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...nnsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ... charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania Sta... ...rge of any kind. 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 U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. A Distinguished Provincial at Paris (Lost Illusions Part II) by... ...e the most of his personal advantages. Young men in Paris under- stand the art of presenting themselves quite as well as women. Lucien had inherited f... ...urse as with music, a single discordant note is a complete negation of the art itself, for the harmony exists only when all its conditions are observe... ...s of the great dead, the works of art which quicken the imagination in the galleries and museums here; nowhere else will you find great reference libr... ... dead, the works of art which quicken the imagination in the galleries and museums here; nowhere else will you find great reference libraries always o... ... seen Pollet, a competitor of Doguereau and of the publisher in the Wooden Galleries.” “I have a volume of poetry——” “M. Porchon!” somebody shouted. “...
...Excerpt: PART I. Mme. De Bargeton and Lucien de Rubempre had left Angouleme behind, and were traveling together upon the road to Paris. Not one of the party who made that journey alluded to it afterwards; but it may be believed that an infatuated youth who ha...
...nnsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ... charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania Sta... ...rge of any kind. 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 U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The American by Henry James, the Pennsylvania State University,... ...Sevres biscuit. I am going to tone that down; I know all the secrets of my art. And where will you allow us to send it to you? Your address?” “My addr... ...y fortune again.” “Perhaps he will help you. And what else?” “He says thou art very clever.” “It is very possible. You believe it yourself, my father?... ...e glorious halls of the Louvre, down the stair- cases, along the cool, dim galleries of sculpture, and out into the enormous court. Newman looked abou... ...her. Newman led his usual life, made ac- quaintances, took his ease in the galleries and churches, spent an unconscionable amount of time in strolling... ...very now and then, having learned from Newman that he had been through the museums of Europe, he uttered some pol- ished aphorism upon the flesh-tints...
...Excerpt: Chapter 1. On a brilliant day in May, in the year 1868, a gentle man was reclining at his ease on the great circular divan which at that period occupied the centre of the Salon Carre, in the Museum of the Louvre. This commodious ottoman has since been rem...
...rset Maugham A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Moon and Sixpence by Somerset Maugham is a publication of the Pennsylvania State... ...sylvania State Univer- sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ...rge of any kind. 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 U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Moon and Sixpence by Somerset Maugham, the Pennsylvania Sta... ...ss of Charles Strickland was authentic. It may be that you do not like his art, but at all events you can hardly refuse it the trib- ute of your inter... ...ary complement to his merits. It is still possible to discuss his place in art, and the adulation of his admirers is perhaps no less capricious than t... ... he had a very deli- cate feeling for art, and to go with him to pic- ture-galleries was a rare treat. His enthusiasm was sincere and his criticism ac... ...gh the streets. I spent long hours in the Louvre, the most friendly of all galleries and the most convenient for meditation; or idled on the quays, fi... ...g any. I missed a wonderful chance. Most of them have found their way into museums, and the rest are the treasured possessions of wealthy amateurs. I ...
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... The Pupil by Henry James is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished fr... ...te University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this docu- ment file, for any purpos... ...niversity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this docu- ment file, for any purpose, a... ...e Pennsylvania State University assumes any responsibility for the material contained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmissio... ...ful collection of bundles and bags. The explanation of this manoeuvre was that they had deter- mined to spend the summer “in some bracing place”; but ... ... The better part of this baffled sojourn was for the pre- ceptor and his pupil, who, visiting the Invalides and Notre Dame, the Conciergerie and all t... ... and his comrade might strike people; wandering languidly through the Jardin des Plantes as if they had nowhere to go, sitting on the winter days in t... ...in Paris stretched itself out wearily, with their resumed readings and wanderings and maunderings, their potterings on the quays, their hauntings of t... ...tary firmness. The storm had come—they were all seeking refuge. The hatches were down, Paula and Amy were invisible—they had never tried the most casu...
...y James A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION A Little Tour in France by Henry James is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univers... ...nnsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ... charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Nei- ther the Pennsylvania S... ...t patient and fruitless angling in, which the French, as the vota- ries of art for art, excel all other people. The little sol- diers, weighed down by... ...mestic architecture—an architecture of security and tranquillity, in which art could indulge itself—gave an air of youth and gladness. It is true that... ...f its straight avenues. Then you walk about the roof, in a complication of galleries, ter- races, balconies, through the multitude of chimneys and gab... ...ch looked very old, black, and crooked, and had lumpish wooden porches and galleries encircling the base. By the time I reached Cheverny, the clear tw... ...me to go to the Musee; the more so that I have a weakness for pro- vincial museums,—a sentiment that depends but little on the quality of the collecti... ...t a little, and that it is neither better nor worse than most provin- cial museums. It has the usual musty chill in the air, the usual grass-grown for...
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...nnsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ... charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania Sta... ...rge of any kind. 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 U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Father Goriot by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Ellen Marriage, the P... ... inscription on the pedestal beneath de- termines the date of this work of art, for it bears witness to the widespread enthusiasm felt for Voltaire on... ...enthusiasm felt for Voltaire on his return to Paris in 1777: “Whoe’er thou art, thy master see; He is, or was, or ought to be.” At night the wicket ga... ...s that please him best, and form some idea of the treasures con- tained in galleries and museums. At this stage of his career a student grows eager an... ...him best, and form some idea of the treasures con- tained in galleries and museums. At this stage of his career a student grows eager and excited abou... ...t, and strikes various attitudes for the benefit of the women in the first galleries at the Op- era-Comique. As he passes through all these successive...
...Excerpt: MME. VAUQUER (nee de Conflans) is an elderly person, who for the past forty years has kept a lodging-house in the Rue Nueve-Sainte-Genevieve, in the district that lies between the Latin Quarter and the Faubourg Saint-Marcel. Her house (known in the neighborhood as the Maison Vauquer) receives men and women, old and young, and no w...
...nnsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ... charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Nei- ther the Pennsylvania S... ...rge of any kind. Any 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... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Pit: A Story of Chicago by Frank Norris, the Pennsylvania S... ...of glass was cited as an authority. He was one of the directors of the new Art Gallery that had taken the place of the old Exposition Building on the ... ...ss of Shakespearian roles, had told him she could care for nothing but her art. He had smiled and said that he could wait, and, strangely enough, thei... ...nd—they did not get to the Continent—had been a disappointment to her. The museums, art galleries, and cathedrals were not of the least interest to Ja... ...ot get to the Continent—had been a disappointment to her. The museums, art galleries, and cathedrals were not of the least interest to Jadwin, and tho... ...m. The great house was still. From all its suites of rooms, its corridors, galleries, and hallways there came no sound. There was no one upon the same...
...sylvania State Univer- sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ... charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania Sta... ...rge of any kind. 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 U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham, the Pennsylvania State... ...reatment of Harriet; he 129 W. Somerset Maugham dabbled in the history of art (on the walls of his rooms were reproductions of pictures by G. F. Watt... ...phesied his future eminence. In course of time he became an au- thority on art and literature. He came under the influence of Newman’s Apologia; the p... ... that he wanted to show off before Hayward, but when he took him round the galleries he poured out to him all the revolutionary opinions which himself... ...spent together in the cosy sitting-room in Vincent Square, their visits to galleries and to the play , and the charming evenings of intimate conver- s... ... Greek spirit there than you could find in the books of profes- sors or in museums. He was thankful for the beauty of England. He thought of the windi...
...Excerpt: The day broke gray and dull. The clouds hung heavily, and there was a rawness in the air that suggested snow. A woman servant came into a room in which a child was sleeping and drew the curtains. She glanced mechanically at the house opposite, ...
...nnsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ... charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania Sta... ...rge of any kind. 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 U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Sons of the Soil by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott... ...let your mind travel, as you lie in bed, fifty leagues or thereabouts from Paris, along the great mail road which leads to the con- fines of Burgundy,... ... narrative of an astounded Parisian. At last I have seen a landscape where art is blended with nature in such a way that neither of them spoils the ot... ...ended with nature in such a way that neither of them spoils the other; the art is natural, and the nature artistic. I have found the oasis that you an... ...n building is sur- rounded by clock-towers and sundry modern turrets, with galleries and vases more or less Greek. No harmony there, my dear Nathan! T... ...’s white on its back; for the sub-prefect told me there wasn’t one o’ them museums that had the like; but he knows everything, our sub-prefect,— no fo...
...nnsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ... charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania Sta... ...rge of any kind. 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 U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. A Modern Utopia by H. G. Wells, the Pennsylvania State Universi... ...ning. Originally I intended Anticipations to be my sole digression from my art or trade (or what you will) of an imaginative writer. I wrote that book... ...urtain rises upon him so. But afterwards, if the devices of this declining art of litera- ture prevail, you will go with him through curious and inter... ...o the universal pedigree, to a place of greater quiet, to the ever-growing galleries of the records of the dead. Such a record is inevitable if a Mode... ...ng their several convolutions. And then off goes a brisk clerk to the long galleries of the index building. I have told them they will find no sign of... ...t forth. Here will be stupen- dous libraries, and a mighty organisation of museums. About these centres will cluster a great swarm of people, and clos...
...nnsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ... charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Nei- ther the Pennsylvania S... ...rge of any kind. Any 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... ...ench of Paris, its latest refinements of pronunciation and polish, and the art of conversing. He had read the French tragic poets and Moliere; he coul... ...hrash numbers for a time; in the end the numbers will be thrashed into the art of beating their teachers. It is bad policy to fight the odds inch by i... ...the Bianchina behind the window-bars. The count was in the churches or the Galleries. Renee thought she began to comprehend the spirit of Venice, and ... ...ipation of the general Election. The Address, moreover, was ultra-Radical: museums to be opened on Sundays; omi- nous references to the Land question,... ...ectively silent. Carpendike would not vote for a man that proposed to open museums on the Sabbath day. The striking simile of the thin end of the wedg... ...m was the cause of their flying back to grace: whereas museums and picture galleries were insidious attractions cloaked by the name of virtue, whereby...
...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 critical observations of ours upon their sovereign, threatening Africa?s fires and savagery....
...nnsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ... charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania Sta... ...rge of any kind. 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 U... ...mantic and historic sites, such as the land of Italy abounds in, offer the art- ist a questionable aid to concentration when they them- selves are not... ...me such apology for a motive. These are the fascinations of the fabulist’s art, these lurking forces of expansion, these necessities of upspringing in... ...ferent fitted parts of him as she had seen, 132 The Portrait of a Lady in museums and portraits, the different fitted parts of armoured warriors—in p... ...church or the vaulted chambers of some dispeopled convent. She went to the galleries and pal- aces; she looked at the pictures and statues that had hi... ..., high court, where a clear shadow rested below and a pair of light-arched galleries, facing each other above, caught the upper sunshine upon their sl... ...—not to the ruins and the catacombs, not even perhaps to the monuments and museums, the church ceremonies and the scenery; but certainly to all the re...
...nnsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ... charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania Sta... ...rge of any kind. 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 U... ...ily might, in Paris, and in a charming old gar- den attached to a house of art, and on a Sunday after- noon of summer, many persons of great interest ... ...terest of that admirable mixture for salutary application which we know as art. Art deals with what we see, it must first contribute full-handed that ... ... James the despair of one; and at times and in places—where the low-browed galleries were darkest, the opposite gables queerest, the solicitations of ... ...s ground with short gusts of speculation—sudden flights of fancy in Louvre galleries, hungry gazes through clear plates behind which lemon-coloured vo... ...m, affected our friend as a dazzling prodigy of type. Strether had seen in museums—in the Luxembourg as well as, more reverently, later on, in the New... ...f the empty town, with plenty of seats in the shade, cool drinks, deserted museums, drives to the Bois in the evening, and our wonderful woman all to ...
...Excerpt: Volume I. Preface: Nothing is more easy than to state the subject of ?The Ambassadors,? which first appeared in twelve numbers of The North American Review (1903) and was published as a whole the same year. The situation involved is gathered up betimes, that is in the second chapter of Book Fifth, for the reader?s benefit, into as f...
...nnsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any per- son using this document file, ... ...harge of any kind. Any per- son using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania Sta... ...e of any kind. Any 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 U... ...er of classes at the Bromstead Institute in Kent under the old Science and Art Department, and “visiting” various schools; and our resources were eked... ...oused himself and had qualified as a science teacher under the Science and Art Department, which in these days had charge of the scientific and artist... ...still hard at it, and Heaven frightfully upset about the Sunday opening of museums and the falling birth-rate, and as touchy and vindictive as ever. T... ... went with parcels of provisions to do a thor- ough day in the grounds and galleries of the Crystal Palace, ending with the fireworks at close quarter... ...winian theory with the help of Britten’s medical-stu- dent brother and the galleries of the Natural History Mu- seum in Cromwell Road. Those wonderful... ...urged upon me, “as once those vast unmeaning Saurians whose bones encumber museums came and went rejoicing noisily in fruitless lives.” … Fruitless li...
...y H. G. Wells A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The War in the Air by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer... ...nnsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ... charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania Sta... ...rge of any kind. 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 U... ...d altogether unique in the world’s history. The apparatus of warfare, the, art and method of fighting, changed absolutely every dozen years in a stupe... ...ts. It was a sprawl of undistinguished popula- tion. There were, no doubt, museums and town halls and even cathedrals of a sort to mark theoretical ce... ...176 The War in the Air feet of the ground. Bert could see men on the lower galleries of the Germans, firing rifles; could see Asiatics clinging to the... ...at reminded him of the engine-turned cover of a watch. They had no hanging galleries, but from little open- ings on the middle line peeped out men and... ...ed some black oily stuff for his hands and face. For the first rule in the art of repairing, as it was known to the firm of Grubb and Smallways, was t...
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...nnsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, f... ...charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk . Neither the Pennsylvania St... ...ge of any kind. 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 ... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. American Notes for General Circulation by Charles Dickens , th... ... The hotel (a very excellent one) is called the Tremont House. It has more galleries, colonnades, piazzas, and passages than I can remember, or the re... ..., even in mad people,’ said the resident physician, as we walked along the galleries, his patients flocking round us unrestrained. Of those who deny o... ...n, though there were very few among them (if any) who had not acquired the art within the prison gates. The women, all in one large room, were employe... ... accommodated, as the spectators usually are, in one of those locomo tive museums of penny wonders; and the ladies being partitioned off by a red cur... ...girls’ school, reading was proposed; and as I felt tolerably equal to that art, I expressed my willingness to hear a class. Books were distributed acc...
...Excerpt: It is nearly eight years since this book was first published. I present it, unaltered, in the Cheap Edition; and such of my opinions as it expresses, are quite unaltered too. My readers have opportunities of judging for themselves whether the influences and tendencies which I distrust in America, have any exist...
...nnsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any per- son using this document file, ... ...harge of any kind. Any per- son using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania Sta... ...e of any kind. Any 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 U... ...ent reflexion, invented for him in the twilight of time and the infancy of art by the Angel, not to say by the Demon, of Compro- mise, that nothing is... ... of their response to which opening involves also, in its order, no vulgar art of exhibition; but what they have most to tell us is that, all unconsci... ...r straight, and for a longer time on end than was usual even at parties in galleries; but that in itself after all would have been a small affair for ... ...had much con- tributed: she copied, patient lady, famous pictures in great museums, having begun with a happy natural gift and taking in betimes the s... ...uivocal quan- tity was what had haunted her during their previous days, in museums and churches, and what was again spoiling for her the pure taste of... ...rough crooked ways, to the Piazza, where he should have the shelter of the galleries. Here, in the high arcade, half Venice was crowded close, while, ...
...nnsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ... charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania Sta... ...rge of any kind. 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 U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. North America: Volume Two by Anthony Trollope, the Pennsylvania... ...mong the cities of the earth. They are beaten by none except by London and Paris. But Washing- ton is but a ragged, unfinished collection of unbuilt b... ...but I doubt whether the experiment will be more successful. A new town for art, fashion, and politics has been built at Munich, and there it seems to ... ...ure that name of Romanesque which it has assumed. The building is used for museums and lectures, and was given to the city by one James Smithsonian, a... ...one, and that every effort both of North and South was concentrated on the art of 22 North America V ol. 2 killing; when he saw that this was done on... ...avy. In the Senate House, as in the other house, there are very commodious galleries for strangers, running round the entire chambers, and these galle...
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...nsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ... charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania Sta... ...rge of any kind. 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 U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Count of Monte Cristo Volume Two by Alexandre Dumas, the Pe... ...dge of his wishes, and the con- stant practice had so perfected her in the art that she guessed the old man’s meaning as quickly as if he himself had ... ...tanist in the Jardin des Plantes. “Does it require much study to learn the art of telegraphing?” asked Monte Cristo. “The study does not take long; it... ...committee, a young peer of my acquaintance, to get admission to one of the galleries. He called for me at seven o’clock, and, before any one had arriv... ...rooms looking out upon the court of the Bell Tavern, which with its triple galleries like those of a theatre, with the jessamine and clematis twining ... ...o are always to be found in Rome at the doors of banking-houses, churches, museums, or theatres. With the Frenchman, the man who had followed him ente...
...Excerpt: Chapter 58. M. Noirtier de Villefort. We will now relate what was passing in the house of the king?s attorney after the departure of Madame Danglars and her daughter, and during the time of the conversation between Maximilian and Valentine, which we have just detailed. M. de Villefort entered his f...
...sylvania State Univer- sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ... charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania Sta... ...rge of any kind. 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 U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne, the Pennsylvania S... ...ue of my office as Assistant Professor in the Museum of Natural History in Paris, the French Government had attached me to that expedition. After six ... ...gh without pretending to rival Byron or Edgar Poe, who were masters of the art), and in that plunge I did not lose my presence of mind. Two vigorous s... ...intelligent and prodigal hand had gathered all the treasures of nature and art, with the 55 Jules Verne artistic confusion which distinguishes a pain... ...0,000 Leagues Under the Sea an avalanche. To right and left ran long, dark galleries, where sight was lost. Here opened vast glades which the hand of ... ...re more than four feet long. Some skeletons of poulps are preserved in the museums of Trieste and Montpelier, that measure two yards in length. Beside...
...Excerpt: The year 1866 was signalised by a remarkable inci dent, a mysterious and puzzling phenomenon, which doubtless no one has yet forgotten. Not to mention rumours which agitated the maritime population and excited the public mind, even in the interior of continents, seafaring men were particularly...
...nnsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ... charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania Sta... ...rge of any kind. 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 U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Within the Tides by Joseph Conrad, the Pennsylvania State Unive... ...he had to follow—the frightened guide of his dream. He traversed end- less galleries, no end of lofty halls, innumerable doors. He lost himself utterl... ... nite time. And then there were the lectures he had arranged to deliver in Paris. A serious matter. That lectures by Professor Moorsom were a European... ...orward, had such a profile as may be seen amongst the bronzes of classical museums, pure under a crested helmet—recalled vaguely a Minerva’s head. 31... ...ic ingenuity in invention though as old as the world is by no means a lost art. Look at the telephones for shattering the little peace of mind given t... ... beard, and so was the bearer of the same. A unique loafer. He made a fine art of it, or rather a sort of craft and mystery. One can understand a fell...
... COMET BY H. G. WELLS A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication In the Days of the Comet by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvani... ...sylvania State University. This Por- table Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this docu- ment file, ... ...harge of any kind. Any person using this docu- ment file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania Sta... ...e of any kind. Any person using this docu- ment file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ... reality of beauty yields itself to no words. I wish that I had the sister art and could draw in my margin something that escapes description. There w... ...l find if you care to look for them, in out-of-the-way corners of our book museums, the shriveled cheap publications—the publi- cations of the Rationa... ...y, and so this broad sandy beach was sacred to high spirits and the young. Art muslin and banjoes, Chinese lan- terns and frying, are leading “notes,”... ...y a few carefully disinfected types and vestiges of that remain now in our museums. One writes now with a peculiar horror of the dress of the old worl... ...hat dreamland city was before me. There for one clear moment I saw it; its galleries and open spaces, its trees of golden fruit and crystal waters, it...
...Excerpt: I saw a gray-haired man, a figure of hale age, sitting at a desk and writing: He seemed to be in a room in a tower, very high, so that through the tall window on his left one perceived only distances, a remote horizon of sea, a headland and that vague haze and glitter in the sunset that ma...
...nnsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ... charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania Sta... ...rge of any kind. 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 U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Cousin Pons by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Ellen Marriage, the Pen... ...h- elor emerging from a boudoir in the best of humors with himself; and in Paris this is the highest degree of self-satis- faction ever registered by ... ...ding drama is played gratuitously by the French nation in the interests of Art. In spite of the rashly assumed spencer, you would scarcely have though... ...lf; and in Rome Sylvain Pons acquired a taste for the antique and works of art. He became an admirable judge of those masterpieces of the brain and ha... ...was a unique collection of the finest mod- els. Pons, luckier than the art museums of Dresden and Vienna, possessed a frame by the famous Brustoloni—t... ...t paintings, pouring in through panes of glass that act as lenses. Picture galleries can only be lighted from above; Magus opens and closes his shutte...
...Excerpt: Towards three o?clock in the afternoon of one October day in the year 1844, a man of sixty or thereabouts, whom anybody might have credited with more than his actual age, was walking along the Boulevard des Italians with his head bent down, as if ...
...nnsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ... charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania Sta... ...rge of any kind. 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 U... ...ained within the document or for the file as an elec- tronic transmission, in any way. Ferragus, Chief of the Devorants by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Ka... ...large and beautiful mansion in the rue de Menars, where a true feeling for art tempered the luxury which the financial world con- tinues, traditionall... ... is put on. Decep- tion comes as the snow from heaven. And then, with what art they discover the truth in others! With what shrewdness they employ a d... ...- ered creature brought to the state of those monsters we see preserved in museums, floating in alchohol. Jules fancied that he saw above that face th... ... went to the cemetery. When they reached it they found (as at the doors of museums, galleries, and coach-offices) ciceroni, who proposed to guide them... ...the cemetery. When they reached it they found (as at the doors of museums, galleries, and coach-offices) ciceroni, who proposed to guide them through ...
...Preface: Thirteen men were banded together in Paris under the Empire, all imbued with one and the same sentiment, all gifted with sufficient energy to be faithful to the same thought, with sufficient honor among themselves never to betray one another even if their int...
...sylvania State University. This Por- table Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ... charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania Sta... ...rge of any kind. 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 U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson, the Pennsylvania State Universit... ......................................................................... 166 ART .......................................................................... ...ture on the friezes of the Parthenon and the remains of the earliest Greek art. And there are compositions of the same strain to be found in the books... ...e horizon and the trees; as it is not observed that the keep- ers of Roman galleries or the valets of painters have any elevation of thought, or that ... ...aveller who visits the Vatican, and passes from chamber to chamber through galleries of stat- ues, vases, sarcophagi and candelabra, through all forms... ...ost-office, of the highway, of commerce and the exchange of prop- erty, of museums and libraries, of institutions of art and science can be answered. ...
...Excerpt: History. There is one mind common to all individual men. Every man is an inlet to the same and to all of the same. He that is once admitted to the right of reason is made a freeman of the whole estate. What Plato has thought, he may think; what a saint has felt, he may feel; what at any time has befallen any man, h...
...nnsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ... charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania Sta... ...rge of any kind. 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 U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Magician by Somerset Maugham , the Pennsylvania State Unive... ...e furniture for what it could fetch, and within a month I was on my way to Paris. I took a room in a cheap hotel on the Left Bank. A few months before... ...ermination, backed by his confidence and talent, to become a master of his art. Dr Porhoët knew that a diversity of interests, though it adds charm to... ...secret of your strength. She has a delightful enthusiasm for every form of art. Beauty really means as much to her as bread and butter to the more sob... ...nce and her own reflections. T o avoid the crowd which throngs the picture galleries on holidays, they went to that part of the museum where an cient... ...edical men of those huge tumours which are preserved in spirit in hospital museums. Susie looked at it with an incomprehensible disgust. Sud denly sh...
...Excerpt: A Fragment of Autobiography. IN 1897, after spending five years at St Thomas?s Hospital I passed the examinations which enabled me to practise medicine. While still a medical student I had published a novel called Liza of Lambeth which caused a mild sens...
...n n n A PSU Electronic Classics Series Publication The $30,000 Bequest and Other Stories by Mark T wain (Samuel L. Clemens) is a publication of ... ... sylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, f... ...ge of any kind. 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 ... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The $30,000 Bequest and Other Stories by Mark T wain (Samuel L... ...id not know he was being nibbled at; but at last, chance accomplished what art had failed in. In illustration of some thing under discussion which re... ...ing away—we don’t know whither; and down comes the cur tain. McClintock’s art is subtle; McClintock’s art is deep. Not many days afterward, as surrou... ... they come?” One of the veterans answered, close to his ear: “It was Jimmy Parish come to say the party got delayed, but they’re right up the road a p... ...a treasure and the most perfect thing of its kind that the storehouses and museums of literature could show. He did not dare to say no to the dread po... ...sands of pictures in my time—acres of them here and leagues of them in the galleries of Europe—but never any that moved me as these portraits do. Ther...
...Excerpt: Chapter 1. Lakeside was a pleasant little town of five or six thousand inhabitants, and a rather pretty one, too, as towns go in the Far West. It had church accommodations for thirty-five thousand, which is the way of the Far West and the South, where everybody is religious, and where each of the Protestant ...
...NIC CONVERSATION.................................................................................................................... 134 EDWARD MILLS AND GEORGE BENTON: A TALE...................................................................................... 137 THE FIVE BOONS OF LIFE .........................................................................................