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...ORY by THOMAS CARLYLE A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle is a publication of the ... ...ATION The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...rge 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 State U... ................................................... 323 Chapter 2.5.X. Petion-National-Pique. .............................................................. ...IS XV. Chapter 1.1.I. Louis the Well-Beloved. President Henault, remarking on royal Surnames of Honour how difficult it often is to ascertain not only... ...the Parlement Maupeou: 13 Thomas Carlyle these, as they sit in their high places, with France harnessed under their feet, know well on what basis the... ... back reloaded). and a Parc-aux-cerfs. Whereby at least we have again this historical curiosity: a human being in an original position; swimming passi... ...t; and utters such a Doom’s-blast of a No, as all men must credit. (Annual Register (Dodsley’s), xxv. 258-267. September, October, 1782.) And so, with... ...l spring weather of 1788; the old hovels and hutches disappearing from our Bridges: as if for the State too there were halcyon weather, and nothing to...

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...Excerpt: Preface By Way Of Criticism. These studies are collected from the monthly press. One appeared in the New Quarterly, one in MacMillan?s, and the rest in the Cornhill Magazine. To the Cornhill I owe a double debt of thanks; first, that I was ...

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...Contents PREFACE BY WAY OF CRITICISM. ........................................................................................... 4 CHAPTER I ? VICTOR HUGO?S ROMANCES ........................................................................ 15 CHAPTE...

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...NSON A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Familiar Studies of Men and Books by Robert Louis Stevenson is a publication of the Pennsylv... ...iar Studies of Men and Books by Robert Louis Stevenson is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnishe... ...rge 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 State U... ...t of these men re-created Scotland, and the second is its most essentially national production. T o treat fitly of Hugo and Villon would involve yet w... ...versal history and criticism. Now, it is one thing to write with enjoyment on a subject while the story is hot in your mind from recent reading, colou... ... in force and fitness, – seeing the true prophet doubled, as I thought, in places with the Bull in a China Shop, – it appeared best to steer a middle ... ...hree by the two arms of the river, the boat-shaped island “moored” by five bridges to the different shores, and the two unequal towns on either hand. ... ...st as the plot is an abstract judicial difficulty, the hero is an abstract historical force. And this has been done, not, as it would have been before... ...ay, a shameful and useless ceremony; the very greffier, entering it in his register, wrote in the mar- gin, “Pax, pax, inquit propheta, et non ext pax...

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...Excerpt: Prelude; Who that cares much to know the history of man, and how the mysterious mixture behaves under the varying experiments of Time, has not dwelt, at least briefly, on the life of Saint Theresa, has not smiled with some gentleness at the thought of the little...

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...Table of Contents: Book I ?Miss Brooke, 1 -- Prelude, 1 -- Chapter I., 3 -- Chapter II., 10 -- Chapter III., 16 -- Chapter IV., 25 -- Chapter V., 31 -- Chapter VI., 38 -- Chapter VII., 47 -- Chapter VIII., 51 -- Chapter IX., 55 -- ...

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...Middlemarch George Eliot 1872 To my dear Husband, George Henry Lewes, in this nineteenth year of our blessed union. Contents Book I — Miss Brook... ...liot 1872 To my dear Husband, George Henry Lewes, in this nineteenth year of our blessed union. Contents Book I — Miss Brooke . . . . . . . . . . . ... ...XLII. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 335 Book V — The Dead Hand. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 345 Chapter ... ...ves under the varying experiments of Time, has not dwelt, at least briefly, on the life of Saint Theresa, has not smiled with some gentleness at the th... ...helpless looking as two fawns, but with human hearts, already beating to a national idea; until domestic reality met them in the shape of uncles, and ... ... with that view when duly tempered with wise conformity, and could mention historical examples before unknown to her. “He thinks with me,” said Doroth... ... from Tipton and Freshitt, and her own sad liability to tread in the wrong places on her way to the New Jerusalem. Mr. Brooke sat down in his arm chai... ...reat surprise at her possession of such ac complishment. But Rosamond had registered every look and word, and estimated them as the opening incidents... ...n it into three cornered bits, which would be “nohow;” while accommodation bridges and high payments were remote and incredible. “The cows will all ca...

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...Excerpt: VOL I. In the morning of life the truthful wooed the beautiful, and their offspring was Love. Like his Divine parents, He is eternal. He has his Mother?s ravishing smile; his Father?s steadfast eyes. He rises every day, fresh and gl...

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...Contents NOVELS BY EMINENT HANDS ...................................................................................................... 4 NOONDAY IN CHEPE ....................................................................................................................... 5 BUTTON?S IN PALL MALL............................................................................

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...es Publication Burlesques by William Makepeace Thackeray is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity. This Portable Document file is furn... ...Publication Burlesques by William Makepeace Thackeray is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity. This Portable Document file is furnish... ...rge 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 State U... ...or Gold, thought with a sigh of the Truthful and the Beautiful, and walked on, melan- choly and serene. 6 Thackeray ’Twas noon in Chepe. The ware-roo... ... the coffee-house, and was seen canter- ing on a magnificent Arab past the National Gallery. “Who is yon spark in blue and silver? He beats Joe Addiso... ...now and rec- ognize from its likeness to its brother district in all other places where are congregated the habitations of men. In Tehran, or Pekin, o... ...lucid waters of the Golden Horn; where the yellow Tiber flows under broken bridges and over imperial glories; where the huts are squatted by the Niger... ...’s over,” Lord Bagnigge replied with 54 Thackeray a yawn; and the bet was registered with shouts of applause. But it seemed as if the Fates had deter... ...s other facts of public importance recorded in Pinnock’s Catechism and the Historic Page. But these subjects did not interest him near so much as his ...

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.......... 32 STEPHEN CRANE?A NOTE WITHOUT DATES?1919 ......................................................................................... 46 TALES OF THE SEA?1898 ....................................................................................................................................... 49 AN OBSERVER IN MALAYA?1898...............................................

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... Joseph Conrad A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION Notes on Life and Letters by Joseph Conrad is a publication of the Pennsylvania S... ...S PUBLICATION Notes on Life and Letters by Joseph Conrad is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity. This Portable Document file is furn... ...UBLICATION Notes on Life and Letters by Joseph Conrad is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity. This Portable Document file is furnish... ...rge 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 State U... ... not wild indeed, but full of romantic glimpses, of deep shadows and sunny places. There are no secrets left within his range. He has disclosed them a... ...estricted. It is not difficult to perceive why. Maupassant is an intensely national writer. He is so intensely national in his logic, in his clearness... ...of the court the author passes by a characteristic and natural turn to the historical and moral significance of those two emblems of State and Religio... ... mobilised, and as we came through Austrian Silesia we had noticed all the bridges being guarded by soldiers. “Austria will back down,” was the opinio... ...ion bulkhead. But the Arizona was not, if I re- member rightly, 5,000 tons register, let alone 45,000, and she was not going at twenty knots per hour....

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...IES PUBLICATION Biographical Essays by Thomas de Quincey is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ... PUBLICATION Biographical Essays by Thomas de Quincey is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...rge 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 State U... ...AKSP SHAKSPEARE EARE EARE EARE EARE 1 W ILLIAM SHAKSPEARE, the protagonist on the great arena of modern poetry, and the glory of the human intellect, ... ... sought popularity himself, he durst not shock what perhaps he viewed as a national prejudice. Those who have happened, like ourselves, to see the eff... ...as it was clothed in English; but present him with the most trivial common-places in Greek, and he unaffectedly fancied them divine; mistaking the ple... ...etters, like those of the celebrated Joseph Mede, which we find in Ellis’s Historical Collections, reporting to their fellow-collegians all the novelt... ...hat is, in 1582. Now the baptism of Shakspeare’s eldest child, Susanna, is registered on the 26th of May in the year following. Suppose, therefore, th... ...n particular, there is a manuscript letter in existence from Pope to a Mr. Bridges at Falham, which, speak- ing of the original Homer, distinctly reco...