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...Excerpt: The Merchant of Venice; Actus Primus -- Enter Anthonio, Salarino, and Salanio. Anthonio. In sooth I know not why I am so sad, It wearies me: you say it wearies you; But how I caught it, found it, or came by it, What stuffe ?tis made of, w...

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...NG JOHN?S palace. [Enter KING JOHN, QUEEN ELINOR, PEMBROKE, ESSEX, SALISBURY, and others, with CHATILLON.] KING JOHN: Now, say, Chatillon, what would France with us? CHATILLON: Thus, after greeting, speaks the King of France In my behavior to the majesty, The borrow?d majesty, of England here. QUEEN ELINOR: A strange beginning: ?borrow?d majesty!? KING JOHN: Silence, good ...

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...ench have perhaps sufficient reasons. Something better than England is everywhere to be found; whereas it is excessively difficult to find the charms of France outside France. Other countries can show admirable scenery, and they frequently offer greater comfort than that of France, which makes but slow progress in that particular. They sometimes display a bewildering magni...

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...Excerpt: The Life of Henry the Fifth; Enter Prologue. O For a Muse of Fire, that would ascend The brightest Heaven of Inuention: A Kingdome for a Stage, Princes to Act, And Monarchs to behold the swelling Scene. Then should the Warlike Harry, ...

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...Excerpt: BEDFORD. Hung be the heavens with black, yield day to night! Comets, importing change of times and states, Brandish your crystal tresses in the sky, And with them scourge the bad revolting stars That have consented unto Henry?s death! King Henry the Fifth, too famous to live long! England ne?er lost a king of ...

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...PUBLICATION Autobiographic Sketches by Thomas de Quincey is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Uni- versity. 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... ... Editor, Hazleton, PA 18202 is a Portable Document File pro- duced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ... à Kempis as the author; but his claim was disputed. Gerson was adopted by France as the author; and other local saints by other nations. 2 At the sa... ...were not, as regarded any sympathy with the Jacobinism that then desolated France; for, on the contrary, they detested every thing French, and answere... ... generally called until lately;) but the Bourbon houses, on the thrones of France, Spain, and Naples, as well as the house of Savoy, claimed and exerc... ...Gradually the house filled; beautiful women sat inter- mingled amongst the peers; and, in one party of these, sur- rounded by a bevy of admirers, we s... ...the arrival of his excellency. Entering the house, he also, like the other peers, wheeled round to the throne, and made to that mysterious seat a prof... ...lf, as I surveyed the whole assem- 202 Thomas de Quincey blage of ermined peers, “How is it, and by what unaccount- able magic, that William Pitt can...

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...POEMS POEMS IN TWO VOLUMES, VOL. I. BY WILLIAM WORDSWORTH AUTHOR OF THE LYRICAL BALLADS. A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication... ... Poems in T wo Volumes, Volume One by William Wordsworth 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... ...Those many records of my childish years, Remembrance of myself and of my peers Will press me down: to think of what is gone Will be an awful tho... ...ures of one kind, With first-fruit offerings crowd to bend the knee In France, before the new-born Majesty. ’Tis ever thus. Ye Men of prostrate ... ...And his is henceforth an established sway, Consul for life. With worship France proclaims Her approbation, and with pomps and games. Heaven gran... ...s silent, motionless in eyes and face. She was a Negro Woman driv’n from France, Rejected like all others of that race, Not one of whom may now ...