Description Details
...no other than a familiar and private end: I have no respect or consideration at all, either to thy service, or to my glory: my forces are not capable of any such desseigne. I have vowed the same to the particular commodity of my kinsfolk and friends: to the end, that losing me (which they are likely to do ere long), they may therein find some lineaments of my conditions a...

Excerpt Details
...They have a secret, unperceived and delicate beauty; he had neede of a cleere, farreseeing and true-discerning sight that should rightly discover this secret light. Is not ingenuity (according to us) cosin germaine unto sottishnesse, and a quality of reproach? Socrates maketh his soule ...

Full Text Search Details
...e University, Wisconsin. It is in the public domain. "Florio's Translation of Montaigne's Essays was first published in 1603. In 'The World's Classic... ...al material was supplied by R.S. Bear from the Everyman's Library edition of 1910. Content unique to this presentation is copyright © 1999 The Univer... ...10. Content unique to this presentation is copyright © 1999 The University of Oregon. For nonprofit and educational uses only. Send comments and corr... ...; which yet will presse on vertue; will she, nill she. In which matter of fame (and that exceeding good) wel may you (I doubt not) use the word, whi... ...ike in this French-mans report, our third in name, but fist and chiefe in fame, K. Edward, you would not succour your blacke, not sonne, but servaunt... ...ligat: 'Most commonly trusting obligeth trustinesse.' To an ambitious and fame aspiring minde, contrariwise, a man must yeeld little, and cary a hard... ...ze or turne his senses. For we have much ado to warrant our selves in the walks or battlements of a high tower or steeple, if they be hattlemented an... ...joy the pleasure of the good company resorts to them, and of the pleasant walks or exercises which the beauty of those places, where bathes are comm...

Description Details
...Reading age 10+ You might not know it but you, everyone you know and the world itself are all but figments in the imagination of a Storyteller on another planet. Each night foolish creatures called Bloons gather around him to listen to the latest crazy antics of Hoomanity. But it seems as though the Story itself has gotten out of control. The Hooman...

Full Text Search Details
...magic happens. Copyright © Tom Glaister 2008 All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or tr... ...ical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior permission of the publisher. First published in Great Britain in 2008 Firecrest Publis... ...om The moral right for the author has been asserted A CIP catalogue record of this book is available from the British Library ISBN 978-0-9560192-0-2 P... ...nce the Story for the good, offering counsel and advice to Hoomans in all walks of life. We taught and healed, cared and fought for the rights of wh... ...lowed, his chest puff ng up. ‘We are!’ she screamed back. ‘You promised me fame and fortune, you cheap trickster. Your name up in bright lights, you ...

Excerpt Details
...Excerpt: Before the reader is introduced to the modest country medical practitioner who is to be the chief personage of the following tale, it will be well that he should be made acquainted with some particulars as to the locality in which, and the neighbors among whom, our doctor followed his profession....

Full Text Search Details
...lassics Series Publication Dr Thorne by Anthony Trollope is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18202-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ... but at last he did so, and found himself alone with Miss Dunstable in the walks of Courcy Park. ‘It is a strange thing, is it not, ’ said he, recurri... ...rchitect, in contriving this magnifi- cent entrance for his own honour and fame, had destroyed the duke’s house as regards most of the ordinary purpos... ...right have we to make these charges? What have we seen in our own personal walks through life to make us believe that women are devils? There may poss... ...oint executor with Dr Thorne had been named—one Mr Stock, a man of railway fame—and Dr Thorne himself was made a legatee to the humble extent of a tho... ..., more ludicrous than passionate. He was still too much an invalid to take walks, and Mary was therefore saved from his company in her rambles; but he... ...ur, and what eventually would at least be wealth to her. She was nameless, fameless, portionless. He had come there with all his ardour, with the impu...

Excerpt Details
...OND EDITION; MUCH to the author?s surprise, and (if he may say so without additional offence) considerably to his amusement, he finds that his sketch of official life, introductory to THE SCARLET LETTER, has created an unprecedented excitement in the respectable community immediately around him. It could hardly have been more violent, indeed, had he burned down the Custom ...

Table of Contents Details
...Table of Contents: PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION, 1 -- THE CUSTOM HOUSE INTRODUCTORY, 2 -- 1 THE PRISON DOOR, 31 -- 2 THE MARKET-PLACE, 33 -- 3 THE RECOGNITION, 40 -- 4 THE INTERVIEW, 47 -- 5 HESTER AT HER NEEDLE, 52 -- 6 PEARL, 59...

Full Text Search Details
...E LEECH AND HIS PATIENT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87 11 THE INTERIOR OF A HEART . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95 12 THE MINISTER’S... ...NISTER’S VIGIL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100 13 ANOTHER VIEW OF HESTER . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108 14 HESTER AND THE P... ...4 17 THE PASTOR AND HIS PARISHIONER . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129 18 A FLOOD OF SUNSHINE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136 19 THE CHIL... ...on — though it may often be a hard one — for a man who has dreamed of literary fame, and of making for himself a rank among the world’s dignitaries by... ...e impost, and gone regularly through the office. Borne on such queer vehicle of fame, a knowledge of my existence, so far as a name conveys it, was car... ... this wretched numbness held possession of me. It went with me on my sea shore walks and rambles into the country, whenever — which was seldom and rel... ...thou imagine that I shall contrive aught against his life; no, nor against his fame, if as I judge, he be a man of fair repute. Let him live! Let him ... ...her release from prison had Hester met the public gaze without her. In all her walks about the town, Pearl, too, was there: first as the babe in arms, ... ...to enable the leech to gather plants with healing balm in them, they took long walks on the sea shore, or in the forest; mingling various walks with t...

Excerpt Details
...ol his fortune in that he had a son blessed with an excellent disposition. This father was a physician living at Exeter. He was a gentleman possessed of no private means, but enjoying a lucrative practice, which had enabled him to maintain and educate a family with all the advantages which money can give in this country. Mark was his eldest son and second child; and the fi...

Full Text Search Details
...Series Publication Framley Parsonage by Anthony Trollope is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any per- son using this document file, for any purpose, and in... ...or, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Document File pro- duced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ... an hour on the stud, he contrived to get his friend away to the shrubbery walks. ‘So you have settled with old Sowerby, ’ Robarts began by saying. ‘S... ... parsonage on three or four occasions, and had looked for her in her usual walks; but, neverthe- less, they had never come together in their old famil... ...was somewhat elated also. It must be a proud day for any man when he first walks into a Cabinet. But when a humble-minded man thinks of such a phase o... ...ame did not run the gauntlet for the usual nine days; nor, indeed, did his fame endure at its height for more than two. This sudden fall was occasione... ... Mr Tickler was not an opulent man, nor had he hitherto attained any great fame in his profes- sion; but, at the age of forty-three he still had suffi...

Excerpt Details
...Excerpt: A Fragment of Autobiography. IN 1897, after spending five years at St Thomas?s Hospital I passed the examinations which enabled me to practise medicine. While still a medical student I had published a novel called Liza of Lambeth which ...

Full Text Search Details
...The Magician A NOVEL By SOMERSET MAUGHAM TOGETHER WITH A FRAGMENT OF AUTOBIOGRAPHY 1908 A P ENN S TATE E LECTRONIC C LASSICS S ERIES P UBLICA... ...S S ERIES P UBLICATION The Magician by Somerset Maugham is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...with prodigious diamonds, of noble gam blers and great ladies of doubtful fame, of strange men over dressed and scented. Rumour was increasingly bus... ...suffered is bringing on some nervous disease, and I am really alarmed. She walks about the house in 138 TheMagician a peculiarly aimless manner, up a...

Excerpt Details
...Excerpt: CHAPTER I; DEPARTURE -- The fourteenth of August was the day fixed upon for the sailing of the brig Pilgrim on her voyage from Boston round Cape Horn to the western coast of North America. As she was to get under weigh early in the afternoon, I made my appearance ...

Table of Contents Details
...Table of Contents: CHAPTER I ? DEPARTURE, 1 -- CHAPTER II ? FIRST IMPRESSIONS???SAIL HO!??, 3 -- CHAPTER III ? SHIP?S DUTIES?TROPICS, 6 -- CHAPTER IV ? A ROGUE?TROUBLE ON BOARD???LAND -- HO!???POMPERO?CAPE HORN, 9 -- CHAPTER V ? CA...

Full Text Search Details
...oks ' 2001, Global Language Resources, Inc. Two Years Before the Mast Table of Contents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 CHAPTER I — DEPARTURE . . . . ... .... . . 13 CHAPTER V — CAPE HORN—A VISIT . . . . . . . . 18 CHAPTER VI — LOSS OF A MAN—SUPERSTITION . . . . . . . . 21 CHAPTER VII — JUAN FERNANDEZ—T... ...ES—DISCONTENT—SAN PEDRO CHAPTER XV — A FLOGGING—A NIGHT ON SHORE—THE STATE OF THINGS ON . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52 BOARD—SAN DIEGO . . . . ... ...a sense of honor, which would have been worthy of admiration in the highest walks of life. Sam knew that the other had suffered solely on his account... ...m the royal yard, the island, with its hospital buildings, nice gravelled walks, and green plats, seemed to he directly under our yard arms. So clo... ...a place of worship for the extreme south part of the city. In one of my walks about the wharves, I found a pile of dry hides lying by the side of... ...d fifty persons, who organized a town government. Then came the auri sacra fames, the flocking together of many of the worst spirits of Christendo...

Excerpt Details
...Excerpt: The Famous Philosopher. Containing his Complete Masterpiece and Family Physician; his Experienced Midwife, his Book of Problems and his Remarks on Physiognomy...

Full Text Search Details
...mplete Masterpiece and Family Physician; his Experienced Midwife, his Book of Problems and his Remarks on Physiognomy A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS... ...Physiognomy A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The Works of Aristotle, trans. Anon. is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Unive... ...ity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...se chastity had been violated, descending from a noble family of unspotted fame. Several charged the fact upon the Judge, who was president of a city ... ...d, she ought to abstain from all violent motions and exercise; whether she walks afoot, or rides on horseback or in a coach, it ought to be very gentl...

Full Text Search Details
...sics Series Publication The Talisman by Sir Walter Scott is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18202-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...tary knight during two years’ campaign in Palestine had been only temporal fame, and, as he was taught to believe, spiritual privileges. Meantime, his... ... not be free, in all honourable service, to devote his hand and sword, the fame of his actions, and the fixed devotion of his heart, to the fairest pr... ...which caused the roving tribes to respect his dwelling and his chapel. His fame had spread so far that Saladin had issued particular orders that he sh... ...fore they strike, and shake hands ere they cut throats. Danger in our land walks openly, and with his blade drawn, and defies the foe whom he means to...

Excerpt Details
...Introduction: Among the notable books of later times-we may say, without exaggeration, of all time--must be reckoned The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau. It deals with leading personages and transactions of a momentous epoch, when absolutism and feudalism we...

Full Text Search Details
...The Confessions of J. J. Rousseau by Jean Jacques Rousseau THE CONFESSIONS OF JEAN JACQUES ROUSSEAU (In 12 books) Privately Printed for the Members of... ... 1903 A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Confessions of J. J. Rousseau by Jean Jacques Rousseau, trans. S. W. Orson is a publica... ... J. Rousseau by Jean Jacques Rousseau, trans. S. W. Orson is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...at we constantly neglected every occasion of seeking them. When taking our walks together, we observed their diversions without feeling any inclinatio... ... me; indeed, this was ever a leading trait in my character. In our country walks I was ever foremost, and never thought of returning till reminded by ... ...ce of too lively imagina- tion, which exaggerates even beyond the voice of fame, and ever expects more than is told. I have heard Paris so flatter- in... ...me a real botanist, and had he not died young, might have acquired as much fame in that science as he deserved for being an honest man. Serious even t... ...idays, in which Madam de Warrens took as much pleasure as myself. Solitary walks afforded yet purer pleasure, because in them our hearts expanded with... ...vorable opinion of me rather too far, thought I should immediately acquire fame in Paris, and become a favorite with fine ladies. To guide my inexperi...

Excerpt Details
...sn?t know whether she is or not, and she wouldn?t for the world expose herself to telling a fib. She is very honest, is Olive Chancellor; she is full of rectitude. Nobody tells fibs in Boston; I don?t know what to make of them all. Well, I am very glad to see you, at any rate.? These words were spoken with much volubility by a fair, plump, smiling woman who entered a narro...

Table of Contents Details
...Table of Contents: Book First 3 -- Chapter 1, 3 -- Chapter 2, 8 -- Chapter 3, 12 -- Chapter 4, 20 -- Chapter 5, 26 -- Chapter 6, 30 -- Chapter 7, 38 -- Chapter 8, 45 -- Chapter 9, 51 -- Chapter 10, 55 -- Chapter 11, 62 -- Chapter 1...

Full Text Search Details
...erself to telling a fib. She is very honest, is Olive Chancellor; she is full of rectitude. Nobody tells fibs in Boston; I don’t know what to make of th... ...e apartment, had lost himself in its pages. He threw it down at the approach of Mrs. Luna, laughed, shook hands with her, and said in answer to her la... ...aid the young man. ‘I pretend not to prevaricate.’ ‘Dear me, what’s the good of being a Southerner?’ the lady asked. ‘Olive told me to tell you she ho... ... show the way and lead the squadrons would be the brightest in the tables of fame. They would be names of women weak, insulted, persecuted, but devote... ...hought that, in standing there, she herself was in it)—in the highest social walks it was the custom of a prior guest to depart when another friend ar... ...ultitudinous meetings, where there had been other performers better known to fame. They had brought in no money; they had been delivered only for the ... ...and many of the most celebrated women of his time—some of these daughters of fame were very voluminous—and he was supposed to have a remarkably insinu... ...oment; ‘she lies down when she feels well and happy, and when she’s sick she walks about—she roams all round the house. If you hear her on the stairs ... ...om the south side, who played games that required much chalking of the paved walks, and much sprawling and crouching there, under the feet of passers,...

Excerpt Details
...nswered, without hesitation. ?Have you got the cartridges?? ?Yes; they?re in my pocket, but they are joggling horribly. Do pin-fire cartridges go off of their own accord?? ?Don?t know. Take the revolver, if you are afraid, and let me carry them.? ?I?m not afraid.? Maisie strode forward swiftly, a hand in her pocket and her chin in the air. Dick followed with a small pin-fi...

Full Text Search Details
...IES PUBLICATION The Light That Failed by Rudyard Kipling is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity. This Portable Document file is furn... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18202-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...ry cautiously. He was accus- tomed to strange experiences in his afternoon walks, and, finding the cartridge-box unguarded, made in- vestigations with... ...ifying unto Art than the actual belly-pinch of hunger, and Dick in his few walks abroad,—he did not care for exercise; it raised desires that could no... ...ut something they aren’t the least interested in, the net result is called fame, reputation, or notoriety, accord- ing to the taste and fancy of the s... ...screen as fine pierced as point-lace. Then a monkey— a little black monkey—walks through the main square to get a drink from a tank forty feet deep. H... ...chin was in his hand as he answered, in the words of a general not without fame, still looking out on the darkness—’”My God, what a city to loot!”’ Bi...

Excerpt Details
...Excerpt: The ?Body Of The Nation? But the basin of the Mississippi is the body of the nation. All the other parts are but members, important in themselves, yet more important in their relations to this. Exclusive of the Lake basin and of 300,00...

Full Text Search Details
...fe on the Mississippi by Mark T wain (Samuel L. Clemens) is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furn... ...ersity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and i... ...Editor, Hazleton, PA 18201 1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of lit... ...lvin, Benvenuto Cellini, and the Emperor Charles V. were at the top of their fame, and each was manufacturing history after his own peculiar fashion; ... ...een supposed to be. The pavements along the river front were bad: the side walks were rather out of repair; there was a rich abundance of mud. All t... ...ly hide the exiled town. In due time we passed Grand Gulf and Rodney, of war fame, and reached Natchez, the last of the beautiful hill cities—for Bat... ...remark is from the same advertisement— “The Institute building has long been famed as a model of striking and beautiful architecture. Visitors are cha... ...f marble, generally; are architecturally graceful and shapely; they face the walks and driveways of the cemetery; and when one moves through the midst... ...ituted, as the existing commis sion is, of thoroughly able men of different walks in life, may it not be suggested that their verdict in the case sho...

Excerpt Details
Excerpt: Barnaby Rudge, A Tale of the Riots of ?Eighty by Charles Dickens.

Full Text Search Details
...Barnaby Rudge A Tale of the Riots of Eighty by Charles Dickens A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publi... ...A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Barnaby Rudge, A Tale of the Riots of ‘Eighty by Charles Dickens is a publication of the Penns... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in ... ...nearer to it than many modern Londoners would readily believe, and lovers’ walks at no great distance, which turned into squalid courts, long before t... ...adow, and keeps close to me, though I am silly. We have such pranks, such walks, such runs, such gambols on the grass! Sometimes he’ll be half as tal... ...John, after the usual pause to get the question in his mind. ‘Sometimes he walks, and sometimes runs. He’s known along the road by everybody, and some... ...ilities and harder hearts, have made a shining figure and left a brilliant fame. He had his mourn ers. The prisoners bemoaned his loss, and missed hi...

Excerpt Details
Excerpt: Memoirs of Louis XIV and His Court and of the Regency by The Duke of Saint-Simon.

Full Text Search Details
...Memoirs of Louis XIV and His Court and of the Regency By The Duke of Saint-Simon A Penn State Electronic Classics ... ...f Saint-Simon A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Memoirs of Louis XIV and His Court and of the Regency by The Duke of Saint-Simon is... ...d His Court and of the Regency by The Duke of Saint-Simon is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...secretly entered upon the self-appointed task for which he is now known to fame—a task which the proud King of a vainglorious Court would have lost no... ... caleches were always ready to whirl even the most lazy ladies through the walks, soft music and good cheer, made it a palace of delight, grace, and m... ...mounted archers, just as public women are carried away from a house of ill-fame! I pass in silence all the accompaniments of this scene, so touch- ing... ...at once what she gained. The King took no ticket. Upon returning home from walks or drives, anybody, as I have said, might speak to the King from the ...

Full Text Search Details
... William Shakespeare’s Titus Andronicus is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furn... ...ersity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and i... ...Editor, Hazleton, PA 18201 1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publica tion project to bring classical works of l... ... In peace and honour live Lord Titus long; My noble lord and father, live in fame! Lo, at this tomb my tributary tears I render, for my brethren’s obs... ... of mine age to glad my heart! Lavinia, live; outlive thy father’s days, And fame’s eternal date, for virtue’s praise! [Enter, below, MARCUS ANDRONICU... ...come, nephews, from successful wars, You that survive, and you that sleep in fame! Fair lords, your fortunes are alike in all, That in your country’s ... ...emn hunting is in hand; There will the lovely Roman ladies troop: The forest walks are wide and spacious; And many unfrequented plots there are Fitted... ...h no tongue to call, nor hands to wash; And so let’s leave her to her silent walks. CHIRON: An ‘twere my case, I should go hang myself. DEMETRIUS: I...

Excerpt Details
...Excerpt: AEGEON. Proceed, Solinus, to procure my fall And by the doom of death end woes and all. DUKE SOLINUS: Merchant of Syracuse, plead no more; I am not partial to infringe our laws: The enmity and discord which of late Sprung from the rancorous outrage of your duke To merchants, our well-d...

Full Text Search Details
... The Comedy of Errors by William Shakespeare is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Uni versity. This Portable Document file is fu... ...ersity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in... ...cument or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Comedy of Errors by William Shakespeare , the Pennsylvania State University, Jim... ...ith your bed And let her read it in thy looks at board: Shame hath a bastard fame, well managed; Ill deeds are doubled with an evil word. Alas, poor w... ... wealth at any time. Second Merchant : Speak softly; yonder, as I think, he walks. [Enter ANTIPHOLUS of Syracuse and DROMIO of Syracuse .] ANGELO: ’...

Excerpt Details
...so small a book with a preface is, I am half afraid, to sin against proportion. But a preface is more than an author can resist, for it is the reward of his labours. When the foundation stone is laid, the architect appears with his plans, and struts for an hour before the public eye. So with the writer in hisPreface: he may have never a word to say, but he must show himsel...

Full Text Search Details
... An Inland Voyage by Robert Louis Steven... ... An Inland Voyage by Robert Louis Stevenson is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free an... ...venson, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Clas- sics Series, Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Document Fil... ... the devil, found himself in a pitiful dilemma. He durst not own his ignorance for the honour of Old England, and spoke away about English clubs and E... ...es. I might come from any part of the globe, it seems, except from where I do. My ancestors have laboured in vain, and the glorious Constitution canno... ..., O graces of Origny, although the wandering fortune of my life should carry me back again to where you await death’s whistle by the river, that will ...

Full Text Search Details
...on The Pickwick Papers, Volume One by Charles Dickens is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer sity. This Portable Document file is furn... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in ... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18201 1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...the entry to these pages. ‘Mr. Pickwick observed (says the secretary) that fame was dear to the heart of every man. Poetic fame was dear to the heart ... ... every man. Poetic fame was dear to the heart of his friend Snodgrass; the fame of conquest was equally dear to his friend T upman; and the desire of ... ...conquest was equally dear to his friend T upman; and the desire of earning fame in the sports of the field, the air, and the water was uppermost in th... ... “you’re a babby to him—this way, sir—this way!”—and sure enough my father walks arter him, like a tame monkey behind a horgan, into a little back off... ...s oc cupied was Mr. Winkle idle, his whole time being devoted to pleasant walks and short country excursions with Mrs. Charles Dickens 173 Pott, who... ...esses myself out wery smart, and off I goes with the old ‘ooman, and up we walks into a fust floor where there was tea things for thirty, and a whole ...

Table of Contents Details
... CHAPTER I - ACROSS THE PLAIN........................3 CHAPTER II - THE OLD PACIFIC CAPITAL........38 CHAPTER III - FONTAINEBLEAU VILLAGE COMMUNITIES OF PAINTERS...............................52 CHAPTER IV - EPILOGUE TO ?AN INLAND VOYAGE?................................................................. 68 CHAPTER V - RANDOM MEMORIES.................79 CHAPTER VI - RANDOM M...

Full Text Search Details
... Across the Plains by Robert Louis Stevenson is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furn... ...ersity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Document File pro- duced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of lit... ...those of Monterey it was the surf that particularly invited me to prolong my walks. I would push straight for the shore where I thought it to be neare... ...er rival, who, for no apparent merit, was raised to opu- lence and momentary fame, and, through no apparent fault was suffered step by step to sink ag... ...joyed a strenuous idleness full of vi- sions, hearty meals, long, sweltering walks, mirth among 63 Robert Louis Stevenson companions; and still float... ...if a man love the labour of any trade, apart from any question of success or fame, the gods have called him. He may have the general vocation too: he ...

Excerpt Details
...Excerpt: A Grateful People. On the 20th of August, 1672, the city of the Hague, always so lively, so neat, and so trim that one might believe every day to be Sunday, with its shady park, with its tall trees, spreading over its Gothic houses, with its canals like la...

Full Text Search Details
... The Black Tulip by Alexandre Dumas is a... ... The Black Tulip by Alexandre Dumas is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and withou... ...as, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classics Series, Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Document File prod... ...descended. Then, knowing to an inch where the bulbs which were to produce the black tulip were planted, he ran towards the spot, following, however, t... ...nd when you have once planted it, you will communi- cate to me all the circumstances which may interest our nursling; such as change of weather, footp... ...the Netherlands. While other towns boast of the magnificence of their ar- senals and dock-yards, and the splendour of their shops and markets, Haarlem... ...rest upon her supe- riority to all other provincial cities in the number and beauty of her spreading elms, graceful poplars, and, more than all, upon ... ...id enough for its people to dance on it, with the accompaniment of the cannon of their fleets. The Horticultural Society of Haarlem had shown itself w...

Excerpt Details
...Excerpt: Chapter 1. The countryside and the man on a lovely spring morning in the year 1829, a man of fifty or thereabouts was wending his way on horseback along the mountain road that leads to a large village near the Grande Chartreuse. This village is the market town of a populous canton that lies within the limits of a ...

Full Text Search Details
...by Honoré de Balzad, trans. Ellen Marriage and Clara Bell is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18202-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...rdinary simplicity when the action is over; men that are little mindful of fame and repu- tation, and utterly forgetful of danger. Perhaps there are m... ...it belongs exclusively to the folk here in the valley. I do not care about fame or fortune, and I look for neither praise or gratitude from my patient... ...k here, sorely disheartened but resigned to his fate. This hero unknown to fame does draining work on the land, for which he is paid ten sous the fath... ... her arm to see if she is afraid. Not she! She does not tremble a bit, and walks quietly along. So there they are, chatting away as nicely as possible...

Excerpt Details
Excerpt: The Ocotopus: A Story of California by Frank Norris.

Full Text Search Details
...on enn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Ocotopus: A Story of California by Frank Norris is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Un... ...ity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ... the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Ocotopus: A Story of California by Frank Norris, the Pennsylvania State University, Electroni... ...n the esplanade in front of the Mission was always closed. Small gravelled walks, well kept, bordered with mignonette, twisted about among the flower ... ...sped behind him, walked slowly from point to point amid the tiny gravelled walks, recall- ing the incidents of eighteen years ago. On the bench he had... ...y, perhaps in financial ruin, poverty even. To seize it meant achievement, fame, influence, prestige, pos- sibly great wealth. “I am so sorry to inter... ...ity? You must sink yourself; must forget your- self and your own desire of fame, of admitted success. It is your poem, your message, that must prevail... ...ipples of the fountain. Under the flood of dull blue lustre, the gravelled walks lay vague amid the grasses, like webs of white satin on the bed of a ... ...tually the “greatest American poet since Bryant”? He had had no thought of fame while com- posing “The Toilers.” He had only been moved to his heart’s...

Full Text Search Details
...roods, or Developments Unlooked For by Charlotte M. Yonge is a publication of the Pennsylva- nia State University. This Portable Document file is furn... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ... hab- its, and struggles were infrequent. There was study in the forenoon, walks or cycle expeditions in the afternoon, varied by the lessons in music... ...y occupation. Now, in his leisure time, his prowess did much to efface the fame of the much younger and slighter Alexis White, and, so far as might be... ...ded. But you have not told us of your father.” “My father is very well. He walks down every day to sit with my wife, and visits a selection of his old...

Excerpt Details
...Excerpt: Dedication. These to His Memory--since he held them dear, Perchance as finding there unconsciously Some image of himself--I dedicate, I dedicate, I consecrate with tears-- These Idylls....

Table of Contents Details
...Contents Idylls of the King ............................................................................................................................... 4 Dedication ...........................................................................

Full Text Search Details
...thurus Flos Regum Arthurus Flos Regum Arthurus Flos Regum Arthurus (Joseph of Exeter) (Joseph of Exeter) (Joseph of Exeter) (Joseph of Exeter) (Joseph... ...f Exeter) (Joseph of Exeter) (Joseph of Exeter) (Joseph of Exeter) (Joseph of Exeter) A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication A Penn State... ...es Publication A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Idylls of the King: In Twelve Books by Alfred, Lord Tennyson is a publication of t... ...ye— Yea—some she cleaved to, but they died of her. And one—they called her Fame; and one,—O Mother, How can ye keep me tethered to you—Shame. Man am I... ...l unwaveringly one, She answered craftily, ‘Will ye walk through fire? Who walks through fire will hardly heed the smoke. Ay, go then, an ye must: on... ...ren of the King in cloth of gold Glanced at the doors or gamboled down the walks; And while she thought ‘They will not see me, ’ came A stately queen ... ...Coming and going, and he lay as dead And lost to life and use and name and fame. And Vivien ever sought to work the charm Upon the great Enchanter of ... ...reak upon me And sweep me from my hold upon the world, My use and name and fame. Your pardon, child. Your pretty sports have brightened all again. An... ...the day Come, as they will; and many a time they come, Until this earth he walks on seems not earth, This light that strikes his eyeball is not light,...

Excerpt Details
...in itself, and shows how well nature can be imitated; but it is meant for a mere girl, and this is the very day I had fixed for hauling down the flag of youth.?...

Full Text Search Details
...onge A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Clever Woman of the Family by Charlotte M. Yonge is a publication of the Pennsylvania St... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...r for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Clever Woman of the Family by Charlotte M. Yonge, the Pennsylvania State University, Ele... ...not know it?” “No, I wish I did. Which of them are you reading? ‘Coun- try Walks.’ That is not one that I care about, it is a mere hash of old recolle... ...s of the summer sea and sky made by tree, rock, and rising ground, and the walks so well laid out on the little headland, now on smooth turf, now bord... ... be as supremely charm- ing a companion as Rose generally found him in the walks that he made it his business to take with her. He turned about long b... ...rst number must be sent to her at Paris, and trust her for spread- ing its fame! The Colonel did not add to his message her recommenda- tion that the ...

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

Table of Contents Details
...Contents CHAPTER I OF THE INCONSTANCY OF OUR ACTIONS ...................................................... 5 CHAPTER II OF DRUNKENNESS .............................................................................................. 14 CHAPTER II...

Full Text Search Details
...es Cotton Edited by William Carew Hazilitt 1877 1877 1877 1877 1877 ESSAYS OF MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE Book the Second T ranslated by Charles Cotton Edited... ...es P P P P Publication ublication ublication ublication ublication Essays of Michel de Montaigne, Book the Second trans. Charles Cotton, ed. William ... ... Second trans. Charles Cotton, ed. William Carew Hazilitt is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Docu- ment file is furn... ...s speaking of before; he said there was scarce one woman of quality of ill fame in the whole province: he would tell of strange confidences, and some ... ...ber, I had made them twice as many; they are all, or within a very few, so famed and ancient authors, that they seem, methinks, themselves sufficientl... ...e same number and measure of steps, even to an inch, in the place where he walks; but if he made it his business to measure and count them, he will fi... ... cour- age, and not of skill; and therefore I have known a friend of mine, famed as a great master in this exercise, in his quarrels make choice of su... ...ess as to enjoy the pleasure of the company he will there meet, and of the walks and exercises to which the amenity of those places invite us, will do...

Excerpt Details
...Excerpt: Dedication. Bob Southey! You?re a poet -- Poet-laureate, And representative of all the race, Although ?t is true that you turn?d out a Tory at Last,-- yours has lately been a common case; And now, my Epic Renegade! what are ye at? With all the Lakers, in and out of place? A nest of tuneful persons, t...

Full Text Search Details
... Don Juan by George Byron is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furn... ...ersity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and i... ...Editor, Hazleton, PA 18201 1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of lit... ...hes;— let them go— To you I envy neither fruit nor boughs— And for the fame you would engross below, The field is universal, and allows Sc... ...the winged steed, I wish your fate may yield ye, when she chooses, The fame you envy and the skill you need; And recollect a poet nothing lose... ...ley now; Each in their turn like Banquo’s monarchs stalk, Followers of fame, ‘nine farrow’ of that sow: France, too, had Buonaparte and Dumour... ...which I forget, Or which, at least, I need not mention yet. Those lonely walks, and lengthening reveries, Could not escape the gentle Julia’s ... ... stirring of a deep dear stream Within an Alpine hollow, when the wind Walks o’er it, was she shaken by the dream, The mystical usurper of t... ...ught is to befall That ancient line, in the “we moonshine He walks from hall to hall. His form you may trace, but not his face,...

Excerpt Details
Excerpt: A Reading of Life by George Meredith.

Table of Contents Details
...Contents Poem: A Reading of Life?The Vital Choice .................................................................................. 5 Poem: A Reading of Life?With The Huntress ............................................................................

Full Text Search Details
...ge Meredith A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication A Reading of Life by George Meredith is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Unive... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...ument or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. A Reading of Life by George Meredith, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic C... ...he winding snake, the shrinking snail, The flying deer, all tricks of evil fame, Elusive to allure, since he grew tame. Hence has the Goddess, Nature’... ...ke it clean. Withal his pitch of pride would not disown A sober world that walks the balanced mean Between its tempters, rarely overthrown: And such a... ...e they who point our pathway and sustain. They rarely meet; one soars, one walks retired. When they do meet, it is our earth inspired. To see Life’s f...

Excerpt Details
Excerpt: The Poems of Goethe, translated by Edgar Alfred Bowring.

Table of Contents Details
...n. ..................................................................................................................................... 21 The Poems of Goethe. ................................................................................................................................................... 22 Dedication. ......................................................

Full Text Search Details
...red Bowring A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Poems of Goethe, trans. Edgar Alfred Bowring is a publication of the Pennsylvania... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...ument or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Poems of Goethe, trans. Edgar Alfred Bowring, the Pennsylvania State University, ... ..., whose name is already inscribed on the tablets of immortality, and whose fame already extends over the earth, although as yet only in its infancy. S... ... and strange the food, And I not understood. I placed my trust in rank and fame, Hurrah! Another put me straight to shame, Lack-a-day! A... ...s grandson of whom we are telling. The Count as Crusader had blazon’ d his fame, Through many a triumph exalted his name, And when on his steed to his... ...5.* AUTHORS. OVER the meadows, and down the stream, And through the garden-walks straying, He plucks the flowers that fairest seem; His throbbing hear... ...wisted Her blue well-plaited gown begins from under her bodice. And as she walks envelopes her well-turn’d ankles completely. 391 Goethe But I have o...

Excerpt Details
Excerpt: The Heir of Redclyffe by Charlotte M. Yonge.

Full Text Search Details
...tte M. Yonge A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Heir of Redclyffe by Charlotte M. Yonge is a publication of the Pennsylvania Sta... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...cument or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Heir of Redclyffe by Charlotte M. Yonge, the Pennsylvania State University, Elec... ... Hollywell, it had been one round of merriment and amusement. Scram- bling walks, tea-drinkings out of doors, dances among them- selves, or with the a... ...leen had called forth. There were grave readings in the mornings, and long walks in the afternoons, when he dragged Charles, in his chair, into many a... ...veleen, who was constantly with Guy. Reading and music, roses, botany, and walks on the terrace! She looked back, and it was still the same. Last East... ...hed into her cheeks again, and the recollection occurred to Mary, that her fame as a performer, in that way, arose from the very amusing manner in whi...

Excerpt Details
...Introduction: Dead Souls, first published in 1842, is the great prose classic of Russia. That amazing institution, ?the Russian novel,? not only began its career with this unfinished masterpiece by Nikolai Vasil?evich Gogol, but practically all the Russian masterpieces that have come since have grown o...

Full Text Search Details
...rans. D. J. Hogarth, with an introduction by John Cournos is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ... tor, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...a member of the higher ranks of society or that of a member of the plainer walks of life—I beg of you, if God shall have given you any skill in letter... ...hankful. Also, it would be an excellent thing if some reader in the higher walks of life, some person who stands remote, 12 Dead Souls both by life a... ...hing a veritable Prometheus, for his glance is as that of an eagle, and he walks with measured, stately stride. Yet no sooner will the eagle have left... ...hat his own impotent assault *The great Russian general who, after winning fame in the Seven Years’ War, met with disaster when attempting to assist t...

Excerpt Details
Excerpt: The History of Tom Jones, A Foundling by Henry Fielding: Volume Two, Containing Books IX through XVIII.

Full Text Search Details
... Fielding: Volume Two, Containing Books IX through XVIII is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in ... ...ent or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The History of Tom Jones, A Foundling by Henry Fielding: Volume Two, Containing Books I... ... to the phrase) as any in the country, and would, I believe, have beat the famed Thalestris herself, or any of her subject Ama zons; for her form was... ...—“But how comes it, sir,” cries the landlord, “that such a great gentleman walks about the country afoot?”—”I don’t know,” returned Partridge; “great ... ...ay, the most scandalous tongues have never dared censure my reputation. My fame, I thank heaven, hath been always as spotless as my life; and let fals... ...asure, caused him at the same time to repine at fortune, which, in all his walks, had never given him such an opportunity of showing his honesty. They... ... a rogue or a blockhead; and do consequently make no scruple to spread the fame of the iniquities and follies of their said masters as far as pos sib... ... might be a discovery to Sophia, which he dreaded. After some discontented walks, therefore, about the room, he was preparing to depart, when the lady...

Excerpt Details
Excerpt: This publication of The Divine Comedy of Dante - Purgatory, Translated by H.F. Cary.

Full Text Search Details
... This publication of The Divine Comedy of Dante Purgatory , Translated by H.F. Cary , is a publication of t... ...rsity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and i... ... for the file as an elec tronic transmission, in any way. The Divine Comedy of Dante Purgatory , Translated by H.F. Cary , the Pennsylvania State U... ...rd on the messy crags Of the steep bank, and firmly stood unmov’d As one who walks in doubt might stand to look. “O spirits perfect! O already ch... ...ll Europe where do those men dwell, To whom their glory is not manifest? The fame, that honours your illustrious house, Proclaims the nobles and procl... ...ege, That while the world is twisted from his course By a bad head, she only walks aright, And has the evil way in scorn.” He then: “Now pass thee on:... ...erhaps is born, Who shall drive either from their nest. The noise Of worldly fame is but a blast of wind, That blows from divers points, and shifts it... ... for us, Michael and Peter! all ye saintly host!” I do not think there walks on earth this day Man so remorseless, that he hath not yearn’d With... ...most thou covetest, that if thy feet E’er tread on Tuscan soil, thou save my fame Amongst my kindred. Them shalt thou behold With that vain multitude,...

Excerpt Details
...Excerpt: They, who to states and governors of the Commonwealth direct their speech, High Court of Parliament, or, wanting such access in a private condition, write that which they foresee may advance the public good; I suppose them, as at the beginning of no mean ende...

Full Text Search Details
...agitica, Comus, “L’Alegro,” “Il Penseroso,” and “Lycidas” is a publication of the Penn sylvania State University. This Portable Document file is fu... ...ersity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and i... ...cument or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Five Works of John Milton: Areopagitica, Comus, “L’Alegro,” “Il Penseroso,” and “L... ... any other end but the service of God and of truth, and perhaps that lasting fame and perpetuity of praise which God and good men have consented shall... ...ld have gladly fed on green figs between Bethany and Jerusalem, his religion walks abroad at eight, and leaves his kind entertainer in the shop tradin... ...when the sun begins to fling His flaring beams, me, Goddess, bring To arched walks of twilight groves, And shadows brown, that Sylvan loves, Of pine, ... ...hese thoughts may startle well, but not astound The virtuous mind, that ever walks attended By a strong siding champion, Conscience. O, welcome, pure ... ...s the Assyrian queen. But far above, in spangled sheen, Celestial Cupid, her famed son, advanced Holds his dear Psyche, sweet entranced After her wand... ... To sport with Amaryllis in the shade, Or with the tangles of Neaera’s hair? Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That last infirmity of...

Excerpt Details
...Excerpt: CANTO I. In the midway of this our mortal life, I found me in a gloomy wood, astray Gone from the path direct: and e?en to tell It were no easy task, how savage wild That forest, how robust and rough its growth, Which to remember only, my dismay Re...

Full Text Search Details
... This publication of The Divine Comedy of Dante Hell , Translated by H.F. Cary , is a publication of the Pe... ...rsity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and i... ...or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Divine Comedy of Dante Hell , Translated by H.F. Cary , the Pennsylvania State Univer... ...Thou he from whom alone I have deriv’d That style, which for its beauty into fame Exalts me. See the beast, from whom I fled. O save me from her, thou... ...ically tun’d her speech address’d: “O courteous shade of Mantua! thou whose fame Yet lives, and shall live long as nature lasts! A friend, not of my ... ...rtain: and their blind life So meanly passes, that all other lots They envy. Fame of them the world hath none, Nor suffers; mercy and justice scorn th... ... source of life and excellence To human kind. But in another path The usurer walks; and Nature in herself And in her follower thus he sets at nought, ... ...nd to tread On equal ground with him, but held my head Bent down, as one who walks in reverent guise. “What chance or destiny,” thus be began, “E... ...d cried; “Now mark how I do rip me! lo! How is Mohammed mangled! before me Walks Ali weeping, from the chin his face Cleft to the forelock; and the ...

Excerpt Details
...Excerpt: Chapter 1. Lakeside was a pleasant little town of five or six thousand inhabitants, and a rather pretty one, too, as towns go in the Far West. It had church accommodations for thirty-five thousand, which is the way of the Far West and the South, where everybody is religio...

Table of Contents Details
.... 134 EDWARD MILLS AND GEORGE BENTON: A TALE...................................................................................... 137 THE FIVE BOONS OF LIFE ................................................................................................................................ 143 THE FIRST WRITING-MACHINES ............................................................

Full Text Search Details
...st and Other Stories by Mark T wain (Samuel L. Clemens) is a publication of the Penn sylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furn... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in ... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18201 1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...s; a palace swarming with liveried ser vants, and populous with guests of fame and power, hailing from all the world’s capitals, foreign and domestic... ... it is merely a duodecimo pamphlet of thirty one pages. It was written for fame and money, as the author very frankly—yes, and very hopefully, too, po... ...er came—no penny of it ever came; and how long, how pathetically long, the fame has been deferred—forty seven years! He was young then, it would have ... ...ark Twain let the tear of anguish roll, she may promenade the delight ful walks of some garden, decorated with all the flowers of nature, or she may ... ...rself. A. Hail, ye solitary ruins of antiquity, ye sacred tombs and silent walks! it is your aid I invoke; it is to you, my soul, wrapt in deep mediat... ...ing to hope for, but everything for fear, which tends to drive me from the walks of time. Oh! in this dead night, if loud winds arise, To lash the sur...

Excerpt Details
...Excerpt: Advertisement. The story of ?Catherine,? which appeared in Fraser?s Magazine in 1839-40, was written by Mr. Thackeray, under the name of Ikey Solomons, Jun., to counteract the injurious influence of some popular fictions of that day, which made heroe...

Full Text Search Details
...cation Catherine: A Story by William Makepeace Thackeray is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...or, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Docu- ment File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...that Miss Catherine was a great beauty, and for about two years, since her fame had begun to spread, the custom of the inn had also increased vastly. ... ...retty little creature is this Madam Catherine. Billets, breakfasts, pretty walks, presents of silks and satins, pass daily between the pair; but, stra... ...ight, if she so inclined, marry another person; and thereby not injure her fame and excite wonderment, but actu- ally add to her reputation. 2. That i...

Excerpt Details
...Excerpt: Preface By Way Of Criticism. These studies are collected from the monthly press. One appeared in the New Quarterly, one in MacMillan?s, and the rest in the Cornhill Magazine. To the Cornhill I owe a double debt of thanks; first, that I was ...

Table of Contents Details
...Contents PREFACE BY WAY OF CRITICISM. ........................................................................................... 4 CHAPTER I ? VICTOR HUGO?S ROMANCES ........................................................................ 15 CHAPTE...

Full Text Search Details
...NSON A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Familiar Studies of Men and Books by Robert Louis Stevenson is a publication of the Pennsylv... ...ity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...r for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Familiar Studies of Men and Books by Robert Louis Stevenson, the Pennsylvania State Universi... ...e and masterly predecessors. These five books would have made a very great fame for any writer, and yet they are but one facade of the monument that V... ...el. In yet another manner did these quaint ways of courtship help him into fame. If he were great as principal, he was unrivalled as confidant. He cou... ... way formidable by himself might grow dangerous and attractive through the fame of his associate. I think we can conceive him, in these early years, i... ...hat he calls “unregenerate poetry;” and does not mean by nature The smooth walks, trimmed hedges, butterflies, posies, and nightingales of the English... ...s of soldiers sometimes at- 172 Robert Louis Stevenson tending him in his walks, subalterns bowing before his periwig; and when he uttered his though... ...sake.” He counted it good fortune to lie a night at Epsom to renew his old walks, “where Mrs. Hely and I did use to walk and talk, with whom I had the...

Excerpt Details
...books* one by Mr. Grant White on England, one on France by the diabolically clever Mr. Hillebrand, may well have set people thinking on the divisions of races and nations. Such thoughts should arise with particular congruity and force to inhabitants of that United Kingdom, peopled from so many different stocks, babbling so many different dialects, and offering in its exten...

Table of Contents Details
...ER VII: THE MANSE .......................................................................................................... 48 CHAPTER VIII: MEMOIRS OF AN ISLET .................................................................................... 53 CHAPTER IX: THOMAS STEVENSON ? CIVIL ENGINEER...................................................... 58 CHAPTER X: TALK AND TA...

Full Text Search Details
...Robert Louis Stevenson (1912 Chatto and Windus edition) is a publica- tion of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furni... ...ity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...rid countenance, bewigged and habited in scarlet, and in his day combining fame and popularity, stood forth, like a taunt, among that company of phant... ..., 21 Memories and Portraits smiled and beckoned from the open window, the fame of that bewigged philosopher melted like a raindrop in the sea. And ye... ... continuous subject. But I worked in other ways also; often accompanied my walks with dramatic dialogues, in which I played many parts; and often exer... ...n the lap of the hill, with its rocks overgrown with clematis, its shadowy walks, and the splendid breadth of champaign that one saw from the north-we... ...ill equipped should have succeeded in one of the most abstract and arduous walks of applied science. The second remark is one that applies to the whol... ...y illustrate the necessity for marking incident than to compare the living fame of Robinson Crusoe with the discredit of Clarissa Harlowe. Clarissa is...

Excerpt Details
...ion: Benjamin Franklin was born in Milk Street, Boston, on January 6, 1706. His father, Josiah Franklin, was a tallow chandler who married twice, and of his seventeen children Benjamin was the youngest son. His schooling ended at ten, and at twelve he was bound apprentice to his brother James, a printer, who published the ?New England Courant.? To this journal he became a ...

Full Text Search Details
...klin with introduction and notes edited by Charles W. Eliot is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furn... ...ersity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. An An An An Any per y per y per y per y person using this do... ...or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin with introduction and notes edited by Charles W. Eli... ...otable service in home politics was his reform of the postal system; but his fame as a statesman rests chiefly on his services in connec tion with th... ...rers of poetry, and began to try their hands in little pieces. Many pleasant walks we four had together on Sundays into the woods, near Schuylkill, wh...