...et Free by H.G. Wells A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The World Set Free by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania Stat... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ...State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone associated with the Pennsylvania State University assumes any responsibility for the mate- ... ...ive common sense of the French mind and of the English mind—for manifestly King Egbert is meant to be ‘God’s En- glishman’—leading mankind towards a b... ...irection, a strong man took the fatherly leadership in war, and priest and king began to develop their roles in the opening drama of man’s history. Th... .... The priest’s solicitude was seed-time and harvest and fertility, and the king ruled peace 9 H G Wells and war. In a hundred river valleys about the... ...estioned why the cat’s fur crackles or why hair is so unruly to brush on a frosty day, before the sixteenth century. For endless years man seems to ha... ...ious. It was made of granite, already a little roughened on the outside by frost, but pol- ished within and of a tremendous solidity. And in a honey- ...

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...By Charlotte M. Yonge A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Little Duke by Charlotte M. Yonge is a publication of the Pennsylvania ... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ...State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone associated with the Pennsylvania State University assumes any responsibility for the materi... ...ou think it a reason they never should? But you are wrong, my boy, for the Kings of France and England, the Counts of Anjou, of Provence, and Paris, y... ...France and England, the Counts of Anjou, of Provence, and Paris, yes, even King Hako of Norway, 4 can all read.” “I tell you, Richard, when the treat... ...ad.” “I tell you, Richard, when the treaty was drawn up for restoring this King Louis to his throne, I was ashamed to find myself one of the few crown... ...ed themselves on excelling in skating, though they had long since left the frost-bound streams and lakes of Norway. One day, as they were returning fr... ...t it no longer contained his dear little friend; but it was a fresh bright frosty morning, the fields were covered with a silvery-white coating, the f... ..., the fields were covered with a silvery-white coating, the flakes of hoar-frost sparkled on every bush, and the hard ground rung cheerily to the trea...

...Excerpt: Chapter 1. On a bright Autumn day, as long ago as the year 943, there was a great bustle in the Castle of Bayeux in Normandy. The hall was large and low, the roof arched, and supported on thick short columns, almost like the crypt of a Cathedral; the walls were thick, and th...

...Alfred, Lord Tennyson A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Princess by Alfred, Lord Tennyson is a publication of the Pennsylvania ... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ...State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone associated with the Pennsylvania State University assumes any responsibility for the materi... ...d of tales that dealt with knights, Half-legend, half-historic, counts and kings Who laid about them at their wills and died; And mixt with these, a l... ...en,’ said the book, ‘O noble heart who, being strait-besieged By this wild king to force her to his wish, Nor bent, nor broke, nor shunned a soldier’s... ..., Of finest Gothic lighter than a fire, Through one wide chasm of time and frost they gave The park, the crowd, the house; but all within The sward wa... ... I think, So mouldered in a sinecure as he: For while our cloisters echoed frosty feet, And our long walks were stript as bare as brooms, We did but t... ...ious was her tact and tenderness: 9 Tennyson But my good father thought a king a king; He cared not for the affection of the house; He held his scept... ... those three stars of the airy Giant’s zone, That glitter burnished by the frosty dark; And as the fiery Sirius alters hue, And bickers into red and e...

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...blication of PSU s Electronic Classics Series, Jim Manis, Faculty Editor. The Tempest by William Shakespeare is a publication of the Pennsylvania St... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ...State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone associated with the Pennsylvania State University assumes any responsibility for the materi... ...23.25 inches. THE TEMPEST (written about 1610) DRAMATIS PERSONAE ALONSO: King of Naples. SEBASTIAN: his brother. PROSPERO: the right Duke of Milan... ... ANTONIO: his brother, the usurping Duke of Milan. FERDINAND: son to the King of Naples. GONZALO: an honest old Counsellor. ADRIAN & FRANCISCO: Lo... ...swain: When the sea is. Hence! What cares these roar ers for the name of king? To cabin: silence! Trouble us not. GONZALO: Good, yet remember whom ... ...e north, To do me business in the veins o’ the earth When it is baked with frost. ARIEL: I do not, sir. PROSPERO: Thou li...

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... Moral Emblems by Robert Louis Stevenson is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnish... ...ile, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyo... ...a State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone associated with the Pennsylvania State University assumes any responsibility for the mate... ...the look But not the matter. I own in disarray: As to the flowers of May The frosts of Winter; To my poetic rage, The smallness of the page And of the... ...equal aptitude and ease. I move with that illustrious crew, The ambidextrous Kings of Art; And every mortal thing I do Brings ringing money in the mar... ...ff to sleep again. Poem: IV - The Tramps Now long enough had day endured, Or King Apollo Palinured, Seaward he steers his panting team, And casts on e... ...elf came day by day To push the work in every way. An artful builder, patent king Of all the local building ring, Who was there like him in the quarte...

.......................................................................................................................................... 12 Poem: II - The Precarious Mill .................................................................................................................................................. 13 Poem: III - The Disputatious Pines .......................

...e. That title from a better man I stole: Ah, how much better, had I stol’n the whole! A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION Underwoods ... ...RIES PUBLICATION Underwoods by Robert Louis Stevenson is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ...emember; to Dr. Karl Ruedi of Davos, the good genius of the English in his frosty mountains; to Dr. Herbert of Paris, whom I knew only for a week, and... ... daisies go, shall winter time Silver the simple grass with rime; Autumnal frosts enchant the pool And make the cart-ruts beautiful; And when snow-bri... ... silver-skimming rain you took; And loved the floodings of the brook, Dew, frost and mountains, fire and seas, Tumultuary silences, Winds that in dark... ...fathomable sea, and time, and tears, The deeds of heroes and the crimes of kings Dispart us; and the river of events Has, for an age of years, to east... ...ments and for hours; Each is with service pregnant; each reclaimed Is as a kingdom conquered, where to reign. As when a captain rallies to the fight H... ...lled the garden his; Who now, deposed, surveys my plain abode And his late kingdom, only from the road. 36 Underwoods XXXVII My body which my dungeon...

....................................................................................................................................... 8 II ? A SONG OF THE ROAD .......................................................................................................... 8 III ? THE CANOE SPEAKS .......................................................................................

... Essay on Man by Alexander Pope is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...ile, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyo... ...a State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone associated with the Pennsylvania State University assumes any responsibility for the mate... ...WAKE, my St. John! leave all meaner things To low ambition, and the pride of kings. Let us (since life can little more supply Than just to look about ... ...name. In lazy apathy let Stoics boast Their virtue fix’d; ’tis fix’d as in a frost; Contracted all, retiring to the breast; But strength of mind is ex... ...irgin, to the matron pride, Fear to the statesman, rashness to the chief, To kings presumption, and to crowds belief: That, virtue’s ends from vanity ... ...v’n. See the blind beggar dance, the cripple sing, The sot a hero, lunatic a king; The starving chemist in his golden views Supremely blest, the poet ...

... Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnish... ...le, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk . Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyo... ...a State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone associated with the Pennsylvania State University assumes any responsibility for the mate... ...er only the day before—all because Alice had begun with ‘Let’s pretend we’re kings and queens;’ and her sister, who liked being very exact, had argued... ...ng them. The chessmen were walk ing about, two and two! ‘Here are the Red King and the Red Queen,’ Alice said (in a whisper, for fear of frightenin... ... said (in a whisper, for fear of frightening them), ‘and there are the White King and the White Queen sitting on the edge of the shovel—and here are t... ... Echoes fade and memories die. Autumn frosts have slain July. Still she haunts me, phantomw...

...Excerpt: One thing was certain, that the white kitten had had nothing to do with it:--it was the black kitten?s fault entirely. For the white kitten had been having its face washed by the old cat for the last quarter of an hour (and bearing it pretty well, consi...

...lutarch’s Lives – Volume One trans. Arthur Hugh Clough is a publication of the Pennsyl- vania State University. This Portable Document file is furnish... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ...State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone associated with the Pennsylvania State University assumes any responsibility for the materi... .... Yet, after publishing an ac- count of Lycurgus the lawgiver and Numa the king, I thought I might, not without reason, ascend as high as to Romulus, ... ...de he was descended of Pelops. For Pelops was the most powerful of all the kings of Peloponnesus, not so much by the greatness of his riches as the mu... ...ons of Pallas, who before were quiet, upon expecta- tion of recovering the kingdom after Aegeus’s death, who was without issue, as soon as Theseus app... ...nox, with storms and frequent snows and, even in the most clear days, hoar frost and ice, which made the waters scarcely drinkable 835 Plutarch’s Liv...

... WITH NO WITH NO WITH NO WITH NO WITH NOTES BY TES BY TES BY TES BY TES BY THE THE THE THE THE RE RE RE RE REV V V V V. . . . . THEODORE AL THEODORE A... ....A. .S.A. .S.A. .S.A. A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The Iliad of Homer, trans. Alexander Pope with notes by the Rev. Theodore A... ...s by the Rev. Theodore Alois Buckley, M. A., F . S. A. is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ... the same way, is more pardonable, than to believe in the good-natured old king whom the elegant pen of Florian has idealized—Numa Pompilius. Sceptici... ... convenient road. Here, the Cumans say, he composed an epitaph on Gordius, king of Phrygia, which has however, and with greater probability, been at- ... ...declare the cause of it; who attributes it to the refusal of Chryseis. The king, being obliged to send back his captive, enters into a furious contest... ... and provoke the war So when inclement winters vex the plain With piercing frosts, or thick-descending rain, To warmer seas the cranes embodied fly, 6... ... all height above! O great Pelasgic, Dodonæan Jove! Who ‘midst surrounding frosts, and vapours chill, Presid’st on bleak Dodona’s vocal hill: (Whose g...

Excerpt: The Iliad of Homer, translated by Alexander Pope with notes by the Rev. Theodore Alois Buckley, M.A., F.S.A.

...K OF OF OF OF OF G G G G G ENESIS ENESIS ENESIS ENESIS ENESIS THE THE THE THE THE FIRST FIRST FIRST FIRST FIRST BOOK BO... ...ST FIRST BOOK BOOK BOOK BOOK BOOK OF OF OF OF OF T T T T THE HE HE HE HE H H H H H OL OL OL OL OLY Y Y Y Y B B B B B IBLE IB... ...E IBLE CONT CONT CONT CONT CONTAINING AINING AINING AINING AINING THE THE THE THE THE O O O O OLD LD LD LD LD AND AND AND AND AND N ... ... equal opportunity university. The Book of Genesis, the First Book of the King James Version of the Bible is a publication of the Penn- sylvania Stat... ...ronic transmission, in any way. The Book of Genesis, the First Book of the King James Version of the Bible, the Pennsylvania State University, Jim Man... ... as Nimrod the mighty hunter before the LORD. 10 And the beginning of his kingdom was Babel, and Erech, and Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar.... ...len by night. 40 Thus I was; in the day the drought consumed me, and the frost by night; and my sleep departed from mine eyes. 41 Thus have I been ...

...Excerpt: In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth -- 2. And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was uponthe face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of thewaters -- 3. And God said, Let ther...

... Bart. Edited with Notes by William J. Rolfe, A.M. Formerly Head Master of the High School, Cambridge, Mass. Boston 1883 A Penn State Electronic Class... ...ge, Mass. Boston 1883 A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Lady of the Lake by Sir Walter Scott, ed. William J. Rolfe, A.M. is a p... ...e Lake by Sir Walter Scott, ed. William J. Rolfe, A.M. is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ... my simple emblem be; It drinks heaven’s dew as blithe as rose That in the King’s own garden grows; And when I place it in my hair, Allan, a bard is b... ...er her sister’s child; T o her brave chieftain son, from ire Of Scotland’s king who shrouds my sire, A deeper, holier debt is owed; And, could I pay i... ...hall give thee thy command, And leading in thy native land,— List all!—The King’s vindictive pride Boasts to have tamed the Border-side, Where chiefs,... ... fire My life’s beset, my path is lost, The gale has chilled my limbs with frost.’ ‘Art thou a friend to Roderick?’ ‘No.’ ‘Thou dar’st not call thysel...

...Preface: When I first saw Mr. Osgood?s beautiful illustrated edition of The Lady of the Lake, I asked him to let me use some of the cuts in a cheaper annotated edition for school and household use; and the present volume is the result. The text of the poem has given me unexpected trouble. When I ...

...Carew Hazilitt 1877 1877 1877 1877 1877 ESSAYS OF MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE Book the First T ranslated by Charles Cotton Edited by William Carew Hazilitt 18... ...tion ublication ublication ublication Essays of Michel De Montaigne, Book the First, trans. Charles Cotton, Ed. William Carew Hazilitt is a publicati... ...rst, trans. Charles Cotton, Ed. William Carew Hazilitt is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...nduct, and his social relations. The title of Gentleman in Ordinary to the King, which he as- sumes, in a preface, and which Henry II. gives him in a ... ...Instructions which he wrote under the dictation of Catherine de Medici for King Charles IX., and his noble correspondence with Henry IV ., leave no do... ...had hitherto exhibited to the Church and the service of the Most Christian King. “After this, one sees,” says the editor of the Journal, “Montaigne em... ... Ventus in Italiam quis bene vela ferat.” [“What country is bound in frost, what land is friable with heat, what wind serves fairest for Italy.”... ...no further than our feet. When the vines of my village are nipped with the frost, my parish priest presently con- cludes, that the indignation of God ... ...in du Bellay, who affirms, that in the march to Luxembourg he saw so great frost, that the munition-wine was cut with hatchets and wedges, and deliver...

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 ............................................

...GRISLY GRISELL or THE LAIDLY LADY OF WHITBURN: A TALE OF THE WARS OF THE ROSES By Charlotte M. Yonge A Penn State Electronic Classic... ...ge A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication GRISLY GRISELL, or The Laidly Lady of Whitbern is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Uni-... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ...tre should be digg’d out of the bowels of the harmless earth. —Shakespeare King Henry IV., Part I. A TERRIBLE SHRIEK rang through the great Manor-hous... ...dies at- tending on the young Queen Margaret of Anjou, lately mar- ried to King Henry VI. Attendance on the patient had prevented the Countess from he... ... wife, because the Copelands were devoted to the Somerset faction; and the King had been labouring to rec- oncile them to the Dacres, and to bring abo... ...he serving-men began to draw off his heavy boots and greaves, covered with frosted mud, snow, and blood, all melting together, but all the time he tal... ...e door that yielded to Ridley’s push. The house was still closed, and hoar frost lay on the leaves, but Grisell proposed to hide herself in the little... ..., in which in spray after spray of rich point, she dis- played in the pure frostwork-like web, the Daisy of Marga- ret, the Rose of York, and moreover...

...Excerpt: A terrible shriek rang through the great Manor-house of Amesbury. It was preceded by a loud explosion, and there was agony as well as terror in the cry. Then followed more shrieks and screams, some of pain, some of fright, others of anger and recrimination...

...ted by Alexander Pope A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Odyssey of Homer trans. Alexander Pope is a publication of the Pennsy... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ...State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone associated with the Pennsylvania State Uni versity assumes any responsibility for the mate... ... the same way, is more pardonable, than to believe in the good natured old king whom the elegant pen of Florian has idealized—Numa Pompilius. Sceptici... ... convenient road. Here, the Cumans say, he composed an epitaph on Gordius, king of Phrygia, which has however, and with greater probability, been at ... ...o Ithaca. She holds a conference with T elemachus, in the shape of Mantes, king of Taphians; in which she ad vises him to take a journey in quest of ... ...ither’d at her hand; A swift old age o’er all his members spread; A sudden frost was sprinkled on his head; Nor longer in the heavy eye ball shined Th...

Excerpt: The Odyssey of Homer translated by Alexander Pope.

...ree by THOMAS CARLYLE A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The French Revolution: A History (Volume Three) by Thomas Carlyle is a publ... ...Revolution: A History (Volume Three) by Thomas Carlyle is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ...67.) Disfrocked Chabot abjures Heaven that at least we may “have done with Kings;” and fast as powder under spark, we all blaze up once more, and with... ...ranger Town-Council. Ad- ministration, not of a great City, but of a great Kingdom in 11 Thomas Carlyle a state of revolt and frenzy, this is the tas... ...yet what most original fellow-man, of the Governing sort, high-chancellor, king, kaiser, secre- tary of the home or the foreign department, ever shewe... ...rror itself, when once grown transcendental, becomes a kind of courage; as frost sufficiently intense, according to Poet Milton, will burn.—Danton, th... ...Frimaire; or as one might say, in mixed English, Vintagearious, Fogarious, Frostarious: these are our three Autumn months. Nivose, Pluviose, Ventose, ... ...f out in the old man’s weary heart. For hours long; amid curses and bitter frost-rain! “Bailly, thou tremblest,” said one. “Mon ami, it is for cold,” ...

Excerpt: The French Revolution. A History (Volume Three).

...Contents VOLUME III. THE GUILLOTINE................................................................................................................................. 6 BOOK 3.I. SEPTEMBER ..............................................................

...THE PIONEERS OR, THE SOURCES OF THE SUSQUEHANNA A Descriptive Tale by James Fenimore Cooper A Penn State El... ...James Fenimore Cooper A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Pioneers, or The Sources of the Susquehanna, A Descriptive Tale by Jame... ...squehanna, A Descriptive Tale by James Fenimore Cooper is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is fur- nish... ...orses that drew the sleigh were covered, in many parts with a coat of hoar-frost. The vapor from their nostrils was seen to issue like smoke; and ever... ...large shining eyes filled with tears; a tribute to its power that the keen frosts of those regions always extracted from one of his African origin. St... ...e of heaven visits Are to a wise man ports and happy havens: Think not the king did banish thee: But thou the king. —Richard II AN ANCESTOR of Marmadu... ...d in earnest, when he reappeared in New Y ork, wearing the Liv- ery of his king; and, in a short time, he took the field at the head of a provincial c... ...armaduke, more fortunate in his native clearness of mind than the judge of King Charles, not only decided right, but was generally able to give a very... ...that slowly rock Their towering branches in the wintry gale; That field of frost, which glitters in the sun, Mocking the whiteness of a marble breast!...

Excerpt: The Pioneers, or The Sources of the Susquehanna, A Descriptive Tale by James Fenimore Cooper.

...Classics Series Publication Catriona by Robert Louis Stevenson is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is... ...ument file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, n... ...sylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone associated with the Pennsylvania State University assumes any responsibility for t... ...h a pretty accent, most like the English (but more agreeable). “A cat may look at a king.” “I do not mean to offend,” said I. “I have no skill of city... ...me time they will not let me be seeing him, nor yet him write; and we wait upon the King’s street to catch him; and now we give him his snuff as he go... ... gence upon both sides. But for my private part I have no particular desire to harm King George; and as for King James, God bless him! he does very we... ...r and clearer; the straight crags painted with sea- birds’ droppings like a morning frost, the sloping top of it green with grass, the clan of white g... ...ness. There were nights of it when he was here on sentry, the place a’ wheesht, the frosts o’ winter maybe riving in the wa’s, and he would hear ane o... ...sed first by the house of Shaws, where it stood smokeless in a great field of white frost, for it was yet early in the day. Here Prestongrange alighte...

...Excerpt: My Dear Charles, It is the fate of sequels to disappoint those who have waited for them; and my David, having been left to kick his heels for more than a lustre in the British Linen Company?s office, must expect his late re-appearance to be greeted...

...elville A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Moby Dick; or The Whale by Herman Melville is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Uni... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor any- o... ...ate University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor any- one associated with the Pennsylvania State University assumes any responsibility for the materi... ...bones of very great value for their teeth, of which he brought some to the king. ... The best whales were catched in his own country, of which some we... ...ays.” —Other or Octher’ s V erbal Narra- tive Taken Down from His Mouth by King Alfred, A.D. 890. “And whereas all the other things, whether beast or ... ...h.” “The sovereignest thing on earth is parmacetti for an inward bruise.” —King Henry. “V ery like a whale.” —Hamlet. “Which to secure, no skill of le... ...cked snow and ice from before the house, for everywhere else the congealed frost lay ten inches thick in a hard, asphaltic pavement,—rather weary for ... ...r thou lookest out at it from a glass window where the 21 Herman Melville frost is all on the outside, or whether thou observest it from that sashles... ...outside, or whether thou observest it from that sashless window, where the frost is on both sides, and of which the wight Death is the only glazier.” ...

Excerpt: Moby Dick; or The Whale by Herman Melville.

... 1 Loomings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 2 The Carpet Bag . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 3 The... ...3 The Spouter Inn . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 4 The Counterpane . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 5 Br... ...Breakfast . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40 6 The Street . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42 7 T... ...bones of very great value for their teeth, of which he brought some to the king. * * * The best whales were catched in his own country, of which some ... ...two days.” Other or Octher’s verbal narrative taken down from his mouth by King Alfred. A.D. 890. “And whereas all the other things, whether beast or ... ...h. ” “The sovereignest thing on earth is parmacetti for an inward bruise.” King Henry. “Very like a whale.” Hamlet. “Which to recure, no skill of leac... ...cked snow and ice from before the house, for everywhere else the congealed frost lay ten inches thick in a hard, asphaltic pavement, — rather weary fo... ...s difference, whether thou lookest out at it from a glass window where the frost is all on the outside, or whether thou observest it from that sashles... ...outside, or whether thou observest it from that sashless window, where the frost is on both sides, and of which the wight Death is the only glazier.” ...

...Excerpt: Etymology (SUPPLIED BY A LATE CONSUMPTIVE USHER TO A GRAMMAR SCHOOL.); The pale Usher --threadbare in coat, heart, body, and brain; I see him now. He was ever dusting his old lexicons and grammars, with a queer handkerchief, mockingly embellished with all the gay flags of all the known nations o...

...Table of Contents: Etymology, 1 -- Extracts, 3 -- 1 Loomings, 15 -- 2 The Carpet-Bag, 20 -- 3 The Spouter-Inn, 24 -- 4 The Counterpane, 36 -- 5 Breakfast, 40 -- 6 The Street, 42 -- 7 The Chapel, 45 -- 8 The Pulpit, 48 -- 9 The Sermon, 51 -- 10 A Bosom Friend, 59 -- 11 Nightgown, 63 -- 12 Biogra...