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Excerpt: A Tramp Abroad by Mark Twain (Samuel L. Clemens).

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...spects form a part of it, this basin contains about 1,250,000 square miles. In extent it is the second great valley of the world, being exceeded only by that of the Amazon. The valley of the frozen Obi approaches it in extent; that of La Plata comes next in space, and probably in habitable capacity, having about eight-ninths of its area; then comes that of the Yenisei, wit...

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...EVER BEFORE PRINTED IN ANY EDITION OF THE POEMS. EDITED WITH TEXTUAL NOTES BY THOMAS HUTCHINSON, M. A. EDITOR OF THE OXFORD WORDSWORTH. 1914. A Penn S... ................................................. 21 NOTE ON THE EARLY POEMS, BY MRS. SHELLEY. ............................................................. ................................................... 31 NOTE ON POEMS OF 1816, BY MRS. SHELLEY. ............................................................. ...usseau. T o these may be added several modern books of travel. He read few novels. POEMS POEMS POEMS POEMS POEMS WRIT WRIT WRIT WRIT WRITTEN IN 1816 T... ... _10 In a lone land, Like tombs to mark the memory Of hopes and fears, which fade and flee In the light of lif... ...ects were drowned In an ocean of dreams without a sound; Whose waves never mark, though they ever impress The light sand which paves it, consciousness... ...nd walls did surround and sustain The dome of the tempest; it rent them in twain, _110 As a flood rends its barriers of mountainous crag: And ... ...ulse of thought Urge on the keen keel,—the brine foams. At the stern Three marksmen stand levelling. Hot bullets burn _155 In the breast of the t...

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Excerpt: Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes, translated by John Ormsby (1922 ed.).

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Excerpt: Don Quixote. Part Two by Miquel de Cervantes, translated by John Ormsby, 1922 ed.

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...e Poems has already been submitted to general perusal. It was published, as an experiment which, I hoped, might be of some use to ascertain, how far, by fitting to metrical arrangement a selection of the real language of men in a state of vivid sensation, that sort of pleasure and that quantity of pleasure may be imparted, which a Poet may rationally endeavour to impart....

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...o the San Joaquin Valley in California where he worked as a ranchhand. After a failed attempt to enlist in the Great War in 1917 and with the help of Mark Twain's sister he met Robert Hobart Davis, editor of All-Story Weekly and became a regular contributor writting under his most used pseudonym “Max Brand”. He wrote in many genres during his career and produced more than ...

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... Thackeray A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Burlesques by William Makepeace Thackeray is a publication of the Pennsylvania State U... ...ment or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Burlesques by William Makepeace Thackeray, the Pennsylvania State University, Electron... ...ennsylvania State University is an equal opportunity university. Contents NOVELS BY EMINENT HANDS ...................................................... ...ania State University is an equal opportunity university. Contents NOVELS BY EMINENT HANDS ............................................................. ...................313 4 Thackeray Burlesques by William Makepeace Thackeray NOVELS BY EMINENT HANDS GEORGE DE BARNWELL BY SIR E. L. B. L., BART. VOL I.... ...or slave had toiled, died perhaps, to produce yon pyramid of swarthy sugar marked “Only 6 1/2d.”—That catty box, on which was the epigraph “Strong Fam... ...s he of the treasures confided to him. The crowd passed in Chepe; he never marked it. The sun shone on Chepe; he only asked that it should illu- mine ... ...ood. Life is the Soul’s Nursery. I am a Man, and pine for the Illimitable! Mark you me! Has the Morrow any terrors for me, think ye? Did Socrates falt... ...ial, but it shows the power of Julia Jowler over me. The writers of marine novels have so exhausted the subject of storms, shipwrecks, mutinies, engag...

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...Trollope was reviled as representing the worst of old world prejudices the new republic (though the criticism did nothing to hurt sales). Accompanied by a son and two daughters, Trollope lived in the United States from 1827 to 1831, spending most of her time in Cincinnati, where she had hoped, when joined by her husband, to open a large department store, which was also to ...

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... or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman , the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classics... ................276 After the Sea Ship.............................277 BOOK XX. BY THE ROADSIDE ..278 A Boston Ballad (1854).....................278 Euro... ...on a Mountain Side..............313 An Army Corps on the March...........314 By the Bivouac’s Fitful Flame...........314 Come Up from the Fields Fathe... ...45 Good Bye My Fancy..........................545 On, on the Same, Ye Jocund Twain!..546 My 71st Year.....................................546 Appariti... ... boy puts off his killing clothes, or sharpens his knife at the stall in the market, I loiter enjoying his repartee and his shuffle and break down. Bl... ...hinist rolls up his sleeves, the policeman travels his beat, the gate keeper marks who pass, The young fellow drives the express wagon, (I love him, t... ...g, some lean on their rifles, some sit on logs, Out from the crowd steps the marksman, takes his position, levels his piece; The groups of newly come ... ...ough fields, in woods, on hills, he and another wandering hand in hand, they twain apart from other men, Who oft as he saunter’d the streets curv’d wi... ...breeze, Thy bugles sounding loud and clear. Away with old romance! Away with novels, plots and plays of foreign courts, Away with love verses sugar’d ...

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...s. How, then, comes it, may the reflective mind repeat, that the grand Tissue of all Tissues, the only real Tissue, should have been quite overlooked by Science,--the vestural Tissue, namely, of woollen or other cloth; which Man?s Soul wears as its outmost wrappage and overall; wherein his whole other Tissues are included ......

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