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... Classics Series Publication Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Por- table Document file is furn... ...assics Series Publication Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Por- table Document file is furnish... ...ty. This Por- table Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ..., but composed of mate- rials much finer than those which the rule of that order ad- mitted. His mantle and hood were of the best Flanders cloth, and ... ...ith a golden 13 Sir Walter Scott clasp, and the whole dress proper to his order as much refined upon and ornamented, as that of a quaker beauty of th... ...the Saracens for the recovery of the Holy Sepulchre; he is of the order of Knights T emplars, whom you may have heard of; he is half a monk, half a so... ...ht Brian de Bois-Guilbert, commander of the valiant and venerable order of Knights Templars, with a small retinue, requested hospitality and lodging f... ...hort, if we may presume to say so, of her glo- rious namesake, the blessed Saint Hilda of Whitby, God be gracious to her soul!” When the Prior had cea...

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...a by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Clara Bell and James Waring is a publication of the Penn- sylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furn... ...y Honoré de Balzac, trans. Clara Bell and James Waring is a publication of the Penn- sylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnish... ...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... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ...ould discover nothing of his political views. “Ottoboni,” he ran on, “is a saint; very kind-hearted; all the refugees are fond of him; for, Excellenza... ... a battle, the or- chestral parts of a symphony by Beethoven obey the plan ordered for the interest of all, and are subordinate to an ad- mirably conc... ...—a man drunk. On their return, Andrea began to attack Meyerbeer’s work, in order to wake up Gambara, who sat sunk in the half- torpid state common in ... ...do I see? The only scene to which we gave the epithet infernal: an orgy of knights in Sicily. In that chorus in F every human passion is unchained in ... ...lected love?” he said. “Isabella calls to Robert above the grand chorus of knights riding forth to the tournament, in which the motifs of the second a...

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...Contents CHILLIANWALLAH..................................................................................................................... 14 THE DOE: A FRAGMENT........................................................................................................... 15 BEAUTY ROHTRAUT ..................................................................................

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...ms of George Meredith A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Poems of George Meredith by George Meredith is a publication of the Pen... ...ge Meredith A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Poems of George Meredith by George Meredith is a publication of the Pennsylvania ... ...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... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ...ght palaces; Here in our May-blood we wander, careering ‘mongst ladies and knights. 31 THE POETRY OF SHAKESPEARE Picture some Isle smiling green ‘mid... ...im this evil human page Will ever blot the Golden Age That poets dream and saints invite, If it be unredeemed this night? This night of deep solemnity... ... SONG OF COURTESY I When Sir Gawain was led to his bridal-bed, By Arthur’s knights in scorn God-sped:- How think you he felt? O the bride within Was y... ...ion, these obtain Her homage. And of this we men are vain? Of this! ’Tis ordered for the world’s increase! Small flattery! Yet she has that rare gi... ...hy count the list? If it’s right to suppose that our human affairs Are all order’d by heaven—there, bang goes my fist! III For if angels can look on s...

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Excerpt: The Divine Comedy, Volume Two, Purgatory [Purgatorio] by Dante Aligheri, trans Charles Eliot Norton.

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