...x by Honoré de Balzac A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Human Comedy: Introductions & Appendix by Honoré de Balzac is a publica... ...é de Balzac A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Human Comedy: Introductions & Appendix by Honoré de Balzac is a publication of th... ...n Comedy: Introductions & Appendix by Honoré de Balzac is a publication of the Penn- sylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnish... ...ument or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Human Comedy: Introductions & Appendix by Honoré de Balzac, the Pennsylvania Stat... ...- died about. As a matter of fact, there is not so very much genius in the world; and a great deal of more than fair per- 5 Balzac formance is attain... ...ies of letters from “Our Own Corre- spondent,” handling the affairs of the world with boldness and industry if not invariably with wisdom. They rather... ...died the sciences in their relation to infinity, such as Swedenborg, Saint-Martin, and others, and the works of the greatest authors on Natural Histor... ...anges, My Uncle Toby, Werther, Corinne, Adolphe, Paul and Virginia, Jeanie Deans, Claverhouse, Ivanhoe, Manfred, Mignon, than to set forth in order fa...

...Excerpt: Volumes, almost libraries, have been written about Balzac; and perhaps of very few writers, putting aside the three or four greatest of all, is it so difficult to select one or a few short phrases which will in any way denote them, much more sum them up. Yet the five words quoted above, which come from an early letter to his sist...

.... 4 APPENDIX...................................................................................................................................... 32 THE BALZAC PLAN OF THE COMEDIE HUMAINE ............................................................ 32 Comedie Humaine .............................................................................................................

... and Other Essays by Mark T wain (Samuel L. Clemens) 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 anyone... ............................................... ................. 135 WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS ................................................................. ... outside, from talking and teaching. Adam had no fear of death—none in the world. Y.M. Yes, he had. O.M. When he was created? Y.M. No. O.M. When, then... ...pictured and gor geous fabric which still compels the astonishment of the world. If Shakespeare had been born and bred on a barren and unvisited rock... ... melted . What I cannot help wishing is, that Adam had been postponed, and Martin Luther and Joan of Arc put in their place— that splendid pair equipp... ... money back on those two operas. What Is Man and Other Essays 148 WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS IS IT TRUE THAT THE SUN of a man’s mentality touches noon... ...st authority, Mr. Grant White) several of the plays had been written. ‘The Comedy of Errors’ in 1589, ‘Love’s Labour’s Lost’ in 1589, ‘T wo Gentlemen ...

...................................................................................................................................................... 4 THE DEATH OF JEAN ............................................................................................................................................ 75 THE TURNING-POINT OF MY LIFE .....................................

...ii Speeches: Literary and Social by Charles Dickens 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 anyone... ...l I die, to increase the stock of harmless cheerful ness. I felt that the world was not utterly to be despised; that it was worthy of living in for m... ...hem. I was anxious to show that virtue may be found in the bye ways of the world, that it is not incompatible with poverty and even with rags, and to ... ...round him the phantoms of his own imagination—Waverley, Ravenswood, Jeanie Deans, Rob Roy, Caleb Balderstone, Dominie Sampson—all the famil iar thron... ...rature,” and selected for the representatives of the world of letters, the Dean of St. Paul’s and Mr. Charles Dickens. Dean Milman having returned tha... ...hat we find ourselves obliged to organize an opposition. We have seen the Comedy of Errors played so dismally like a tragedy that we really cannot be... ...ding he ever gave for his own benefit took place on the above date, in St. Martin’s Hall, (now converted into the Queen’s Theatre). This reading Mr. D... ...with prose, others will connect him with poetry. One will connect him with comedy, and another with the romantic passions of the stage, and his assert...

...y Charlotte M. Y onge A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Clever Woman of the Family by Charlotte M. Yonge is a publication of th... ...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... ...aloud. “One class of half-grown lads, and those grudged to me! Here is the world around one mass of misery and evil! Not a paper do I take up but I se... ...ng to sit down untidy,” said Fanny. “He said it was not good for anybody.” Martinet! thought Rachel, nearly ready to advocate the boys making no toile... ...hy the romance of Colin and Ermine! To live on the verge of such a—a tragi-comedy, is it? and not be aware of it, I do pity you.” “The only wonder is ... ...exclaimed, in sentimental tones, “Gen- erous rivals! I never saw so good a comedy in all my days! T o disclose the fatal truth, and then bring the riv... ...e of illness, the insur- mountable dread of the mere physical fatigue. The Dean of Avoncester, a kind old friend of Mrs. Curtis, had in- sisted on the... ... Curtis, had in- sisted on the mother and daughters coming to sleep at the Deanery, on the T uesday night, and remaining till the day after the trial;... ...dan- gerous keeping, the true cheese is safe locked up in a tin-box in Mr. Martin’s chambers in London.” “Then what did I give Mauleverer?” “A copy ke...

...Excerpt: ?IT IS VERY KIND in the dear mother.? ?But--what, Rachel? Don?t you like it! She so enjoyed choosing it for you.? ?Oh yes, it is a perfect thing in its way. Don?t say a word to her; but if you are consulted for my next birthday present, Grace, c...

...Carew Hazilitt 1877 1877 1877 1877 1877 ESSAYS OF MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE Book the Second T ranslated by Charles Cotton Edited by William Carew Hazilitt 1... ...tion ublication ublication ublication Essays of Michel de Montaigne, Book the Second trans. Charles Cotton, ed. William Carew Hazilitt is a publicati... ...in anything so much perplexed as to reconcile them and bring them into the world’s eye with the same lustre and reputation; for they commonly so stran... ... DR OF DR OF DR OF DRUNKENNESS UNKENNESS UNKENNESS UNKENNESS UNKENNESS THE WORLD is nothing but variety and disemblance, vices are all alike, as they ... ... the best in show, but the most commodious. Nor as I saw some years ago, a dean of St. Hilary of Poitiers given up to such a solitude, that at the tim... ...their own, and , crowd five or six of Boccaccio’s nov- els into one single comedy. That which makes them so load themselves with matter is the diffide... ... it cannot be denied but there is a manifest decadence in these two lords—[Martin du Bellay and Guillaume de Langey, brothers, who jointly wrote the M...

Excerpt: Essays of Michel de Montaigne, Book the Second translated by Charles Cotton, ed. William Carew Hazilitt.

...Contents CHAPTER I OF THE INCONSTANCY OF OUR ACTIONS ...................................................... 5 CHAPTER II OF DRUNKENNESS .............................................................................................. 14 CHAPTER III A...

...S STEVENSON V olume 1 A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson, Vol. One is a publication of the Pen... ...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... ...eard he was extravagant. It is quite possible to be too good for this evil world; and unquestionably, Mrs. Hutchinson was. The way in which she talks ... ...Dieu! a good stretch for me), and passed one of my favourite places in the world, and one that I very much affect in spirit when the body is tied down... ...e Prom- enade has crossed both streams, and bids fair to reach the Cap St. Martin. The old chapel near Freeman’s house at the entrance to the Gorbio v... ...cedence round the coffin. I idle finely. I read Boswell’s Live of Johnson, Martin’s History of France, Allan Ramsay, Olivier Bosselin, all sorts of ru... ...ER 1875.] Noo lyart leaves blaw ower the green, Red are the bonny woods o’ Dean, An’ here we’re back in Embro, freen’, To pass the winter. Whilk noo, ... ... complete; they also refused:- 1. Six undiscovered Tragedies, one romantic Comedy, a fragment of Journal extending over six years, and an unfin- ished... ... was writ- ten in his third period – much about the same time as Lear? The comedy, April Rain, is also a late work. Beckett is a fine ranting piece, l...

Excerpt: The Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson, Vol. One.

...ted Poems William Butler Yeats 1889 1939 Contents LYRICAL 3 CROSSWAYS 5 THE SONG OF THE HAPPY SHEPHERD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 THE SAD SHEP... .... 5 THE SAD SHEPHERD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 THE CLOAK, THE BOAT, AND THE SHOES . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 ANASHUYA AND... ...IN’S FIGHT WITH THE SEA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 THE ROSE OF THE WORLD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 THE ROSE OF PEACE . . ... ...HANGE THAT HAS COME UPON HIM AND HIS BELOVED, AND LONGS FOR THE END OF THE WORLD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55 HE B... ...IM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 328 COLONEL MARTIN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 329 CONTENTS ... ...re turnin round Across the bare boreen. I went away in silence: Beyond old Martin’s byre I saw a kindly neighbour Blowin’ her mornin’ fire. She drew fr... ...Yet I number him in the song; He, too, has resigned his part In the casual comedy; He, too, has been changed in his turn, Transformed utterly: A terri... ...spiring treadmill of a stair is my ancestral stair; That Goldsmith and the Dean, Berkeley and Burke have travelled there. Swift beating on his breast ...

...Excerpt: THE SONG OF THE HAPPY SHEPHERD; THE woods of Arcady are dead, And over is their antique joy; Of old the world on dreaming fed; Grey Truth is now her painted toy; Yet still she turns her restless head: But O, sick children of ...

...Table of Contents: LYRICAL 3 -- CROSSWAYS 5 -- THE SONG OF THE HAPPY SHEPHERD, 5 -- THE SAD SHEPHERD, 6 -- THE CLOAK, THE BOAT, AND THE SHOES, 7 -- ANASHUYA AND VIJAYA, 8 -- THE INDIAN UPON GOD, 11 -- THE INDIAN TO HIS LOVE, 11 -- THE FALLING OF THE LEAVES, 12 -- EPHEMERA...

...assics Series Publication Middlemarch by George Eliot is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Por- table 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... ...as theoretic, and yearned by its nature after some lofty conception of the world which might frankly include the parish of Tipton and her own rule of ... ...rs. A town where such monsters abounded was hardly more than a sort of low comedy, which could not be taken account of in a well-bred scheme of the un... .... That was a very seasonable pamphlet of his on the Catholic Ques- tion:—a deanery at least. They owe him a deanery.” And here I must vindicate a clai... ...I “But deeds and language such as men do use, And persons such as comedy would choose, When she would show an image of the times, A... ...nt already, but that stomach fever took him off: else he might have been a dean by this time. I think I was justified in what I tried to do for Fred. ... ...d shocks, and went to finish his evening at the theatre of the Porte Saint Martin, where there was a melodrama which he had already seen several times... ...r to marry him. But instead of reopening her engagement at the Porte Saint Martin, where she would have been all the more popular for the fatal epi- s...

...Excerpt: Prelude. Who that cares much to know the history of man, and how the mysterious mixture behaves under the varying experiments of Time, has not dwelt, at least briefly, on the life of Saint Theresa, has not smiled with some gentleness at the thought of the little...

...XLII. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 335 Book V — The Dead Hand. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 345 Chapter ... ...III. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 418 Book VI — The Widow and the Wife. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 429 Chapter LIV... ...as theoretic, and yearned by its nature after some lofty conception of the world which might 4 Book I — Miss Brooke frankly include the parish of Tip... ...rs. A town where such monsters abounded was hardly more than a sort of low comedy, which could not be taken account of in a well bred scheme of the un... ...on. That was a very seasonable pamphlet of his on the Catholic Question:—a deanery at least. They owe him a deanery.” And here I must vindicate a clai... ...hapter XI. “But deeds and language such as men do use, And persons such as comedy would choose, When she would show an image of the times, And sport w... ...nt already, but that stomach fever took him off: else he might have been a dean by this time. I think I was justified in what I tried to do for Fred. I... ...ed shocks, and went to finish his evening at the theatre of the Porte Saint Martin, where there was a melodrama which he had already seen several times... ...r to marry him. But instead of reopening her engagement at the Porte Saint Martin, where she would have been all the more popular for the fatal episod...

...Excerpt: Prelude; Who that cares much to know the history of man, and how the mysterious mixture behaves under the varying experiments of Time, has not dwelt, at least briefly, on the life of Saint Theresa, has not smiled with some gentleness at the thought of the little...

...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 ... ... a great favorite of King George the Second, by whom Mr. Tusher was made a Dean, and then a Bishop. I did not see the lady, who chose to remain at her... ...hing to put an end to this prosing. I don’t say No. I can’t but accept the world as I find it, including a rope’s end, as long as it is in fashion. CH... ...sked Harry about singing, the lad broke out with a hymn to the tune of Dr. Martin Luther, which set Mr. Holt a-laughing; and even caused his grand par... ... when Holt told him what the child was singing. For it ap- peared that Dr. Martin Luther’s hymns were not sung in the churches Mr. Holt preached at. “... ...when he caught the young scapegrace with a delightful 39 Thackeray wicked comedy of Mr. Shadwell’s or Mr. Wycherley’s under his pillow. These, when h... ...l Francis Esmond, my lord’s cousin and her ladyship’s, who had married the Dean of Winchester’s daughter, and, since King James’s departure out of Eng... ...rooms picked it up from the ground and gave it me. Here it is in their d—d comedy jargon. ‘Divine Gloriana—Why look so coldly on your slave who adores...

...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...

...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 ...