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...The Wings of the Dove by Henry James The Wings of the Dove by Henry James The Wings of the Dove by Henry James A PENN STAT... ...Henry James A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The Wings of the Dove by Henry James is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Unive... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any per- son using this document file, for any purpose, and in... ...r only possible basis; she was just the contemporary London female, highly modern, inevitably battered, honourably free. She had of course taken her a... ...had much con- tributed: she copied, patient lady, famous pictures in great museums, having begun with a happy natural gift and taking in betimes the s... ...uivocal quan- tity was what had haunted her during their previous days, in museums and churches, and what was again spoiling for her the pure taste of... ...each other and to try for themselves whether a scheme of constancy on more modern lines could be worked? She had doubted, as they came to England, of ... ...ets and 133 Henry James suburbs oddly interesting to Milly, as well as of museums, monuments, “sights” oddly unfamiliar to Kate, while their elders p... ...he Bayswater Road, but he stopped short, under the murky stars, before the modern church, in the middle of the square that, going eastward, opened out...

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...Excerpt: While the translation is fairly literal, and Malleson (a clergyman) has taken pains with the scientific portions of the work and added the chapter headings, he has made some emendations concerning Biblical references of his own, listed below?...

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...A Journey to the Interior of the Earth By Jules Verne A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publica... ...nn State Electronic Classics Series Publication A Journey to the Interior of the Earth by Jules Verne is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univ... ...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... ...ions. Witty and ingenious adaptations of the researches and discoveries of modern sci- ence to the popular taste, which demands that these should be p... ...all these titles to honour let me add that my uncle was the curator of the museum of mineralogy formed by M. Struve, the Russian ambassador; a most va... ...im. CHAPTER II A MYSTERY TO BE SOLVED AT ANY PRICE That study of his was a museum, and nothing else. Speci- mens of everything known in mineralogy lay... ...h, and it was in the same language that that personage directed him to the Museum of Northern Antiquities. The curator of this curious establishment, ... ...e gigantic glyptodons or armadilloes of the pleiocene period, of which the modern tortoise is but a miniature representative.* The soil was be- sides ... ...nsau. But this creature surpassed in stature all the measurements known in modern palaeontology. But that a man, a living man, and therefore whole gen...

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...Introduction: Near seven years ago, a short while before his death in 1844, John Sterling committed the care of his literary Character and printed Writings to two friends, Archdeacon Hare and myself. His estimate of the bequest was far from overweening; to few men could the small sum-total of his activities in this world seem more i...

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...Excerpt: Volume I. Preface: Nothing is more easy than to state the subject of ?The Ambassadors,? which first appeared in twelve numbers of The North American Review (1903) and was published as a whole the same year. The situation involved is gathered up betimes, that is in the second chapter of Book...

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...ASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The Ambassadors by Henry James 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 liter... ...f merely referential narrative, which flour- ishes so, to the shame of the modern impatience, on the serried page of Balzac, but which seems simply to... ...young as to have missed the time natural in Boston for taking girls to the Museum; and it was absolutely true of hint that—even after the close of the... ...little Bilham, whom he had 100 The Ambassadors already accompanied to the museum of the Luxembourg. The fusion of these schemes presented no difficul... ...m, affected our friend as a dazzling prodigy of type. Strether had seen in museums—in the Luxembourg as well as, more reverently, later on, in the New... ...iar face, conspicuous in Mrs. Newsome’s parlours, scarce counted here as a modern note. He was sure on the spot—and he afterwards knew he was right—th... ...seated, near the fire, on a small stuffed and fringed chair one of the few modern articles in the room, and she leaned back in it with her hands clasp...

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Excerpt: Sons of the Soil by Honore de Balzac, translated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley.

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...Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Early Short Fiction of Edith Wharton is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. Thi... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any per- son using this document file, for any purpose, and in... ...he file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Early Short Fiction of Edith Wharton, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classics Se... ...f, and we couldn’t fill the theatre for a week. Y et ‘The Lee Shore’ was a modern prob- lem play—much easier to swing than blank verse. It isn’t as if... ...alent” to win popularity, but would impose on the public his own theory of art in the form of five acts of blank verse. Y es, he had offered them ever... ...elt the dilettante’s irresistible craving to take a last look at a work of art that was passing out of his possession. On the whole, he knew no one be... ...d to deal with the unexpected than Mrs. V ervain. She excelled in the rare art of 74 Early Short Fiction taking things for granted, and Thursdale fel... ...papers for an immediate announcement of its trans- fer to one of the great museums; but presently concluding that Miss Lombard, out of filial piety, h...

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...ris to his memory in Milan, you will not be surprised to find him testifying his gratitude for many pleasant evenings passed beside you by laying one of his works at your feet, and begging you to protect it with your name, as in former days that name protected the tales of an ancient writer dear to the Milanese....

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...t Wormeley A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication A Daughter of Eve by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley is a publica... ...e by Honoré 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... ...two etageres dis- played a hundred precious trifles, flowers of mechanical art brought into bloom by the fire of thought. On a chimney- piece of slate... ...The confessors had 8 A Daughter of Eve decided that music was a Christian art, born of the Catholic Church and developed within her. The two Maries w... ...d with their mother and sisters, but after that the count took them off to museums, theatres, restaurants, or, during the summer season, into the coun... ... either joins them or separates them in heart as they already are in fact. Modern laws, by multiplying the family by the family, has created a great e... ...denesse knew, no doubt, the law of these trans- formations (created by our modern manners and morals), but he forgot them in his own case,—just as the... ... was captivated by ideas worthy of the days of chivalry, though completely modernized. The glowing con- versation of the poet had more echo in her min...

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...ears ago, and in those days he was assistant master in the Whortley Proprietary School, Whortley, Sussex, and his wages were forty pounds a year, out of which he had to afford fifteen shillings a week during term time to lodge with Mrs. Munday, at the little shop in the West Street....

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... SERIES PUBLICATION Love and Mr. Lewisham by H. G. Wells 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... ...nadequate supply of qualified science teachers in England, the Science and Art Department is wont to offer free in- struction at its great central sch... ...- lute wretchedness and pain, which is the colour of so much human life in modern London. One vivid contrast hung in his mind symbolical. On the one h... ... in the corridors of the schools, in the big Education Library, and in the Art Museum. After a time those meetings appear to have been no longer accid... ...the corridors of the schools, in the big Education Library, and in the Art Museum. After a time those meetings appear to have been no longer accidenta... ...OLD IR Y OF OLD IRON ON ON ON ON AS ONE GOES into the South Kensington Art Museum from the Brompton Road, the Gallery of Old Iron is overhead to the r... ...e student pays for the finer emotions. And in the spacious solitude of the museum gallery de- 80 Love and Mr. Lewisham voted to the Raphael cartoons ...

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...e Quincey A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION Confessions 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... ...ent or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Confessions of an English Opium-Eater by Thomas de Quincey, the Pennsylvania State Univ... ...ll sorts and combinations of peri- phrastic expressions as equivalents for modern ideas, images, relations of things, &c., gave me a compass of dictio... ... given in the next number.—ED.] 37 Thomas de Quincey P P P P PAR AR AR AR ART II T II T II T II T II From the London Magazine for October 1821. SO TH... ... recollect my youthful ejacula- tion of anguish; and remembering that thou art sitting alone in that same valley, and mistress of that very house to w... ... terrae incognitae, and doubted whether they had yet been laid down in the modern charts of London. For all this, however, I paid a heavy price in dis... ... private fortune; I am so classed by my neighbours; and by the courtesy of modern England I am usually addressed on letters, &c., “Esquire,” though ha... ...sities, and some time or other I believe I shall present it to the British Museum. 5 The Bristol mail is the best appointed in the Kingdom, owing to ...

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...ing in this gentle breeze, That blows from the green fields and from the clouds And from the sky; it beats against my cheek, And seems half conscious of the joy it gives. O welcome messenger! O welcome friend! A captive greets thee, coming from a house Of bondage, from yon city?s walls set free, A prison where he hath been long immured. Now I am free, enfranchised and at l...

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...Table of Contents: Book First Introduction: Childhood and School-time, 1 -- Book Second Childhood and School-time (Continued), 20 -- Book Third Residence at Cambridge, 34 -- Book Fourth Summer Vacation, 53 -- Book Fifth Books, 67 -...

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...don . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105 Book Eighth Retrospect: Love of Nature Leading to Love of Mankind . 126 Book Ninth Residence in France... ...Conclusion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 228 ii The Prelude of 1805 Book First Introduction: Childhood and School time OH, there is ... ...clouds And from the sky; it beats against my cheek, And seems half conscious of the joy it gives. O welcome messenger! O welcome friend! 5 A captive g... ... trouble of my dreams. 430 Wisdom and Spirit of the universe! Thou Soul that art the eternity of thought! Book First Introduction: Childhood and Scho... ...ortion of the river of my mind 215 Came from yon fountain?’ Thou, my Friend! art one More deeply read in thy own thoughts; to thee Science appears but... ...ely was not wanting. Carelessly I gazed, roving as through a cabinet Or wide museum, thronged with fishes, gems, 52 The Prelude of 1805 Birds, crocodi... ...moves its goggling eyes, The waxwork, clockwork, all the marvellous craft Of modern Merlins, wild beasts, puppet shows, All out o’ th’ way, far fetche... ...agnanimous, But harsh and unaffecting in themselves; And in our high wrought modern narratives 780 Stript of their humanizing soul, the life Of manner... ...hilosophy; having brought to test Of solid life and true result the books Of modern statists, and thereby perceived The utter hollowness of what we na...

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...Introduction: The enterprise of messrs. T. Nelson & Sons and the friendly accommodation of Messrs. Macmillan render possible this collection in one cover of all the short stories by me that I care for any one to read again. Except for the two series of l...

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...Excerpt: Some portions of this Introduction have been taken from the Athenaeum Press Selections from De Quincey; many of the notes have also been transferred from that volume. A number of the new notes I owe to a review of the Selections by Dr. Lan...

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...Excerpt: PART I. It rose for them--their honey-moon--over the waters of a lake so famed as the scene of romantic raptures that they were rather proud of not having been afraid to choose it as the setting of their own. ?It required a total lack of humour, or as great a gift for it as ours, to r...

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... Wharton A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Glimpses of the Moon by Edith Wharton is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Uni... ...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... ...nt or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Glimpses of the Moon by Edith Wharton, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic... ...irl in sight, had sur- prised him with the contradictory revelation of her modern sense of expediency and her old-fashioned standard of good 11 Edith... ... which had kept their stimulating power—distant journeys, the enjoyment of art, the contact with new scenes and strange societies—were becoming less a... ...pies had been sold; and though his essay on “Chi- nese Influences in Greek Art” had created a passing stir, it had resulted in controversial correspon... ...of course, was their chief prophetess; but even the intensely “bright” and modern young secretaries, Mr. Beck and Mr. Buttles, showed a touching tende... ...ever of Susy’s cleverness and freedom from prejudice: she couldn’t be too “modern” for him now that she was his. He shared to the full her passionate ... ...ch looked as if it had been extracted, for some ceremonial purpose, from a museum of historic vehicles. And in an instant it flashed on Lansing that t...

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...Introduction: Much has been written about the chronology of Alexandrian literature and the famous Library, founded by Ptolemy Soter, but the dates of the chief writers are still matters of conjecture. The birth of Apollonius Rhodius is placed by scholars at various times between 29...

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