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... as little. It only aims at drawing certain scenes and certain characters as the convulsions of the sixteenth century may have affected them, and is, in fact, like all historical romance, the shaping of the conceptions that the imagination must necessarily form when dwelling upon the records of history. That faculty which might be called the passive fancy, and might almost...

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...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ... tained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Burlesques by William Makepeace Thackeray, the Pennsylvania Sta... ...plume and apron of variegated feathers, decorated the lintel. The East and West had sent their contri- butions to replenish the window. The poor slave... ... where the huts are squatted by the Niger, under the palm-trees; where the Northern Babel lies, with its warehouses, and its bridges, its graceful fac... ...rgeous heraldry on a hundred banners, surmounting as many towers. The long lines of battlemented walls spread down the mountain to the Loire, and were... ... there arrived in this metropulus, per seknd class of the London and Dover Railway, an ellygant young foring gentle- man, whom I shall danomminate Mun... ...in; but all other things must yield to the service of the United States of North America. I have done. What would you, Sire?” and the intrepid republi... ...uare, and humbly begged pardon of his master for not having instructed the Railway Sec- retaries who answered his applications to apply at the area-be... ...ve the fair.’”—Morning Paper. This announcement will explain the following lines, which have been put into our box* with a West End post-mark. If, as ...

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... at least briefly, on the life of Saint Theresa, has not smiled with some gentleness at the thought of the little girl walking forth one morning hand-in-hand with her still smaller brother, to go and seek martyrdom in the country of the Moors? Out they toddled from rugged Avila, wide-eyed and helpless-looking as two fawns, but with human hearts, already beating to a nation...

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...Middlemarch George Eliot 1872 To my dear Husband, George Henry Lewes, in this nineteenth year of our blessed union. Contents Book I — Miss Brook... ...entleness at the thought of the little girl walking forth one morning hand in hand with her still smaller brother, to go and seek martyrdom in the cou... ...e Rector’s wife, and the small group of gentry with whom he visited in the northeast corner of Loamshire. So Miss Brooke presided in her uncle’s house... ...ty when she came into the drawing room in her silver gray dress—the simple lines of her dark brown hair parted over her brow and coiled massively beh... ...mphrey. He talks well.” “Yes. Mr. Brooke says he is one of the Lydgates of Northumberland, really well connected. One does not expect it in a practiti... ...nty four hours, all those firm expectations were upset. It was “rather hard lines” that while he was smarting under this disappointment he should be tr... ...wardly altered there; but while the summer had gradually advanced over the western fields beyond the avenue of elms, the bare room had gathered within ... ...stage coach, which carried him to Brassing; and there he took the new made railway, observing to his fellow passengers that he considered it pretty we... ...of business which was beginning to breed just then was the construction of railways. A projected line was to run through Lowick parish where the cattl...

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... at least briefly, on the life of Saint Theresa, has not smiled with some gentleness at the thought of the little girl walking forth one morning hand-in-hand with her still smaller brother, to go and seek martyrdom in the country of the Moors? Out they toddled from rugged Avila, wide-eyed and helpless-looking as two fawns, but with human hearts, already beating to a nation...

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...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Middlemarch by George Eliot, the Pennsylvania State University,... ...e Rector’s wife, and the small group of gentry with whom he visited in the northeast corner of Loamshire. So Miss Brooke presided in her uncle’s house... ...ty when she came into the drawing-room in her silver-gray dress—the simple lines of her dark-brown hair parted over her brow and coiled massively behi... ...mphrey. He talks well.” “Yes. Mr. Brooke says he is one of the Lydgates of Northumberland, really well connected. One does not expect it in a practiti... ...-four hours, all those firm expectations were up- set. It was “rather hard lines” that while he was smarting under this disappointment he should be tr... ...rdly altered there; but while the summer had gradually ad- vanced over the western fields beyond the avenue of elms, the bare room had gathered within... ...stage-coach, which carried him to Brassing; and there he took the new-made railway, observing to his fel- low-passengers that he considered it pretty ... ...of business which was beginning to breed just then was the construction of railways. A projected line was to run through Lowick parish where the cattl...

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...ou made the suggestion; and you knew your man. It is hardly fifteen years since, as twin pioneers of the New Journalism of that time, we two, cradled in the same new sheets, made an epoch in the criticism of the theatre and the opera house by making it a pretext for a propaganda of our own views of life. So you cannot plead ignorance of the character of the force you set i...

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...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Man and Superman: A Comedy and a Philosophy by George Bernard S... ...ich you take care to sign with the most extravagant flourishes between the lines. I am not sure that this is not a portent of Revolution. In eigh- tee... ...ng to read Ovid he does actu- ally read Schopenhaur and Nietzsche, studies Westermarck, and is concerned for the future of the race instead of for the... ...uperstitions. In fact, he is now more Hamlet than Don Juan; for though the lines put into the actor’s mouth to indicate to the pit that Hamlet is a ph... ... by instinct. Our ideal prosperity is not the prosperity of the industrial north, but the prosperity of the Isle of Wight, 20 GB Shaw of Folkestone a... ...as been disturbed by new fashions and methods, or by the enterprise of the railway and hotel companies which sell you a Satur- day to Monday of life a... .... [He comes to Octavius]. What would you not give, Tavy, to turn it into a railway accident, with all her bones broken or something equally respectabl... ...tones: Spanish magnifi- cence and Spanish economy everywhere. Not very far north of a spot at which the high road over one of the passes crosses a tun...