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

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........................198 KING PEST .................................................................................................221 THREE SUNDAYS IN A WEEK...............................................................232...

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...THE WORKS OF EDGAR ALLAN POE IN FIVE VOLUMES Volume Three A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Public... ...State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Works of Edgar Allan Poe in Five Volumes: Volume Three is a publication of the Pennsylva- nia State ... ...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... ...ressed by the title Wampoo. These, too, were the tenants of the black skin palaces. That of 134 Poe in Five V olumes Too-wit was situated in the cent... ...d the body preserved for the purpose of stuffing the skin and taking it to England. I remember he had given some directions about it just before our m... ...hall not name, in one of the wildest and least frequented portions of fair England. The gloomy and dreary grandeur of the building, the almost savage ... ...this eventful tale, and periodically, for many years before and after, all England, but more especially the metropolis, resounded with the fearful cry...

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.................................................................... 20 CANTO VI. Justinian tells of his own life.?The story of the Roman Eagle.?Spirits in the planet Mercury.? Romeo.................................................................................................................................................................... 23 CANTO VII. Discourse of Beat...

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...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 Divine Comedy, Volume Three, Paradise [Paradiso] by Dante A... ...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... ...gs,—Margaret, to Louis IX. of France, St. Louis; Eleanor, to Henry III. of England; Sanzia, to Richard, Earl of Cornwall (brother of Henry III.), elec... ...married so young as now, nor were such great dowries required for them. 9 Palaces too large for their occupants, built for ostentation. 10 The luxur...

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...la and his song.?Cato hurries the souls to the mountain. ................................. 10 CANTO III. Ante-Purgatory.?Souls of those who have died in contumacy of the Church.? Manfred. ............. 13 CANTO IV. Ante-Purgatory.?Ascent to a shelf of the mountain.?The negligent, who postponed repentance to the last hour.?Belacqua. ............................................

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...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 Divine Comedy, Volume Two, Purgatory [Purgatorio] by Dante ... ...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... ...sband. 15 See the King of the simple life sit- ting there alone, Henry of England; he in his branches hath a better issue. 16 That one who lowest am... ...ampo of Siena is her chief public square and mar- ketplace, set round with palaces. The friend of Provinzano is said by the old commentators to have f...

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...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. Five Books of the Lives, Heroic Deeds and Sayings of Gargantua ... ...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... ... played before Popes, who were not a whit 9 Rabelais embarrassed. Even in England the drama went very far for a time, and the comic authors of the re... ... modify them, and make of them creations of their own, like Shakespeare in England, Moliere and La Fontaine in France, may be superior to those who ha... ...great a work, and he who does so runs a great risk of burning his fingers. England has been less daring, and her modesty and discre- tion have brought... ...lly their residence in these mean homely mansions as in sumptuous magnific palaces, replenished with all manner of delight, pomp, and pleasure. I with... ... Florence, the structure of the dome, the magnificence of the churches and palaces, we strove to outdo one another in giving them their due; when a ce...

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... is divided into seven parts. First we have Tales for Children, published about the year 1872, and reminding us of the time when Tolstoy was absorbed in efforts to educate the peasant children. This section of the book contains the two stories which of all that he has written Tolstoy likes best. In What is Art? he claims no place among examples of good art for any of his o...

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...Contents PREFACE....3 GOD SEES THE TRUTH, BUT WAITS ....5 A PRISONER IN THE CAUCASUS ....13 THE BEAR-HUNT ....40 WHAT MEN LIVE BY ....49 A SPARK NEGLECTED ....71 TWO OLD MEN ....86 WHERE LOVE IS, ....109 THE STORY OF IV?N THE FOOL, .....122 EVIL ALLURES, BUT GOOD ENDURES ....149 LITTLE GIRLS W...

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...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 religious, and where each of the Protestant sects is represented and has a plant of it...

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...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. The $30,000 Bequest and Other Stories by Mark T wain (Samuel L... ...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, a... ...and stately lords and la dies in the flash and stir and splendor of noble palaces and grim and ancient castles. CHAPTER II NOW CAME GREAT NEWS! Stun... ...t line means that the Italian sovereigns are coming back—they have been to England. The second line seems to mean that they enlarged the King at the I... ...eleventh century, when our people were living in Aberdeen, county of Cork, England. Why it is that our long line has ever since borne the maternal nam... ...of October 8th, reviews his book of travels, which has been republished in England, and reviews it seri ously. We can imagine the delight of the humo...

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...shed by the number 36, without too much deliberation. ?Your hat, sir, if you please?? a thin, querulous voice called out. A little old man, crouching in the darkness behind a railing, suddenly rose and exhibited his features, carved after a mean design....

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...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 Magic Skin by Honore de Balzac, trans. Ellen Marriage, the ... ...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... ...ndertake anything; whose perspicacity discovers the intentions of Austria, England, or Russia be- fore either Russia, Austria or England have formed a... ... straw into diamonds for us; and for us, at a touch of her wand, enchanted palaces arise, as flowers in the meadows spring up towards the sun. “Toward... ...es in the fertile pasture-lands of Germany, at T oplitz or Baden-Baden. If England is not obnoxious to you, its misty climate would reduce your fever;...

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...some person who contributes to the case mainly a certain amount of criticism and interpretation of it. Again and again, on review, the shorter things in especial that I have gathered into this Series have ranged themselves not as my own impersonal account of the affair in hand, but as my account of somebody?s impression of it--the terms of this person?s access to it and es...

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...erson who contributes to the case mainly a certain amount of criticism and in terpretation of it. Again and again, on review, the shorter things in e... ...ries have ranged themselves not as my own impersonal account of the affair in hand, but as my account of somebody’s impression of it—the terms of this... ...ness—that is, as I say, its effective interest—enriched by the way. I have in other words constantly inclined to the idea of the particular attaching ... ...heir Mecca, but this is their first real caravan; they’ve mainly known ‘old England’ as a shop for articles in india rubber and leather, in which they’... ... handsome one, so that many things were easy. Charlotte left them, came to England, ‘joined’ somebody or other, sailed or New York. I have still her l... ...s; a connexion with many things: with her old Rome, and with his; with the palaces of his past and, a little, of hers; with the possibilities of his f... ...rn from their twenty months in America, as since their settlement again in England, experimental though it was, and the consequent sense, now quite es...

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...ing fed; Grey Truth is now her painted toy; Yet still she turns her restless head: But O, sick children of the world, Of all the many changing things In dreary dancing past us whirled, To the cracked tune that Chronos sings, Words alone are certain good. Where are now the warring kings, Word be-mockers?--By the Rood, Where are now the watring kings? An idle word is now the...

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... -- THE INDIAN TO HIS LOVE, 11 -- THE FALLING OF THE LEAVES, 12 -- EPHEMERA, 13 -- THE MADNESS OF KING GOLL, 13 -- THE STOLEN CHILD, 16 -- TO AN ISLE IN THE WATER, 17 -- DOWN BY THE SALLEY GARDENS, 18 -- THE MEDITATION OF THE OLD FISHERMAN, 18 -- THE BALLAD OF FATHER O?HART, 19 -- THE BALLAD OF MOLL MAGEE, 20 -- THE BALLAD OF THE FOXHUNTER, 22 -- THE ROSE 26 -- TO THE ROSE...

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...EN CHILD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 TO AN ISLE IN THE WATER . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 DOWN BY THE SAL... .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37 THE COUNTESS CATHLEEN IN PARADISE . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37 WHO GOES WITH FERGUS? . . . . . . ... ... TO SOME I HA VE TALKED WITH BY THE FIRE . . . . . . . . . . 44 TO IRELAND IN THE COMING TIMES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45 THE WIND AMONG THE R... ...ghtfall? No, no, not night but death; Was it needless death after all? For England may keep faith For all that is done and said. We know their dream; ... .... And here’s a cogent reason, And I have many more, He fought the might of England And saved the Irish poor, Whatever good a farmer’s got He brought i... ... their happiness Must end at the dumb stone? But where we build Our sudden palaces in the still air Pleasure itself can bring no weariness. Nor can ti...

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...tant period, it might possibly be unpleasing to the feelings of the descendants of the parties. But as he finds an account of the circumstances given in the Notes to Law?s Memorials, by his ingenious friend, Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe, Esq., and also indicated in his reprint of the Rev. Mr. Symson?s poems appended to the Large Description of Galloway, as the original of th...

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...Excerpt: How much is conveyed in those two short words--?The Parish!? And with how many tales of distress and misery, of broken fortune and ruined hopes, too often of unrelieved wretchedness and successful knavery, are they associated! A poor man, with sm...

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...Excerpt: How much is conveyed in those two short words--?The Parish!? And with how many tales of distress and misery, of broken fortune and ruined hopes, too often of unrelieved wretchedness and successful knavery, are they associated! A poor man, with sm...

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... at least briefly, on the life of Saint Theresa, has not smiled with some gentleness at the thought of the little girl walking forth one morning hand-in-hand with her still smaller brother, to go and seek martyrdom in the country of the Moors? Out they toddled from rugged Avila, wide-eyed and helpless-looking as two fawns, but with human hearts, already beating to a nation...

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...Middlemarch George Eliot 1872 To my dear Husband, George Henry Lewes, in this nineteenth year of our blessed union. Contents Book I — Miss Brook... ...entleness at the thought of the little girl walking forth one morning hand in hand with her still smaller brother, to go and seek martyrdom in the cou... ...earts, already beating to a national idea; until domestic reality met them in the shape of uncles, and turned them back from their great resolve. That... ...t older: I should see how it was possible to lead a grand life here—now—in England. I don’t feel sure about doing good in any way now: everything seem... ...unning. In fact, much the same sort of movement and mixture went on in old England as we find in older Herodotus, who also, in telling what had been, t... ...couple of minutes, when my cousin introduced her to me, just before I left England. They were not married then. I didn’t know they were coming to Rome... ...othea had no such de fence against deep impressions. Ruins and basilicas, palaces and colossi, set in the midst of a sordid present, where all that w...

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... at least briefly, on the life of Saint Theresa, has not smiled with some gentleness at the thought of the little girl walking forth one morning hand-in-hand with her still smaller brother, to go and seek martyrdom in the country of the Moors? Out they toddled from rugged Avila, wide-eyed and helpless-looking as two fawns, but with human hearts, already beating to a nation...

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