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Sketches

By: Charles Dickens

...g student publication project to bring classical works of litera- ture, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cove... ...r any amount to sing the psalms better than all the children put together, male and female; and, in short, conducts himself in the most turbulent and ... ...ied too; and a happy release it was, both for herself and the old paupers, male and female, which she used to tip over in all directions, as if they w... ...robation was tumultuous. He gave an imitation of the two negroes in broken English; the roof was rent with applause. From that period we date (with on... ...r maze of streets, courts, lanes, and alleys? Where such a pure mixture of Englishmen and Irishmen, as in this complicated part of London? We boldly a... ...d fountains glittered and sparkled before our eyes; the beauty of the lady singers and the elegant deportment of the gentlemen, captivated our hearts;... ...t’s what bothers me. ’ Here there was a considerable talking among the fe- males in the spencers. ‘What’s the ladies a laughing at, sir?’ inquired the... ...t shades of cloudy-white.—’Pray, silence, gentlemen, for non no- bis!’ The singers, whom you discover to be no other than the very party that excited ... ...-room, never was anything half so splendid. There was an orchestra for the singers, all paint, gilding, and plate-glass; and such an organ! Miss J’mim...

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New Arabian Nights

By: Robert Louis Stevenson

...ing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cove... ... STORY OF FRANCIS VILLON ................................. 196 THE SIRE DE MALETROIT’S DOOR ............................................................. ...lite sipped their brandy and soda in security. The bar was full of guests, male and female; but though more than one of these offered to fall into tal... ...nswer in the affirmative. But I am not so timid, and can speak the Queen’s English plainly. We too, like yourself, have had enough of life, and are de... ... insinuations of a very glorious order when he was safely alone with a few males. The room on the other side of the American’s – for there were three ... ...or there were three rooms on a floor in the hotel – was tenanted by an old English physician of rather doubtful reputation. Dr. Noel, for that was his... ...at the door of a respectable hotel? Oh!” he cried, “I know you now! Common singers! People in trouble with the police! And you present yourselves at m...

.............................................. 144 A LODGING FOR THE NIGHT ? A STORY OF FRANCIS VILLON ................................. 196 THE SIRE DE MALETROIT?S DOOR ..................................................................................... 215 PROVIDENCE AND THE GUITAR .......................................................................................... 2...

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Twice Told Tales

By: Nathaniel Hawthorne

...ing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cove... ...for a new St. Bartholomew!” cried others. “We are to be massacred, man and male child!” Neither was this rumor wholly discredited, although the wiser ... ...ers of the age. Authority on these points may be found in Strutt’s Book of English Sports and Pastimes. Bright were the days at Merry Mount, when the ... ..., and others, of still richer blush, which the colo- nists had reared from English seed. O, people of the Golden Age, the chief of your husbandry was ... ...s of the congregation, many of the middle aged, and nearly all the younger males. Pearson found it difficult to sustain their united and disapproving ... ..., while she undid the door, and stood up in the sacred desk from which his maledictions had just been thundered. She then divested herself of the cloa... ...of a song, which resounded, in broken notes, between the cliffs, while the singers hesitated whether to continue their journey or put up here for the ...

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The Republic

By: Plato

...ing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Copy... ...robably some elements of Plato remain still unde tected in Aristotle. In English philosophy too, many affini ties may be traced, not only in the wo... ... love, or labour. Very right, he said. Neither must they represent slaves, male or female, per forming the offices of slaves? They must not. And sure... ... any one says that mankind most regard The newest song which the singers have, Plato’s The Republic 108 they will be afraid that he may be ... ... in keeping watch and in the other duties of dogs? or do we entrust to the males the entire and exclusive care of the flocks, while we leave the femal... ...o, he said, they share alike; the only difference between them is that the males are stronger and the females weaker. But can you use different anima...

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Where Angels Fear to Tread

By: E. M. Forster

...uld have been entertaining. But even Philip, who in theory loved outraging English con- ventions, rose to the occasion, and gave her a talking which s... ...eodata, one of the most beautiful churches in Italy.” “Of course I mean an English church,” said Harriet stiffly. “Lilia promised me that she would al... ... hotel.” The letter only said that. What kind of per- son? A gentleman? An Englishman? The letter did not say. “Wire reason of stay at Monteriano. Str... ... crossed herself also. Thus did the two women pay homage to their outraged male. It was clear to Lilia at last that Gino had married her for money. Bu... ...u will not come up till you have seen the Italian.” “La signorina si sente male,” said Philip, “C’ e il sole.” “Poveretta!” cried the landlady and the... ... note was drowned in a shout of universal joy. So the opera proceeded. The singers drew inspira- tion from the audience, and the two great sextettes w... ...te such a note, partly because her education inclined her to reverence the male, partly because she had got to like Philip a good deal after their las...

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Sketches

By: Charles Dickens

...ing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cove... ...r any amount to sing the psalms better than all the children put together, male and female; and, in short, conducts himself in the most turbulent and ... ...ied too; and a happy release it was, both for herself and the old paupers, male and female, which she used to tip over in all directions, as if they w... ...robation was tumultuous. He gave an imitation of the two negroes in broken English; the roof was rent with applause. From that period we date (with on... ...r maze of streets, courts, lanes, and alleys? Where such a pure mixture of Englishmen and Irishmen, as in this complicated part of London? We boldly a... ...d fountains glittered and sparkled before our eyes; the beauty of the lady singers and the elegant deportment of the gentlemen, captivated our hearts;... ...t’s what bothers me. ’ Here there was a considerable talking among the fe- males in the spencers. ‘What’s the ladies a laughing at, sir?’ inquired the... ...t shades of cloudy-white.—’Pray, silence, gentlemen, for non no- bis!’ The singers, whom you discover to be no other than the very party that excited ... ...-room, never was anything half so splendid. There was an orchestra for the singers, all paint, gilding, and plate-glass; and such an organ! Miss J’mim...

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War and Peace

By: Leo Tolstoy, Graf

...ing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cove... ...fifteen rubles a head, and at which there were two bands and two choirs of singers. Rostov danced the Trepak with Major Basov; the tipsy officers toss... ..., while Nicholas rode with Natasha and Petya to “Uncle’s” house. Some five male domestic serfs, big and little, rushed out to the front porch to meet ... ...ner voice told her that now or never her fate would be decided, and in her male attire she seemed quite a different person. Louisa Ivanovna con- sente... ... with them into the back rooms where a cork and various dressing gowns and male garments were called for and received from the footman by bare girlish...

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John Keble's Parishes a History of Hursley and Otterbourne

By: Charlotte Mary Yonge

...ing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cove... ...an of the bed-chamber to Henry VIII., and had put thirty-seven Psalms into English verse, in hopes of improv- ing the morals of the Court. John Hopkin... ...ed-chamber. He was a principal instru- ment of translating the Psalms into English metre; the first twenty-six (and seven-and-thirty in all)* being by... ...ondence ensued, as to the settlement of Hursley upon Dorothy and her heirs male, and the compensation to her younger sister Anne. Cromwell was anxious... ...nd the collar of the Golden Fleece around his neck, followed by a group of male figures, one with a beautiful face. On the other side kneels a lady, n... ...lace in Church, which was more im- portant when there was no choir and the singers sat in the gallery. He was very happy in this office, moving about ... ...rt’s T ongue (Scolopendrium officinale). (Polystichum angulare).—Cranbury. Male Fern (Lastrea Filix-mas). (L. spinulosa). (L. dilatata).—Otterbourne P...

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The Divine Comedy

By: Dante Aligheri

...g student publication project to bring classical works of litera- ture, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cove... ...e the puissance divine. I understood that unto such a torment The carnal malefactors were condemned, Who reason subjugate to appetite. 23 Dante A... ...n the cold season in large band and full, So doth that blast the spirits maledict; It hither, thither, downward, upward, drives them; No hope doth... ...ever way I turn, and gaze. In the third circle am I of the rain Eternal, maledict, and cold, and heavy; Its law and quality are never new. Huge ha... ...hat had addressed me showed how great An artist ’twas among the heavenly singers. To my right side I turned myself around, My duty to behold in Be... ...ere shall be seen the pride that causes thirst, Which makes the Scot and Englishman so mad That they within their boundaries cannot rest; 325 Dan...

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Sartor Resartus the Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdr Ockh

By: Thomas Carlyle

..., and Rot ten Boroughs, and Revolts of Paris, deafen every French and every English ear, the German can stand peaceful on his scientific watch tower; ... ...on in which pure Science, especially pure moral Science, languishes among us English; and how our mercantile great ness, and invaluable Constitution,... ...ution, impressing a political or other immediately practical tendency on all English culture and endeavor, cramps the free flight of Thought,—that this... .... Observe too how fond they are of peaks, and Gothic arch intersections. The male world wears peaked caps, an ell long, which hang bobbing over the si... ...(Offscourings of Vienna) vociferously superintending games of chance. Ballad singers brayed, Auctioneers grew hoarse; cheap New Wine (heuriger) flowed ...

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The Long Vacation

By: Charlotte Mary Yonge

...ing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cove... ...they—all eight of them—were almost destitute? the birth of the poor little male heir preventing the sale of the property, so terribly en- cumbered; an... ...th sides apparently,” said Gerald. “Those dainty ankles never were bred on English clods.” “I wonder what her mother is,” said Mrs. Grinstead. “By the... ...nd all that you and Mr. Flight have taught me, she is angry, and laughs at English notions. I was in hopes when I came to work here that my earnings w... ...ed, and the sellers were in commotion, and he had been all day putting the singers one by one through their parts, that as he went to his room at nigh... ...gnor Menotti, Via San Giacomo, Genoa, or his successors, a man who trained singers and per- formers, and moreover took charge of Benista’s money, and ... ...gnor Menotti, Via San Giacomo, Genoa, or his successors, a man who trained singers and per- formers, and moreover took charge of Benista’s money, and ...

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Speeches: Literary and Social

By: Charles Dickens

...ing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Copy... ...on—why, where can you go that they have not been there before? Is there an English farm—is there an English stream, an English city, or an English cou... ... to recognize in this toast the President’s usual disinterestedness; since English literature could scarcely be re membered in any place, and, certai... ... of 25S. extending over a period of five years, entitles a subscriber—if a male—to an annuity of 16 pounds a year, and a female to 12 pounds a year. N... ...ollected within the scope of its benevolence are all actors and actresses, singers, or dancers, of five years’ standing in the profession. To relieve ... ...r sitters, to idle pens, unchecked reckless rumours, and undenounced lying malevolence. Charles Dickens 194 I cannot forbear, before I resume my seat...

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The Witch and Other Stories

By: Anton Chekhov

...ing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cove... ....................................................................... 139 A MALEFACTOR ................................................................... ...eemed as though the whole house were smiling, too. Beggars and pil- grims, male and female, began to come into the yard, a thing which had never happe... ...ights and the bright coloured dresses dazzled Lipa; she felt as though the singers with their loud voices were hitting her on the head with a hammer. ... ...rd instead of a tie, stared at the same spot lost in thought, and when the singers shouted loudly he hurriedly crossed himself. He felt touched and di... ...tion to them. The young couple had scarcely crossed the threshold when the singers, who were already standing in the outer room with their music books... ...r little axes… .” He drank little and was now only drunk from one glass of English bitters. The revolting bitters, made from nobody knows what, intoxi... ...wn life. The sheep were pondering, too. 149 The Witch and other stories A MALEFACTOR AN EXCEEDINGLY LEAN little peasant, in a striped hempen shirt an...

...135 HAPPINESS ................................................................................................................................. 139 A MALEFACTOR ........................................................................................................................ 149 PEASANTS....................................................................................

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The Divine Comedy Volume 3 Paradise

By: Dante Aligheri

...ing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cove... ...the words he uses here, and they are no less unfamiliar in Italian than in English. 21 The Mediterranean. 37 Dante – Paradise was wont to make the h... ...loquy. She smiles, not reproachfully, at Dante’s vainglory. 4 The Dame de Malehault, who coughed at seeing the first kiss given by Lancelot to Guenev... ...ul which had spoken with me showed me how great an artist it was among the singers of heaven. I turned me round to my right side to see my duty signi-... ...shall be seen the pride that quickens thirst, which makes the Scot and the English- man mad, so that neither can keep within his own bounds. 15 The lu... ... supposed to be the source of the light of the stars. 2 That is, in those singers. 3 David. See 2 Samuel, vi. 4 So far as it proceeded from his own... ... secure salvation. After the first ages were, complete, it was needful for males with their innocent plumage to ac- quire virtue through circumcision....

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The Days Work

By: Rudyard Kipling

...ing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cove... ...ld-councils of Findlayson and Hitchcock with- out fear, till his wonderful English, or his still more wonderful lingua franca, half Portuguese and hal... ...s and shoot- ing black-buck with the young man. He had been bear-led by an English tutor of sporting tastes for some five or six years, and was now ro... ...s mangy, undersized—a ti- gress worn with nursing, or a broken-toothed old male—and Bukta would curb young Chinn’s impatience. At last, a noble animal... ...9 The Day’s Work infernal music rolled and maddened round red fires, while singers sang songs of the ancient times, and danced peculiar dances. The ab... ... secret fancies aloud, she does not care to have them trampled over by the male Philistine. They rode into the little red-brick street of Bassett, and...

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Ferragus Chief of the Devorants

By: Honoré de Balzac

...ing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cove... ...stre”; he never contra- dicted them, and he made them shine. But among his male friends, when the topic of the sex came up, he laid down the principle... ...s, beggars, occasionally insolent countesses, admired actresses, applauded singers; she has even given, in the olden time, two quasi- queens to the mo... ...e with claws, scissors, impudent as a Spanish woman, snarling as a prudish English woman pro- claiming her conjugal rights, coquettish as a great lady... ... husband to eau de Melisse for faintness, sugarplums for the children, and English court-plaster in case of cuts. Jules studied all. He looked attenti... ...erings of the cradle, swelling to the griefs of other ages in the stronger male voices and the quavering of the priests,—all this strident harmony, bi...

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To Build a Fire : And Other Stories

By: Jack London

...y and pepper sauce and” — “Dump it in. Who ’s making this punch, anyway?” And Male mute Kid smiled benignantly through the clouds of steam. “By the ... ...e of a glori ous ferment of sugar and sour dough. That was before your time,” Malemute Kid said as he turned to Stanley Prince, a young mining expert... ... he had heard of this wild deed, when at Forty Mile the preceding winter. Then Malemute Kid, who was a born raconteur, told the unvar nished tale of ... ...nd the board. Aliens from a dozen lands, they toasted each and all. It was the Englishman, Prince, who pledged “Uncle Sam, the precocious infant of th... ... Smiling incredulously, the Kid glanced at his well stocked ar senal, and the Englishman, realizing his impotency, turned for the door. But the dog d... ...tion; but when she came to him with her wonderful smile and her straight clean English, and talked to the point, without pleading or persuad ing, he ... ...me to pass in the time when the fools are dead, and when there will be no more singers to stand still and sing the ‘Song of the Bees.’ Bees are not me... ...r women, with his priests and sorcerers, his dancers and flute players and hula singers, and fighting men and servants, and his high chiefs with their w...

...le too strong? Whiskey and alcohol?s bad enough; but when it comes to brandy and peppersauce and?--?Dump it in. Who?s making this punch, anyway?? And Malemute Kid smiled benignantly through the clouds of steam. ?By the time you?ve been in this country as long as I have, my son, and lived on rabbit tracks and salmon-belly, you?ll learn that Christmas comes only once per ann...

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An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations

By: Adam Smith

...g student publication project to bring classical works of litera- ture, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cove... ...to twelve ounces, each of which contained a real ounce of good copper. The English pound sterling, in the time of Edward I. contained a pound, Tower w... ...f Robert Bruce, a pound of silver of the same weight and fineness with the English pound sterling. English, French, and Scots pennies, too, contained ... ...them as the means of subsistence. The exorbitant rewards of players, opera-singers, opera-dancers, etc. are founded upon those two principles; the rar... ...icians, men of letters of all kinds; players, buf- foons, musicians, opera-singers, opera-dancers, etc. The labour of the meanest of these has a certa... ...the Romans who made no more distinction between elder and younger, between male and female, in the inheritance of lands, than we do in the distributio... ... can be no indisputable dif- ference but that of sex, and that of age. The male sex is universally preferred to the female; and when all other things ... ...aestus”, says old Cato, “stabilissimusque, minimeque invidiosus; minimeque male cogitantes sunt, qui in eo studio occupati sunt.” Country gentlemen an...

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War and Peace

By: Leo Tolstoy, Graf

...ing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cove... ...vlovna. “Y ou are staying the whole evening, I hope?” “And the fete at the English ambassador’s? Today is W ednesday. I must put in an appearance ther... ...e secret motive in our actions. What answer did Novosiltsev get? None. The English have not understood and cannot understand the self-abnega- tion of ... ... the count, with the hussar colonel on his left and Shinshin and the other male visitors on his right. Midway down the long table on one side sat the ... ... Poles—all under the Russian crown—but here they’re all regular Germans.” “Singers to the front “ came the captain’s order. And from the different ran... ...nty men ran to the front. A drummer, their leader, turned round facing the singers, and flourishing his arm, began a long-drawn- out soldiers’ song, c... ...round, the drummer—a lean, handsome soldier of forty—looked sternly at the singers and screwed up his eyes. Then having satisfied himself that all eye... ...Pavlograd commander. The com- manders met with polite bows but with secret malevo- lence in their hearts. “Once again, Colonel,” said the general, “I ... ...always happens when women lead lonely lives for any length of time without male society, on Anatole’s appearance all the three women of Prince Bolkons...

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Middlemarch

By: George Eliot

...ing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cove... ...d lost their parents, on plans at once narrow and promiscuous, first in an English family and afterwards in a Swiss family at Lausanne, their bachelor... ...plexion which became a student; as different as possible from the blooming Englishman of the red-whis- kered type represented by Sir James Chettam. “I... ...an appetite for submission afterwards. And certainly, the mistakes that we male and female mortals make when we have our own way might fairly raise so... ..., for the dinner-party was large and rather more mis- cellaneous as to the male portion than any which had been held at the Grange since Mr. Brooke’s ... ...here the teach- ing included all that was demanded in the accomplished fe- male—even to extras, such as the getting in and out of a car- riage. Mrs. L... ...ist on my singing. But I shall tremble before you, who have heard the best singers in Paris. I have heard very little: I have only once been to London... ...ed that he could not find his hearth free. When he opened the door the two singers went on towards the key-note, raising their eyes and looking at him... ...n a scowl as he walked across the room and flung himself into a chair. The singers feeling themselves excused by the fact that they had only three bar...

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Magnum Bonum or Mother Careys Brood

By: Charlotte Mary Yonge

...ing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cove... ...aid Mr. Brownlow laughing—having just found her trying to make out the Old English of King Alfred’s 7 Yonge ‘Boethius’—”such as this?” “Just so! They... ... of the verb “to be” in five languages—Greek, Latin, French, Ger- man, and English. “And Allen—reposing on your honours? Eh, my boy?” Allen looked rat... ... Who would have thought of his getting the whole set to dress up as nigger singers, with black faces and banjoes, and coming to dance and sing in fron... ...in a still more curious way. So when, in terror of our aunt, the whole fe- male household have done their best to turn out Miss Janet respectable, bet... ... women.” “Not both together.” “Yes, I tell you, the whole boiling of them, male and female. There’ s a fat German Countess, who always calls Jock her ... ...ories as to his private character. These were as- cribed by Bobus to pious malevolence, and Janet had accepted the explanation, and cultivated a bowin...

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Middlemarch

By: George Eliot

...ad lost their parents, on plans at once narrow and promiscuous, first in an English family and afterwards in a Swiss family at Lausanne, their bachelor... ...plexion which became a student; as different as possible from the blooming Englishman of the red whiskered type represented by Sir James Chettam. “I a... ...d: it is true that when he used a Greek or Latin phrase he always gave the English with scrupu lous care, but he would probably have done this in any... ...an appetite for submission afterwards. And certainly, the mistakes that we male and female mortals make when we have our own way might fairly raise so... ...g, for the dinner party was large and rather more miscellaneous as to the male portion than any which had been held at the Grange since Mr. Brooke’s ... ... missy to come down.” Rosamond and Mary had been talking faster than their male friends. They did not think of sitting down, but stood at the toilet t... ...ist on my singing. But I shall tremble before you, who have heard the best singers in Paris. I have heard very little: I have only once been to London... ...yed that he could not find his hearth free. When he opened the door the two singers went on towards the key note, raising their eyes and looking at him... ... and flung himself into a chair. 476 Book VI — The Widow and the Wife. The singers feeling themselves excused by the fact that they had only three bar...

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The Clever Woman of the Family

By: Charlotte Mary Yonge

...ing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cove... ... Rachel in it, to give her helpless cousin assistance in this beginning of English habits. A roomy fly had been engaged for nurses and children, and M... ...ht Francis just commencing an onslaught on the globules, tak- ing them for English sweetmeats of a minute description. The afternoon passed with the s... ...aving begun his career with such mortal offence to the native fiddlers and singers as to impel them into the arms of dissent, he could only supply the... ...ver, she came down on them with, “What conclusion have you formed upon fe- male emigration?” “‘His sister she went beyond the seas, And died an old m... ...- tion, above all to such a man as my brother. It would ap- pear like mere malevolence.” “Never mind what it would appear,” said Alick, who was eviden... ... of these;” and she produced a packet of prospectuses of a “Journal of Fe- male Industry,” an illustrated monthly magazine, destined to contain essays...

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Jerusalem Delivered

By: Torquato Tasso

...ing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cove... ...op, and but a thousand all, Under another Robert fierce they run. Then the English squadron, soldiers stout and tall, By William led, their sovereign’... ...y word, Ralph, Rosimond, and Eberard request, A Scottish, an Irish, and an English lord, Whose lands the seas divide far from the rest, And for the fi... ...he did, Those glances shamefaced were, close, secret, hid. XLII As cunning singers, ere they strain on high, In loud melodious tunes, their gentle voi... ...oniface And Beatrice his dear possessed the stage; Nor was there left heir male of that great race, To enjoy the sceptre, state and heritage; The Prin... ...spond the birds, the streams, the wind, But yet unseen those nymphs, those singers were, Unseen the lutes, harps, viols which they bear. 404 Jerusale... ...calmed again 284 As an old rock, which age or stormy wind 418 As cunning singers, ere they strain on high, 364 “As diverse be their nations,” answe...

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The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby

By: Charles Dickens

...g student publica- tion project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cove... ...e. Street bands are on their mettle in Golden Square; and itiner- ant glee-singers quaver involuntarily as they raise their voices within its boundari... ...s, all traders in muffins (or crumpets) of whatsoever description, whether male or female, boys or men, ringing hand-bells or otherwise,’ was moved by... ...maining; there were vicious-faced boys, brood- ing, with leaden eyes, like malefactors in a jail; and there were young creatures on whom the sins of t... ... torn and filthy book beneath his learned eye. ‘This is the first class in English spelling and philosophy, Nickleby,’ said Squeers, beckoning Nichola... ...y an easy transition, into Mantalini: the lady rightly considering that an English appellation would be of serious injury to the business. He had marr... ...llanbile, MP . Fifteen guineas, tea and sugar, and servants allowed to see male cousins, if godly. Note. Cold dinner in the kitchen on the Sabbath, Mr...

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Jerusalem Delivered

By: Torquato Tasso

...ing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cove... ...op, and but a thousand all, Under another Robert fierce they run. Then the English squadron, soldiers stout and tall, By William led, their sovereign’... ...y word, Ralph, Rosimond, and Eberard request, A Scottish, an Irish, and an English lord, Whose lands the seas divide far from the rest, And for the fi... ...he did, Those glances shamefaced were, close, secret, hid. XLII As cunning singers, ere they strain on high, In loud melodious tunes, their gentle voi... ...oniface And Beatrice his dear possessed the stage; Nor was there left heir male of that great race, To enjoy the sceptre, state and heritage; The Prin... ...spond the birds, the streams, the wind, But yet unseen those nymphs, those singers were, Unseen the lutes, harps, viols which they bear. 404 Jerusale...

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The Wife and Other Stories

By: Anton Tchekhov

...ing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cove... ... minute of proceedings. Another point: I find it easier to write German or English than to write Russian. As regards my present manner of life, I must... ...ing them. Gnekker and the young ladies talk of fugues, of counterpoint, of singers and pianists, of Bach and Brahms, while my wife, afraid of their su... ...haracteristic reflection on the ill- behaviour of the young people in both male and female high- schools, the uproar in the classes. “Oh, he hoped it ...

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Thus Spake Zarathustra

By: Friedrich Nietzsche

...going student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Co... ...hee; and they repay thy benefi- 58 Thus Spake Zarathustra cence with secret maleficence. Thy silent pride is always counter to their taste; they rejo... ...snow. In all their lamentations soundeth vengeance, in all their eulogies is maleficence; and being judge seemeth to them bliss. But thus do I counsel... ...hough I be alone in an empty house, and must sing it to mine own ears. Other singers are there, to be sure, to whom only the full house maketh the voi... ...it happened that the ass also found ut- terance: it said distinctly and with malevolence, Y-E-A.) ’Twas once—methinks year one of our blessed Lord,— D... ...t terrifies the modern soul; it is his one anxi- ety, his one ghastly fear” (English Edition, page 141). In his feverish scurry to find entertainment ... ...which, at first sight, seems to be merely “le manoir a l’envers,” indeed one English critic has actually said of Nietzsche, that “Thus Spake Zarathust...

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Little Dorrit

By: Charles Dickens

...ing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cove... ... the Circumlocution Office, I would seek it in the common experience of an Englishman, without presum- ing to mention the unimportant fact of my havin... ...t or day, for months. Hindoos, Russians, Chinese, Spaniards, Por- tuguese, Englishmen, Frenchmen, Genoese, Neapolitans, V e- netians, Greeks, Turks, d... ...ce it as a merit to be sensitive and brave, but it is my character. If the male rela- tions of Madame Rigaud had put themselves forward openly, I shou... ...ated altogether, than—Mr Plornish said manufacturers, but appeared to mean malefactors. Why, a man didn’t know where to turn himself for a crumb of co... ...of rents. Mr F.’s Aunt, after regarding the company for ten minutes with a malevolent gaze, delivered the following fearful remark: ‘When we lived at ... ...d not kept, in those days of his youth and prosperity, an idle house where singers, and play- ers, and such-like children of Evil turned their backs o...

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The Schoolmistress and Other Stories

By: Anton Chekhov

...ing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cove... ...evilles, with singing in them, and opportunities for disporting herself in male attire, in tights. In fact it was — ough! Well, I ask your attention. ... ...nd side by side with these people I can quote you hundreds of all sorts of singers, acrobats, buf- 106 Anton Chekhov foons, whose names are known to ...

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Madame Bovary

By: Gustave Flaubert

...ing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cove... ...dress wearing an alms-bag at her belt; or there were nameless portraits of English ladies with fair curls, who looked at you from under their round st... ...s; all were pale; all got up at four o’clock; the women, poor angels, wore English point on their petticoats; and the men, unappreciated geniuses unde... ...d be strong and dark; she would call him George; and this idea of having a male child was like an expected revenge for all her impotence in the past. ... ...h hat fell at a gesture he made, and imme- diately the instruments and the singers began the sextet. Edgar, flashing with fury, dominated all the othe... ..., near the espalier, and he ground his teeth; he raised to heaven looks of malediction, but not so much as a leaf stirred. A fine rain was falling: Ch...

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The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby

By: Charles Dickens

...ing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cove... ...e. Street bands are on their mettle in Golden Square; and itiner- ant glee-singers quaver involuntarily as they raise their voices within its boundari... ...s, all traders in muffins (or crumpets) of whatsoever description, whether male or female, boys or men, ringing hand-bells or otherwise,’ was moved by... ...maining; there were vicious-faced boys, brood- ing, with leaden eyes, like malefactors in a jail; and there were young creatures on whom the sins of t... ... torn and filthy book beneath his learned eye. ‘This is the first class in English spelling and philosophy, Nickleby,’ said Squeers, beckoning Nichola... ...y an easy transition, into Mantalini: the lady rightly considering that an English appellation would be of serious injury to the business. He had marr... ...llanbile, MP . Fifteen guineas, tea and sugar, and servants allowed to see male cousins, if godly. Note. Cold dinner in the kitchen on the Sabbath, Mr...

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