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...Excerpt: Preface By Way Of Criticism. These studies are collected from the monthly press. One appeared in the New Quarterly, one in MacMillan?s, and the rest in the Cornhill Magazine. To the Cornhill I owe a double debt of thanks; first, that I was ...

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...meley A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Ferragus, Chief of the Devorants by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley is... ...s by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...ich may have the honor of being some day pub- lished as a foil of tales to listeners,—that race apart from others, so curiously energetic, and so inte... ...s the name of one of those tribes of “Companions” that issued in an- cient times from the great mystical association formed among the workers of Chris... ...Companionism are well-nigh blind. From town to town there has existed from time immemorial, for the use of Compan- ions, an “Obade,”—a sort of halting... ...se tribes will fight sanguinary battles with each other in defence of some question of principle. Happily for our present public safety, when a Devora... ...ith this brief explanation, he may be allowed to begin the tale of certain episodes in the history of the thir- teen, which have more particularly att... ...gleams and flashes of light, your deep and silent cul-de-sacs, who has not listened to your murmurings between midnight and two in the morning, knows ... ...ver dance?” he said to her. “This is the third time you have asked me that question this winter,” she answered, smiling. “But perhaps you have never a...

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...Excerpt: William Makepeace Thackeray was born at Calcutta, July 18, 1811, the only child of Richmond and Anne Thackeray. He received the main part of his education at the Charterhouse, as we know to our profit. Thence he passed to Cambridge, remaining there from February 1829 to sometime in 1830. To judge by quot...

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...Excerpt: Chapter 1. How did he get it? ?I can never bring myself to believe it, John,? said Mary Walker the pretty daughter of Mr. George Walker, attorney of Silverbridge. Walker and Winthrop was the name of the firm, and they were respectable people, who did all the solicitors? business that had to be done in that part of Barsetshire on behalf of...

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...Excerpt: This volume contains practically all that remains of the post- Homeric and pre-academic epic poetry. I have for the most part formed my own text. In the case of Hesiod I have been able to use independent collations of several MSS. by Dr. W.H.D. Rouse; otherwise I have depend...

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...Contents THE GENIUS AND POETRY OF POPE........................................................................................ 7 MORAL ESSAYS .....................................................................................................................

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...AN A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Volume Two is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Un... ...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... ................................................. 122 ANSWER TO THE FOLLOWING QUESTION OF MRS HOWE. ........................................................ ...ined to oblivion in after-ages, have been loaded with laurels in their own time; while others, on whom Fame was one day to “wait like a menial,” have ... ...n house or estate”— and the heights of moral grandeur into which he can at times soar, whenever he has manly indignation, or warm-hearted patriotism, ... ... to creative power, the highest quality of the poet, is a very dif- ferent question. In native imagination, that eyesight of the soul, which sees in t... ...g than of that thorough and genial insight which sympathy produces. He has listened at the keyhole, not by any “Open Sesame” entered the chamber. He h... ... double day. The monarch then his solemn silence broke, The still creation listen’d while he spoke; 74 The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: V ol. 2 ... ...ordinate instruments, in all her various operations. This is branched into episodes, each of which hath its moral apart, though all conducive to the m...

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...Excerpt: Heartbreak house is not merely the name of the play which follows this preface. It is cultured, leisured Europe before the war. When the play was begun not a shot had been fired; and only the professional diplomatists and the very few amateurs whose hobby is foreig...

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...e Russian Manner on English Themes by George Bernard Shaw is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furni... ...ity. 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... ...nded in each destroying the other to an extent doubtfully reparable in our time. It may be asked how so imbecile and dangerous a creed ever came to be... ...a creed ever came to be accepted by intelligent beings. I will answer that question more fully in my next volume of plays, which will be entirely devo... ...d by that of the soldier driving his spear through Archimedes. But by that time there was no coinage: only paper money in which ten shillings called i... ...rain, complicated by the offended economic sense, produced by the casualty lists. The stupid, the selfish, the narrow-minded, the callous and unimagin... ...ions and English ones. The enormity of it was quite beyond most of us. Its episodes had to be reduced to the dimensions of a railway accident or a shi... ...ch formerly made their work no worse than precarious now put it out of the question altogether, as far as the west end of London is con- cerned. Churc... ...’s no talk to offer to a young lady. Here, ducky, have some tea; and don’t listen to him [she pours out a cup of tea]. THE CAPTAIN [rising wrathfully]...