Description Details
...stian supremacy over the most savage lands of the earth. Reciting astonishing incidents and perilous undertakings among wild beasts and savage people in heroic efforts for a reclamation of all lands to civilization, and recording a description of the riot of murder, pillage and inhumanity which characterized the pirates, marooners and buccaneers who ravaged the spanish mai...

Excerpt Details
... -- Building a strong nation -- The earliest navigators -- Evolution of the ship -- Discoveries of the ancients -- Islands of the long ago -- Changes in the earth's surface -- Commerce of Troy with India -- Expeditions sent out by Menelaus and Neco -- The circumnavigation of Africa by the ancients -- Solomon's navy -- Discovery of the West Indies by Carthaginians -- Hamilc...

Full Text Search Details
... OF AMERICA By the Viking Sea-Rovers, and Its Settlement by the Scandinavians in the Ninth Century. SUPPLEMENTED WITH THRILLING NARRATIVES OF VOYAG... ...HING INCIDENTS AND PERILOUS UNDERTAKINGS AMONG WILD BEASTS AND SAVAGE PEOPLE IN HEROIC EFFORTS FOR A RECLAMATION OF ALL LANDS TO CIVILIZATION, AND ... ... the ship -- Discoveries of the ancients -- Islands of the long ago -- Changes in the earth's surface -- Commerce of Troy with India -- Expeditions se... ...y -- Discovery of the West Indies by Carthaginians -- Hamilcar's voyage to the North seas -- Wonderful lands and fountains -- Astounding adventures of... ...sea-birds -- Discovery of a new world -- A wondrously profitable commerce -- A northwest passage -- The Romans pass to China by a north route -- Destr... ... driven upon a strange shore -- Attacked by the natives -- A bold rover of the north -- A cruise among Atlantic islands -- A surprising discovery in G... ... that they lived in pretentious buildings having walls of stone, and that many towns and villages were established on and near the coast. They used sm... ...they found the country as luxuriant with fields of maize, and as populous with towns and villages as the level lands over which they had before passed... ...ble distance from the city, and it was necessary to pass through several large towns which lay in the Mexican valley. He accordingly marched through t...

Excerpt Details
Excerpt: North America: Volume Two by Anthony Trollope.

Table of Contents Details
...D CAMP WOOD......................................................................................................... 114 CHAPTER VII: THE ARMY OF THE NORTH..................................................................................................... 135 CHAPTER VIII: BACK TO BOSTON.........................................................................................

Full Text Search Details
...o by Anthony Trollope A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication North America: Volume Two by Anthony Trollope is a publication of the Penns... ...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. North America: Volume Two by Anthony Trollope, the Pennsylvania... ...in the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. North America: Volume Two by Anthony Trollope, the Pennsylvania State Unive... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. C... ............................................ 114 CHAPTER VII: THE ARMY OF THE NORTH ........................................................................ ...more than the present population of Washington; and there are, I fear, few towns in the Union so little likely to enjoy any speedy increase. Three ave... ...e are no iron pillars or wayside letter-boxes, as are to be found in other towns of the Union—no subsidiary offices at which stamps can be bought and ... ...s, Charleston, Savannah, Mobile, Richmond, and Memphis. I do not name such towns as Baltimore and St. Louis, which stand in slave States, but which ha...

Excerpt Details
...Excerpt: While we pursued the horsemen of the north, He stole away and left his men: Whereat the great Lord of Northumberland, Whose warlike ears could never brook retreat, Cheer?d up the drooping army; and himself, Lord Clifford and Lord Stafford, all abreast, Charged o...

Full Text Search Details
...arge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania Stat... ...contained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. King Henry VI, Part III by William Shakespeare , the Pennsyl... ... ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them.... ...: (SOMERSET:) DUKE OF EXETER : (EXETER:) EARL OF OXFORD : (OXFORD:) EARL OF NORTHUMBERLAND : (NORTHUMBERLAND:) EARL OF WESTMORELAND : (WESTMORELAND:)... ... how the king escaped our hands. YORK: While we pursued the horsemen of the north, He slily stole away and left his men: Whereat the great Lord of No... ... Richard; claim the English crown. [Flourish. Enter KING HENRY VI, CLIFFORD, NORTHUMBERLAND, WESTMORELAND, EXETER, and the rest .] KING HENRY VI : M... ...he Fifth, Who made the Dauphin and the French to stoop And seized upon their towns and provinces. WARWICK: Talk not of France, sith thou hast lost it... ...f thirty thousand men Comes Warwick, backing of the Duke of York; And in the towns, as they do march along, Proclaims him king, and many fly to him: D... ...overture, Thy brother being carelessly encamp’d, His soldiers lurking in the towns about, And but attended by a simple guard, We may surprise and take...

Excerpt Details
...Excerpt: Young people. Dunbar Castle, standing on steep rocks above the North Sea, was not only inaccessible on that side, but from its donjon tower commanded a magnificent view, both of the expanse of waves, taking purple tints from the shadows of the clouds, with here and there a sail fleeting ...

Full Text Search Details
...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Two Penniless Princesses by Charlotte M. Yonge, the Pennsylvani... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. C... ...lace of the young people. Dunbar Castle, standing on steep rocks above the North Sea, was not only inaccessible on that side, but from its donjon towe... ...path of glory along the tossing, white-crested waters. The wind was a keen north-east breeze, and might have been thought too severe by any but the ‘h... ...eys and minstrelsy, and the sun shines as it never does in this cold bleak north; and above all there is Margaret, dear tender Margaret, almost a quee... ...needful. They were, therefore, to travel by another route, leading through towns where there were hostels. Madame de Ste. Petronelle was to go with th... ...nd he beheld the shaggy-faced pony on which he had ridden all the way from Yorkshire, and which had no doubt eluded the robbers. There was a bundle at...

Excerpt Details
...Excerpt: I have kept one secret in the course of my life. I am a bashful man. Nobody would suppose it, nobody ever does suppose it, nobody ever did suppose it, but I am naturally a bashful man. This is the secret which I have never breathed until now....

Full Text Search Details
...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Holly-Tree—Three Branches by Charles Dickens, the Pennsylva... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. C... ...t when I came out of the T emple! The street-lamps flickering in the gusty north-east wind, as if the very gas were contorted with cold; the white-top... ...by—took me unexpectedly away from her for a week or ten days. There was no Northern Railway at that time, and in its place there were stage-coaches; w... ...ng we went on in this manner. Thus we came round the clock, upon the Great North Road, to the performance of Auld Lang Syne by day again. And it snowe... ...ickens We performed Auld Lang Syne the whole day; seeing noth- ing, out of towns and villages, but the track of stoats, hares, and foxes, and sometime... ..., hares, and foxes, and sometimes of birds. At nine o’clock at night, on a Yorkshire moor, a cheerful burst from our horn, and a welcome sound of talk... ...r want of a tea- pot. So to the old palace Inns and old monastery Inns, in towns and cities of the same bright country; with their mas- sive quadrangu...

Excerpt Details
...Excerpt: On a Moorland slope where sheep and goats were dispersed among the rocks, there lay a young lad on his back, in a stout canvas cassock over his leathern coat, and stout leathern leggings over wooden shoes. Twilight was fast coming on; only a gleam of purple light rested on the top of the eastern hills, but was gradually fading away,...

Full Text Search Details
...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ... tained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Herd Boy And His Hermit by Charlotte M. Yonge, the Pennsylv... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. C... ...re away at the cell at Greystone when Queen Margaret and the Red Rose came north.’ ‘ And is that the way they keep you safe?’ asked the hostess, who m... ...ft to hear that you speak as we do at home in Bedfordshire, not like these northern boors, that might as well be Scots!’ ‘I am not from Bedfordshire,’... ...it, but Hob mocks at it. He thinks the only use of the Wain is to find the North Star, up beyond there, pointing by the back of the Plough, and go by ... ...e an escort, explaining that he was a poor merchant of London and the Hans towns who had been beguiled into an expedition to Scotland to the young Kin... ...estiny in manu- factories yet to come, though there were occasionally such towns, villages and convents on the way where provisions and lodging could ... ..., as the riders accommodated themselves to those on foot. They avoided the towns when they came into the more inhabited country, the Prioress preferri...

Excerpt Details
Excerpt: The Man Who Kept His Money in a Box by Anthony Trollope.

Full Text Search Details
...The Man Who Kept His Money In A Box by Anthony Trollope A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLIC... ...N STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The Man Who Kept His Money in a Box by Anthony Trollope is a publication of the Pennsylva- nia State U... ...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...an town which the tourist reaches by this route, and I know no town in the North of Italy which is so closely surrounded by beautiful scenery. The tra... ...ng’s Head in the thriving commercial town of Muddleboro, on the borders of Yorkshire and Lancashire. 6 The Man Who Kept His Money in a Box I am alway... ...avellers, and being excessively unhealthy; but there is very little either north or south of the Alps,—and, perhaps, I may add, very little elsewhere,... ...wn the lake of Como and the Lago Maggiore, put out their passengers at the towns on the banks of the water by means of small rowing-boats, and the per...

Full Text Search Details
...e of any kind. Any per- son using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The World Set Free by H. G. Wells, the Pennsylvania State Unive... ...oing student publication project to bring classical works of litera- ture, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. C... ...r valleys about the warm, temper- ate zone of the earth there were already towns and temples, a score of thousand years ago. They flourished unrecorde... ...ions of intellectual routine and the habitual life, in Europe, in America, North and South, in Japan, in China, and all about the world. It was in 191... ...airvoyant vision of this populated world as a whole, of all its cities and towns and villages, its high roads and the inns beside them, its gar- dens ... ...tor traffic, pulsating as the current alternated between east and west and north and south. Above rose great frontages of in- tricate rather than beau... ... cloud sea was at first starry and then paler with a light that crept from north to east as the dawn came on. The Milky Way was in- visible in the blu... ...side, in straggling villages, each with its fine old church, or in compact towns laced with canals and abounding in bridges and clipped trees, were hu...

Excerpt Details
...ion to Canto First. November?s sky is chill and drear, November?s leaf is red and sear: Late, gazing down the steepy linn That hems our little garden in, Low in its dark and narrow glen You scarce the rivulet might ken, So thick the tangled greenwood grew....

Full Text Search Details
...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ... tained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Marmion: A Tale of Flodden Field by Sir Walter Scott, the Penns... ...oing student publication project to bring classical works of lit- erature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. C... ...mpotent and vain This grateful tributary strain! Though not unmarked, from northern clime, Ye heard the Border minstrel’s rhyme His Gothic harp has o’... ...ls wept, Thy Genius, Chivalry, hath slept: There sound the harpings of the North, Till he awake and sally forth, On venturous quest to prick again, In... ...laced him in the upper place - They feasted full and high: The whiles a Northern harper rude Chanted a rhyme of deadly feud, “How the fierce Thi... ... VIII. And now the vessel skirts the strand Of mountainous Northumberland; Towns, towers, and halls successive rise, And catch the nuns’ delighted eye... ...ight for fame; Let vassals follow where they lead, Burghers to guard their townships bleed, But war’s the Borderer’s game. Their gain, their glory,... ... in its halls King James should come; But Nottingham has archers good, And Yorkshire-men are stern of mood; Northumbrian prickers wild and rude. On De...

Excerpt Details
Excerpt: Poems, in Two Volumes, Volume Two by William Wordsworth.

Table of Contents Details
...Contents POEMS WRITTEN DURINGATOUR IN SCOTLAND. ........................................................................................................ 5 ROB ROY’s GRAVE ............................................................................................

Full Text Search Details
...ICAL BALLADS . A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Poems, in T wo Volumes, Volume T wo by William Wordsworth is a publication of th... ...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Poems, in T wo Volumes, Volume T wo by William Wordsworth , th... ...te’er they were, The blind Boy always had his share; Whether of mighty Towns, or Vales With warmer suns and softer gales, Or wonders of th... ...n, true, T rue to itself—the mighty Germany, She of the Danube and the Northern sea, She rose,—and off at once the yoke she threw. All power w... ...ath utter’d forth, 30 We loudest in the faithful North: Our Fields rejoice, our Mountains ring, Our Streams proclaim a w... ...g the space of twenty four years; all which time he lived as a shepherd in Yorkshire, or in Cumberland, where the estate of his Father in law (Sir Lan...

Full Text Search Details
...arge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State... ...contained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. King Richard II by William Shakespeare , the Pennsylvania St... ... ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them,... ...it was reported. DORSET: No man but prophesied revenge for it. BUCKINGHAM: Northumberland, then present, wept to see it. QUEEN MARGARET : What were... ...gold that I found; it beggars any man that keeps it: it is turned out of all towns and cities for a dangerous thing; and every man that means to live ... ... the DUCHESS OF YORK ] ARCHBISHOP OF YORK : Last night, I hear, they lay at Northampton; At Stony Stratford will they be to night: To morrow, or next... ...ly you will take horse with him, And with all speed post with him toward the north, To shun the danger that his soul divines. HASTINGS: Go, fellow, g... ...ssenger : Sir Thomas Lovel and Lord Marquis Dorset, ’Tis said, my liege, in Yorkshire are in arms. Yet this good comfort bring I to your grace, The B... ...bring I to your grace, The Breton navy is dispersed by tempest: Richmond, in Yorkshire, sent out a boat Unto the shore, to ask those on the banks If t...

Excerpt Details
...Excerpt: If you look at a map of the World, you will see, in the left-hand upper corner of the Eastern Hemisphere, two Islands lying in the sea. They are England and Scotland, and Ireland. England and Scotland form the greater part of these Islands. Ireland is the next in size. The ...

Full Text Search Details
...ge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ... tained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. A Child’s History of England by Charles Dickens , the Pennsylv... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. C... ... and all that time, there was peace in Britain. The Britons improved their towns and mode of life: became more civilised, travelled, and learnt a grea... ...adoc, who gave battle to the Romans, with his army, among the mountains of North Wales. ‘This day,’ said he to his sol diers, ‘decides the fate of Br... ...were the Sax ons, a fierce, sea faring people from the coun tries to the North of the Rhine, the great river of Germany on the banks of which the be... ...cots (which was then the name for the people of Ireland), and the Picts, a northern people, began to make frequent plun dering incursions into the So... ...ken and unguarded wall of Severus, in swarms. They plundered the rich est towns, and killed the people; and came back so often for more booty and mor... ...in came into England, and, year after year, attacked and de spoiled large towns. To coax these sea kings away, the weak Ethelred paid them money; but...

Full Text Search Details
...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Arthurian Chronicles: Roman De Brut by Wace, trans. Eugene Mas... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. C... ...guerdon; but of these he had no great company. This Passent arrived in the north country and ravaged it, burning the towns and spoiling the land. He d... ...any. This Passent arrived in the north country and ravaged it, burning the towns and spoiling the land. He dared make no long stay, for the king haste... ...poiling the land. He dared make no long stay, for the king hastened to the north to give him battle, and this he might not endure. Passent took again ... ...ise than got safely away. When Uther parted from York he passed throughout Northumberland. From Northumberland he entered into Scotland, having many s... ..., tak ing refuge where they were able. They hid in woods and thickets, in towns and in houses, seeking refuge from the stour. Right grievous was thei... ...s great company, wasting the land, seizing on the manors, and spoiling the towns. Ridulph was no trembler, and had no thought to leave the country to ...

Excerpt Details
...ooping west, Making the wind my post-horse, still unfold The acts commenced on this ball of earth: Upon my tongues continual slanders ride, The which in every language I pronounce, Stuffing the ears of men with false reports. I speak of peace, while covert enmity Under the smile of safety wounds the world: And who but Rumour, who but only I, Make fearful musters and prepar...

Full Text Search Details
...ge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State ... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. William Shakespeare’s Henry IV, Part 2 , the Pennsylvania State... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. C... ...ng’s Bench: (Lord Chief Justice:) A Servant of the Chief Justice. EARL OF NORTHUMBERLAND : (NORTHUMBERLAND:) SCROOP, ARCHBISHOP OF YORK : (ARCHBISH... ...RDOLPH: SIR JOHN COLEVILE : (COLEVILE:) TRAVERS and MORTON: retainers of Northumberland. SIR JOHN FALSTAFF : (FALSTAFF:) His Page. (Page:) BARDOLP... ...EEBLE , and BULLCALF: recruits. FANG and SNARE: sheriff’s officers. LADY NORTHUMBERLAND: LADY PERCY : MISTRESS QUICKLY : hostess of a tavern in Eas... ...his anointed head as low as death. This have I rumor’d through the peasant towns Between that royal field of Shrewsbury And this worm eaten hold of ra... ...y snap at him. Let time shape, and there an end. [Exit.] ACT IV SCENE I: Yorkshire. Gaultree Forest. [Enter the ARCHBISHOP OF YORK, MOWBRAY, LORD H... ...Bardolph, With a great power of English and of Scots Are by the sheriff of Yorkshire overthrown: The manner and true order of the fight This packet, p...

Full Text Search Details
...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The English Mail-Coach and Joan of Arc By Thomas de Quincey, th... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. C... ...amiliar to mail-coach trav- ellers where two mails in opposite directions, north and south, starting at the same minute from points six hundred miles ... ...ck, Mr. Waterton, a distinguished coun- try gentleman of ancient family in Northumberland, pub- licly mounted and rode in top-boots a savage old croco... ...g, Aberdeen— expressing the grandeur of the empire by the antiquity of its towns, and the grandeur of the mail establishment by the diffusive radiatio... ...ails to be valued. The American 34 The English Mail-Coach and Joan of Arc northwards for six hundred; and the sympathy of our Lombard Street friends ... ...ence of Glasgow, and winnowing it from the chaff of all baser intermediate towns. But at last all is finished. Sound your horn, guard! Manchester, goo... ...ee stages termi- nate in Preston (called, by way of distinction from other towns of that name, Proud Preston); at which place it is that the separate ...

Excerpt Details
...Excerpt: It is nearly eight years since this book was first published. I present it, unaltered, in the Cheap Edition; and such of my opinions as it expresses, are quite unaltered too. My readers have opportunities of judging for themselves whether the influences and tendencies which I distrust in America, have any exist...

Full Text Search Details
...ge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk . Neither the Pennsylvania State ... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. American Notes for General Circulation by Charles Dickens , th... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. C... ...ay proceedings. I may add that I am well acquainted with our manufacturing towns in England, and have visited many mills in Manchester and elsewhere i... ...een at work for years in our manufac American Notes – Dickens 75 turing towns have not arisen here; and there is no manu facturing population in L... ... hospitable roof of the Governor of the State, until Monday morning. These towns and cities of New England (many of which would be villages in Old Eng... ...ge; and the Battle Monument in memory of an engagement with the British at North Point; are the most conspicuous among them. American Notes – Dickens... ... miserable day; chilly and raw; a damp mist falling; and the trees in that northern region quite bare and wintry. Whenever the train halted, I listene... ... height of summer again. At seven we started for New York on board a great North River steamboat, which was so crowded with passengers that the upper ...

Excerpt Details
... known, and enjoyed their full meed of fame. Therefore it may be feared that many of the events here detailed, or alluded to, may seem trite to those in search of novelty; but it is not for such that the collection has been made....

Full Text Search Details
...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmis- sion, in any way. A Book of Golden Deeds, the Pennsylvania State University, Elec... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. C... ...wn country, Stamford Bridge was, in like manner, guarded by a single brave Northman, after the battle fought A.D. 1066, when Earl Tostig, the son of G... ...mbers of which he thrust up his spear, and thus was able to hurl the brave Northman into the river, mortally wounded, but not till great numbers of hi... ...vender.’ We have seen how the sturdy Roman fought for his city, the fierce Northman died to guard his comrades’ rush to their ships after the lost bat... ...s were ill drawn up, and were at once broken. Some fled to V eii and other towns, many were drowned in crossing the Tiber, and it was but a few who sh... ...es after them. 64 A Book of Golden Deeds The Greeks, in going through the towns to enforce the idol worship, came to a little city called Modin, some... ...ways consid- ered as their impenetrable barrier throughout the winter. The towns quickly fell into his hands, and he was rapidly recov- ering all he h...

Excerpt Details
...Introduction: The poems of Emily Dickinson, published in a series of three volumes at various intervals after her death in 1886, and in a volume entitled The Single Hound, published in 1914, with the addition of a few before omitted, are here collected in a final complete editio...

Full Text Search Details
...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Poems of Emily Dickinson, the Pennsylvania State University... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. C... ...eir faith the everlasting troth; Their expectation fair; The needle to the north degree Wades so, through polar air. 28 XXXIX I MEAN... ... still. The frosts were her condition; The Tyrian would not come Until the North evoked it. “Creator! shall I bloom?” XLIX BESIDES the autum... ...d, Lapland’s necessity. The hemlock’s nature thrives on cold; The gnash of northern winds Is sweetest nutriment to him, His best Norwegian wines. T o ... ...er latitudes, Quietly did the same. But differed in returning; Since Yorkshire hills are green, Yet not in all the nests I meet Can nightingal... ... his way, Lest he pursue— Nor ever ceased to run, Till, in a distant town, Towns on from mine— I sat me down; This was a dream. LXXI NOT any su...

Excerpt Details
...Excerpt: This is America--a town of a few thousand, in a region of wheat and corn and dairies and little groves. The town is, in our tale, called ?Gopher Prairie, Minnesota.? But its Main Street is the continuation of Main Streets everywhere. The story would be the same in Ohi...

Full Text Search Details
...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Main Street by Sinclair Lewis, the Pennsylvania State Universit... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. C... ...o generations ago, a girl stood in relief against the corn- flower blue of Northern sky. She saw no Indians now; she saw flour-mills and the blinking ... ...at’s what I’ll do after college! I’ll get my hands on one of these prairie towns and make it beautiful. Be an inspiration. I suppose I’d better become... ...he garden suburbs on Long Is- land? Nobody has done anything with the ugly towns here in the Northwest except hold revivals and build libraries to con... ...on Long Is- land? Nobody has done anything with the ugly towns here in the Northwest except hold revivals and build libraries to contain the Elsie boo... ...mnastics in a high school, a chief clerk from the Great 15 Sinclair Lewis Northern Railway offices, a young lawyer. But there was also a stranger, a ... ...Say honestly— Of course I may be prejudiced, but I’ve seen an awful lot of towns—one time I went to Atlantic City for the American Medical Association...

Full Text Search Details
...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ained within the document or for the file as an elec- tronic transmission, in any way. Unknown To History A Story of the Captivity of Mary of Scottlan... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. C... ...ispensation,” returned the clergyman, uttering these long words in a broad north- ern accent which had nothing incongruous in it to Richard’s ears, an... ...e despatched by carriers; and the travellers jogged slowly on through deep Yorkshire lanes, often halting to re- fresh the horses and supply the wants... ...itted of my lord’s benevolence.” They were all eyed askance by the sturdy, north country English, who naturally hated all strangers, above all French ... ...ay.” Much had happened in the course of the past years. The intrigues with Northumberland and Norfolk, and the secret efforts of the unfortunate Queen... ..., glens, and woods, through which they rode. Their real delight was in the towns and villages at which there was a halt, and every traveller they saw ... ...ould catch the pur- port of the shouts that were beginning to arise as the townsfolk awoke to the knowledge that their enemy was dead. The fires of Sm...