...ication Cashel Byron’s Profession by George Bernard Shaw is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furni... ...ity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ... to him about it, of course. Fighting is an unbearable habit. His father’s people were always fighting; and they never did any good in the world.” “If... .... After all the pains I took with you at home!” “I speak the same as other people,” he replied, sullenly. “I don’t see the use of being so jolly parti... ...ntly. “Drop as soft as you can.” Gully obeyed; and was so careful lest his descent should shake the earth and awake the doctor, that his feet shrank f... ...rred to as an authority on sporting affairs, and an expert wrestler in the Cornish fash- ion. The women servants regarded him with undissembled admira... ...n beaver hat, and carrying a roll of writing materials. “I am going to the British Museum to read,” said she. “T o walk!—alone!” said Lucian, looking ... ...exclamation had interrupted the combat, now waved his hat, and cried, “The British Lion forever! Three cheers for Cashel Byron.” Cashel turned upon hi... ...en suppressing since his visit to Lucian exploded. He had thrown Cashel in Cornish fash- ion, and now desperately awaited the upshot. Cashel got up so...

...Excerpt: MONCRIEF HOUSE, Panley Common. Scholastic establishment for the sons of gentlemen, etc. Panley Common, viewed from the back windows of Moncrief House, is a tract of grass, furze and rushes, stretching away to the western horizon....

...AN A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Volume Two is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Un... ...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... ...ilfer cloth or bread: As meanly plunder as they bravely fought, Now save a people, and now save a groat. VER. 129, in the former editions— Ask why fro... ...ch would spoil! ‘Sir, Spain has sent a thousand jars of oil; Huge bales of British cloth blockade the door; A hundred oxen at your leveë roar.’ Poor a... ... sweep The surge, and plunge his father in the deep; Then lull against his Cornish lands they roar, And two rich shipwrecks bless the lucky shore. Sir... ...pour on every side, 370 Till all the demon makes his full descent In one abundant shower of cent, per cent.; Sinks deep within him, a... ...ENT GUMENT GUMENT . . . . . OF THE USE OF RICHES. The vanity of expense in people of wealth and quality. The abuse of the word ‘taste,’ ver. 13. That ... ...and the story of Choroebus. He inquires, and is made acquainted with their descent and quality. The sac- rifice is renewed, and the book concludes wit... ...ds your breasts with ancient ardour rise, And calls forth Roman drops from British eyes. Virtue confess’d in human shape he draws, What Plato thought,...

Excerpt: The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Volume Two.

...Contents THE GENIUS AND POETRY OF POPE........................................................................................ 7 MORAL ESSAYS .....................................................................................................................

...MASTER FRANCIS RABELAIS FIVE BOOKS OF THE LIVES, HEROIC DEEDS AND SAYINGS OF GARGANTUA AND HIS SON PANTAGRUEL ... ...TUA AND HIS SON PANTAGRUEL T ranslated into English by Sir Thomas Urquhart of Cromarty and Peter Antony Motteux A Penn State Electronic Classics Serie... ...lculated to cure any pondering on his own—caused him to trace his unbroken descent from Adam, and to state that his family name was derived from his a... ...harts, and other such-like counterfeited pictures at discretion, to excite people unto laughter, as Silenus himself, who was the foster-father of good... ...ht of force in all countries whatsoever. For you know well enough that all people, and all languages and nations, except the ancient Syracusans and ce... ... At knockpate. At heads and points. At the Cornish c(h)ough. At the vine-tree hug. At th... ...he papgay from below upwards, or to a height from above downwards, or to a descent; then before him, sideways, and behind him, like the Parthians. The... ... the jobbernolls had already a pretty good beginning in their dance of the British jig called the estrindore, to a perfect diapason, with one foot in ... ... dainty, trim, tricked up, brisk, smirk, and smug, even as a pretty little Cornish chough. Who will not believe 350 Gargantua & Pantagruel this, let ...

...Excerpt: Five Books of the Lives, Heroic Deeds and Sayings of Gargantua and His Son Pantagruel by Master Francis Rabelais, translated by Sir Thomas Urquhart and Peter Antony Motteux....