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...American Notes for General Circulation by Charles Dickens A publication of PSU s Electronic Classics Series Ameri... ... PSU s Electronic Classics Series American Notes for General Circulation by Charles Dickens is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University.... ...have extracted a few disjointed fragments of her history, from an account, written by that one man who has made her what she is. It is a very beautifu... ...still more so is the ease and accuracy with which she reads the words thus written by another; grasping their hands in hers, and following ev ery mov... ...e and decent. I do not remember one but it was clean and neat, and had its plant or two upon the window sill, or row of crock ery upon the shelf, or ... ...eived by the chil dren of the different free schools, ‘singing Temperance Songs.’ I was prevented from getting there, in time to hear these Little Wa... ...heir inhabitants more wan and wretched than any we had encountered yet. No songs of birds were in the air, no pleasant scents, no moving lights and sh... ...ying, returned the fire, and killed Ross on the spot. ’ ‘TERRIBLE DEATH OF ROBERT POTTER. ‘From the “Caddo Gazette,” of the 12th inst., we learn the f... ...Caddo Gazette,” of the 12th inst., we learn the frightful death of Colonel Robert Potter. . . . He was beset in his house by an enemy, named Rose. He ...

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...spects form a part of it, this basin contains about 1,250,000 square miles. In extent it is the second great valley of the world, being exceeded only by that of the Amazon. The valley of the frozen Obi approaches it in extent; that of La Plata comes next in space, and probably in habitable capacity, having about eight-ninths of its area; then comes that of the Yenisei, wit...

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...the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Life on the Mississippi by Mark T wain (Samuel L. Clemens) , the Pennsylvania State University, J... ...tate University is an equal opportunity University. Life on the Mississippi By Mark Twain [pseudonym of Samuel Langhorne Clemens] THE BODY OF THE NA... ...wain 7 slaughter; Rabelais was not yet published; “Don Quixote” was not yet written; Shakespeare was not yet born; a hun dred long years must still ... ... warn’t sorry, neither. “But next night about half past nine, when there was songs and high jinks going on, here she comes again, and took her old roo... ... alongside of his wigwam, and wouldn’t let the dead men be took ashore to be planted; he didn’t believe a man that got ashore would come back; and he ... ... higher enjoy ment in some other thing. There never was so wonderful a book written by man; never one whose interest was so ab sorbing, so unflaggin... ...he half naked crews of perspiring negroes that worked them were roaring such songs as “De Las’ Sack! De Las’ Sack!”—inspired to unimaginable exaltatio... ...on, the performance of the Lucas deserves espe cial mention. THE RUN OF THE ROBERT E. LEE The time made by the R. E. Lee from New Orleans to St. Loui... ...as they can roust out something wonderful to tell. Which is not the style of Robert Styles, by as much as three fathom—maybe quar ter less.” [My! Wa...

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...Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Prince and the Page by Charlotte M. Yonge is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University... ...he file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Prince and the Page by Charlotte M. Yonge, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classi... ... of Edward I. in Carte’s History, and more recently in the Greatest of the Plantagenets, furnished the two chief influences of the story. The househol... ...e excellent chaplain, Adam de Marisco, a pupil and dis- ciple of the great Robert Grostete, Bishop of Lincoln. His elder brothers had early left this ... ..., the her- barium or garden, shady with trees, and enriched with curi- ous plants of Palestine, sloping down to the broad and ma- jestic Thames, pure ... ...the day when they pelted the Queen with rotten eggs, and sang their ribald songs; nor they the day he rode them down at Lewes like corn before the rea... ...o you, saying she had received your bounty.” “It is Blind Hal’s child, Sir Robert!” exclaimed a serving- brother in black, coming eagerly forward; “th... ...n it is so! O Richard, Richard, you cannot be one of them! You cannot have written that letter to warn them to murder Prince Henry.” “T o murder Princ... ...e a Montfort! And I saw you write the letter.” “Did you speak of my having written the letter?” asked Richard, pausing. The boy hung his head, and mut...

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...otte Brontë A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. ... ...ument or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classics... ...ped the hothouse vines of their fruit, and broke the buds off the choicest plants in the conservatory: he called his mother “old girl,” too; sometimes... ...ed of beautiful paint- ings of landscapes and flowers by them executed; of songs they could sing and pieces they could play, of purses they could net,... ...d me some of her most enchaining stories, and sang me some of her sweetest songs. Even for me life had its gleams of sunshine. 40 Jane Eyre CHAPTER V... ...f the exterior of Miss T emple—Maria T emple, as I afterwards saw the name written in a prayer-book in- trusted to me to carry to church. The superint... ... a week subsequently to the incidents above narrated, Miss Temple, who had written to Mr. Lloyd, received his answer: it appeared that what he said we... ...directly. “Then you are married, Bessie?” “Yes; nearly five years since to Robert Leaven, the coach- man; and I’ve a little girl besides Bobby there, ... ...s very high with him; she called him afterwards a ‘sneaking tradesman.’ My Robert believes he was a wine-merchant.” “Very likely,” I returned; “or per...

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... hardly competent to judge. I sometimes think it might prove useful to some, and entertaining to others; but the world may judge for itself. Shielded by my own obscurity, and by the lapse of years, and a few fictitious names, I do not fear to venture; and will candidly lay before the public what I would not disclose to the most intimate friend....

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...nne Brontë A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Agnes Grey by Anne Brontë is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This ... ...ment or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Agnes Grey by Anne Brontë, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classics Seri... ...lightful task! T o teach the young idea how to shoot! T o train the tender plants, and watch their buds unfolding day by day! 11 Anne Brontë Influenc... ...contained his garden. There were two round beds, stocked with a variety of plants. In one there was a pretty little rose-tree. I paused to admire its ... ...wer to cheer him by my return, and to amuse him with singing his favourite songs. No one triumphed over my failure, or said I had better have taken hi... ... for there are bad and good in all classes.’ The advertisement was quickly written and despatched. Of the two parties who answered it, but one would c... .... Such a confession will look very ab- surd, I fear: but no matter: I have written it: and they that read it will not know the writer. While I was wal... ...f that girl, and make your society at least as agreeable to her as that of Robert or Joseph!’ ‘They can talk the best about the things in which she is...

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...of messrs. T. Nelson & Sons and the friendly accommodation of Messrs. Macmillan render possible this collection in one cover of all the short stories by me that I care for any one to read again. Except for the two series of linked incidents that make up the bulk of the book called Tales of Space and Time, no short story of mine of the slightest merit is excluded from this ...

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...The Country of the Blind And Other Stories by H. G. Wells A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Cou... ...c Classics Series Publication The Country of the Blind, and Other Stories by H.G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This P... ...of short stories, and that I am no longer anything of the kind. I have not written one now for quite a long time, and in the past five or six years I ... ...like a mixed handful of jewels drawn from a bag, are George Street, Morley Roberts, George Gissing, Ella d’Arcy, Murray Gilchrist, E. Nesbit, Stephen ... ...t last and better sort of pay that the short stories of the ‘nineties were written. People talked about them tremendously, compared them, and ranked t... ...ment, or the auctioneer, or your good luck, as your taste may incline. The plant may be moribund or dead, or it may be just a respect- able purchase, ... ...o-day,” he continued, after a pause, “Peters’ are going to sell a batch of plants from the Andamans and the Indies. I shall go up and see what they ha... ...ys having her relations and girls from business in, and their chaps. Comic songs a’ Sunday, it was getting to, and driving trade away. And she was mak...

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...ON HEROES, HERO-WORSHIP , AND THE HEROIC IN HISTORY By Thomas Carlyle A PENN S TAT E ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION On... ...ICS SERIES PUBLICATION On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History by Thomas Carlyle is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. T... ...ery and deception was the origin of it. Men, I say, never did believe idle songs, never risked their soul’s life on allegories: men in all times, espe... ...d of Frost and Fire;—where of all places we least looked for Literature or written memorials, the record of these things was written down. On the seab... ...ad a lingering fondness for Paganism, collected certain of their old Pagan songs, just about becoming obsolete then,— Poems or Chants of a mythic, pro... ...keeps ever growing, while it continues credible there. In all minds it lay written, but invisibly, as in sympathetic ink; at his word it starts into v... ...ft to discern at all turns where the true heart of the matter lies, and to plant himself courageously on that, as a strong true man, that other true m... ...ture and Thought, Scotch Industry; James W att, David Hume, W alter Scott, Robert Burns: I find Knox and the Reformation acting in the heart’s core of... ...ong the artificial pasteboard figures and pro- ductions, in the guise of a Robert Burns. Like a little well in the rocky desert places,—like a sudden ...

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Excerpt: The Heir of Redclyffe by Charlotte M. Yonge.

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...gham A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- s... ...r for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Class... ...gnorant, but she knew the piano well enough to accompany the old-fashioned songs she had sung for thirty years. Uncle William used to tell Philip that... ...am used to tell Philip that when he was a curate his wife had known twelve songs by heart, which she could sing at a moment’s notice whenever she was ... ...- bacy of the unbeneficed clergy. But when at an election the Liberals had written on his garden fence in large blue letters: This way to Rome, he had... ...hen he rejoined his class and looked at the paper on which Mr. Perkins had written the marks, a sur- 73 W. Somerset Maugham prise awaited him; for th... ...t got a cent, he lives in a little studio right away beyond the Jardin des Plantes, but he won’t let anybody see his work. He doesn’t show anywhere, s... ...; but the gen- eral opinion was that it would be over in a month. Now that Roberts was there things would get all right in no time. This was Macaliste... ... at Paardeberg, Ladysmith was relieved, and at the beginning of March Lord Roberts marched into Bloemfontein. It was two or three days after the news ...

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...My Bondage and My Freedom By Frederick Douglas A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication M... ...nn State Electronic Classics Series Publication My Bondage and My Freedom by Frederick Douglas is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University.... ...the public were a mere work of ART, the history of its misfortune might be written in two very simple words—TOO LATE. The nature and char- acter of sl... ...eface to this volume is furnished in the following letter of Mr. Douglass, written in answer to my urgent solicitation for such a work: ... ... knowledge of the world was bounded by the visible horizon on Col. Lloyd’s plantation, and while every thing around him bore a fixed, iron stamp, as i... ...ow their ages, while the colored children were ignorant of theirs; and the songs of the slaves grated on his inmost soul, because a something told him... ...could scarcely surpass her in per- sonal charms. Esther was courted by Ned Roberts, and he 56 My Bondage and My Freedom was as fine looking a young m... ...een Esther and Edward. He strictly ordered her to quit the company of said Roberts, telling her that he would punish her severely if he ever found her... ...ntiment, there was ever a tinge of deep melancholy. I have never heard any songs like those anywhere since I left slavery, except when in Ireland. The...

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...shed on the question as to where Hannibal crossed the Alps, without our being able to decide to-day whether it was (according to Whittaker and Rivaz) by Lyon, Geneva, the Great Saint-Bernard, and the valley of Aosta....

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...Catherine dé Medici by Honoré de Balzac T ranslated by Katherine Prescott Wormeley A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publ... ...y A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Catherine dé Medici by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katherine Prescott Wormeley is a publication of... ...l studies upon that queen might properly be dedicated to an author who has written so much on the history of the Reformation; while at the same time I... ...eresies the grandeur she derived from the struggle itself? Calvinists have written much against the 10 Catherine dé Medici “craftiness” of Charles IX... ...ending the throne, and believed such means necessary to their end. Popular songs attacked, strangely enough, Catherine’s mor- als. Every one knows the... ...d by the two powerful alliances Diane had made in marrying one daughter to Robert de la Mark, Duc de Bouillon, Prince of Sedan, and the other to Claud... ...splendor of sovereign princes and gave kings to the proudest kingdoms. The Plantagenets of Anjou, the Lusignans of Poitou, the Roberts of Normandie, m... ...proudest kingdoms. The Plantagenets of Anjou, the Lusignans of Poitou, the Roberts of Normandie, maintained with a bold hand the royal races, and some... ...arism on it.* *One of the most remarkable instances of the transmission of songs is that of Marlborough. Written in the first instance by a Huguenot o...

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Excerpt: Paz by Honore de Balzac, translated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley.

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...g upon his arm, the nap of his hat was ruffled, a patch being quite worn away at its brim where his thumb came in taking it off. Presently he was met by an elderly parson astride on a gray mare, who, as he rode, hummed a wandering tune. ?Good night t?ee,? said the man with the basket. ?Good night, Sir John,? said the parson....

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...ay at its brim where his thumb came in taking it off. Presently he was met by an elderly parson astride on a gray mare, who, as he rode, hummed a wand... ...owned knight who came from Normandy with William the Conqueror, as appears by Battle Abbey Roll?’ ‘Never heard it before, sir!’ 2 Phase the First — T... ... mistletoe was still found on aged oaks, and where enormous yew trees, not planted by the hand of man, grew as they had grown when they were pollarded... ...for she had caught from her musical mother numerous airs that suited those songsters admirably. A far more satisfactory time than when she practised i... ...ed, been slightly enviable. But so far was she from being, in the words of Robert South, ‘in love with her own ruin,’ that the illusion was transient ... ...d leaf halo of some worm eaten Tucsan saint. Tess’s female companions sang songs, and showed themselves very sympathetic and glad at her reappearance ... ...us inquiry, and his great knife and fork (breakfasts were breakfasts here) planted erect on the table, like the beginning of a gallows. ‘What — really... ...moment that he had resolved to trot over to Em minster, and hence had not written to apprise his mother and father, aiming, how ever, to arrive abou... ...ithout the sense of a will. The word had been given; the number of the day written down. Her naturally bright intelligence had begun to admit the fata...

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...NOTES ON A JOURNEY FROM CORNHILL TO GRAND CAIRO by William Makepeace Thackeray A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publ... ...assics Series Publication Notes on a Journey from Cornhill to Grand Cairo by William Makepeace Thackeray is a publica- tion of the Pennsylvania State... ...the captain-general (Pooch, they told us, was his name:I know not how ’tis written in Spanish)—was well got up, with a smart hat, a real feather, huge... ...whereas a man would have a much better insight into Portuguese manners, by planting himself at a corner, like yon- der beggar, and watching the real t... ...he broken-nosed mariner who was drunk in a wine-house, and had “Caledonia” written on his hat. Whereas at the French- men we looked with undisguised c... ...s may be divulged, that the epithet was exceedingly compli- mentary to Sir Robert Wilson. All the while these conversa- tions were going on, a strange... ... and somehow completes the no- tion of the slumbering fortress. Fancy Sir Robert Wilson, his nose just visible over the sheets, his night-cap and the... ...ch. But it was the music that was most touch- ing I thought,—the sweet old songs of home. There was a considerable company assembled:near a hun- dred ... ...y, screaming “yallah” with the most frightful shrieks, and singing country songs— galloped along ahead of me. I acquired one of his poems pretty well,...

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...WAVERLEY or ‘TIS SIXTY YEARS SINCE by SIR WALTER SCOTT A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Wa... ...Electronic Classics Series Publication Waverley or ‘Tis Sixty Years Since by Sir Walter Scott is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. ... ...he country gentle- men of the high Tory party. The ancient News-Letter was written in manuscript and copied by clerks, who addressed the copies to the... ... of memoirs, scarcely more faithful than romances, and of romances so well written as hardly to be distinguished from memoirs. The splen- did pages of... ...edicine, favourite texts, and portions from High Church divines, and a few songs, amatory and jacobitical, which she had carolled in her younger days,... ...ng the work. ‘Not but what I would go to—(what was I going to say?) to the Plantations for the church with pleasure—but, dear doctor, I have a wife an... ...ght from the county of Devon (the Damnonia, of the Romans, if we can trust Robert of Cirencester). He is, as ye may well suppose from 60 Waverley suc... ...memory , stored with miscellaneous snatches and fragments of all tunes and songs, which he sometimes applied, with considerable address, as the vehicl... ..., He may ask, and she must tell. 82 Waverley The Baron has been with King Robert his liege, These three long years in battle and siege; News are ther...

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...DYNEVOR TERRACE: OR THE CLUE OF LIFE BY THE AUTHOR OF ‘THE HEIR OF REDCLYFFE,’ CHARLOTTE M. YONGE. V V V V VOL O... ...SSICS SERIES PUBLICATION Dynevor Terrace: or The Clue of Life, Volume One by Charlotte M Yonge is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University.... ...ond, Esq. b. 1774 b. 1774 d. 1802 d. 1800 Mary, m. Robert Ponsonby, Esq., b. 1796 British Envoy in Peru. Mary P... ...g chap, Madi- son, always bringing docks and darnel out of the hedges, and plants from the nursery gardens, and bringing rockwork, and letting water i... ...gardener. ‘T o hear Jem, you would believe that he is the most prom- ising plant rearing for Botany Bay!’ said Mrs. Frost. ‘He is a boy from that wild... ... and he placed before her Louis’s un- lucky copies, together with a letter written in a bold, manly hand. ‘Three different men might have written thes... ...hat he had brought together; the earlier pages containing childish prayers written in Aunt Catharine’s hand. Louis’s cheeks coloured at the revelation... ... done the guitar in forget- ting that it could accompany anything but such songs as Valancourt sang to Emily. She begged his pardon humbly; and he dec... ...ld—’ broke out Louis. ‘It should! it ought; but I do not trust him. I know Robert Ponsonby as his wife has never chosen to know him. This was not a ti...