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The Trial or More Links of the Daisy Chain

By: Charlotte Mary Yonge

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Diana of the Crossways

By: George Meredith

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...ith 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,? in the deliberate syllables of one of the writers, who is, however, not disposed to personal irony when speaking of her. It is otherwise in his case and a general fling at the sex we may deem pardonable, for doing as little h...

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Ordeal of Richard Feverel

By: George Meredith

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The Pigeon Pie

By: Charlotte Mary Yonge

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Arthurian Chronicles : Roman de Brut

By: Eugene Mason

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The Life of John Sterling

By: Thomas Carlyle

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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 o...

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Autobiographic Sketches Selections, Grave and Gay

By: Thomas de Quincey

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...Excerpt: My dear sir, I am on the point of revising and considerably altering, for republication in England, an edition of such amongst my writings as it may seem proper deliberately to avow. Not that I have any intention, or consciously any reason, expressly to disown any one thing that I have ever published; but some t...

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The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley Volume 3

By: Thomas Hutchinson

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House of Mirth

By: Edith Wharton

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...Excerpt: Selden paused in surprise. In the afternoon rush of the Grand Central Station his eyes had been refreshed by the sight of Miss Lily Bart. It was a Monday in early September, and he was returning to his work from a hurried dip into the coun...

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The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope Volume I.

By: George Gilfillan

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.......................................................................................................................................... 25 VARIATIONS IN THE AUTHOR?S MANUSCRIPT PREFACE. ........................................................................ 31 PASTORALS, WITH A DISCOURSE ON PASTORAL POETRY. WRITTEN IN THE YEAR MDCCIV...... 32 SPRING .........................

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Stray Pearls: Memoirs of Margaret de Ribaumont, Viscountess of Bellaise

By: Charlotte Mary Yonge

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Of Human Bondage

By: Somerset Maugham

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...Excerpt: The day broke gray and dull. The clouds hung heavily, and there was a rawness in the air that suggested snow. A woman servant came into a room in which a child was sleeping and drew the curtains. She glanced mechanically at the house opposite, a stucco house with a portico, and went to the child?s bed....

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Aaron's Rod

By: D. H. Lawrence

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...Excerpt: There was a large, brilliant evening star in the early twilight, and underfoot the earth was half frozen. It was Christmas Eve. Also the War was over, and there was a sense of relief that was almost a new menace. A man felt the violence of the nightmare released now ...

....................... 55 CHAPTER VII: THE DARK SQUARE GARDEN................................................................. 64 CHAPTER VIII: A PUNCH IN THE WIND........................................................................ 71 CHAPTER IX: LOW-WATER MARK ................................................................................... 84 CHAPTER X: THE WAR AGAIN...

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Sketches

By: Charles Dickens

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...Excerpt: How much is conveyed in those two short words--?The Parish!? And with how many tales of distress and misery, of broken fortune and ruined hopes, too often of unrelieved wretchedness and successful knavery, are they associated! A poor man, with sm...

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Sketches

By: Charles Dickens

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...Excerpt: How much is conveyed in those two short words--?The Parish!? And with how many tales of distress and misery, of broken fortune and ruined hopes, too often of unrelieved wretchedness and successful knavery, are they associated! A poor man, with sm...

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King Henry VIII

By: William Shakespeare

...arge 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 State... ...contained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. King Henry VIII, by William Shakespeare, the Pennsylvania St... ... ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in En glish, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of the... ... Who did guide, I mean, who set the body and the limbs Of this great sport together, as you guess? NORFOLK: One, certes, that promises no ele... ...arter, in his coat of arms, and on his head a gilt copper crown. 6. Marquess Dorset, bearing a sceptre of gold, on his head a demi coronal of gold. W... ..., Act IV, scene i 63 First Gentleman : Marquess Dorset: And that the Earl of Surrey, with the rod. Second Gentleman : A ... ... two noble partners with you; the old Duchess of Norfolk, and Lady Marquess Dorset: will these please you? Once more, my Lord of Winchester, I charge...

... that come to see Only a show or two, and so agree The play may pass, if they be still and willing, I?ll undertake may see away their shilling Richly in two short hours. Only they That come to hear a merry bawdy play, A noise of targets, or to see a fellow In a long motley coat guarded with yellow, Will be deceived; for, gentle hearers, know, To rank our chosen truth with ...

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The Famous History of the Life of King Henry the Eighth: A Historical Play

By: William Shakespeare

...illing, 13 Ile vndertake may see away their shilling 14 Richly in two short houres. Onely they 15 That come to heare a Merry, Bawdy ... ...erry, Bawdy Play, 16 A noyse of Targets: Or to see a Fellow 17 In a long Motley Coate, garded with Yellow, 18 Will be deceyu’d. For ... ...’d with the generall throng, and sweat 30 Of thousand Friends: Then, in a moment, see 31 How soone this Mightinesse, meets Misery: 32 ... ..., 92 I meane who set the Body, and the Limbes 93 Of this great Sport together? 94 Nor. As you guesse: 95 One certes, that ... ...nd on his head he wore a Gilt Copper 2427 Crowne. 2428 6 Marquesse Dorset, bearing a Scepter of Gold, on his head, 2429 a Demy Coronall o... ...now: 2447 Who’s that that beares the Scepter? 2448 1 Marquesse Dorset, 2449 And that the Earle of Surrey, with the Rod. 2450 2... ...ners with you: the old 3240 Duchesse of Norfolke, and Lady Marquesse Dorset? will 3241 these please you? 3242 Once more my Lord of Winc...

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A Child's History of England

By: Charles Dickens

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...Excerpt: If you look at a map of the World, you will see, in the left-hand upper corner of the Eastern Hemisphere, two Islands lying in the sea. They are England and Scotland, and Ireland. England and Scotland form the greater part of these Islands. Ireland is the next in size. The ...

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The History of Tom Jones

By: Henry Fielding

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The Country of the Blind and Other Stories

By: H. G. Wells

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...Introduction: The enterprise of messrs. T. Nelson & Sons and the friendly accommodation of Messrs. Macmillan render possible this collection in one cover of all the short stories by me that I care for any one to read again. Except for the two series of linked incidents that make up the bulk of the book called Tales of Space and Time, no short story of mine of the ...

..........................................................................27 THE FLOWERING OF THE STRANGE ORCHID .....................................34 IN THE AVU OBSERVATORY .....................................................................42 ’PYORNIS ISLAND ....................................................................................48 THE REMARKABLE CASE OF DAVI...

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Narrative and Miscellaneous Papers

By: Thomas de Quincey

...rge 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 State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Narrative and Miscellaneous Papers by Thomas de Quincey, the Pe... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. C... ...pirited, generous young man as I have ever known. When I say that he was a sportsman, that at one 47 Thomas de Quincey season of the year he did litt... ...ning. On the outside of the jail all was sum- mer light and animation. The sports of children in the streets of mighty cities are but sad, and too pai... ...re to turn aside into the room, armed with a roasted potato, and, taking a sportsman’s aim, to have lodged it in the Crocodile’s abominable mouth. Yet... ...ell aware of this, does us the favor to land upon the coasts of Hampshire, Dorset, &c., all the criminals whom she cannot summarily send back to self-...

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The Egoist : A Comedy in Narrative

By: George Meredith

...rge 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 State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Egoist by George Meredith, the Pennsylvania State Universit... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. C... ...it is, and it will shine through! He has the leg of Rochester, Buckingham, Dorset, Suckling; the leg that smiles, that winks, is obsequi- ous to you, ... ...dmirable passion to excel, however, was chiefly directed in his youth upon sport; and so great was the passion in him, that it was commonly the presen... ...s themes in public were those of an English gentleman; horses, dogs, game, sport, intrigue, scandal, politics, wines, the manly themes; with a condesc... ...lf-shut door. Now you have only to be reminded that it is the habit of the sportive gentleman of easy life, bewildered as he would otherwise be by the...

...hapter of which the last page only is of any importance comedy is a game played to throw reflections upon social life, and it deals with human nature in the drawing-room of civilized men and women, where we have no dust of the struggling outer world, no mire, no violent crashes, to make the correctness of the representation convincing. Credulity is not wooed through the im...

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An Essay Concerning Human Understanding

By: John Locke

...le is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her ow... ...s any responsibility for the material contained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. An Essay Concerning Hum... ...e Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access... ... I am obliged to be, and how much I am, MY LORD, Your Lordship’s most humble and most obedient servant, JOHN LOCKE Dorset Court, 24th of May, 1689 9 ... ...ng of it, that therefore I am fondly taken with it now it is done. He that hawks at larks and sparrows has no less sport, though a much less considera... ...f moral principles, or what touch of con- science for all the outrages they do. Robberies, murders, rapes, are the sports of men set at liberty from p... ...hat a fibre was better than he did before? Or rather, would he not have reason to think that my design was to make sport with him, rather than serious...

...promised it. It is not that I think any name, how great soever, set at the beginning of a book, will be able to cover the faults that are to be found in it. Things in print must stand and fall by their own worth, or the reader?s fancy....

.................................................................................................................................. 86 Chapter I Of Ideas in general, and their Original .............................................................................................................. 86 Chapter II Of Simple Ideas ........................................................

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The Chaplet of Pearls

By: Charlotte Mary Yonge

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... as little. It only aims at drawing certain scenes and certain characters as the convulsions of the sixteenth century may have affected them, and is, in fact, like all historical romance, the shaping of the conceptions that the imagination must necessarily form when dwelling upon the records of history. That faculty which might be called the passive fancy, and might almost...

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The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope

By: Gilfillan

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Letters on England

By: Voltaire, 1694-1778

...rge 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 State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Letters on England by Voltaire (Francois Marie Arouet), the Pen... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. C... ...their titles. One shall be Duke of D-, though he has not a foot of land in Dorsetshire; and another is Earl of a village, though he scarce knows where... ... to lay aside the happy talent which Nature had indulged him. The Earls of Dorset and Roscommon, the two Dukes of Buckingham, the Lord Halifax, and so... ... designed to have given you some idea of the Lord Roscommon’s and the Lord Dorset’s muse; but I find that to do this I should be obliged to write a la... ...pious a spectacle exhibited in convents and monasteries; that we dishonour sports in which Louis XIV . and Louis XV ., performed as actors; that we gi...

...Introduction: Francois Marie Arouet, who called himself Voltaire, was the son of Francois Arouet of Poitou, who lived in Paris, had given up his office of notary two years before the birth of this his third son, and obtained some years afterwards a treasurer?s office in the Chambre des Comptes. Voltaire was born in the year 1694. He lived un...

....?ON SIR ISAAC NEWTON?S OPTICS ......................................................................................... 62 LETTER XVII.?ON INFINITES IN GEOMETRY, AND SIR ISAAC NEWTON?S CHRONOLOGY............. 65 LETTER XVIII.?ON TRAGEDY ............................................................................................................................ 71 LETTER XI...

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