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...s founded on history. In the present case, it is scarcely necessary to do more than refer to the almost unique relations that subsisted between Henry V. and his prisoner, James I. of Scotland; who lived with him throughout his reign on the terms of friend rather than of captive, and was absolutely sheltered by this imprisonment throughout his nonage and early youth from th...

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...ore than refer to the almost unique relations that subsisted between Henry V. and his prisoner, James I. of Scotland; who lived with him throughout hi... ...s, but the individual is not to be identi- fied. Readers of Tyler’s ‘Henry V.,’ of Agnes Strickland’s ‘Queens,’ Tytler’s ‘Scotland,’ and Barante’s ‘Hi... ...d Drax are his- torical, and as the latter really did commission a body of moss-troopers to divert an instalment of King James’s ran- som into his own... ...oreover, you ye made free enough with your siller to set the haill crew of moss-troopers on our track.’ ‘Twenty mile to Berwick-gate,’ said Sir James,... ...l choose,’ said James. ‘Either he shall study at the learned university at Oxford or at Paris, or he shall ride with me, and see how cities and battle... ...esolution never to betray himself. CHAPTER CHAPTER CHAPTER CHAPTER CHAPTER V V V V V WHIT WHIT WHIT WHIT WHITTINGT TINGT TINGT TINGT TINGTON S FEAST O... ...colm, meantime, was balancing between the now approaching decision between Oxford and France. He certainly felt something of his old horror of warlike... ...of all he cared for, if he were left among a set of stranger shavelings at Oxford. Yet he was reluctant to break with the old habits that had hitherto... ...k harbour, he stained and daggled his gown in the mire and water of a peat-moss, so as to destroy its Oxford gloss, took a book in his hand, and walke...

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... 100 IV. APPENDIX. .............................................................................................................................. 231 V. NOTES. ..................................................................................................................................... 234 Note I.?Fides et Fiducia Sunt Relativa. ........................................

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......................................................................... 231 V . NOTES. ................................................................... ...xander Boswell, Bart., subject for a spirited poem, entitled “Clan-Alpin’s V ow,” which was printed, but not, I believe, published, in 1811 [See Appen... ... cated himself in the manner there narrated.] 53 Sir Walter Scott CHAPTER V . Thareby so fearlesse and so fell he grew, That his own syre and maister... ...rise in the north of England. It is thought he has returned to the King at Oxford for farther instructions.” “Returned!” said Allan, with a scornful l... ...close: The other side, great griesly gills Did fence with fenny mire and moss. Which when the Earl understood, He council craved of captains all, ... ...of Aberdeen. Better so than be smothered like a cadger’s pony in some flow-moss, or snow-wreath, which was like to be his fate if this winter campaign...

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...HE GOOD SAXON, ALFRED...................................... 24 CHAPTER IV ENGLAND UNDER ATHELSTAN AND THE SIX BOY-KINGS .................. 31 CHAPTER V ENGLAND UNDER CANUTE THE DANE........................................................ 44 CHAPTER VI ENGLAND UNDER HAROLD HAREFOOT, HARDICANUTE, AND EDWARD THE CONFESSOR .........................................................

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...NGLAND UNDER ATHELSTAN AND THE SIX BOY KINGS .................. 31 CHAPTER V ENGLAND UNDER CANUTE THE DANE .............................................. ............................................ 386 A Child’s History of England v SECOND PART ............................................................... ...cross the bleak moors of Northumberland, the wall of Severus, overrun with moss and weeds, still stretches, a strong ruin; and the shepherds and their... ...k that he was killed, and killed by Canute’s orders. No one knows. CHAPTER V ENGLAND UNDER CANUTE THE DANE CANUTE REIGNED EIGHTEEN YEARS. He was a ... ..., however, it was agreed to refer the whole question to a great meeting at Oxford, which decided that Harold should have all the country north of the ... ...and 62 any distinction, sparing none, young or old, armed or unarmed, were Oxford, Warwick, Le icester, Nottingham, Derby, Lincoln, York. In all thes... ...es; in the winter, shrivelled and blew down, and lay in brown heaps on the moss. Some trees were stately, and grew high and Charles Dickens 75 strong... ...he long war went on afresh. Once, she was pressed so hard in the Castle of Oxford, in the winter weather when the snow lay thick upon the ground, that...

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...uthey CHAPTER I CHAPTER I CHAPTER I CHAPTER I CHAPTER I IN IN IN IN IN THE MOSS THE MOSS THE MOSS THE MOSS THE MOSS I can conduct you, lady, to a low ... ... beest thou? Tarry till I come! Move not, or thou mayst be in the bogs and mosses! Come, Watch’—to a great unwieldy collie puppy—’let us find her.’ A ... ...ushes that guarded the slope of the hill, to a val- ley covered with thick moss, veiling treacherously marshy ground in which it was easy to sink. The... ... in the niche behind this lay the little girl in her clothes, fast asleep. V ery young and childish she looked as she lay, her lips partly unclosed, h... ...ce of shepherd or hovel was found. CHAPTER CHAPTER CHAPTER CHAPTER CHAPTER V V V V V MO MO MO MO MOTHER AND SON THER AND SON THER AND SON THER AND SON... ...l apartments of the Tower, under the charge of the Chancellor. The Earl of Oxford, a steady partisan of the Red Rose, was Constable of the Kingdom, an... ...is name, and it had been sent in by another of the garrison to the Earl of Oxford. Presently, after some waiting in the rain, and looking up with awe ... ...ble! It rejoices his heart to hear of such staunch following.’ The Earl of Oxford, a stern, grave man of early middle age, was coming across the court... ...nd the clang of armour. Even by their own force the radiant star of the De V eres could hardly be seen on the banner, as the Earl of Oxford rode up an...

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...sylvania State University is an equal opportunity university. 3 Thackeray V anity Fair Volume Two by William Makepeace Thackeray CHAPTER XXVI Between... ...urtle-soup. A while after dinner, Amelia timidly expressed a wish to go 4 V anity Fair – V olume Two and see her mamma, at Fulham: which permission G... ...sire. The review of those days, so lately gone yet so far away, touched 6 V anity Fair – V olume Two her with shame; and the aspect of the kind paren... ...ys would whop him with 91 Thackeray one hand. Jim says he’s remembered at Oxford as Miss Crawley still—the spooney. “I say, Barbara,” his reverence c... ...know. He’s only been plucked twice—so was I—but he’s had the advantages of Oxford and a university education. He knows some of the best chaps there. H... ... pay a few of his most press- ing bills at the commencement of the ensuing Oxford term, and so took his place by the coach from Southampton, and was s... ...siness. And Mr. Lewis representing Mr. Davids, of Red Lion Square, and Mr. Moss acting for Mr. Manasseh of Cursitor Street (chief creditors of the Col... ...weep in front of the terrace and entrance stair was black and covered with mosses; the once trim flower-beds rank and weedy. Shutters were up along al... ...open the creaking old iron gate, and the carriage passed be- tween the two moss-grown pillars surmounted by the dove and serpent. “The governor has cu...

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...sylvania State University is an equal opportunity university. 3 Thackeray V anity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray BEFORE THE CURTAIN AS THE MANAG... ...usiness. I have no other moral than this to tag to the present story of 4 V anity Fair “V anity Fair.” Some people consider Fairs immoral altogether,... ... Jemima, you have made a copy of Miss Sedley’s account. This is it, is it? V ery good—ninety-three pounds, four shillings. Be kind enough to address i... ...odd, and attractive; so attractive that the Reverend Mr. Crisp, fresh from Oxford, and curate to the Vicar of Chiswick, the Reverend Mr. Flowerdew, fe... ...ereof startled the sleeping echoes in the street), and taking her way into Oxford Street, sum- moned a coach from a stand there. It is needless to par... ...to his people; satirizing Mr. Davids for his sluggishness; inspiriting Mr. Moss into action; imploring, commanding, bellowing, until down comes the ha... ...iggle in the room. “Don’t be trying to deprecate the value of the lot, Mr. Moss,” Mr. Hammerdown said; “let the company examine it as a work of art—th... .... She knew how the unhappy Lord Dovedale, whose mamma had taken a house at Oxford, so that he might be educated there, and who had never touched a car... ...siness. And Mr. Lewis representing Mr. Davids, of Red Lion Square, and Mr. Moss acting for Mr. Manasseh of Cursitor Street (chief creditors of the Col...

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...THE COMPLETE POETICAL WORKS OF PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY VOLUME 1 OXFORD EDITION. INCLUDING MATERIALS NEVER BEFORE PRINTED IN ANY EDITION OF ... ...POEMS. EDITED WITH TEXTUAL NOTES BY THOMAS HUTCHINSON, M. A. EDITOR OF THE OXFORD WORDSWORTH. 1914. A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publicatio... ...rn 7 Shelley THE COMPLETE POETICAL WORKS OF PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY VOLUME 1 OXFORD EDITION. INCLUDING MATERIALS NEVER BEFORE PRINTED IN ANY EDITION OF ... ...al appara- tus does not claim to be exhaustive. Thus I have not thought 8 V olume One it necessary to cumber the footnotes with every minute gram- ma... ...he poet’s meaning. Amongst the Editor’s Notes at the 9 Shelley end of the V olume 3 the reader will find lists of the punctual variations in the long... ...the longer form ‘leaped,’ and the shorter (after Mr. Henry Sweet’s ex- 10 V olume One ample) ‘lept,’ in order clearly to indicate the pronunciation i... ...e earth, T o feed with kindliest dews its favourite flower, That blooms in mossy banks and darksome glens, _555 Lighting the gre... ...as caught the expanded sail, And, lo! with gentle motion, between banks Of mossy slope, and on a placid stream, _400 Bene... ...he night’s noontide clearness, mutable As shapes in the weird clouds. Soft mossy lawns Beneath these canopies extend their swells, Fragrant with perfu...

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.......................................................................... 25 V ARIATIONS IN THE AUTHOR’S MANUSCRIPT PREFACE. .............................. ......................................................................... 120 V . EARL OF ROCHESTER ........................................................ ............................................... 136 EPISTLE TO ROBERT EARL OF OXFORD AND EARL MORTIMER.68 .................................................. ...SON OF THE LORD CHANCELLOR HARCOURT, AT THE CHURCH OF STANTON HARCOURT, IN OXFORDSHIRE, 1720. ................................................ 155 IV ... ......................................................................... 156 V . INTENDED FOR MR ROWE, IN WESTMINSTER ABBEY. .............................. ... undoubtedly in his eye when writing “Eloisa and Abelard,” which he did at Oxford in 1716, shortly after her going abroad, and which appeared the next... ...t you. 70 Oh, deign to visit our forsaken seats, The mossy fountains, and the green retreats! Where’er you walk, cool gales shal... ...of Solyma! begin the song: To heavenly themes sublimer strains belong. The mossy fountains, and the sylvan shades, The dreams of Pindus and the Aonian... ... 140 In these lone walls, (their day’s eternal bound) These moss-grown domes with spiry turrets crown’d, Where awful arches make a noon...

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...sylvania State University is an equal opportunity university. 3 Thackeray V anity Fair Volume One by William Makepeace Thackeray BEFORE THE CURTAIN A... ...usiness. I have no other moral than this to tag to the present story of 4 V anity Fair – V olume One “V anity Fair.” Some people consider Fairs immor... ... Jemima, you have made a copy of Miss Sedley’s account. This is it, is it? V ery good—ninety-three pounds, four shillings. Be kind enough to address i... ...odd, and attractive; so attractive that the Reverend Mr. Crisp, fresh from Oxford, and curate to the Vicar of Chiswick, the Reverend Mr. Flowerdew, fe... ...ereof startled the sleeping echoes in the street), and taking her way into Oxford Street, sum- moned a coach from a stand there. It is needless to par... ...to his people; satirizing Mr. Davids for his sluggishness; inspiriting Mr. Moss into action; imploring, commanding, bellowing, until down comes the ha... ...iggle in the room. “Don’t be trying to deprecate the value of the lot, Mr. Moss,” Mr. Hammerdown said; “let the company examine it as a work of art—th... .... She knew how the unhappy Lord Dovedale, whose mamma had taken a house at Oxford, so that he might be educated there, and who had never touched a car...

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...THE COMPLETE POETICAL WORKS OF PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY VOLUME 2 OXFORD EDITION. INCLUDING MATERIALS NEVER BEFORE PRINTED IN ANY EDITION OF ... ...POEMS. EDITED WITH TEXTUAL NOTES BY THOMAS HUTCHINSON, M. A. EDITOR OF THE OXFORD WORDSWORTH. 1914. A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publicatio... ......................................................................... 112 V ARIATION OF THE SONG OF THE MOON. .......................................... .......... 235 Index of First Lines...................................243 12 V olume Two THE COMPLETE POETICAL WORKS OF PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY VOLUME 2 OX... ...2 V olume Two THE COMPLETE POETICAL WORKS OF PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY VOLUME 2 OXFORD EDITION. INCLUDING MATERIALS NEVER BEFORE PRINTED IN ANY EDITION OF ... ...ot free From the music of two voices and the light of one sweet smile. 14 V olume Two T T T T TO HARRIET O HARRIET O HARRIET O HARRIET O HARRIET . . ... ...And every beast stretched in its rugged cave, And every bird lulled on its mossy bough, And every silver moth fresh from the grave Which is its cradle... ...rf, All overgrown with reeds and long rank grasses, And hillocks heaped of moss-inwoven turf, And where the huge and speckled aloe made, ... ... towers Quivering within the wave’s intenser day, All overgrown with azure moss and flowers _35 So sweet, the sense faints ...

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...ar ar art 1 t 1 t 1 t 1 t 1 ONE WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON in late September, Ann V eronica Stanley came down from London in a state of solemn excite- ment a... ...her father had re- plied, evasively: “We’ll have to see about that, little V ee; we’ll have to see about that.” In that posture of being seen about th... ...ot down,” and said she must not go. Going involved two things that all Ann V eronica’s tact had been ineffectual to conceal from her aunt and father. ... ...ton people. Father—dead. She goes out and comes home. Afterward goes on to Oxford. T wenty- one, twenty-two. Why doesn’t she marry? Plenty of money un... ...I think I ought to have one.” “Well, I have two,” said Mr. Manning—”one in Oxford University and one in Kensington.” He caught up and went on with a s... ...ket to Piccadilly, and so through dignified squares and palatial alleys to Oxford Street; and her mind was divided between a speculative treatment of ... ...ke it so… . We mustn’t make it so.” They loitered under trees, they sat on mossy banks they gossiped on friendly benches, they came back to lunch at t... ... art 4 t 4 t 4 t 4 t 4 THEY LAY SIDE BY SIDE in a shallow nest of turf and mosses among bowlders and stunted bushes on a high rock, and watched the da...

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...ald green cloth. In the middle distance symmetrical mounds of woolly green moss bounded by croquet hoops formed the base of shrubs shaped like orange-... ...ers made by female parishioners for fashionable clergymen, sprang from the moss beneath the rose-trees; and here and there a daisy grafted on a rose-b... ... it’s Larry Lefferts.” And on the question of pumps versus patent-leather “Oxfords” his authority had never been disputed. “My God!” he said; and sile... ...idn’t last long, though: I heard of her a few months later living alone in V enice. I believe Lovell Mingott went out to get her. He said she was desp... ...ere a horrid boy, and kissed me once behind a door; but it was your cousin V andie Newland, who never looked at me, that I was in love with.” Her glan... ...g they would get hot canvas-back ducks and vintage wines, instead of tepid V euve Clicquot without a year and warmed-up cro- quettes from Philadelphia... ...brought him back to England, and was to remain with him till he went up to Oxford the following spring; and M. Riviere added with simplicity that he s...

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...ed with the Greek.” “That must have been very interesting!” said Magdalen. V era and her neighbour looked at one another and shrugged their shoulders;... ...l and Lady Mary - “Who keep a carriage and pair, and a butler,” interposed V era. “Oh no, my dear. If I keep any kind of carriage it will be only a ba... ...wn to the stream, where the ground rose equally rapidly on the other side. Moss, ivy, rhododendrons, primroses, anemones, and the promise of ferns wer... ...m’s because it is the real correct church,” said Paulina. “Oh, yes!” cried V era. “Mr. Hubert Delrio went to see it in case Eccles and Beamster should... ...,” responded Magdalen; “but I shall soon part with Agatha; she is going to Oxford.” “Indeed! T o which College? I have a daughter at Oxford, and a nie... ...an live comfortably together upon it for the present, and your expenses at Oxford can be paid, as well as masters in what may be needful for the other... ... met by a severe, uncomprehending look and manner. And Agatha went away to Oxford without any thawing on her part. The only real ground that had been ... ...I feel only deputy daughter, with Mysie away.” The two girls rose from the mossy bank, and proceeded across the paddock to the opening of the glade. O...

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...s begged to be the bearer of the letter. His aunt would 4 Dynevor Terrace V olume II certainly keep terms with him, and he could insure that the case... ... fast, sir! You are to see her. I promise you shall see 6 Dynevor Terrace V olume II her if you wish it, but it must be in my aunt’s way.’ ‘Let me go... ...se, and, in fact, is excessively afraid of Mr. Mansell, 8 Dynevor Terrace V olume II and wants to tell her story by letter. Now, I think, consider- i... ...not thought worth presenting, was hailed by Fitzjocelyn as if their slight Oxford acquaintance had been an intimacy, and was by him introduced to Clar... ...lamp!’ ‘I must show it to Kitty,’ said James, taking it up on a cushion of moss. ‘Her acquaintance will begin earlier than mine. Do you remember showi...

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...er. As soon as I could read and write, my mother transferred me to Pont-le-V oy, a school in charge of Oratorians who took boys of my age into a form ... ... swathed with flowers, and the hand-rails green with perennials and velvet mosses drooping to the river but not falling to it; mouldering boats, fishi... ...lution, is stained by a sort of mildew produced by lichens and the reddish moss which grows on houses exposed to the sun. The glass door of the portic... ... that he corrected his last books, printed at Tours by Letourmy. Madame de V erneuil, wise with the wisdom of an old woman who has known the stormy st... ... thorny bushes straggled there, and in place of grass, a carpet of crimped mosses, illuminated by the setting sun and so dry that our feet slipped upo... ...e became to me as Beatrice to the Florentine, as the spotless Laura to the V ene- tian, the mother of great thoughts, the secret cause of resolu- tion... ...ve, I can die for you if you will; but I have never studied at Eton, or at Oxford, or in Edinburgh. I am neither a doctor of laws nor a reverend; I ca...

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...report of Dr. Walter Bayly, sometime fellow of New College, then living in Oxford, and professor of physic in that university; whom, because he would ... ...take some little potion by his direction, and they would fetch the same at Oxford; meaning to have added something of their own for her comfort, as th... ...ivately made away in the prison by the Earl’s appointment; and Sir Richard V arney the other, dying about the same time in London, cried miserably, an... ... Walter Scott The village maids, with fearful glance, Avoid the ancient moss-grown wall; Nor ever lead the merry dance, Among the groves of Cumn... ...lse,” answered the tapster, “since there are but four miles betwixt us and Oxford. Marry, if my ale did not convince the heads of the scholars, they w... ...seen in these parts, being of tawny taffeta, embroidered with scorpions of V enice gold, and having a border garnished with gold fringe—I promise you,... ...“That shall not be lacking, if blade and hilt be but true to me,” answered V arney; and drawing his sword with the right hand, he threw his cloak arou... ...g back to the farthest recess of a grotto, ornamented with rustic work and moss-seats, and terminated by a fountain, and she might eas- ily remain con... ...d retiring to the darkest and most sequestered nook, sat down on a seat of moss, and awaited till fate should give her some chance of rescue, or of pr...

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... two bears spent the night in their only poppy-field just above the Sutlej V alley on the Kotgarth side; so, next season, they turned Christian, and b... ...orks, and would thank him not to speak or write to his daughter any more. “V ery well,” said Strickland, for he did not wish to make his lady-love’s l... ...ddle, and nearly rolled off with laughing. He said Strickland de- served a V. C., if it were only for putting on a sais’s blanket. Then he called hims... ...love’s sake, That now is false to me, And I slew the Riever of T arrant Moss, And set Dumeny free. And ever they give me praise and gold, And... ... I struck the blow for my false love’s sake, And not for the men at the Moss. —T arrant Moss ONE OF THE MANY curses of our life out ... ... once”—he spoke as though he had fallen from the Command of a Regiment—”an Oxford Man!” This ac- counted for the reference to Charley Symonds’ stable.... ...n— “ignorant West and East”— he said. His boast was, first, that he was an Oxford Man of rare and shining parts, which may or may not have been true— ... ...hat he “had his hand on the pulse of native life”— which was a fact. As an Oxford man, he struck me as a prig: he was always throwing his education ab...

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...17—, when a young English gentleman, who had just left the uni- versity of Oxford, made use of the liberty afforded him, to visit some parts of the no... ... season had already com- menced. His way lay through a wide tract of black moss, extending for miles on each side and before him. Little emi- nences a... ...d dwell- ings communicated with each other by winding passages through the moss, impassable by any but the natives them- selves. The public road, howe... ...Ay, but, Meg, we shall not want your assistance, for here’s a student from Oxford that kens much better than you how to spae its fortune—he does it by... ...f Carlaverock castle, six or seven miles from Dumfries, and near to Lochar-moss.] While Mannering was gazing round the ruins, he heard from the interi... ...singing, and gesticulating with great vehemence. 46 Guy Mannering CHAPTER V . —You have fed upon my seignories, Dispark’d my parks, and fell’d my for... ... with all manner of gossiping respecting the hand- some young student from Oxford, who had told such a for- tune by the stars to the young Laird, “ble... ...he lake. I was deeply engaged with that beautiful scene in the Merchant of V enice, where two lovers, describing the stillness of a summer night, enha... ...h what ear he would be likely to receive proposals for his only child from V anbeest Brown, educated for charity by the house of Vanbeest and Vanbrugg...

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...of mermaids, sir?’ said Mr Willet. ‘Certainly I have,’ replied the clerk. ‘V ery good,’ said Mr Willet. ‘According to the constitu tion of mermaids, ... ...words he stood upon the defensive. ‘I am not what you take me for, Gabriel V arden,’ replied the other. ‘Then what and who are you?’ returned the lock... .... ‘Y ou have better eyes for that than you had for your horse, then,’ said V arden, descending nimbly from his chaise; ‘who are you? Let me see your f... ...y come when the Maypole and I must part company.’ ‘Roving stones gather no moss, Joe,’ said Gabriel. ‘Nor milestones much,’ replied Joe. ‘I’m little b... ...ers on the walls, green with age and damp, and covered here and there with moss, looked grim and desolate. There was a sombre aspect even on that part... ...st, though that was pitchy too. Didn’t I pass you near the turnpike in the Oxford Road?’ ‘It’s like you may. I don’t know.’ ‘Come, come, master,’ crie... ...and lower bows than ever. So along the Strand, up Swallow Street, into the Oxford Road, and thence to his house in Welbeck Street, near Cavendish Squa... ...air breathing over fields of beans or clover; the perfume of wet leaves or moss; the life of waving trees, and shadows always changing. When these or ...

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...e rational, and when set down again took no more notice of his enemy, whom V aletta was advised to carry into Mrs. Mount’s quarters to be comforted an... ...re charmed to have anything young in the house, especially a boy. She took V aletta’s refractory mane in hand, tied her sash, inspected Fergus’s hands... ...y dinner, which suited the invalid’s health, Aunt Jane said she would take V aletta and Fergus to go down to the beach with the little Varleys, while ... ...g used to acting with Gerald. She did look perfectly lovely, asleep on the moss in the scene Mrs. Grinstead painted and devised for her! There was—’ ‘... ...h her father she spied a wonderful field of daffodils and a valley full of moss at a place called Clipston, two miles off, and we are all going to get... ...dils gilding the grass above, and the banks verdant with exquisite feather-moss. Such a springtide wood was joy to all, especially as the first cuckoo... ...e had, how- ever, made up his mind to endeavour to obtain a scholarship at Oxford, and Captain Henderson promised that whether successful in this or n...