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...Contents 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 T...

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... Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Por table Document file is f... ...ity. 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 i... ...ich whoever hears me let him or her set out in search of this day.) My final merit I refuse you, I refuse putting from me what I really am, Encompass ... ...the one we have conquer’d, The captain on the quarter deck coldly giving his orders through a countenance white as a sheet, Near by the corpse of the ... ...e, fine headed, nobly form’d, superbly destin’d, on equal terms with me! You Norwegian! Swede! Dane! Icelander! you Prussian! You Spaniard of Spain! y... ...m. PIONEERS! O P IONEERS! Come my tan faced children, Follow well in order, get your weapons ready, Have you your pistols? have you your sharp... ...o England, They shall get a grant from the Parliament, go with a cart to the royal vault, Dig out King George’s coffin, unwrap him quick from the grav... ...orming from his simplicity the poor man’s wages, For many a promise sworn by royal lips and broken and laugh’d at in the breaking, Then in their power... ...Hungarian his way, and the Pole his way, The Swede returns, and the Dane and Norwegian return. The homeward bound and the outward bound, The beautiful...

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...Excerpt: When The Duchess Was Dead No one, probably, ever felt himself to be more alone in the world than our old friend the Duke of Omnium, when the Duchess died. When this sad event happened he had ceased to be Prime Minister. During the first nine months after he had left office he and the Duchess remained in England. Then they had gone abroad, takin...

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...ries Publication The Duke’s Children by Anthony Trollope is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity. This Portable Document file is furn... ...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... ...had been elevated by chance to the possession of more good things than she merited. She weighed all this with a very fine balance, and even after the ... ...ar. ‘For her sake,—whom I suppose you love. ’ ‘Certainly I love her. ’ ‘In order that she may not suffer. I wonder you do not see it, Mr Tregear. Perh... ...ain awhile with his daughter after his wife had been laid in her grave, in order that there might be someone near whom he could trust! And this very ... ...e for him to give his mind to that other subject. How could he enforce the merits of political liberalism, and the duty of adhering to the old family ... ...comes round I shall very soon be able to dispense with you altogether. His Royal Highness Lord Silverbridge—’ ‘What do you mean, Mabel?’ ‘He’s next do... ...ghness Lord Silverbridge—’ ‘What do you mean, Mabel?’ ‘He’s next door to a Royal Highness at any rate, and a much more topping man than most of them. ... ...oduced in the drawing-room,—and who had said a few words to her about some Norwegian poet. She turned round to him, and asked him some questions about...

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..................................................................................................................... 4 CHAPTER I THE EARLY MARRIED LIFE OF THE MORELS ............................................................................ 4 CHAPTER II THE BIRTH OF PAUL, AND ANOTHER BATTLE......................................................................... 31 CHAPTER...

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...ics Series Publication Sons and Lovers by D. H. Lawrence 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... ...as a very ac- tive lad, fair-haired, freckled, with a touch of the Dane or Norwegian about him. “Can I have my dinner, mother?” he cried, rushing in w... ...week. Then he was happy. On Friday night, Satur- day, and Sunday, he spent royally, getting rid of his sover- eign or thereabouts. And out of so much,... ... behind the legs of the men, near the fire which scorched him. He knew the order of the names—they went according to stall number. “Holliday,” came th... ...scanned the bill of fare, her heart was heavy, things were so dear. So she ordered kidney-pies and pota- toes as the cheapest available dish. “We ough... ...He came round. One evening of that week Sarah Bernhardt was at the Theatre Royal in Nottingham, giving “La Dame aux Camelias” . Paul wanted to see thi... ...eryone to his taste,” he laughed. Then followed a little discussion of the merits of pyjamas. “My mother loves me in them,” he said. “She says I’m a p... ...e between the two of them. He began to despise her a little, as if she had merited it! One night he left her to go to Daybrook Station over the fields...