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...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...

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... -- 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...

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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... ...refulness and skill, playthings of the elements, and concluded that he was the sport of chance, the plaything of destiny. PORTENTS OF SAFETY AND DISAS... ...ul damsels, skilful in songs and instruments of music and dancing, and to make sports and delights unto men whatsoever they could imagine. They were a... ...ine. They were also richly dressed in gold and silk, and were seen continually sporting in the garden and palaces. He made this palace because Mohamme... ... reputation so increased that he was soon afterwards promoted to the flag-ship Northumberland, where, not being in active service, he had the leisure ...

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...Excerpt: While we pursued the horsemen of the north, He stole away and left his men: Whereat the great Lord of Northumberland, Whose warlike ears could never brook retreat, Cheer?d up the drooping army; and himself, Lord Clifford and Lord Stafford, all abreast, Charged our main battle?s front, and breaking in Were by the swords of com...

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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... ...contained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. King Henry VI, Part III by William Shakespeare , the Pennsyl... ... 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.... ...: (SOMERSET:) DUKE OF EXETER : (EXETER:) EARL OF OXFORD : (OXFORD:) EARL OF NORTHUMBERLAND : (NORTHUMBERLAND:) EARL OF WESTMORELAND : (WESTMORELAND:)... ...f the north, He slily stole away and left his men: Whereat the great Lord of Northumberland, Whose warlike ears could never brook retreat, Cheer’d up ... ... Richard; claim the English crown. [Flourish. Enter KING HENRY VI, CLIFFORD, NORTHUMBERLAND, WESTMORELAND, EXETER, and the rest .] KING HENRY VI : M... ...nd fret, that I may sing and dance. Thou wouldst be fee’d, I see, to make me sport: York cannot speak, unless he wear a crown. A crown for York! and, ... ... must I take my rest; So many hours must I contemplate; So many hours must I sport myself; So many days my ewes have been with young; So many weeks er... ...ESTER: See how the surly Warwick mans the wall! WARWICK: O unbid spite! is sportful Edward come? Where slept our scouts, or how are they seduced, Th...

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... Wonder how the King escap?d our hands? Pl. While we pursu?d the Horsmen of y North, He slyly stole away, and left his men: Whereat the great Lord of Northumberland, Whose Warlike eares could never brooke retreat, Chear?d up the drouping Army, and himselfe. Lord Clifford and Lord Stafford all abrest Charg?d our maine Battailes Front: and breaking in, Were by the Swords of ...

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... He slyly stole away, and left his men: 9 Whereat the great Lord of Northumberland, 10 Whose Warlike eares could neuer brooke retreat, 1... ...ford all a- brest 13 Charg’d our maine Battailes Front: and breaking in, 14 Were by the Swords of common Souldiers slaine. 15 Ed... ...d so doe I, victorious Prince of Yorke. 27 Before I see thee seated in that Throne, 28 Which now the House of Lancaster vsurpes, 29 ... ...st me then, sweet Warwick, and I will, 34 For hither we haue broken in by force. 35 Norf. Wee’le all assist you: he that flyes, shall... ... clayme the English Crowne. 56 Flourish. Enter King Henry, Clifford, Northumberland, 57 Westmerland, Exeter, and the rest. 58 He... ... 61 To aspire vnto the Crowne, and reigne as King. 62 Earle of Northumberland, he slew thy Father, 63 And thine, Lord Clifford, & y... ...t I may sing and dance. 555 Thou would’st be fee’d, I see, to make me sport: 556 Yorke cannot speake, vnlesse he weare a Crowne. 557 A ... ...167 So many Houres, must I Contemplate: 1168 So many Houres, must I Sport my selfe: 1169 So many Dayes, my Ewes haue bene with yong: 1170 ... ...w the surly Warwicke mans the Wall. 2694 War. Oh vnbid spight, is sportfull Edward come? 2695 Where slept our Scouts, or how are they se...

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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. The Tapestried Chamber and Death of the Laird’s Jock by Sir Wal... ...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... ...n of merry, autumn, accompanied by a select party of friends, to enjoy the sports of a country famous for game. This was delightful news to our travel... ...g the court of the chateau, several young men were lounging about in their sporting dresses, looking at and criticizing the dogs which the keepers hel... ... with me a week at least. Of guns, dogs, fishing-rods, flies, and means of sport by sea and land, we have enough and to spare—you cannot pitch on an a... ...ird’s Jock was unrivalled, and no champion of Cumberland, Westmoreland, or Northumberland could en- dure the sway of the huge two-handed sword which h...

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...Preface: When I first saw Mr. Osgood?s beautiful illustrated edition of The Lady of the Lake, I asked him to let me use some of the cuts in a cheaper annotated edition for school and household use; and the present volume is the result. The text of the poem has given me unexpected trouble. When I edited some of Gray?s poems several years ago, I found that they ...

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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. The Lady of the Lake by Sir Walter Scott, ed. William J. Rolfe,... ...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 sun, with ardent frown, Had slightly tinged her cheek with brown,— The sportive toil, which, short and light 14 The Lady of the Lake Had dyed her... ...f hasty love or headlong ire. His limbs were cast in manly could For hardy sports or contest bold; And though in peaceful garb arrayed, And weaponless... ...ther spread, Where oft a hundred guests had lain, And dreamed their forest sports again. But vainly did the heath-flower shed Its moorland fragrance r... ...Norman pennon. T aken in the raid which led to the battle of Otterburn, in Northumberland, in the year 1388, and which forms the theme of the ballads ... ...l picture here given of the Duergar corresponds exactly with the following Northumberland legend, with which I was lately favored by my learned and ki...

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...ge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so Any person using this document file, for any purpose, an... ... any way does so Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so Any person using this document file, for any purpose, an... ... any way does so Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so Any person using this document file, for any purpose, an... ...llowed many a pack of dogs many a mile, and heard many merry Huntsmen make sport and scoff at Anglers. Auceps. And I profess myself a Falconer, and ha... ... tricks, as play ing with a garter, who knows but that I make my Cat more sport than she makes me? Shall I conclude her to be simple, that has her ti... ... wiser than to play with her, and laughs and censures my folly, for making sport for her, when we two play together?” Thus freely speaks Montaigne con... ...nd the cameleon are said to live, by the sun and the air. There is also in Northumberland a Trout called a Bull trout, of a much greater length and b...

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...e moreover, hast thou sounded him, If he appeale the Duke on ancient malice, Or worthily as a good subject should On some knowne ground of treacherie in him. Gaunt. As neere as I could sift him on that argument, On some apparant danger seene in him, Aym?d at your Highnesse, no inveterate malice. Kin. Then call them to our presence face to face, And frowning brow to brow, o...

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...hily as a good subiect should 15 On some knowne ground of treacherie in him. 16 Gaunt. As neere as I could sift him on that argument, ... ... I could sift him on that argument, 17 On some apparant danger seene in him, 18 Aym’d at your Highnesse, no inueterate malice. 19 ... ...y speake; 22 High stomack’d are they both, and full of ire, 23 In rage, deafe as the sea; hastie as fire. 24 Enter Bullingbrooke and... ...ke men play so nicely with their names? 728 Gau. No, misery makes sport to mocke it selfe: 729 Since thou dost seeke to kill my name in ... ... so his; 790 As theirs, so mine: and all be as it is. 791 Enter Northumberland. 792 Nor. My Liege, olde Gaunt commends him to you... ...e thy thoughts, as thou dost ours 924 Ros. Be confident to speake Northumberland, 925 We three, are but thy selfe, and speaking so, 926... ... Gr. O Madam ’tis too true: and that is worse, 1007 The L[ord]. Northumberland, his yong sonne Henrie Percie, 1008 The Lords of Ross... ...a Quarta. 1807 Enter the Queene, and two Ladies. 1808 Qu. What sport shall we deuise here in this Garden, 1809 To driue away the heaui... ...measure keepes in Griefe. 1816 Therefore no Dancing (Girle) some other sport. 1817 La. Madame, wee’le tell Tales. 1818 Qu. Of Sorr...

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...ion to Canto First. November?s sky is chill and drear, November?s leaf is red and sear: Late, gazing down the steepy linn That hems our little garden in, Low in its dark and narrow glen You scarce the rivulet might ken, So thick the tangled greenwood grew....

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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... ... tained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Marmion: A Tale of Flodden Field by Sir Walter Scott, the Penns... ...oing student publication project to bring classical works of lit- erature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. C... ...und again, But that a ribald king and court Bade him toil on, to make them sport; Demanded for their niggard pay, Fit for their souls, a looser lay, L... ...ot more blithe that silvan court, 32 Marmion Than we have been at humbler sport; Though small our pomp, and mean our game Our mirth, dear Mariott, wa... ...ended lord is gone, And left us by the stream alone. And much I miss those sportive boys, Companions of my mountain joys, Just at the age ‘twixt boy a... ...rt’s islet grey. VIII. And now the vessel skirts the strand Of mountainous Northumberland; Towns, towers, and halls successive rise, And catch the nun... ... Conqueror back again, When, with his Norman bowyer band, He came to waste Northumberland. XVI. But fain Saint Hilda’s nuns would learn If, on a rock,... ... marvelled Marmion; And Douglas hoped his monarch’s hand Would soon subdue Northumberland: But whispered news there came, That, while his host inac...

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...ces to act And monarchs to behold the swelling scene! Then should the warlike Harry, like himself, Assume the port of Mars; and at his heels, Leash?d in like hounds, should famine, sword and fire Crouch for employment. But pardon, and gentles all, The flat unraised spirits that have dared On this unworthy scaffold to bring forth So great an object: can this cockpit hold Th...

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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... ...contained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. William Shakespeare’s King Henry V , the Pennsylvania State U... ... 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.... ...nies unletter’d, rude and shallow, His hours fill’d up with riots, banquets, sports, And never noted in him any study, Any retirement, any sequestrati... ...ond, Henry Lord Scroop of Masham, and the third, Sir Thomas Grey, knight, of Northumberland, Have, for the gilt of France,—O guilt indeed! Confirm’d c... ...there is yours; There yours, Lord Scroop of Masham; and, sir knight, Grey of Northumberland, this same is yours: Read them; and know, I know your wort... ...asham. I arrest thee of high treason, by the name of Thomas Grey, knight, of Northumberland. SCROOP: Our purposes God justly hath discover’d; And I r... ...ain, That our French gallants shall to day draw out, And sheathe for lack of sport: let us but blow on them, The vapor of our valor will o’erturn them...

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...Excerpt: Chapter 1. Now come ye for peace here, or come ye for war? ?The abbot, in his alb arrayed,? stood at the altar in the abbey-chapel of Rubygill, with all his plump, sleek, rosy friars, in goodly lines disposed, to solemnise the nuptials of the beautiful Matilda Fitzwater, daughter of the Baron of...

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...nts and characters, it always seems fair towards the reader to avow what liberties have been taken, and how much of the sketch is 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 o...

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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. The Caged Lion in Charlotte M. Yonge, the Pennsylvania State Un... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in En- glish, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them.... ...sake, draw his teeth and clip his claws, whereupon he found himself made a sport for her father’s hounds.’ ‘I promise you, Sir Patrick,’ replied the g... ...the tongue of his stepmother, too active-minded not to indulge in freakish sports and ex- periments in life very astounding to commonplace minds, some... ... purity and loftiness of his aim. That little band of princely youths, who sported, studied, laughed, sang, and schemed in the glades of Windsor, were... ...re never were weary travellers more courte- ously received than we by Lord Northumberland, the cap- tain of Calais.’ ‘Oh, I am glad you came to us Eng... ...e captain of the garri- son, who was commanding in the name of the Earl of Northumberland, Governor of Berwick and Warden of the Marches, and who had ... ..., and then with all her pretty puerilities scorched away when she upbraids Northumberland with his fatal delay. Could Malcolm and Lilias have known he...

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...s to Act, And Monarchs to behold the swelling Scene. Then should the Warlike Harry, like himselfe, Assume the Port of Mars, and at his heeles (Leasht in, like Hounds) should Famine, Sword, and Fire Crouch for employment. But pardon, Gentles all: The flat unraysed Spirits, that hath dar?d, On this unworthy Scaffold, to bring forth So great an Object. Can this Cock- Pit hold...

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...e, 7 Assume the Port of Mars, and at his heeles 8 (Leasht in, like Hounds) should Famine, Sword, and Fire 9 Crouch for employ... ... Agincourt? 16 O pardon: since a crooked Figure may 17 Attest in little place a Million, 18 And let vs, Cyphers to this great Acc... ... - 1 - The Life of Henry the Fift Shakespeare: First Folio 40 Which in th’ eleue[n]th yere of y last Kings reign 41 Was like, and had ind... ...’d, rude, and shallow, 97 His Houres fill’d vp with Ryots, Banquets, Sports; 98 And neuer noted in him any studie, 99 Any retyrement... ...rd Scroope of Masham, and the third 487 Sir Thomas Grey Knight of Northumberland, 488 Haue for the Gilt of France (O guilt indeed) 489 ... ... There yours Lord Scroope of Masham, and Sir Knight: 696 Gray of Northumberland, this same is yours: 697 Reade them, and know I know yo... ... Life of Henry the Fift Shakespeare: First Folio 779 Grey, Knight of Northumberland. 780 Scro. Our purposes, God iustly hath discouer’d... ...our French Gallants shall to day draw out, 2194 And sheath for lack of sport. Let vs but blow on them, 2195 The vapour of our Valour will o’re...

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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. Scenes and Characters Or, Eighteen Months at Beechcroft by Char... ...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... ...large family, it was natural to dream of other children and their ways and sports till they became almost realities. They took shape when my French ma... ...diately de- parted for a year’s visit among Mr. Hawkesworth’s relations in Northumberland, whence they were to return to Beechcroft, merely for a fare... ... was chiefly visible in his love of easy chairs, and his dislike of active sports, which made him the especial companion of his sisters. A danger- ous... ...nd patting her on the head, in the hope of rousing her to some more active sport. But in the midst of all these joyous sights and sounds, was heard a ...

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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. 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... ...s, and whom the irresistible influence of Alma would have engaged in field sports from morning till night. But the character of Edward Waverley was re... ... intuition, and the chief care of his precep- tor was to prevent him, as a sportsman would phrase it, from overrunning his game, that is, from acquiri... ...the means to the end; and whether, were we to teach religion in the way of sport, our pupils may not thereby be gradually induced to make sport of the... ...oyed his leisure hours so actively in raising subsidies among the boors of Northumberland and Durham, that upon his return he was enabled to erect a s... ...he time had probably been as successful as his predecessor was in harrying Northumberland, and therefore left to his posterity a rival edifice, as a m... ...uses. You must know, then, that when my ancestor, Ian nan Chaistel, wasted Northumberland, there was associated with him in the expedition a sort of S...

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...King. So shaken as we are, so wan with care, Finde we a time for frighted Peace to pant, And breath shortwinded accents of new broils To be commenc?d in Stronds afarre remote: No more the thirsty entrance of this Soile, Shall daube her lippes with her owne childrens blood: No more shall trenching Warre channell her fields, Nor bruise her Flowrets with the Armed hoofes Of h...

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... And breath shortwinded accents of new broils 8 To be commenc’d in Stronds a- farre remote: 9 No more the thirsty entrance of this S... ...5 All of one Nature, of one Substance bred, 16 Did lately meete in the intestine shocke, 17 And furious cloze of ciuill Butchery, 18... ... shocke, 17 And furious cloze of ciuill Butchery, 18 Shall now in mutuall well- beseeming rankes 19 March all one way, and be no mor... ... there thou mak’st me sad, & mak’st me sin, 82 In enuy, that my Lord Northumberland 83 Should be the Father of so blest a Sonne: 84 ... ...trangle him. 305 If all the yeare were playing holidaies, 306 To sport, would be as tedious as to worke; 307 But when they seldome come... ...hen men thinke least I will. Scoena Tertia. 320 Enter the King, Northumberland, Worcester, Hotspurre, 321 Sir Walter Blunt, and others... ...hall heare in such a kinde from me 443 As will displease ye. My Lord Northumberland, 444 We License your departure with your sonne, 445 ... ...houres be short, 632 Till fields, and blowes, and grones, applaud our sport. Exit Actus Secundus. Scena Prima. 634 Enter a Carrier wit... ...t, there are other Troians that y dream’st 706 not of, the which (for sport sake) are content to doe the 707 Profession some grace; that wou...

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...Introduction: A certain degree of success, real or supposed, in the delineation of Queen Mary, naturally induced the author to attempt something similar respecting ?her sister and her foe,? the celebrated Elizabeth. He will not, however, pretend to have approached the task with the sam...

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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. Kenilworth by Sir Walter Scott, the Pennsylvania State Universi... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in En- glish, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them.... ... time, however, at which I felt the kind knight’s excessive love for field-sports detained me from studies, by which I might have profited more; but I... ...so far recovered, vainly attempting to drown, in the practice of his field-sports, the recollection that he had once a daughter—a recollection which e... ...lian, “if you make me do aught half so ridiculous for your own mischievous sport; however, I will prove your spell. Here, then, I tie my horse to this... ...I., and scarce improved by that of his father, the unhappy Dudley, Duke of Northumberland, executed on T ower Hill, August 22, 1553. But in person, fe... ...ld cattle of Scotland are preserved at Chillingham Castle, near Wooler, in Northumberland, the seat of Lord T ankerville. They fly before strangers; b... ... she please to say the word. Think upon Norfolk, my lord—upon the powerful Northumberland—the splendid Westmoreland;—think on all who have made head a...

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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. Nei- ther the Pennsylvania State... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Mistletoe Bough by Anthony Trollope, the Pennsylvania State... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in En- glish, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them.... ...she should at once go away to her mother’s sister, who lived at Hexham, in Northumberland. Then came the dance, and the hearts of Kate and Patty Cover... ...were very tired of walking up and down to keep their feet warm, before the sportsmen came up. But this was their own fault, seeing that they had reach... ... that ladies should be left in the snow for an hour. Well, young men, what sport have you had?” “I shot the big black cock,” said Harry. “Did you inde... ... then she stepped on and joined the children. “I wouldn’t spoil even their sport if I could help it,” she said to herself. “But with them I shall only...

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...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...

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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. 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... ...the halls and bowers of an ancient feudal castle. The Prior mingled in the sports of the field with more than due eagerness, and was allowed to posses... ...rned. Surely no tongue is so rich in the vari- ous phrases which the field-sports demand, or furnishes means to the experienced woodman so well to exp... ...n employed with all the art of which the age was capable, to represent the sports of hunting and hawking. The bed was adorned with the same rich tapes... ...“ ‘ A brother’s love,’ cried the generous Harold, ‘and the fair earldom of Northumberland.’ “ ‘But should T osti accept these terms,’ continued the en...