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...Excerpt: Chapter 1. Who will be the new bishop? In the latter days of July in the year 185-, a most important question was for ten days hourly asked in the cathedral city of Barchester, and answered every hour in various ways--Who was to be the new Bishop? The death of old Dr. Grantly, who h...

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...Series Publication Barchester Towers by Anthony Trollope 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 per- son using this document file, for any purpose, and in... ...sibility for the material contained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Barchester Towers by Anthony Trollo... ... Hazleton, PA 18202-1291 is a Portable Document File pro- duced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literatu... ...deacon’s father-in-law, and would thank them ten- derly for their care and love. Now he lay sleeping like a baby, resting easily on his back, his mout... ...r the sorrows of the archdeacon as he sat, sombre and sad at heart, in the study of his parsonage at Plumstead Episcopi. On the day subsequent to the ... ...of noble minds!’ He was avaricious, my readers will say. No—it was not for love of lucre that he wished to be bishop of Barchester. He was his father’... ...unprelatical and almost irreligious; such a sofa as never yet stood in the study of any decent high church clergy- man of the Church of England. The o... ...very strange, you know. She always makes me think of the Esquimaux and the Indians. Isn’t her dress quite delightful?’ ‘Delightful, ’ said Mrs Proudie...

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

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...THE COMPLETE POETICAL WORKS OF PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY VOLUME 2 OXFORD EDITION. INCLUDING MATERIALS NEVER ... ... 2 OXFORD EDITION. INCLUDING MATERIALS NEVER BEFORE PRINTED IN ANY EDITION OF THE POEMS. EDITED WITH TEXTUAL NOTES BY THOMAS HUTCHINSON, M. A. EDITOR ... ...sibility for the material contained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Complete Poetical Works of Perc... ..., Hazleton, PA 18201- 1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literatu... ...................................................................... 95 THE INDIAN SERENADE. ............................................................. ... DA VINCI IN THE FLORENTINE GALLERY. ................................. 101 LOVE’S PHILOSOPHY. ........................................................... ...se feelings sprang.’ This was an eventful year, and less time was given to study than usual. In the list of his reading I find, in Greek, Theocritus, ... ... In Latin, Apuleius alone is named. In English, the Bible was his constant study; he read a great portion of it aloud in the evening. Among these even... ...ght fills the open sky Struggling with darkness—as a tuberose Peoples some Indian dell with scents which lie Like clouds above the flower from which t...