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...They have a secret, unperceived and delicate beauty; he had neede of a cleere, farreseeing and true-discerning sight that should rightly discover this secret light. Is not ingenuity (according to us) cosin germaine unto sottishnesse, and a quality of reproach? Socrates maketh his soule ...

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...e University, Wisconsin. It is in the public domain. "Florio's Translation of Montaigne's Essays was first published in 1603. In 'The World's Classic... ...al material was supplied by R.S. Bear from the Everyman's Library edition of 1910. Content unique to this presentation is copyright © 1999 The Univer... ...10. Content unique to this presentation is copyright © 1999 The University of Oregon. For nonprofit and educational uses only. Send comments and corr... ... peste futura. -- CLAUD. in Ruff. 1. ii. i. 137. 2 He heares his journey, counts his daies, so measures he His life by his waies length, vext with t... ... our owne people, but with Christian moderation. Saint Hilarie, Bishop of Poitiers, a famous enemie of the Arrian heresie, being in Syria, was advert... ...ames.' Item, it is reported that the foundation of our Lady, the great at Poitiers had this beginning: 'A licentious young man having his dwelling-ho... .... -- Catul. Eleg. iv. 147. If it afforded be to thee alone, Where by she counts that day of all dayes one. What if she eate your bread with the sauc... ...end that which is neere, and which step in number begins the distance she counts farre, I am of opinion that she stay him betweene both. ...

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...ERIES PUBLICATION A Little Tour in France by Henry James is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...s. They need the figure of a Francis I. to complete them, or of a Diane de Poitiers, or even of a Henry III. The base of this exquisite structure emer... ...nonceaux, a royal residence upon the Cher, built by Henry II. for Diana of Poitiers, whose ini- tials are still to be seen there, and now in possessio... ...t of hand to that mature charmer, the admired of two generations, Diana of Poitiers. Diana en- joyed it till the death of her protector; but when this... ... and even in the days of its greatness, when its lords entitled themselves counts of Cephalonia and Neophantis, kings of Arles and Vienne, princes of ...

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...Excerpt: When we think of the enormous number of volumes that have been published 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 ...

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...i by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katherine Prescott Wormeley is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...ed to so many great families; for, strangely enough, her ri- val, Diane de Poitiers, was also her cousin. Jean de Poitiers, father of Diane, was son o... ...e respect, fortunate for France. If Henri II. had had children by Diane de Poitiers the politics of the king- dom would have been dangerously complica... ... who died in this said place, the Duke of Albany, and many others, whether counts, barons, or seigneurs; nearest to the king was the Seigneur de Montm... ...ty at the court of Francois I. Her young husband was in love with Diane de Poitiers, who certainly, in the matter of birth, could rival Catherine, and... ...s on this plateau, with a double exposure to the north and south, that the counts of Blois built, in the architecture of the twelfth century, a castle... ...y primus inter pares (to use the fine expression of a king of Poland), the counts of Champagne, the counts of Blois, those of Anjou, the simple barons...

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...Excerpt: Lucien had gone to Paris; and David Sechard, with the courage and intelligence of the ox which painters give the Evangelist for accompanying symbol, set himself to make the large fortune for which he had wished that evening down by the Charente, when he sat with Eve by the weir, and she gave him her han...

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...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 removed, to the extreme regret of all weak-kneed lovers of the fine arts, but the gentleman in question had taken serene possession of it...

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...GRISLY GRISELL or THE LAIDLY LADY OF WHITBURN: A TALE OF THE WARS OF THE ROSES By Charlotte M. Yonge A Penn S... ...Electronic Classics Series Publication GRISLY GRISELL, or The Laidly Lady of Whitbern is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Uni- versity. This P... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... .... And, as Grisell afterwards learnt, this was Isabel de Souza, Countess of Poitiers, a Portuguese lady who had come over with her Infanta; and whose d... ...eir work, with a chaplain read- ing to them. One of these, the Countess of Poitiers, whom Grisell had known at the Grey Sisters’ convent, rose, gra- c... ...ng,” said Grisell. “Ay, in the days of the Round Table; but when Dukes and Counts, and great Marquesses and Barons swarm like may- flies by a trout st... ... indeed for bringing us together!” 155 Charlotte M. Young The Countess of Poitiers looked on scandalised at English impulsiveness, and the elder Duch...

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...on Cousin Betty by Honoré de Balzac, trans. James Waring is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of lit- ... ...l actor plays the part and thinks it necessary to emphasize its meaning—at Poitiers, or at Coutances. “If you will come into this room with me, we sha... ...zino’s masterpieces; Jean Goujon’s Venus, painted from the famous Diane de Poitiers; Signora Olympia, whose pic- ture adorns the Doria gallery; Ninon,... ...ched the pin- nacle; poor young man, and he is as proud as two newly- made Counts.” “Michael Angelo over again; but, for a lover, he has kept his head... ...birth?” “Pooh!” “A Count.” “And a sculptor?” “He has no money.” “And so he counts on that of Mademoiselle Hortense Hulot?” said the Baron ironically, ... ...hambers; also the most distinguished of the Polish exiles living in Paris: Counts Paz, Laginski, and others. “Monsieur le Comte Wenceslas Steinbock is... ... di Pescara. But such lofty and illus- trious women, beautiful as Diane de Poitiers, but virtuous, may be easily counted. So the scene with which this...

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...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 we are about to make at a moment when he is h...

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... and which I hope will equal your almost maternal kindness to me, would last beyond the limits prescribed for human affection. This sublime privilege of prolonging life in our hearts for a time by the life of the work we leave behind us would be (if we could only be sure of gaining it at last) a reward indeed for all the labor undertaken by those who aspire to such an immo...

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...Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Alkahest (The House of Claes) by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormely is a publi... ...s) by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormely is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...ove.” If this be so, surely beauty is a mis- fortune; that fugitive flower counts for too much in the feel- ing that a woman inspires; often she is lo... ...ulgar mind would have found defects,—Cleopatra, Jeanne de Naples, Diane de Poitiers, Mademoiselle de la Valliere, Madame de Pompadour; in fact, the ma...

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...Excerpt: Chapter 1. The countryside and the man on a lovely spring morning in the year 1829, a man of fifty or thereabouts was wending his way on horseback along the mountain road that leads to a large village near the Grande Chartreuse. This village is the market town of a populous canton that lies within the limits of a ...

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...Excerpt: If you look at a map of the World, you will see, in the left-hand upper corner of the Eastern Hemisphere, two Islands lying in the sea. They are England and Scotland, and Ireland. England and Scotland form the greater part of these Islands. Irela...

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...ens A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication A Child’s History of England by Charles Dickens is a publication of the Pennsylvania State... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in ... ... for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. A Child’s History of England by Charles Dickens , the Pennsylvania State University, Electr... ... When he be came a young man, the King of France, uniting with the French Counts of Anjou and Flanders, supported his cause against the King of En g... ...t he came upon the French King’s forces, all of a sudden, near the town of Poitiers, and found that the whole neighbouring country was occupied by a v... ...as enormous. Three Dukes were killed, two more were taken prisoners, seven Counts were killed, three more were taken prisoners, and ten thousand knigh... ..., a French knight hurried out of bed, wrapped in a sheet, and bore away to Poitiers. So, when the revenge ful Isabella and the Duke of Burgundy enter... ...umph after the slaughter of their en emies, the Dauphin was proclaimed at Poitiers as the real Regent. King Henry had not been idle since his vic to...

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...Excerpt: Towards the middle of the month of May, in the year 1660, at nine o?clock in the morning, when the sun, already high in the heavens, was fast absorbing the dew from the ramparts of the castle of Blois a little cavalcade, composed of three men a...

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Excerpt: Essays of Michel De Montaigne, Book the First, translated by Charles Cotton, Ed. William Carew Hazilitt.

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...Excerpt: VOL I. In the morning of life the truthful wooed the beautiful, and their offspring was Love. Like his Divine parents, He is eternal. He has his Mother?s ravishing smile; his Father?s steadfast eyes. He rises every day, fresh and glorious as the u...

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.........67 A PLAN FOR A PRIZE NOVEL. ......................................................................................................74 THE DIARY OF C. JEAMES DE LA PLUCHE, ESQ., ...................................................................77 A LETTER FROM ?JEAMES, OF BUCKLEY SQUARE.? ............................................................80 THE DIARY. ........

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...es Publication Burlesques by William Makepeace Thackeray is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity. This Portable Document file is furn... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...ox. As if he didn’t know (Lady B.’s as deaf 101 Burlesques as a poast and counts for nothink) that people sometimes like a tatytaty.” “Friday.—I was ... ...reacres has ridden by his Prince! At Acre with Plantagenet, with Edward at Poitiers, The pennon of the Bareacres was foremost on the spears! “’Twas pl... ...county, and the very pink of Croydon; several Polish noblemen; two Italian counts (besides our Count); one hundred and ten young officers, from Addisc... ...in prison, who do you think would come and see me? None of the Barons, nor Counts, nor Foreign Ambassadors, nor Excellencies, who used to fill our hou...

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...e Bovary by Gustave Flaubert, trans. Eleanor Marx-Aveling is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furni... ...ity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...s of the unknown authors, who had signed their verses for the most part as counts or vis- counts. She trembled as she blew back the tissue paper over ... ... went on— “Near him, this kneeling woman who weeps is his spouse, Diane de Poitiers, Countess de Breze, Duchess de V alentinois, born in 1499, died in...

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...Excerpt: Five Books of the Lives, Heroic Deeds and Sayings of Gargantua and His Son Pantagruel by Master Francis Rabelais, translated by Sir Thomas Urquhart and Peter Antony Motteux....

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...MASTER FRANCIS RABELAIS FIVE BOOKS OF THE LIVES, HEROIC DEEDS AND SAYINGS OF GARGANTUA AND HIS SON PANTAGRUEL ... ...TUA AND HIS SON PANTAGRUEL T ranslated into English by Sir Thomas Urquhart of Cromarty and Peter Antony Motteux A Penn State Electronic Classics Serie... ...ny Motteux A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Five Books of the Lives, Heroic Deeds and Sayings of Gargantua and His Son Pantagruel ... ... popular style. As a matter of fact there is only one portrait of him that counts, that has more than the merest chance of being au- thentic, the one ... ...brated of these monuments, since he mentions himself the great menhir near Poitiers, which he christened by the name of Passelourdin. That there is so... ...iss to him. He must have known, and even copied the Latin Chronicle of the Counts of Anjou. It is accepted, and rightly so, as an historical document,... ...for thinking that the truth may not have been manipulated and adorned. The Counts of Anjou were not saints. They were proud, quarrelsome, violent, rap...