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... OF AMERICA By the Viking Sea-Rovers, and Its Settlement by the Scandinavians in the Ninth Century. SUPPLEMENTED WITH THRILLING NARRATIVES OF VOYAG... ...HING INCIDENTS AND PERILOUS UNDERTAKINGS AMONG WILD BEASTS AND SAVAGE PEOPLE IN HEROIC EFFORTS FOR A RECLAMATION OF ALL LANDS TO CIVILIZATION, AND ... ... the ship -- Discoveries of the ancients -- Islands of the long ago -- Changes in the earth's surface -- Commerce of Troy with India -- Expeditions se... ...y -- Discovery of the West Indies by Carthaginians -- Hamilcar's voyage to the North seas -- Wonderful lands and fountains -- Astounding adventures of... ...sea-birds -- Discovery of a new world -- A wondrously profitable commerce -- A northwest passage -- The Romans pass to China by a north route -- Destr... ... driven upon a strange shore -- Attacked by the natives -- A bold rover of the north -- A cruise among Atlantic islands -- A surprising discovery in G... ...7 The city of Camul........................................................ 99 Ruins of Caracarum........................................................ ...1 Defence of the colonists................................................ 272 Ruins of Tortuga.......................................................... ...ions of the stone idols.......................................... 461 Wondrous ruins on Tinian Island......................................... 462 New...
...stian supremacy over the most savage lands of the earth. Reciting astonishing incidents and perilous undertakings among wild beasts and savage people in heroic efforts for a reclamation of all lands to civilization, and recording a description of the riot of murder, pillage and inhumanity which characterized the pirates, marooners and buccaneers who ravaged the spanish mai...
... -- Building a strong nation -- The earliest navigators -- Evolution of the ship -- Discoveries of the ancients -- Islands of the long ago -- Changes in the earth's surface -- Commerce of Troy with India -- Expeditions sent out by Menelaus and Neco -- The circumnavigation of Africa by the ancients -- Solomon's navy -- Discovery of the West Indies by Carthaginians -- Hamilc...
...o by Anthony Trollope A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication North America: Volume Two by Anthony Trollope is a publication of the Penns... ...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... ...in the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. North America: Volume Two by Anthony Trollope, the Pennsylvania State Unive... ...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... ............................................ 114 CHAPTER VII: THE ARMY OF THE NORTH ........................................................................ ... loom before you in the distance, and you will think that you approach the ruins of some western Palmyra. If you are a sportsman, you will desire to s... ... the line, and have reduced the car- riages behind the engine to a heap of ruins. But here it had no other effect than that of delaying us for three o... ... the theory of popular representation. It reminds one of the old days when Yorkshire returned two members, and Rutlandshire two also. And the discrepa...
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...D CAMP WOOD......................................................................................................... 114 CHAPTER VII: THE ARMY OF THE NORTH..................................................................................................... 135 CHAPTER VIII: BACK TO BOSTON.........................................................................................
...e of any kind. Any per- son 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. The World Set Free by H. G. Wells, the Pennsylvania State Unive... ...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... ...ions of intellectual routine and the habitual life, in Europe, in America, North and South, in Japan, in China, and all about the world. It was in 191... ...tor traffic, pulsating as the current alternated between east and west and north and south. Above rose great frontages of in- tricate rather than beau... ...ar-looking stone pillar. On the side of her away from the water the heaped ruins rose steeply in a confused slope up to a glaring crest. Above and ref... ... cloud sea was at first starry and then paler with a light that crept from north to east as the dawn came on. The Milky Way was in- visible in the blu... ...esson enough for mankind, or would the flames of war still burn amidst the ruins? Neither Barnet nor his companions, it is clear, had any assurance in... ... left of the bombs in London,’ he said. ‘Then they are going to repair the ruins and make it all as like as possible to its former condition before th...
...ICAL BALLADS . A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Poems, in T wo Volumes, Volume T wo by William Wordsworth is a publication of th... ...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. Poems, in T wo Volumes, Volume T wo by William Wordsworth , th... ...n, true, T rue to itself—the mighty Germany, She of the Danube and the Northern sea, She rose,—and off at once the yoke she threw. All power w... ...ath utter’d forth, 30 We loudest in the faithful North: Our Fields rejoice, our Mountains ring, Our Streams proclaim a w... ...g the space of twenty four years; all which time he lived as a shepherd in Yorkshire, or in Cumberland, where the estate of his Father in law (Sir Lan... ...ct of those numerous and noble feudal Edifices, spoken of in the Poem, the ruins of some of which are, at this day, so great an ornament to that inter...
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...Contents POEMS WRITTEN DURINGATOUR IN SCOTLAND. ........................................................................................................ 5 ROB ROY’s GRAVE ............................................................................................
...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 State... ...contained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. King Richard II by William Shakespeare , the Pennsylvania St... ... ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them,... ...it was reported. DORSET: No man but prophesied revenge for it. BUCKINGHAM: Northumberland, then present, wept to see it. QUEEN MARGARET : What were... ... the DUCHESS OF YORK ] ARCHBISHOP OF YORK : Last night, I hear, they lay at Northampton; At Stony Stratford will they be to night: To morrow, or next... ...ly you will take horse with him, And with all speed post with him toward the north, To shun the danger that his soul divines. HASTINGS: Go, fellow, g... ...ll call thy Dorset brother; Again shall you be mother to a king, And all the ruins of distressful times Repair’d with double riches of content. What! ... ...ssenger : Sir Thomas Lovel and Lord Marquis Dorset, ’Tis said, my liege, in Yorkshire are in arms. Yet this good comfort bring I to your grace, The B... ...bring I to your grace, The Breton navy is dispersed by tempest: Richmond, in Yorkshire, sent out a boat Unto the shore, to ask those on the banks If t...
...ge 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 ... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. William Shakespeare’s Henry IV, Part 2 , the Pennsylvania State... ...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... ...ng’s Bench: (Lord Chief Justice:) A Servant of the Chief Justice. EARL OF NORTHUMBERLAND : (NORTHUMBERLAND:) SCROOP, ARCHBISHOP OF YORK : (ARCHBISH... ...RDOLPH: SIR JOHN COLEVILE : (COLEVILE:) TRAVERS and MORTON: retainers of Northumberland. SIR JOHN FALSTAFF : (FALSTAFF:) His Page. (Page:) BARDOLP... ...EEBLE , and BULLCALF: recruits. FANG and SNARE: sheriff’s officers. LADY NORTHUMBERLAND: LADY PERCY : MISTRESS QUICKLY : hostess of a tavern in Eas... ...hift to eat up thy holland: and God knows, whether those that bawl out the ruins of thy linen shall inherit his king dom: but the midwives say the c... ...y snap at him. Let time shape, and there an end. [Exit.] ACT IV SCENE I: Yorkshire. Gaultree Forest. [Enter the ARCHBISHOP OF YORK, MOWBRAY, LORD H... ...Bardolph, With a great power of English and of Scots Are by the sheriff of Yorkshire overthrown: The manner and true order of the fight This packet, p...
...ooping west, Making the wind my post-horse, still unfold The acts commenced on this ball of earth: Upon my tongues continual slanders ride, The which in every language I pronounce, Stuffing the ears of men with false reports. I speak of peace, while covert enmity Under the smile of safety wounds the world: And who but Rumour, who but only I, Make fearful musters and prepar...
...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 electronic transmis- sion, in any way. A Book of Golden Deeds, the Pennsylvania State University, Elec... ...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... ...wn country, Stamford Bridge was, in like manner, guarded by a single brave Northman, after the battle fought A.D. 1066, when Earl Tostig, the son of G... ...mbers of which he thrust up his spear, and thus was able to hurl the brave Northman into the river, mortally wounded, but not till great numbers of hi... ...vender.’ We have seen how the sturdy Roman fought for his city, the fierce Northman died to guard his comrades’ rush to their ships after the lost bat... ...eir height on nothing but desolate black burnt ground, with a few heaps of ruins in the midst, and the barbarians roaming about in it, and driving in ... ..., and went out of the Capitol, through the midst of the enemy, through the ruins to the accustomed alter, and there preformed the regular rites. The G... ...nt and drooping, and, here and there, un- buried carcasses lay amongst the ruins. Nor were the flocks and herds any longer driven in from the country....
... known, and enjoyed their full meed of fame. Therefore it may be feared that many of the events here detailed, or alluded to, may seem trite to those in search of novelty; but it is not for such that the collection has been made....
...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. The English Mail-Coach and Joan of Arc By Thomas de Quincey, th... ...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... ...amiliar to mail-coach trav- ellers where two mails in opposite directions, north and south, starting at the same minute from points six hundred miles ... ...ck, Mr. Waterton, a distinguished coun- try gentleman of ancient family in Northumberland, pub- licly mounted and rode in top-boots a savage old croco... ...ails to be valued. The American 34 The English Mail-Coach and Joan of Arc northwards for six hundred; and the sympathy of our Lombard Street friends ... ...of our passage, resounded terrifically. I rose in horror, to gaze upon the ruins we might have caused. From my elevated station I looked down, and loo... ...rsting her sepulchral bonds—of woman’s Ionic form bending forward from the ruins of her grave with arching foot, with eyes upraised, with clasped ador... ...most of all are reflected the sweet countenances which the man has laid in ruins; therefore I know, bishop, that you also, entering your final dream, ...
...OMAS DE QUINCEY AUTHOR OF CONFESSIONS OF AN ENGLISH OPIUM-EATER, ETC. ETC. IN TWO VOLUMES. V V V V VOL. II. OL. II. OL. II. OL. II. OL. II. A PENN STA... ...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. Theological Essays and Other Papers: Volume Two by Thomas de Qu... ...time, of the Anabaptists in Luther’s time, would exalt themselves upon the ruins of society, if governments were weak enough to recognise these spirit... ...e upper and under chemise, if managed properly , (and either you or I, Mr. North, would be most proud to communicate our private advice on that subjec... ...arry a cymbal—a dulcimer—or a timbrel in her hands. In conclusion, my dear North, let me congratulate you that Mr. Hartmann is now in Hades (as I said... ...tails within the petty finishing of a domestic portrait. Farewell, my dear North, and believe me to be always your old friend and admirer, [Greek Text... ...eritance to his own glory in his own family. But Bonaparte lived to lay in ruins even his personal interest in this great edifice of empire; and that ... ...ow this mode of shedding terror can borrow any alliance from chapels, from ruins, from monastic piles, from Inquisi- tion dungeons, inscrutable to hum...
...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. Unknown To History A Story of the Captivity of Mary of Scottlan... ...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... ...ispensation,” returned the clergyman, uttering these long words in a broad north- ern accent which had nothing incongruous in it to Richard’s ears, an... ...itted of my lord’s benevolence.” They were all eyed askance by the sturdy, north country English, who naturally hated all strangers, above all French ... ...ay.” Much had happened in the course of the past years. The intrigues with Northumberland and Norfolk, and the secret efforts of the unfortunate Queen... ...apple trees grew among green mounds, heaps of stones and broken walls, the ruins of some old outbuilding of the former castle. There was only a certai... ...saw her kneeling by one of those black yawning holes, often to be found in ruins, intent upon fastening a small packet to a stone; he understood all i... ...r what this strange place was, she explained that here were said to be the ruins of the former castle, and that beyond lay the ground where some- time...
...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. Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott, the Pennsylvania State University,... ...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... ...owed to possess the best-trained hawks, and the fleetest greyhounds in the North Riding; circumstances which strongly recommended him to the youthful ... ...nch trouba- dours, when it was told in the ear of beauty; and the field of Northallerton, upon the day of the Holy Standard, could tell whether the Sa... ...the spectators. The openings for the entry of the combat- ants were at the northern and southern extremities of the lists, accessible by strong wooden... ...their castles. Their castles themselves are but green mounds and shattered ruins—the place that once knew them, knows them no more—nay, many a race si... ...n the Castle of Ashby. This was not the same building of which the stately ruins still interest the traveller, and which was erected at a later period... ...ain to lose itself in the neighbouring wood. Beside this fountain were the ruins of a very small chapel, of which the roof had partly fallen in. The b...
...Excerpt: In that pleasant district of merry England which is watered by the river Don, there extended in ancient times a large forest, covering the greater part of the beautiful hills and valleys which lie between Sheffield and the pl...
...ge 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... ... tained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. A Child’s History of England by Charles Dickens , the Pennsylv... ...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... ...adoc, who gave battle to the Romans, with his army, among the mountains of North Wales. ‘This day,’ said he to his sol diers, ‘decides the fate of Br... ...were the Sax ons, a fierce, sea faring people from the coun tries to the North of the Rhine, the great river of Germany on the banks of which the be... ...cots (which was then the name for the people of Ireland), and the Picts, a northern people, began to make frequent plun dering incursions into the So... ...y and split the solid rocks into arches and caverns—there are very ancient ruins, which the people call the ruins of King Arhtur’s Castle. Kent is t... ...town of Mantes on fire. But, in an evil hour; for, as he rode over the hot ruins, his horse, setting his hoofs upon some burning embers, started, thre... ...he Fire was a great blessing to the City afterwards, for it arose from its ruins very much improved—built more regu larly, more widely, more cleanly ...
...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. Ireland is the next in size. The ...
...ii CONTENTS THE PREFACE If ever the story of any private Man’s Adventures in the World were worth making Publick, and were acceptable when Publish’d,... ...others by this Example, and to justify and honour the Wisdom of Providence in all the Variety of our Circumstances, let them happen how they will. The... ...g to be a just History of Fact; neither is there any Appearance of Fiction in it: And however thinks, because all such things are dispatch’d, that the... ...r principal Trading being upon the Coast, from the Latitude of 15 Degrees, North even to the Line it self. I was now set up for a Guiney Trader; and m... ...d the like. The same Day I went on board we set sail, standing away to the Northward upon our own Coast, with Design to stretch over for the African C... ...retch over for the African Coast, when they came about 10 or 12 Degrees of Northern Latitude, which it seems was the manner of their Course in those D... ...t had the Men been sav’d, we might perhaps have built us a Boat out of the Ruins of the Ship, to have carried us to some other Part of the World. I sp... ...k at my self, I could not but smile at the Notion of my travelling through Yorkshire with such an Equipage, and in such a Dress: Be pleas’d to take a ... ...e lay; but she was all beaten in Pieces before, and gone. I shew’d him the Ruins of our Boat, which we lost when we escap’d, and which I could not sti...
...Excerpt: THE PREFACE; If ever the story of any private Man?s Adventures in the World were worth making Publick, and were acceptable when Publish?d, the Editor of this Account thinks this will be so. The Wonders of this Man?s Life exceed all that (he thinks)is to be found extant; the Life of one M...
... Pennsylvania State Univer- sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document fil... ...ssoci- ated with the Pennsylvania State University assumes any responsibility for the material con- tained within the document or for the file as an e... ...Manis, Faculty Editor, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classic... ...I was holding such discourse on the beach, that no more bodies had come ashore since last night. It began to be very doubtful whether many more would ... ...than I have space to suggest in these notes of a single uncommercial journey; but, the wise men of the East, before they can reasonably hold forth abo... ... the Scala at Milan, or the San Carlo at Naples, or the Grand Opera at Paris, than any notion a stranger would be likely to form of the Britan- nia Th... ... his oil jars on a train of real camels, and nobody be put out of the way. This really extraordinary place is the achievement of one man’s enterprise,... ...lked. Then, in a word, shall the old-established vendor of periodicals sit alone in his little crib of a shop behind the Holborn Gate, like that lum- ... ...rd, like the New Zealander of the grand English History (concerning which unfortunate man, a whole rookery of mares’ nests is generally being discover...
...XTH CAMBRIDGE AND THE ALPS . . . . . . . . . . . . 81 BOOK SEVENTH RESIDENCE IN LONDON . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103 BOOK EIGHTH RETROSPECT—LOVE OF NA... .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125 BOOK NINTH RESIDENCE IN FRANCE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144 BOOK TENTH RESIDENCE IN FRANC... .... . . . . . . . . . . . 213 ADVERTISEMENT T he following Poem was commenced in the beginning of the year 1799, and completed in the summer of 1805. T... ...185 Sometimes, more sternly moved, I would relate How vanquished Mithridates northward passed, And, hidden in the cloud of years, became Odin, the Fat... ...ird small Island, where survived SCHOOL TIME (continued) 21 In solitude the ruins of a shrine Once to Our Lady dedicate, and served 65 Daily with cha... ...hurches, gateways, towers: Migration strange for a stripling of the hills, A northern villager. 35 As if the change Had waited on some Fairy’s wand, a... ... vision, I had raised a pile Upon the basis of the coming time, That fell in ruins round me. Oh, what joy 430 To see a sanctuary for our country’s you... ... crouches, the elements are potter’s clay, Space like a heaven filled up with northern lights, Here, nowhere, there, and everywhere at once. Relinquish... ...rgins crowned with roses. Not in vain 465 Those temples, where they in their ruins yet Survive for inspiration, shall attract Thy solitary steps: and ...
... mind, and examine how far Nature and Education had qualified him for such an employment. ?As subsidiary to this preparation, he undertook to record, in verse, the origin and progress of his own powers, as far as he was acquainted with them. ?That work, addressed to a dear friend, most distinguished for his knowledge and genius, and to whom the Author?s intellect is deeply...
...IDENCE AT CAMBRIDGE, 33 -- BOOK FOURTH SUMMER VACATION, 51 -- BOOK FIFTH BOOKS, 64 -- BOOK SIXTH CAMBRIDGE AND THE ALPS, 81 -- BOOK SEVENTH RESIDENCE IN LONDON, 103 -- BOOK EIGHTH RETROSPECT?LOVE OF NATURE LEADING TO -- LOVE OF MAN, 125 -- BOOK NINTH RESIDENCE IN FRANCE, 144 -- BOOK TENTH RESIDENCE IN FRANCE (continued), 161 -- BOOK ELEVENTH FRANCE (concluded), 178 -- BOOK...
...harge 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... ...contained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Bram Stoker’s Dracula , the Pennsylvania State University, Ji... ... ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them,... ...escendants of the Dacians; Magyars in the West, and Szekelys in the East and North. I am going among the latter, who claim to be descended from Attil... ...ate was situated. The other two were Exeter, and Chapter 2 31 Whitby on the Yorkshire coast. It was the better part of an hour when the Count retur... ...uld name ye a dozen whose bones lie in the Greenland seas above,” he pointed northwards, “or where the currants may have drifted them. There be the st... ...a bit. She seems to see the storm coming, but can’t decide whether to run up north in the open, or to put in here. Look there again! She is steered mi... ... Crowds are scattering backward, and the sky is beginning to redden over the Yorkshire wolds. I shall send, in time for your next issue, further de ... ...t. Mary’s Church and all around it. Then as the cloud passed I could see the ruins of the abbey coming into view, and as the edge of a nar row band o...
...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. Waverley or ‘Tis Sixty Years Since by Sir Walter Scott, the Pen... ...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... ...nities of contrast have been af- forded me, by the state of society in the northern part of the island at the period of my history, and may serve at o... ...his stock of chivalrous and ro- mantic lore. The earlier literature of the northern nations did not escape the study of one who read rather to awaken ... ...t was well known that he had supplied with money several of the distressed Northumbrians and Scotchmen, who, after being made prisoners at Preston in ... ..., which, Sixty Y ears since, was entire and habitable, and whose venerable ruins, not quite Sixty Years since, very narrowly es- caped the unworthy fa... ...As the house was evidently deserted, he could not expect to find among the ruins any more rational in- former. 384 Waverley Davie, walking very fast,... ...ery fast, soon reached the extremity of the garden, and scrambled over the ruins of the wall that once had divided it from the wooded glen in which th...
...ge 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 ... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. American Notes for General Circulation by Charles Dickens , th... ...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... ... settled there three years before. Sec ondly and thirdly, an honest young Yorkshireman, con nected with some American house; domiciled in that same ... ... houses, open to the street, whence, through wide gaps in the walls, other ruins loom upon the eye, as though the world of vice and misery had nothing... ...n all; for then he thinks the prison will take fire and he be burnt in the ruins, or that he is doomed to die within the walls, or that he will be de ... ...ge; and the Battle Monument in memory of an engagement with the British at North Point; are the most conspicuous among them. American Notes – Dickens... ... miserable day; chilly and raw; a damp mist falling; and the trees in that northern region quite bare and wintry. Whenever the train halted, I listene... ... height of summer again. At seven we started for New York on board a great North River steamboat, which was so crowded with passengers that the upper ...
...Excerpt: It is nearly eight years since this book was first published. I present it, unaltered, in the Cheap Edition; and such of my opinions as it expresses, are quite unaltered too. My readers have opportunities of judging for themselves whether the influences and tendencies which I distrust in America, have any exist...
...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. Rhoda Fleming by George Meredith, the Pennsylvania State Univer... ...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... ... and bonneted, to the bells of Wrexby, West of the hills, and of Fenhurst, Northeast. The squire came in to them, groaning over his boots, cross with ... ...nce. He vindicated the honour of W arbeach by drink- ing a match against a Yorkshire skipper till four o’clock in the morning, when it was a gallant s... ...n it was a gallant sight, my boys, to see Hampshire steadying the defeated North-countryman on his astonished zigzag to his flattish-bottomed billyboy... ...South-westerly rainclouds had been met in mid-sky by a sharp puff from due North, and the moisture had descended like a woven shroud, covering all the... ...oil was a perpetual study, but he knew some- thing of horses and dogs, and Yorkshiremen were like Jews in the trouble they took to over-reach in a bar... ...urned, he saw strangers and empty hampers, bottles, straw, waste paper—the ruins 238 Rhoda Fleming of the feast: Fate’s irony meantime besetting him ...
...e of any kind. Any per- son using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ... tained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The New Machiavelli by H. G. Wells, the Pennsylvania State Univ... ...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... ...re broken, sweeping the splendid curves of the Imperial Road into heaps of ruins, casting the jungle growth of Zululand into the fire. Well, Master Di... ...always successful manner in the unoccupied gardens. The three houses faced north, and the back of the one we occupied was covered by a 16 The New Mac... ...rom London,—my grandfather’s was one of these. London, twelve miles to the north-west, was making itself felt more and more. But this was only the beg... ...od, the first trickle of the coming flood of mechanical power. Away in the north they were casting iron in bigger and bigger forms, working their way ... ...e not his ways. Also he hated particularly, and in this order, Londoner’s, Yorkshiremen, Scotch, Welch and Irish, because they were not “reet Stafford... ...ord woman who took a first that year. She spent the summer in Scotland and Yorkshire, writing to me continually of all she now meant to do, and stirri...