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...Captains Courageous A Story of the Grand Banks by Rudyard Kipling A Penn State Electronic Classics Series ... ...te Electronic Classics Series Publication Captains Courageous: A Story of the Grand Banks by Rudyard Kipling is a publication of the Pennsylvania Sta... ...y person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim M... ...rattleboror, Vermont I ploughed the land with horses, But my heart was ill at ease, For the old sea-faring men Came to me now and then, With their sag... ...bunk to hear better; and amid the straining of the 54 Captains Courageous timbers and the wash of the waters the tune crooned and moaned on, like lee... ...sco: Picked up by fishing schooner. We’re Here having 109 Rudyard Kipling fallen off boat great times on Banks fishing all well wait- ing Gloucester ... ...paper containing some sort of an interview with Harvey , who had evidently fallen in with an enter- prising reporter, telegraphed on from Boston. The ... ...es in his vast head. He coiled himself away on chain-cables in marine junk-shops, asking questions with cheerful, unslaked Western curiosity , till al...
...Excerpt: Chapter 1. The weather door of the smoking-room had been left open to the North Atlantic fog, as the big liner rolled and lifted, whistling to warn the fishing- fleet....
...hapters One through Thirty four by Charles Dickens is a publica tion of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...y person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk . Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim ... ..., for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk . Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor any o... ...Court of Chancery, though the shining subject of much popular preju dice (at which point I thought the judge’s eye had a cast in my direction), was a... ...e spongey fields, be seen to loom by husbandman and ploughboy. Most of the shops lighted two hours before their time—as the gas seems to know, for it ... ...mself of his contempt,” which, being a solitary surviving executor who has fallen into a state of conglomeration about accounts of which it is not pre... ...ot on my account!” Peepy (so self named) was the unfortunate child who had fallen downstairs, who now interrupted the correspondence by presenting him... ...pa rations in the setting forth of shop windows and the sweep ing out of shops, and the extraordinary creatures in rags se cretly groping among the... ...rich enough to buy her old hulk, he would have an inscription let into the timbers of the quarter deck where we stood as part ners in the dance to ma...
...Preface: A Chancery judge once had the kindness to inform me, as one of a company of some hundred and fifty men and women not labouring under any suspicions of lunacy, that the Court of Chancery, though the shining subject of much popular prejudice (at which p...
...Grimshawe’s Secret: A Romance by Nathaniel Hawthorne is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...y person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim M... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ... and the public. It would appear that this author, in his preparatory work at least, has ventured in some manner to disregard the modern canons which ... ..., the people turned to gaze, and came to their windows and to the doors of shops to see this grim, bearded figure, leading along the beautiful childre... ...rk face of his,—his muddy beard all flying abroad, dirty and foul, his hat fallen off, his red eyes flashing fire,—was belaboring the poor hinder end ... ... had congregated, leaving the Doctor and the two children alone beside the fallen victim of a quar rel not his own. Not to dwell too long on this inc... ... and white hairs,—a being that might have been young, when those old Saxon timbers were put together, with the oaks that were saplings when Caesar lan...
...Preface: A preface generally begins with a truism; and I may set out with the admission that it is not always expedient to bring to light the posthumous work of great writers. A man generally contrives to publish, during his lifetime, quite as much as the public has time or inclination to read; and...
...cs Series Publication Dombey & Son by Charles Dickens is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnishe... ...y person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim M... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ...e fists curled up and clenched, seemed, in his feeble way , to be squaring at existence for having come upon him so unexpectedly. ‘The House will once... ...ely to get the better of me, but I cannot help it. I thought I should have fallen out of the staircase window as I came down from seeing dear Fanny, a... ...eeling that he had thoroughly misun- derstood her object, and that she had fallen into disgrace with- out the least advancement of her purpose. Next n... ...‘that this wine has passed through. Think what a straining and creaking of timbers and masts: what a whistling and howling of the gale through ropes a... ...g a barricade of chests of drawers, loaded with little jars from chemists’ shops; while a homeless hearthrug severed from its natural companion the fi... ...at had fallen on the wooden Midshipman made it strange and new. Houses and shops were different from what they used to be, and bore Mr Brogley’s warra...
...Excerpt: Dombey sat in the corner of the darkened room in the great arm-chair by the bedside, and Son lay tucked up warm in a little basket bedstead, carefully disposed on a low settee immediately in front of the fire and close to it, as if his con...
...an By Herman Melville A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Confidence-Man by Herman Melville is a publication of the Pennsylvania ... ...y person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Nei- ther the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim... ... for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Nei- ther the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ...By Herman Melville CHAPTER I. A Mute Goes Aboard a Boat on the Mississippi AT SUNRISE on a first of April there appeared, suddenly as Manco Capac at t... ... public benefit, with two words not unfrequently seen ashore gracing other shops besides barbers’: “NO TRUST .” An inscription which, though in a sens... ... exercise no charity in judging your own character by the words which have fallen from you; what sort of vile, pitiless man do you think I would take ... ...lously honorable, had much ado to avoid reading, so directly would it have fallen under his eye, had he not conscientiously averted it. On a sudden, a... ...xes be needed, you may not be able to replace it except by purchase at the shops; and, in so doing, you may run more or less risk of taking some not s... ...ing, myself. Still, I think that in case of a wreck, barring sharp-pointed timbers, you could have confidence in that stool for a special providence.”...
...Excerpt: At sunrise on a first of April there appeared, suddenly as Manco Capac at the lake Titicaca, a man in cream-colors, at the water-side in the city of St. Louis. His cheek was fair, his chin downy, his hair flaxen, his hat a wh...
...s Series Publication Bleak House by Charles Dickens is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...y person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk . Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim ... ..., for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk . Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ...Court of Chancery, though the shining subject of much popular preju dice (at which point I thought the judge’s eye had a cast in my direction), was a... ...e spongey fields, be seen to loom by husbandman and ploughboy. Most of the shops lighted two hours before their time—as the gas seems to know, for it ... ...mself of his contempt,” which, being a solitary surviving executor who has fallen into a state of conglomeration about accounts of which it is not pre... ...ot on my account!” Peepy (so self named) was the unfortunate child who had fallen downstairs, who now interrupted the correspondence by presenting him... ...pa rations in the setting forth of shop windows and the sweep ing out of shops, and the extraordinary creatures in rags se cretly groping among the... ...rich enough to buy her old hulk, he would have an inscription let into the timbers of the quarter deck where we stood as part ners in the dance to ma...
...Preface: A Chancery judge once had the kindness to inform me, as one of a company of some hundred and fifty men and women not laboring under any suspicions of lunacy, that the Court of Chancery, though the shining subject of much popular prejudice (at which po...
...sics Series Publication Mansfield Park by Jane Austen is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...y person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim M... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ...atness of the match, and her uncle, the lawyer, himself, allowed her to be at least three thousand pounds short of any equitable claim to it. She had ... ... at all displeased either at her sister’s early care, or the choice it had fallen on. Matrimony was her object, provided she could marry well: and hav... ...are; and before he had been at Mansfield a week, she was quite ready to be fallen in love with. Maria’s notions on the subject were more confused and ... ...gh Street. He took care, however, that they should be allowed to go to the shops they came out expressly to visit; and it did not delay them long, for... ...qual and never-failing interest, while the young people sat down upon some timbers in the yard, or found a seat on board a vessel in the stocks which ...
...Excerpt: About thirty years ago Miss Maria Ward, of Huntingdon, with only seven thousand pounds, had the good luck to captivate Sir Thomas Bertram, of Mansfield Park, in the county of Northampton, and to be thereby raised to the rank of a baronet?s lady, with all the comforts and consequences of an handsome house and large i...
...ii Speeches: Literary and Social by Charles Dickens is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Uni versity. This Portable Document file is furnish... ...y person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim M... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ...: Literary and Social by Charles Dickens SPEECH: EDINBURGH, JUNE 25, 1841. At a public dinner, given in honour of Mr. Dickens, and pre sided over by... ...hance of moving, its master— perhaps from some secret sympathy between its timbers, and a certain stately tree that has its being hereabout, and sprea... ...; but the present institution shot up, amidst the ruin of those which have fallen, with an indomi table constitution, with vigorous and with steady p... ...s ever come un der my observation. I have seen in the factories and work shops of Birmingham such beautiful order and regularity, and such great con... ...ry of Government and the legislature going round and round, and the people fallen from it and standing aloof, as if they left it to its last remaining... ...m boat; through the agency of every es tablishment and the tiniest little shops; and that, whether regarded as master or as man, their profits are ve...
...rds of a Family of Engineers by Robert Louis Stevenson is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnishe... ...y person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim M... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ...mouth of the Firth of Forth to the mouth of the Firth of Clyde. Four times at least it occurs as a place-name. There is a parish of Stevenston in Cunn... ...of her confidants had once a narrow escape; an unwieldy old woman, she had fallen from an outside stair in a close of the Old Town; and my grand- moth... ...cur of the land being en- closed, even to a considerable extent, with ship-timbers. The author has actually seen a park (Anglice, meadow) paled round ... ... of them, in uninhab- ited isles or desert forelands, totally cut off from shops. Many of them were, besides, fallen into a rustic dishabitude of life... ... desert forelands, totally cut off from shops. Many of them were, besides, fallen into a rustic dishabitude of life, so that even when they visited a ...
................ 4 CHAPTER I ? DOMESTIC ANNALS...........................................................................................11 CHAPTER II ? THE SERVICE OF THE NORTHERN LIGHTS I ......................................... 32 CHAPTER III ? THE BUILDING OF THE BELL ROCK ....................................................... 57...
...ries Publication Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...per- son using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim M... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ... the strong tide met with an impedi- ment, his gaze paused for an instant. At every mooring-chain and rope, at every stationery boat or barge that spl... ...’s brink unable to see into the vast blank misery of a life suspected, and fallen away from by good and bad, but knowing that it lay there dim before ... ...unction for the people who would lose the same. Not, however, towards the ‘shops’ where cunning artificers work in pearls and diamonds and gold and si... ...the refiners;—not towards these does Mr Wegg stump, but towards the poorer shops of small retail traders in commodities to eat and drink and keep folk... ...olish, and being provided with no drinking-cup that he could carve, be had fallen on the device of ringing alpha- betical changes into the two volumes... ...nap) is a man of wealth. Conse- quently says he, ‘And, gentlemen, when the timbers of the Vessel of the State are unsound and the Man at the Helm is u...
...Excerpt: In these times of ours, though concerning the exact year there is no need to be precise, a boat of dirty and disreputable appearance, with two figures in it, floated on the Thames, between Southwark bridge which is of iron, and London Bridge which is of stone, as an ...
...n King Arthur’s Court by Mark Twain (Samuel L. Clemens) is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnish... ...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 University nor Ji... ...le, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyo... ...t people will, in the tail of the herd that was being shown through, and he at once began to say things which interested me. As he talked along, soft... ...clothes. And yet it was nothing but an ordinary suit of fifteen dollar slop shops. Still, I was sane enough to notice this detail, to wit: many of th... ...im upon the left side of the helm, that he reeled here and there, and he had fallen down had not his men recovered him. Truly, said King Arthur, that ... ...ols and churches were children four years before; they were grown up now; my shops of that day were vast factories now; where I had a dozen trained me... ...“free” country with the Corporation Act and the T est still in force in it — timbers propped against men’s lib erties and dishonored consciences to s... ...the well had sprung a leak; that some of the wall stones near the bottom had fallen and exposed fis sures that allowed the water to escape. I measure...
... By THOMAS DE QUINCEY A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The Note Book of an English Opium-Eater by Thomas de Quincey is a publicati... ...te Book of an English Opium-Eater by Thomas de Quincey is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...y person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim M... ...om a former paper of mine, ‘On Murder considered as one of the Fine Arts;’ at the same time proving the sincerity of their praise by one hesi- tating ... ...of an English Opium-Eater rapidly approaching him. Suddenly the supporting timbers below him gave way; a convulsive heave of the billowing flames seem... ...on, whatever the night happened to be, light or dark, quiet or stormy, all shops were kept open on Saturday nights until twelve o’clock, at the least,... ...tary fact in one moment made a revelation of horror. One person might have fallen asleep, but two—but three—that was a mere impossibility. And even su... ... that the next door neighbor, who had re- cently gone to bed and instantly fallen asleep, was roused; and by the incessant violence of the ringing and...
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.......
...ies Publication Beauchamp’s Career by George Meredith is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...y person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Nei- ther the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim... ... for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Nei- ther the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ... had across Channel a host of dreadful military officers flash- ing swords at us for some critical observations of ours upon their sovereign, threaten... ...rs, to the rotting wild bees’ nest in our trees, to the worm in our ships’ timbers, and to lamentable afflictions of the human frame, and of sheep, ox... ... a destiny. Looked at from the height of the palm- waving cherubs over the fallen martyr in the picture, she seemed as nerveless as a dreamy girl. The... ...No; do not!’ But the boat was flying fast from V enice, and she could have fallen at his feet and kissed them for not countermanding it. ‘You are in m... ...cipices, across oceans and deserts, and through systems and webs, and into shops and cabinets of costliest china, will come at it, will not be refused... ...ike every fellow first off. It is the place; the very place. Pastry-cooks’ shops won’t stand comparison with it. Don’t tell me you ‘re the man not to ...
...Excerpt: The Champion Of His Country. When young Nevil Beauchamp was throwing off his midshipman?s jacket for a holiday in the garb of peace, we had across Channel a host of dreadful military officers flashing swords at us for some cr...
...ATION Memorials and Other Papers by Thomas de Quincey is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...y person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim M... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ...the eyes of those who have taken an interest in the original se- ries. But at all events, good or bad, they are now tendered to the appropriation of y... ...adow of any earthly interest, killed by ennui, all at once Lord Massey had fallen passionately in love with a fair young countrywoman, well connected,... ...em of the monotonous school tasks, and the ruinous want of exercise, I had fallen under medical advice the most mislead- ing that it is possible to im... ...ally men of no credit or known respectabil- ity, are allowed to open rival shops; and the result is, some- times, that the whole kennel of scoundrel p... ... uproars of ruin in Egypt and Alexandria—fire racing along the old carious timbers, battering-rams thundering against the ancient walls of the most ho...
...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 havin...
...s MEMORIALS, AND OTHER PAPERS, VOL. I. ....................................................................................................... 4 FROM THE AUTHOR, TO THE AMERICAN EDITOR OF HIS WORKS. .......................................................... 4 EXPLANATORY NOTICES...................................................................................................
...THE DAY’S WORK THE DAY’S WORK THE DAY’S WORK by Rudyard Kipling A Penn State Electronic Classics Series P... ...RK by Rudyard Kipling A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Day’s Work by Rudyard Kipling is a publication of the Pennsylvania Stat... ...y person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim M... ............................................................... 206 MY SUNDAY AT HOME ...................................................................... ...redit comes to me out of the business!” Indeed; the burden of the work had fallen altogether on Findlayson and his assistant, the young man whom he ha... ...rang, to lash, and guy, and hold to control the donkey-engines, to hoist a fallen locomotive craftily out of the borrow-pit into which it had tumbled;... ...p delivered a lecture on repairing compound engines without the aid of the shops, and the men sat about on the cold machinery. The cross-head jammed i... ...round-house after his trial—he had said good-bye to his best friend in the shops, the overhead travelling-crane—the big world was just outside; and th... ...ou give me the drink for?” They drifted under the great twelve-inch pinned timbers of the foot-bridge towards the bench, and, I gathered, the time was...
...Excerpt: The least that Findlayson, of the Public Works Department, expected was a C.I.E.; he dreamed of a C.S.I.: indeed, his friends told him that he deserved more. For three years he had endured heat and cold, disappointment, disco...
...Contents THE BRIDGE-BUILDERS ............................................................................................................. 4 A WALKING DELEGATE..............................................................................
...tion tion tion tion tion Salammbo by Gustave Flaubert is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnishe... ...y person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim M... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ...sity. 3 Flaubert SALAMMBO BY GUSTAVE FLAUBERT CHAPTER I THE FEAST I t was at Megara, a suburb of Carthage, in the gardens of Hamilcar. The soldiers w... ...laden, came down the ramps. Money-changers raised the pent-houses of their shops at the cross ways, storks took to flight, white sails fluttered. In t... ...h the insignia of their rank, and in the armour of their nation. Night had fallen, a great tumult was spreading throughout the plain; fires were burni... ... in order to torture their souls; they were hung up in pieces in the meat- shops; some even buried their teeth in them, and in the evening funeral-pil... ...ages of T anith, and, wrapped up in an ape’s skin, a black stone which had fallen from the moon. Many Carthaginians had chosen to accompany him; they ... ...ly until both sides gave out an equal sound. Spendius would mount upon the timbers. He would strike the ropes softly with the extremity of his foot, a...
... Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Por table Document file is furn... ...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 University nor Ji... ...le, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyo... .............9 As I Ponder’d in Silence.....................10 In Cabin’d Ships at Sea.......................11 To Foreign Lands............................ ... in working dresses, Leaves of Grass –Whitman 36 See, lounging through the shops and fields of the States, me well belov’d, close held by day and ni... ...oom, I witness the corpse with its dabbled hair, I note where the pistol has fallen. The blab of the pave, tires of carts, sluff of boot soles, talk o... ... Or we are entering by the suburbs some vast and ruin’d city, The blocks and fallen architecture more than all the living cities of the globe. I am a ... ... or lake Tiberias! You Thibet trader on the wide inland or bargaining in the shops of Lassa! You Japanese man or woman! you liver in Madagascar, Ceylo... ...on their beam ends, and the cutting away of masts, The sentiment of the huge timbers of old fashion’d houses and barns, The remember’d print or narrat...
...Excerpt: BOOK I. INSCRIPTIONS. One?s-self I sing, a simple separate person, Yet utter the word Democratic, the word En-Masse. Of physiology from top to toe I sing, Not physiognomy alone nor brain alone is worthy for the Muse, I say the Form complete is worthier far, The Female equally with the Male I sing. Of ...
...NSCRIPTIONS..................9 One?s-Self I Sing...................................9 As I Ponder?d in Silence.....................10 In Cabin?d Ships at Sea.......................11 To Foreign Lands................................12 To a Historian.....................................12 To Thee Old Cause..............................13 Eidolons.................................
...itors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87 The Bean Field . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ... ...he Bean Field . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97 The Village . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .... ...iving by the labor of my hands only. I lived there two years and two months. At present I am a sojourner in civilized life again. I should not obtrude... ... of life, which some would call impertinent, though they do not appear to me at all impertinent, but, considering the circumstances, very natural and ... ...as well as not. I have travelled a good deal in Concord; and every where, in shops, and offices, and fields, the inhabitants have appeared to me to be d... ...appliances; The wind that blows Is all that any body knows. I hewed the main timbers six inches square, most of the studs on two sides only, and the r... ...nd independence that, in Concord, fresh and sweet meal is rarely sold in the shops, and hominy and corn in a still coarser form are hardly used by any... ...e sung. They are the spirits, the low spirits and melancholy forebodings, of fallen souls that once in human shape night walked the earth and did the ... ...ullet of your thought must have overcome its lateral and ricochet motion and fallen into its last and steady course before it reaches the ear of the h...
...Excerpt: WHEN I wrote the following pages, or rather the bulk of them, I lived alone, in the woods, a mile from any neighbor, in a house which I had built myself, on the shore of Walden Pond, in Concord, Massachusetts, and earned my living by the ...
...Table of Contents: Economy, 1 -- Where I Lived, and What I Lived For, 50 -- Reading, 62 -- Sounds, 69 -- Solitude, 80 -- Visitors, 87 -- The Bean-Field, 97 -- The Village, 105 -- The Ponds, 109 -- Baker Farm, 126 -- Higher Laws, 132 -- Brute Neighbors, 140 -- House-Warming, 149 -- Former Inhabitants; and Winter Visitors, 160 -- Winter Animals, 169 -- The Pond ...
...ication North America: Volume One by Anthony Trollope is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...y person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim M... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor any- o... ...e country described in a more or less ridiculous point of view. It is hard at least to do so in such a book as I must write. A de Tocqueville may do i... ..., with its enormous territorial possessions and increasing population, has fallen asunder, torn to pieces by the weight of its own discordant parts—as... ...a, quite as though I were at home. But of a sudden Jones and his wife have fallen out, and there is for awhile in Jones Hall a cat-and-dog life that m... ...within reach of the men. There are no publics, no shebeen houses, no grog- shops. Sobriety is an enforced virtue; and so much is this considered by th... ...es, or kept for a single purpose, such as that of a hotel, or grouped into shops below, and into various sets of chambers above. I have had occasion i... ...n we do so unwillingly, they bump and crush and crash upon each other, and timbers fly while men are swearing. But here there was neither crashing nor...
...TH AND WEST ......................................................................................................... 115 CHAPTER IX: FROM NIAGARA TO THE MISSISSIPPI .................................................................................. 130 CHAPTER X: THE UPPER MISSISSIPPI ............................................................................................
... VOLUMES Volume Three A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Works of Edgar Allan Poe in Five Volumes: Volume Three is a publication... ...Works of Edgar Allan Poe in Five Volumes: Volume Three is a publication of the Pennsylva- nia State University. This Portable Document file is furnish... ...y person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim M... ...gh life, to put faith in my veracity-the probability being that the public at large would regard what I should put forth as merely an impudent and ing... ... source of my alarm, I tumbled headlong and insensible upon the body of my fallen companion. I found myself, upon reviving, in the cabin of a large wh... ..., was lifted, by the force of the water rushing in, entirely from the main timbers, and floated (with other fragments, no doubt) to the surface—August... ... to remain so long a prisoner, except, indeed, his having suddenly died or fallen overboard, and upon this idea I could not dwell with any de- gree of... ...se boards strong tem- porary stanchions should be erected, reaching to the timbers above, and thus securing every thing in its place. In cargoes consi... ...on of the risk and trouble of removal, many of the numerous dealers having shops in the neighbourhood had consented to trust, during the period of exi...
Excerpt: The Works of Edgar Allan Poe in Five Volumes: Volume Three.
..............................169 MORELLA..................................................................................................184 A TALE OF THE RAGGED MOUNTAINS.............................................189 THE SPECTACLES ...................................................................................198 KING PEST ...............................................
...VE VOLUMES Volume One A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Works of Edgar Allan Poe in Five Volumes: Volume One is a publication o... ...e Works of Edgar Allan Poe in Five Volumes: Volume One is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnishe... ...y person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim M... ...s of surpassing beauty, The wit and wisdom of their king. Born in poverty at Boston, January 19 1809, dying under painful circumstances at Baltimore,... ... securing the packet in question, which was seen, upon inspection, to have fallen into the most proper hands, being actually addressed to himself and ... ...d, however, that when I fell in the first instance, from the car, if I had fallen with my face turned toward the balloon, instead of turned outwardly ... ...med to have been there for a very great while; for the resemblance to boat timbers could scarcely be traced. “Well, Jupiter picked up the parchmen... ...r great beauty attracted the notice of a perfumer, who occupied one of the shops in the basement of the Palais Royal, and whose custom lay chiefly amo... ...ds, in such a manner as to afford me a convenient retreat between the huge timbers of the ship. I had scarcely completed my work, when a footstep in t...
Excerpt: The Works of Edgar Allan Poe in Five Volumes: Volume One.
.... 14 DEATH OF EDGAR A. POE BY N. P. WILLIS........................................................................................................ 19 THE UNPARALLELED ADVENTURES OF ONE HANS PFAAL......................................................................... 26 Notes to Hans Pfaal ......................................................................................
...Henry David Thoreau s or Life in the Woods This publication of Walden, or Life in the Woods is part of The P... ...Electronic Classics Series, Jim Manis, faculty editor. Walden, or Life in the Woods by Henry David Thoreau is a publication of the Pennsylvania S... ...y person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim M... ...ing by the labor of my hands only. I lived there two years and two months. At present I am a sojourner in civilized life again. I should not obtrude... ...s well as not. I have travelled a good deal in Concord; and everywhere, in shops, and offices, and fields, the inhabitants have ap peared to me to be... ... The wind that blows Is all that anybody knows. I hewed the main timbers six inches square, most of the studs on two sides only, and the raf... ...ndepen dence that, in Concord, fresh and sweet meal is rarely sold in the shops, and hominy and corn in a still coarser form are hardly used by any. ... ...sung. They are the spirits, the low spirits and melancholy forebodings, of fallen souls that once in human shape night walked the earth and did the de... ...let of your thought must have overcome its lateral and ricochet motion and fallen into its last and steady course be fore it reaches the ear of the b...
Excerpt: Walden, or Life in the Woods by Henry David Thoreau.
...Global Language Resources, Inc. All rights reserved. JACK LONDON Contents To the Man on Trail . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 The White ... .... . . . . 12 In a Far Country . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 The Wisdom of the Trail . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44 An Odyss... ...French Canadian, becoming interested; for he had heard of this wild deed, when at Forty Mile the preceding winter. Then Malemute Kid, who was a born r... ...cups to Alsace and Lorraine. Then Malemute Kid arose, cup in hand, and glanced at the greased paper window, where the frost stood full three inches t... ...tic, they could see that fatigue bore heavily upon him. An awkward silence had fallen, but his hearty “What cheer, my lads?” put them quickly at ease,... ...lash! the whip fell among the dogs savagely, especially upon the one which had fallen. “Don’t, Mason,” entreated Malemute Kid; “the poor devil ’s on i... ...d. “I was different from my people. In the sands of the beach were the crooked timbers and wave warped planks of a boat such as my people never built;... ... ness houses. South of the Slot were the factories, slums, laundries, machine shops, boiler works, and the abodes of the working class. The Slot was ...
... enough; but when it comes to brandy and peppersauce and?--?Dump it in. Who?s making this punch, anyway?? And Malemute Kid smiled benignantly through the clouds of steam. ?By the time you?ve been in this country as long as I have, my son, and lived on rabbit tracks and salmon-belly, you?ll learn that Christmas comes only once per annum. And a Christmas without punch is sin...
...Table of Contents: To the Man on Trail, 1 -- The White Silence, 12 -- In a Far Country, 24 -- The Wisdom of the Trail, 44 -- An Odyssey of the North, 53 -- The Law of Life, 90 -- The God of His Fathers, 99 -- The League of the Old Men, 117 -- B?at...
...years ago, Miss Maria Ward of Huntingdon, with only seven thousand pounds, had the good luck to captivate Sir Thomas Bertram, of Mansfield Park, in the... ...m, of Mansfield Park, in the county of Northampton, and to be thereby raised to the rank of a baronet’s lady, with all the comforts and consequences of... ... greatness of the match, and her uncle, the lawyer, himself, allowed her to be at least three thousand pounds short of any equitable claim to it. She ... ...ge fortune in the world, as there are pretty women to deserve them. Miss Ward, at the end of half a dozen years, found herself obliged to be attached ... ... not at all displeased either at her sister’s early care, or the choice it had fallen on. Matrimony was her object, provided she could marry well, and... ...ly aware, and before he had been at Mansfield a week, she was quite ready to be fallen in love with. Maria’s notions on the subject were more confused ... ...e High Street. He took care, however, that they should be allowed to go to the shops they came out expressly to visit; and it did not delay them long,... ...of equal and never failing interest, while the young people sat down upon some timbers in the yard, or found a seat on board a vessel in the stocks wh...
...Excerpt: Chapter I; ABOUT thirty years ago, Miss Maria Ward of Huntingdon, with only seven thousand pounds, had the good luck to captivate Sir Thomas Bertram, of Mansfield Park, in the county of Northampton, and to be thereby raised to the rank of a baronet?s lady, with all the comforts and consequences of an handsome house and large i...
... INAUGURAL ADDRESSES OF THE PRESIDENTS OF THE UNITED STATES is a publication of the Penn sylvania State Universit... ...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 University nor Ji... ...le, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyo... ...ath of office in April in New York City on the balcony of the Senate Chamber at Federal Hall on Wall Street. General Washing ton had been unanimously... ...ies. The pressure of these, too, is the more severely felt because they have fallen upon us at a moment when the national prosperity being at a height... ...individuals what a proud spectacle does it exhibit! On whom has oppres sion fallen in any quarter of our Union? Who has been deprived of any right of... ...uren rode together to the Capitol from the White House in a carriage made of timbers from the U.S.S. Constitu tion. Chief Justice Roger Taney adminis... ...manu factures in the States, and so to secure the American market for their shops and the carrying trade for their ships, was the policy of European ...
Excerpt: Inaugural addresses of the presidents of the United States.
... BY CHARLOTTE M.YONGE A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Chaplet of Pearls by Charlotte M. Yonge is a publication of the Pennsyl... ...y person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim M... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ...ial tales, and the ‘Chaplet of Pearls’ is so quite as little. It only aims at drawing certain scenes and certain characters as the convulsions of the ... ... lands of Nid-de-Merle, belonging to an unfortunate Angevin noble, who had fallen under the royal displeasure, and they had enjoyed court favour up to... ... a great number of gentlemen were present, coming in from rooms hired over shops, &c—all, as it seemed, assembled at Paris for the marriage festivitie... ...olours. Among these Berenger left his two Englishmen, well content to have fallen into an English colony. Landry followed him to announce the visitor,... ...’ Just then Berenger’s gaze fell on something half hidden under the fallen timbers. He instantly sprang forward, and used all his strength to drag it ... ... Duchess greatly disliked pedlars. All her household stores were bought at shops of good repute in Montauban, and no one ought to be so improvident as...
...Preface: It is the fashion to call every story controversial that deals with times when controversy or a war of religion was raging; but it should be remembered that there are some which only attempt to portray human feelings as affected by...
...t c 2001 by Global Language Resources, Inc. All rights reserved. Based on the 1864 Ticknor & Fields edition. Contents Ktaadn . . . . . . . . . . .... ...hesuncook . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51 The Allegash and East Branch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ... ...ny as I might pick up there. It is unusual to find a camp so far in the woods at that season, when lumbering operations have ceased, and I was glad to ... ...ad to avail myself of the circumstance of a gang of men being employed there at that time in repairing the injuries caused by the great freshet in the... ...r hand to the grim, untrodden wilderness, whose tangled labyrinth of living, fallen, and decaying trees only the deer and moose, the bear and wolf, ca... ...sometimes observed what is technically called “fencing stuff,” or the unhewn timbers of which booms are formed, either secured together in the water, ... ...r portages. With this crushing weight they must climb and stumble along over fallen trees and slippery rocks of all sizes, where those who walked by t... ...ought it quite a discovery, and that it might well be dried, and sold in the shops. I, for one, however, am not an old tea drinker, and cannot speak w... ...d beating against them the wreck of ten thousand navies, all their spars and timbers, while there rises from the water’s edge the densest and grimmest...
...Excerpt: ON THE 31st of August, 1846, I left Concord in Massachusetts for Bangor and the backwoods of Maine, by way of the railroad and steamboat, intending to accompany a relative of mine engaged in the lumber-trade in Bangor, as far as...
...Table of Contents: Ktaadn, 1 -- Chesuncook, 51 -- The Allegash and East Branch, 96 -- Appendix, 184 -- I. TREES., 184 -- II. FLOWERS AND SHRUBS., 185 -- III. LIST OF PLANTS., 188 -- IV. LIST OF BIRDS, 196 -- V. QUADRUPEDS., 197 -- VI. OUTFIT FOR AN EXCURSION., 198 -- VII. A ...
...s Publication Twice Told Tales by Nathaniel Hawthorne is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity. This Portable Document file is furnish... ...y person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim M... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ...om than is even yet the privilege of the native subjects of Great Britain. At length a rumor reached our shores that the Prince of Orange had ventured... ... obe- lisk of granite, with a slab of slate inlaid, commemorates the first fallen of the Revolutions. And when our fathers were toiling at the breastw... ...ad started with an irrepressible shudder, as if the stroke of the bell had fallen directly on her heart; then, recovering herself, while her attendant... ... the arched passage, which penetrated through the middle of a brick row of shops, a few steps transported me from the busy heart of modern Boston into... ...he brick walls, the materials of which were imported from Holland, and the timbers of the mansion, are still as sound as ever; but the floors and othe... ...t, with the gas-lights blazing from corner to cor- ner, flaming within the shops, and throwing a noonday bright- ness through the huge plates of glass...
...Excerpt: There was once a time when New England groaned under the actual pressure of heavier wrongs than those threatened ones which brought on the Revolution. James II, the bigoted successor of Charles the Voluptuous, had annulled the charters of all the colonies, and sent a harsh and ...
...Contents THE GRAY CHAMPION....................................................................................................... 4 THE WEDDING KNELL .......................................................................................
...Publication Burlesques by William Makepeace Thackeray is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity. This Portable Document file is furnish... ...y person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim M... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ... for thy stone. A heifer? Ah, many a darker sacrifice. Other blood is shed at thy altars, Remorseless One, and the Poet Priest who ministers at thy Sh... ...induced rustics to pause: although only noon, the savory odors of the Cook Shops tempted the over hungry citizen to the bun of Bath, or to the fragran... ...n in Chepe. But were all battling for gain there? Among the many brilliant shops whose casements shone upon Chepe, there stood one a century back (abo... ...and the monster kept his word. Major Grigg, of the Lifeguards, had already fallen by his hand at Ostend. The O’Toole, who had met her on the Rhine, ha... ...teeth, extracted (one only from each skull) from the jaws of those who had fallen by the terrible tomahawk at his girdle. His moccasins, and his blank... ...Bay;— it set me and Bob Bunting a-pouring broadsides into each other’s old timbers, whereas me and Bob was worth all the women that ever shipped a haw...
...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 glori...
................ 5 BUTTON?S IN PALL MALL.............................................................................................................. 9 THE CONDEMNED CELL. ..............................................................................................................12 CODLINGSBY ....................................................................................
...HEARTBREAK HOUSE: A FANTASIA IN THE RUSSIAN MANNER ON ENGLISH THEMES by BERNARD SHAW 1913-1916 A Penn State... ...te Electronic Classics Series Publication Heartbreak House: A Fantasia in the Russian Manner on English Themes by George Bernard Shaw is a publicatio... ...y person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim M... ...ex and with all sorts of refined pleasures, it was a very delightful place at its 5 GB Shaw best for moments of relaxation. In other moments it was d... ...red it, much less the suburbs. When matters at last came to the looting of shops by criminals under patriotic pretexts, it was the police force and no... ...e fights are sham fights, and the slain, rising the moment the curtain has fallen, go comfortably home to supper after washing off their rose-pink wou... ... of the drunken skipper’s ship on the rocks, the splintering of her rotten timbers, the tearing of her rusty plates, the drown- ing of the crew like r...
...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 ...
...u Editions E-books ' 2001, Global Language Resources, Inc. Two Years Before the Mast Table of Contents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 CHAPTER I — DEP... ...LOSS OF A MAN—SUPERSTITION . . . . . . . . 21 CHAPTER VII — JUAN FERNANDEZ—THE PACIFIC CHAPTER VIII — ‘‘TARRING DOWN’’—DAILY LIFE—’’GOING AFT’’—CA... ...PASSAGE UP THE COAST—MONTEREY . . . . . . . . . . . . 38 CHAPTER XII — LIFE AT MONTEREY . . . . . . . . . 40 CHAPTER XIII — TRADING—A BRITISH SAILO... ...s to get under weigh early in the afternoon, I made my appearance on board at twelve o’clock, in full sea rig, and with my chest, containing an out... ... wind never comes back to the southward until there has a good deal of rain fallen. ‘‘Go below the watch,’’ said the mate; but here was a dispute whi... .... In fact, they sometimes appeared to me to be a people on whom a curse had fallen, and stripped them of everything but their pride, their manners, ... ...ives, they soon get nearly all the trade into their hands. They usually keep shops, in which they retail the goods purchased in larger quantities fro... ...re are foreigners engaged in this kind of trade, while I recollect but two shops kept by natives. The people are generally suspicious of foreigne... ...e had got safe off from the breakers, and was too good a sailor to risk his timbers again. Though I knew what his life had been, yet I never had...
...Excerpt: CHAPTER I; DEPARTURE -- The fourteenth of August was the day fixed upon for the sailing of the brig Pilgrim on her voyage from Boston round Cape Horn to the western coast of North America. As she was to get under weigh early in the afternoon, I made...
...AND -- HO!???POMPERO?CAPE HORN, 9 -- CHAPTER V ? CAPE HORN?A VISIT, 13 -- CHAPTER VI ? LOSS OF A MAN?SUPERSTITION, 18 -- CHAPTER VII ? JUAN FERNANDEZ?THE PACIFIC, 21 -- CHAPTER VIII ? ??TARRING DOWN???DAILY LIFE???GOING AFT???CALIFORNIA -- ., 25 -- CHAPTER IX ? CALIFORNIA?A SOUTH-EASTER, 28 -- CHAPTER X ? A SOUTH-EASTER?PASSAGE UP THE COAST, 32 -- CHAPTER XI ? PASSAGE UP T...