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...Introduction: In 1828, three years after graduating from Bowdoin College, Hawthorne published his first romance, ?Fanshawe.? It was issued at Boston by Marsh & Capen, but made little or no impression on the public. The motto on the title-p...

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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. Fanshawe by Nathaniel Hawthorne, the Pennsylvania State Univers... ...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... ...east one of its sons, the advantages of a “liberal education.” Having thus described the present state of Harley College, we must proceed to speak of ... ...guest into a small room the windows of which were darkened by the creeping plants that clustered round them. Entering, and closing the door, the two g... ...d his mind; but, mixed with them, there was a sort of joy not easily to be described. By degrees, and by the assis- tance of the wine, the inspiration... ...his hands, as if to hide it from those dead eyes. Such a scene as has been described could not but have a powerful effect upon any one who retained au... ...hed by his succes- sor in the presidency of Harley College, about the year 1768. It was not till four years after Fanshawe’s death, that Ed- ward Walc...

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...phenomenon, which doubtless no one has yet forgotten. Not to mention rumours which agitated the maritime population and excited the public mind, even in the interior of continents, seafaring men were particularly excited. Merchants, common sailors, captains of vessels, skippers, both of Europe and America, naval officers of all countries, and the Governments of several Sta...

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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. 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne, the Pennsylvania S... ...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... ...have cursed such a berth under any other circumstances. As long as the sun described its daily course, the rigging was crowded 16 20,000 Leagues Unde... ...ines.” The steam was shut off, and the Abraham Lincoln, beat- ing to port, described a semicircle. “Right the helm, go ahead,” cried the captain. Thes... ...ense track, of daz- zling whiteness, marked the passage of the animal, and described a long curve. The frigate approached the cetacean. I examined it ... ... their light, decomposed by refraction as through a prism, flowers, rocks, plants, shells, and polypi were shaded at the edges by the seven solar colo... ...pread at our feet, it did not abandon our heads. A light network of marine plants, of that inex- haustible family of seaweeds of which more than two t... ...inds are known, grew on the surface of the water. I noticed that the green plants kept nearer the top of the sea, whilst the red were at a greater dep...

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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. Typee: A Romance of the South Seas by Herman Melville, the Penn... ...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... ...curiosity to see those islands which the olden voy- agers had so glowingly described. The group for which we were now steering (although among the ear... ...ich they were connected, and forming those radiating valleys I have before described. One of these ridges, which appeared more practicable than the re... ... overhanging cliff composed of basaltic rocks, hung round with parasitical plants. We must have been more than three thousand feet above the level of ... ... we gained the top of the second elevation, the lofti- est of those I have described as. extending in parallel lines between us and the valley we desi... ...shaded by the most beautiful foliage, and adorned with a thousand fragrant plants. The mineral waters of Arva W ai* ooze forth from the crevices of a ... ... rendered the disease introduced among them by De Bougainville’s ships; in 1768, doubly destructive. It visited them like a plague, sweeping them off ...

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...lly published under the Nominis umbra of The Author of Waverley; and the circumstances which rendered it impossible for the writer to continue longer in the possession of his incognito were communicated in 1827, in the Introduction to the first series of Chronicles of the Canongate, consisting (besides a biographical sketch of the imaginary chronicler) of three tales, enti...

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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. Chronicles of the Canongate by Sir Walter Scott, the Pennsylvan... ...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... ...the foaming stream of the river. Other places I remembered, which had been described by the old huntsman as the lodge of tremendous wild-cats, or the ... ...pen- diture, like water spilt on the ground, refreshed the lowly herbs and plants where it fell. But thou! Whom hast thou enriched during thy career o... ...th separate and independent modes of access. In the little boudoir we have described, Mrs. Martha Baliol had her choicest meetings. She kept early hou... ...BALIOL ASSISTS MR. CROFTANGRY IN HIS LITERARY SPECULATIONS. Such as I have described Mrs. Bethune Baliol, the reader will easily believe that, when I ... ...e roof of this fragment of a once mag- nificent church fell in in the year 1768, and it has remained ever since in a state of desolation. For fuller p...

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...arge 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 Stat... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an elec tronic transmission, in any way. The Divine Comedy of Dante Paradise , Translated by H.F. Ca... ...ersity’s Electronic Classics Series, to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them.... ...Are plac’d throughout this kingdom, pleases all, E’en as our King, who in us plants his will; And in his will is our tranquillity; It is the mighty oc... ...ined were, Than water flowing not unto the sea. Thou fain wouldst hear, what plants are these, that bloom In the bright garland, which, admiring, gird... ...rn’d, Over the garden Catholic to lead Their living waters, and have fed its plants. “If such one wheel of that two yoked car, Wherein the holy c... ...s death. The retinue and the habiliments of the young monarch are minutely described by G. Villani, who adds, that “he remained more than twenty d... ...come what is that to thee.” v. 127. The two.] Christ and Mary, whom he has described, in the last Canto but one, as rising above his sight. CANTO XX... ...nd matter, were produced at once. v. 38. On Jerome’s pages.] St. Jerome had described the angels as created before the rest of the universe: an opini...

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...Preface: In making this abridgement of Boswell?s Life of Johnson I have omitted most of Boswell?s criticisms, comments, and notes, all of Johnson?s opinions in legal cases, most of the letters, and parts of the conversation dealing wi...

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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. Life of Johnson by James Boswell, abridged and edited with an i... ...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... ...letters are lost; but Mr. Hector recollects his writing ‘that the poet had described the dull sameness of his existence in these words, “Vi- tam conti... ... ludicrous, when applied to a woman of her age and appearance. Mr. Garrick described her to me as very fat, with a bosom of more than ordinary protube... ...bsolutely necessary to live upon the same scale with that which his friend described, when the value of money was diminished by the progress of commer... ... We kissed, and parted. I humbly hope to meet again, and to part no more.’ 1768: AETAT. 59]—It appears from his notes of the state of his mind, that h... ... state of his mind, that he suffered great perturbation and distraction in 1768. Nothing of his writing was given to the publick this year, except the... ...re brought to- gether.” ‘Talking of Gray’s Odes, he said, “They are forced plants raised in a hot-bed; and they are poor plants; they are but cucumber...

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... inquirers into Foreign Literature, for all men anxious to see and understand the European world as it lies around them, a great problem is presented in this Goethe; a singular, highly significant phenomenon, and now also means more or less complete for ascertaining its significance. A man of wonderful, nay, unexampled reputation and intellectual influence among forty mill...

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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. Autobiography: Truth and Fiction Relating to My Life by Johann ... ...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... ...they had there endeavored to supply the want of a garden by means of a few plants placed before the window. As I grew older, it was there that I made ... ...s a passionate wish awoke in us children to participate in the paradise he described. 53 Goethe Private lessons, which now gradually multiplied, were... ...sy growth of the fruit. The sorting of the bulbs of tulips, hyacinths, and plants of a similar nature, as well as the care of their preservation, he i... ... him, as of the motion of the stars, the days and seasons, the animals and plants. There were texts of the Gospels which explicitly stated this. The b... ... themselves, received great applause. Each of them visited alone the place described, without confiding it to me or the others, and discovered the nut... ...se advantages. I still remember writing a circumstantial essay, in which I described twelve pictures which were to exhibit the history of Joseph: some...

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...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...

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...arge 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 Stat... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic trans mission, in any way. The Divine Comedy of Dante , Translated by H.F. Cary , the Pe... ...ersity’s Electronic Classics Series, to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them.... ...hus his speech resum’d: “If thou lop off A single twig from one of those ill plants, The thought thou hast conceiv’d shall vanish quite.” Thereat... ... Broad are their pennons.] From Virg. Aen. l. iii. 216. v. 48. In my verse described.] The commentators explain this, “If he could have believed, in... ...ds, he loses his road, and wanders into a wood. Here Nature, whose figure is described with sublimity, appears, and discloses to him the secrets of he... ...s. l. ix. 703. v. 92. Heliotrope.] The occult properties of this stone are described by Solinus, c. xl, and by Boccaccio, in his humorous tale of C... ...at radiance mingled, which ascends Next after setting of the scaly sign, Our plants then burgeon, and each wears anew His wonted colours, ere the sun ... ...dle checks me. I return’d From the most holy wave, regenerate, If ‘en as new plants renew’d with foliage new, Pure and made apt for mounting to the st...

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...ts INTRODUCTION AND PLAN OF THE WORK .......................................................................... 8 BOOK I OF THE CAUSES OF IMPROVEMENT IN THE PRODUCTIVE POWERS OF LABOUR, AND OF THE ORDER ACCORDING TO WHICH ITS PRODUCE IS NATURALLY DISTRIBUTED AMONG THE DIFFERENT RANKS OF THE PEOPLE........... 10 CHAPTER I OF THE DIVISION OF LABOUR .............................

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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. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations ... ...oing student publication project to bring classical works of litera- ture, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. C... ...on, industry, and populousness, almost in the same terms in which they are described by travellers in the present times. It had, per- haps, even long ... ...By act of assembly, they have restrained its cultiva- tion to six thousand plants, supposed to yield a thousand weight of tobacco, for every negro bet... ...od or solid nourishment, indeed, which can be drawn from each of those two plants, is not alto- gether in proportion to their weight, on account of th... ...stry can multiply in proportion to the demand. It consists in those useful plants and animals, which, in uncultivated countries, nature produces with ... ...n some country villages. The effects of it have been precisely those above described. The business of the country is almost entirely carried on by mea... ... they very seldom, I believe, had the good fortune to find it. {The method described in the text was by no means either the most common or the most ex...