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...When French equestrian Claire Delacroix loses her fiance in a tragic accident, she comes to live at the Paris Opera during its 1890s heyday. Whilst working at the opera, she meets a mysterious, masked stranger: Erik. Is it possible that the two of them will heal the pain of each ot...

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...re Delacroix’s background, and her intellectual rebellion against her place in “proper society.” Everyone I have spoken to has his or her own vision ... ... inspiration. I am also grateful to Paddy Doyle Cathcart, who became Pierre in these pages. Jacket design by James Courtney (c) Sharon E. Cathcart, 2... ...re I was an equestrienne trainer and performer. Horses were frequently used in the operas and Josephine was my gentlest mare, a beautiful Dutch Frie... ...ide me again and I tightened my inner muscles around him, feeling the velvet steel inside me ... filling me. Then, with throbbing ecstasy, we releas... ... to liquidating some of my holdings and transferring the funds to a bank in England.” I must have looked very surprised indeed. “My dear,” he informe... ...of property to which I will never return.” “So, your plan is for us to go to England, then?” “Yes. The more I have considered it, the more I want for... ...ve to endure Francois’ employment any further.” Erik would need a valet in England, I reasoned; two birds might be killed with the same stone. With... ...e were still back in Paris. Gilbert would take his sketch pad and draw the sculptures, or make quick studies of the other patrons. Those excursion...

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... Canadian Copyright: 1072425 Nov 12 th 2009 Due to the ideas presented in this book, I have had to use various terms and words that are not f... ...ed in this book, I have had to use various terms and words that are not found in dictionaries: beginning with the title. The word: ‘Splitness’ is ... ...ng these elements together creates a larger context of awareness which result in a better understanding. For instance: what can you understand a... ...s to make it interestingly different- unique-creative. Another example is the steel guitar. It is tuned harmonically. You can slide an iron bar an... ...s to make it interestingly different- unique-creative. Another example is the steel guitar. It is tuned harmonically. You can slide an iron bar an... ...y obsolete. Iron-Age tools took less than century to become mostly obsolete. Steel-Age tools took only a few decades to become mostly obsolete. To... ...troduced he was respected. Alas: this did not happen. A century earlier in England, a similar change-dynamic happened with Cromwell’s severe relig... ..., Chairs, Machines, Highways, Jewelry, Antiques, Ancient Tools, Paintings, and Sculptures… we call these things artifacts… Boats, Planes, Guns, Bom... ...erected in their honor: statues in parks and squares all over the world. The sculptures of these monuments only have one place where birds shit on ...

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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.... ... will not be found to have greatly affected the sketch he has attempted of England’s Eliza- beth. I have endeavoured to describe her as at once a high... ...s spe- cially suitable when the scene is laid during the old days of merry England, when the guests were in some sort not merely the inmates, but the ... ...at of the driest. And if you do get into peril, be- ware of taking to cold steel; but send for me, Giles Gosling, the head-borough, and I may be able ... ...” “ Abject! abject!” repeated Lambourne; “that shall be answered with cold steel whenever a bowl of sack has washed out memory of the morning’s draugh... ...t. “No, sir,” replied the lady, rejecting the instrument which he offered—”steel poniard shall cut no true-love knot of mine.” “It has cut many, howev... ...ee air, and the plashing of the fountains, which, forced into the air from sculptures of fatastic and gro- tesque forms, fell down with ceaseless soun...

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...during his lifetime, quite as much as the public has time or inclination to read; and his surviving friends are apt to show more zeal than discretion in dragging forth from his closed desk such undeveloped offspring of his mind as he himself had left to silence. Literature has never been redundant with authors who sincerely undervalue their own productions; and the sagacio...

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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. Doctor Grimshawe’s Secret: A Romance by Nathaniel Hawthorne , ... ...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... ...arts, the scene of the first being laid in America; that of the second, in England. Internal evidence of various kinds goes to show that the second pa... ...ls and shrill merriment over head. Here were old brick tombs with curious sculptures on them, and quaint gravestones, some of which bore puffy little... ...beard setting off his sallow face, in which the eyes had a certain pointed steeliness, which did not look English, — whose eyes, methinks, are usually... ..., etc., as if year after year had been spent in bringing these veg etable sculptures to perfection. In one of the gardens, more over, the ingenious ... ... sometimes shuddered through him like an icy draught, or the touch of cold steel to his heart. He was ashamed, too, to be conscious of anything like f... ...d was piled up in the virgin soil. Old tombs there were too, with numerous sculptures on them; and quaint, mossy gravestones; although all kinds of mo...

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... 21 NOTE ON THE EARLY POEMS, BY MRS. SHELLEY. ...................................................................................... 22 POEMS WRITTEN IN 1816 .......................................................................................................... 23 THE SUNSET. ..................................................................................................

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... SHELLEY VOLUME 2 OXFORD EDITION. INCLUDING MATERIALS NEVER BEFORE PRINTED IN ANY EDITION OF THE POEMS. EDITED WITH TEXTUAL NOTES BY THOMAS HUTCHINSON... ...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 Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley, Volume One... ....................................................... 83 SONG TO THE MEN OF ENGLAND. ..................................................................... ............................................... 85 FRAGMENT: TO THE PEOPLE OF ENGLAND. ..................................................................... ...low _15 To a brain unencompassed with nerves of steel; When all that we know, or feel, or see, Shall pass like an unreal my... ... _115 19. 19. 19. 19. 19. For it was filled with sculptures rarest, Of forms most beautiful and strange, 36 V olume Two Lik... ... died _10 Like thee—he sanctified his country’s steel, At once the tyrant and tyrannicide, In his own blood—a deed it was t... ... halls ye deck another dwells. Why shake the chains ye wrought? Ye see The steel ye tempered glance on ye. 8. 8. 8. 8. 8. With plough and spade, and h...

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...ith the second quarter of our century, there is frequent mention of a lady then becoming famous for her beauty and her wit: ?an unusual combination,? in the deliberate syllables of one of the writers, who is, however, not disposed to personal irony when speaking of her. It is otherwise in his case and a general fling at the sex we may deem pardonable, for doing as little h...

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...Excerpt: The tower among the Apennines It was in June that the sculptor, Kenyon, arrived on horse back at the gate of an ancient country house (which, from some of its features, might almost be called a castle) situated in a part of Tuscany somewhat remote from the ordin...

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...The Marble Faun or The Romance of Monte Beni by Nathaniel Hawthorne In Two Volumes Volume Two A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publicati... ...e of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any pur- pose, 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 Marble Faun, or The Romance of Monte Beni: Volume Two by Na... ...e Rhine, or, from this central home of the world, to their native homes in England or America, which they are apt thenceforward to look upon as provin... ...ilvery ones as those to the northward, for example, have often sug- gested sculpturesque groups, figures, and attitudes; they are especially rich in a... ...c imagination showed its overflow and gra- tuity of device in the manifold sculptures which it lavished as freely as the water did its shifting shapes... ... now, on the contrary, her perceptive faculty penetrated the canvas like a steel probe, and found but a crust of paint over an empti- ness. Not that s... ...eir strength, and the tramontana stabs them through and through, like cold steel with a poisoned point! But within these walls, the thermom- eter neve... ...he Marble Faun V ol 2 sympathy could coexist with the remorselessness of a steel blade. You need no mercy, and therefore know not how to show any.” “T...

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...Excerpt: Etymology (SUPPLIED BY A LATE CONSUMPTIVE USHER TO A GRAMMAR SCHOOL.); The pale Usher --threadbare in coat, heart, body, and brain; I see him now. He was ever dusting his old lexicons and grammars, with a queer handkerchief, mockingly embellished with all the gay flags of all the known nations of the world. He loved to dus...

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...Moby Dick or The Whale HERMAN MELVILLE 1851 IN TOKEN OF MY ADMIRATION FOR HIS GENIUS, This book is Inscribed TO NATHANI... ... Scenes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 259 57 Of Whales in Paint; in Teeth; in Wood; in Sheet Iron; in Stone; in Mountains; in Star... ...rk Massacre . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 294 67 Cutting In . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 296 68 The Bla... ...death the crews repair: Rodmond unerring o’er his head suspends The barbed steel, and every turn attends.” Falconer’s Shipwreck. “Bright shone the roo... ...rst you almost thought some ambitious young artist, in the time of the New England hags, had endeavored to delineate chaos bewitched. But by dint of m... ...ards I wondered the less at this operation when I came to know of what fine steel the head of a harpoon is made, and how exceedingly sharp the long str... ..., as the plungings of the Roman race horse but so much the more strike his steel tags into him; as one who in that miserable plight still turns and tu... ...ial delusions will be found among the oldest Hindoo, Egyptian, and Grecian sculptures. For ever since those inventive but unscrupulous times when on t... ...a of Elephanta, in India. The Brahmins maintain that in the almost endless sculptures of that immemorial pagoda, all the trades and pursuits, every co...

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...Excerpt: CHAPTER 1; Under certain circumstances there are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea. There are circumstances in which, whether you partake of the tea or not--some people of course never do--the situation is in itself deligh...

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... 483 CHAPTER 1 1 CHAPTER 1 U nder certain circumstances there are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as a... ... dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea. There are circum stances in which, whether you partake of the tea or not—some people of course nev... ...ou partake of the tea or not—some people of course never do—the situation is in itself delightful. Those that I have in mind in be ginning to unfold ... ...I’ve heard of her.” “She’s a niece of my wife’s; Mrs. Touchett brings her to England.” Then young Mr. Touchett explained. “My mother, you know, has be... ... mastered the art of condensation. ‘Tired America, hot weather awful, return England with niece, first steamer decent cabin.’ That’s the sort of messag... ...s and portraits, the different fitted parts of armoured warriors—in plates of steel handsomely inlaid with gold. It was very strange: where, ever, was ... ...le pangs and aches in him, to her old sense that he was naturally plated and steeled, armed essentially for aggression. “I can’t reconcile myself to t... ...he had a little moral account book—with columns unerringly ruled and a sharp steel clasp—which she kept with exemplary neatness. Uttered reflection had... ...It is impossible, in Rome at least, to look long at a great company of Greek sculptures without feeling the effect of their noble quietude; which, as ...

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.................................................... 7 PREFACE BY MRS. SHELLEY TO FIRST COLLECTED EDITION, 1839. ......................... 16 POSTSCRIPT IN SECOND EDITION OF 1839. ........................................................................ 21 PREFACE BY MRS. SHELLEY. TO THE VOLUME OF POSTHUMOUS POEMS PUBLISHED IN 1824.................................................

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...Excerpt: Chapter 1. Miriam, Hilda, Kenyon, Donatello Four individuals, in whose fortunes we should be glad to interest the reader, happened to be standing in one of the saloons of the sculpture-gallery in the Capitol at Rome. It was that room (the first, after ascending the staircase) in the cen...

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.......................................................................................................................................... 25 VARIATIONS IN THE AUTHOR?S MANUSCRIPT PREFACE. ........................................................................ 31 PASTORALS, WITH A DISCOURSE ON PASTORAL POETRY. WRITTEN IN THE YEAR MDCCIV...... 32 SPRING .........................

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...Preface: There are of course peculiar advantages as well as disadvantages in endeavouring to write the life of one recently departed. On the one hand, the remembrances connected with him are far fresher; his contemporaries can he consulted, and much can be made matter of certainty, for which a few ...

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...ouse exclusively; not with any view to further emolument, but as an acknowledgment of the services which you have already rendered me; namely, first, in having brought together so widely scattered a collection--a difficulty which in my own hands by too painful an experience I had found from nervous depression to be absolutely insurmountable; secondly, in having made me a p...

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...Excerpt: He sat, in defiance of municipal orders, astride the gun Zam Zammah on her brick platform opposite the old Ajaib-Gher -the Wonder House, as the natives call the Lahore Museum. Who hold Zam-Zammah, that ?fire-breathing dragon?, hold t...

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...Excerpt: Chapter 1. Miriam, Hilda, Kenyon, Donatello Four individuals, in whose fortunes we should be glad to interest the reader, happened to be standing in one of the saloons of the sculpture-gallery in the Capitol at Rome. It was that room (the first, after ascending the staircase) in the cen...

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...The Marble Faun or The Romance of Monte Beni by Nathaniel Hawthorne In Two Volumes Volume One A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publicati... ...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 Marble Faun, or The Romance of Monte Beni by Nathaniel Hawt... ...lmost—yes, I really think so,” replied Hilda, a slender, brown-haired, New England girl, whose percep- tions of form and expression were wonderfully c... ... sarcophagus without its lid, and with all its more prominently projecting sculptures broken off; perhaps it once held famous dust, and the bony frame... ...g it anything like justice. She was pretty at all times, in our native New England style, with her light- brown ringlets, her delicately tinged, but h... ...o nothingness! Her doom is just!” “O Hilda, your innocence is like a sharp steel sword!” ex- claimed her friend. “Your judgments are often terribly se... ...tain, and think of the brook that used to be one of my playmates in my New England village.” “I fancied I saw something else,” said Kenyon; “but it wa... ...erican art is much better represented at Rome in the pictorial than in the sculpturesque depart- ment. Yet the men of marble appear to have more weigh...

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...Excerpt: Chapter 1. On a brilliant day in May, in the year 1868, a gentle man was reclining at his ease on the great circular divan which at that period occupied the centre of the Salon Carre, in the Museum of the Louvre. This commodious ottoman has since been rem...

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Excerpt: The Works of Edgar Allan Poe in Five Volumes: Volume Two.

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...ION .................................................................................................................................... 61 THE FACTS IN THE CASE OF M. VALDEMAR ................................................................................................... 70 THE BLACK CAT.....................................................................................

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...THE WORKS OF EDGAR ALLAN POE IN FIVE VOLUMES Volume Two A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publicat... ...State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Works of Edgar Allan Poe in Five Volumes: Volume Two is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univ... ...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... ...ht us to a climate where the atmosphere was so dense as to sustain iron or steel, just as our own does feather.’”* “Fiddle de dee,” said the king. “Pr... ...- etables that grew not upon any soil but in the air.** There *The hardest steel ever manufactured may, under the action of a blowpipe, be reduced to ... ... mere abstractions which have been so long the fashion of the moralists of England, of France, and of Germany. Abstractions may amuse and exer- cise, ... ...and rested upon none—neither the grotesques of the Greek painters, nor the sculptures of the best Italian days, nor the huge carvings of untutored Egy... ...ss to say—that its nether extremity was formed of a crescent of glittering steel, about a foot in length from horn to horn; the horns upward, and the ... ...lar in outline to the one here imagined, oc- curred, not very long ago, in England. The name of the fortu- nate heir was Thelluson. I first saw an acc...

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...n two experiences, is doubly relative. The speaker buries his meaning; it is for the hearer to dig it up again; and all speech, written or spoken, is in a dead language until it finds a willing and prepared hearer. Such, moreover, is the complexity of life, that when we condescend upon details in our advice, we may be sure we condescend on error; and the best of education ...

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...gnomy alone nor brain alone is worthy for the Muse, I say the Form complete is worthier far, The Female equally with the Male I sing. Of Life immense in passion, pulse, and power, Cheerful, for freest action form?d under the laws divine, The Modern Man I sing....

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...s 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 To Foreign Lands................................12 To a Historian.....................................12 To Thee Old Cause.......................

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...forest dark, for the straightforward pathway had been lost. Ah me! how hard a thing it is to say What was this forest savage, rough, and stern, Which in the very thought renews the fear....

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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 Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri trans. Henry Wadsworth Lon... ...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... ...ternal heat, Whereby the sand was set on fire, like tinder Beneath the steel, for doubling of the dole. 54 Longfellow Without repose forever was ... ...th of her husband still. Behold the monarch of the simple life, Harry of England, sitting there alone; He in his branches has a better issue. He w... ...ht of ascent had interdicted, To be of marble white, and so adorned With sculptures, that not only Polycletus, But Nature’s self, had there been p... ...y, While the eternal ages watch and wait. II II II II II How strange the sculptures that adorn these towers! This crowd of statues, in whose folde... ... Son, 352 H His mouth uplifted from his grim repast, 122 How strange the sculptures that adorn these towers 379 I I enter, and I see thee in the gl...

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...Excerpt: PART I. Chapter One. We were in class when the head-master came in, followed by a ?new fellow,? not wearing the school uniform, and a school servant carrying a large desk. Those who had been asleep woke up, and every one rose as if just surprised at his ...

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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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