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...Preface: When I first saw Mr. Osgood?s beautiful illustrated edition of The Lady of the Lake, I asked him to let me use some of the cuts in a cheaper annotated edition for school and household use; and the present volume is the result. The text of the poem has given me unexpected trouble. When...

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...tt, Bart. Edited with Notes by William J. Rolfe, A.M. Formerly Head Master of the High School, Cambridge, Mass. Boston 1883 A Penn State Electronic Cl... ... Boston 1883 A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Lady of the Lake by Sir Walter Scott, ed. William J. Rolfe, A.M. is a publicatio... ...first edition, the “ Globe “ edition, and about a dozen others English and American. I found many misprints and corrup- tions in all except the editio... ...nty street Beneath the coursers’ clattering feet, As slowly down the steep descent Fair Scotland’s King and nobles went, While all along the crowded w... ...s they, from far who roved, T o live by battle which they loved. There the Italian’s clouded face, The swarthy Spaniard’s there you trace; The mountai... ...minstrel I,—to share his doom Bound from the cradle to the tomb. T enth in descent, since first my sires Waked for his noble house their Iyres, Nor on... .... XXII. Lament. ‘And art thou cold and lowly laid, Thy foeman’s dread, thy people’s aid, Breadalbane’s boast, Clan-Alpine’s shade! For thee shall none... ...eath. Another writer, in 1843, says that the pool is still visited, not by people of the vicinity, who have no faith in its virtue, but by those from ... ...sword and shield. The masters of the noble science of defence were chiefly Italians. They made great mys- tery of their art and mode of instruction, n...

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... ! "# ... ... ! "# ! St. Ives, The Adventures of a French Prisoner in England by Robert Lou... ... and supported the almost con- tinual evil tidings of the Emperor as best they might. It chanced I was the only gentleman among the privates who remai... ... any skill with his fingers passed the hours of his captivity in the making of little toys and Articles of Paris; and the prison was daily visited at ... ...s almost as bad, was the great day for visitors. Those who came to our market were of all qualities, men and women, the lean and the stout, the plain ... ...e descended sheer among waste lands, scattered suburbs of the city, and houses in the building. I had never the heart to look for any length of time—t... ...tell us how that length compared with the way we had to go? Day after day, there would be always some of us stolen out to the Devil’ s Elbow and makin... ...cat that stirred in a quarter of a mile. During this interval, I have to direct your sympathies on the Vicomte de Saint-Yves! All addressed me softly,... ...th him on that, and he made off, shaking his head. But my particular delight was to enlarge on politics and the war. None damned the French like me; n...

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...e afternoon at the car conductors? coffee-joint on Polk Street. He had a thick gray soup; heavy, underdone meat, very hot, on a cold plate; two kinds of vegetables; and a sort of suet pudding, full of strong butter and sugar. On his way back to his office, one block above, he stopped at Joe Frenna?s saloon and bought a pitcher of steam beer. It was his habit to leave the p...

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... 2001 by Global Language Resources, Inc. All rights reserved. Based on issues of The Strand July 1891 through June 1892. ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE Contents... ... Red headed League . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 A Case of Identity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4... ...ation as I could desire about Miss Adler, to say nothing of half a dozen other people in the neighbourhood in whom I was not in the least interested, ... ...that. When you raise your cry of fire, it will be taken up by quite a number of people. You may then walk to the end of the street, and I will rejoin y... ... apply for particulars. As far as I can make out, the League was founded by an American millionaire. Ezekiah Hopkins, who was very peculiar in his way... ...e answered. ‘You see it is really confined to Londoners, and to grown men. This American had started from London when he was young, and he wanted to do... ...d deal of German music on the programme, which is rather more to my taste than Italian or French. It is introspective, and I want to introspect. Come ... ...e time Secretary for Foreign Affairs. They inherit Plantagenet blood by direct descent, and Tudor on the distaff side. Ha! Well, there is nothing very...

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... The Uncommercial Traveller by Charles D... ... The Uncommercial Traveller by Charles Dickens is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free... ...f as being then beside me, that I had purposed to myself to see, when I left home for Wales. I had heard of that clergy- man, as having buried many sc... ...the way was steep, and a horse and cart (in which it was wrapped in a sheet) were necessary, and three or four men, and, all things considered, it was... ...down its innocent nose. Those inscru- table pigeon-hole offices, with nothing in them (not so much as an inkstand) but a model of a theatre before the... .... And yet within half an hour I was in an immense theatre, capable of holding nearly five thousand people. Charles Dickens 30 What Theatre? Her Majes... ...g come but the jug of ale and the bread, you implore your waiter to ‘see after that cutlet, waiter; pray do!’ He cannot go at once, for he is carrying... ...he postilions Charles Dickens 62 counting what money they got, into their hats, and never making enough of it; there were the standard population of ... ...as already in the un- commercial line. This was a man who, though not more than thirty, had seen the world in divers irreconcilable capacities—had bee...

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...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... ...kable lift about it that argued education, not only of himself, but of his people before him. The impression conveyed by his mouth and chin was that o... ... be of the West, that world’s frontier of Romance, where a new race, a new people—hardy, brave, and passionate—were building an empire; where the tumu... ...ffices to an empty church—’the voice of one crying in the wilderness.’ You Americans are not good churchmen. Sundays you sleep— you read the newspaper... ...cists, repeated from page to page with wearying insistence. “I, too, am an American Citizen. S. D.,” “As the T wig is Bent the T ree is Inclined,” “Tr... ...ere.” They set off. It was a terrible ride. T wice during the scram- bling descent from the hills, Presley’s pony fell beneath him. Annixter, on his b... ... and analysis of erotic conditions—which had just been translated from the Italian. Stephen Lambert and Beatrice disputed over the merits of a Scotch ...

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...Preface: There are of course peculiar advantages as well as disadvantages in endeavouring to write the life of one recently departed. On the one hand, the remembrances connected with him are far fresher; his contemporaries can he consulted, and...

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...Life of John Coleridge Patteson: Missionary Bishop of the Melanesian Islands By Charlotte Mary Yonge A Penn State Electronic C... ...lotte Mary Yonge A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Life of John Coleridge Patteson: Missionary Bishop of the Melanesian Islands by ... ...arnest wish to be a clergyman, because he thought saying the Absolution to people must make them so happy, ‘a belief he must have gleaned from his Pra... ...ng out to found a church, and then to die neglected and forgotten. All the people burst out crying, he was so very much beloved by his parishioners. H... ...or a day, and caused him 40 Life of John Coleridge Patteson to call in an Italian doctor, who treated him on the starva- tion system, administered no... ... very narrow, wet to the skin, and in constant peril; but we knew that the descent on the Chamouni side is far more difficult than that on the Courmay... ...hat I can only do a little of what I propose in the morning; and as for my Italian, an hour and a half a day is on an average more than I give to it. ... ...expeditions; but of late whalers and sandal wood traders, both English and American, had been finding their way among them, and too often acting as ir... ...e the chief obstacle to the Mission. After describing an interview with an American captain, he continues:—’Reports are rife of a semi-legalised slave...

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...Excerpt: An Ambuscade. Early in the year VIII., at the beginning of Vendemiaire, or, to conform to our own calendar, towards the close of September, 1799, a hundred or so of peasants and a large number of citizens, who had left Fougeres in the morning on their way to Mayenne, were going up...

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...From my boyish days I had always felt a great perplexity on one point in Macbeth. It was this: the knocking at the gate, which succeeds to the murder of Duncan, produced to my feelings an effect for which I never could account. The effect was, that it reflected back upon the murder a peculiar awfulness and a depth of solemnity; yet, however obstinately I endeavored with my...

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