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In the Days of the Comet

By: H. G. Wells

... G. WELLS A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication In the Days of the Comet by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univ... ...ty. This Por- table Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this docu- ment file, for any purpose, and in... ...ent or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. In the Days of the Comet by H. G. Wells, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic ... ... beautiful, and in some subtle quality, in this small difference and that, new to me and strange. They were in no fashion I could name, and the simple... ...nd I am out of touch with my youth. The old life seems so cut off from the new, so alien and so unreasonable, that at times I find it bordering upon t... ...ssion; and a curious accident put me for a time in the very nucleus of the new order. My memory takes me back across the interval of fifty years to a ... ... by a violent letter upon the crisis to the leading socialis- tic paper in England, The Clarion, in which he had adven- tured among the motives of Lor... ...y egotistical broodings to wider interests. For it seemed that Germany and England were on the brink of war. Of all the monstrous irrational phenomena... ...nal, municipal, or national Government amidst whose larger areas their own dominions lay… . This sounds, I know, like a lunatic’s dream, but mankind w...

...Excerpt: I saw a gray-haired man, a figure of hale age, sitting at a desk and writing: He seemed to be in a room in a tower, very high, so that through the tall window on his left one perceived only distances, a remote horizon of sea, a headland and that vague haze an...

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The Hated Son

By: Honoré de Balzac

...ics Series Publication The Hated Son by Honoré de Balzac is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...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... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18202-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...ture induced her to sit up in her bed, either to study the nature of these new sufferings, or to re- flect on her situation. She was a prey to cruel f... ...called La Belle Romaine. The distrust resulting from 8 The Hated Son this new misfortune made him suspicious to the point of not believing himself ca... ...nors and more wealth, and yet, tete-Dieu! you receive me like an enemy. My new govern- ment will oblige me to make long absences until I can ex- chang... ...uperior to herself, and not in ruling him. Hearts without tenderness covet dominion, but a true love treasures abnegation, that virtue of strength. Wh... ...e Hated Son all the variations of a marine atmosphere in which the fogs of England come to die and the sunshine of France is born, there rose within h... ... ways a child; as for him who can without deep pain see her fall under the dominion of another man, he does not rise to worlds superior, he falls to l...

...Excerpt: On a winter?s night, about two in the morning, the Comtesse Jeanne d?Herouville felt such violent pains that in spite of her inexperience, she was conscious of an approaching confinement; and the instinct which makes us hope for ease in a change of posture induced her to sit up in her bed, either to study the nature of these new sufferings, ...

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Aaron's Rod

By: D. H. Lawrence

...lassics Series Publication Aaron’s Rod by D. H. Lawrence is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...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... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... .... Also the War was over, and there was a sense of relief that was almost a new menace. A man felt the violence of the nightmare released now into the ... ...pers: but now it was a clean white shirt, and his best black trousers, and new pink and white braces. He sat under the gas-jet of the back kitchen, lo... ...landlady’s preserve. “Oh, it’s you,” she said, bobbing down to look at the new- comer. None entered her bar-parlour unless invited. “Come in,” said th... ..., in a way the people of India have an easier time even than the people of England. Because they have no responsibility. The British Government takes ... ...” TREE” IT IS REMARKABLE how many odd or extraordinary people there are in England. We hear continual complaints of the stodgy dullness of the English... ...or to tell the truth, in the man was something incomprehensible, which had dominion over him, if he chose to allow it. As he lay pondering this over, ...

...liant evening star in the early twilight, and underfoot the earth was half frozen. It was Christmas Eve. Also the War was over, and there was a sense of relief that was almost a new menace. A man felt the violence of the nightmare released now into the general air. Also there had been another wrangle among the men on the pit-bank that evening....

........... 16 CHAPTER III: ?THE LIGHTED TREE? .............................................................................. 25 CHAPTER IV: ?THE PILLAR OF SALT? ............................................................................. 38 CHAPTER V: AT THE OPERA ............................................................................................ 45 CHAPTER VI: TAL...

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The Poems of Goethe Translated in the Original Metres

By: Edgar Alfred Bowring

...red Bowring A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Poems of Goethe, trans. Edgar Alfred Bowring 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... ...ument or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Poems of Goethe, trans. Edgar Alfred Bowring, the Pennsylvania State University, ... ...................................................................... 27 The New Amadis. .................................................................. .......................................................................... 65 New Love, New Life. .......................................................... ...................................................................112 On the New Year. .................................................................... ...oet that the world has seen for ages, that is really and generally read in England, is Faust, the translations of which are almost endless; while no s... ... inflamed each wind that blithe T o assail them angrily. Over them he gave dominion T o his frost-unsharpened tempests; Down to Timur’s council went h...

Excerpt: The Poems of Goethe, translated by Edgar Alfred Bowring.

...n. ..................................................................................................................................... 21 The Poems of Goethe. ................................................................................................................................................... 22 Dedication. ......................................................

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Memorials and Other Papers

By: Thomas de Quincey

...LICATION Memorials and Other Papers by Thomas de Quincey is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...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... ...ty Editor, Hazleton, PA 18202 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...d usage, solely and merely upon your own spontaneous motion. Some of these new papers, I hope, will not be without their value in the eyes of those wh... ...old to constitutional torpor, suddenly, and beyond all hope, had kindled a new and no- bler life. Occupied originally by no shadow of any earthly inte... ...es of “Autobiographic Sketches.” 20 Memorials, and Other Papers created a new principle of life within him, and evoked some nature hitherto slumberin... ... ing reduced the city of Prusa, in Bithynia, he made it the capital of his dominions. The Sultans who succeeded him for some generations, all men of v... ...y they became merchants and seamen. Being the best sailors in the Sultan’s dominions, they had obtained some valuable privi- leges, amongst which was ... ...treaty, had liberty to go away or to reside peaceably in any part of Ali’s dominions. But as these were mere windy words, it being well understood tha...

...Excerpt: These papers I am anxious to put into the hands of your house, and, so far as regards the U.S., of your house exclusively; not with any view to further emolument, but as an acknowledgment of the services which you have already rendered me; namely, first, in having brought ...

... I. ....................................................................................................... 4 FROM THE AUTHOR, TO THE AMERICAN EDITOR OF HIS WORKS. .......................................................... 4 EXPLANATORY NOTICES......................................................................................................................................

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The Famous History of the Life of King Henry the Eighth: A Historical Play

By: William Shakespeare

...The Famous History of the Life of King HENRY the Eight. by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Based on the Folio Tex... ... King HENRY the Eight. by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Based on the Folio Text of 1623 DjVu Editions E-books ' 2001, Global Language Resources, Inc.... ...s ' 2001, Global Language Resources, Inc. Shakespeare: First Folio Table of Contents . . . . . . . . . . 1 The Famous History of the Life of King H... ... is a Niggard, 121 Or ha’s giuen all before, and he begins 122 A new Hell in himselfe. 123 Buc. Why the Diuell, 124 Vpon this ... ..., who being allow’d his way 205 Selfe- mettle tyres him: Not a man in England 206 Can aduise me like you: Be to your selfe, 207 As you ... ...s visitation, 256 His feares were that the Interview betwixt 257 England and France, might through their amity 258 Breed him some preiu... ...ch euer, 414 As rau’nous Fishes doe a Vessell follow 415 That is new trim’d; but benefit no further 416 Then vainly longing. What we of... ...hould iuggle 572 Men into such strange mysteries? 573 L.San. New customes, 574 Though they be neuer so ridiculous, 575 (Nay le... ...368 I am a most poore Woman, and a Stranger, 1369 Borne out of your Dominions: hauing heere 1370 No Iudge indifferent, nor no more assuranc...

...Excerpt: The Famous History of the Life of King Henry the Eighth; THE PROLOGUE -- I Come no more to make you laugh, Things now, That beare a Weighty, and a Serious Brow, Sad, high, and working, full of State and Woe: Such Noble Scoenes, as draw the Eye ...

...Table of Contents: The Famous History of the Life of King Henry the Eight, 1 -- THE PROLOGVE., 1 -- Actus Primus. Scoena Prima., 2 -- Scena Secunda., 8 -- Scaena Tertia., 13 -- Scena Quarta., 15 -- Actus Secundus. Scena Prima., 19 ...

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What Is Coming a Forecast of Things after the War

By: H. G. Wells

...What is Coming? A Forecast of Things after the War By H.G. WELLS A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERI... ...N STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION What Is Coming? A Forecast of Things after the War by H. G. Wells 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... ...struction of capital and a waste of the savings that are needed to finance new experiments. Moreover, we are killing off many of our brightest young m... ...test young men. It is fairly safe to assume that there will be very little new furniture on the stage of the world for some considerable time; that if... ... Powers in the 16 What Is Coming? world instead of some scores. And these new Powers will be in certain respects unlike any existing European “States... ...ow being rechristened “Do- minions.” Australia, for instance, is a British Dominion, and Siberia and most of Russia in Asia, a Russian Dominion. Their... ...ion of the British legisla- ture that would admit representatives from the Dominions to a proportional share in the government of the Empire. The prob... ..., for example, whose interests are sometimes in conflict with those of the Dominions. The attractiveness of the idea of an Imperial legislature is chi...

Excerpt: What Is Coming? A Forecast of Things after the War by H. G. Wells.

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Common Sense

By: Thomas Paine

... Common Sense by Thomas Paine is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is fur... ...rsity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and i... ...Editor, Hazleton, PA 18201 1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project, The Pennsylvania State Univers... ...s, regardless of Party Censure, is the AUTHOR. P.S. The Publication of this new Edition hath been delayed, with a View of taking notice (had it been... ...them to be the base remains of two an cient tyrannies, compounded with some new republi can materials. FIRST The remains of monarchial tyranny in ... ...mains of aristocratical tyranny in the persons of the peers. THIRDLY The new republican materials in the per sons of the commons, on whose virtue... ...government are frequently the most ignorant and unfit of any throughout the dominions. Another evil which attends hereditary succession is, that the ... ... would have defended Turkey from the same motive, viz. the sake of trade and dominion. Alas, we have been long led away by ancient preju dices, and m... ...far an overmatch for her; because, as we neither have, nor claim any foreign dominion, our whole force would be employed on our own coast, where we sh...

...roduction: Perhaps the sentiments contained in the following pages, are not yet sufficiently fashionable to procure them general favour; a long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defense of custom. But the tumult soon subsides. Time makes more converts than reason....

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The Castle of Otranto

By: Horace Walpole

... The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document File is furn... ...ersity. This Portable Document File is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and i... ...cument or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole, the Pennsylvania State University, Elect... ...er, in his time, any more than at present, ambi tion curbed its appetite of dominion from the dread of so remote a punishment. And yet this moral is ... ... Prince’s fury as all the rest they had seen, were at a loss to unravel this new circumstance. The young peasant himself was still more astonished, no... ...tfulness. My fate depends on having sons, and this night I trust will give a new date to my hopes.” At those words he seized the cold hand of Isabella... ...echoed through that long labyrinth of darkness. Every murmur struck her with new terror; yet more she dreaded to hear the wrathful voice of Manfred ur... ...nto — Walpole 58 under this anxiety, I thought of nothing but resigning my dominions, and retiring for ever from the sight of mankind. My only diffi... ...r — and for thy Reverence’s off—spring,” continued he, “I banish him from my dominions. He, I ween, is no sacred personage, The Castle of Otranto — W...

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The Poems of Emily Dickinson

By: Martha Dickinson Bianchi

...son Bianchi A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Poems of Emily Dickinson is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. T... ...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... ...ument or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Poems of Emily Dickinson, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classics ... ...h, betakes herself and her reader in the direction of the escaping soul to new, incredible heights. Doubly her life carried on, two worlds in her brow... ...fficient troth that we shall rise— Deposed, at length, the grave— T o that new marriage, justified Through Calvaries of Love!” Her own philosophy had ... ... but itself, Its infinite realms contain Its past, enlightened to perceive New periods of pain. 18 XX I TASTE a liquor never brewed,... ...on. How condescending to descend, And be of buttercups the friend In a New England town! LXXV Of all the sounds despatched abroad, There ’... ...ealths,—as girls could boast,— Till broad as Buenos Ayre, You drifted your dominions A different Peru; And I esteemed all poverty, For life’s estate w... .... XX GLORY is that bright tragic thing, That for an instant Means Dominion, Warms some poor name That never felt the sun, Gently replacing In...

...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 collec...

...nity....................................................176 Part Five The Single Hound .....................................................251 Index of First Lines.....................................................................327...

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The Mirror of the Sea

By: Joseph Conrad

...eph Conrad A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The Mirror of the Sea by Joseph Conrad is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univ... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any per- son using this document file, for any purpose, and in... ...ment or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Mirror of the Sea by Joseph Conrad, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic ... ...hen the great soul of the world turned over with a heavy sigh, a perfectly new, extra-stout foresail vanish like a bit of some airy stuff much lighter... ...th the man on board, but it was hopeless for Captain S- to try to make his new iron clipper equal the feats which made the old Tweed a name of praise ... ...provided for, anyhow. A heavy sea took him off the poop in the run between New Zealand and the Horn.” Thus P- passed away from amongst the tall spars ... ...thern-going ship, bound out for a long voy- age, the passage through their dominions is charac- terized by a relaxation of strain and vigilance on the... ...serable subjects. Their fate is most pitiful. Let us make a foray upon the dominions of that noisy barbarian, a great raid from Finisterre to Hatteras... ...Atlantic is the heart of a great empire. It is the part of the West Wind’s dominions most thickly populated with gen- erations of fine ships and hardy...

...Excerpt: Landfall and departure mark the rhythmical swing of a seaman?s life and of a ship?s career. From land to land is the most concise definition of a ship?s earthly fate. A ?Departure? is not what a vain people of landsmen may think. The term ?Landfall? is more easily understoo...

...Contents: I. Landfalls and Departures IV. Emblems of Hope VII. The Fine Art X. Cobwebs and Gossamer XIII. The Weight of the Burden XVI. Overdue and Missing XX. The Grip of the Land XXII. The Character of the Foe XXV. Rules of East and West...

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Sartor Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdrockh

By: Thomas Carlyle

...SARTOR RESARTUS: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdrockh By Thomas Carlyle A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SE... ...TRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION Sartor Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdrockh by Thomas Carlyle is a publication of the Pennsylvani... ...ty. This Portable Document file is furnished free and with- out any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...as completed;—thereby, in these his seemingly so aimless rambles, planting new standards, founding new habitable colonies, in the immeasurable circuma... ...him; and then, by quite foreign sugges- tion. By the arrival, namely, of a new Book from Professor Teufelsdrockh of Weissnichtwo; treating expressly o... ...rent without opposition in high places; but must and will exalt the almost new name of Teufelsdrockh to the first ranks of Philosophy, in our Ger- man... ... Peace and War against the Time- Prince (Zeitfurst), or Devil, and all his Dominions, your coronation-ceremony costs such trouble, your sceptre is so ... ...y assault, and will keep inexpugnable; outwards from which the remain- ing dominions, not indeed without hard battling, will doubtless by degrees be c... ...o a Nobleman, and clothed not only with Wool but with Dignity and a Mystic Dominion,—is not the fair fab- ric of Society itself, with all its royal ma...

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Gulliver's Travels

By: Jonathan Swift

... Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is fur... ...rsity. 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... ...Editor, Hazleton, PA 18201 1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of lit... ...have since found that the sea Yahoos are apt, like the land ones, to become new fangled in their words, which the latter change every year; insomuch,... ...country their old dialect was so altered, that I could hardly understand the new. And I observe, when any Yahoo comes from London out of curiosity to... ...s I have not observed the least re semblance of in any other country of the new or old world. The emperor holds a stick in his hands, both ends paral... ...most mighty Emperor of Lilliput, delight and ter ror of the universe, whose dominions extend five thou sand blustrugs (about twelve miles in circum... ...ublime majesty proposes to the man mountain, lately arrived at our celestial dominions, the following articles, which, by a solemn oath, he shall be o... ...ver’ s Travels – Swift 32 “1st, The man mountain shall not depart from our dominions, without our license under our great seal. “2d, He shall not pr...

...Excerpt: The author of these Travels, Mr. Lemuel Gulliver, is my ancient and intimate friend; there is likewise some relation between us on the mother?s side. About three years ago, Mr. Gulliver growing weary of the concourse of curious people c...

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Memoirs of Louis XIV and His Court and of the Regency

By: The Duke of Saint Simon

...Memoirs of Louis XIV and His Court and of the Regency By The Duke of Saint-Simon A Penn State Electronic Classics ... ...f Saint-Simon A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Memoirs of Louis XIV and His Court and of the Regency by The Duke of Saint-Simon is... ...d His Court and of the Regency by The Duke of Saint-Simon is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...t failed to express his ideas or feel- ings, he forced it—the result was a new term, or a change in the ordinary meaning of words sprang forth from ha... ...was for a young man, the son of the favourite of a King long dead,—with no new friends at Court,—to acquire some personal value of his own. She succee... ... end of the siege the King was so much fatigued with his exertions, that a new attack of gout came on, with more pain than ever, and compelled him to ... ...ed in his house. Her son, the Comte de La Marck, lived there also, and her dominion over the Cardinal was so public, that whoever had affairs with him... ...ssels. On Saturday, the 4th of December, the King of Spain set out for his dominions. The King rode with him in his coach as far as Sceaux, surrounded... ...of the King of England, because it traversed a little corner of his German dominions. From jeal- ousy George would not consent to it. Peter, engaged i...

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King Richard Ii

By: William Shakespeare

...ies Publication King Richard II by William Shakespeare is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...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... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18201 1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...Herald:) (Second Herald:) (Gardener:) (Keeper:) (Groom:) (Servant:) SCENE: England and Wales. 4 KING RICHARD II ACT I SCENE I: London. KING RICHARD I... ...teel my lance’s point, That it may enter Mowbray’s waxen coat, And furbish new the name of John a Gaunt, Even in the lusty havior of his son. JOHN OF ... ...ill twice five summers have enrich’d our fields Shall not regreet our fair dominions, But tread the stranger paths of banishment. HENRY BOLINGBROKE : ... ...e king shall rue. Farewell, my liege. Now no way can I stray; Save back to England, all the world’s my way. [Exit.] KING RICHARD II : Uncle, even in ... ...er in base imitation. Where doth the world thrust forth a vanity— So it be new, there’s no respect how vile— That is not quickly buzz’d into his ears?... ..., and that breath wilt thou lose. JOHN OF GAUNT : Methinks I am a prophet new inspired And thus expiring do foretell of him: His rash fierce blaze of...

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The History of Henry Esmond, Esq. : A Colonel in the Service of Her Majesty Queen Anne : Written by Himself : Book Three

By: William Makepeace Thackeray

...THE HISTORY OF HENRY ESMOND, ESQ. A COLONEL IN THE SERVICE OF HER MAJESTY QUEEN ANNE WRITTEN BY HIMSELF BOOK TWO by WILLIAM MAKEPEACE ... ...THACKERAY A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The History of Henry Esmond, Esq.: A Colonel in the Service of Her Majesty Queen Anne, ... ...itten by Himself: Book Two by William Makepeace Thackeray is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...nd look back on those times, as on great gaps between the old life and the new. Y ou do not know how much you suffer in those critical maladies of the... ... Reficimus rates quassas: we tempt the ocean again and again, and try upon new ventures. Esmond thought of his early time as a novitiate, and of this ... ...hen Mohun fell, dragging down one of the bravest and greatest gentlemen in England in his fall. From Mr. Steele, then, who brought the public rumor, a... ...is is Mr. Steele, gentleman-usher to the Prince’s Highness. When does your new comedy appear, Mr. Steele?’ I hope thou wilt be out of prison for the f... ... of the greatest, the wisest, the bravest, and most clement sovereign whom England ever knew. ’Twas the fashion of the hostile party to assail this gr... ...th fire and murder, slaughter and 89 Thackeray crime, a great part of his dominions was overrun; when Dick came to the lines— “In vengeance roused th...

...Excerpt: The writer of a book which copies the manners and language of Queen Anne?s time, must not omit the Dedication to the Patron; and I ask leave to inscribe this volume to your Lordship, for the sake of the great kindness and friendship whi...

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The Talisman

By: Sir Walter Scott

...sics Series Publication The Talisman by Sir Walter Scott is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...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... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18202-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...dly on the sluggish and sullen waves, sup- plied those rolling clouds with new vapours, and afforded awful testimony to the truth of the Mosaic histor... ... length he seemed determined in what manner to receive the language of his new companion. “You are,” he said, “of a nation that loves to laugh, and yo... ...This haughty feeling of superiority was perhaps equally entertained by his new European acquaintance, but the ef- fect was different; and the same fee... ...even of the first degree, in so far as regards all but regal authority and dominion. Were Richard of England himself to wound the honour of a knight a... ...is narrow islet, in which he was born a sovereign, to 40 The Talisman the dominion of another sceptre than his. Surely, Sir Ken- neth, you and the ot... ...the other good men of your country should have submitted yourselves to the dominion of this King Ri- chard ere you left your native land, divided agai...

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The Lances of Lynwood

By: Charlotte Mary Yonge

...E M. YONGE A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Lances of Lynwood by Charlotte M. Yonge is a publication of the Pennsylvania State... ...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... ...ment or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Lances of Lynwood by Charlotte M. Yonge, the Pennsylvania State University, Electr... ...ity, and security, such as had probably never before been experi- enced in England. Castle and cottage, church and convent, alike showed the prosperit... ...n settled the reins in the child’s hand, and walked beside him to meet the new-comers. They were about twenty in number, armed alike with corselets ma... ...arenham by the young 10 The Lances of Lynwood Edward III., then under the dominion of his mother Isabel, and Roger Mortimer; but when at length the K... ...r, Eustace took Leonard into the court to visit the horses and inspect the new armour. They were joined by Gaston, who took upon himself to reply to t... ...ur in- heritance?” demanded the one-eyed Squire, “for your coat of arms is new in the camp.” “My name is Leonard Ashton; my father—” but Leonard’s spe... ...So fared it with the two young Squires, whilst the army began to enter the dominions of the King of Castile. Here a want of provisions was severely fe...

...Preface: For an explanation of the allusions in the present Tale, scarcely any Notes are necessary, save a reference to the bewitching Chronicle of Froissart; and we cannot but hope that our sketch may serve as an inducement to some young readers to mak...

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Democracy in America

By: Alexis de Tocqueville

... One and Two by Alexis de Tocqueville, trans. Henry Reeve is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...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... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ... and thorough. When the Constitution was thus perfected and established, a new form of government was created, but it was neither speculative nor expe... ...es sealed with blood, in many great struggles of the people. They were not new to the people. They were consecrated theories, but no govern- ment had ... ...he love of God – had matured, in the excellent wisdom of their counsels, a new plan of government, which embraced every security for their liberties a... ...in the English nation; they being desirous rather to enlarge His Majesty’s dominions, and to live under their natural prince. – T ranslator’s Note. 5... ...posed to this formidable alternative, have been happy enough to escape the dominion of absolute power. They have been allowed by their circumstances, ... ...from the rest of the world by the ocean, and too weak as yet to aim at the dominion of the seas, they have no enemies, and their interests rarely come...

...Excerpt: In the eleven years that separated the Declaration of the Independence of the United States from the completion of that act in the ordination of our written Constitution, the great minds of America were bent upon the study of the principles of government that were essential t...

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The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley

By: Thomas Hutchinson

...THE COMPLETE POETICAL WORKS OF PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY VOLUME 1 OXFORD EDITION. INCLUDING MATERIALS NEVER ... ... 1 OXFORD EDITION. INCLUDING MATERIALS NEVER BEFORE PRINTED IN ANY EDITION OF THE POEMS. EDITED WITH TEXTUAL NOTES BY THOMAS HUTCHINSON, M. A. EDITOR ... ... State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley, Volume One is a publication of the Pennsylvania St... ...eedom as the direct agent to effect the happiness of mankind; and thus any new-sprung hope of liberty inspired a joy and an exultation more intense an... ...rt the operation of his arduous struggles. His spirit gathers peace in its new state from the sense that, though late, his exer- tions were not made i... ...SCRIPT IN SECOND EDITION OF 1839. 1839. 1839. 1839. 1839. In revising this new edition, and carefully consulting Shelley’s scattered and confused pape... ... _465 Its all-subduing energies, and wields The sceptre of a vast dominion there. Mild is the slow necessity of death: The tranquil spirit fa... ...to a slow and poisonous decay those manner spirits that dare to abjure its dominion. Their destiny is more abject and inglorious as their delinquency ... ...that from the depth of ages old 73 Shelley T wo Powers o’er mortal things dominion hold, Ruling the world with a divided lot, Immortal, all-pervading...

Excerpt: The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley, Volume One.

.................................. 7 PREFACE BY MRS. SHELLEY TO FIRST COLLECTED EDITION, 1839. ......................... 16 POSTSCRIPT IN SECOND EDITION OF 1839. ........................................................................ 21 PREFACE BY MRS. SHELLEY. TO THE VOLUME OF POSTHUMOUS POEMS PUBLISHED IN 1824...................................................................

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