... Classics Series Publication Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Por- table Document file is furn... ...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... ...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 easily awakened. His keen, piercing, dark eyes, told in every glance a history of difficulties subdued, and dangers dared, and seemed to challenge... ...ats was at present occupied by Cedric the Saxon, who, though but in rank a thane, or, as the Normans called him, a Franklin, felt, at the delay of his... ...mals easily found their food. Besides these subjects of anxiety, the Saxon thane was im- patient for the presence of his favourite clown W amba, whose... ...do- mestic, whether in the royal household or in those of the aldermen and thanes. But the term cnicht, now spelt knight, having been received into th... ...ed to Roger de Quincy, Earl of Winchester, who, dur- ing the period of our history, was absent in the Holy Land. Prince John, in the meanwhile, occupi... ...n *Nota Bene.—We by no means warrant the accuracy of this piece of natural history , which we give on the authority of the Wardour MS.—L. T . 194 Iva...

...Excerpt: In that pleasant district of merry England which is watered by the river Don, there extended in ancient times a large forest, covering the greater part of the beautiful hills and valleys which lie between Sheffield and the pleasant town of Do...

...QUINCEY A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The Note Book of an English Opium-Eater by Thomas de Quincey is a publication of the Penn... ...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... ...t or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Note Book of an English Opium-Eater by Thomas de Quincey, the Pennsylvania State Univ... ...BLE TO MERELY HUMAN SCIENCE ...................... 54 SCHLOSSER’S LITERARY HISTORY OF THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY ...................... 60 FOX AND BURKE .... ................................................ 137 FALSIFICATION OF ENGLISH HISTORY ...................................................................... ... ac- quainted with, she fancied it best to try the chances of some remoter district. Lights she saw gleaming or twinkling at a distance, that still te... ...upon their voices, previously so loud. The tragic drama read aloud its own history, and the succession of its several steps—few and summary. The murde... ... Mr. Williamson was a well-known and respectable man, long settled in that district; he was supposed to be rich; and more with a view to the employmen... ...umage of a pheasant, leaving him to ‘mount far up- wards with the swans of Thanes’—and, finally, let it not be forgotten, that Samuel Clarke Burnet, o...

Excerpt: The Note Book of an English Opium-Eater by Thomas de Quincey.

...Contents The Note Book of an English Opium-Eater ...4 THREE MEMORABLE MURDERS .............................................................................................. 4 THE TRUE RELATIONS OF THE BIBLE TO MERELY HUMAN SCIENCE.....................

...Walter Scott A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication A Legend of Montrose by Sir Walter Scott 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... ...cument or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. A Legend of Montrose by Sir Walter Scott, the Pennsylvania State University, Electro... ...and the quarrel which led to it, have never been cor- rectly stated in any history of the period in which it took 13 Sir Walter Scott place, I am ind... ...uence of your having, in the second series of your admirable T ales on the History of Scot- land, adopted Wishart’s version of the transaction, and be... ...ory of my ancestor, before it shall come to be consid- ered as a matter of History. That he was a man of violent passions and singular temper, I do no... ... was not of the highest or- der of Chiefs, replied to what had been said. “Thane of Menteith,” he said, “you have well spoken; nor is there one of us ... ... keep us united. Such is the man that must com- mand us. Are you prepared, Thane of Menteith, to say where such a general is to be found?” “There is b... ...gles of Ben-Nevis; and so shall this haughty Knight, and this tri- umphant Thane, never learn the secret I alone can impart; a secret which would make...

...Excerpt: I. Introduction to a legend of Montrose. The Legend of Montrose was written chiefly with a view to place before the reader the melancholy fate of John Lord Kilpont, eldest son of William Earl of Airth and Menteith, and the singular circumstances attendi...

...Contents I. INTRODUCTION TO A LEGEND OF MONTROSE. .............................................................. 4 II. INTRODUCTION (Supplement). ............................................................................................. 16 III. A LEGEND OF MO...

... The Uncommercial Traveller by Charles D... ... The Uncommercial Traveller by Charles Dickens is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free... ...arles Dickens, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classics Series, Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Documen... ...less and sustain you, and all in connection with you, in this great trial. Time may roll on and bear all its sons away, but your name as a disinterest... ... is a third head, taking precedence of all others, to which my remarks on the discourse I heard, have tended. In the New T estament there is the most ... ...le by man, and there are the terse models for all prayer and for all preaching. As to the models, imitate them, Sunday preachers—else why are they the... ... the cart into his calculations, he en- deavoured to turn up a narrow alley, and became greatly involved. He was taken into custody by the police, and... ...us secrets of Nature had I come to the knowledge of in that sanctuary: of which not the least ter- rific were, that the witches in Macbeth bore an awf... ... wa- terproof head-gear for the moors and mountains, he has put upon the heads of his family as much of this stock as they could carry, and has taken ...

...Publication The Nibelungenlied, trans. Daniel B. Shumway is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity. This Portable Document file is furn... ...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... ...n most respects more original than in the “Nibelungenlied.” It relates the history of the treasure of the Nibelungs, tracing it back to a giant by the... ...s we have seen), a descendant of the race of the Volsungs, who trace their history back to Wodan and are especially favored by him. The full story of ... ...ndians. It is of course useless to hunt for the date of such an episode in history. Such a murder could have frequently occurred, and can be localized... ...Burgundians. The fact, too, that the Franks rapidly took possession of the district de- populated by the crushing defeat of the Burgundians like- wise... ...refore one beheld many strangers riding to their realm. Four hundred sword-thanes (4) were to put on knightly garb with Siegfried. Many a fair maid wa... .... It does not now lie on the Rhine, but did in the Middle Ages. (4) “Sword-thanes” (M.H.G. “swertdegene”) were the young squires who were to be made k...

...Soldiers Three The Story of the Gadsbys In Black and White By Rudyard Kipling A Penn State Electro... ...nn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Soldiers Three: The Story of the Gadsbys in Black and White by Rudyard Kipling is a publication of th... ...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... ...my Learoyd’s eyes began to brighten, and he unburdened him- self of a long history in which a trip to Malham Cove, a girl at Pateley Brigg, a ganger, ... ...y:— Corporal Slane was engaged to be married to Miss Jhansi M’Kenna, whose history is well known in the regiment and elsewhere. He had his Colonel’s p... ...he country side, ‘cared for none of these things.’ He had been long in the district, and the Buria Kol loved him and brought him offer- ings of speare... ...so the Buria Kol turned out and hammered HIM rather savagely. I was in the district, and he sent a runner to me with a note saying: “Persecuted for th... ...s rich in other produce than pig-nuts only. All these things belong to the history of many months, and throughout those months the white-haired Athon ... ...the Havildar, and others, ill-condi- tioned rascals against whom we of the Thane bore spite. It was well done, and the Havildar was proud. But the Dip...

Excerpt: Soldiers Three: The Story of the Gadsbys in Black and White by Rudyard Kipling.

...HINE .............................................................................................................................................. 4 OF THOSE CALLED .................................................................................................................................................................. 12 PRIVATE LEAROYD?S STORY ......................

... Classics Series Publication Howards End by E.M. Forster is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Por- table Document file is furn... ...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... ...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... ... such culture as is implied by the advertisements of antibilious pills. To history, to tragedy, to the past, to the future, Mrs. Munt re- mained equal... ...Empire with a puzzled, if reverent, sigh. Not out of them are the shows of history erected: the world would be a grey, bloodless place were it compose... ...tate just now, though extraor- dinarily interesting. Every now and then in history there do come these terrible geniuses, like Wagner, who stir up all... ...f clay. It was their moment. Most of them were women from the dead woman’s district, to whom black garments had been served out by Mr. Wilcox’s orders... ...p you. But I thought you wanted to be in town. One bit of advice: fix your district, then fix your price, and then don’t budge. 151 EM Forster That’s... ...ast, saw it as an ancient guest-hall, where the lord sat at meat among his thanes. Even the Bible— the Dutch Bible that Charles had brought back from ...

... or left into diningroom or drawing-room. Hall itself is practically a room. You open another door in it, and there are the stairs going up in a sort of tunnel to the first-floor. Three bed-rooms in a row there, and three attics in a row above. That isn?t all the house really, but it?s all that one notices--nine windows as you look up from the front garden....

...es Publication Burlesques by William Makepeace Thackeray is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity. This Portable Document file is furn... ...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... ......................................................................256 THE HISTORY OF THE NEXT FRENCH REVOLUTION. ....................................... ...r in “Eugene Aram,” or other works of our author, in which Sen- timent and History, or the True and Beautiful, are united. CHAPTER XXIV BUTTON’S IN PA... ...he cheek of the parasite of pleasure; but there are mo- ments in life when History fortifies endurance: and past study renders present deprivation mor... ...king backwards, holding a pair of wax-candles. At this hour of bedtime the Thane used to be in such a condi- tion, that he saw two pair of candles and... ...tle of his fathers. As they rode along the forest, they met Athelstane the Thane powdering along the road in the direction of Rotherwood on his great ... .... And who shall be surprised, if she was happier with the stupid and boozy Thane than with the gentle and mel- ancholy Wilfrid? Did women never have a...

...Excerpt: VOL I. In the morning of life the truthful wooed the beautiful, and their offspring was Love. Like his Divine parents, He is eternal. He has his Mother?s ravishing smile; his Father?s steadfast eyes. He rises every day, fresh and glorious as the u...

.........67 A PLAN FOR A PRIZE NOVEL. ......................................................................................................74 THE DIARY OF C. JEAMES DE LA PLUCHE, ESQ., ...................................................................77 A LETTER FROM ?JEAMES, OF BUCKLEY SQUARE.? ............................................................80 THE DIARY. ........

... SERIES PUBLICATION Lay Morals by Robert Louis Stevenson 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... ...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... .............................................43 THE PENTLAND RISING A PAGE OF HISTORY 1666 ............................57 THE DAY AFTER TO-MORROW .......... ...ad given you grace to see it. 57 Lay Morals THE PENTLAND RISING A PAGE OF HISTORY 1666 ‘A cloud of witnesses lyes here, Who for Christ’s interest did... ...g the wild mosses of the uplands.* One example in particular we may cite: *History of My Own Times, beginning 1660, by Bishop Gil- bert Burnet, p. 158... ...there is a change. This is still the big, burly, fleshly, handsome-looking Thane; here is still the same face which in the earlier acts could be super... ...en after he meets Macduff his courage does not fail; but when he hears the Thane was not born of woman, all virtue goes out of him; and though he spea... ...of Mr. Archer’s trunk. The other was carried by an aged beggar man of that district, known and welcome for some twenty miles about under the name of ‘...

...Excerpt: Chapter 1. The problem of education is twofold: first to know, and then to utter. Every one who lives any sem blance of an inner life thinks more nobly and profoundly than he speaks; and the best of teachers can impart only broken images of the tru...

...................4 FATHER DAMIEN.........................................................................................43 THE PENTLAND RISING A PAGE OF HISTORY 1666 ............................57 THE DAY AFTER TO-MORROW................................................................74 COLLEGE PAPERS.............................................................................

...Grosvenor Osgood A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Life of Johnson by James Boswell, abridged and edited with an introduction by Ch... ...d edited with an introduction by Charles Grosvenor Osgood is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Docu- ment file is furn... ...ty. This Portable Docu- ment file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...be best written by himself; had he employed in the preservation of his own history, that clear- ness of narration and elegance of language in which he... ... this circumstance, and insisted upon it with very unfair aggravation. The history of his mind as to religion is an important article. I have mentione... ...ion of study which is pos- sible, and to which a few scholars in the whole history of literature have attained; for when I once asked him whether a pe... ...to carry with them, would keep them so long in the little towns of his own district, that they would not have time to see Rome. I mentioned this, to p... ...n a fine suit of clothes, “And what art thou to-night?” Tom answered, “The Thane of Ross;” (which it will be recollected is a very in- considerable ch...

...Preface: In making this abridgement of Boswell?s Life of Johnson I have omitted most of Boswell?s criticisms, comments, and notes, all of Johnson?s opinions in legal cases, most of the letters, and parts of the conversation dealing with matters which were of gr...