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... Classics Series Publication Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Por- table Document file is furn... ...ut becomes a Norman, and is called pork, when she is carried to the Castle-hall to feast among the nobles what dost thou think of this, friend Gurth, ... ...the ennui which was too apt to intrude *Negro Slaves. 16 Ivanhoe upon the halls and bowers of an ancient feudal castle. The Prior mingled in the spor... ...the halls and bowers of an ancient feudal castle. The Prior mingled in the sports of the field with more than due eagerness, and was allowed to posses... ...rned. Surely no tongue is so rich in the vari- ous phrases which the field-sports demand, or furnishes means to the experienced woodman so well to exp... ...s were opened, and five knights, cho- sen by lot, advanced slowly into the area; a single champion riding in front, and the other four following in pa... ...hosen and lawful Queen of Love and of Beauty!” T o which many in the lower area added, “Long live the Saxon Princess! long live the race of the immort... ...; “we should need no weapon but our hunting spears to bring these boars to bay.” “A truce with your raillery, Sir Knights,” said Fitzurse;— “and it we... ...you can, for there’s game afoot that must be hunted hard, and will turn to bay. Meet me here by daybreak. —And stay,” he added, “I have forgot- ten wh...

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...eries Publication Reprinted Pieces by Charles Dickens is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ... look at the resplendent creatures with little back parlours for servants’ halls, and turn up bedsteads to sleep in, at our watering place. You have n... ...s drying on upper window sills. At bathing time in the morning, the little bay re echoes with every shrill variety of shriek and splash—after which, i... ...e; we have had the honour of living in both, and can testify. The entrance hall of the first we in habited was ornamented with a plan of the estate, ... ...y tune: the strain we have most fre quently heard being an appeal to ‘the sportsman’ not to bag that choicest of game, the swallow. For bathing purpo... ... on these occasions donkey races with English ‘Jokeis,’ and other rus tic sports; lotteries for toys; roundabouts, dancing on the grass to the music ... ...o be putting on greasy old ‘ats and cloaks, and playing tambourines in the Bay o’ Naples, with Wesuvius a smokin’ according to pattern in the backgrou... ... diverge to the kindred topics of cracksmen, fences, public house dancers, area sneaks, designing young people who go out ‘gonophing,’ and other ‘scho... ...ive Sergeant meanwhile has got over a rail, opened a gate, dropped down an area, overcome some other little obstacles, and tapped at a window. Now ret...

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...don . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105 Book Eighth Retrospect: Love of Nature Leading to Love of Mankind . 126 Book Ninth Residence in France... ...sky of evening died away. Not seldom from the uproar I retired Into a silent bay, or sportively Glanced sideway, leaving the tumultuous throng, To cut... ... Such ministry, when Ye through many a year Haunting me thus among my boyish sports, On caves and trees, upon the woods and hills, Impress’d upon all ... ...rigin; how I have felt, 580 Not seldom, even in that tempestuous time, Those hallow’d and pure motions of the sense Which seem, in their simplicity, t... .... 145 Upon the Eastern Shore of Windermere, Above the crescent of a pleasant Bay, There stood an Inn, no homely featured Shed, Brother of the surround... ...hin Decanters, Glasses, and the blood red Wine. In ancient times, or ere the Hall was built On the large Island, had this Dwelling been More worthy of... ...oughts jostling each other, gawds And feast and dance and public revelry And sports and games—less pleasing in themselves 275 Than as they were a badg... ...ape, sight, sound. Below, the open space, through every nook 665 Of the wide area, twinkles, is alive With heads; the midway region and above Is thron... ...ting on, As seemed, with that abode in which they were, 100 A little pendant area of grey rocks, Book Eighth Retrospect: Love of Nature Leading to Lo...

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...Excerpt: In these times of ours, though concerning the exact year there is no need to be precise, a boat of dirty and disreputable appearance, with two figures in it, floated on the Thames, between Southwark bridge which is of iron, and London Bridg...

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... Series Publication Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...ed to the crown of his head. For, in the Veneering establishment, from the hall-chairs with the new coat of arms, to the grand pianoforte with the new... ...old. Four pigeon- breasted retainers in plain clothes stand in line in the hall. A fifth retainer, proceeding up the staircase with a mournful air—as ... ...he length of a piece of fat black water-pipe which trailed itself over the area-door into a damp stone passage, and had rather the air of a leech on t... ...three of him, all covered with upholstery in green and white! And with two bay horses tossing their heads and stepping higher than they trot long-ways... ...all obliged to it for making me Guy Fawkes in the vault and a Sneak in the area both at once,’ said Eugene. ‘Give me some more of that stuff.’ Lightwo... ...ears, angling for mud with a headless wooden horse and line. In this young sportsman, distinguished by a 196 Our Mutual Friend crisply curling auburn... ...ast voyage.’ ‘Then you have not been to sea lately?’ ‘No. Been in the sick bay since then, and been employed ashore.’ ‘Then, to be sure, that accounts... ...the calmest indifference; ‘but I dare say he was there. Come! Be a British sportsman and enjoy the pleasures of the chase. It will do you good.’ Light...