Barcelona, and Valencia, where they have been printed, and moreov... ... take him into your house.’ A fine thing it would be, indeed, to marry our Maria to some great count or grand gentleman, who, when the humour took him... ...called the Moles Adriani, and is now the castle of St. Angelo in Rome. The queen Artemisia buried her husband Mausolus in a tomb which was reckoned on... ..., and others that come to him, he makes a grand and imposing entrance into Portugal; but for all that, go where he may, he shows his melancholy and sa... ...poiled figures, for I agree to pay it at once in good and current money of Castile.” Master Pedro made him a bow, saying, “I expected no less of the r... ...de them help him in his present strait with plenty of Paternosters and Ave Marias, that God might provide some one to say as many for them, whenever t...

...es Cotton Edited by William Carew Hazilitt 1877 1877 1877 1877 1877 ESSAYS OF MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE Book the First T ranslated by Charles Cotton Edited ... ...es P P P P Publication ublication ublication ublication ublication Essays of Michel De Montaigne, Book the First, trans. Charles Cotton, Ed. William ... ...n I was a boy, that one of our neighbouring kings—[Probably Alfonso XI. of Castile]—having received a blow from the hand of God, swore he would be rev... ..., some years before, Lorenzo de’ Medici, Duke of Urbino, and father to the queen-mother— [Catherine de’ Medici, mother of Henry III.]—laying siege to ... ...ing at home when he has given you no- tice he will come to visit you. Nay, Queen Margaret of Navarre—[Marguerite de Valois, authoress of the ‘Heptamer... ...tower, where every morning and evening a very great bell rings out the Ave Maria: the noise shakes my very tower, and at first seemed insupportable to... ...roissart, that the Comte de Foix knew in Bearn the defeat of John, king of Castile, at Jubera the next day after it happened, and the means by which h... ...irst ing example, Albuquerque, viceroy in the Indies for Emmanuel, king of Portugal, in an extreme peril of ship- wreck, took a young boy upon his sho... ... of Castile having banished the Jews out of their dominions, John, King of Portugal, in consideration of eight crowns a head, sold them a retreat into...

Excerpt: Essays of Michel De Montaigne, Book the First, translated by Charles Cotton, Ed. William Carew Hazilitt.

............................................................................................................................................. 6 THE LIFE OF MONTAIGNE ...................................................................................................................................... 9 THE LETTERS OF MONTAIGNE .....................................................

... This publication of The Divine Comedy of Dante Paradise , Translated by H.F. Cary , is a publication of th... ...rsity. 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... ... the third and last.” She ceas’d from further talk, and then began “Ave Maria” singing, and with that song Vanish’d, as heavy substance through d... .... Four daughters were there born To Raymond Berenger, and every one Became a queen; and this for him did Romeo, Though of mean state and from a foreig... ...ings, Who so renown’d a nation and two crowns Have bastardized. And they, of Portugal And Norway, there shall be expos’d with him Of Ratza, who hath c... ...y ray divine Kindled, thy ken a higher flight shall mount; And from heav’n’s queen, whom fervent I adore, All gracious aid befriend us; for that I Am ... ...r descended, once, On earth, now hail’d in heav’n; and on pois’d wing. “Ave, Maria, Gratia Plena,” sang: To whose sweet anthem all the blissful court,... ... In that clime.] Spain. v. 48. Callaroga.] Between Osma and Aranda, in Old Castile, designated by the royal coat of arms. v. 51. The loving minion ... ...f Arragon, who died in 1327. See Purgatory, Canto VII. v. 117. v. 135. Of Portugal.] In the time of Dante, Dionysius was king of Portugal. He died ...

...ens A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication A Child’s History of England by Charles Dickens 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 ... ...with his victorious troops, the Britons rose. Because Boadicea, a British queen, the widow of the King of the Norfolk and Suffolk people, resisted th... ...o the last; but they were vanquished with great slaughter, and the unhappy queen took poison. Still, the spirit of the Britons was not broken. When Su... ...ntlemen paid ransom and went home. The wife of Louis, the fair Blanche of Castile , dutifully equipped a fleet of eighty good ships, and sent it over... ...carried before her, upon which were a picture of God, and the words Jesus Maria . In this splendid state, at the head of a great body Charles Dicken... ...rtunity. All of a sudden there appeared at Cork, in a vessel arriving from Portugal, a young man of excellent abilities, of very handsome appearance a... ...ssing to it; that Baby Charles had actually fallen in love with Henrietta Maria , the French King’s sister, whom he had seen in Paris; that he though... ...he sent a fleet abroad under bold Admiral Blake, which brought the King of Portugal to his senses—just to keep its hand in—and then engaged a Spanish ...

...Excerpt: If you look at a map of the World, you will see, in the left-hand upper corner of the Eastern Hemisphere, two Islands lying in the sea. They are England and Scotland, and Ireland. England and Scotland form the greater part of these Islands. Irela...

... Don Juan by George Byron 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... ...e quite a paragon, And worthy of the noblest pedigree (His sire was of Castile, his dam from Aragon): Then for accomplishments of chivalry, ... ...e so much to quote; You must excuse this extract, ‘t is where she, The Queen of Denmark, for Ophelia brought Flowers to the grave); and, sob... ...In Spain, he’d make a ballad or romance on The last war—much the same in Portugal; In Germany, the Pegasus he ‘d prance on Would be old Goet... ... her lover, left alone, The rosy flood of twilight’s sky admired;— Ave Maria! o’er the earth and sea, That heavenliest hour of Heaven is worth... ...he earth and sea, That heavenliest hour of Heaven is worthiest thee! Ave Maria! blessed be the hour! The time, the clime, the spot, where I so... ...ing; ‘T was famous, too, for Thisbe and for Pyramus, And the calumniated queen Semiramis. That injured Queen by chroniclers so coarse Has be...

...Excerpt: Dedication. Bob Southey! You?re a poet -- Poet-laureate, And representative of all the race, Although ?t is true that you turn?d out a Tory at Last,-- yours has lately been a common case; And now, my Epic Renegade! what are ye at? With all the Lakers, in and out of place? A nest of tuneful persons, t...

...RLOTTE M YONGE A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication A Book of Golden Deeds is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This... ...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, and fastened to the gate of the city with his dagger a copy of the Ave Maria. It was a wildly brave action, and yet not without service in showing... ...rse of the long dismal conflict between Frederick the Great of Prussia and Maria Theresa of Austria, which was called the Seven Years’ War. Louis XV .... ...igh rank and consideration in the Burgundian kingdom, whence the Christian Queen Clotilda had come; and even after the Burgundians had been sub- dued ... ...cho’s accession, continued his enmity, and fled to Portu- gal. The King of Portugal, however, being requested by Sancho not to permit him to remain th... ...urder. However, there was no mercy for him; and, by the express command of Queen Agnes, after he had been bound upon one wheel, and his limbs broken b... ...NCE ANT PRINCE ANT PRINCE 1433 1433 1433 1433 1433 THE illustrious days of Portugal were during the century and a half of the dynasty termed the House... ...only obtained the crown from the desire of the nation to be independent of Castile, and by the assis- tance of our own John of Gaunt, whose daughter, ...

...Preface: As the most striking lines of poetry are the most hackneyed, because they have grown to be the common inheritance of all the world, so many of the most noble deeds that earth can show have become the best known, and enjoyed their full meed of fame. The...

...MASTER FRANCIS RABELAIS FIVE BOOKS OF THE LIVES, HEROIC DEEDS AND SAYINGS OF GARGANTUA AND HIS SON PANTAGRUEL ... ...TUA AND HIS SON PANTAGRUEL T ranslated into English by Sir Thomas Urquhart of Cromarty and Peter Antony Motteux A Penn State Electronic Classics Serie... ...d the crude frankness of certain painted windows of the fifteenth century. Queen Anne was, without any doubt, one of the most virtuous women in the wo... ...cuted for Francis I., and placed, not against a wall, but in the middle of Queen Claude’s cham- ber at Fontainebleau, has behind it an attribute which... ...teenth century: he was familiar with Villon, Pathelin, the Quinze Joies de Mariage, the Cent Nouvelles, the chronicles and the romances, and even earl... ...entury, and he made them accessible by his editions of the Quinze Joies du Mariage, of Henri Estienne, of Agrippa d’Aubigne, of L ’Etoile, and of the ... ..., where you shall seize upon all the ships, and coasting along Galicia and Portugal, shall pillage all the maritime places, even unto Lisbon, where yo... ... little gos- sip; I will put thee into service to be wiper to Don Pedro de Castile; wipe, only wipe, and no more. The poor fox wiped as hard as he cou...

...Excerpt: Five Books of the Lives, Heroic Deeds and Sayings of Gargantua and His Son Pantagruel by Master Francis Rabelais, translated by Sir Thomas Urquhart and Peter Antony Motteux....

... [Paradiso] by Dante Aligheri, trans Charles Eliot Norton 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... ...rd and the last power.” Thus she spoke to me, and then began singing “ Ave Maria,” and Singing vanished, like a heavy thing through deep wa- ter. My s... ...he blessed. 26 Norton another’s good deed. 22 Four daughters, and each a queen, had Raymond Berenger, and Romeo, a humble person and a pilgrim, did ... ...s pilgrim’s staff and scrip, and was never seen more. 2 The making each a queen. CANT CANT CANT CANT CANTO O O O O VII. VII. VII. VII. VII. Discourse... ...ly Joan, if this, being interpreted, means as is said! 17 9 The shield of Castile, on which two lions and two castles are quartered, one lion below a... ...other 19 who have dishonored so famous a nation and two crowns. And he of Portugal, 20 and he of Norway 21 shall be known there; and he of Rascia, ... ...King of Majorca and Minorca, and James, King of Aragon. 20 Denis, King of Portugal, 1279-1325. 21 Perhaps Hakon Haleggr (Longlegs), 1299-1319. 22 R... ... Our Lady on the Adriatic shore is sup- posed to be the monastery of Santa Maria in Porto, near Ravenna. 9 He was made cardinal in 1058, and died in ...

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

... This publication of The Divine Comedy of Dante , Translated by H.F. Cary , is a publication of the Pennsylva... ...rsity. 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... ...self, And to Sicheus’ ashes broke her faith: Then follows Cleopatra, lustful queen.” There mark’d I Helen, for whose sake so long The time was fr... ...r fierce temples bound. He knowing well the miserable hags Who tend the queen of endless woe, thus spake: “Mark thou each dire Erinnys. To the le... ...compositions publicly in his palace, that they might be criticized by all.” Mariana, History of Spain, b. xiii. c. 9. An account of Thibault, and tw... ...rragon, and Frederick in that of Sicily. See G. Villani, 1. vii. c. 102. and Mariana, I. xiv. c. 9. He is enumerated among the Provencal poets by Mill... ...ressed in his day, and appears to have been in favour with the mon archs of Castile, Leon, Navarre, and Arragon He is quoted by Dante, De Vulg. Eloq... ...ings, Who so renown’d a nation and two crowns Have bastardized. And they, of Portugal And Norway, there shall be expos’d with him Of Ratza, who hath c... ...f Arragon, who died in 1327. See Purgatory, Canto VII. v. 117. v. 135. Of Portugal.] In the time of Dante, Dionysius was king of Portugal. He died ...

...Excerpt: CANTO I. In the midway of this our mortal life, I found me in a gloomy wood, astray Gone from the path direct: and e?en to tell It were no easy task, how savage wild That forest, how robust and rough its growth, Which to remember only, my dismay Re...