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...illis Barnstone 3 SAPPHO’S JOURNAL 5 CHRIST’S JOURNAL 155 LEONARDO DA VINCI’S JOURNAL 221 SHAKESPEARE’S JOURNAL 343 LINCOLN’S JOURNAL 511 ABOUT THE AUTHOR 621 COLOPHON 625...

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...FROM THE COVER OF VOICES FROM THE PAST: In Voices from the Past, a daring group of five independent n... ...der Bartlett accomplishes a tour de force of historical fiction, allowing the reader to enter for the first time into the private worlds of five re... ...ime into the private worlds of five remarkable people: Sappho of Lesbos, the famous Greek poet; Jesus; Leonardo da Vinci; Shakespeare; and Abraham ... .....a writer of very considerable merit.” LON TINKLE in the Dallas Morning News: “Vivid, impressive, highly pictorial.” JOE KNOEFLER in the L.A. Tim... ...e. Dogs barked. Someone banged a drum. Such clamoring! But was it joyous news, I asked myself? Why were the women in a knot at the corner? Why hadn... ...s a symposium and Gyrinno danced for the guests and afterwards brought me news about Alcaeus, how he left the party and wandered to the beach. There... ...OM THE PAST 598 I want to write something about my old friend, the Virginian, Ward Hill Lamon, of Danville days. Hill is my volunteer guardia...

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...THE HISTORY OF HENRY ESMOND, ESQ. A COLONEL IN THE SERVICE OF HER MAJESTY QUEEN ANNE WRITTEN BY HIMSELF BOOK THREE by WILL... ...M MAKEPEACE THACKERAY A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The History of Henry Esmond, Esq.: A Colonel in the Service of Her Majesty ... ... by Himself: Book Three by William Makepeace Thackeray is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...hat is to be the prize of the foremost happy conqueror. When he heard this news of Beatrix’s engagement in mar- riage, Colonel Esmond knocked under to... ...nd carry him home again, and beat Villars, and take Paris by the way.” The news of the Prince’s visit was all through the camp quickly, and scores of ... ... cry is Vif-le-Roy, which my mother will join in, and Trix too. Break this news to ‘em gently: and tell Mr. Finch, my agent, to press the people for t... ... me, do you know what my scheme is? I think of asking Frank to give me the Virginian estate King Charles gave our grandfa- ther. (She gave a superb cu...

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...Excerpt: In the latter half of 1914 a few of us were writing that this war was a ?War of Ideas.? A phrase, ?The War to end War,? got into circulation, amidst much sceptical comment. It was a phrase powerful enough to sway many men, essen...

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...ublication Spoon River Anthology by Edgar Lee Masters is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Uni- versity. This Portable Document file is furnish... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor any- o... ...ate University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor any- one associated with the Pennsylvania State University assumes any responsibility for the materi... ...ng deeper and deeper into a stream of ice. Will some one go to the village newspaper, And gather into a book the verses I wrote?— I thirsted so for lo... ...e white trash here? And of more direct lineage than the New Englanders And Virginians of Spoon River? Y ou would not believe that I had been to school... ...r trouble, crying. I tried to help her out—she died— They indicted me, the newspapers disgraced me, My wife perished of a broken heart. And pneumonia ... ... And pneumonia finished me. Mrs. Meyers HE protested all his life long The newspapers lied about him villainously; That he was not at fault for Minerv...

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...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 exce...

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...s Publication Twice Told Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity. This Portable Document file is furnish... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ...State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone associated with the Pennsylvania State University assumes any responsibility for the mate- ... ...and good women gos- siping at their open windows. It was the first item of news that the tavern-keeper told to his guests. The children babbled of it ... ...ar was inquisitive, and something of a tattler, always itching to hear the news and anxious to tell it again. After an early breakfast at Morristown, ... ...hen within speaking distance. “You go a pretty good jog. What’s the latest news at Parker’s Falls?” The man pulled the broad brim of a gray hat over h... ...n it. These were Captain Langford, the English officer before mentioned; a Virginian planter, who had come to Massachusetts on some political errand; ... ...the Governor’s sec- retary. “Pour it down the villain’s throat!” cried the Virginian fiercely. “T urn him out of the house!” cried Captain Langford, s... ...d, with an ungen- erous bitterness of feeling, that the four gentlemen—the Virginian, the British officer, the young clergyman, and the Governor’s sec...

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...Excerpt: The writer of a book which copies the manners and language of Queen Anne?s time, must not omit the Dedication to the Patron; and I ask leave to inscribe this volume to your Lordship, for the sake of the great kindness and fri...

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...CE. ........................................................................................................................................ 6 BOOK I THE EARLY YOUTH OF HENRY ESMOND, UP TO THE TIME OF HIS LEAVING TRINITY COLLEGE, IN CAMBRIDGE.....................................................................................11 CHAPTER I AN ACCOUNT OF THE FAMILY OF ESMOND ...

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...THE HISTORY OF HENRY ESMOND, ESQ. A COLONEL IN THE SERVICE OF HER MAJESTY QUEEN ANNE WRITTEN BY HIMSELF by WILLIAM MAKEPEA... ...M MAKEPEACE THACKERAY A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The History of Henry Esmond, Esq.: A Colonel in the Service of Her Majesty ... ...nne, Written by Himself by William Makepeace Thackeray is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Uni- versity. This Portable Document file is furnish... ...uce that, for long after the Restora- tion, our family received from their Virginian estates. My dear and honored father, Colonel Henry Esmond, whose ... ... the manners of the present age in England, than the Court Gazette and the newspapers which we get thence. There was a German officer of Webb’s, with ... ..., whilst they were sitting by her ladyship reading her to sleep, with the “News Letter” or the “Grand Cyrus.” My lady used to have boxes of new plays ... ... for departure, young John Lockwood comes running up from the village with news that a lawyer, three officers, and twenty or four-and- twenty soldiers... ...d that his name was not Tho- mas; that he was about to quit Europe for the Virginian planta- tions, where, indeed, your family had a grant of land fro... ... me, do you know what my scheme is? I think of asking Frank to give me the Virginian estate King Charles gave our grandfa- ther. (She gave a superb cu...

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Excerpt: A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers by Henry David Thoreau

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...cation Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant by U. S. Grant is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ...State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone associated with the Pennsylvania State University assumes any responsibility for the materi... ...nd before he was twenty years of age was a constant contributor to Western newspapers, and was also, from that time until he was fifty years old, an a... ...ade his return home. There were no telegraphs in those days to disseminate news rapidly, no railroads west of the Alleghanies, and but few east; and a... ...er on the 1st of March, 1845, and promptly received his approval. When the news reached us we began to look again for “further orders.” They did not a... ...nd was extended from that point towards Farmville. Here I met Dr. Smith, a Virginian and an officer of the regular army, who told me that in a convers...

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...Excerpt: BOOK I. INSCRIPTIONS. One?s-self I sing, a simple separate person, Yet utter the word Democratic, the word En-Masse. Of physiology from top to toe I sing, Not physiognomy 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 ...

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..........................13 Eidolons................................................14 For Him I Sing....................................18 When I Read the Book........................18 Beginning My Studies.........................18 Beginners............................................19 To the States.......................................19 On Journeys Through the States....

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...Excerpt: Dear Speed, yours of the 9th instant is duly received, which I do not meet as a ?bore,? but as a most welcome visitor. I will answer the business part of it first. In relation to our Congress matter here, you were right in supposing I would suppo...

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...olumes V olume 2 of 7 A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Writings of Abraham Lincoln in Seven Volumes – Volume Two is a publicat... ...tings of Abraham Lincoln in Seven Volumes – Volume Two is a publication of the Pennsyl- vania State University. This Portable Document file is furnish... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ....O.). He has received several documents from you, and he says they are old newspapers and documents, having no sort of in- terest in them. He is, ther... ...e, is just received, and I don’t expect to hear another as good a piece of news from Springfield while I am away. I am under no obligations to the ban... ...rizing postmasters at county seats of justice to receive subscriptions for news- papers and periodicals, to be paid through the agency of the Post-off... ...s will continue to be, the most distinguished politician of our history; a Virginian by birth and continued residence, and withal a slaveholder,—conce...

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

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.... 14 DEATH OF EDGAR A. POE BY N. P. WILLIS........................................................................................................ 19 THE UNPARALLELED ADVENTURES OF ONE HANS PFAAL......................................................................... 26 Notes to Hans Pfaal ......................................................................................

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...VE VOLUMES Volume One A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Works of Edgar Allan Poe in Five Volumes: Volume One is a publication o... ...e Works of Edgar Allan Poe in Five Volumes: Volume One is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnishe... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ...ring the fifteen years of his literary life Poe was connected with various newspapers and magazines in Richmond, Phila- delphia and New Y ork. He was ... ...ring the fifteen years of his literary life Poe was connected with various newspapers and magazines in Richmond, Phila- delphia and New Y ork. He was ... ...and left an orphan at an early age, he was adopted by Mr. Allan, a wealthy Virginian, whose barren marriage-bed seemed the warranty of a large estate ... ...reenest laurels. If we may be- lieve the Longinuses; and Aristotles of our newspapers, we have quite too many geniuses of the loftiest order to render...

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...Introduction: In September of the year during the February of which Hawthorne had completed ?The Scarlet Letter,? he began ?The House of the Seven Gables.? Meanwhile, he had removed from Salem to Lenox, in Berkshire County, Massachusetts, where he occupie...

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...Excerpt: Chapter 1. Joe Brownlow?s Fancy. The lady said, ?An orphan?s fate Is sad and hard to bear.? --Scott ?MOTHER, you could do a great kindness.? ?Well, Joe?? ?If you would have the little teacher at the Miss Heath?s here for the holidays. After all the rest, she...

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...TH AND WEST ......................................................................................................... 115 CHAPTER IX: FROM NIAGARA TO THE MISSISSIPPI .................................................................................. 130 CHAPTER X: THE UPPER MISSISSIPPI ............................................................................................

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...ication North America: Volume One by Anthony Trollope is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor any- o... ...ate University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor any- one associated with the Pennsylvania State University assumes any responsibility for the materi... ...has come from the unconscious study of many years. An Englishman handles a newspaper for a quarter of an hour daily, and daily exchanges some few word... ...ar- rel—it is out of the question. “My dear Jones, you must excuse me. Any news in the city to-day? Sugars have fallen; how are teas?” Of course Jones... ...y bar, or smoking in a comfortless reading-room among a deluge of American newspapers. And I protest also—hoping as I do so that I may say much in thi... ...capi- tal; and that army of the Potomac, which has ever since occupied the Virginian side of the river, was in course of construction. To join this, c...

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...Excerpt: To the People of the State of New York: After an unequivocal experience of the inefficacy of the subsisting federal government, you are called upon to deliberate on a new Constitution for the United States of America. The subjec...

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