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...In Voices from the Past, a daring group of five independent novels, acclaimed author Paul Alexander Bartlett accomplishes a tour de force of historical fiction, allowing the reader to enter for the first time into the pri...

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...FROM THE COVER OF VOICES FROM THE PAST: In Voices from the Past, a daring group of five independent novels, acclai... ...ardo da Vinci; Shakespeare; and Abraham Lincoln. Each novel appears here in its entirety within a single unique volume of 644 pages beautifully il... ...am much taken with Bartlett’s work and commend it highly.” CHARLES POORE in The New York Times: “...believable characters who are stirred by intens... ...to quarrel over money! You, with your scarab, your Egyptian clothes, your obelisks, your slaves, your woman! Perhaps Kleis is mistaken. Children are... ...kept by Leonardo da Vinci during the years 1516 to 1519 while he lived in France as the guest of King Francis I; there, he lived in the small residen... ...s of the château; it often seems to me that I have been here before! With Francesco, Salai and Giovanni busy in the adjoining studio, I try to belie... ...adjusted the han- dlebars you rode it into the Arno.” “Some splash!” said Francesco, coming in with Giovanni. “You could have gotten the bicycle out... ... be a balmy spot. Girls...but I would sit there and imagine that the twin obelisks in front of the church were being lugged off on the backs of thei...

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... Canadian Copyright: 1072425 Nov 12 th 2009 Due to the ideas presented in this book, I have had to use various terms and words that are not f... ...ed in this book, I have had to use various terms and words that are not found in dictionaries: beginning with the title. The word: ‘Splitness’ is ... ...ng these elements together creates a larger context of awareness which result in a better understanding. For instance: what can you understand a... ...ges down the throats of his subjects. When Napoleon single-handedly revamped France’s legal system; he threatened the old status quo of all Europe. ... ...rope. By arbitrarily and single-handedly changing the entire legal system of France: Napoleon threatened the entire Old European Social Order. By i... ...King was ousted, thanks to Bonaparte’s new, more egalitarian legal system; and France finally became a Republic in name only… as it was the Emperor’s... ...tings that covered the walls of all the ancient monuments, and buildings, and obelisks, and walls of Egypt. The Egyptian Priests during the Roman E...

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.......................................................................................................................................... 25 VARIATIONS IN THE AUTHOR?S MANUSCRIPT PREFACE. ........................................................................ 31 PASTORALS, WITH A DISCOURSE ON PASTORAL POETRY. WRITTEN IN THE YEAR MDCCIV...... 32 SPRING .........................

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... 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. Among authors, however, bullion is a much rarer commodity than paper, whereof I beg you to accept a little in the shape of this small volume. It contains a few ...

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...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ained within the document or for the file as an elec- tronic transmission, in any way. Notes on a Journey from Cornhill to Grand Cairo by William Make... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. C... ...ed considerably from sea-sickness during our pas- sage along the coasts of France and Spain, consoled us all by saying that the very minute we got int... ...adness of the inn) about landing at all. A person who wishes to understand France or the East should come in a yacht to Calais or Smyrna, land for two... ...tist, and greeted him with a bow and a smile, such as only can be found in France. Then she fell to talking with a young French officer with a beard, ... ...ar must stand like a mountain, in a yellow plain, surrounded by a grove of obelisks as tall as palm-trees. Placid sphinxes brooding o’er the Nile—migh...

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...Introduction: Near seven years ago, a short while before his death in 1844, John Sterling committed the care of his literary Character and printed Writings to two friends, Archdeacon Hare and myself. His estimate of the bequest was far from overweening; to few men could the small sum-total o...

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...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. North America: Volume Two by Anthony Trollope, the Pennsylvania... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. C... ... bold, boastful with a loud voice, already taller by many heads than other obelisks, but nevertheless still in its infancy—ugly, un- promising, and fa... ...f we look to Europe, we see that this has been so in Greece, Italy, Spain, France, and the Netherlands; in England and Scotland; in Prussia and in Rus... ...lish stage coachman! I have seen performances in America— and in Italy and France also, but above all in America— which would have made the hair of an... ...and to the north of Arkansas. It forms a portion of the territory ceded by France to the United States in 1803. Indeed, it is difficult to say how lar...

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... 21 NOTE ON THE EARLY POEMS, BY MRS. SHELLEY. ...................................................................................... 22 POEMS WRITTEN IN 1816 .......................................................................................................... 23 THE SUNSET. ..................................................................................................

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...Excerpt: The tower among the Apennines It was in June that the sculptor, Kenyon, arrived on horse back at the gate of an ancient country house (which, from some of its features, might almost be called a castle) situated in a part of Tuscany somewhat remote from the ordin...

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...The Marble Faun or The Romance of Monte Beni by Nathaniel Hawthorne In Two Volumes Volume Two A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publicati... ...e of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any pur- pose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Marble Faun, or The Romance of Monte Beni: Volume Two by Na... ...not to flourish, on their half-decayed roots, oftener than in En- gland or France. It came down in a broad track from the Middle Ages; but, at epochs ... ...tridden by old, tri- umphal arches, until, in the distance, you behold the obelisks, with their unintelligible inscriptions, hinting at a past infi- n...

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.................................................... 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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...Excerpt: Chapter 1. Miriam, Hilda, Kenyon, Donatello Four individuals, in whose fortunes we should be glad to interest the reader, happened to be standing in one of the saloons of the sculpture-gallery in the Capitol at Rome. It was that room (the first, after ascending the staircase) in the cen...

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Excerpt: The Works of Edgar Allan Poe in Five Volumes: Volume Five.

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............................................................................................................. 47 WHY THE LITTLE FRENCHMAN WEARS HIS HAND IN A SLING ...................................................................... 61 BON-BON........................................................................................................................................

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...l Waiters, and likewise an only sister who is a Waitress, would wish to offer a few words respecting his calling; first having the pleasure of hereby in a friendly manner offering the Dedication of the same unto Joseph, much respected Head Waiter at the Slamjam Coffee-house, London, E.C., than which a individual more eminently deserving of the name of man, or a more amenab...

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...gnomy alone nor brain alone is worthy for the Muse, I say the Form complete is worthier far, The Female equally with the Male I sing. Of Life immense in passion, pulse, and power, Cheerful, for freest action form?d under the laws divine, The Modern Man I sing....

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...s LEAVES OF GRASS.......................8 BOOK I. INSCRIPTIONS..................9 One?s-Self I Sing...................................9 As I Ponder?d in Silence.....................10 In Cabin?d Ships at Sea.......................11 To Foreign Lands................................12 To a Historian.....................................12 To Thee Old Cause.......................

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...; and, finally, disaffection overawed by the first band of mercenary troops that ever marched on our free soil. For two years our ancestors were kept in sullen submission by that filial love which had invariably secured their allegiance to the mother country, whether its head chanced to be a Parliament, Protector, or Popish Monarch. Till these evil times, however, such all...

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