...t any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvani... ...terial contained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Catriona by Robert Louis Stevenson, the Pennsylvania S... ...t of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use o... ...on to with- draw than to come forward, for I was much in fear of mock- ery from the womenkind. You would have thought I had now all the more reason to... ...“Nothing, man! And yet I’m Hieland born, and when the clan pipes, who but me has to dance! The clan and the name, that goes by all. It’s just what you... ..., where a dry old lady sat at a frame of embroidery, and the three handsomest young women (I suppose) in Scotland stood together by a window. “This is... ... are to guess your part of glory if you choose to die. On the one hand, life, wine, women, and a duke to be your handgun: on the other, a rope to your... ...’ green brae, a wee below the chaipel, a’ by his lee lane, and lowped and flang and danced like a daft quean at a waddin’. “It’s T od,” says grandfath... ...ar it skelloch as it span. I hae seen lassies, the daft queans, that would lowp and dance a winter’s nicht, and still be lowping and dancing when the ...

...rles, It is the fate of sequels to disappoint those who have waited for them; and my David, having been left to kick his heels for more than a lustre in the British Linen Company?s office, must expect his late re-appearance to be greeted with hoots, if not with missiles. Yet, when I remember the days of our explorations, I am not without hope. There should be left in our n...

... the 19th century, and for nearly the first half of the 20th century, French women were not allowed to vote, nor to have a bank account or passport/t... ...re Delacroix’s background, and her intellectual rebellion against her place in “proper society.” Everyone I have spoken to has his or her own vision ... ... inspiration. I am also grateful to Paddy Doyle Cathcart, who became Pierre in these pages. Jacket design by James Courtney (c) Sharon E. Cathcart, 2... ...re I was an equestrienne trainer and performer. Horses were frequently used in the operas and Josephine was my gentlest mare, a beautiful Dutch Frie... ... just a hint of a smile. Philippe burst into laughter then. “Are all of the women in Baincthuin like you?” “I suggest, monsieur, that you meet all of... ...omen in Baincthuin like you?” “I suggest, monsieur, that you meet all of the women in Baincthuin and find out.” Philippe’s laughter at my sally was ... ...weigh his forequarters down by sheer force. The stallion continued his wild dance, and yet no one came in response to my cries. Where in the name o... ... dandy. I wondered how I would keep the neighborhood soubrettes and ballet dancers from beating down the door to get at my majordomo. Gilbert finall... ...clubs of Monmartre. I had never been to a follies and seen the singers and dancers there. Again, no one seemed at all shocked at a woman with two ...

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

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...Preface: A Chancery judge once had the kindness to inform me, as one of a company of some hundred and fifty men and women not labouring under any suspicions of lunacy, that the Court of Chancery, though the shining subject of much popular prejudice (at which point I thought the judge?s eye had a cast in my direction), was almost immaculate...

...ge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk . Neither the Pennsylvania State ... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Bleak House by Charles Dickens , the Pennsylvania State Univer... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. C... ...ndness to inform me, as one of a company of some hundred and fifty men and women not labouring under any suspicions of lunacy, that the Court of Chanc... ...er physical proportions. Is a new dress, a new custom, a new singer, a new dancer, a new form of jewellery, a new dwarf or giant, a new chapel, a new ... ...mile. “An orphan. Ain’t she?” “Yes.” “But knows a quantity, I suppose? Can dance, and play music, and sing? She can talk French, I suppose, and do geo... ... and must go down the middle and up again through such an infernal country dance of costs and fees and nonsense and corruption as was never dreamed of... ... ment to a silver tea pot. They took a multitude of titles. They were the Women of England, the Daughters of Brit 103 Bleak House – Dickens ain, th... ...little pond like a large dirt pie. At the doors and win dows some men and women lounged or prowled about, and took little notice of us except to laug...

...Preface: A Chancery judge once had the kindness to inform me, as one of a company of some hundred and fifty men and women not laboring under any suspicions of lunacy, that the Court of Chancery, though the shining subject of much popular prejudice (at which point I thought the judge?s eye had a cast in my direction), was almost immaculate....

...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ained within the document or for the file as an electronic trans- mission, in any way. Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit by Charles Dickens, th... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. C... ...that class of per- sons—since, greatly improved through the agency of good women. 5 Charles Dickens POSTSCRIPT AT A PUBLIC DINNER given to me on Satu... ..., and the slighter branches cracked and rattled as they moved, in skeleton dances, to its moaning mu- sic. The withering leaves no longer quiet, hurri... ...a ha! to the clear fire, which roared in turn, and bade the shining sparks dance gayly to the merry clinking of the hammers on the anvil. The gleaming... ..., and by consequence to make the fire burn the brighter, and the sparks to dance more gayly yet; at length, they whizzed so madly round and round, tha... ...ing quite impossible that any differ- ence of opinion can take place among women without every woman who is within hearing taking active part in it, t... ...ect to; it’s the ways of this chap. Nothing’s good enough for him; all the women is dying for him he thinks, and is overpaid if he winks at ‘em; and a...

...Preface: What is exaggeration to one class of minds and perceptions, is plain truth to another. That which is commonly called a long-sight, perceives in a prospect innumerable features and bearings non-existent to a short-sighted person. I sometimes ask myself whether there may occasionally be a difference of this kind between some writers and some readers; whether it is a...

...HADJI MURAD by Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy First Published in 1904 Translation by Louise and Aylmer Maude A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLAS... ...i Murad by Leo Tolstoy, trans. Louise and Aylmer Maude (original published in 1904) is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portab... ...e of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any pur- pose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...could be clearly heard the guttural voices of disputing men, and sounds of women’ s and children’ s voices rising from near the fountain below . Th... ...an coat, but let his hand drop immediately and became silent on seeing two women enter the saklya. One was Sado’ s wife—the thin middle-aged woman ... ...n, a ewer, and a towel. Sado and Hadji Murad kept silent as long as the women, with their coin ornaments tinkling, moved softly about in their red ... ... s company was composed by a cadet in honor of the regiment, and went to a dance tune. The chorus was: “Verry diff’rent, very diff’rent, Fagers are, F...

...nsylvania State Univer- sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, ... ...associated with the Pennsylvania State University assumes any responsibility for the material contained within the document or for the file as an elec... ..., Faculty Editor, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Document File pro- duced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical ... ...es can keep us in our place. Men, as Miss Howe or Miss Harlowe 8 Robert Louis Stevenson would have said, ‘are such encroachers.’ For my part, I am bo... ...o use for a man to take to the woods; we know him; St. Anthony tried the same thing long ago, and had a pitiful time of it by all ac- counts. But ther... ...ves, and can walk in a high and cold zone with- out the countenance of any trousered being. I declare, al- though the reverse of a professed ascetic, ... ...Inland V oyage ran in a panic, like as many people in a frightened crowd. But what crowd was ever so numerous, or so single- minded? All the objects o... ...or the honour of the thing (in the Scots saying), we might almost as well have been standing still. We lunched on a meadow inside a parallelogram of p...

...is 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 himself for a moment in the portico, hat in hand, and with an urbane demeanour....

...e Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document fil... ...ne associated with the Pennsylvania State University assumes any responsibility for the material contained within the document or for the file as an e... ...Manis, Faculty Editor, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classic... ...then, when it’s done and can’t be helped. In short, Jack, to go back to the old song I was freely quoting at dinner (and who knows old songs better th... ...a quite spontaneous manner, and without the least pretence of reserve. ‘Hah! And what was the feast?’ ‘Tarts, oranges, jellies, and shrimps.’ ‘Any par... ...cries Rosa, laughing with great enjoyment. ‘That was the first thing done.’ ‘I hope she did it pretty well,’ says Edwin rather doubtfully. ‘O, it was ... ...OTHING THE WAY CHAPTER X - SMOOTHING THE WAY CHAPTER X - SMOOTHING THE WAY CHAPTER X - SMOOTHING THE WAY CHAPTER X - SMOOTHING THE WAY IT HAS BEEN OFT... ...viously presented itself to him in a merely inconvenient light, domestically or chronologically. ‘But do you think there may be Ghosts of other things... ...S EVE IN CLOISTERHAM. A few strange faces in the streets; a few other faces, half strange and half familiar, once the faces of Cloisterham children, n...

...English Cathedral tower be here! The well-known massive gray square tower of its old Cathedral? How can that be here! There is no spike of rusty iron in the air, between the eye and it, from any point of the real prospect. What is the spike that intervenes, and who has set it up? Maybe it is set up by the Sultan?s orders for the impaling of a horde of Turkish robbers, one ...

...ch so ere, 17 But falles into abatement, and low price 18 Euen in a minute; so full of shapes is fancie, 19 That it alone, is high f... ... A brothers dead loue, which she would keepe fresh 38 And lasting, in her sad remembrance. 39 Du. O she that hath a heart of that fi... ... 42 Hath kill’d the flocke of all affections else 43 That liue in her. When Liuer, Braine, and Heart, 44 These soueraigne thrones, a... ...emie does much. 685 How easie is it, for the proper false 686 In womens waxen hearts to set their formes: 687 Alas, O frailtie is the c... ...the nose, it is dulcet in contagion. 757 But shall we make the Welkin dance indeed? Shall wee 758 rowze the night- Owle in a Catch, that wil... ...rme, 921 More longing, wauering, sooner lost and worne, 922 Then womens are. 923 Vio. I thinke it well my Lord. - 21 - Twelfe Nigh... ...en thy selfe, 925 Or thy affection cannot hold the bent: 926 For women are as Roses, whose faire flowre 927 Being once displaid, doth f...

...hstanding thy capacitie, Receiveth as the Sea. Nought enters there, Of what validity, and pitch so ere, But falles into abatement, and low price Even in a minute; so full of shapes is fancie, That it alone, is high fantasticall. Cu. Will you go hunt my Lord? Du. What Curio? Cu. The Hart. Du. Why so I do, the Noblest that I have: O when mine eyes did see Olivia first, Me th...

...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Arrow of Gold: A Story between Two Notes, the Pennsylvania ... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. C... ...awing-room where, clearly, he was an object of interest, especially to the women. I had caught his name as Monsieur Mills. The lady who had introduced... ... present. There were more than a dozen people in that drawing-room, mostly women eating fine pastry and talking passionately. It might have been a Car... ...trifle, for her,” Mr. Blunt remarked indifferently. “At that sort of thing women are best. They have less scruples.” “More audacity,” interjected Mr. ... ...g about the streets in the great gusts of mistral that seemed to make them dance like dead leaves on an earth where all joy is watched by death. It wa... ...or twice, by common inspiration, masks rushed forward and forming a circle danced round us uttering discordant shouts of derision; for we were an outr... ...cate the just resentment of those people. We might have also joined in the dance, but for some reason or other it didn’t occur to us; and I heard once...

...illing, 13 Ile vndertake may see away their shilling 14 Richly in two short houres. Onely they 15 That come to heare a Merry, Bawdy ... ...erry, Bawdy Play, 16 A noyse of Targets: Or to see a Fellow 17 In a long Motley Coate, garded with Yellow, 18 Will be deceyu’d. For ... ...’d with the generall throng, and sweat 30 Of thousand Friends: Then, in a moment, see 31 How soone this Mightinesse, meets Misery: 32 ... ...his: 692 His Grace is entring. Nay, you must not freeze, 693 Two women plac’d together, makes cold weather: 694 My Lord Sands, you are... ... touch’d: O Beauty, 772 Till now I neuer knew thee. 773 Musicke, Dance. 774 Card. My Lord. 775 Cham. Your Grace. 776 ... ...as Bullens Daughter, the Viscount Rochford, 799 One of her Highnesse women. 800 Kin. By Heauen she is a dainty one. Sweet heart, 801 ... ...Cham. It was a gentle businesse, and becomming 1269 The action of good women, there is hope 1270 All will be well. 1271 An. Now I pray... ... 2646 or Palme in their hands. They first Conge vnto her, then 2647 Dance: and at certaine Changes, the first two hold a spare 2648 Garland... ...to suffer 3029 A man of his Place, and so neere our fauour 3030 To dance attendance on their Lordships pleasures, 3031 And at the dore too...

...arge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania Stat... ...contained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Don Juan by George Byron , the Pennsylvania State University,... ... ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them,... ...ather. In Seville was he born, a pleasant city, Famous for oranges and women — he Who has not seen it will be much to pity, So says the pr... ...English always use to govern d—n.” Byron’s Don Juan “Canto One” 8 Some women use their tongues — she look’d a lecture, Each eye a sermon, an... ...th an only mother Is brought up much more wisely than another. Sagest of women, even of widows, she Resolved that Juan should be quite a parag... ... Like dervises, who turn as on a pivot, he Perceived it was the Pyrrhic dance so martial, To which the Levantines are very partial. And furth... ...no lack of innocent diversion For the imagination or the senses, Song, dance, wine, music, stories from the Persian, All pretty pastimes in ... ... call— How answers each bold Bacchanal! You have the Pyrrhic dance as yet, Where is the Pyrrhic phalanx gone? Of two...

...?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, to my eye Like ?four and twenty Blackbirds in a pyre....

...arge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State... ...contained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. King Henry VIII, by William Shakespeare, the Pennsylvania St... ... ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in En glish, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of the... ...ENCE: woman to Queen Katharine. Several Lords and Ladies in the Dumb Shows; Women attending upon the Queen; Scribes, Officers, Guards, and other Att... ...ake the charge of this: His grace is entering. Nay, you must not freeze; Two women placed together makes cold weather: My Lord Sands, you are one will... ...usand thanks, and pray ‘em take their pleasures. [They choose Ladies for the dance. KING HENRY VIII chooses ANNE.] KING HENRY VIII : The fairest hand... ...e fairest hand I ever touch’d! O beauty, Till now I never knew thee! [Music. Dance .] CARDINAL WOLSEY : My lord! Chamberlain: Your grace? CARDINAL W... ...e, Sir Thomas Bullen’s daughter— The Viscount Rochford,—one of her highness’ women. KING HENRY VIII : By heaven, she is a dainty one. Sweetheart, I w... ...s; branches of bays or palm in their hands. They first congee unto her, then dance; and, at certain changes, the first two hold a spare garland over ...

... that come to see Only a show or two, and so agree The play may pass, if they be still and willing, I?ll undertake may see away their shilling Richly in two short hours. Only they That come to hear a merry bawdy play, A noise of targets, or to see a fellow In a long motley coat guarded with yellow, Will be deceived; for, gentle hearers, know, To rank our chosen truth with ...

...ge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ... tained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. A Child’s History of England by Charles Dickens , the Pennsylv... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. C... ...e beards, their fresh complexions, and clear eyes. The beauty of the Saxon women filled all En gland with a new delight and grace. I have more to tel... ...nes who were their neighbours. Young and old, babies and soldiers, men and women, every Dane was killed. No doubt there were among them many ferocious... ...were also among them many peaceful Christian Danes who had married English women and become like English men. They were all slain, even to Gunhilda, ... ... a gay, careless, thoughtless fellow, spending all he got on musicians and dancers; but his mother loved him, and often, against the King’s command, s... ...ey were not at their father’s burial? Robert was lounging among minstrels, dancers, and gamesters, in France or Germany. Henry was carrying his five t... ...rank out the three casks of wine; and the Prince and all the noble company danced in the moonlight on the deck of The White Ship. When, at last, she s...

...Excerpt: If you look at a map of the World, you will see, in the left-hand upper corner of the Eastern Hemisphere, two Islands lying in the sea. They are England and Scotland, and Ireland. England and Scotland form the greater part of these Islands. Ireland is the next in size. The ...

...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Egoist by George Meredith, the Pennsylvania State Universit... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. C... ...e, and it deals with human nature in the drawing-room of civilized men and women, where we have no dust of the struggling outer world, no mire, no vio... .... Rich, handsome, courteous, generous, lord of the Hall, the feast and the dance, he ex- cited his guests of both sexes to a holiday of flattery. And,... ...istinctly perceptible. Lady Patterne sent a little Hebe down, skirting the dancers, for an accurate re- port of it; and even the inappreciative lips o... ...ave had the goodness to remark, ladies and dear sirs, he talks charmingly, dances divinely, rides with the air of a com- mander-in-chief, has the most... ... has done with pretending to retire, will walk straight into the hearts of women. Nothing so fatal to them. Self-satisfied it must be. Humbleness does... ...was a widow unmarried a second time, and it has been known of the stedfast women who retain the name of their first husband, or do not ham- per his ti...

...hapter of which the last page only is of any importance comedy is a game played to throw reflections upon social life, and it deals with human nature in the drawing-room of civilized men and women, where we have no dust of the struggling outer world, no mire, no violent crashes, to make the correctness of the representation convincing. Credulity is not wooed through the im...

...le is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her ow... ...s any responsibility for the material contained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. An Essay Concerning Hum... ...e Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access... ...nd customs of their country, know that it is part of the worship of God, not to kill another man; not to know more women than one; not to procure abor... ...ore, and then proceed to more complex ideas. 2. Simple modes of motion. To slide, roll, tumble, walk, creep, run, dance, leap, skip, and abundance of... ...everal modes of thinking. And we may as properly say that it is the singing faculty sings, and the dancing faculty dances, as that the will chooses, o... ... of actual thinking on this or that thing: as the actual singing of such a tune may be the cause of dancing such a dance, and the 228 Human Understan... ... any fur- ther than that does. For, by the first of them, it must be allowed possible that a man born of different women, and in distant times, may be... ...imals and vegetables. What must we do for the rest? But in those too it is not sufficient: for if history lie not, women have conceived by drills; and...

...promised it. It is not that I think any name, how great soever, set at the beginning of a book, will be able to cover the faults that are to be found in it. Things in print must stand and fall by their own worth, or the reader?s fancy....

.................................................................................................................................. 86 Chapter I Of Ideas in general, and their Original .............................................................................................................. 86 Chapter II Of Simple Ideas ........................................................

...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Life of Johnson by James Boswell, abridged and edited with an i... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. C... ...m were inaccessible. He mentions all told more than fifty names of men and women whom he consulted for infor- mation, to which number many others shou... ...pon this, that there is nothing of the old man in my conversa- tion.’ Upon women of all classes and ages he exerts without trying a charm the consciou... ...ous and genial world. The reader there meets a vast number of people, men, women, children, nay even ani- mals, from George the Third down to the cat ... ...he convulsive kind, and of the nature of that distemper called St. Vitus’s dance; and in this opinion I am confirmed by the descrip- tion which Sydenh... ...plication, although per- haps he may never ride three horses at a time, or dance upon a wire, yet he may be equally expert in whatever profession he h... ...hat some players are better than others?’ Johnson. ‘Yes, Sir, as some dogs dance better than oth- ers.’ While Johnson was in France, he was gener- all...

...Preface: In making this abridgement of Boswell?s Life of Johnson I have omitted most of Boswell?s criticisms, comments, and notes, all of Johnson?s opinions in legal cases, most of the letters, and parts of the conversation dealing wi...

...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Captain Brassbound’s Conversion by George Bernard Shaw, the Pen... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. C... .... I’m not a bit afraid of that. RANKIN. But they are not accustomed to see women going about unveiled. LADY CICELY. I always get on best with people w... ... presentation curtsey.) REDBROOK. Sidi el Assif: this is one of the mighty women Sheikhs of Franguestan. She goes unveiled among Kings; and only princ... ...on Kearney’s right). Fortu- nately not, Captain Kearney. Half a dozen such women would make an end of law in England in six months. 61 Captain Brassb... ...om, free and unobserved, go straight out of their senses. They laugh; they dance; they embrace one another; they set to partners and waltz clumsily; t... ...becomes as it were a whirling dervish, and executes so miracu- lous a clog dance that the others gradually cease their slower antics to stare at him. ...

...Excerpt: ACT I. On the heights overlooking the harbor of Mogador, a seaport on the west coast of Morocco, the missionary, in the coolness of the late afternoon, is following the precept of Voltaire by cultivating his garden. He is an elderly Scotchman, spiritually a little weather beaten, as having to navigate his creed in strange waters crowded...

... "low-brow pop surrealism" as it was known back then. Like the French film scholars who codified Film Noir as a genre years after the movies were in the theaters, I could see a similar thread binding the dieselpunk work together. Whether they realized it or not, these artists were creating work with eerily similar concepts. They were creating a future fueled by the s...

...THE 1920s. MID-WESTERN COMMONWEALTH, CHICAGO. “Well if it ain’t that then what was it?” “It was all those damn fool bankers in New York.” “Bankers?” “Yeah, bankers. They’re the ones who caused everything that’s happened. A huge pack of New York bankers got greedy. And the country was the one to cop it in the teeth when it all headed south.” ...

...Welcome to the Retro Future That Sort of World: A Tale of the Aether Age Pandora Driver: Who are the People in Your Neighborhood The Troubleshooter: What the Wise Man Says The World of Mañana: A Friend of Spirits Last Call...

...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Familiar Studies of Men and Books by Robert Louis Stevenson, th... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. C... ............................. 170 CHAPTER IX – JOHN KNOX AND HIS RELATIONS TO WOMEN .................................. 190 4 Robert Louis Stevenson Fami... ... irregularity and the too frequent vanity and meanness of his relations to women. Hence, in the eyes of many, my study was a step towards the demonstr... ...dramatic author has to paint his beaches with real sand: real live men and women move about the stage; we hear real voices; what is feigned merely put... ...e place joined in a penny ball, according to their custom. In the same set danced Jean Armour, the mas- ter-mason’s daughter, and our dark-eyed Don Ju... ...world. There is no prophet but the melancholy Jacques, and the blue devils dance on all our literary wires. It would be a poor service to spread cultu... ... who helped his father to waste the revenues of France. He had seen ladies dance on into broad daylight, and much burning of torches and waste of dain...

...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 received there in the very best society, and under the eye of the very best of ...

...MUEL PEPYS .......................................................................................... 170 CHAPTER IX ? JOHN KNOX AND HIS RELATIONS TO WOMEN .................................. 190...