Excerpt Details
...Excerpt: On a Moorland slope where sheep and goats were dispersed among the rocks, there lay a young lad on his back, in a stout canvas cassock over his leathern coat, and stout leathern leggings over wooden shoes. Twilight was fast coming on; only a gleam of purple...

Full Text Search Details
... CHARLOTTE M. YONGE A Penn State Classics Series Publictaion The Herd Boy And His Hermit by Charlotte M. Yonge is a publication of the Pennsylvania S... ...nnsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ... charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania Sta... ...sing, while he kissed the rod, His Redeemer and his God. —Southey CHAPTER I CHAPTER I CHAPTER I CHAPTER I CHAPTER I IN IN IN IN IN THE MOSS THE MOSS ... ...ER I CHAPTER I IN IN IN IN IN THE MOSS THE MOSS THE MOSS THE MOSS THE MOSS I can conduct you, lady, to a low But loyal cottage where you may be safe T... ...f the descending crescent moon. ‘Go away, horned moon,’ murmured the boy. ‘I want to see my stars come out before Hob comes to call me home, and the g... ...Yorkshire moor had been broken up. CHAPTER CHAPTER CHAPTER CHAPTER CHAPTER VI VI VI VI VI A CA A CA A CA A CA A CAUTIOUS STEPF UTIOUS STEPF UTIOUS STE... ... was no season for roses, but a feather was also the cogni- sance of Henry VI., and every one’s barret-cap mounted a feather, generally borrowed from ... ...wns who had been beguiled into an expedition to Scotland to the young King James, who was said to have a fair taste. He waved his hands as if his suff...

Excerpt Details
Excerpt: War and the Future: Italy, France and Britain at War by H. G. Wells.

Full Text Search Details
...War and the Future Italy, France and Britain at War by H. G. Wells A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES P... ...ar by H. G. Wells A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION War and the Future: Italy, France and Britain at War by H. G. Wells is a public... ...nnsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ...are saying each to one another, “Pray come to me and see for yourself that I am very much the human stuff that you are. Come and see that I am doing m... ...uch the human stuff that you are. Come and see that I am doing my best—and I think that is not so very bad a best….” And with that is something else s... ...f me—and all this.” So we have this curious byplay of the war, and one day I find Mr. Nabokoff, the editor of the Retch, and Count Alexy Tolstoy, that... ...ther real experiencing soldiers—not to men- tion the soldiers’ letters Mr. James Milne has collected, or the unforgettable and immortal Prisoner of W ... ...he collar and shook him. If our world had considered the advice of William James and insisted upon national service from everyone, national service in... ...ch at, nothing else can satisfy his manifest need. 138 War and the Future VI. VI. VI. VI. VI. THE ENDING OF THE ENDING OF THE ENDING OF THE ENDING OF...

Full Text Search Details
...nnsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ... charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania Sta... ...cation project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cover Design: Jim Man... ...unch, had gripped his mind, and then as now had come the thought, “If only I could smoke!” And he had smoked. It seemed better to break a vow than fai... ...bbed him to the heart. “Oh, God!” he groaned. “The meanness of it! How did I bring myself—?” He turned out the light convulsively, and rolled over in ... ... THE FIFTH – THE FIFTH – THE FIRST THE FIRST THE FIRST THE FIRST THE FIRST VI- VI- VI- VI- VI- SION SION SION SION SION 1 1 1 1 1 DR. DALE exceeded th... ... angel up to the great drawing-room. In the drawing-room he found only Sir James Mounce, the man who knew the novels of Sir Walter Scott by heart and ... ...nt away there would be no hold left upon the ordinary things of life. “Sir James,” he said, “I was wondering the other day when was the exact date of ... ...e of the earliest public ascription of W averley to Scott.” “Eh!” said Sir James, “but I’d like to talk that over with ye. Indeed I would. It would be...

Excerpt Details
...Excerpt: It was sitting by the fire, in a mysterious and magnificent retreat,--now a thing of the past but surviving in our memory,--whence our eyes commanded a view of Paris from the heights of Belleville to those of Belleville, from Montmartre to the triumphal Arc de l?Etoile...

Full Text Search Details
...Gambara by Honoré de Balzac T ranslated by Clara Bell and James Waring A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Gamba... ...Gambara by Honoré de Balzac T ranslated by Clara Bell and James Waring A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Gambara b... ...lassics Series Publication Gambara by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Clara Bell and James Waring is a publication of the Penn- sylvania State University. T... ...ics Series Publication Gambara by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Clara Bell and James Waring is a publication of the Penn- sylvania State University. This ... ...- sylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ...ansmission, in any way. Gambara by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Clara Bell and James Waring, the Pennsylvania State Uni- versity, Electronic Classics Seri... ...lestial music to his bewildered listeners. It was you who created Gambara; I have only clothed him. Let me render unto Caesar the things that are Caes... ... Rosina’s bashfulness a reticence imposed by the po- lice—is not all this, I say, an experience familiar to many a man who would not own it? The most ... ...ith light. Sound is light, perceived under another form; each acts through vi- brations to which man is sensitive and which he transforms, in the nerv...

Excerpt Details
Excerpt: What Is Man and Other Essays by Mark Twain (Samuel L. Clemens).

Full Text Search Details
...WHAT IS MAN? WHAT IS MAN? AND OTHER ESSAYS OF MARK TWAIN (Samuel Langhorne Clemens, 1835 1910) What ... ...ER ESSAYS OF MARK TWAIN (Samuel Langhorne Clemens, 1835 1910) What Is Man and Other Essays by Mark T wain (Samuel L. Clemens) is a publication of t... ...nnsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, f... ... when an imploring argument or a damaging fact approaches. Mark T wain 53 VI Instinc Instinc Instinc Instinc Instinct and t and t and t and t and... ...t while it was not noticing the Queen had passed Henry VIII., passed Henry VI. and Elizabeth, and gaining in length every day. Her reign had entered t... ... your kings spaced off in your mind? When you think of Richard III. and of James II. do the durations of their reigns seem about alike to you? It isn’... ...ong reigns, but slowing down when we came upon people like Mary and Edward VI., and the short Stuart and Plantagenet, to give time to get in the stati... ...aded after a few days. John Bright is noted for an incurable disease. Lord James Gordon Bennet instigated the Gordon Riots. The Middle Ages come in be... ... years elapsed. Shakspere translated the Scriptures and it was called St. James because he did it. In the middle of the chapter I find many pages of ...

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 which I owe to you and yours. My volum...

Full Text Search Details
...nnsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ... charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania Sta... ...cation project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cover Design: Jim Man... ...uage 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 g... ... to your Lordship, for the sake of the great kindness and friendship which I owe to you and yours. My volume will reach you when the Author is on his ... ...smond had frankly taken the side of his family. It seemed to him that King James the Third was undoubtedly King of England by right: and at his sister... ...gn despotic Prince, out of Germany, who happened to be descended from King James the First, should take pos- session of this empire, seemed to Mr. Esm... ...h the Tories chose to consider divine, he was ready to say, “God save King James!” when Queen Anne went the way of kings and commoners. “I fear, Colon... ...Beatrix,” thought Esmond, “and here ends my poor girl’s ambition!” CHAPTER VI POOR BEATRIX. THERE HAD BEEN NO NEED to urge upon Esmond the necessity o...

Excerpt Details
...r Winchester, Va. At the time, it was under General Milroy as immediate commander in the field, General Schenck as department commander at Baltimore, and General Halleck as general- in-chief at Washington. General Milroy, as immediate commander, was put in arrest, and subsequently a court of inquiry examined chiefly with reference to disobedience of orders, and reported th...

Full Text Search Details
...- sylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ... charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania Sta... ...cation project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cover Design: Jim Man... ...hed him. Serious blame is not necessarily due to any serious disaster, and I cannot say that in this case any of the officers are de- serving of serio... ... W. GRIMES. EXECUTIVE MANSION, W ASHINGTON, D.C., Oc- tober 29, 1863. HON. JAMES W. GRIMES. MY DEAR SIR :—The above act of Congress was passed, as I s... ... H. HACKETT [Private.] EXECUTIVE MAN- SION, W ASHINGTON, November 2, 1863. JAMES H. HACKETT. MY DEAR SIR:—Y ours of October 22d is received, as also w... .... 18 The Writings of Abraham Lincoln: V ol Seven TELEGRAM to E. H. AND E. JAMESON. WAR DE- PARTMENT, WASHINGTON, D. C., November 13, 1863. E. H. and ... ...ctually sold in pursuance of said Regulations LII, LIII, LIV , L V , and L VI, after the same shall have taken effect and come in force as provided in... ...and punished accordingly. 195 The Writings of Abraham Lincoln: V ol Seven VI. Any person transporting or attempting to transport any merchandise or o...

Table of Contents Details
... II.?THE CONSTITUTION ...................................................................................................................... 6 BOOK 2.I. THE FEAST OF PIKES ............................................................................................................................. 6 Chapter 2.1.I. In the Tuileries. .............................................

Full Text Search Details
... TE TE TE TE E E E E ELE LE LE LE LECTR CTR CTR CTR CTRO O O O ON N N N NI I I I IC C C C C C C C C CL L L L LA A A A AS S S S SS S S S SI I I I IC C ... ...S S S S SS S S S SI I I I IC C C C CS S S S S S S S S SE E E E ER R R R RI I I I IE E E E ES S S S S P P P P PU U U U UB B B B BLI LI LI LI LICA CA CA... ...- sylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ... charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania Sta... ...cation project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cover Design: Jim Man... .............................................................. 31 Chapter 2.1.VI. Je le jure. .............................................................. .............................................................. 80 Chapter 2.2.VI. Bouille at Nanci. ........................................................ ............................................................. 115 Chapter 2.3.VI. Mirabeau. ................................................................ ...t, ‘the Minister of Preparatives,’ looks out from his watch-tower in Saint-James’s, in a sus- 202 The French Revolution—V olume Two picious manner. C...

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 which I owe to you and yours. My volum...

Full Text Search Details
...nnsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ... charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania Sta... ...cation project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cover Design: Jim Man... ...uage 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 g... ... to your Lordship, for the sake of the great kindness and friendship which I owe to you and yours. My volume will reach you when the Author is on his ... ...ch the family hath borne subsequently, was made Knight and Baronet by King James the First; and being of a military disposition, remained long in Germ... ...s was rewarded for his ser- vices and many sacrifices, by his late Majesty James the First, who graciously conferred upon this tried servant the post ... ...ed with snow. Gentlemen who were about the Court of King Charles, and King James, have told the present writer a number of stories about this queer ol... ...re he had well told his story, the troop rode into our court-yard. CHAPTER VI THE ISSUE OF THE PLOTS.—THE DEATH OF THOMAS, THIRD VISCOUNT OF CASTLEWOO...

Excerpt Details
...Excerpt: This is America--a town of a few thousand, in a region of wheat and corn and dairies and little groves. The town is, in our tale, called ?Gopher Prairie, Minnesota.? But its Main Street is the continuation of Main Streets everywhere. The story would be the same in Ohio or Montana, in Kans...

Full Text Search Details
...nnsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ... charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania Sta... ...cation project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cover Design: Jim Man... ...opportunity university. 3 Sinclair Lewis Main Street by Sinclair Lewis To James Branch Cabell and Joseph Hergesheimer THIS IS AMERICA—a town of a few... ...ever saw Stewart Snyder again. She wrote to him once a week—for one month. VI A year Carol spent in Chicago. Her study of library-cata- loguing, recor... ... to Pollock, “Don’t you think we ought to get up a dramatic club?” CHAPTER VI I When the first dubious November snow had filtered down, shading with w... ...re served in true Oriental style, and one and all voted a delightful time. VI The week after, the Chet Dashaways gave a party. The circle of mourners ... ...r, and Gus Dahl, from the “Old Coun- try,” wished to be taken for Yankees. James Madison Howland, born in New Hampshire, and Ole Jenson, born in Swede... ... petitioned, “That’s great stuff. Study it in college? I like poetry fine— James Whitcomb Riley and some of Longfellow—this `Hiawatha.’ Gosh, I wish I...

Excerpt Details
...ate. The preceding volume of this Collection concluded the last of the pieces originally published under the Nominis umbra of The Author of Waverley; and the circumstances which rendered it impossible for the writer to continue longer in the possession of his incognito were communicated in 1827, in the Introduction to the first series of Chronicles of the Canongate, consis...

Table of Contents Details
..................................................................................................... 210 Note 8.?BATTLE BETWIXT THE ARMIES OF THE BRUCE AND MACDOUGAL OF LORN. ............. 212 Note 9.?MASSACRE OF GLENCOE. ................................................................................................................. 214 Note 10.?FIDELITY OF THE HIGHLANDERS....

Full Text Search Details
...sylvania State Uni- versity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ... charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania Sta... ...cation project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cover Design: Jim Man... ...r until a succeeding volume, than to “Begin, and break off in the middle.” I have, perhaps, said enough on former occasions of the misfortunes which l... ...surviving friends of my father, 11 Sir Walter Scott and an acute critic, [James Chalmers, Esq., Solicitor at Law, London, who (died during the public... ... William Cunningham of Caprington, by Janet, only child and heiress of Sir James Dick of Prestonfield; and, among other children of this marriage were... ... of Pinkie, Bart., Admiral Adam, Baron Clerk Rattray, Gilbert Innes, Esq., James W alker, Esq., Robert Dundas, Esq., Alexander Smith, Esq., etc. The c... ...bookseller, as his own taste shall determine. 93 Sir Walter Scott CHAPTER VI. MR. CROFTANGRY’S ACCOUNT OF MRS. BETHUNE BALIOL. The moon, were she e... ... Sir Christopher Seton with a sister of King Robert Bruce. With King James VI. they acquired great favour, who, having created his brother Earl of Dun...

Excerpt Details
...Introduction: As I may, without vanity, presume that the name and official description prefixed to this Proem will secure it, from the sedate and reflecting part of mankind, to whom only I would be understood to address myself, such attention...

Full Text Search Details
...sylvania State University. This Por- table Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ... charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania Sta... ...cation project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cover Design: Jim Man... ...ity is an equal opportunity university. 3 The Black Dwarf by Walter Scott I. TALES OF MY LANDLORD Collected and Reported by Jedediah Cleishbotham, Sc... ...dual remained undiminished. 10 The proprietor of the ground, the late Sir James Naesmith, baronet, chanced to pass this singular dwelling, which, hav... ... than a hundred years, by the peaceful union of the crowns in the reign of James the First of Great Britain. Still the country retained 21 traces of ... ...ndure the miseries of life as you are, from the wretchedness which his own vi- sions, and the villainy of the world, are preparing for him? Why should... ...d to receive the unwelcome assiduities of her detested suitor. 54 CHAPTER VI. Let not us that are squires of the night’s body be called thieves of th... ...ered that the party of ruffians had been heard to say they were acting for James VIII., and were charged to disarm all rebels. Others had heard Westbu...

Excerpt Details
...tisfied by the collation of many facts, either of ancient or modern times, has ever rivaled this astonishing metropolis in the grandeur of magnitude; and not many--if we except the cities of Greece, none at all--in the grandeur of architectural display. Speaking even of London, we ought in all reason to say--the Nation of London, and not the City of London; but of Rome in ...

Full Text Search Details
...sylvania State University. This Por- table Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this docu- ment file, ... ...harge of any kind. Any person using this docu- ment file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania Sta... ...cation project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cover Design: Jim Man... ... as belonging pretty much to what has hitherto been a sealed book. CHAPTER I CHAPTER I CHAPTER I CHAPTER I CHAPTER I THE CHARACTER of the first Cæsar ... ...ured as it were in one instant its whole meaning by ex- claiming, “Thus do I take possession of thee, oh Africa!” in that way giving to an accident th... ... whose informa- tion is past doubting. Therefore, be satisfied; otherwise, I will put every man of you on board some crazy old fleet, and whistle you ... ... late years been detected as a rob- bery from the celebrated Bellenden, of James the First’s time. 32 The Cæsars true that the legionary troops were ... ...thstanding. 143 Thomas de Quincey CHAPTER CHAPTER CHAPTER CHAPTER CHAPTER VI VI VI VI VI TO RETURN, however, to our sketch of the Cæsars—at the head ... ...enced eye, alien to the simplicity of an austere republic; whatever seemed vi- cious or capable of becoming vicious, according to their rude notions o...

Excerpt Details
...Excerpt: ?GOODNESS! If ever I did see such a pig!? said Ellen King, as she mounted the stairs. ?I wouldn?t touch him with a pair of tongs!? ?Who?? said a voice from the bedroom. ?Why, that tramper who has just been in to buy a loaf! He is a perfect pig,...

Full Text Search Details
...sylvania State Univer- sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ... charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania Sta... ...cation project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cover Design: Jim Man... ...versity. 3 Yo n g e Friarswood Post- Office By Charlotte M. Yonge CHAPTER I—THE STRANGE L CHAPTER I—THE STRANGE L CHAPTER I—THE STRANGE L CHAPTER I—T... ...ER I—THE STRANGE L CHAPTER I—THE STRANGE L CHAPTER I—THE STRANGE L CHAPTER I—THE STRANGE LAD AD AD AD AD ‘GOODNESS! If ever I did see such a pig!’ sai... ...f ever I did see such a pig!’ said Ellen King, as she mounted the stairs. ‘I wouldn’t touch him with a pair of tongs!’ ‘Who?’ said a voice from the be... ...en, as their mother said, ‘the hand- somest coachman who ever drove to St. James’s;’ but he had driven thither once too often; he had caught his death... ...d never seen him cry. 57 Yo n g e CHAPTER CHAPTER CHAPTER CHAPTER CHAPTER VI—THE MERR VI—THE MERR VI—THE MERR VI—THE MERR VI—THE MERRY OR Y OR Y OR Y... ...hat ‘oppress the hireling in his wages,’ and that terrible say- ing of St. James, ‘Behold, the hire of the labourers who have reaped down your fields,...

Excerpt Details
Excerpt: Memoirs of Louis XIV and His Court and of the Regency by The Duke of Saint-Simon.

Full Text Search Details
...Memoirs of Louis XIV and His Court and of the Regency By The Duke of Saint-Simon A Penn State Electronic Class... ... A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Memoirs of Louis XIV and His Court and of the Regency by The Duke of Saint-Simon is a publicatio... ...nnsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ...During the course of this siege, the King suffered a cruel disappointment. James II. of England, then a refugee in France, had advised the King to giv... ...agement with the Prince of Orange. CHAPTER CHAPTER CHAPTER CHAPTER CHAPTER VI VI VI VI VI AFTER OUR LONG REST at the camp of Gaw-Boecklheim we again p... ...thout disquietude. He had tried hard at Ryswick to obtain the dismissal of James II. from the realm, or at least from the Court of France, but without... ...t since been rebuilt; so that the kings are lodged, and very badly, at St. James’s Palace. Portland had his first audience of the King on the 4th of F... ...startled no less. CHAPTER XL CHAPTER XL CHAPTER XL CHAPTER XL CHAPTER XLVI VI VI VI VI IT IS TIME NOW to retrace my steps to the point from which I ha... ...e and so unex- pected. CHAPTER L CHAPTER L CHAPTER L CHAPTER L CHAPTER LVI VI VI VI VI BUT IN ORDER to understand the part I played in the event I hav...

Excerpt Details
Excerpt: Scenes and Characters Or, Eighteen Months at Beechcroft by Charlotte M. Yonge.

Full Text Search Details
...lotte M. Yonge A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Scenes and Characters Or, Eighteen Months at Beechcroft by Charlotte M. Yonge is a... ...nnsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ... charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania Sta... ...6) PERHAPS THIS BOOK is an instance to be adduced in support of the advice I have often given to young authors—not to print before they themselves are... ...oked out, I had rather you read over in a humble spirit the Epistle of St. James.’ Jane’s tears by this time were flowing fast, and finding that she n... ...x- tenuate her fault. 41 Yo n g e CHAPTER CHAPTER CHAPTER CHAPTER CHAPTER VI—THE NE VI—THE NE VI—THE NE VI—THE NE VI—THE NEW FRIEND W FRIEND W FRIEND... ...n Hannah’s sense, when she complains of Master Reginald being very mischie-vi-ous.’ Ada now succeeded in saying, ‘The Carringtons’ govern- ess called ... ...g into the room.’ ‘Oh! that accounts for it,’ said Maurice, ‘the slightest vi- bration causes an explosion of that sort of rocket, and of course it wa... ... beat high as she saw who were gathering round him—Mrs. Eden, Andrew Grey, James Harrington, and Mrs. Naylor, who held in her arms a healthy, rosy-che...

Excerpt Details
...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 inconsiderable than, in tho...

Full Text Search Details
...sylvania State Univer- sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ... charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania Sta... ...cation project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cover Design: Jim Man... ...to the sky;”—means are always there to stop them short of the sky. CHAPTER VI LITERATURE: THE ATHENAEUM Of all forms of public life, in the Talking Er... ...e which still subsists, had been founded in those years by Mr. Buckingham; James Silk Buckingham, who has since continued notable under various figure... ... but ask, that these ideas, displayed assuredly with no want of eloquence, vi- vacity or earnestness, have found, unless I am much mis- 99 Thomas Car... ...ipment, a sixpenny box of German lucifers pur- chased on the sudden in St. James’s Street, fit to be of- fered with laughter or with tears or with bot... ...subsequently made several of these health-journeys in partnership. CHAPTER VI LITERATURE: THE STERLING CLUB In spite of these wanderings, Sterling’s c... ... lucid piece of economics; and the List of the proposed Mem- bers, signed “James Spedding, Secretary,” and dated “8th August, 1838.”* The Club grew; w...

Excerpt Details
...1. Introduces Mr. Lewisham. The opening chapter does not concern itself with Love-- indeed that antagonist does not certainly appear until the third--and Mr. Lewisham is seen at his studies. It was ten years 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 aff...

Full Text Search Details
...M By H. G. WELLS A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION Love and Mr. Lewisham by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania State ... ...sylvania State Univer- sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ... charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania Sta... ...nity university. 3 H G Wells LOVE AND MR. LEWISHAM By H. G. WELLS CHAPTER I CHAPTER I CHAPTER I CHAPTER I CHAPTER I INTR INTR INTR INTR INTRODUCES MR... ...s, who calls his mis- cellaneous notes “Varia,” is better able to say than I.) In this scheme, 1892 was indicated as the year in which Mr. Lewisham pr... ...ee hours’ clear start, three hours’ knowledge ahead of everyone. It takes, I have been told by an eminent scholar, about a thousand hours of sincere w... ...ing at his extraordinary temerity. CHAPTER CHAPTER CHAPTER CHAPTER CHAPTER VI VI VI VI VI THE SCANDAL THE SCANDAL THE SCANDAL THE SCANDAL THE SCANDALO... ...age lines?” “Mr. Chaffery!” said Lewisham, and Mrs. Chaffery ex- claimed, “James! How can you?” Chaffery shut his penknife with a click and slipped it...

Full Text Search Details
...sylva- nia State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ... charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania Sta... ...cation project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cover Design: Jim Man... ...Modern Broods or Developments Unlooked For By Charlotte Mary Yonge CHAPTER I CHAPTER I CHAPTER I CHAPTER I CHAPTER I T T T T TOR OR OR OR ORT T T T TO... ...?” she asked, as the kiss and double shake of the hand was exchanged. “May I ask? Is it true? May I congratulate you?” “Oh, yes, it is true!” said Mis... ...ngratulate you?” “Oh, yes, it is true!” said Miss Prescott, breathlessly. “I sup- pose the girls are at the High School?” “Yes, they will be at home a... ...could not choose but be impressed. CHAPTER CHAPTER CHAPTER CHAPTER CHAPTER VI VI VI VI VI THE FRESCOES OF ST THE FRESCOES OF ST THE FRESCOES OF ST THE... ...a blow and give offence, and it would make difficulties with oth- ers—even James Henderson, who swears by Jasper. I have often wished they would have ...

Excerpt Details
...Excerpt: Here is a tale which extends over many years and travels into many countries. By a peculiar fitness of circumstance the writer began, continued it, and concluded it among distant and diverse scenes. Above all, he was much upon the sea. The character and fortune of the f...

Full Text Search Details
...: A Winter’s Tale by Robert Louis Stevenson is a publication of the Penn- sylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free an... ...niversity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, an... ...s a Por- table Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free an... ...ff: writ- ten by the loud shores of a subtropical island near upon ten thousand miles from Boscombe Chine and Manor: scenes which rise before me as I ... ... a single sheet of strong paper thus endorsed: Papers relating to the lives and lamentable deaths of the late Lord Durisdeer, and his elder brother Ja... ...ekeeper; and yet his mind very well nour- ished with study, and reputed in the country to be more cunning than he seemed. The master of Ballantrae, Ja... ...later on. It took the three a whole day’s disputa- tion, before they agreed to steer a middle course, one son going forth to strike a blow for King Ja... ...t, he would show her how little it consisted with his honour, and remind her, even if he should consent, that Mr. Henry would certainly refuse. Non vi... ...uld not bear to avow, perhaps even to himself, that he had been vanquished by one whom he had so much insulted whom he so cruelly despised. CHAPTER VI...