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...Excerpt: Chapter 1. The countryside and the man on a lovely spring morning in the year 1829, a man of fifty or thereabouts was wending his way on horseback along the mountain road that leads to a large village near the Grande Chartreuse. This village is the mar...

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...The Country Doctor by Honoré de Balzac T ranslated by Ellen Marriage and Clara Bell A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Cou... ... so bright and smiling as it becomes merged in the great valley systems of southern France; but the officer, who no doubt had previ- ously traversed a... ... may know the men who served erewhile under the short- lived yet deathless Eagles of the great Emperor. The traveler was, in fact, one of those soldie... ...d’Ajou, where the northern side is peopled by a tribe of idi- ots, and the southern by an intelligent race. There is nothing but a stream in the valle... ...ely touching, and so grand, whenever the priest rises to the height of his mission and brings his office into harmony with the sublimity of Christian ... ...e will gallop up the mountain roads without turning a hair, and will never miss his footing in a canter along the brink of a precipice. He was a prese... ... masses of cloud gather and crowd together and pile them- selves above the golden peaks of the hills. ‘Why are you cry- ing, little one?’ I have asked... ...t, for the young leaves at the tips of every branch had been dyed a bright golden hue, and, as the breeze stirred through the waving curtain, it gleam... ...ly, all speaking us fair and going along with us; it was a fine thing! The Eagles had never cooed before as they did on parade in those days, when the...

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...nnsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ... charge 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 Sta... ...s upsetting the orderly economy of his domestic life. This disciple of the golden calf went to bed at half-past ten o’clock and got up at five in the ... ...of manner if she is “spirituelle” and intelligent. Remarkable for her pale golden hair, Modeste belonged to the type of woman called, perhaps in memor... ...r in the cor- ner of the salon she supposed they were talking of some com- mission in Paris. Then she looked at the friends who sur- rounded her, as i... ...ttons, a pretty little wife, attracted it would seem by his French nature. Miss Grummer was worth about four thousand dollars (twenty thousand francs)... ...ds us back to the prairie-land of our illusions. We can be pitiless to the eagles, requiring from 49 Balzac them the quality of the diamond, incorrup... ...ction. I call these mornings my little German wakings, in opposition to my Southern sunsets, full of he- roic deeds, battles, Roman fetes and ardent p... ...erly face, so pure in outline and now bronzed by the suns of China and the southern seas, had acquired an air of dignity which his present grief rende...

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...ecause they have grown to be the common inheritance of all the world, so many of the most noble deeds that earth can show have become the best 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....

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...TTE M YONGE A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication A Book of Golden Deeds is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Po... ...nnsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ...ent or for the file as an electronic transmis- sion, in any way. A Book of Golden Deeds, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classics Series... ...een covering the whole country like locusts, and the hearts of some of the southern Greeks in the pass began to sink. Their homes in the Peloponnesus ... ... be obtained? A young man, named Pontius Cominius, undertook the desperate mission. He put on a peasant dress, and hid some corks under it, supposing ... ...; and then Pontius, bear- ing the appointment, set off once again upon his mission, still under shelter of night, clambered down the rock, and crossed... ...ountry, and living in great riches and splendor at their grand city on the southern shore of the Mediterra- nean. That they were a wicked and cruel ra... ...ere, with- out his crown, his purple robe, and buskins, worked with golden eagles, all laid aside, he lay prostrate on the stones, repeating the verse... ...en only seventeen years of age, and had gone to his first battle under the eagles of his father, the Consul, Publius Cornelius Scipio. It was an unfor...

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...sylvania State Uni- versity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ... charge 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 Sta... ...and leafless trees of November. There were two persons in the room—a young lady, who sat drawing at the round table, and a youth, lying on a couch nea... ...tion and good conduct; he had attained every honour there open to him, won golden opinions from all concerned with him, and made proof of talents whic... ...h to him alto- gether. It was through him that Philip applied for his com- mission, and he has put his son into the same regiment, on 23 Yo n g e pur... ...g to me, everything from the first hour I can recol- lect. He never let me miss my parents. How he attended to all my pleasures and wishes, how he wat... ...rles; ‘that Ovis of yours was music; I would have made you a Knight of the Golden Fleece on the spot. T utors I could get by shoals, but a fellow- dun... ...PTER 16 CHAPTER 16 Yet burns the sun on high beyond the cloud; Each in his southern cave, The warm winds linger, but to be allowed One breathing o’er ... ...above, stood the old Gothic hall, crumbling and lofty, a fit eyrie for the eagles of Morville. The sunshine was indeed full upon it; but it served to ...

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...Excerpt: VOL I. In the morning of life the truthful wooed the beautiful, and their offspring was Love. Like his Divine parents, He is eternal. He has his Mother?s ravishing smile; his Father?s steadfast eyes. He rises every day, fresh and glorious as the untired Sun-God. He is Eros, the ever young...

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...BARBAZURE. ..................................................................................................................................39 LORDS AND LIVERIES. ..................................................................................................................49 CRINOLINE........................................................................................

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...sylvania State Univer- sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ... charge 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 Sta... ...ve the cy- presses, their reflections quivering in the lucid waters of the Golden Horn; where the yellow Tiber flows under broken bridges and over imp... ...ople, and on one dark night the Lion of Judah went down before Vespasian’s Eagles, and in flame, and death, and 16 Thackeray struggle, Jerusalem agon... ...ight—midsummer night—when it lightens; haughty noses bending like beaks of eagles—eager quivering nostrils—lips curved like the bow of Love—every man ... ...his hands; the curtain at the end of the passage drew back, and a flood of golden light streamed on the He- brew and his visitor. CHAPTER XXIV THEY EN... ...ngsby was fair—of the fair Saxon race of Hengist and Horsa—they called him Miss Codlingsby at school; but how much fairer was Miriam the Hebrew! Her h... ...d by turns; and each, after a rapid colloquy in his own language, was dis- missed by Rafael. 26 Thackeray “The queen must come back from Aranjuez, or... ...e him; the western tower was in flames; the besiegers were pressing at the southern gate; Athelstane’s banner, the bull rampant, was still on the nort...

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...Excerpt: BOOK I: Arms, and the man I sing, who, forc?d by fate, And haughty Juno?s unrelenting hate, Expell?d and exil?d, left the Trojan shore. Long labors, both by sea and land, he bore, And in the doubtful war, before he won The Latian realm, an...

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...sylvania State University. This Portable Docu ment file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this docu ment file,... ...arge of any kind. Any person using this docu ment file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania St... ...hro’ gaping waves behold the boiling deep. Three ships were hurried by the southern blast, And on the secret shelves with fury cast. Those hidden rock... ...e, and some in cells dispense; Some at the gate stand ready to receive The golden burthen, and their friends relieve; All with united force, combine t... ...e Did Juno’s temple build, and consecrate, Enrich’d with gifts, and with a golden shrine; But more the goddess made the place divine. On brazen steps ... ...n; And, had the gods permitted, they had gone; But oft the wintry seas and southern winds Withstood their passage home, and chang’d their minds. Porte... ... aloof to sea, And coast Pachynus, tho’ with more delay, Than once to view misshapen Scylla near, And the loud yell of wat’ry wolves to hear. The Aene... ...e, With lifted eyes, and took his aim above, But made a glancing shot, and missed the dove; Y et miss’d so narrow, that he cut the cord Which fasten’d... ... Indian, or Arabian war; Or from the boasting Parthians would regain Their eagles, lost in Carrhae’s bloody plain. T wo gates of steel (the name of Ma...