Excerpt Details
...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. Irela...

Full Text Search Details
...les Dickens A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication A Child’s History of England by Charles Dickens is a publication of the Pennsylvan... ...ens A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication A Child’s History of England by Charles Dickens is a publication of the Pennsylvania State... ...sity. 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 ... ...ument or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. A Child’s History of England by Charles Dickens , the Pennsylvania State University,... ... for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. A Child’s History of England by Charles Dickens , the Pennsylvania State University, Electr... ...NGLAND UNDER HENRY THE SECOND PART THE FIRST .............. 92 A Child’s History of England iii PART THE SECOND....................................... ...ed many beautiful things and many valuable libraries; destroyed numbers of paintings, stained glass windows, fine pavements, and carvings; and that th... ...nfident, and preposter ously proud of their plan; for they got a gimcrack painting made, of the six choice spirits who were to murder Eliza beth, wi...

Excerpt Details
...Excerpt: When I came up to town for my second year, my aunt Hoggarty made me a present of a diamond pin; that is to say, it was not a diamond-pin then, but a large old-fashioned locket, of Dublin manufacture in the year 1795, which the late Mr. Hoggarty used to sport at the Lord Lieutenant?s balls and elsewhere...

Full Text Search Details
...kepeace Thackeray A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The History of Samuel Titmarsh and the Great Hoggarty Diamond by William Makepe... ...Thackeray A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The History of Samuel Titmarsh and the Great Hoggarty Diamond by William Makepeace Thac... ...the Great Hoggarty Diamond by William Makepeace Thackeray is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is fur- ... ...y. This Portable Document file is fur- nished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...he document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The History of Samuel Titmarsh and the Great Hoggarty Diamond by William Makepe... ...ania State University is an equal opportunity university. 3 Thackeray The History of Samuel Titmarsh and The Great Hoggarty Diamond by William Makepe... ...ackeray Somersetshire, all the carriage of her goods from the country, the painting, papering, and carpeting of my house, the brandy and strong liquor...

Excerpt Details
Excerpt: The Tale of Chloe, An Episode in the History of Beau Beamish by George Meredith.

Full Text Search Details
...THE TALE OF CHLOE AN EPISODE IN THE HISTORY OF BEAU BEAMISH By George Meredith A Penn State Electronic Classics... ...THE TALE OF CHLOE AN EPISODE IN THE HISTORY OF BEAU BEAMISH By George Meredith A Penn State Electronic Classics Series ... ...rge Meredith A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Tale of Chloe, An Episode in the History of Beau Beamish by George Meredith is a... ...ectronic Classics Series Publication The Tale of Chloe, An Episode in the History of Beau Beamish by George Meredith is a publica- tion of the Pennsy... ...isode in the History of Beau Beamish by George Meredith is a publica- tion of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ... electronic transmission, in any way. The Tale of Chloe, An Episode in the History of Beau Beamish by George Meredith, the Penn- sylvania State Univer... ... to the first. I put you on your guard. He follows her much? These lovers’ paintings and puffings in the neighbourhood of the most innocent of women a...

Excerpt Details
...Excerpt: The text is taken from the printed ?Sterling Edition? of Carlyle?s Complete Works, in 20 volumes, with the following modifications: The footnote (there is only one) has been embedded directly into text, in brackets, [thusly]. Greek text has been transliterated into Latin charact...

Table of Contents Details
................................................. 68 LECTURE IV. THE HERO AS PRIEST. LUTHER; REFORMATION: KNOX; PURITANISM. 99 LECTURE V.THE HERO AS MAN OF LETTERS. JOHNSON, ROUSSEAU, BURNS. ........ 131 LECTURE VI.THE HERO AS KING. CROMWELL, NAPOLEON: MODERN REVOLUTIONISM............................................................................................................

Full Text Search Details
...ON HEROES, HERO-WORSHIP , AND THE HEROIC IN HISTORY By Thomas Carlyle A PENN S TAT E ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICA... ...IC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History by Thomas Carlyle is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer... ...Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History by Thomas Carlyle is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furni... ...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... ...ronic transmission, in any way. On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History by Thomas Carlyle, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Cl... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...e, almost military. It is of the inmost essence of his genius this sort of painting. The fiery, swift Italian nature of the man, so silent, passionate... ...its silent “pale rages,” speaks itself in these things. For though this of painting is one of the outermost devel- opments of a man, it comes like all... ...t human face there lies more than Raphael will take away with him. Dante’s painting is not graphic only, brief, true, and of a vividness as of fire in...

Excerpt Details
...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 ...

Table of Contents Details
...Table of Contents: The Famous History of the Life of King Henry the Eight, 1 -- THE PROLOGVE., 1 -- Actus Primus. Scoena Prima., 2 -- Scena Secunda., 8 -- Scaena Tertia., 13 -- Scena Quarta., 15 -- Actus Secundus. Scena Prima., 19 ...

Full Text Search Details
...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.... ...s ' 2001, Global Language Resources, Inc. Shakespeare: First Folio Table of Contents . . . . . . . . . . 1 The Famous History of the Life of King H... ...kespeare: First Folio Table of Contents . . . . . . . . . . 1 The Famous History of the Life of King Henry the Eight . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ... .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75 Scena Quarta. - i - The Famous History of the Life of King Henry the Eight t3 THE PROLOGVE. 2 ... ... 33 A Man may weepe vpon his Wedding day. [ - 1 - The Famous History of the Life of King Henry the Eight Shakespeare: First Folio Actus... ... The Pride vpon them, that their very labour 70 Was to them, as a Painting. Now this Maske 71 Was cry’de incompareable; and th’ ensuing...

Excerpt Details
...Excerpt: The writer of a book which copies the manners and language of Queen Anne?s time, must not omit the Dedication to the Patron; and I ask leave to inscribe this volume to your Lordship, for the sake of the great kindness and friendship whi...

Full Text Search Details
...THE HISTORY OF HENRY ESMOND, ESQ. A COLONEL IN THE SERVICE OF HER MAJESTY QUEEN ANNE WRITTEN BY HIMSELF BOOK THREE by WILLIAM MAKEPEAC... ...KEPEACE THACKERAY A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The History of Henry Esmond, Esq.: A Colonel in the Service of Her Majesty Quee... ...THACKERAY A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The History of Henry Esmond, Esq.: A Colonel in the Service of Her Majesty Queen Anne, ... ...ten by Himself: Book Three by William Makepeace Thackeray is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...he document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The History of Henry Esmond, Esq.: A Colonel in the Service of Her Majesty Quee... ...ania State University is an equal opportunity university. 3 Thackeray THE HISTORY OF HENRY ESMOND, ESQ. A COLONEL IN THE SERVICE OF HER MAJESTY QUEEN... ...ody else shall. She is the cleverest woman in all Bruxelles: understanding painting, music, poetry, and perfect at cookery and puddens. I borded with ... ... incomplete canvas: the Colonel all his life having been a practitioner of painting, and especially followed it during his long residence in the citie... ... the young children, was sent away grumbling to Walcote, to see to the new painting and preparing of that house, which my Lady Dowager intended to occ...

Excerpt Details
...Excerpt: The writer of a book which copies the manners and language of Queen Anne?s time, must not omit the Dedication to the Patron; and I ask leave to inscribe this volume to your Lordship, for the sake of the great kindness and friendship whi...

Full Text Search Details
...THE HISTORY OF HENRY ESMOND, ESQ. A COLONEL IN THE SERVICE OF HER MAJESTY QUEEN ANNE WRITTEN BY HIMSELF BOOK ONE by WILLIAM MAKEPEACE ... ...KEPEACE THACKERAY A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The History of Henry Esmond, Esq.: A Colonel in the Service of Her Majesty Quee... ...THACKERAY A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The History of Henry Esmond, Esq.: A Colonel in the Service of Her Majesty Queen Anne, ... ...itten by Himself: Book One by William Makepeace Thackeray is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...he document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The History of Henry Esmond, Esq.: A Colonel in the Service of Her Majesty Quee... ...ania State University is an equal opportunity university. 3 Thackeray THE HISTORY OF HENRY ESMOND, ESQ. A COLONEL IN THE SERVICE OF HER MAJESTY QUEEN... ...rself beautiful, and persisted in blooming up to the very midst of winter, painting roses on her cheeks long after their natural season, and attiring ...

Table of Contents Details
............................................................................................................................................ 4 THE DEATH OF JEAN ............................................................................................................................................ 75 THE TURNING-POINT OF MY LIFE ...............................................

Full Text Search Details
...WHAT IS MAN? WHAT IS MAN? AND OTHER ESSAYS OF MARK TWAIN (Samuel Langhorne Clemens, 1835 1910) What Is Man and Other ... ...Man and Other Essays by Mark T wain (Samuel L. Clemens) is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. 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 ... ............................................. ................ 86 HOW TO MAKE HISTORY DATES STICK .......................................................... .......................................... ........... 108 A SCRAP OF CURIOUS HISTORY ...................................................................... ... must be a genuinely and utterly self sacrific ing act recorded in human history somewhere. O.M. You are young. You have many years before you. Sear... ... for me to seek further. The rest of my days will be spent in patching and painting and puttying and caulking my priceless possession and in looking t...

Excerpt Details
Excerpt: The Note Book of an English Opium-Eater by Thomas de Quincey.

Table of Contents Details
...Contents The Note Book of an English Opium-Eater ...4 THREE MEMORABLE MURDERS .............................................................................................. 4 THE TRUE RELATIONS OF THE BIBLE TO MERELY HUMAN SCIENCE.....................

Full Text Search Details
...QUINCEY A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The Note Book of an English Opium-Eater by Thomas de Quincey is a publication of the Penn... ...sity. 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... ...t or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Note Book of an English Opium-Eater by Thomas de Quincey, the Pennsylvania State Univ... ...BLE TO MERELY HUMAN SCIENCE ...................... 54 SCHLOSSER’S LITERARY HISTORY OF THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY ...................... 60 FOX AND BURKE .... ................................................ 137 FALSIFICATION OF ENGLISH HISTORY ...................................................................... ...upon their voices, previously so loud. The tragic drama read aloud its own history, and the succession of its several steps—few and summary. The murde... ...ing from the world of sculpture, the English a breathing from the world of painting. What we read in sculpture is not absolutely death, but still less... ...fe—life kindling, trem- bling, palpitating—that life which speaks to us in painting, this is also the life that speaks to us in English tragedy. Into ...

Excerpt Details
...Excerpt: It is neither to the Roman Prince, nor to the representative of the illustrious house of Cajetani, which has given more than one Pope to the Christian Church, that I dedicate this short portion of a long history; it is to the learned commentator of Dante....

Full Text Search Details
...on Cousin Betty by Honoré de Balzac, trans. James Waring is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. 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... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of lit- ... ...pe to the Christian Church, that I dedi- cate this short portion of a long history; it is to the learned commentator of Dante. It was you who led me t... ...otion of a good and beautiful woman; and this, in a few words, is her past history. THREE BROTHERS, simple laboring men, named Fischer, and living in ... ...h of pictures superbly framed. The gilding was worth almost as much as the paintings. “Ah, ha! Now you understand, my good man?” said Josepha. She had... ... Brera at Milan. The Saint John the Baptist of the Tribuna, and Saint Luke painting the Virgin ’s portrait in the Accademia at Rome, have not the char... ...o he is!” said she with a laugh. Madame Marneffe, having heard Steinbock’s history, was frantically eager to see the young Count; perhaps she wished t... ... handsome.” Sain and Augustin between them held the sceptre of min- iature painting under the Empire. “He is going to make a statue, my dear, did you ...

Excerpt Details
...n some, the treasure may be hard to find, and when found, so trivial in quantity, that the dry, shriveled kernel scarcely compensates for the trouble of cracking the nut. Whether this be the case with my history or not, I am hardly competent to judge. I sometimes think it might prove useful to some, and entertaining to others; but the world may judge for itself. Shielded b...

Full Text Search Details
...ic Classics Series Publication Agnes Grey by Anne Brontë is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Por- table Document file is furn... ...ty. This Por- table Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18202-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...ates for the trouble of cracking the nut. Whether this be the case with my history or not, I am hardly competent to judge. I sometimes think it might ... ... long visage relaxed into a smile, and she favoured me with a particu- lar history of that and her other infirmities, followed by an account of her pi... ..., too: a splendid little charmer imported from Paris: and two fine Italian paintings of great value—I forget the artist. Doubtless you will be able to... ...nch poodle, that lay curled up on a silk cushion, and the two fine Italian paintings: which, how- ever, she would not give me time to examine, but, sa... ... friends, indeed. One was a dog;’ and then I re- minded her of Snap, whose history I had recounted before, and related the incident of his sudden appe...

Excerpt Details
...s no easy task in this world to distinguish between what is great in it, and what is mean; and many and many is the puzzle that I have had in reading History (or the works of fiction which go by that name), to know whether I should laud up to the skies, and endeavor, to the best of my small capabilities, to imitate the remarkable character about whom I was reading, or whet...

Full Text Search Details
...h” A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Second Funeral of Napoleon by William Makepeace Thackeray, writing as “Michael Angelo Titm... ...Makepeace Thackeray, writing as “Michael Angelo Titmarch” is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furni... ...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... ...d what is mean; and many and many is the puzzle that I have had in reading History (or the works of fiction which go by that name), to know whether I ... ...nd the last-named authors, dear Miss Smith, have written each an admirable history,—that of the Reverend Dr. Primrose, Vicar of Wakefield, and that of... ...ers were, you would blush all over as red as a hollyhock, and put down the history-book in a fury. Many of our English worthies are no better. You are... ... tall. The effect of the whole chapel, however (to speak the jargon of the painting-room), was spoiled by being cut up: there were too many objects fo...

Excerpt Details
...Excerpt: The Comte De Fontaine, head of one of the oldest families in Poitou, had served the Bourbon cause with intelligence and bravery during the war in La Vendee against the Republic. After having escaped all the dangers which threatened the royalist leaders ...

Full Text Search Details
...The Ball at Sceaux by Honore de Balzac, trans. Clara Bell is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. 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... ...or, Hazleton, PA 18202-1291 is a Portable Docu- ment File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...leries. The old V endeen did not let such a happy chance slip; he told his history with so much vivacity that a king, who never forgot anything, might... ...rld know- ing everything. She could argue fluently on Italian or Flem- ish painting, on the Middle Ages or the Renaissance; pro- nounced at haphazard ... ...er remarks as though she were criticising or praising a study of a head, a painting of genre. Her eyes, after wandering over the vast moving picture, ... ...had played too many pranks in the years 1771 and soon after, a time of our history when gallantry was held in honor, not to guess at once that by the ... ...with the adroitness of a diplomatist concealing a secret. If she talked of painting, he responded as a connoisseur; if she sat down to play, he showed... ...“But, papa, there are some very good families descended from bastards. The history of France swarms with princes bearing the bar sinister on their shi...

Excerpt Details
...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...

Table of Contents Details
...Contents On the Knocking at the Gate, in Macbeth....................................................4 On Murder, Considered as One of the Fine Arts .........................................9 LECTURE..................................................................................................... 11 Second Paper on Murder, Considered as One of the Fine...

Full Text Search Details
...es Publication Miscellaneous Essays by Thomas de Quincey is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity. This Portable Document file is furn... ...sity. 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... ...ty Editor, Hazleton, PA 18202 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... .............................................51 In Reference to M. Michelet’s History of France.........................................51 THE ENGLISH MA... ... a manner “created the taste by which he is to be enjoyed.” T o sketch the history of the art, and to examine its principles critically, now re- mains... ...ingle maid-servant, neither of them having any pretension to the notice of history but what they derived from the great artist whose workmanship I am ... ...principle of the art was known to the ancients, al- though like the art of painting upon glass, of making the myrrhine cups, &c., it was lost in the d... ...ons to the state; whilst the beast from Birmingham had as much writing and painting on its sprawl- ing flanks as would have puzzled a decipherer from ...

Excerpt Details
...Preface: It is the fashion to call every story controversial that deals with times when controversy or a war of religion was raging; but it should be remembered that there are some which only attempt to portray human feelings as affected by the events that such warfare occasioned. ?Old Mortality? and ?Woodstock? are not controversia...

Full Text Search Details
...E M.YONGE A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Chaplet of Pearls by Charlotte M. Yonge is a publication of the Pennsylvania State ... ...sity. 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... ...ent or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Chaplet of Pearls by Charlotte M. Yonge, the Pennsylvania State University, Electro... ...at the imagination must necessarily form when dwelling upon the records of history. That faculty which might be called the passive fancy, and might al... ...at presumptuously deal with days gone by, as enabling the young to realize history vividly—and, what is still more de- sirable, requiring an effort of... ...uentin Durward’ and ‘Anne of Geierstein.’ Scott, however, willfully carved history to suit the purposes of his story; and in these days we have come t... ...allery at one end for the musicians, the walls decorated with the glorious paintings collected by Francois I., Greek and Roman statues clustered at th... ...s, glowing with painted glass, resplendent with gold and jewels, rich with paintings and draperies of the most bril- liant dyes; but now, all that was...

Excerpt Details
...Excerpt: CHAPTER 1. Fellow Travelers. In the autumn of the year, Darkness and Night were creeping up to the highest ridges of the Alps. It was vintage time in the valleys on the Swiss side of the Pass of the Great Saint Bernard, and along the banks of the Lake of Geneva....

Table of Contents Details
... Right Somewhere 7. Mostly, Prunes and Prism 8. The Dowager Mrs Gowan is reminded that ?It Never Does? 9. Appearance and Disappearance 10. The Dreams of Mrs Flintwinch thicken 11. A Letter from Little Dorrit 12. In which a Great Patriotic Conference is holden 13. The Progress of an Epidemic 14. Taking Advice 15. No just Cause or Impediment why these Two Persons should not ...

Full Text Search Details
...ation Little Dorrit, Book Two: Riches by Charles Dickens is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Uni- versity. This Portable Document file is fur... ...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... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ... 19. The Storming of the Castle in the Air 20. Introduces the next 21. The History of a Self-Tormentor 22. Who Passes by this Road so late? 23. Mistre... ...an had ever heard our name. They were, and they are, quite ignorant of our history.’ ‘So much the worse,’ retorted Fanny, determined not to admit anyt... ... worse for it. In his expressed opinions of all performances in the Art of painting that were completely destitute of merit, Gowan was the most libera... ...d higher opportunities by marrying his pretty wife; and Love in a cottage, painting pictures for dinner, was so delight- fully interesting, that she b... ...ed, and her father devoted to her), was best known to herself. Though this history has its opinion on that point too, and decidedly in the affirmative... ...thful altogether as I should have liked it to be. On account of Mr Gowan’s painting Papa’s picture (which I am not quite convinced I should have known...

Excerpt Details
...Excerpt: In the year 1800, toward the close of October, a foreigner, accompanied by a woman and a little girl, was standing for a long time in front of the palace of the Tuileries, near the ruins of a house recently pulled down, at the point where in our day the wing b...

Full Text Search Details
...a by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley is a publication of the Penn- sylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furn... ...sity. 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... ...or, Hazleton, PA 18202-1291 is a Por- table Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classi- cal works of lit... ...the idea of opening a studio for young girls who wished to take lessons in painting. About forty years of age, a man of the purest morals, en- tirely ... ...a young woman who had taken lessons from Servin was capable of judging the paintings of the Musee conclusively, of making a striking portrait, copy- i... ...nclusively, of making a striking portrait, copy- ing an ancient master, or painting a genre picture. The artist thus sufficed for the educational need... ...ss and silent. Strange symbol of an artist’s head! At the moment when this history begins, a brilliant July sun was illuminating the studio, and two r... ...gi Porta. “My father,” she replied, “never spoke to me of our de- plorable history, and I was too young when we left Corsica to know anything about it... ...ng to their wedded felicity. Another year of ease and comfort went by. The history of their life may be given in three words: They were happy. No even...

Excerpt Details
...ew hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea. There are circumstances in which, whether you partake of the tea or not--some people of course never do--the situation is in itself delightful. Those that I have in mind in beginning to unfold this simple history offered an admirable setting to an innocent pastime. The implement...

Table of Contents Details
...Table of Contents: CHAPTER 1, 1 -- CHAPTER 2, 10 -- CHAPTER 3, 15 -- CHAPTER 4, 22 -- CHAPTER 5, 28 -- CHAPTER 6, 38 -- CHAPTER 7, 46 -- CHAPTER 8, 54 -- CHAPTER 9, 60 -- CHAPTER 10, 66 -- CHAPTER 11, 77 -- CHAPTER 12, 83 -- CHAPTE...

Full Text Search Details
...wn as afternoon tea. There are circum stances in which, whether you partake of the tea or not—some people of course never do—the situation is in itse... ...f delightful. Those that I have in mind in be ginning to unfold this simple history offered an admirable setting to an innocent pastime. The implemen... ... history offered an admirable setting to an innocent pastime. The implements of the little feast had been disposed upon the lawn of an old English cou... ...wn of an old English country house, in what I should call the perfect middle of a splendid summer afternoon. Part of the afternoon had waned, but much... ...given it marching orders and it had been trudging over the sandy plains of a history of German Thought. Suddenly she became aware of a step very diffe... ... group, was the wife of an officer of the United States Engineers, and as our history is not further concerned with her it will suffice that she was ind... ...ch she had often committed the conscious solecism of forgiving them much bad painting for the sake of the subject. While the Civil War went on she was... ...what to do with, and something was always turning up to be written about. Of painting she was devotedly fond, and made no more of brushing in a sketch... ...lly deemed greater than the gain. When Madame Merle was neither writing, nor painting, nor touching the piano, she was usually employed upon wonderful...

Full Text Search Details
...s by Honore de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. 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... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18202-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...ence of four distinct political sys- tems. I cannot, therefore, place this history under the pro- tection of a more competent authority. Your name may... ... writer seems scarcely justified in placing them in the fore- front of his history; yet if they are not known, a man of Doctor Rouget’s stamp would be... ... doctor, who made the most of his son-in-law’s blindness, as the following history will show. Madame Rouget, or, to speak more correctly, the doctor, ... ..., which was, she declared, nothing short of miraculous. “If he understands painting at thirteen, my dear,” she said, “your Joseph will be a man of gen... ...ed, as Agathe closed the door. No sooner did the students of sculpture and painting find out that Madame Bridau did not wish her son to be an art- ist... ...e thinks her boy will have to beg his bread because he has got the bump of painting,” said Madame Descoings; “but, for my part, I am not the least une...

Full Text Search Details
...es Publication The Moon and Sixpence by Somerset Maugham is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity. This Portable Document file is furn... ...sity. 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... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... .... The rise of this reputation is one of the most romantic incidents in the history of art. But I do not propose to deal with Charles Strickland’s work... ...ainters who claim superciliously that the layman can understand nothing of painting, and that he can best show his appreciation of their works by sile... ...dom able to say anything on the subject of real value, and my ignorance of painting is extreme. Fortunately , there is no need for me to risk the adve... ...ely that a man will do any good when he starts at your age? Most men begin painting at eighteen.” “I can learn quicker than I could when I was eightee... ...le- ment which had made me think of those wild beings of the world’s early history when mat- ter , retaining its early connection with the earth, seem... ...e wanderer back to lands which his ancestors left in the dim beginnings of history . Sometimes a man hits upon a place to which he mysteriously feels ...