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...ORDEAL OF RICHARD FEVEREL By George Meredith A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Ordeal... ...State Electronic Classics Series Publication Ordeal of Richard Feverel by George Meredith is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity. Th... ...le as an electronic transmission, in any way. Ordeal of Richard Feverel by George Meredith, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Clas- sics S... ...was coming to-mor- row. He rendered homage to the genius of woman in these straits. “My aunt,” he thought, “would have the lie ready; and not only tha... ...use I’m such a rake. I don’t know any other reason. No; I hate sentimental songs. W on’t sing that. T a-tiddy-tiddy- iddy—a...e! How ridiculous those ...

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Excerpt: The Shaving of Shagpat by George Meredith.

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...ABIAN ENTERT T T T TAINMENT AINMENT AINMENT AINMENT AINMENT By By By By By George Meredith George Meredith George Meredith George Meredith George Mere... ...nn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Shaving of Shagpat by George Meredith is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This... ... file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Shaving of Shagpat by George Meredith, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Clas- sics S... ..., the Almighty One. The ship ceased not sailing till they came to a narrow strait, where the sea was but a river between fair sloping hills alight wit... ...f thy power on him; but hasten now the going of these fellows; my heart is straitened by them, and I, wullahy! would gladly see a ser- pent round the ... ...filling the cool air with deliciousness, and he heard in the gardens below songs of the bulbul: it was like a dream to his soul, and he lay somewhile ... ... planet? Can a fate sever us?—can it, ah! can it? And she sang tender songs to him, mazing him with blan- dishments, so that the aim of existence... ... his rever- ence for her wisdom; and of the glory of his reign, and of the Songs and Sentences of Noorna, and of his Laws for the protection and uphol...

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...A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Beauchamp’s Career by George Meredith is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This... ... the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Beauchamp’s Career by George Meredith, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classics Ser... ...y The Pennsylvania State University is an equal opportunity university. 3 George Meredith BEAUCHAMP’S CAREER By George Meredith 1897 BOOK 1 CHAPTER I... ...see how far it was in him to do service; not they that made of his creed a strait-jacket for humanity. So, in our prayers we dedicate the world to God... ... music was curious, considering how impressionable he was to verse, and to songs of birds. He listened with an oppressed look, as to something the par... ...bout their organ; the dismallest organ that ever ground a hackneyed set of songs and hymns to madden 315 George Meredith the thoroughfares.’ ‘The Pre... ...ple. “And as for your mother, I ‘ll make her a duke”; that ‘s one of their songs. The word people, in England, is a dyspeptic agitator’s dream when he... ...s, not politicians. They are the 328 Beauchamp’s Career men who make the “strait-waistcoat for humanity.” They would fix us to first principles like ...

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...ument or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Don Juan by George Byron , the Pennsylvania State University, Jim Manis, Faculty Edit... ...vania State University is an equal opportunity University. 1821 DON JUAN by George Byron DEDICATION BOB SOUTHEY! You ‘re a poet — Poet laureate, ... ...es the word Miltonic’ mean ‘sublime, ’ He deign’d not to belie his soul in songs, Nor turn his very talent to a crime; He did not loathe the S... ...o hymn Where the sublime soars forth on wings more ample: But Virgil’s songs are pure, except that horrid one Beginning with ‘Formosum Pastor ... ...blow, And would not brook at all this sort of thing In my hot youth—when George the Third was King. Byron’s Don Juan “Canto One” 41 But now ... ...h man uses Instead of speech, may form a lasting link Of ages; to what straits old Time reduces Frail man, when paper—even a rag like this, ... ... The chieftain’s trophy, and the poet’s volume, Will sink where lie the songs and wars of earth, Before Pelides’ death, or Homer’s birth. Byron...

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...or more likely for bread, and ceaselessly occupied to-day with plans for appeasing the eternal appetite of inevitable hunger to-morrow--a man in such straits has hardly time to think of anything but himself, and, as in a sinking ship, must make his own rush for the boats, and fight, struggle, and trample for safety....

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...m Makepeace Thackeray A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication George Cruikshank by William Makepeace Thackeray is a publication of the Pe... ...in the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. George Cruikshank by William Makepeace Thackeray, the Pennsylvania State Un... ...sylvania State University is an equal opportunity university. 3 Thackeray George Cruikshank by William Makepeace Thackeray Reprinted from the W estmi... ...ppeasing the eternal appetite of inevitable hunger to-morrow—a man in such straits has hardly time to think of anything but himself, and, as in a sink... ...e window in those days, of grinning, good-natured mechanics, who spelt the songs, and spoke them out for the benefit of the company, and who re- ceive...

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...Excerpt: Your name, dear George, while casting a reflected radiance on my book, can gain no new glory from this page. And yet it is neither self-interest nor diffidence which has led me to place it there, but only the wish that it should bear witness...

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... of Two Brides by Honoré de Balzac Translated by R. S. Scott Dedication To George Sand Your name, dear George, while casting a reflected radi- ance on... ...ility the world from which I draw my models! Would it not be a fine thing, George, if the future antiquarian of dead literatures were to find in this ... ...ed, and dressed. His mother is so fond of watch- ing him sleep, of singing songs to him, of walking him about in her arms on a fine day, that she has ... ... puts it in his graphic words. For, in truth, the poor lad was in terrible straits; he was actually innocent enough to believe—incredible as it seems—...

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...eason? What causes them to labour at pianoforte sonatas, and to learn four songs from a fashionable master at a guinea a lesson, and to play the harp ... ...he crowd, he will be so taken up with Miss Sharp here. Send to 96, and ask George Osborne if he’ll come.” At this, I don’t know in the least for what ... ...her godmother. “Amelia had better write a note,” said her father; “and let George Osborne see what a beautiful handwriting we have brought back from M... ...terposed to aid her. For on the evening appointed for the V auxhall party, George Osborne having come to dinner, and the elders of the house having de... ...lsewhere, as it were, in small change. Having expended her little store of songs, or having stayed long enough in the back drawing-room, it now appear... ...n of a sentimental sort, befitting the subject, was carried on between the songs, to which Sambo, after he had brought the tea, the delighted cook, an... ... fled thither in a fit of rage against her impracticable brethren) by some strait-laced notions of morality. He would have prayers in the house, I bel... ...ore he went into action. Are you aware how small his means are, and of the straitened circumstances of his widow?” “I don’t know his widow, sir,” Osbo... ...charges of the boy’s education, which would fall heavily upon his mother’s straitened income. The Major, in a word, was always thinking about Amelia a...

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...of the coast of Patagonia. We had crossed the tropic of Capricorn, and the Straits of Magellan opened less than seven hundred miles to the south. Befo... ...America with great rapidity. The 3rd of July we were at the opening of the Straits of Magellan, level with Cape Vierges. But Com- mander Farragut woul... ...d by the perpendicular rays of a tropical sun, crosses 69 Jules Verne the Straits of Malacca along the coast of Asia, turns into the North Pacific to... ...airie, we arrived at the skirts of a little wood that was enlivened by the songs and flight of a large number of birds. “There are only birds,” said C... ...ed to the P.O. Company, which runs from Ceylon to Sydney, touching at King George’s Point and Melbourne. At five o’clock in the evening, before that f... ...uspended. But on the 3rd of February, 1866, a new island, which they named George Island, emerged from the midst of the sulphurous vapour near Nea Kam...

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...v course, Disko,” said Long Jack. “Guess there ain’t more’n ‘baout two old songs I know , an’ ye’ve heerd them both.” His excuses were cut short by To... ...Norway, but I didn’t make that unwholesim noise. ’Tis like some of the old songs, though,” said Long Jack, sighing. “Don’t let’ s hev another ‘thout s... .... “There’ s all sorts o’ Jonahs. Jim Bourke was one till he was drowned on Georges. I’ d never ship with Jim Bourke, not if I was starin’. There wuz a... ...er Hitty an’ Lorin’ Jerauld, an’ the boys put up that joke on him daown to Georges?” drawled Uncle Salters, who was dripping peaceably under the lee o... ...or three days on end sometimes, though he played checkers, listened to the songs, and laughed at the stories. When they tried to stir him up, he would... ...een chris- tened “Scrowger Jim”; and though he had hidden him- self on the Georges ever since, he found his honours waiting for him full blown. They t... ...cold gray of the Bank sea, saw the lum- ber-ships making for Quebec by the Straits of St. Lawrence, with the Jersey salt-brigs from Spain and Sicily; ...

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...e barrow told us the mail had set him down the morning before at the Royal George, that he had inquired what inns there were along the coast, and hear... ... carry; and then he would sometimes sit and sing his wicked, old, wild sea-songs, minding nobody; but sometimes he would call for glasses round and fo... ... in the gracious defence of his native country, England—and God bless King George!—where or in what part of this country he may now be?” “You are at t... ...bled one. “They might have hid the blessed thing,” said another. “Take the Georges, Pew, and don’t stand here squalling.” Squalling was the word for i... ...unning westward through the basin, and then south’ard and seaward down the straits by which we had entered in the morning. Even the ripples were a dan... ...d skiff and devoutly recommended my spirit to its Maker. At the end of the straits, I made sure we must fall into some bar of raging breakers, where a... ...we were soon skimming swiftly over a smooth sea. Soon we passed out of the straits and doubled the south-east corner of the island, round which, four ...

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...eason? What causes them to labour at pianoforte sonatas, and to learn four songs from a fashionable master at a guinea a lesson, and to play the harp ... ...he crowd, he will be so taken up with Miss Sharp here. Send to 96, and ask George Osborne if he’ll come.” At this, I don’t know in the least for what ... ...her godmother. “Amelia had better write a note,” said her father; “and let George Osborne see what a beautiful handwriting we have brought back from M... ...terposed to aid her. For on the evening appointed for the V auxhall party, George Osborne having come to dinner, and the elders of the house having de... ...lsewhere, as it were, in small change. Having expended her little store of songs, or having stayed long enough in the back drawing-room, it now appear... ...n of a sentimental sort, befitting the subject, was carried on between the songs, to which Sambo, after he had brought the tea, the delighted cook, an... ... fled thither in a fit of rage against her impracticable brethren) by some strait-laced notions of morality. He would have prayers in the house, I bel...

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...tephen’s Crown, to Freytag’s Sketches of German Life; and for the story of George the Triller, to Mr. Mayhew’s Germany. The Escape of Attalus is narra... ...ed ye may, I, with two more to help me, Will hold the foe in play. In yon strait path a thousand May well be stopp’d by three: Now who will stand on... ...e main land, and between the island and the coast is an exceedingly narrow strait. The Persian army would have to march round the edge of the gulf. Th... ...arther side of Euboea to prevent the Persian vessels from getting into the strait and landing men beyond the pass, and a division of the army was sent... ...nniversary of the great profanation, the T emple was newly dedicated, with songs and hymns of rejoicing, and a festival day was appointed, which has b... ...rove might have seemed marching through the Roman streets, but for the war songs, and the wild jests, and ribald ballads that custom allowed the soldi... ...easted, some greased their long locks, some shouted out their favorite war songs around the table which was covered with the spoils of churches, and a... ...ay and lost in the Revolu- tion of 1849. 159 Yo n g e GEOR GEOR GEOR GEOR GEORGE GE GE GE GE THE THE THE THE THE TRILLER TRILLER TRILLER TRILLER TRIL... ...y train—the parents twain, And here the princess two, Here with his pole, George, stout of soul, And all his comrades true. High swells the chant, a...

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...at. He knew it well too, this monotonous huckster’s round, up and down the Straits; he knew its order and its sights and its people. Malacca to begin ... ...touching piece called the “Song of the Shirt.” It was all very well making songs about poor women. The granddaughter of Colonel Whalley, the landlady ... ...ven by the faithful Jack, wore out her boilers in tramping up and down the Straits, from cape to cape, from river to river, from bay to bay; accumulat... ... could do something to serve you. You know who I am.” “Everybody along the Straits has heard of you, sir.” Mr. Van Wyk presumed that this meant someth... ...ark ship moored to a silent shore. “Don’t you dare to say anything against George Massy, Esquire. When he’s tired of waiting he will do away with her.... ... What do you want here?” “Relieve you. You’ve been long enough down there, George.” “Don’t you George me—you tippling old rascal, you! If I were to di...

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...y CHAPTER XXVI Between London and Chatham ON QUITTING BRIGHTON, our friend George, as became a per- son of rank and fashion travelling in a barouche w... ...nd silent waiters, was ready to receive the young gentleman and his bride. George did the honours of the place with a princely air to Jos and Dobbin; ... ... the first time, and with exceeding shyness and timidity, presided at what George called her own table. George pooh-poohed the wine and bullied the wa... ...ch Dobbin had bought for her, and sang over all her father’s favourite old songs. She pronounced the tea to be excellent, and praised the exquisite ta... ...’s drawing-room singing sweetly to her, in the twilight, her little simple songs and hymns, while the sun was setting and the sea was roaring on the b... ...ore he went into action. Are you aware how small his means are, and of the straitened circumstances of his widow?” “I don’t know his widow, sir,” Osbo... ...nick-knacks from Paris, by Rebecca: and when she sat at her piano trilling songs with a lightsome heart, the stranger voted himself in a little paradi... ...charges of the boy’s education, which would fall heavily upon his mother’s straitened income. The Major, in a word, was always thinking about Amelia a... ...tt Crawley was off and alarmed. And he began a long speech, explaining how straitened he himself was in money matters; how the tenants would not pay; ...

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...ery and deception was the origin of it. Men, I say, never did believe idle songs, never risked their soul’s life on allegories: men in all times, espe... ...ad a lingering fondness for Paganism, collected certain of their old Pagan songs, just about becoming obsolete then,— Poems or Chants of a mythic, pro... ...ic Prince, in the Black-Sea region, with T welve Peers, and a great people straitened for room. How he led these Asen (Asiatics) of his out of Asia; s... ...h all manner of mythologies, symbolic practices, speculations, allegories, songs and sagas would naturally grow. Grow,— how strangely! I called it a s... ...the Jotuns, harrying those chaotic Frost-monsters, subduing them, at least straitening and damaging them. There is a great broad humor in some of thes... ...proceed out of fear in me. I have seen and defied innumerable Devils. Duke George,” of Leipzig, a great enemy of his, “Duke George is not equal to one... ... had business at Leipzig, I would ride into Leipzig, though it rained Duke Georges for nine days running.” What a reservoir of Dukes to ride into!— At... ...ve of him. A high but narrow contracted intensity in it: bony brows; deep, strait-set eyes, in which there is something bewildered-looking,—be- wilder... ...of papers in red tape? A simple Diocletian prefers planting of cabbages; a George Washing- ton, no very immeasurable man, does the like. One would say...

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...ical ship’s company, and cheered our way into exile with the fiddle, the accordion, and the songs of all nations. Good, bad, or indifferent—Scottish, ... ... nations. Good, bad, or indifferent—Scottish, English, Irish, Russian, German or Norse,—the songs were received with generous applause. Once or twice,... ...ching of the ship; and when we were thus disposed, sang to our hearts’ content. Some of the songs were appropriate to the scene; others strikingly the... ...elf had returned from sea about a year ago and gone to live with his brother, who kept the ‘George Hotel’—‘it was not quite a real hotel,’ added the c... ... not un- naturally grew cool towards him, and he began to find himself one too many at the ‘George Hotel.’ ‘I don’t think brothers care much for you,’... ...oung fellows about the smoking-room who seemed, in the eyes of one who cannot count himself strait-laced, in need of some more practical sort of teach... ...ours dog- gedly a little way off, in the wide shadow of the tree; and yet farther, across a strait of glaring sunshine, you see another painter, encam... ...r, of all English phrases, the phrase ‘for exercise’ is the least comprehensible across the Straits of Dover. All goes well for a while with the pedes... ...n France have had their word to say about Fontainebleau. Chateaubriand, Michelet, Beranger, George Sand, de Senancour, Flaubert, Murger, the brothers ...

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...w he should educate her boy; how to be a country clergy- man, like saintly George Herbert or pious Dr. Ken, was the happiest and greatest lot in life;... ...t mean you all by bepraising her? Mr. Steele, who was in waiting on Prince George, seeing her with her two children going to Kensington, writ a poem a... ...s called in France and by his party here (this Prince, or Chevalier de St. George, was born in the same year with Esmond’s young pupil Frank, my Lord ... ...s had been spent, cheerfuller than Castlewood, which was too large for her strait- ened means, and giving her, too, the protection of the ex-dean, her... ...men of England, who live at home at ease, and compliment yourselves in the songs of triumph with which our chieftains are bepraised—you pretty maidens... ...e, having toasted King James’s health with open windows, and sung cavalier songs, and shouted “God save the King!” in the great court, so that the mas... ...lord, his good looks were even more admired than his sister’s. A hun- dred songs were written about the pair, and as the fashion of 82 Henry Esmond –... ...” says his friend, interrupting him with a smile: “we are not come to such straits as that, Dick. I have been hiding, sir, at a place where people nev...

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...z more than two thousand miles to the westward from that, just outside the Straits of Gibraltar. See ye not then, ship- mates, that Jonah sought to fl... ...projecting, like two long promontories thickly wooded on top. Queequeg was George Washington canni- balistically developed. Whilst I was thus closely ... ... But Queequeg vowed a vow. Alone in his canoe, he paddled off to a distant strait, which he knew the ship must pass through when she quitted the islan... ...ut an incessant belt of circumnavigations round it; peeped in at Behring’s Straits; and in all seasons and all oceans declared everlasting war with th... ...ertheless, not three days pre- vious, Bildad had told them that no profane songs would be allowed on board the Pequod, particularly in getting under w... ...rawn in scales of chain-armor like Saladin’s, and a helmeted head like St. George’s; ever since then has something of the same sort of license prevail... ...some supposed to be indirectly derived from it—is that famous story of St. George and the Dragon; which dragon I maintain to have been a whale; for in... ...us reptile of the marsh perpetuates his kind as inevitably as the sweetest songster of the grove; so, equally with every felicity, all miserable event...

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...berty of putting the “Horican” into his mouth, as the substitute for “Lake George.” The name has appeared to find favor, and all things considered, it... ...y the tribe that dwelt on its banks, would be “The Tail of the Lake.” Lake George, as it is vulgarly, and now, in- deed, legally, called, forms a sort... ...ston, Anno Domini 1744; and is entitled, ‘The Psalms, Hymns, and Spiritual Songs of the Old and New Testaments; faithfully translated into English Met... ...orshipped the Great Spirit; and we kept the Maquas beyond the sound of our songs of triumph.” “Know you anything of your own family at that time?” de-... ...done!” he said, feeling the utter helplessness of doubt in such a pressing strait; “desert me not, for God’s sake! remain to defend those I escort, an... ...t I would have proved to him, that however others might neglect him in his strait his children at least were faithful.” “When he heard of your arrival... ...g mounted, they followed the movements of a guide, who, in the most deadly straits, had so often proved himself their friend. The journey was, how- ev... ...ted by Sir William Johnson, of Johnstown, New Y ork, on the shores of Lake George. 138 The Last of the Mohicans a brute beast. As for the grave there... ...weeps oftener than she smiles. At such moments I forbear to press the holy songs; but there are many sweet and comfort- able periods of satisfactory c...

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...tion by book or ballad, story- teller or minstrel; and the store of tales, songs, and fancies 8 Two Penniless Princesses that she had accumulated wer... ...knight sternly; ‘I must have the full name of any man who rides with me.’ ‘George Douglas, then, if nothing short of that will content you!’ ‘Are ye s... ... Hast thou any following?’ ‘Only a boy to lead my horse to grass,’ replied George, giv- ing a peculiar whistle, which brought to his side a shock-head... ...rtable. Malcolm, the more scrupulous of the Drummond broth- ers, begged of George Douglas, when at Durham, to write to his father and declare himself ... ...eory, that this Benedictine seclusion saved trouble, as being actually the strait course; but the young maid- ens were not scholars enough to question... ...sing, then introduced the Lady Eleanor of Scotland—’who knows all lays and songs, and loves letters, as you told me her blessed father did, my fair un... ...f the pathetic airs of her country, which reach back much farther than the songs with which they have in later times been associated. The King thoroug...