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Voices from the Past

By: Paul Alexander Bartlett

...es. In the Sinai I perfected my Greek to a greater extent and studied the classical A VOICES FROM THE PAST 182 Hebrew until it came easily. ... ...ng, men falling, dying, their helmets of fear, helmets of pain...yellows, blues, greys, reds. On Friday, June 6, 1505, I began to paint the Anghiari... ... David, sitting on a bench facing his work. We agreed that it equaled any classical masterpiece. It was a little difficult to accept such beauty com... ...e cherished him, his frailty. Guild-member at twenty. Such kindness, such classic renderings in stone and bronze. We revered his Saint John, his ser... ...cage and let a sick lion go; for days the young man had tried to cure the female. Running amok through town, she cre- ated quite a scare until she wa... ... together...played cards, talked about my Anghiari...when she posed I had singers for her... I loaned her little sums; she lent me money; she sent m... ...e King’s kitch- ens! The King has a poet in residence who likes to recite female poetry—for the pomades and perfumes! He is a hunchback, with a shar... ... hospital, with proper light. I had adequate leisure. I dissected male and female ...eight or ten cadavers...over the years. Made my drawings in vari... ...ness, out of the wilderness...” I turned in mighty late that night, yet singers were still singing, singing “Gen- tle Annie” and other favorites. ...

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Roderick Hudson

By: Henry James

...Roderick Hudson by Henry James A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Roderick Hudson by Henry James is a publicatio... ...erick Hudson by Henry James, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classics Series, Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Po... ...t File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those... ...stinctive vision of how such a beautiful young fellow must be loved by his female relatives. Roderick frowned, and with an impatient gesture, “I do he... ...ns who were marching across to the choir. He began to model a new statue—a female figure, of which he had said nothing to Rowland. It represented a wo... ...ying that he had been taking at Baden the measure of his susceptibility to female beauty. His extraordinary success in modeling the bust of the beauti... ...not to be heard for the ask- ing. She was herself a superior musician, and singers found it a privilege to perform to her accompaniment. Rowland talke... ... many a weary hour; but it was a long lane that had no turning. Roderick’s blues would not last forever. Rowland’s interest in Miss Garland’s relation...

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Sandra Belloni Originally Emilia in England

By: George Meredith

...NI Originally Emilia in England By George Meredith A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Sandra Belloni by George Meredith is a publica... ... Belloni by George Meredith, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classics Series, Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Po... ...t File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those... ...of them. The gallant cornet adored deli- cacy and a gilded refinement. The female flower could not be too exquisitely cultivated to satisfy him. And h... ...vil.” Indeed, he was beginning to think her one of the smallest of frocked female essences. “I lost my piano through it,” she went on. “I could not pr... ... you to believe that when we are dealing with that wonder, the human heart female, the part played by a tail- coat and a composed demeanour is not ins... ...ody gave him a welcome last year, that was not the fault of the Yellow-and-Blues. Eh, my boys? Groans and cheers. Right sure was spokesman that Squire... ...o telling how conduct like this might have been received by the Yellow-and-Blues if Mr. Barrett had not spoken. “You mean everything when you say “Uni... ...ighted. She was informed by several voices that they were the Yel- low-and-Blues, and not the Blues: that she must not go to the wrong set: and that t...

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Babbitt

By: Sinclair Lewis

...Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis is a publication of ... .... Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classics Series, Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Po... ...t File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those... ...ceful tappers. They run 1-2 under the wire. Provin and Adams will blow the blues in their laugh skit “Hootch Mon!” Something doing, boys. Listen to wh... ... also the best operas, such as Verdi, rendered by the world’s highest-paid singers. “‘In other countries, art and literature are left to a lot of shab... ...tion in the community. The idea of your going around places gawping into a female’s eyes like a love-sick pup! I can understand a fellow slipping once... ...lexions and spoil their hands!” “That’s so. I never did like these mannish females.” “I mean—of course, I admire them, dreadfully, and I feel so weak ... ...son, and Mayor Prout. The young negro boot- black hummed “The Camp Meeting Blues” and polished in rhythm to his tune, drawing the shiny shoe-rag so ta...

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Don Juan

By: George Byron

...ent File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of tho... ...hem, and as such is a part of the Pennsylvania State University’s Electronic Classics Series. Cover design: Jim Manis; portrait of Byron from a paint... ...tion, In which not Envy’s self a flaw discovers; To others’ share let ‘female errors fall,’ For she had not even one—the worst of all. Oh! s... ...he worst of all. Oh! she was perfect past all parallel — Of any modern female saint’s comparison; So far above the cunning powers of hell, ... ...tion of the species, Was ever suffer’d, lest he should grow vicious. His classic studies made a little puzzle, Because of filthy loves of gods... ...sus, nor anything that ‘s his; Thou shalt not bear false witness like ‘the Blues’ (There ‘s one, at least, is very fond of this); Thou shalt n... ...ngs back were brought, And slowly by his swimming eyes was seen A lovely female face of seventeen. ‘T was bending dose o’er his, and the small m... ...ny he heard, Which was an odd one; a troop going to act In Sicily (all singers, duly rear’d In their vocation) had not been attack’d In sa... ...such credit, That future bridegrooms swore, and sigh’d, and paid it. The Blues, that tender tribe who sigh o’er sonnets, And with the pages of...

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The Pickwick Papers

By: Charles Dickens

...The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens Volume One A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Pickwick Papers, Volume One by Charles Di... ...e One by Charles Dickens , the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classics Series, Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, Hazleton, PA 18201 1291 is a Po... ...t File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those... ...ean on your arm.’ He added, in a whisper, ‘Oh, Miss Rachael!’ The agitated female advanced, and offered her arm. They turned into the breakfast parlou... ...therefore settled that Mr. T upman should be left at home in charge of the females; and that the remainder of the guests, under the guidance of Mr. Wa... ...ir time of life, they could lay no claim, which distinguished her from any female on whom Mr. Tupman had ever gazed. That there was some thing kindre... ...eart and soul, with one of the two great parties that divided the town—the Blues and the Buffs. Now the Blues lost no opportunity of opposing the Buff... ...y of opposing the Buffs, and the Buffs lost no opportunity of opposing the Blues; and the conse quence was, that whenever the Buffs and Blues met tog... ...ty question. If the Buffs proposed to new skylight the mar ket place, the Blues got up public meetings, and denounced the proceeding; if the Blues pr...

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Of Human Bondage

By: Somerset Maugham

...Of Human Bondage by Somerset Maugham A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham is a p... ...dage by W. Somerset Maugham, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classics Series, Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Po... ...t File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those... ...nosed comedians were lauded to the skies for their sense of character; fat female singers, who had bawled obscurely for twenty years, were discov- ere... ...omedians were lauded to the skies for their sense of character; fat female singers, who had bawled obscurely for twenty years, were discov- ered to po... ... , the conversation he listened to, to trouble himself with the desire for female society. He thought there would be plenty of time for that when he c... ...Philip. “They generally always like a male better,” said the attendant. “A female’s liable to have a lot of fat about her. ” Philip looked at the body... ...ow that if you put an electric blue in the window it’ll kill all the other blues?” He looked round the department ferociously, and his eye fell upon P...

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Main Street

By: Sinclair Lewis

...Main Street by Sinclair Lewis A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION Main Street by Sinclair Lewis is a publication... ...in Street by Sinclair Lewis, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classics Series, Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Po... ...t File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those... ...Oh, Carol, you are not heroic nor fine. You are the immutable vulgar young female. “But I’m not the faithless wife who enjoys confiding that she’s `mi... ...snatching. He’s just about on a par with this bone-pound- ing chiropractor female, Mrs. Mattie Gooch.” “Mrs. Westlake and Mrs. McGanum, though—they’re... ...Only the Henty books and the Elsie books and the latest optimisms by moral female novelists and virile clergymen were in gen- eral demand, and the boa... ...re small and wooden, spots in a picture drenched with gold and hard bright blues. There was no sound of sea or winds; no softness of whispers nor of f... ...ictures and a halting narrative. Three brass-bands, a company of six opera-singers, a Hawaiian sextette, and four youths who played saxophones and gui...

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Cousin Betty

By: Honoré de Balzac

...ty by Honoré de Balzac T ranslated by James Waring A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Cousin Betty by Honoré de Balzac, trans. James... ...lzac, trans. James Waring, the Pennsylvania State University, Elec- tronic Classics Series, Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Po... ...t File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of lit- erature, in English, to free and easy access of tho... ...d with words, the young man seemed less puzzled, for this, indeed, was the female Mentor whose tender moods were always a surprise to him, so much mor... ...countrymen. THIS WA S THE INCIDENT that had given rise to the coalition of female energy and masculine feebleness—a contrast in union said not to be u... ...his clock represented the twelve Hours, charmingly per- sonified by twelve female figures whirling round in so mad and swift a dance that three little... ...He rushed off to Josepha’s lodgings in the Rue Chauchat; for, like all the singers, she lived close at hand. “Whom do you want, sir?” asked the porter... ...foe, the luckless foe, of Hulot. That Marquis, killed by the balls of the “Blues,” had confided the interests of his young brother to the Re- publican...

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Mens Wives

By: William Makepeace Thackeray

...Makepeace Thackeray MEN’S WIVES BY G . FITZ-BOODLE A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Men’s Wives by William Makepeace Thackeray is ... ...William Makepeace Thackeray, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classics Series, Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Po... ...t File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those... ...he was an agent for half-a-dozen theatrical people, male 13 Thackeray and female, and had the interests of the latter especially, it was said, at hea... ...es and caprices of beauty; and depend on it that, for the most part, those females who cry out loudest against the flightiness of their sisters, and r... ...ime fellows to eat it, too! Billingsgate, V auxhall, Cinqbars, Buff of the Blues, and half-a-dozen more of the best fellows in town. And what do you t... ...lect the play of the ‘Battle of Hoysterlitz,’ in which Mrs. D. hacted ‘the female hussar,’ you may remember how she and the horse died in the third ac... ...n Miss Brunck and Miss Horsman, the two contraltos, and between the chorus-singers, after their kind) a great rivalry arose. Larkins was certainly the... ...en subject to the entreaties, nay, to the insults, of Cornet Fipkin of the Blues, who was in prison at the suit of Linsey, Woolsey and Co., and who ha...

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Mansfield Park

By: Jane Austen

...Mansfield Park by Jane Austen A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Mansfield Park by Jane Austen is a publication... ...nsfield Park by Jane Austen, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classics Series, Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Po... ...t File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in En- glish, to free and easy access of tho... ...I do see that they are often wrong.” “Those who are showing the world what female manners should be,” said Mr. Bertram gallantly, “are doing a great d... ...le degrees towards the instrument, and when it ceased, he was close by the singers, among the most urgent in requesting to hear the glee again. 98 Ma... ..., and his zeal after poach- ers, subjects which will not find their way to female feel- ings without some talent on one side or some attachment on the... ...asant, good-humoured, unaffected girls. But I am spoilt, Fanny, for common female society. Good-humoured, unaffected girls will not do for a man who h... ...o much to say for my friend Flora, who jilted a very nice young man in the Blues for the sake of that horrid Lord Stornaway, who has about as much sen...

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Chantry House

By: Charlotte Mary Yonge

...CHANTRY HOUSE by Charlotte M. Yonge A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Pulication Chantry House by Charlotte M. Yonge is a public... ...House by Charlotte M. Yonge, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classics Series, Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Po... ...t File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those... ...and, by and by, Chapman, magnificent in patron- age, ushered in the church singers into the hall, and clarionet, bassoon, and fiddle astonished our ea... ...und in agony on his hind legs, barking furiously, and almost reaching her. Female sym- pathy ever goes to the cat, and Emily screamed out in the fear ... ...fought the foe with very helpless unmanageable forces. Villagers, male and female, had emerged and stood gaping round; but, let him rage and storm as ... ...and the ladies said her colour was rouge, and her fine figure due to other female mysteries. She meant to be very gra- cious, and patronised everybody... ...ept away, together with the vaultings and the ruin—’enough to give one the blues, if there were nothing else,’ she averred. We really felt it to the c...

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Sketches

By: Charles Dickens

...Sketches by Boz by Charles Dickens A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publica... ... Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publica... ... Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Sketches by Boz by Charles Dickens is a public... ... short, he was in every respect the antipodes of the curate. Crowds of our female parishioners flocked to hear him; at first, be- cause he was so odd-... ...unt to sing the psalms better than all the children put together, male and female; and, in short, conducts himself in the most turbulent and uproariou... ...the Miss Willises invariably restricted the some- what excursive tastes of female servants in general. The intelligence spread rapidly from house to h... ...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 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 ... ...sizes. It is the head-quarters of the Gentlemen’s Whist Club of Winglebury Blues (so called in opposition to the Gentlemen’s Whist Club of Winglebury ...

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The Amazing Marriage

By: George Meredith

...THE AMAZING MARRIAGE By George Meredith A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Amazing Marriage by George Meredith is a p... ...Marriage by George Meredith, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classics Series, Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Po... ...t File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in En- glish, to free and easy access of tho... ...equested to Bear in Mind What Wild Creature He Was in His Youth, While the Female Should Marvel Credulously IX. Concerning the Black Goddess Fortune a... ...er Geoffrey for the airs he gave him- self, and crawling on his knees to a female Parleyvoo; and when Geoffrey died, the admiral drank to his rest in ... ...er down, the body became a ball, a cock, a little lizard, nothingness. The bluest bright day of the year was shining. Chillon led the descent. With hi... ... QUESTED TO BEAR IN MIND WHAT WILD CREATURE HE WAS IN HIS YOUTH, WHILE THE FEMALE SHOULD MARVEL CREDULOUSLY. THE YOUNG MAN who fancied he had robed hi... ... picked musicians’ at the disposal of the Countess of Fleetwood, and Opera singers (Henrietta mentioned reso- nant names) hired for wonderful nights a... ...ort of mortal curiosity!’ The soundest men among us have their fits of the blues, Fleetwood was told. ‘Not wholesome!’ Chummy shook his head resolutel...

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Mansfield Park

By: Jane Austen

...but I do see that they are often wrong.” “Those who are showing the world what female manners should be,” said Mr. 38 JANE AUSTEN Bertram, gallantly,... ...gentle degrees towards the instrument, and when it ceased, he was close by the singers, among the most urgent in requesting to hear the glee again. Fa... ...ion, and his zeal after poachers, — sub jects which will not find their way to female feelings without some talent on one side, or some attachment on ... ... Pleasant, good humoured, unaffected girls. But I am spoilt, Fanny, for common female society. Good humoured, unaffected girls, will not do for a man ... ...ot so much to say for my friend Flora, who jilted a very nice young man in the Blues, for the sake of that horrid Lord Stornaway, who has about as muc...

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