...Classics Series Publication Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ...State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone associated with the Pennsylvania State University assumes any responsibility for the materi... ... more real cold 25 Sinclair Lewis weather now.” “No, but still, there was snow at Tiflis, Montana, yester- day,” said the Scholar, “and you remember ... ...ou remember the blizzard they had out West three days ago—thirty inches of snow at Greeley, Colorado—and two years ago we had a snow- squall right her... ...eas and been scratching its varnish off.” Mrs. Babbitt said abstractedly, “Snoway talkcher father.” Babbitt raged, “If you’re too much of a high-class... ... one hundred and five years old, with two hundred thousand population, the queen and wonder of all the state and, to the Catawba boy, George Babbitt, ... ...onestly I thought the fried chicken was delicious!” “You bet! Fried to the Queen’s taste. Best fried chicken 115 Sinclair Lewis I’ve tasted for a coo... ... ask your permission to go with me? You act like you were a combination of Queen Victoria and Cleopatra. You fool, can’t you see how people snicker at...

...Excerpt: Chapter 1. The towers of Zenith aspired above the morning mist; austere towers of steel and cement and limestone, sturdy as cliffs and delicate as silver rods. They were neither citadels nor churches, but frankly and beautifully office-...

... by Miguel de Cervantes, trans. John Ormsby (1922 ed.) is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnishe... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ...State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone associated with the Pennsylvania State University assumes any responsibility for the materi... ...tion of verses by different hands on the death of Isabel de Valois, second queen of Philip II, published by the professor in 1569, to which Cervantes ... ...From many a rascally and ruffian crew. If the fair Dulcinea, your heart’s queen, Be unrelenting in her cruelty, If still your woe be powerless t... ...r heard of, and one moreover so much to the prejudice of the Empresses and Queens of the Alcarria and Estremadura, your worship will be pleased to sho... ...u hast all too plainly shown That thy heart is brass in hardness, And thy snowy bosom stone. Yet for all that, in thy coyness, And thy fickle fits b... ...earls, her neck alabaster, her bosom marble, her hands ivory, her fairness snow, and what modesty conceals from sight such, I think and imagine, as ra... ...ey administered to him one of those things they call clysters, of sand and snow- water, that well-nigh finished him; and if he had not been succoured ...

...ree by THOMAS CARLYLE A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The French Revolution: A History (Volume Three) by Thomas Carlyle is a publ... ...Revolution: A History (Volume Three) by Thomas Carlyle is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... .... Crowding and Confusion; jostle, hurry, vehemence and terror! Of the poor Queen’s Friends, who had followed her to the Temple and been committed else... ...wer, “You have not far to go.” She too is led to the hell-gate; a manifest Queen’s-Friend. She shivers back, at the sight of bloody sabres; but there ... ...mbardement de Lille (in Hist. Parl. xx. 63-71).) The Austrian Archduchess (Queen’s Sister) will herself see red artillery fired; in their over-haste t... ...ve Foster, brave Lux planted Liberty-trees, amid ca-ira- ing music, in the snow-slush of last winter, there: and made Jacobin Societies; and got the T... ...ious: these are our three Autumn months. Nivose, Pluviose, Ventose, or say Snowous, Rainous, Windous, make our Winter season. Germinal, Floreal, Prair... ...ve built their nest in the rocks. Meanwhile, Frostarious is not yet become Snowous or Nivose, when a Council of War is called; Instructions have 194 ...

Excerpt: The French Revolution. A History (Volume Three).

...Contents VOLUME III. THE GUILLOTINE................................................................................................................................. 6 BOOK 3.I. SEPTEMBER ..............................................................

...ted by Ellen Marriage A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Collection of Antiquities by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Ellen Marriage is... ...Antiquities by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Ellen Marriage is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ...f the moment, only to be annulled later on. And, therefore, so far from co-operating with the King to bring about a new condition of things, the Marqu... ...ast recall. The death of a king on the scaffold, the protracted agony of a queen, the division of the nobles’ lands, in his eyes were so many binding ... ...stre; with such arms you may hold your head high everywhere, and aspire to queens. Render grace to your father, as I to mine. We owe it to the honor o... ...h the Marquise d’Espard, with whom she disputed her fragile sovereignty as queen of fashion. Great relations lent her countenance for a long while, bu... ...turning to de Marsay. “What a virginal toilette; what swan’s grace in that snow-white throat of hers! How white her gown is, and she is wearing a sash... ... (to use an expression now in vogue) to have a soul as white as new fallen snow on the highest Alpine crests. How had she solved in such short space t...

...Excerpt: Dear Baron, you have taken so warm an interest in my long, vast ?History of French Manners in the Nineteenth Century,? you have given me so much encouragement to persevere with my work, that you have given me a right to associate your name with some portion of it. Are you not one of the most important representatives ...

...The Confessions of J. J. Rousseau by Jean Jacques Rousseau THE CONFESSIONS OF JEAN JACQUES ROUSSEAU (In 12 books) Privately Printed fo... ...E CONFESSIONS OF JEAN JACQUES ROUSSEAU (In 12 books) Privately Printed for the Members of the Aldus Society London, 1903 A Penn State Electronic Class... ... Society London, 1903 A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Confessions of J. J. Rousseau by Jean Jacques Rousseau, trans. S. W. Or... ...ining there. He took me to the Count de Gauvon, Master of the Horse to the Queen, and Chief of the illustrious House of Solar. The air of dignity cons... ...ld have put both legs into either of them, and, to secure himself from the snow, a little hat, only fit to be carried under his arm. With this whimsic... ...eturn of spring seemed to me like rising from the grave into paradise. The snow was hardly off the ground when we left our dungeon and returned to Cha... ...y other nation, that the Marquis de Scotti, brother to the favorite of the Queen of Spain, having asked for a passport without taking notice of the se... ...t of decency as an act of courage, I entered the theatre wherein the king, queen, the royal family, and the whole court were to enter immediately afte... ...for me. Although the weather was cold, and the ground lightly covered with snow, the earth began to vegetate: violets and primroses already made their...

...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 absolutis...

...e by Miquel de Cervantes, trans. John Ormsby, 1922 ed. is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnishe... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ...State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone associated with the Pennsylvania State University assumes any responsibility for the materi... ...tion of verses by different hands on the death of Isabel de Valois, second queen of Philip II, published by the professor in 1569, to which Cervantes ... ...From many a rascally and ruffian crew. If the fair Dulcinea, your heart’s queen, Be unrelenting in her cruelty, If still your woe be powerless t... ...r heard of, and one moreover so much to the prejudice of the Empresses and Queens of the Alcarria and Estremadura, your worship will be pleased to sho... ...u hast all too plainly shown That thy heart is brass in hardness, And thy snowy bosom stone. 103 Cervantes – Ormsby’s 1922 ed. Yet for all that, in ... ...earls, her neck alabaster, her bosom marble, her hands ivory, her fairness snow, 115 Cervantes – Ormsby’s 1922 ed. and what modesty conceals from sig... ...ey administered to him one of those things they call clysters, of sand and snow- water, that well-nigh finished him; and if he had not been succoured ...

...ublication Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Uni- versity. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor any- o... ...ate University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor any- one associated with the Pennsylvania State University assumes any responsibility for the materi... ... eyes downwards. She was dressed in white, with bare shoulders as white as snow—the picture of youth, unprotected innocence, and humble virgin simplic... ...oubly keen 38 V anity Fair the midnight blast, And doubly cold the fallen snow. They mark’d him as he onward prest, With fainting heart and weary lim... ...wing to love her friend for ever and ever and ever. CHAPTER VII Crawley of Queen’s Crawley AMONG THE MOST RESPECTED of the names beginning in C which ... ... year 18—, was that of Crawley, Sir Pitt, Baronet, Great Gaunt Street, and Queen’s Crawley, Hants. This honourable name had figured constantly also in... ...sat in turns for the borough. It is related, with regard to the borough of Queen’s Crawley, that Queen Elizabeth in one of her progresses, stopping at... ...: he’s shearing a Southdown. What an in- nocent mutton, hey? Damme, what a snowy fleece!” Rebecca’s eyes shot out gleams of scornful humour. “My lord,...

... WITH NO WITH NO WITH NO WITH NO WITH NOTES BY TES BY TES BY TES BY TES BY THE THE THE THE THE RE RE RE RE REV V V V V. . . . . THEODORE AL THEODORE A... ....A. .S.A. .S.A. .S.A. A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The Iliad of Homer, trans. Alexander Pope with notes by the Rev. Theodore A... ...s by the Rev. Theodore Alois Buckley, M. A., F . S. A. is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...(what I can) to move thy suit I’ll go To great Olympus crown’d with fleecy snow. Meantime, secure within thy ships, from far Behold the field, not min... ...tand, while Jove assumes the throne, 71 Pope All, but the god’s imperious queen alone: Late had she view’d the silver-footed dame, And all her passio... ... for Greece I fear: for late was seen, In close consult, the silver-footed queen. Jove to his Thetis nothing could deny, Nor was the signal vain that ... ... vain resists the omnipotence of Jove.” The thunderer spoke, nor durst the queen reply; A reverent horror silenced all the sky. The feast disturb’d, w... ...pasture rove; And Stymphelus with her surrounding grove; Parrhasia, on her snowy cliffs reclined, And high Enispe shook by wintry wind, And fair Manti... ...nds In forty barks Eurypylus commands. Where Titan hides his hoary head in snow, And where Hyperia’s silver fountains flow. Thy troops, Argissa, Polyp...

Excerpt: The Iliad of Homer, translated by Alexander Pope with notes by the Rev. Theodore Alois Buckley, M.A., F.S.A.

... of Two Brides by Honoré de Balzac, trans. R. S. Scott is a publication of the Pennsyl- vania State University. This Portable Document file is furnish... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ...State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone associated with the Pennsylvania State University assumes any responsi- bility for the mate... ...ll command respect. Or I can let my eyes fall and my heart freeze under my snowy brows. I can pose as a Madonna with melancholy, swan-like neck, and t... ...be Mme. de l’Estorade; for, dear, I have made a good impression. After the snows of Siberia a man is ready enough to see merit in those black eyes, wh... ...- sided existence which awaits a young lady of the Chaulieu family, and to queen it in Paris, your poor little sweetheart, Renee, that child of the de... ...ust come to Paris. There we shall drive the men wild and hold a court like queens. Your husband, sweetheart, in three years from now may become a memb... ...some poor devil of a valet who gave up his life for a single glance from a queen of Spain. “What could he do but die?” I exclaimed. This delighted him... ...in, for thou hast robbed The heavens of all that made them bright. The snowy sparkle of the moon is on thy lovely brow, Heaven’s azure centres i...

...nce on my book, can gain no new glory from this page. And yet it is neither self-interest nor diffidence which has led me to place it there, but only the wish that it should bear witness to the solid friendship between us, which has survived our wanderings and separations, and triumphed over the busy malice of the world....

...e A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Omoo: Adventures in the South Seas by Herman Melville is a publication of the Pennsylvania Stat... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor any- o... ...ate University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor any- one associated with the Pennsylvania State University assumes any responsibility for the mate- ... ... again to return; for, on account of the pain, only a small surface can be operated upon at once; and as the whole body is to be more or less embellis... ...s, no doubt, a short time since came tinder the allegiance of Pomaree, the Queen of Tahiti; with which island they always carried on considerable inte... ...en a desire to revenge the con- tumely heaped upon him the night previous, operating upon a heart irreclaimably savage, and at no time fraternally dis... ... and Merenhout they bitterly detested. In several interviews with the poor queen, the unfeeling governor sought to terrify her into compliance with hi... ...ar-admiral’s departure, no overt act of violence immediately followed. The queen had fled to Imeeo; and the dissensions among the chiefs, together wit... ...ds and mosses. In some places, you look through prickly branches down to a snow-white floor of sand, sprout- ing with flinty bulbs; and crawling among...

Excerpt: Omoo: Adventures in the South Seas by Herman Melville.

...s by H. G. Wells A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication When the Sleeper Wakes by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania State... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ...State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone associated with the Pennsylvania State University assumes any responsibility for the mate- ... ...p, must be dead.” 24 When the Sleeper Wakes They did not answer him. “The Queen and the Royal Family, her Ministers, of Church and State. High and lo... ...clear small voices. It was exactly like reality viewed through an inverted opera glass and heard through a long tube. His interest was seized at once ... ...he darkness came again. Warmed and lit as he was, he perceived that it was snowing within a few feet of him. Graham walked across the room and came ba... ...n some metallic substance, effort, voices, and the vans stopped. A gust of snowflakes whirled into the room, and vanished before they touched the floo... ...nearly inverted to Graham; his dark hair was wet with dissolving flakes of snow upon it. His arm went up into the darkness holding something unseen. H... ...a proteus—hundreds of banks, compa- nies, syndicates, masked the Council’s operations—that it was already far advanced before common men suspected the...

Excerpt: When the Sleeper Wakes by H. G. Wells.

... The Uncommercial Traveller by Charles Dick... ...ument file 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 o... ...t file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor a... ...my life, a minute before, and had traversed two hundred miles to get at it. That very morning I had come bowling down, and struggling up, hill-country... ...ttle church, at a cheery pace, among the loose stones, the deep mud, the wet coarse grass, Charles Dickens 8 the outlying water, and other obstructio... ...en very successful abroad, and was now returning to fulfil his sacred vow; he brought all his property with him in gold uninsured. We heard from him w... ...ile Jack. Alas for me! I have long outgrown the state of sweet little cherub; but there I was, and there Mercantile Jack was, and very busy he was, an... ...ed hat a hundred years ago, I make selection of a church oddly put away in a corner among a number of lanes—a smaller church than the last, and an ugl... ... more or less in the condition of those inside it, every night of our lives? Are we not nightly persuaded, as they daily are, that we associate prepos...

Excerpt: The Uncommercial Traveler by Charles Dickens.

...The Poems of Goethe Translated in the original metres by Edgar Alfred Bowring A Penn State Electronic Classic... ... Edgar Alfred Bowring A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Poems of Goethe, trans. Edgar Alfred Bowring is a publication of the Pe... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor any- o... ...bodice is longer, My petticoat round. My hat now is yellow. My bodice like snow; The clover to sickle With others I go. Something pretty, e’er long Mi... ...t nought can still! 1775.* 77 Goethe Restless Love. THROUGH rain, through snow, Through tempest go! ‘Mongst streaming caves, O’er misty waves, On, on... ...eturns my eager wish In her arms to revel yet! 1815. 99 Goethe March. THE snow-flakes fall in showers, The time is absent still, When all Spring’s be... ...the rose. Poor knight of high estate! Thou hast in truth a lofty mind; The queen of flowers is then enshrin’ d, I doubt not, in thy bosom. COUNT . Thy... ...reary. HE. Dreams of old acquaintance now pass through me, Ne’er-forgotten queen of hours of blisses. 174 Goethe Likenesses I’ve often found, but thi... ... he say to it all, I wonder? 1803.* 176 Goethe EFFECTS AT A DISTANCE. THE QUEEN in the lofty hall takes her place, The tapers around her are flaming;...

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

...Contents The Translator?s Original Dedication to the Countess Granville. ..................................................................................... 17 Original Preface. .........................................................

...ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION Put Title Here is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ...State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone associated with the Pennsylvania State University assumes any responsibility for the materi... ...an only be conceived by those who remember to have crossed vast deserts of snow without other perspective than a snow horizon, without other drink tha... ...ow without other perspective than a snow horizon, without other drink than snow, without other bed than snow, without other food than snow or a few fr... ...sible like a stain now black, now flam- ing, in the midst of the trackless snow,—this shot and shell seemed to the torpid creatures only one inconveni... ... of the “vivandieres”? Was she a charming woman, the glory of a lover, the queen of Parisian salons? Alas! even the eye of her most devoted friend cou... ...to see her always a savage, devoid even of modesty, to see her—” “You want opera madness, do you? something picturesque and pleasing,” said the doctor...

...Excerpt: An Old Monastery. ?COME, deputy of the Centre, forward! Quick step! march! if we want to be in time to dine with the others. Jump, marquis! there, that?s right! why, you can skip across a stubble-field like a deer!?...

...rtesan’s Life by Honoré de Balzac, trans. James Waring is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ...State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone associated with the Pennsylvania State University assumes any responsibility for the materi... ...s ears. “And where would the empire of the Caesars have been but for these queens?” Blondet went on; “Lais and Rhodope are Greece and Egypt. They all ... ...o let in France which is for her who can fill it. We among us could make a queen. I should have given La Torpille an aunt, for her mother is too decid... ... trust her with your purse or your secrets. But what made me choose her as queen is her Bourbon-like indifference for a fallen favorite.” “She, like h... ...hu- man nature, but his calmness was terrible in its rigidity; a cold alp, snow-bound and near to heaven, impenetrable and frown- ing, with flanks of ... ...hite neckcloth was fastened behind by a small gold buckle. Finally, on his snowy and powdered hair, he still, in 1816, wore the municipal cocked hat w... ...revised the minutes of the examinations, washing the prisoners as white as snow. “T o-morrow, Rastignac, Bianchon, and some others are to be confronte...

...ine Prescott Wormeley A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Brotherhood of Consolation by Honore de Balzac, trans. Katharine Presco... ...y Honore de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ...n spite of the sacred character his functions gave him, to regard her as a queen. Godefroid also noticed their sobriety. Each seemed to eat only for n... ...by day he loved the woman more; he dis- covered flowers buried beneath the snows of winter in her 36 The Brotherhood of Consolation heart; he had gli... ..., and Mongenod evidently had no cloak; for I noticed that several lumps of snow, which must have dropped from the roofs as he walked along, were stick... ...e three acres on the rue Notre-Dame des Champs, a tall, spare old man with snow-white hair appeared at the end of the street which leads into the squa... ...elped you in all this?” “ A gentleman, whom we think is employed to do the queen’s benefits.” “What is he like?” “Well, he is of medium height; rather... ...nce suffered with me.” “And you say you think that gentleman came from the queen?” “Oh! I am sure you know him, I see it in your face,” cried Vanda, n...

...Excerpt: The malady of the age. On a fine evening in the month of September, 1836, a man about thirty years of age was leaning on the parapet of that quay from which a spectator can look up the Seine from the Jardin des Plantes to Not...

...y Nathaniel Hawthorne A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Blithedale Romance by Nathaniel Hawthorne is a publication of the Pen... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ...State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone associated with the Pennsylvania State Uni versity assumes any responsibility for the mate... ...ld farmhouse, on an April afternoon, but with the fitful gusts of a wintry snowstorm roaring in the chimney. Vividly does that fireside re create itse... ... constructed any better imitation of Eve’s bower than might be seen in the snow hut of an Esquimaux. But we made a summer of it, in spite of the wild ... ...ultriness of its individual furnace— heat. But towards noon there had come snow, driven along the street by a northeasterly blast, and whitening the r... ... however humble looked her new philosophy, had as much native pride as any queen would have known what to do with. III. A KNO III. A KNO III. A KNO II... ...ly sim plicity of her dress could not conceal, nor scarcely diminish, the queenliness of her presence. The image of her form and face should have bee... ...my original image of the wan and spiritless Priscilla than the flowery May queen of a few moments ago. These sudden transformations, only to be accoun...

...Excerpt: Old Moodie. The evening before my departure for Blithedale, I was returning to my bachelor apartments, after attending the wonderful exhibition of the Veiled Lady, when an elderly man of rather shabby appearance met me in an obscure part...

...et Free by H.G. Wells A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The World Set Free by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania Stat... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ...State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone associated with the Pennsylvania State University assumes any responsibility for the mate- ... ... before the speculative eye and the moment of vision came! It was Gilbert, Queen Elizabeth’s court physi- cian, who first puzzled his brains with rubb... ...lamation of the World State, and saw the message taken out to the wireless operators to be throbbed all round the habit- able globe. ‘And next,’ said ... ...ey held out. They were still in many cases looking to Paris when the first snowflakes of that pitiless January came swirl- ing about them. The story g... ...eserts, these long wasted sun-baths of the race, they tower amidst eternal snows, they hide in remote islands, and bask on broad lagoons. For a time t... ...oss, rise vast preci- pices of many-coloured rock, fretted above, lined by snow- falls, and jagged into pinnacles. These are the northward wall 152 T... ...re fighting duels over the praises of women and holding tournaments before Queens of Beauty.’ ‘I saw a beautiful girl in Lahore,’ said Kahn, ‘she sat ...

Excerpt: The World Set Free by H. G. Wells.

...on the Mississippi by Mark T wain (Samuel L. Clemens) is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnish... ..., for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Nei ther the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyo... ...a State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone associated with the Pennsylvania State University assumes any responsibility for the mate... ...elo’s paint was not yet dry on the Last Judgment in the Sistine Chapel; Mary Queen of Scots was not yet born, but would be before the year closed. Cat... ...g to an understanding with the two victims, he was to have given Backus four queens, but alas, he didn’t. Life on the Mississippi Mark T wain 212 ... ...painted blue, and furnished with Windsor arm chairs; inside, a far receding snow white ‘cabin;’ porcelain knob and oil picture on every stateroom doo... ...tol grounds were lovely and fragrant, with their dense rich foliage and huge snow ball blossoms. The scent of the flower is very sweet, but you want d... ... have a comfortable look. Those in the wealthy quarter are spacious; painted snow white usually, and generally have wide veran das, or double veranda... ...y between here and St. Paul that can give the Hudson points. You’ll have the Queen’s Bluff—seven hun dred feet high, and just as imposing a spectacle...

...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...

...lyle A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION Sartor Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdrockh by Thomas Carlyle is a publicat... ...e and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdrockh by Thomas Carlyle is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ...ired melodious Singer; loftiest Serene Highness; nay thy own amber-locked, snow-and- rosebloom Maiden, worthy to glide sylph-like almost on air, whom ... ...delity. Sir Walter Raleigh’s fine mantle, which he spread in the mud under Queen 36 Sartor Resartus Elizabeth’s feet, appears to provoke little enthu... ...ittle enthusiasm in him; he merely asks, Whether at that period the Maiden Queen “was red-painted on the nose, and white-painted on the cheeks, as her... ...can answer that Sir Walter knew well what he was doing, and had the Maiden Queen been stuffed parchment dyed in verdigris, would have done the same. T... ...or even grim Winter brought its skating-matches and shooting- matches, its snow-storms and Christmas-carols,—did the Child sit and learn. These things... ...sunbeam, your Schreckhorn stood smiling grim-white, for the vapor had held snow. How thou fermentest and elaboratest, in thy great fermenting-vat and ...

Excerpt: Sartor Resartus. The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdrockh.