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.......................................................................................................................................... 25 VARIATIONS IN THE AUTHOR?S MANUSCRIPT PREFACE. ........................................................................ 31 PASTORALS, WITH A DISCOURSE ON PASTORAL POETRY. WRITTEN IN THE YEAR MDCCIV...... 32 SPRING .........................

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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 One, with Memoir, ... .................................... 154 I. ON CHARLES EARL OF DORSET, IN THE CHURCH OF WITHYAM, IN SUSSEX. ............................. 154 II. ON SIR ... ... THE HON. SIMON HARCOURT, ONLY SON OF THE LORD CHANCELLOR HARCOURT, AT THE CHURCH OF STANTON HARCOURT, IN OXFORDSHIRE, 1720. ............................ ...is descendants. Pope’s father had made about £10,000 by trade; but being a Roman Catholic, and fond of a coun- try life, he retired from business shor... ...cendants. Pope’s father had made about £10,000 by trade; but being a Roman Catholic, and fond of a coun- try life, he retired from business shortly af... ...taught him the Latin and Greek grammars together. He was next removed to a Catholic semi- nary at Twyford, near Winchester; and while there, read Ogil... ...was a great gathering of the Tory wits at T wickenham. Swift had come from Ireland, and resided for some time with Pope. Bolingbroke came over occasio... ...the critics could not have been very acute who did not detect Pope’s “fine Roman hand” in every sen- tence of this brilliant but most unsatisfactory a...

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...?t is true that you turn?d out a Tory at Last,-- yours has lately been a common case; And now, my Epic Renegade! what are ye at? With all the Lakers, in and out of place? A nest of tuneful persons, to my eye Like ?four and twenty Blackbirds in a pyre....

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...Excerpt: The day broke gray and dull. The clouds hung heavily, and there was a rawness in the air that suggested snow. A woman servant came into a room in which a child was sleeping and drew the curtains. She glanced mechanically at the house opposite, a stucco house with a portico, and went to the child?s bed....

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...on his voyage to a country where your name is as well known as here. Wherever I am, I shall gratefully regard you; and shall not be the less welcomed in America because I am....

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...THE HISTORY OF HENRY ESMOND, ESQ. A COLONEL IN THE SERVICE OF HER MAJESTY QUEEN ANNE WRITTEN BY HIMSELF BOOK ONE by WIL... ... Classics Series Publication The History of Henry Esmond, Esq.: A Colonel in the Service of Her Majesty Queen Anne, Written by Himself: Book One by W... ...d to boast, as I have heard, that she not only brought back my Lord to the Church of England, but procured the English peerage for him, which the juni... ... alone in the world: when he heard the great peal of bells from Castlewood church ringing that morning to welcome the arrival of the new lord and lady... ...Sir Francis Esmond to the dignity of Vis- count Castlewood, of Shandon, in Ireland: and the Viscount’s estate being much impoverished by loans to the ... .... She was maid of honor to the Queen Henrietta Maria; she early joined the Roman Church; her father, a weak man, following her not long after at Breda... ...r on public days introducing her com- pany to her. This was chiefly of the Catholic gentry, of whom there were a pretty many in the country and neighb... ... was far from him to say that his Majesty’s Church was not a branch of the Catholic Church; upon which Father Holt used, 45 Thackeray according to hi... ...r clear- ness’ sake, be explained here. The Prince of Orange being gone to Ireland, where the King was ready to meet him with a great army, it was det...

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...Excerpt: Chapter 1. Who will be the new bishop? In the latter days of July in the year 185-, a most important question was for ten days hourly asked in the cathedral city of Barchester, and answered every hour in various ways--Who was to be the new Bishop? The death of old...

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...on his voyage to a country where your name is as well known as here. Wherever I am, I shall gratefully regard you; and shall not be the less welcomed in America because I am....

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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 W... ... Classics Series Publication The History of Henry Esmond, Esq.: A Colonel in the Service of Her Majesty Queen Anne, Written by Himself: Book Three by... ...hat requires a life to practise; and to be distinguished in letters or the Church would not have forwarded the poor gentleman’s plans in the least. So... ...ir sickness and poverty, and who blessed her daily. She attended the early church daily (though of a Sunday, especially, she encouraged and advanced a... ...should the best blood in England and France be shed in order that the Holy Roman and Apostolic master of these ruf- fians should have his revenge over... ...o forego—benefits which the church of England did not deny to those of the Roman communion, as how should she, being derived from that church, and onl... ...ostel de l’Aigle Noire, Bruxelles, Flanders.” So Frank had married a Roman Catholic lady, and an heir was expected, and Mr. Esmond was to carry this i... ...my dear; Viscount Castlewood and Baron Esmond of Shandon in the Kingdom of Ireland, Earl and Marquis of Esmond under patent of his Majesty King James ... ... England thought of it: she held that ours was undoubtedly a branch of the Catholic church, but that the Roman was one of the main stems on which, no ...

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...Excerpt: The ?Body Of The Nation? But the basin of the Mississippi is the body of the nation. All the other parts are but members, important in themselves, yet more important in their relations to this. Exclusive of the Lake basin and of 300,000 square miles in Texas and New Mexico, which in many aspects form a part of it, this basin contains about 1,250,000 squar...

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...makes the memory of what once filled it a treasure to be brought forward with joy and thankfulness. Nor would it be well that some of those mentioned in the coming narrative should be wholly forgotten, and their place know them no more....

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...Contents LOVE AND FREINDSHIP................................................. 4 AN UNFINISHED NOVEL IN LETTERS ................................................................................................................ 34 LESLEY CASTLE .......................................................................................

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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. A Distinguished Provincial at Paris (Lost Illusions Part II) by... ...blouse, and how shall you recognize the god- like creature of the Greek or Roman chisel? The eyes note and compare before the heart has time to revise... ...ment he believed in chance. Had he not a volume of poems and a magnificent romance entitled The Archer of Charles IX. in manuscript? He had hope for t... ...ue de Cluny, one of the poorest and darkest slums, shut in be- tween three churches and the old buildings of the Sorbonne. I have a furnished room on ... ...to is a permanent in- stitution; there might not be a single tuber left in Ireland, and prevailing dearth elsewhere, but you would still find po- tato... ...ravity of the diners is hardly relaxed. Perhaps this gravity is due to the catholicity 44 A Distinguished Provincial at Paris of the wine, which chec... ...“But my book is very serious. It is an attempt to set the struggle between Catholics and Calvinists in its true light; the Catholics were supporters o... ...Royalist and Ministerial journals; still, though Canalis is 85 Balzac for Church and King, and patronized by the Court and the clergy, he reaches oth...

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...Moby Dick or The Whale HERMAN MELVILLE 1851 IN TOKEN OF MY ADMIRATION FOR HIS GENIUS, This book is Inscribed TO NATHANI... ... Scenes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 259 57 Of Whales in Paint; in Teeth; in Wood; in Sheet Iron; in Stone; in Mountains; in Star... ...res to paint you the dreamiest, shadiest, quietest, most enchanting bit of romantic landscape in all the valley of the Saco. What is the chief element... ...nd, a black Angel of Doom was beat ing a book in a pulpit. It was a negro church; and the preacher’s text was about the blackness of darkness, and th... ... not do to be sellin’ human heads about the streets when folks is goin’ to churches. He wanted to, last Sunday, but I stopped him just as he was goin’... ...ill reeling, but with conscience yet pricking him, as the plungings of the Roman race horse but so much the more strike his steel tags into him; as on... ...Finding myself thus hard pushed, I replied, “I mean, sir, the same ancient Catholic Church to which you and I, and Captain Peleg there, and Queequeg h... ...nable, devilish rebellion against the reverend clergy. For by a Portuguese Catholic priest, this very idea of Jonah’s going to Nineveh via the Cape of... ...mlets but Fast Fish? What to that redoubted harpooneer, John Bull, is poor Ireland, but a Fast Fish? What to that apostolic lancer, Brother Jonathan, ...

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