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...The Wings of the Dove by Henry James The Wings of the Dove by Henry James The Wings of the Dove by Henry James A PENN STAT... ...Henry James A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The Wings of the Dove by Henry James is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Unive... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any per- son using this document file, for any purpose, and in... ...her’s life, her sister’s, her own, that of her two lost brothers—the whole history of their house had the effect of some fine florid voluminous phrase... ... she subsequently remembered that though on this occasion she had left the history of her new alliance as scant as the facts themselves, Mrs. Lowder h... ...one to church, she broke it to me by the school-room fire. I was reading a history-book by the lamp—when we didn’t go to church we had to read his- to... ...eep it going? It’s in my exile that it may languish.” He went on with that fantasy, but at this point Kate ceased to attend. He saw after a little tha... ...ve seen the admirable creature “cutting in” to anticipate a dan- ger. This fantasy indeed, while they sat together, dropped after a little; even if on...

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Excerpt: Sartor Resartus. The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdrockh.

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...SARTOR RESARTUS: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdrockh By Thomas Carlyle A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SE... ...TRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION Sartor Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdrockh by Thomas Carlyle is a publication of the Pennsylvani... ...ty. This Portable Document file is furnished free and with- out any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...or nothing of a fundamental character, whether in the way of Philosophy or History, has been written on the subject of Clothes. Our Theory of Gravitat... ...we not a Doctrine of Rent, a Theory of Value; Philosophies of Language, of History, of Pottery, of Apparitions, of In- toxicating Liquors? Man’s whole... ..., though you see them alive, and feel certain enough that they must have a History, no History seems to be discov- erable; or only such as men give of... ...ithin me to shape an answer. Ever, in my distresses and my loneliness, has Fantasy turned, full of longing (sehnsuchtsvoll), to that unknown Father, w... ...hrough the watery albumen; and out of vague Sensation grows Thought, grows Fantasy and Force, and we have Philosophies, Dynasties, nay Poetries and Re... ...otable enough. Fit emblem of many a Conquering Hero, to whom Fate (wedding Fantasy to Sense, as it often elsewhere does) has malignantly appended a ti...

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...Excerpt: On a winter?s night, about two in the morning, the Comtesse Jeanne d?Herouville felt such violent pains that in spite of her inexperience, she was conscious of an approaching confinement; and the instinct which makes us hope for ease in a change of posture induced her to sit up in her bed, either to study the nature of these new sufferings, ...

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...erpt: Old Moodie. The evening before my departure for Blithedale, I was returning to my bachelor apartments, after attending the wonderful exhibition of the Veiled Lady, when an elderly man of rather shabby appearance met me in an obscure part of the street....

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...lication The Blithedale Romance by Nathaniel Hawthorne 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... ...angry with her, from mere de spair of doing anything for her comfort. The fantasy occurred to me that she was some desolate kind of a creature, doome... ...r expected to see him in an open field.” “Have you learned anything of his history?” asked Hollingsworth. “Not a circumstance,” I answered; “but there... ...th nothing genuine about him save the wicked ex pression of his grin. The fantasy of his spectral character so wrought upon me, together with the con... ... engrav ings from the old masters, or original illustrations of scenes in history or romance—had been presented, and we were 83 Hawthorne earnestly ... ... methods, a leaf of some mysterious volume inter polated into the current history which time was writing off. At one moment, the very circumstances n... ...s in the best par lor, it struck me that here was the fulfilment of every fantasy of an imagination revelling in various methods of costly self indu...

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...Contents. I. The birth of the Prince and the Pauper. II. Tom?s early life. III. Tom?s meeting with the Prince. IV. The Prince?s troubles begin. V. Tom as a patrician. VI. Tom receives instructions. VII. Tom?s first royal dinner. VIII. The question ...

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...922 A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The Secret Places of the Heart by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univ... ...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... ... for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Secret Places of the Heart by H. G. Wells, the Pennsylvania State University, Elec- troni... ...nges.” “Consistently with itself.” “I have been trying to recall my sexual history ,” said Sir Rich- mond, going off at a tangent. “My sentimental edu... ...o think on that scale. Just as a man who has been trained in 49 H G Wells history and law grows to think on the scale of the Roman empire. I don’t kn... ... be a tattooed creature wearing a knife of stone…. “ “The healing touch of history.” “And for the first time my damned Committee has mat- tered scarce... ...scales. A memory of Swedengorg’s Heaven and Hell mingled with the Egyptian fantasy. Now at last it was possible to know some- thing real about this ma...

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

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...THE COMPLETE POETICAL WORKS OF PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY VOLUME 2 OXFORD EDITION. INCLUDING MATERIALS NEVER ... ... 2 OXFORD EDITION. INCLUDING MATERIALS NEVER BEFORE PRINTED IN ANY EDITION OF THE POEMS. EDITED WITH TEXTUAL NOTES BY THOMAS HUTCHINSON, M. A. EDITOR ... ... State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley, Volume One is a publication of the Pennsylvania St... ...ed in Switzerland, July, 1816 (see date below). Printed at the end of the “History of a Six Weeks’ Tour” published by Shelley in 1817, and reprinted w... ...lime and strange _35 To muse on my own separate fantasy, My own, my human mind, which passively Now renders and receives fa... ...Shelley makes the following mention of this poem in his publication of the History of a Six Weeks’ Tour, and Letters from Switzerland: ‘The poem entit... ...etius, Pliny’s Letters, the Annals and Germany of Tacitus. In French, the “History of the French Revolution” by Lacretelle. He read for the first time... ...o soon That even the dying violet will not die Before Ginevra.’ The strong fantasy Had made her accents weaker and more weak, And quenched the crimson...

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