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... TRAGEDIE OF CYMBELINE. by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Based on the Folio Text of 1623 DjVu Editions E-books ' 2001, Global Language Resources, Inc.... ...s ' 2001, Global Language Resources, Inc. Shakespeare: First Folio Table of Contents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 The Tragedie of Cymbeline .... .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74 Scena Quinta. - i - The Tragedie of Cymbeline zz3 Actus Primus. Scoena Prima. 2 Enter two Ge... ...8 Was call’d Sicillius, who did ioyne his Honor 39 Against the Romanes, with Cassibulan, - 1 - The Tragedie of Cymbeline Shakespeare: Fi... ... and a Spaniard. 316 Iach. Beleeue it Sir, I haue seene him in Britaine; hee 317 was then of a Cressent note, expected to proue so wo... ... no lesse then my life. 341 Enter Posthumus. 342 Heere comes the Britaine. Let him be so entertained a-mong’st 343 you, as suites with ... ...businesse. 805 Imo. Pray what is’t? 806 Iach. Some dozen Romanes of vs, and your Lord 807 (The best Feather of our wing) haue m... ...he Queene, and vs, we shall haue neede 1028 T’ employ you towards this Romane. 1029 Come our Queene. Exeunt. 1030 Clot. If she be vp,... ...ur Enemies Boates, 1401 But sucke them vp to’th’ Top- mast. A kinde of Conquest 1402 Caesar made heere, but made not heere his bragge 1403 ...

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...Excerpt: First Gentleman: I cannot delve him to the root: his father Was call?d Sicilius, who did join his honor Against the Romans with Cassibelan, But had his titles by Tenantius whom He served with glory and admired success, So gain?d the sur-addition Leonatus; And had, besides this gentleman in question, Two other sons, who in the wars o? the t...

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...Introduction: This book is translated from the first volume of Perceval le Gallois ou le conte du Graal; edited by M. Ch. Potvin for La Societe des Bibliophiles Belges in 1866,1 from the MS. numbered 11,145 in the library of the Dukes of Burgundy at Brussels. This MS. I find thus desc...

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...IN THE FOURTH YEAR Anticipations of a World Peace BY H. G. WELLS 1918 A Penn State Electronic Classics Serie... ... Electronic Classics Series Publication In the Fourth Year: Anticipations of a World Peace by H.G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania State U... ...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... ...any sufficiently well to recommend them. It is incredible that neither the Roman Catholic Church, the English Episcopal Church, nor any Nonconformist ... ... man in Paris or London or Petrograd or Constantinople. There are to be no conquests, no domina- tion of recalcitrant populations, no bitter insistenc... ...nt alone—stands in the way, that its tradition is incurably a tradition of conquest and aggres- sion, that until German militarism is overthrown, etc.... ...s, that the Allied Governments are also imperialist, that they also aim at conquest and aggression, that for Germany the choice is 40 In the Fourth Y... ...th the latter was associated the tradition of the European unity under the Roman empire; all the Germanic monarchs had an itch to be called Caesar. Th... ...nce, and have to be abolished and swept away altogether everywhere, as the Romanoffs have already been swept away in Russia, or whether it will be abl...

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...Introduction: Near seven years ago, a short while before his death in 1844, John Sterling committed the care of his literary Character and printed Writings to two friends, Archdeacon Hare and myself. His estimate of the bequest was far from overweening; to few men could the small sum-total of his activities in this world seem more i...

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...ew hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea. There are circumstances in which, whether you partake of the tea or not--some people of course never do--the situation is in itself delightful. Those that I have in mind in beginning to unfold this simple history offered an admirable setting to an innocent pastime. The implement...

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...wn as afternoon tea. There are circum stances in which, whether you partake of the tea or not—some people of course never do—the situation is in itse... ... history offered an admirable setting to an innocent pastime. The implements of the little feast had been disposed upon the lawn of an old English cou... ...wn of an old English country house, in what I should call the perfect middle of a splendid summer afternoon. Part of the afternoon had waned, but much... ... nothing about bills; but even as a child she thought her grandmother’s home romantic. There was a covered piazza behind it, furnished with a swing wh... ...enth year) she had been neither frightened nor ashamed, but had thought it a romantic episode in a liberal education. Her father had a large way of lo... ... was tall, strong and somewhat stiff; he was also lean and brown. He was not romantically, he was much rather obscurely, handsome; but his physiognomy... ...ulated, of a union with Caspar Goodwood; for however she might have resisted conquest at her English suitor’s large quiet hands she was at least as fa... ...Very likely again. I’m very glad they’re such good friends.” “She has made a conquest. He thinks her a brilliant woman. It may go far,” said Ralph. Is... ...ade immense strides; but she appeared to have achieved few of those so cial conquests of which Mrs. Ludlow had expected to admire the trophies. Lily’...