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...A BOOK OF GOLDEN DEEDS BY CHARLOTTE M YONGE A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication A Book of Golden Deeds is a p... ...TTE M YONGE A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication A Book of Golden Deeds is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Po... ...s Publication A Book of Golden Deeds is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without... ...e, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone associated with ... ...ent or for the file as an electronic transmis- sion, in any way. A Book of Golden Deeds, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classics Series... ...State University is an equal opportunity university. 3 Yo n g e A BOOK OF GOLDEN DEEDS BY CHARLOTTE M YONGE PREF PREF PREF PREF PREFA A A A ACE CE CE... ...a huge army, called from their leader, ‘Thorkill’s Host’, were overrunning Kent, and besieging Canterbury. The Arch- bishop Aelfeg was earnestly entre... ...rought that he had been leaguing with a half-crazy woman called the Nun of Kent, who had said violent things about the King. He was sent for to be exa... ...sanity. In each the guns at noon-day thundered out their royal salute, the flashes had answered one another, and the smoke had wreathed itself away ov...

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...Excerpt: The Tragedie of King Lear; Actus Primus -- Scoena Prima -- Enter Kent, Gloucester, and Edmond. Kent. I thought the King had more affected the Duke of Albany, then Cornwall. Glou. It did alwayes seeme so to us: But now in the division of the Kingdome, it appeares not which of the Dukes hee ...

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...gedie of King Lear qq2 Actus Primus. Scoena Prima. 2 Enter Kent, Gloucester, and Edmond. 3 Kent. 4 I thought the Kin... ...osity in nei-ther, 10 can make choise of eithers moity. 11 Kent. Is not this your Son, my Lord? 12 Glou. His breeding Sir, h... ...sh’d to acknowledge him, that now I am 14 braz’d too’t. 15 Kent. I cannot conceiue you. 16 Glou. Sir, this yong Fellowes mot... ...w we will diuest vs both of Rule, 55 Interest of Territory, Cares of State) 56 Which of you shall we say doth loue vs most, 57 That ... ...ainnesse honour’s bound, 159 When Maiesty falls to folly, reserue thy state, 160 And in thy best consideration checke 161 This hideous ... ... 510 Gon. By day and night, he wrongs me, euery howre 511 He flashes into one grosse crime, or other, 512 That sets vs all at ods: ... ...t, thou hadst little wit in thy bald crowne, when thou 678 gau’st thy golden one away; if I speake like my selfe in 679 this, let him be whi... ... Of my obscured course. And shall finde time 1246 From this enormous State, seeking to giue 1247 Losses their remedies. All weary and o’re- ...

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...Excerpt: ACT I. SCENE I. King Lear?s palace. Enter KENT, GLOUCESTER, and EDMUND. KENT: I thought the king had more affected the Duke of Albany than Cornwall. GLOUCESTER: It did always seem so to us: but now, in the division of the kingdom, it appears not which of the dukes he...

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...LEAR, King of Britain KING OF FRANCE DUKE OF BURGUNDY DUKE OF CORNWALL DUKE OF ALBANY EARL OF KENT EARL OF GLOUCESTER EDGAR: Son to Gloucester. EDMUND: bastard son to Gloucester. CURAN: a courtier. Old Man: tenant to Gloucester. Doctor Fool OSWALD: Steward to Goneril. A Captain employed by Edmund Gentleman attendant o...

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...THE FOOD OF THE GODS AND HOW IT CAME TO EARTH By H.G. WELLS A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The Food of the Gods and How ... ...t Came Down to Earth by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylva- nia State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without... ...e, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone associated with ... ...s. He found the place he seemed in need of at Hickleybrow, near Urshot, in Kent. It was a little queer isolated place, in a dell surrounded by old pin... ...ee tins, a supply of the Food of the Gods sufficient for all the chicks in Kent. It was a bright and beautiful morning late in May, and his corns were... ...mselves up exclusively in the biggest of letters to the “Gigantic Wasps in Kent.” Agitated editors and assistant editors ran up and down tortuous stai... ...s setting now, and the wasps were coming home for good; their wings in the golden light made twirling ha- loes about them. The three men peered out fr... ...ed upon the hoardings. His baldness, his curious general pinkness, and his golden spectacles had become a national possession. Reso- lute young men wi... ...hers bore us, and see it now! Think how these slopes once smiled under the golden harvest, how the hedges, full of sweet little flowers, parted the mo...

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...AJESTY QUEEN ANNE WRITTEN BY HIMSELF by WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The History of Henry Esmond, ... ...imself by William Makepeace Thackeray is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Uni- versity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and witho... ...e, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor any- one associated wit... ...ea certe, and appeared the most charming object he had ever looked on. Her golden hair was shining in the gold of the sun; her complexion was of a daz... ...with surprise and kindness, her lips blooming in a smile, the sun making a golden halo round her hair. As the boy was yet in this attitude of humility... ...poke, kneeling reverently before the sacred book, the sun shining upon her golden hair until it made a halo round about her. A dozen of the servants o... ...ck to your friends at the ale-house?” her eyes, ordinarily so kind, darted flashes of an- ger as she spoke; and she tossed up her head (which hung dow... ...Two years since my uncle died, leaving me a pretty estate in the county of Kent; and being at Tunbridge Wells last sum- mer, after my mourning was ove... ...told, for some young lady who would share with me the solitude of my great Kentish house, and be kind to my tenantry (for whom a woman can do a great ...

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