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...Excerpt: William Shakespeare, the protagonist on the great arena of modern poetry, and the glory of the human intellect, was born at Stratford-upon- Avon, in the county of Warwick, in the year 1564, and upon some day, not precisely ascertained, in the month of April. It is certain that he was baptized on th...

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...nnsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ... charge 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 Sta... ...o earliest years, to delay would often be to dis- inherit the child of its Christian privileges; privileges not the less eloquent to the feelings from... ...epa- rated and sequestrated. Ground the most hallowed, and popu- lous with Christian burials of households, “That died in peace with one another. Fath... ... not belie his reverence intellectually for Shakspeare; and in his younger days we know that he had spoken more enthusiastically of Shakspeare, than h... ...had swept away all traces of the mighty poet, by the time when those quiet days revolved upon England, in which again the solitary agent of learned re... ... her virgin knot before All sanctimonious ceremonies may With full and holy rite be minister’d;” in that case what would follow? “No sweet asper... ...ileged thing; he was obliged to do so; for take away from great ceremonial festivals, such as the solemn rendering of thanks, the cel- ebration of nat... ...ts adjacent, were of a corre- 166 Biographical Essays sponding character. Festivals were annually celebrated at a short distance from the walls, whic...

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...tion. ?Your hat, sir, if you please?? a thin, querulous voice called out. A little old man, crouching in the darkness behind a railing, suddenly rose and exhibited his features, carved after a mean design....

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...nnsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ... charge 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 Sta... ...linen. His hands, shapely as a woman’s were not per- fectly clean; for two days past indeed he had ceased to wear 8 The Magic Skin gloves. If the ver... ...ng sight of the Seine fretted him beyond endurance. “May God lengthen your days!” cried the two beggars. As he reached the shop window of a print-sell... ...people, passed in review before him like the cloudy faces of a dream. Then Christian Rome predominated in his vision. A painter had laid heaven open; ... ...only look,” he added, with a mock-heroic gesture, “at the majestic, thrice holy, and edifying appearance of this ami- able capitalist’s dining-room. T... ...ives us all more or less at first. To-day I laugh at myself, at that self, holy perhaps and heroic, which is now no more. I have since had a closer vi... ...onse- quent upon his excesses; but has he not borne a part in de- lightful festivals in realms unknown? Has Europe ever ceased from wars? She has neve... ...out daring to communicate their thoughts. The learned pair looked like two Christians who had issued from their tombs to find no God in the heavens. S...

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...Excerpt: PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION; MUCH to the author?s surprise, and (if he may say so without additional offence) considerably to his amusement, he finds that his sketch of official life, introductory to THE SCARLET LETTER, has created an unprecedented excitement in the respectable commun...

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...LACE, 33 -- 3 THE RECOGNITION, 40 -- 4 THE INTERVIEW, 47 -- 5 HESTER AT HER NEEDLE, 52 -- 6 PEARL, 59 -- 7 THE GOVERNOR?S HALL, 66 -- 8 THE ELF-CHILD AND THE MINISTER, 72 -- 9 THE LEECH, 79 -- 10 THE LEECH AND HIS PATIENT, 87 -- 11 THE INTERIOR OF A HEART, 95 -- 12 THE MINISTER?S VIGIL, 100 -- 13 ANOTHER VIEW OF HESTER, 108 -- 14 HESTER AND THE PHYSICIAN, 114 -- 15 HESTER ...

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...E GOVERNOR’S HALL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66 8 THE ELF CHILD AND THE MINISTER . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72 9 THE LEECH . . . . . .... ...CH . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79 10 THE LEECH AND HIS PATIENT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87 11 THE INTERIOR ... ...e. In my native town of Salem, at the head of what, half a century ago, in the days of old King Derby, was a bustling wharf — but which is now burdene... ...port — has grass enough growing in its chinks to show that it has not, of late days, been worn by any multitudinous 4 The Scarlet Letter resort of bu... ...thought fit to introduce a physician. He described him as a man of skill in all Christian modes of physical science, and likewise familiar with whateve... ...t, as I came out of the vast and dismal forest, and entered this settlement of Christian men, the very first object to meet my eyes would be thyself, H... ...d of sin, and made of no account the distinction between unhal lowed lust and holy love? This child of its father’s guilt and its mother’s shame has ... ...ay when all hidden things shall be revealed. Nor have I so read or interpreted Holy Writ, as to understand that the disclosure of human thoughts and d... ...e and brilliant embroidery to the great robe of state, which a nation, at such festivals, puts on. There was some shadow of an attempt of this kind in...

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...sylvania State University. This Portable Docu- ment file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this docu- ment file, ... ...harge of any kind. Any person using this docu- ment file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Penn- sylvania S... ... up”; truly, a man must confess that there is some phrenzy, some fury, how holy soever, that at that time possesses those souls. When we come to these... ... revisens Lusit, et in solido rursus fortuna locavit.” [“Length of days, and the various labour of changeful time, have brought things to a be... ...mmend himself to such a saint, under such and such vows, and to fast eight days together without taking any manner of nourishment, what weakness or fa... ...d are set before us. ’Tis an effect of the divine Providence to suffer the holy Church to be afflicted, as we see it, with so many storms and troubles... ...it was acted that were called Leneian; they were one of the four Dionysiac festivals.] What I find tolerable of mine, is not so really and in itself, ... ... his history sharply reproves an edict of his whereby he inter- dicted all Christian rhetoricians and grammarians to keep school or to teach, and says... ...sed against us. “He was,” says Eutropius, my other wit- ness, “an enemy to Christianity, but without putting his hand to blood.” And, to return to his...

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Excerpt: Speeches: Literary and Social by Charles Dickens.

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...: BIRMINGHAM, FEBRUARY 28, 1844. ............................................................................................... 33 SPEECH: GARDENERS AND GARDENING. ...................................................................................................... 39 LONDON, JUNE 14, 1852. ....................................................................................

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...A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication ii Speeches: Literary and Social by Charles Dickens is a publication of the Pennsylvania State... ...sylvania State Uni versity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, f... ... bubble. I had so figured him in my mind, and when I saw the Professor two days ago, striding along the Parliament House, I was disposed to take it as... ...ke reclaimed giantesses, and the kind medical practitioner like an amiable Christian ogre. Grouped about the little low tables in the centre of the ro... ... limit myself to saying better known, because I will not believe that in a Christian community of fathers and moth ers, and brothers and sisters, it ... ...e great plea sure and interest with which your gracious presence at these festivals never fails to inspire us. There is no English custom which is so... ...o parties —the institution and the public—should not be joined together in holy charity. As I understand the society, its objects are five fold—first,... ...morations; and that an immense number of new marriages, and other domestic festivals naturally consequent upon those marriages, may be traced back fro... ... to the other, and watch it and tend it with unceas ing interest. It is a holy duty in foreign countries to decorate the graves of the dead with flow...

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...in alone is worthy for the Muse, I say the Form complete is worthier far, The Female equally with the Male I sing. Of Life immense in passion, pulse, and power, Cheerful, for freest action form?d under the laws divine, The Modern Man I sing....

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...ch of the various subjects discussed in them is the main thesis. The speakers have the freedom of conversation; no severe rules of art restrict them, and sometimes we are inclined to think, with one of the dramatis personae in the Theaetetus, that the digressions have the greater interest....

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...roduction: Nicolo Machiavelli was born at Florence on 3rd May 1469. He was the second son of Bernardo di Nicolo Machiavelli, a lawyer of some repute, and of Bartolommea di Stefano Nelli, his wife. Both parents were members of the old Florentine nobility....

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...to be the chief personage of the following tale, it will be well that he should be made acquainted with some particulars as to the locality in which, and the neighbors among whom, our doctor followed his profession....

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...nnsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ... charge 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 Sta... ...y one whole as it was before the Reform Bill divided it. There is in these days an East Barsetshire, and there is a West Barsetshire; and people conve... ... When the division above spoken of was first contemplated, in those stormy days in which gallant men were still combatting reform ministers, if not wi... ...all, ’ at Greshamsbury, now as they had done for many centuries on similar festivals. Yes; it was so reported. But this, like so many other such repor... ...or. ’ ‘What, Dr Thorne?’ Now the Countess de Courcy hated Dr Thorne with a holy hatred. ‘Yes; Dr Thorne. I believe that he knows everything; and advis... ...rst impulse was to reiterate her command to him to call her no more by her Christian name; but her second impulse told her that such an injunction at ... ...r without the Mr, was it? I don’t think there could possibly be a prettier Christian name than Mortimer. Well, Amelia, I allowed him to express himsel...

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...nsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ... charge 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 Sta... ...he would have forgotten it altogether but for a second note which came two days later, requesting some acknowl- edgment of the previous communication.... ...y precaution, or whether he had contrived to leave the country in the four days which elapsed between his flight and the offer of the reward, the doct... ...s of friendship with young ladies, and had invited them to call her by her Christian name; but on such occasions she had always called themn “dear” or... ...ction of his habit of getting drunk at races, regattas, and other national festivals, by an accident at one of which he had met his death. Alice went ... ...?” “And do you suppose, Wallace, that I should permit you to call me by my Christian name, and be as familiar as we have always been together, if you ... ...about forty thousand pounds.” “Forty thousand pounds!” ejaculated Cashel. “Holy Moses! I didn’t think the queen had so much as that.” He paused a mome...