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... 483 CHAPTER 1 1 CHAPTER 1 U nder certain circumstances there are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as a... ... dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea. There are circum stances in which, whether you partake of the tea or not—some people of course nev... ...ou partake of the tea or not—some people of course never do—the situation is in itself delightful. Those that I have in mind in be ginning to unfold ... ...way and that, in sympathy with the alertness with which she evidently caught impressions. Her impressions CHAPTER 2 13 were numerous, and they were a... ...ination and of what is called the historic consciousness; but to many of the impressions usually made by English life upon the cultivated stranger his... ...he had ever encountered—her idea of cousins having tended to gloom. Then her impressions were still so fresh and so quickly renewed that there was as ... ...sn’t certainly as if his nature had been soft, so that pin pricks would draw blood from it; and from the first of her acquaintance with him, and of her... ... render the answer to this question an insipidly easy one. If he had English blood in his veins it had probably received some French or Italian commix... ...adjusting the knots of ribbon on her dress. “You Osmonds are a fine race—your blood must flow from some very pure source. Your brother, like an intellig...

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...pt: William Shakespeare, the protagonist on the great arena of modern poetry, and the glory of the human intellect, was born at Stratford-upon- Avon, in the county of Warwick, in the year 1564, and upon some day, not precisely ascertained, in the month of April. It is certain that he was baptized on the 25th; and from that fact, combined with some shadow of a tradition, Ma...

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...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. Miscellaneous Essays by Thomas de Quincey, the Pennsylvania Sta... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in En- glish, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them.... ... be curious in homi- cide; amateurs and dilettanti in the various modes of blood- shed; and, in short, Murder-Fanciers. Every fresh atrocity of that c... ...atre, the hand which inflicts the fatal blow is not more deeply imbrued in blood that his who sits and looks on: neither can he be clear of blood who ... ...t out life: he fell; and, deadly pale, Groan’d out his soul with gushing blood effus’d. Par. Lost, B. XI. Upon this, Richardson, the painter, who ... ... Fugue, as well as other variations not now recorded. Confluent with these impressions, from the terrific experience on the Manchester and Glasgow mai... ...experience on the Manchester and Glasgow mail, were other and more general impressions, de- rived from long familiarity with the English mail, as deve... ... long familiarity with the English mail, as developed in the former paper; impressions, for instance, of animal beauty and power, of rapid motion, at ...

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...Introduction: Dead Souls, first published in 1842, is the great prose classic of Russia. That amazing institution, ?the Russian novel,? not only began its career with this unfinished masterpiece by Nikolai Vasil?evich Gogol, but practically all the Russian masterpiec...

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...and yet as close as a good glove?s with your hand. My wife and I knew Captain and Mrs Ashburnham as well as it was possible to know anybody, and yet, in another sense, we knew nothing at all about them. This is, I believe, a state of things only possible with English people of whom, till today, when I sit down to puzzle out what I know of this sad affair, I knew nothing wh...

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............................................................... 17 Technology in My Life Bryan Hunsinger ................................................... ....................................................... 23 Drinking is No Fun in the End Gwen Donmoyer ..................................................... ...l the student essays contained herein were produced by students registered in English 004, within the Commonwealth Col- lege of the Pensylvania Univer... ...e, we finally landed. With a sigh of relief, we got off the plane with red blood-shot eyes and pounding head- aches. We left the airport on our way to... ...door, having been jumped up upon and almost knocked over by the dog. First impressions are important and guests should be treated with more respect. S... ...l, but I didn’t think there was any injury. But to my disbelief, there was blood everywhere. I split my upper lip in the right cor- ner and I put my t... ... lip in the right cor- ner and I put my teeth right through my bottom lip. Blood covered the front of my clothes and my jacket. My first reaction was ...

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...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 Penn- sylvania State... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Selected Writings by Guy de Maupassant: Short Stories of the Tr... ...o- ing 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... ... rich in experiences, immediate and personal; Flaubert so poor in di- rect impressions, so paralyzed by his health, by 11 Selected Writings his famil... ...d, which was suit- able to a priest, who was a man of mildness, and not of blood; and everyone, for twenty-five miles round, praised Abbe Chantavoine’... ...mouth, until she lost her breath; and at last he bit her until a stream of blood ran down her chin and on to her bodice. For the second time, she look... ...d. My knives cut very well! And when once the jugular is cut—good-bye. The blood would spurt out, and one, two, three red jets, and all would be over;...

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...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 Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Volume T wo, 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... ...able pace and deep-mouthed bellow of a Juvenal, pursuing his object like a bloodhound: he resembles more a half-angry, half-play- 18 The Poetical Wor... ...rank to all beside, A teeming mistress, but a barren bride. What then? let blood and body bear the fault, Her head’s untouch’d, that noble seat of tho... ...peechless, pale, I stood, Grief chill’d my breast, and stopp’d my freezing blood; No sigh to rise, no tear had power to flow, Fix’d in a stupid lethar... ... 430 Felt the first motions of an infant flame; Received th’ impressions of the love-sick squire, And wasted in the soft infectious fire... ...rmerly laid by for that end, may make no unpleasant addition to the future impressions of this poem. V.—ADVERTISEMENT TO THE COMPLETE EDI- TION of 174...

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...THE WORKS OF EDGAR ALLAN POE IN FIVE VOLUMES Volume Five A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publica... ...State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Works of Edgar Allan Poe in Five Volumes: Volume Five is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Uni... ...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... ... How this happens, it is not difficult to see. We have no aris- tocracy of blood, and having therefore as a natural, and in- deed as an inevitable thi... ...as constituting a nobility; and secondly, that there, the true nobility of blood, confining itself 7 V olume Five within the strict limits of legitim... ...his knowledge, and thus he was often at a loss to account for the forcible impressions which had been made upon my fancy. A favorite topic with me was... ... from the saloon, his party might soon have expiated their frolic in their blood. As it was, a general rush was made for the doors; but the king had o... ... specimen. I call him, and think him the noblest of poets, not because the impressions he produces are at all times the most profound— not because the...

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...Excerpt: A green and yellow parrot, which hung in a cage outside the door, kept repeating over and over: ?Allez vous-en! Allez vous-en! Sapristi! That?s all right!? He could speak a little Spanish, and also a language which nobody understood, unless it was the mocking-bir...

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...ine that any part of what I have to relate can be interesting to the public as a narrative or as being connected with myself. But I have thought that in an age in which education and its improvement are the subject of more, if not of profounder, study than at any former period of English history, it may be useful that there should be some record of an education which was u...

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...r congruity and force to inhabitants of that United Kingdom, peopled from so many different stocks, babbling so many different dialects, and offering in its extent such singular contrasts, from the busiest over-population to the unkindliest desert, from the Black Country to the Moor of Rannoch. It is not only when we cross the seas that we go abroad; there are foreign part...

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...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 trans- mission, in any way. Memories and Portraits by Robert Louis Stevenson (1912 Chatto a... ...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... ... ity of my countryfolk to their cousins from beyond the sea; I grill in my blood over the silly rudeness of our newspaper articles; and I do not know ... ...heological discussions on the way to fight for Greece; but the daft Gordon blood and the Aberdonian school-days kept their influence to the end. We ha... ...ws, under the green glimmer of the winter sunset. The frost tingles in our blood; no proctor lies in wait to intercept us; till the bell sounds again,... ...that a writer, in time, begins to wonder at the perdu- rable life of these impressions; begins, perhaps, to fancy that he wrongs them when he weaves t... ...act, as in marshalling all of them towards a common end. For the welter of impressions, all forcible but all discreet, which life presents, it substit... ...screet, which life presents, it substitutes a certain artificial series of impressions, all indeed most fee- bly represented, but all aiming at the sa...