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Excerpt: The Two Brothers by Honore de Balzac, translated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley.

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...ine Prescott Wormeley A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Two Brothers by Honore de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley is... ...s by Honore de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...y Honore de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...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... ...ies success, and pardons every means of attaining it. May it return to the Catholic religion, for the purification of its masses through the inspi- ra... ... sanctimonious, she had no other education than that given to women by the Church. Judged, by ordinary standards, she was an accomplished wife, yet he... ...ely to have hid the money. On the days preceding festivals, Agathe went to church and stayed there a long time; no doubt she con- fessed and prepared ... ... land where, as we have seen, revolt of all kinds is traditional. In 1802, Catholic worship was scarcely re-estab- lished. The Emperor found it a diff... ...stion; unfortunately, Joseph had the classics and the In- stitute, and the critics who cry up those two powers, against him. The brave artist, though ...

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

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.................................. 7 PREFACE BY MRS. SHELLEY TO FIRST COLLECTED EDITION, 1839. ......................... 16 POSTSCRIPT IN SECOND EDITION OF 1839. ........................................................................ 21 PREFACE BY MRS. SHELLEY. TO THE VOLUME OF POSTHUMOUS POEMS PUBLISHED IN 1824...................................................................

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...THE COMPLETE POETICAL WORKS OF PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY VOLUME 1 OXFORD EDITION. INCLUDING MATERIALS NEVER ... ... 1 OXFORD EDITION. INCLUDING MATERIALS NEVER BEFORE PRINTED IN ANY EDITION OF THE POEMS. EDITED WITH TEXTUAL NOTES BY THOMAS HUTCHINSON, M. A. EDITOR ... ...OXFORD EDITION. INCLUDING MATERIALS NEVER BEFORE PRINTED IN ANY EDITION OF THE POEMS. EDITED WITH TEXTUAL NOTES BY THOMAS HUTCHINSON, M. A. EDITOR OF ... ...ORD WORDSWORTH. 1914. A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley, Volume One is a public... ...as the “Ode to the Skylark and The Cloud”, which, in the opin- ion of many critics, bear a purer poetical stamp than any other of his productions. The... ...the memory, is worth all the realities that society can afford. Before the critics contradict me, let them appeal to any one who had ever known him. T... ...voyage in a wherry from Windsor to Crichlade. His beautiful stanzas in the churchyard of Lechlade were written on that occasion. “Alastor” was compose... ...h century into cold impersonations of my own mind. They are represented as Catholics, and as Catholics deeply tinged with religion. T o a Protestant a... ... by a feigned tale to confess himself before death; this being esteemed by Catholics as essential to salvation; and she only relinquishes her purpose ...

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...Excerpt: Volume I. Preface: Nothing is more easy than to state the subject of ?The Ambassadors,? which first appeared in twelve numbers of The North American Review (1903) and was published as a whole the same year. The situation involved is gathered up betimes, that is in the second cha...

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...sadors by Henry James A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The Ambassadors by Henry James is a publication of the Pennsylvania State U... ...ASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The Ambassadors by Henry James 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... ...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... ...esuit in petticoats, a repre- sentative of the recruiting interests of the Catholic Church. The Catholic Church, for Waymarsh-that was to say the enem... ...petticoats, a repre- sentative of the recruiting interests of the Catholic Church. The Catholic Church, for Waymarsh-that was to say the enemy, the mo... ...he had got somewhere and somehow was brought by the movement nearer to his critics There was a fascination for that critic in its not being, this ripe... ...s sure, the half-dozen other ‘men who were distinguished, the artists, the critics and oh the great dramatist—him it was easy to spot; but wanted—no, ... ...eventh I I t wasn’t the first time Strether had sat alone in the great dim church—still less was it the first of his giving himself up, so far as cond...

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Excerpt: One of Our Conquerors by George Meredith.

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...y George Meredith A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication One of Our Conquerors by George Meredith is a publication of the Pennsylvania S... ... Publication One of Our Conquerors by George Meredith is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...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... ... for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Nei- ther the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ...lause of the boys and girls of both ages in this land; and all the English critics heap their honours on its brave old Simplicity: our national litera... ...pplied the phrase. ‘Only, the moment old Colney moral- izes, he’s what the critics call sententious. We’ve all a parlous lot too much pulpit in us.’ ‘... ...assed now and then with a shudder, where the funereal square bricks-up the Church, that Arctic hen-mother sits on the square, and the moving dead are ... ...tonished them with a Provencal or Cevennes air, Hugue- not, though she was Catholic; but it suited her mezzo-so- prano tones; and it rang massively of... ...he Fate of Princes! The Paths of Glory! St. Louis was a very distant Roman Catholic mon- arch; and the young gentleman of Evangelical education could ...

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...Courtesan’s Life by Honoré de Balzac, trans. James Waring is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...rtesan’s Life by Honoré de Balzac, trans. James Waring is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...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... ...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... ... de Rubempre is under the protection of the strongest power of the day—the Church. Choose between life and death—Answer.” Rastignac felt giddy, like a... ... the future life of the Christian, to the being we love?” “Ah, I will be a Catholic!” she cried in a hollow, vehement tone, that would have earned her... ...had so vio- lently repudiated come to feel absolute indifference as to the critics of our day, who may be compared with them in some respects, and who... ...ere young girls of the best families are educated; there you will become a Catholic, you will be trained in the practice of Christian exercises, you w... ...cles’ sword hung over Prudence Servien’s head. But for these details, many critics would have thought Europe’s attachment somewhat grotesque. And no o...

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...Excerpt: At sunrise on a first of April there appeared, suddenly as Manco Capac at the lake Titicaca, a man in cream-colors, at the water-side in the city of St. Louis. His cheek was fair, his chin downy, his hair flaxen, his hat a white fur one, with a lo...

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...an By Herman Melville A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Confidence-Man by Herman Melville is a publication of the Pennsylvania ... ...Series Publication The Confidence-Man by Herman Melville 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... ... for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Nei- ther the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ... find your mistake”—with another hearty shake. “Well said and better done, church militant!” cried a voice. “The white cravat against the world!” crie... ...he other chatterers are made, who in thunder are you?” “ A cosmopolitan, a catholic man; who, being such, ties him- self to no narrow tailor or teache... ... of aguish sallowness of saving discre- tion lurking behind it. Ungracious critics might have thought that the manner flushed the man, something in th... ...ore to look like life. But fortunately for better construc- tions, no such critics had the stranger now in eye; only the cosmopolitan, who, after, in ... ...as something, there is no telling what, of beneficence in it, it is such a catholicon and charm—nearly all men agreeing in relishing it, though they m...

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...Contents THE GRAY CHAMPION....................................................................................................... 4 THE WEDDING KNELL .......................................................................................

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.......... 32 STEPHEN CRANE?A NOTE WITHOUT DATES?1919 ......................................................................................... 46 TALES OF THE SEA?1898 ....................................................................................................................................... 49 AN OBSERVER IN MALAYA?1898...............................................

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...S PUBLICATION Notes on Life and Letters by Joseph Conrad is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity. This Portable Document file is furn... ...UBLICATION Notes on Life and Letters by Joseph Conrad is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity. This Portable Document file is furnish... ...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... ...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... ...doubt,—and it may be a consolation to Mr. Bourne to know it—fully informed critics will point out that Mr. Davies’s poem on a dark woman combing her h... ...byss. An attentive survey 85 Joseph Conrad of Russia’s literature, of her Church, of her adminis- tration and the cross-currents of her thought, must... ...war, pestilence, and famine, as it is found in the lita- nies of the Roman Catholic Church; they have dragged the scourge down from the skies and have... ...ilence, and famine, as it is found in the lita- nies of the Roman Catholic Church; they have dragged the scourge down from the skies and have made it ...