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Sartor Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdrockh

By: Thomas Carlyle

...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... ...poison-brewing, and choking by sul- phur. From the Palace esplanade, where music plays while Serene Highness is pleased to eat his victuals, down to t... ... Gay mansions, with supper- rooms and dancing-rooms, are full of light and music and high-swelling hearts; but, in the Condemned Cells, the pulse of l... ...chess is respectable, is venerable; but nowise for her pearl bracelets and Malines laces: in his eyes, the star of a Lord is little less and little mo... ... is so sly and still, so imperturbably saturnine; shows such indifference, malign coolness towards all that men strive after; and ever with some half-... ...lls; so that when a man walks, it is with continual jingling. Some few, of musical turn, have a whole chime of bells (Glockenspiel) fastened there; wh... ...aphical duty, grudge to reimpart) incurably infect therewith! Art thou the malignest of Sansculottists, or only the maddest? “It will remain to be exa...

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The Deputy of Arcis

By: Honoré de Balzac

...t Wormeley A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Deputy of Arcis by Honore de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley is a publi... ...s by Honore de Balzac, trans. Katharine 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... ...at Arcis this young man had lent his name during the T error to the famous Malin de l’Aube, the repre- sentative of the people, in order to hold posse... ... An Historical Mystery.”] Conse- quently, all the support and influence of Malin, now become count and senator, was at the service of the Marion famil... ...oisie revolved, for they felt themselves to be fully worth either Monsieur Malin, otherwise called Comte de Gondreville, the Keller Bros., the Cinq-Cy... .... The sound of the water as it runs through the courses above the dam, the music of the wheels, from which the churned water falls back into the basin... ...in- ference was that he was either a clerk in some office, or that he gave music lessons in private houses. One detail alone in the midst of this vagu... ...me quite intimate with a comrade in the Academy named Desroziers. He was a musician and a man of distinguished and very ob- serving mind, who would pr...

...Excerpt: All elections begin with a bustle before beginning to describe an election in the provinces, it is proper to state that the town of Arcis-sur-Aube was not the theatre of the events here related. The arrondissement of Arcis votes at Bar-sur-Aube, which is forty miles from Arcis; consequently there is no deputy from Arcis in the Chamber....

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Liver Twist

By: Charles Dickens

... Twist or the Parish Boy’s Progress by Charles Dickens 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 ... ...or, Hazleton, PA 18201 1291 is a Portable Docu ment File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...mble, stopping short, and dart ing at his little charge a look of intense malignity. ‘Well! Of all the ungratefullest, and worst disposed boys as eve... ...uld take place; and entered upon various topics of petty annoyance, like a mali cious and ill conditioned charity boy as he was. But, mak ing Oliver... ...ich will get us into trouble.’ ‘That’s very likely,’ returned Sikes with a malicious grin. ‘You’re blowed upon, Fagin.’ ‘And I’m afraid, you see, adde... ...to spare, it would be more wholesomely expended on the treadmill than in a musical instrument. He made no answer: being occupied mentally bewailing th... ...ves of the old tree stirred gently in the night wind. It seemed like quiet music for the repose of the dead. Sunbury was passed through, and they came... ...dream of a love and affection he had never known. Thus, a strain of gentle music, or the rippling of water in a silent place, or the odour of a flower...

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Rhoda Fleming

By: George Meredith

...sics Series Publication Rhoda Fleming by George Meredith 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... ...da shook her head, full sure that she could never be brought to utter such musical words naturally. “Yes, dearest, when you know what love is,” said D... ...seen her. I expect I’ve seen a portrait of her, though.” “Ah!” Mrs. Lovell musically drew him on. “Was she dark, too?” “No, she’s fair. At least, she ... ...e like heaven. On these inspired occasions, Robert presented the form of a malignant serpent in her ideas. Then Dahlia made excursions upon glaciers w... ...rench; it is, as sure as my blood’s British.” “Oh! Missis,” quoth Sedgett, maliciously, “as to tales, you’ve got witnesses enough it crassed chann’l. ... ...ner any more,” she said, putting up her wand, and pouting. “You don’t bear malice?” said Algernon, revived. “There is my hand. Now you must play a gam... ...an live without the other?” and horrid pangs smote him to hear her telling musically of the places she was journeying to, the men she would see, and t...

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Life of John Coleridge Patteson : Missionary Bishop of the Melanesian Islands

By: Charlotte Mary Yonge

...Life of John Coleridge Patteson: Missionary Bishop of the Melanesian Islands By Charlotte Mary Yonge A Penn State Electronic C... ...lotte Mary Yonge A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Life of John Coleridge Patteson: Missionary Bishop of the Melanesian Islands by ... ...ry Bishop of the Melanesian Islands by Charlotte M. Yonge is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...t these tastes bring him into debt or ex- travagance. His turn for art and music began to show itself, and the anthems at St. George’s Chapel on the S... ...tteson’s chief delight was the Midsummer Night’s Dream, with Mendelssohn’s music. He had a tuneful baritone voice and a correct ear for music. We hire... ...ng some of Mendelssohn’s Lieder very pleasingly, and knew most of the bass music from the Messiah by heart. He began to play a few scales on the piano... ... more than touch at Aurora, and exchange some fish-hooks for some bows. At Malicolo, in 1851, the Bishop and his party , while fetch- ing water, had b... ... more personal letters. On his sister Fanny’s birthday , when the visit to Malicolo was just over, after his birthday wishes, he goes on:— ‘And now, h... ...he whalers, for there were six in the chiefs house, and one was fired, not mali- ciously but out of display. The Bishop told them his object, and they...

...Preface: There are of course peculiar advantages as well as disadvantages in endeavouring to write the life of one recently departed. On the one hand, the remembrances connected with him are far fresher; his contemporaries can he consulted, and...

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The Odyssey

By: Homer

... The Odyssey by Homer, trans. Samuel Butler is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer sity. This Portable Document file is f... ... 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... ...Editor, Hazleton, PA 18201 1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of lit... ...ere before them. As soon as they had had enough to eat and drink they wanted music and dancing, which are the crowning embel lishments of a banquet, ... ...et of foot and are excellent sailors. We are extremely fond of good dinners, music, and danc ing; we also like frequent changes of linen, warm baths,... ...g that is going to happen over the whole world.’ “They sang these words most musically, and as I longed to hear them further I made by frowning to my ... ...t by, and the suitors gathered round him with fair words in their mouths and malice in their hearts; but he avoided them, and went to sit with Mentor,... ...nd The Odyssey – Book XX 251 by. Father Jove, of all gods you are the most mali cious. We are your own children, yet you show us no mercy in all ou... ... had had it washed, its splendour was as that of the sun or moon. “Then some malicious god conveyed Ulysses to the upland farm where his swineherd liv...

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Nostromo a Tale of the Seaboard

By: Joseph Conrad

...nrad A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION Nostromo: A Tale of the Seaboard by Joseph Conrad 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 a... ...r for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Nostromo: A Tale of the Seaboard by Joseph Conrad, the Pennsylvania State University, Elec- ... ...de of the mountain, thinking that in this sight, as in a piece of inspired music, there could be found together the utmost delicacy of shaded expressi... ...drawing-rooms of Sta. Marta, in a soft and implacable voice, and with such mali- cious glances that Mr. Gould’s best friends advised him earnestly to ... ...whose views are tinged by prejudices. There was for him in that af- fair a malignancy of perverted justice which, by means of a moral shock, attacked ... ...ith inscrutable patience. “Lucia, Lucia di Lammermoor! I am passionate for music. It transports me. Ha! the divine—ha!—Mozart. Si! divine … What is it... ... of multicoloured flags fluttering on tall poles. Faint bursts of military music would be heard suddenly, and the remote sound of shouting. A knot of ... ...ined his neighbour ferociously with a stone axe from necessity and without malice. The stupidest mind may invent a rankling phrase or brand the innoce...

Excerpt: Nostromo. A Tale of the Seaboard by Joseph Conrad.

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The Age of Innocence

By: Edith Wharton

...Edith Wharton A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Un... ...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... ...ocument or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton, the Pennsylvania State University, Electroni... ... early seventies, Christine Nilsson was singing in Faust at the Academy of Music in New Y ork. Though there was already talk of the erection, in remot... ...to; and the sentimental clung to it for its historic associations, and the musical for its excellent acous- tics, always so problematic a quality in h... ... tics, always so problematic a quality in halls built for the hear- ing of music. It was Madame Nilsson’s first appearance that winter, and what the d... ... “Perhaps the Beauforts don’t know her,” Janey suggested, with her artless malice. Mr. Jackson gave a faint sip, as if he had been tasting invis- ible... ...r little mouth into a grimace of mimic prudery and twinkled at him through mali- cious lids. “`Ask Mamma,’ I suppose—the usual story. Ah, these Mingot... ...u’re alone—at the Parker House?” She looked at him with a flash of her old malice. “Does it strike you as dangerous?” “No; not dangerous—” “But unconv...

...Excerpt: On a January evening of the early seventies, Christine Nilsson was singing in Faust at the Academy of Music in New York. Though there was already talk of the erection, in remote metropolitan distances ?above the Forties,? of a new Opera House whi...

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The Confessions

By: J. J. Rousseau

...The Confessions of J. J. Rousseau by Jean Jacques Rousseau THE CONFESSIONS OF JEAN JACQUES ROUSSEAU (In 12 books) Privately Printed for the Members of... ... 1903 A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Confessions of J. J. Rousseau by Jean Jacques Rousseau, trans. S. W. Orson is a publica... ... J. Rousseau by Jean Jacques Rousseau, trans. S. W. Orson is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...ears, in a street which now bears his name, and gained a living by copying music. Bernardin de Saint-Pierre, the author of ‘Paul and Virginia’, who be... ...e of that time, escaped my memory. Though my taste, or rather passion, for music, did not show itself until a considerable time after, I am fully per-... ...ect me of not having dared to reveal the whole. I give sufficient scope to malignity in what I say; it is unnecessary I should furnish still more by m... ...ry accouterment; I fol- lowed processions, and was pleased with the solemn music of the priests; I next went to see the king’s palace, which I approac... ... my services to M. Basile on his return; but there was something so false, malicious, and ironi- cal, in his air and manner, that it was by no means c... ...te, another importunate visitor arrived, she would add to her amusement by mali- ciously prolonging the visit, meantime casting glances at me for whic...

...Introduction: Among the notable books of later times-we may say, without exaggeration, of all time--must be reckoned The Confessions of Jean Jacques Rousseau. It deals with leading personages and transactions of a momentous epoch, when absolutism and feudalism we...

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The Voyage Out

By: Virginia Woolf

...sics Series Publication The Voyage Out by Virginia Woolf 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 18202-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...cloak. But some enchantment had put both man and woman beyond the reach of malice and unpopularity. In his guess one might guess from the moving lips ... ...ht line to their offices; there were the poor who were unhappy and rightly malig- nant. Already, though there was sunlight in the haze, tattered old m... ...hough he had suddenly loosened his clothes, and had become a vivacious and malicious old ape. Winding veils round their heads, the women walked on dec... ...d to sigh, “Poor little goats!” “If it weren’t for the goats there’d be no music, my dear; music depends upon goats,” said her father rather sharply, ... ...leave to sit, she did not think of the particular case, and, unpacking her music, soon for- got all about the old woman and her sheets. Mrs. Chailey f... ...ered it her room, and there she would sit for hours playing very difficult music, reading a little German, or a little English when the mood took her,...

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The Sorrows of Young Werther

By: Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

...kell Dole A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Sorrows of Young Werther by J.W. von Goethe, trans. R.D. Boylan, ed. Nathan Haskell... .... von Goethe, trans. R.D. Boylan, ed. Nathan Haskell Dole is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is fur- n... ...ty. This Portable Document file is fur- nished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...isunderstandings and neglect occasion more mischief in the world than even malice and wickedness. At all events, the two latter are of less frequent o... ...eam, and was so lost to the dim world around me, that I scarcely heard the music which resounded from the illuminated ballroom. The two Messrs. Andran... ...entirely from heat, grew more violent; and the thunder was heard above the music. When any distress or terror surprises us in the midst of our amuseme... ... me in a moment. I believe every word that is said of the magic of ancient music. How her simple song enchants me! Sometimes, when I am ready to commi... ...man a coward who destroys himself, as to call a man a coward who dies of a malignant fever.” “Paradox, all paradox!” exclaimed Albert. “Not so paradox... ...tion, all the imperti- nence that would be further circulated, and how the mali- cious would triumph; how they would rejoice over the pun- ishment of ...

Excerpt: The Sorrows of Young Werther by J.W. von Goethe, translated by R.D. Boylan, ed. Nathan Haskell Dole.

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Essays of Michel de Montaigne

By: William Carew Hazilitt

...es Cotton Edited by William Carew Hazilitt 1877 1877 1877 1877 1877 ESSAYS OF MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE Book the First T ranslated by Charles Cotton Edited ... ...es P P P P Publication ublication ublication ublication ublication Essays of Michel De Montaigne, Book the First, trans. Charles Cotton, Ed. William ... ... First, trans. Charles Cotton, Ed. William Carew Hazilitt is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...rmingly narrates how they used to awake him by the sound of some agreeable music, and how he learned Latin, without suffering the rod or shed- ding a ... ...h a department or such a choice; and in those systems, where ignorance and malice, favouritism, intrigue, and violence govern, if any selection happen... ...3, p. 3]—The Italians have more fitly baptized by this name—[La tristezza]—malignity; for ’tis a quality always hurtful, always idle and vain; and as ... ...h her losses), to have been at last trans- formed into a rock— “Diriguisse malis,” [“Petrified with her misfortunes.”—Ovid, Met., vi. 304.] thereby to... ...ople about the cataracts of the Nile; and what philosophers believe of the music of the spheres, that the bodies of those circles being solid and smoo... ....]—The Ephoros who so rudely cut the two strings that Phrynis had added to music never stood to ex- amine whether that addition made better harmony, o...

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

............................................................................................................................................. 6 THE LIFE OF MONTAIGNE ...................................................................................................................................... 9 THE LETTERS OF MONTAIGNE .....................................................

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The English Mail-Coach and Joan of Arc

By: Thomas de Quincey

...The English Mail-Coach and Joan of Arc BY THOMAS DE QUINCEY Edited with Introduction and Notes by Milton Ha... ...TE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The English Mail-Coach and Joan of Arc By Thomas de Quincey 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... ...y sad fu- neral blights upon the gorgeous mosaics of dreams? Frag- ment of music too passionate, heard once, and heard no more, what aileth thee, that... ...tly. 56 The English Mail-Coach and Joan of Arc drifting towards us amidst music and incense, amidst blos- soms from forests and gorgeous corymbi from... ...he shadow of our mighty bows. But then, as at some signal from heaven, the music, and the carols, and the sweet echoing of girlish laughter—all are hu... ...ongst the shrouds stood the lady of the pinnace. The deeps opened ahead in malice to receive her, towering surges of foam ran after her, the billows w... ...aves and the raving of the storm; until at last, upon a sound from afar of mali- cious laughter and mockery, all was hidden for ever in driv- ing show... ...doubtful person, yet, merely for the magic perseverance of his indomitable malice, won from the same Romans the only real honour that ever he received...

...Excerpt: Some portions of this Introduction have been taken from the Athenaeum Press Selections from De Quincey; many of the notes have also been transferred from that volume. A number of the new notes I owe to a review of the Selections by Dr. Lan...

.................................... 11 THE ENGLISH MAIL-COACH....................................................................13 SECTION I?THE GLORY OF MOTION .................................................................................. 13 GOING DOWN WITH VICTORY................................................................................................ 30 SECTIO...

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Pierrette

By: Honoré de Balzac

...e by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley is a publication of the Penn- sylvania State University. 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... ...or, Hazleton, PA 18202-1291 is a Por- table Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classi- cal works of lit... ..., is the privi- lege of those popular songs which are the superstitions of music,—if we may use the word “superstition” as signifying all that remains... ...ed shoes echoed on the stones with a sound eas- ily distinguished from the music of the mill, and no doubt heard by the person who opened the window. ... ...The Rogrons beat a retreat, say- ing to each other that the world was very malicious. Sylvie perceived that the news of her benevolence had missed its... ...ad tried to warn you from those people you might have supposed we had some mali- cious motive in what we said. If you like a game of cards in the even... ...n. Sylvie, a woman and a jealous woman, an- swered that magnetic look with malignant flashes. A dread- ful silence reigned. The clenched hand of the B... ...r Madame Auffray, thinking to amuse Pierrette who was passionately fond of music. It was a poem to watch her listening to a theme of Weber, or Beethov...

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Redgauntlet

By: Sir Walter Scott

...ssics Series Publication Redgauntlet by Sir Walter Scott is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Por- table Document file is furn... ...ty. This Por- table 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 18202-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...en Prince of Wales, in 1641. The catch in the text has been happily set to music.] As the chorus ended, there followed a loud and hearty laugh by way ... ... been repeatedly hinted to me, had no good name; and the attraction of the music, without rivalling that of the si- rens in melody, might have been fo... ...it was into knells and sand-pits, would permit me to obtain a sight of the musicians before I should be observed by them. As I advanced, the old ditty... ...rnly, ‘If I understand your trick, sir, you want to take advantage of some malicious reports con- cerning things in this family, and particularly resp... ...d I advise him to do so—the Quakers, with all their demure- ness, can bear malice as long as other folk; and though I have not the prudence of Mr. Pro... ...erry tidings this to me, who had been the d—d’ (he paused a moment) ‘origo mali—Gad, I think my confession would sound better in Latin than in English...

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He Sat, In Defiance of Municipal Orders

By: Rudyard Kipling

...nic Classics Series Publication Kim by Rudyard Kipling 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 18202 1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...‘ said the Amritzar girl. ‘That we believe,’ snorted the cultivator’s wife malignantly. ‘Nay, but all who serve the Sirkar with weapons in their hands... ...etically. ‘And by what sign didst thou know that we would beg from thee, O Mali?’ said Kim tartly, using the name that a market gardener least likes. ... ... ‘It is otherwise in Hind,’ said Kim drily. ‘Their Gods are many armed and malignant. Let them alone.’ ‘I would set thee on thy road for a little, Fri... ...little later a marriage procession would strike into the Grand T runk with music and shoutings, and a smell of marigold and jas mine stronger even th... ...e beating of an artery in the head. Soon a sharp ness was added. ‘Ah! The music,’ Kim explained. He knew the sound of a regimental band, but it amaze... ...the woman gave him food. In many respects, this big procession that played music at intervals this crowd that talked and laughed so easily–resembled ...

...Excerpt: He sat, in defiance of municipal orders, astride the gun Zam Zammah on her brick platform opposite the old Ajaib-Gher -the Wonder House, as the natives call the Lahore Museum. Who hold Zam-Zammah, that ?fire-breathing dragon?, hold the Punjab, f...

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My Bondage and My Freedom by Frederick Douglass. With an Introduction. By James M'Cune Smith

By: Frederick Douglas

...blication My Bondage and My Freedom by Frederick Douglas 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... ...or, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Por- table Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...n his inmost soul, because a something told him that harmony in sound, and music of the spirit, could not consociate with miserable degradation. To su... ... in its own conge- nial, midnight darkness, can, and does, develop all its malign and shocking characteristics; where it can be indecent with- out sha... ...manner of justice. He was an overseer; but he was something more. With the malign and tyrannical qualities of an overseer, he combined something of th... ...ll aware that what I have now written will by some be branded as false and malicious. It will be denied, not only that such a thing ever did transpire... ... sung under Miss Lucretia’s window, I was very apt to get well paid for my music. The reader will see that I now had two friends, both at important po... ...mance is strictly southern. It supplies the place of a violin, or of other musical instru- ments, and is played so easily, that almost every farm has ...

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Dynevor Terrace

By: Charlotte Mary Yonge

...DYNEVOR TERRACE: OR THE CLUE OF LIFE BY THE AUTHOR OF ‘THE HEIR OF REDCLYFFE,’ CHARLOTTE M. YONGE. V V V... ...STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION Dynevor Terrace: or The Clue of Life, Volume One by Charlotte M Yonge is a publication of the Pennsylvan... ...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... ...ssed in the query, ‘but not quite as you suppose. See here,’ as he held up mali- ciously a railway novel. ‘I am afraid I know where it came from,’ sai... ...ost to-morrow to send him to the binder.’ ‘Is it of any use to ask for the music?’ ‘I assure you, Mr. Holdsworth, I am very sorry. I’ll write at once ... ... he was seen no more till just before dinner, when, with a shade of French malice, Mrs. Frost inquired about Jane and the carpenter: she had seen the ... ...I get any possible good by staying?’ ‘A vast deal.’ ‘I’m sure Italian, and music, and drawing, are not a good compared with truth, and honour, and kin... ...f you would be so kind.’ He smiled superciliously as he regretted that his music was not of that description, and Charlotte felt ready to sink into th...

...Excerpt: An ancient leafless stump of a horse-chestnut stood in the middle of a dusty field, bordered on the south side by a row of houses of some pretension. Against this stump, a pretty delicate fair girl of seventeen, whose short lilac sleeves revealed slen...

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The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley Volume 3

By: Thomas Hutchinson

...THE COMPLETE POETICAL WORKS OF PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY VOLUME 3 OXFORD EDITION. INCLUDING MATERIALS NEVER ... ... 3 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 Three is a publication of the Pennsylvania ... ...range skill _555 Subdued the strong Latonian, by the might Of winning music, to his mightier will; 21 Shelley His left hand held the lyre, and i... ...th his hand in circling flight _560 The gathering music rose—and sweet as Love The penetrating notes did live and move 72. 72... ... _590 But such a strain of wondrous, strange, untired, And soul-awakening music, sweet and strong, Yet did I never hear except from thee, Offspring o... ...earth; Nothing that in a moment will make rich Men and the world with fine malicious mischief— There is no dagger drunk with blood; no bowl From which... ...in dust With spirit, thought, and love; on Man alone, Partial in causeless malice, wantonly Heaped ruin, vice, and slavery; his soul Blasted with with... ... _110 Might eat and perish, and My soul procure Wherewith to sate its malice, and to turn, Even like a heartless conqueror of the earth, All mise...

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

................................................................................................................... 27 HOMER?S HYMN TO THE EARTH: MOTHER OF ALL .................................................................................. 28 HOMER?S HYMN TO MINERVA................................................................................................................

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Essays of Michel de Montaigne Book the Third

By: William Carew Hazilitt

...es Cotton Edited by William Carew Hazilitt 1877 1877 1877 1877 1877 ESSAYS OF MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE Book the Third T ranslated by Charles Cotton Edited ... ...es P P P P Publication ublication ublication ublication ublication Essays of Michel De Montaigne, trans. Charles Cotton, Ed. William Carew Hazilitt i... ...taigne, trans. Charles Cotton, Ed. William Carew Hazilitt is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ..., to furnish me with other means more suitable to my own liking: this is a mali- cious kind of justice, and I look upon it as no less wounded by itsel... ...at spring from private interest and pas- sion, duty, nor a treacherous and malicious conduct, cour- age; they call their proneness to mischief and vio... ... a greater traitor than he does, against whom you are so: for he tries the malignity of your disposition by your own hands, where he cannot possibly b... ...uch thing, to write books without learning and without art? The fancies of music are carried on by art; mine by chance. I have this, at least, accordi... ...r need to give myself a little lustre, of the invention of Antigenides the musician, who, when he was asked to sing or play, took care beforehand that... ...e auditory should, either before or after, be satiated with some other ill musicians. But I can hardly be without Plutarch; he is so universal and so ...

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

...Contents CHAPTER I OF PROFIT AND HONESTY................................................................................... 4 CHAPTER II OF REPENTANCE ................................................................................................

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