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Songs and Sonnets

By: John Donne

...’s "Songs and Sonnets" Table of Contents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 THE GOOD-MORROW . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 SONG . . . . . .... ... . . . . . . . . . . 3 WOMANS CONSTANCY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 THE UNDERTAKING . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 THE SUNNE RISING . . . ... ... . . . . . . . . . 5 THE SUNNE RISING . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 THE INDIFFERENT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 LOVES USURY . . . .... ...hoole boyes, and sowre prentices, Goe tell Court-huntsmen, that the King will ride, Call countrey ants to harvest offices; Love, all ali... ...Myne Be where thou leftst them, or lie here with mee. Aske for those Kings whom thou saw’st yesterday, And thou shalt heare, All here in one b... ...ourse, get you a place, Observe his honour, or his grace, Or the Kings reall, or his stamped face Contemplate, what you will, approve, ... ...hat winter did Benight the glory of this place, And that a grave frost did forbid These trees to laugh, and mocke mee to my face; But ...

...Excerpt: THE GOOD-MORROW; I WONDER by my troth, what thou, and I Did, till we lov?d? were we not wean?d till then? But suck?d on countrey pleasures, childishly? Or snorted we in the seaven sleepers den? T?was so; But this, all pleasur...

...Table of Contents: THE GOOD-MORROW, 1 -- SONG, 2 -- WOMANS CONSTANCY, 3 -- THE UNDERTAKING, 4 -- THE SUNNE RISING, 5 -- THE INDIFFERENT, 6 -- LOVES USURY, 7 -- THE CANONIZATION, 8 -- THE TRIPLE FOOLE, 10 -- LOVERS INFINITENESSE, 11 -- SONG, 12 ...

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Don Juan

By: George Byron

... Don Juan by George Byron is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnish... ...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... ...a State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone associated with the Pennsylvania State University assumes any responsibility for the mate... ...This old song and new simile holds good), ‘A dainty dish to set before the King,’ Or Regent, who admires such kind of food;— And Coleridge, to... ..., Have voices, tongues to cry aloud for me. Europe has slaves, allies, kings, armies still, And Southey lives to sing them very ill. Byron’s ... ...is lady was concern’d; The world, as usual, wickedly inclined To see a kingdom or a house o’erturn’d, Whisper’d he had a mistress, some said t... ...e one or two: ‘T is said no one in hand ‘can hold a fire By thought of frosty Caucasus;’ but few, I really think; yet Juan’s then ordeal Was... .... Koutousow, he who afterward beat back (With some assistance from the frost and snow) Napoleon on his bold and bloody track, It happen’d ... ..., Save such as Southey can afford to give. Perhaps he long’d in bitter frosts for climes In which the Neva’s ice would cease to live Befor...

...Excerpt: Dedication. Bob Southey! You?re a poet -- Poet-laureate, And representative of all the race, Although ?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 ey...

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Stray Pearls: Memoirs of Margaret de Ribaumont, Viscountess of Bellaise

By: Charlotte Mary Yonge

...baumont, Viscountess of Bellaise by Charlotte M. Yonge is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...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... ...State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone associated with the Pennsylvania State University assumes any responsibility for the materi... ...them employment in the Army and Court, attaching them to the person of the King, and giving them offices with pensions attached to them. The whole cos... ...e war increased the burthens of the country, and, in the mi- nority of the King, a stand was made at last. The last semblance of popular institutions ... ... and to try the causes concerning themselves. The immediate vassals of the King had a right to sit there, and were called Paris De France, in distinct... ...yperborean Orcades,’ as the Abbe called them, made us think of nothing but frost and ice and savages, and we could not believe Sir Andrew when he told... ...gh she would otherwise have said she was too old to go to school. Then the frost set in, and all the canals and sluggish streams were sheets of ice, t... ...rintend some arrangement in his garden, which he wished to make before the frost set in. He and his daughter Veronica had been ailing for some days, b...

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The Lamentable Tragedy of Titus Andronicus

By: William Shakespeare

...mentable Tragedy of Titus Andronicus. by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Based on the Folio Text of 1623 DjVu Editions E-books ' 2001, Global Language ... ...akespeare: First Folio Table of Contents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 The Tragedie of Titus Andronicus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Actus Primu... ...us Quartus. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47 Actus Quintus. - i - The Tragedie of Titus Andronicus cc4 Actus Primus. Scoena Prima. ... ...ines, of fiue and twenty Valiant Sonnes, 101 Halfe of the number that King Priam had, 102 Behold the poore remaines aliue and dead! 103 ... ... For Valiant doings in their Countries cause? 136 O! If to fight for King and Common- weale, 137 Were piety in thine, it is in these: 138 ... ...f your Grace, 277 And heere in sight of Rome, to Saturnine, 278 King and Commander of our Common- weale, 279 The Wide- worlds Emperour... ...138 For all my blood in Romes great quarrell shed, 1139 For all the frosty nights that I haue watcht, 1140 And for these bitter teares, whi... ...2065 These tydings nip me, and I hang the head 2066 As flowers with frost, or grasse beat downe with stormes: 2067 I, now begins our sorrow... ...astaway, 2580 Doe shamefull execution on her selfe. 2581 But if my frostie signes and chaps of age, 2582 Graue witnesses of true experienc...

...Excerpt: The Tragedie of Titus Andronicus; Actus Primus -- Scoena Prima -- Flourish. Enter the Tribunes and Senators aloft And then enter Saturninus and his Followers at one doore, and Bassianus and his Followers at the other, with Dr...

...Table of Contents: The Tragedie of Titus Andronicus, 1 -- Actus Primus. Scoena Prima., 1 -- Actus Secunda., 13 -- Actus Tertius., 25 -- Actus Quartus., 34 -- Actus Quintus., 47...

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Theological Essays and Other Papers

By: Thomas de Quincey

...says and Other Papers: Volume Two by Thomas de Quincey is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...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... ...State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone associated with the Pennsylvania State University assumes any responsibility for the materi... ...ly different under the different ecclesiastical administrations of the two kingdoms. And the church courts of Scotland do not exist in England. We wri... ...ealt with by a secular law. But the rest were acts which belonged not to a kingdom of this world. ‘These,’ with a newborn scrupulosity never heard of ... ...ars, viz., from Edgehill Fight in the autumn of 1642, to the defeat of the king’s last force under Sir Jacob Astley at 17 Thomas de Quincey Stow-in-t... ... were such as is often found even in Southern Greece during winter—a black frost; and that all the belligerents were found in the morning symmetricall... ...ue social interest, and of the dialogue exhibited by Plautus. Two separate frosts, during a century otherwise so full of movement as the sixteenth in ... ...cy of visits consequent upon the difficulties of local movement. The other frost lay in the Spanish state- liness and the inflexibility of our social ...

...Contents SECESSION FROM THE CHURCH OF SCOTLAND ................................................................ 4 TOILETTE OF THE HEBREW LADY........................................................................................ 43 CHARLEMAGNE........

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The Chaplet of Pearls

By: Charlotte Mary Yonge

... 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... ...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... ...State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone associated with the Pennsylvania State University assumes any responsibility for the materi... ...t accompanied the signature of the treaty of Cateau-Cabresis, good-natured King Henri II. presided mer- rily at the union of the little pair, whose un... ... knight of Picardy, bidding him say everywhere that it was a gift from the King of England to the bravest of knights. The precious heirlooms were scar... ... little girl a year older, who thrust in her assistance so glibly that the King, as well as others of the spectators, laughed, and observed that she w... ... one or other of the beasts, or by stress of weather. Snow, rain, thaw and frost alternated, each variety rendering the roads impassable; and at the b... ...f, and imperatively signed to go on. It was a bright morning, with a clear frost, and the towers and steeples of Paris presently began to appear above... ...of a perfect pair of lips. A transparent veil hung back over the ruff like frostwork-formed fairy wings, and over the white silk bodice and sleeves la...

...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...

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Essays of Michel de Montaigne Book the Third

By: William Carew Hazilitt

...Carew Hazilitt 1877 1877 1877 1877 1877 ESSAYS OF MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE Book the Third T ranslated by Charles Cotton Edited by William Carew Hazilitt 18... ...gne, trans. Charles Cotton, Ed. William Carew Hazilitt is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ... for any pur- pose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State Uni- versity nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyo... ...ing. In the little I have had to mediate betwixt our princes— [Between the King of Navarre, afterwards Henry IV., and the Duc de Guise. See De Thou, D... ...will captivated either by particular injury or obligation. I look upon our kings with an affection simply loyal and respectful, neither prompted nor r... ...nt Heaven is preparing for us. I am of opinion that it properly belongs to kings only to quarrel with kings; and I laugh at those spirits who, out of ... ...xant;” [“Either the scorching sun burns up your fields, or sudden rains or frosts destroy your harvests, or a violent wind carries away all before it.... ...t the regions where the sun burns, where are the thick rain-clouds and the frosts.”—Horace, Od., iii. 3, 54.] “Have you not more easy diversions at ho...

...... 61 CHAPTER VI OF COACHES ..................................................................................................... 129 CHAPTER VII OF THE INCONVENIENCE OF GREATNESS ............................................ 150 CHAPTER VIII OF THE ART OF CONFERENCE ................................................................. 156 CHAPTER IX OF VANITY....................

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The C‘Sars

By: Thomas de Quincey

... BY THOMAS DE QUINCEY A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION THE CÆSARS By Thomas de Quincey is a publication of the Pennsylvania State ... ...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... ...State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone associated with the Pennsylvania State University assumes any responsibility for the materi... ...cation of Falconbridge for his mother’s trangression with the lion-hearted king— such a sin was self-ennobled. Did Julius deflower Rome? Then, by that... ... more propriety it may be asserted, that after the Roman Cæsars all modern kings, kesars, or emperors, are mere phantoms of royalty. The Cæsar of West... ...st or to come, could be said to reign as a monarch, that is, as a solitary king. He was not the greatest of princes, simply be- cause there was no oth... ...vast circles of starvation, of which the radii measure a thousand leagues. Frost and snow are confeder- ates of her strength. She is strong by her ver... ...All are silent—almost speechless—and even the current of their thoughts is frost-bound by fear. Suddenly the sound of a fiddle or a viol is caught fro...

...Excerpt: The condition of the Roman Emperors has never yet been fully appreciated; nor has it been sufficiently perceived in what respects it was absolutely unique. There was but one Rome: no other city, as we are satisfied by the col...

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Spoon River Anthology

By: Edgar Lee Masters

...ublication Spoon River Anthology by Edgar Lee Masters is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Uni- versity. This Portable Document file is furnish... ...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... ...ate University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor any- one associated with the Pennsylvania State University assumes any responsibility for the materi... ................................................................... 102 Lyman King ......................................................................... ... Or gather hazel nuts among the thickets On Aaron Hatfield’s farm when the frosts begin? For many times with the laughing girls and boys Played I alon... ... Nevertheless Seest thou a man diligent in business? He shall stand before Kings! 34 Spoon River Anthology Willard Fluke MY wife lost her health, And... ...t, And rallied my followers to his standard, And made him victor, made him King Of the Golden Mountain with the door Which closed on my heels just as ... ...it. Silas Dement IT was moon-light, and the earth sparkled With new-fallen frost. It was midnight and not a soul abroad. Out of the chimney of the cou...

...Contents The Hill ........................................................................................................................................................................ 11 Hod Putt ......................................

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A Legend of Montrose

By: Sir Walter Scott

... Publication A Legend of Montrose by Sir Walter Scott is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ... 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... ...State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone associated with the Pennsylvania State University assumes any responsibility for the materi... ...nds, who received him in his arms as he leaped from amongst the flames. As King James IV . ruled with more activity than most of his predecessors, thi... ...towed on their estate. The Drummond-ernoch of James the Sixth’s time was a king’s forester in the forest of Glenartney, and chanced to be 5 Sir Walte... ...n several duties and observations of service, first, under the magnanimous King of Denmark, during his wars against the Empire; afterwards under the i... ...and breast, head-piece and bracelets, being iron to the teeth, in a bitter frost, and the ice was as hard as ever was flint; and all for stopping an i... ... more withered than they. The parent of the ice [poetically taken from the frost] still congealed the hail-drops in her hair; they were like the speck... ...ander, of a complexion which might be termed iron-grey, wasted and worn by frost and tempest. “What may be your commands with me, my friends?” said th...

...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 attending the birth ...

...................... 16 III. A LEGEND OF MONTROSE.................................................................................................. 21 THE ORPHAN MAID. ................................................................................................................. 100 IV. APPENDIX. ...............................................................................

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In Memoriam

By: Alfred, Lord Tennyson

...t c 2001 by Global Language Resources, Inc. All rights reserved. Based on the 19th edition of Edward Moxon & Co., Dover Street, London 1862. Electr... ...Thou madest Life in man and brute; Thou madest Death; and lo, thy foot Is on the skull which thou hast made. Thou wilt not leave us in the dust: Thou ... ...o die; And thou hast made him: thou art just. Thou seemest human and divine, The highest, holiest manhood, thou: Our wills are ours, we know not how; ... ...ars. 10 Break, thou deep vase of chilling tears, That grief hath shaken into frost! Such clouds of nameless trouble cross All night below the darken’d... ...rrower fate, While yet beside its vocal springs He play’d at counsellors and kings, With one that was his earliest mate; Who ploughs with pain his nat... ... That Nature’s ancient power was lost: The streets were black with smoke and frost, They chatter’d trifles at the door: I wander’d from the noisy town,... ...e earth, And calmly fell our Christmas eve: The yule clog sparkled keen with frost, 5 No wing of wind the region swept, But over all things brooding s... ..., and prey By each cold hearth, and sadness flings Her shadow on the blaze of kings: And yet myself have heard him say, 20 That not in any mother town ... ...g the scale of ranks, thro’ all, To him who grasps a golden ball, By blood a king, at heart a clown; The churl in spirit, howe’er he veil 5 His want i...

...elieving where we cannot prove; Thine are these orbs of light and shade; Thou madest Life in man and brute; Thou madest Death; and lo, thy foot Is on the skull which thou hast made. Thou wilt not leave us in the dust: Thou madest man, he knows not why; He thinks he was not made to die; And thou hast made him: thou art just. Thou seemest human and divine, The highest, holie...

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Under the Storm or Steadfasts Charge

By: Charlotte Mary Yonge

...rlotte M. Yonge A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Under the Storm, or Steadfast’s Charge by Charlotte M. Yonge is a publication of ... ...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... ...State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone associated with the Penn- sylvania State University assumes any responsibility for the mate... ...another and quiet villages became battlefields. We hear a great deal about King and Parliament, great lords and able generals, Cavaliers and Roundhead... ...had been their secret, and a kind of palace to them. They had sat there as king and queen, had paved it with stones from the brook, and had had many p... ...d.” “And so I hope they will,” said Mr. Holworth. “I hear good news of the King’s cause in the north.” Then they began to consult where to place the p... ...ly in telling him “they wanted no upstarts.” It was a hard winter, and the frost was followed by a great deal of wet. One of the sheep was swept away ...

Excerpt: Under the Storm, or Steadfast?s Charge by Charlotte M. Yonge.

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The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley Volume 2

By: Thomas Hutchinson

...OXFORD EDITION. INCLUDING MATERIALS NEVER BEFORE PRINTED IN ANY EDITION OF THE POEMS. EDITED WITH TEXTUAL NOTES BY THOMAS HUTCHINSON, M. A. EDITOR OF ... ...ORD WORDSWORTH. 1914. A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley, Volume One is a public... ...ete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley, Volume One is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ............................................. 191 FRAGMENT: ‘I WOULD NOT BE A KING’. ....................................................................... ... shall gleam beneath thy feet: But thy soul or this world must fade in the frost that binds the dead, ... ... _10 Had bound their folds o’er many a crack Which the frost had made between. 3. 3. 3. 3. 3. Thine eyes glowed in the glare Of th... ... prey, from their far fountains, Slow rolling on; there, many a precipice, Frost and the Sun in scorn of mortal power Have piled: dome, pyramid, and p... ... that fed: And on the pedestal these words appear: ‘My name is Ozymandias, king of kings: _10 Look on my works, ye Might... ... _55 Or the whirlwind up and down Howling, like a slaughtered town, When a king in glory rides Through the pomp of fratricides: Those unburied bones a...

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

............................................................................................................................ 19 Oh! there are spirits of the air, ..................................................................................................................................... 19 TO WORDSWORTH. ...................................................................

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Kidnapped Being the Memoirs of the Adventures of David Balfour in the Year 1751

By: Robert Louis Stevenson

...KIDNAPPED Being the Memoirs of the Adventures of David Balfour in the Year 1751 by Robert Louis Stevenson ... ...eries Publication Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnishe... ...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... ...since they are both dead, I shall be no nearer to in Essendean than in the Kingdom of Hungary, and, to speak truth, if I thought I had a chance to bet... ...n fancy smell out his secrets one after another, and grow to be that man’s king and ruler. The warlock of Essendean, they say, had made a mirror in wh... ...ching wrists, the time might have been winter and the whiteness a December frost. Uncle Ebenezer trudged in the ditch, jogging from side to *Agent. **... ... it would be a shame even to speak of; some were men that had run from the king’s ships, and went with a halter round their necks, of which they made ... ...untry of Balquhidder. It came clear and cold, with a touch in the air like frost, and a northerly wind that blew the clouds away and made the stars br...

...Excerpt: How he was kidnapped and cast away; his sufferings in a desert isle; his journey in the wild highlands; his acquaintance with Alan Breck Stewart and other notorious Highland Jacobites; with all that he suffered at the hands of his uncle, Ebenezer Balfour of Shaws, falsely so called Written by himself and now...

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War and the Future; Italy, France and Britain at War

By: H. G. Wells

...y H. G. Wells A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION War and the Future: Italy, France and Britain at War by H. G. Wells is a publicatio... ...uture: Italy, France and Britain at War by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...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... ...ards the bonfire. 5 5 5 5 5 I had the experience of meeting a contemporary king upon this journey. He was the first king I had ever met. The Potsdam f... ...eror at Pekin has followed the Shogun into the shadows. The modern type of king shows a disposition to intimate at the outset that he cannot help it, ... ...ise his excep- tional position by sound hard work. It is an age of working kings, with the manners of private gentlemen. The King of Italy for example... ... power of vivid render- ing than this struggle against cliffs, avalanches, frost and the Austrian. T o go the Italian round needs, among other things,... ...om- ing down on led mules. It was mid-August, and they were suffering from frostbite. Across the great gap between the summits a minute traveller with... ... the world below but a precipi- tous climb or a “teleferic” wire. Snow and frost may cut them off absolutely for weeks from the rest of mankind. The s...

Excerpt: War and the Future: Italy, France and Britain at War by H. G. Wells.

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Bureaucracy

By: Honoré de Balzac

...y Honore de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...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... ...State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone associated with the Pennsylvania State University assumes any responsibility for the materi... ...inister who communicated with the sovereign; thus they directly served the king. The superiors of these zealous servants were simply called head-clerk... ...e simply called head-clerks. In those branches of administration which the king did not himself direct, such for instance as the “fermes” (the public ... ...ower of inertia and named it “Report.” Let us explain the Report. When the kings of France took to themselves ministers, which first happened under Lo... ...er thought him ugly, nor old, nor white 143 Balzac and chilling as a hoar-frost, nor indeed anything that was odious and offensive, but she did not g...

...Excerpt: Chapter 1. The Rabourdin household in Paris, where men of thought and study bear a certain likeness to one another, living as they do in a common centre, you must have met with several resembling Monsieur Rabourdin, whose acquaintance w...

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The Mirror of the Sea

By: Joseph Conrad

... Sea by Joseph Conrad A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The Mirror of the Sea by Joseph Conrad is a publication of the Pennsylvania... ...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... ...State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone associated with the Pennsylvania State University assumes any responsibility for the materi... ... water of the canal, in which were set ships one behind another with their frosty mooring-ropes hanging slack and their decks idle and deserted, becau... ...snow-laden roofs. From afar at the end of Tsar Peter Straat, issued in the frosty air the tinkle of bells of the horse tramcars, appearing and disappe... ...s, better than the high pile of blankets, which positively crack- led with frost as I threw them off in the morning. And I would get up early for no r... ... on his hands that were crossed upon the rail, might have appeared a minor king amongst men. We passed her within earshot, without a hail, read- ing e... ... un- challenged his realm of land and water. As with the 69 Joseph Conrad kingdoms of the earth, there are regions more tur- bulent than others. In t... ...the Trade Winds reign supreme, undisputed, like mon- archs of long-settled kingdoms, whose traditional power, checking all undue ambitions, is not so ...

...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 ...

...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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Enoch Arden

By: Alfred Lord Tennyson

...UBLICATION Enoch Arden, &c by Alfred Tennyson, D.C.L. is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Uni- versity. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...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... ...ate University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor any- one associated with the Pennsylvania State University assumes any responsibility for the materi... ...Looks only for a moment whole and sound; Like that long-buried body of the king, Found lying with his urns and ornaments, Which at a touch of light, a... ... a hundred shields, the family tree Sprang from the midriff of a prostrate king— Whose blazing wyvern weathercock’d the spire, Stood from his walls an... ...thy peace and ours! Is there no prophet but the voice that calls Doom upon kings, or in the waste ‘Repent’? Is not our own child on the narrow way, Wh... ...f left to pass His autumn into seeming-leafless days— Draw toward the long frost and longest night, W earing his wisdom lightly, like the fruit Which ... ...ash’d the darts together, writhing barbarous lineaments, Made the noise of frosty woodlands, when they shiver in January, Roar’d as when the rolling b...

...Excerpt: Enoch Arden. Long lines of cliff breaking have left a chasm; And in the chasm are foam and yellow sands; Beyond, red roofs about a narrow wharf In cluster; then a moulder?d church; and higher A long street climbs to one tall-tower?d mill; And high in heaven behind it a gray down With Danish b...

..................................................................................................................................................... 52 THE VOYAGE ............................................................................................................................................................. 54 IN THE VALLEY OF CAUTERETZ .............................

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The Second Booke of the Faerie Queen

By: Edmund Spencer

...THE SECOND BOOKE OF THE FAERIE QVEENE. Contayning THE LEGEND OF SIR GVYON. by Edmund Spencer THE SECOND BOOKE OF THE FAERIE ... ...VYON. by Edmund Spencer THE SECOND BOOKE OF THE FAERIE QVEENE. Contayning THE LEGENDE OF SIR GVYON, OR OF TEMPERAUNCE. by Edmund Spencer is a publi... ...E OF SIR GVYON, OR OF TEMPERAUNCE. by Edmund Spencer is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ... Whom his victorious hands did earst restore To natiue crowne and kingdome late ygoe: Where she enioyes sure peace for euermore, As... ...s debate, And knighthood tooke of good Sir Huons hand, When with king Oberon he came to Faerie land. Him als accompanyd vpon the way ... ... But most were stampt, and in their metall bare The antique shapes of kings and kesars straunge & rare. The Faerie Queene: Book II. 79 Soon... ... Lookt on them louely, still in stedfast state, Ne suffred storme nor frost on them to fall, Their tender buds or leaues to violate, No...

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He Sat, In Defiance of Municipal Orders

By: Rudyard Kipling

... Classics Series Publication Kim by Rudyard Kipling is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...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... ...State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone associated with the Pennsylvania State University assumes any responsibility for the materi... ...s he drummed his heels against Zam Zammah he turned now and again from his king of the castle game with little Chota Lal and Abdullah the sweetmeat se... ...undercut as to show almost detached. Round Him was an adoring hierarchy of kings, elders, and old time Buddhas. Below were lotus covered waters with f... ...urator’s pencil from point to point. Here was Kapilavastu, here the Middle King dom, and here Mahabodhi, the Mecca of Buddhism; and here was Kusinaga... ...e voices of the snow waters round them diminished one by one as the night frost choked and clogged the runnels.’ ‘How he stood up against us!’ said a... ... my chela only,’ said the lama, in gentle reproof, and they scattered like frost on south eaves of a morning. ‘I did not seek truth in those days, but...

...Excerpt: He sat, in defiance of municipal orders, astride the gun Zam Zammah on her brick platform opposite the old Ajaib-Gher -the Wonder House, as the natives call the Lahore Museum. Who hold Zam-Zammah, that ?fire-breathing dragon?, hold the Punjab, for the great green-bronze pie...

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