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...Excerpt: ENVOI. Felix de Vandenesse to Madame la Comtesse Natalie de Manerville: I yield to your wishes. It is the privilege of the women whom we love more than they love us to make the men who love them ignore the ordinary rules of common-sense. To smooth the frown upon their brow, to soften the pout upon their lips, what obstacles we miraculously...

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...Excerpt: The Famous History of the Life of King Henry the Eighth; THE PROLOGUE -- I Come no more to make you laugh, Things now, That beare a Weighty, and a Serious Brow, Sad, high, and working, full of State and Woe: Such Noble Scoenes, as draw the Eye ...

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...The Famous History of the Life of King HENRY the Eight. by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Based on the Folio Tex... ... King HENRY the Eight. by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Based on the Folio Text of 1623 DjVu Editions E-books ' 2001, Global Language Resources, Inc.... ...Come no more to make you laugh, Things now, 3 That beare a Weighty, and a Serious Brow, 4 Sad, high, and working, full of State and Woe:... ...eere finde Truth too. Those that come to see 11 Onely a show or two, and so agree, 12 The Play may passe: If they be still, and willing, ... ...id of me demand 500 What was the speech among the Londoners, 501 Concerning the French Iourney. I replide, 502 Men feare the French wou... ... 884 2. All the Commons 885 Hate him perniciously, and o’ my Conscience 886 Wish him ten faddom deepe: This Duke as much 887 T... ...d by that name must dye; yet Heauen beare witnes, 901 And if I haue a Conscience, let it sincke me, 902 Euen as the Axe falls, if I be not f... ...ouncell? 3044 Crom. Please your Honours, 3045 The chiefe cause concernes his Grace of Canterbury. 3046 Gard. Ha’s he had knowledg... ..., 3405 Vnder his owne Vine what he plants; and sing 3406 The merry Songs of Peace to all his Neighbours. 3407 God shall be truely knowne, ...

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...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...

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...arden sung, By one mans disobedience lost, now sing Recover?d Paradise to all mankind, By one mans firm obedience fully tri?d Through all temptation, and the Tempter foil?d In all his wiles, defeated and repuls?t, And Eden rais?d in the wast Wilderness. Thou Spirit who ledst this glorious Eremite Into the Desert, his Victorious Field Against the Spiritual Foe, and broughts...

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... 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...

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...Excerpt: Much adoe about Nothing; Actus Primus -- Scena Prima -- Enter Leonato Governour of Messina, Innogen his wife, Hero his daughter, and Beatrice his Neece, with a messenger. Leonato. I learne in this Letter, that Don Peter of Arragon, comes this night to Messina. Mess. He is very neere by this: he was not t...

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...Much adoe about Nothing. by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Based on the Folio Text of 1623 DjVu Editions E-books ' 2001, Global Language Resources, Inc.... ...s ' 2001, Global Language Resources, Inc. Shakespeare: First Folio Table of Contents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Much adoe about Nothing .... ...onato Gouernour of Messina, Innogen his wife, He-ro 3 his daughter, and Beatrice his Neece, with a messenger. 4 Leonato. 5 I ... ... you lost in this 10 action? 11 Mess. But few of any sort, and none of name. 12 Leon. A victorie is twice it selfe, when the... ...sted on neither, ere you flout 277 old ends any further, examine your conscience, and so I 278 leaue you. Exit. 279 Clau. My Liege... ...se you, yet Count Claudio may heare, 1284 for what I would speake of, concernes him. 1285 Prin. What’s the matter? 1286 Basta. Me... ...me, therfore is it most expedient for the wise, 2501 if Don worme (his conscience) finde no impediment to 2502 the contrarie, to be the trumpe... ...t, 2535 Those that slew thy virgin knight, 2536 For the which with songs of woe, 2537 Round about her tombe they goe: 2538 Midnight as...

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