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...THE GREAT STONE FACE AND OTHER TALES OF THE WHITE MOUNTAINS BY NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE A Penn State Electronic Class... ...ctronic Classics Series Publication The Great Stone Face and Other T ales of the White Mountains by Nathaniel Hawthorne is a publication of the Pen... ...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... ... heap to the mountainous accu mulation of this one man’s wealth. The cold regions of the north, almost within the gloom and shadow of the Arctic Circ... ...reat Carbuncle on shipboard, and voyage with it to England, France, Spain, Italy, or into Heathendom, if Providence should send me thither, and, in a ...

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...Excerpt: The Tempest; Actus Primus -- Scena Prima -- A tempestuous noise of Thunder and Lightning heard: Enter a Ship- master, and a Boteswaine. Master. Boteswaine. Botes. Heere Master: What cheere? Mast. Good: Speake to th? Mariners: fall too?t, yarely, or we run our selves a ground, bestirre, be...

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...T H E T E M P E S T. 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 Tempest . . . .... ...Tempest A1 Actus primus, Scena prima. 2 A tempestuous noise of Thunder and Lightning heard: En-ter 3 a Ship- master, and a Botes... ...My sonne is lost, and (in my rate) she too, 781 Who is so farre from Italy remoued, 782 I ne’re againe shall see her: O thou mine heire 78... ...hter’s Queene of Tunis, 951 So is she heyre of Naples, ’twixt which Regions 952 There is some space. 953 Ant. A space, whose eu’r...

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...Excerpt: The journey which this little book is to describe was very agreeable and fortunate for me. After an uncouth beginning, I had the best of luck to the end. But we are all travelers in what John Bunyan calls the wilderness of this world -- all, too, travelers with a donkey: and the best that we find in our travels is an honest friend. He is a fortunate voyager...

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... Travels with a Donkey in the Cevenne by Robert Louis Stevenson is a publication of the Pennsyl- vania State Unive... ...cation of the Pennsyl- vania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using thi... ...nic Classics Series, Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication... ...asant brethren. Look at him, he said. The rule was very hard; he would have dearly liked to stay in his own country, Italy – it was well known how bea... ...wn country, Italy – it was well known how beautiful it was, the beautiful Italy; but then there were no Trappists in Italy; and he had a soul to save;... ...ill-top; and look- ing up, I was surprised to see the cloud dyed with gold. In 73 Robert Louis Stevenson these high regions of the air, the sun was a...

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... A Tramp Abroad by Mark Twain (Samuel L. Clemens) is a publi... ...y Mark Twain (Samuel L. Clemens) is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any ... ...wain (Samuel L. Clemens), the Pennsylvania State University, Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Document File produced a... ... therefore of no value as a base to aim from; so I moved off once more, and at random among the wilderness of chairs and sofas—wandering off into unfa... ...ly. Showing off. The usual signs—airy, easy-going refer- ences to grand distances and foreign places. ‘Well good-by, old fellow—if I don’t run across ... ...at is what I would say, now.* However, our business in Baden-Baden this time, was to join our courier. I had thought it best to hire one, as we should... ...ed gentians. I made no notes, and have forgotten the details, but the construction of the floral calendar was very entertaining while it lasted. In th... ...place again. A little bit later, the party stood upon the wee pedestal of the very summit, in a driving wind, and looked out upon the vast green expan... ...y that the gravitation of refraction, being subsidiary to atmospheric compensation, the refrangibility of the earth’s surface would emphasize this eff...

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...Excerpt: The ?Body Of The Nation? But the basin of the Mississippi is the body of the nation. All the other parts are but members, important in themselves, yet more important in their relations to this. Exclusive of the Lake basin and of 300,00...

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... A preface generally begins with a truism; and I may set out with the admission that it is not always expedient to bring to light the posthumous work of great writers. A man generally contrives to publish, during his lifetime, quite as much as the public has time or inclination to read; and his surviving friends are apt to show more zeal than discretion in dragging forth f...

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...or Grimshawe’s Secret: A Romance by Nathaniel Hawthorne 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... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18201 1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ... im porting choice monstrosities in the spider kind from all those tropic regions. 6 All the above description, exaggerated as it may seem, is merely... ...ts, all in that moment of time, unless Satan let loose out of the infernal regions a synod of fiends, hoping thus to get a triumph over me. And second... ...e dreams and reveries which the child had cherished, far back into the dim regions of his memory. After what the Doctor had told him of his origin, he... ...hman, he being a Catholic, the descendant of forefathers who have lived in Italy since the time of George II., and who is, moreover, a Catholic. We En... ...” said the Warden. “There have been three descents of this man’s branch in Italy, and only one English mother in all that time. Positively, I do not s... ...ne morning, fair lady and fair sir,” said he. “We have few such, except in Italy.” 180 Doctor Grimshawe s Secret CHAPTER XXI CHAPTER XXI CHAPTER XXI ...

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...cation Mosses from an Old Manse by Nathaniel Hawthorne 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... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18201 1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ... Giovanni Guasconti, came, very long ago, from the more southern region of Italy, to pursue his studies at the University of Padua. Giovanni, who had ... ...gree with her that the Paduan sunshine was as cheerful as that of southern Italy. Such as it was, however, it fell upon a garden beneath the window an... ...hose botanic gardens which were of earlier date in Padua than elsewhere in Italy or in the world. Or, not improbably, it might once have been the plea... ...termixture of the two that produces the illuminating blaze of the infernal regions. Sometimes he endeavored to assuage the fever of his spirit by a ra... ...ntry, who obey the herald’s voice, and painfully hobble from all civilized regions of the globe to take their post in the grand procession. In mercy t...

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...Excerpt: CHAPTER 1. Fellow Travelers. In the autumn of the year, Darkness and Night were creeping up to the highest ridges of the Alps. It was vintage time in the valleys on the Swiss side of the Pass of the Great Saint Bernard, and along the banks of the Lake of Geneva....

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... Right Somewhere 7. Mostly, Prunes and Prism 8. The Dowager Mrs Gowan is reminded that ?It Never Does? 9. Appearance and Disappearance 10. The Dreams of Mrs Flintwinch thicken 11. A Letter from Little Dorrit 12. In which a Great Patriotic Conference is holden 13. The Progress of an Epidemic 14. Taking Advice 15. No just Cause or Impediment why these Two Persons should not ...

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...Excerpt: ENVOI. Felix de Vandenesse to Madame la Comtesse Natalie de Manerville: I yield to your wishes. It is the privilege of the women whom we love more than they love us to make the men who love them ignore the ordinary rules of common-sense. To smooth the frown upon their brow, to soften the pout upon their lips, what obstacles we miraculously...

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...ott Wormeley A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Lily of the Valley by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley is a ... ...y by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley 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... ...he did so, the meaning of her words, leading the soul of the listener into regions above this earth. Many a time I have continued a discussion I could... ...place she was pure as a child, and her thoughts wandered into no forbidden regions; in the next I amused the count and made a sop for that lion withou... ...unicate to each other light and motion. This thought lifted me to ethereal regions. I entered once more the heaven of my former visions; I found a mea... ...sh!” she said. “I wish to know nothing of it. The Ice- lander would die in Italy. I am calm and happy beside you; I can tell you all my thoughts; do n... ...piness! I have made delightful plans,—we will leave Clochegourde and go to Italy.” Tears filled my eyes and I turned to the window as if to look at th...

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...Excerpt: The Champion Of His Country. When young Nevil Beauchamp was throwing off his midshipman?s jacket for a holiday in the garb of peace, we had across Channel a host of dreadful military officers flashing swords at us for some critical observ...

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...Series Publication Beauchamp’s Career by George Meredith 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... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...p beheld the many pin- nacles of grey and red rocks and shadowy high white regions at the head of the gulf waiting for the sun; and the sun struck the... ...hitherto unknown to him, evidently the tongue of Renee. He slipped on from Italy to France. His uncle was besieged by a series of letters, and his cou... ...as waning. There was an heiress at Steynham, on her way with her father to Italy, very anxious to see her old friend Nevil—Cecilia Halkett—and very in... ...must be you. No, the colonel doesn’t race her. They’ve only been back from Italy six months: I mean the schooner. I remember she talked of you when I ...

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...Excerpt: ACT I. SCENE I. Rome. A street. [Enter a company of mutinous Citizens, with staves, clubs, and other weapons.] First Citizen: Before we proceed any further, hear me speak. All: Speak, speak. First Citizen: You are all resolved rather to die than to famish? All: Resolved. re...

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...Excerpt: Half-way down the Rue Saint-Denis, almost at the corner of the Rue du Petit-Lion, there stood formerly one of those delightful houses which enable historians to reconstruct old Paris by analogy. The threatening walls of this tumbledown abode seemed to have been decorated with hier...

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...Introduction: In an issue of the London World in April, 1890, there appeared the following paragraph: ?Two small rooms connected by a tiny hall afford sufficient space to contain Mr. Rudyard Kipling, the literary hero of the present hour, ?the man who...

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...ing in this gentle breeze, That blows from the green fields and from the clouds And from the sky; it beats against my cheek, And seems half conscious of the joy it gives. O welcome messenger! O welcome friend! A captive greets thee, coming from a house Of bondage, from yon city?s walls set free, A prison where he hath been long immured. Now I am free, enfranchised and at l...

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...I. A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: Volume One, with Memoir, Critical Dissertation, and Expl... ...ation, and Explanatory Notes by the Rev. George Gilfillan 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... ...s to have been the original of a new sort of poem—the pastoral com- edy—in Italy, it cannot so well be considered as a copy of the ancients. Spenser’s... ...:— So pleased at first the towering Alps to try, Fill’d with ideas of fair Italy, The traveller beholds with cheerful eyes The lessening vales, and se... ...ed before, Like his great pupil, sigh’d, and long’d for more: Fancy’s wild regions yet unvanquish’d lay, A boundless empire, and that own’d no sway. P... ...ane, The wanton victims of his sport remain. But see, the man who spacious regions gave A waste for beasts, himself denied a grave! 42 ... ...o the floods, Bear Britain’s thunder, and her cross display, To the bright regions of the rising day; Tempt icy seas, where scarce the waters roll, Wh... ... thought! Together o’er the Alps methinks we fly, Fired with ideas of fair Italy. With thee on Raphael’s monument I mourn. Or wait inspiring dreams at...

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...Excerpt: Chapter 1. Of Diaries and Diarists Touching The Heroine. Among the diaries beginning with the second quarter of our century, there is frequent mention of a lady then becoming famous for her beauty and her wit: ?an unusual combination,? ...

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...George Meredith A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Diana of the Crossways by George Meredith is a publication of the Pennsylvania St... ...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... ... document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Diana of the Crossways by George Meredith, the Pennsylvania State University, Ele... ...d woman, Diana came to Copsley to introduce her husband. They had run over Italy: ‘the Italian Peninsula,’ she quoted him in a letter to Lady Dunstane... ...y Dunstane: and were furnishing their London house. Her first letters from Italy appeared to have a little bloom of sentiment. Augustus was mentioned ... ...ousehold below; and she excused the hapless, overfed, idle people of those regions. T o Emma it seemed a not unnatural sensitiveness. She came to a se... ...as, after finishing a number of pages, to start Eastward toward the lawyer-regions, full of imaginary cropping incidents, and from that churchyard Wes... ...arison, and now first saw that she had the gift of writing. Only one cry: ‘Italy, Eden of exiles!’ betrayed the seem- ing of a moan. She wrote of her ... ...ndmothers!—when your T ony is wearing a perpetual laugh in the unhusbanded regions where there is no institution of the wedding-tie.’ For the reason t...

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...WHAT IS MAN? WHAT IS MAN? AND OTHER ESSAYS OF MARK TWAIN (Samuel Langhorne Clemens, 1835 1910) What Is Man and Other ... ...Man and Other Essays by Mark T wain (Samuel L. Clemens) 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 ... ...ms of sympathy are flowing in, from far and wide, now, just as they did in Italy five years and a half ago, when this child’s mother laid down her bla... ...and month by month, on the journey, and by the time it reached the remoter regions there was but little of it left. It was no longer a fresh event, it... ...aesar Borgia as a mirror for rulers. What Machiavelli beheld round him in Italy was a civic disorder in which there was oppression without statecraft... ... and Imitations on Immortal ity. Gibbon wrote a history of his travels in Italy. This was original. George Eliot left a wife and children who mourned... ...r theoretically, not practically. I have been a quartz miner in the silver regions—a pretty hard life; I know all the palaver of that business: I kno...