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Owen Wister's wry humor enlivens this comedic story of three sophomores during exam week at Harvard. (Summary by David Wales)

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................................................... 276 ON LEAVING LONDON FOR WALES ........................................................................ ...lines 1-51. Published in part (lines 1-8, 22-51) by Medwin, “The Angler in Wales”, 1834, “Life of Shelley”, 1847; reprinted in full by Garnett, “Relic... ...the author’s experience that some of the workmen on an embankment in North Wales, who, in con- sequence of the inability of the proprietor to pay them... ...G L VING L VING LONDON FOR ONDON FOR ONDON FOR ONDON FOR ONDON FOR W W W W WALES ALES ALES ALES ALES Published (from the Esdaile manuscript book) by D...

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...r but God. It is divided into thirty-nine coun- ties, to which thirteen in Wales were added by Henry VIII., the first who distributed that principalit... ...WA S THE SON of Sir Henry Sidney, Lord Deputy of Ireland, and President of Wales, a person of great parts, and of no mean grace with the Queen; his mo...

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...ard of Oniton? Do come and see us—right away from ev- erywhere, up towards Wales.” “What a change!” said Margaret. But the change was in her own voice... ... and make it an English stream, and the sun, sinking over the Sentinels of Wales, was straight in their eyes. Having picked up another guest, they tur... ...h laughter, and for the second time the sun retreated towards the hills of Wales. Henry, who was more tired than he owned, came up to her in the castl... ..., and lulled by the murmurs of the river that descended all the night from Wales. She felt her- self at one with her future home, colouring it and col...

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...ED AT LUDLOW CASTLE, 1634, BEFORE THE EARL OF BRIDGEWATER, THEN PRESIDENT OF WALES. The Persons The ATTENDANT SPIRIT, afterwards in the habit of THYRS...

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...ths, he could choose between a seat in the Cabinet and a popular pulpit in Wales. PICKERING. What do you say to that, Doolittle? DOOLITTLE. Not me, Go...

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...are, Sam! FRANK. Yes, it’s all right, gov’nor. He built that place down in Wales for the Duke. Caernarvon Castle they call it. You must have heard of ...

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.... “But ain’t he the gentle- man! Just look at him. It’s like the Prince of Wales walking down Pall Mall.” Lydia, hearing this, looked again, and saw C...

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...r, and what a to-do he made; and from him to our own king (still Prince of Wales), who had lived while an undergraduate at Madingley Hall. Here it was...

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...eve, with air-boxes, in the manner of some life-boats used on the coast of Wales. After searching in vain for about the period of time just men- tione...

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... of London would afford a considerable rent. In many parts of Scotland and Wales it affords none. Barren timber for building is of great value in a po... ...untries. In countries which have little commerce, on the contrary, such as Wales, or the Highlands of Scotland, they are very common. The Arabian his-... ...ingly, is said to follow this maxim at present. The mountains of Scotland, Wales, and Northumberland, indeed, are countries not capable of much improv...

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...a competent dimension of its beams, as if they had been the ribs and chain-wales of the keel; which was a pleasant sight. The physeter then giving up ... ...vering, the poor dog fled to Friar John, who was then sitting by the chain-wales of the starboard side of the ship, and prayed him heartily to take pi...

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...o our haughty and defying Duke of Buckingham. But a year ago the Prince of Wales was in Spain, and he also was welcomed with triumph and great joy, bu...

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...ESIDENT OF HIS MAJESTY’S MOST HONOURABLE PRIVY COUNCIL; AND LORD LIEU- TENANT OF THE COUNTY OF WILTS, AND OF SOUTH WALES. MY LORD, THIS T REATISE, whi...

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...l never accomplish your purpose.” 2 V .R. Guined, Guoienet, Guenez, North Wales. 3 V.R. Heremi, Heriri, or Eryri, signifying eagle rocks, the mounta... ...loppum, that is Catgwaloph.* V ortigern reigned in Brit- 3 Gwynedd, North Wales. 4 Bede says at Denis’s brook. 5 The British chronicles assert that...

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..., at her return to England, communicated the experiment to the Princess of Wales, now Queen of En- gland. It must be confessed that this princess, abs...

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...noble ladies bidden to the ball in honor of the newly-imported Princess of Wales. Mary Anne Walkley had worked without intermission for 26 1/2 hours, ...

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...y,” with a portrait of the proboscis. —That sad little rake, the Prince of Wales, in- vited me to dinner. We were all lions and recherchés. There was ...

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...bridge, Durham, Dublin or Glasgow. Not even those Non- conformist holes in Wales. No, T avy. Regent Street, Chelsea, the Borough—I don’t know half the...

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..., and with it the policy of Henry the Great. The marriage of the Prince of Wales with Henrietta of France, established a close union between the two c...

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...foreign parts of England; and the race that has conquered so wide an empire has not yet managed to assimilate the islands whence she sprang. Ireland, Wales, and the Scottish mountains still cling, in part, to their old Gaelic speech. It was but the other day that English triumphed in Cornwall, and they still show in Mousehole, on St. Michael?s Bay, the house of the last Co...

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... has not yet managed to assimilate the islands whence she sprang. Ireland, Wales, and the Scottish moun- tains still cling, in part, to their old Gael... ...of Japan to be uneatable – a staggering pretension. So, when the Prince of Wales’s mar- riage was celebrated at Mentone by a dinner to the Mentonese, ...