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...Excerpt: SUFFOLK. As by your high imperial majesty I had in charge at my depart for France, As procurator to your excellence, To marry Princess Margaret for your grace, So, in the famous ancient city, Tours, In presence of the Kings of France and Sicil, The Dukes of Orleans, Calabe...

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...e 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 own... ...ny responsibility for the mate- rial contained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Prince and the Paupe... ...nly the unlearned and the simple loved it and credited it. Contents. I. The birth of the Prince and the Pauper. II. Tom’s early life. III. Tom’s ... ...in his poor rags, except among the family of paupers whom he had just come to trouble with his presence. II Tom’s early life et us skip a n... ... neighbour up; and times we make mud pastry—oh the lovely mud, it hath not its like for delightfulness in all the world!— we do fairly wallow in the m... ...” High aloft on the palace walls a long line of red tongues of flame leapt forth with a thunder-crash; the massed world on the river burst into a migh... ...ur hundred years ago, as your grace knoweth, there being ill blood betwixt John, King of England, and the King of France, it was decreed that two cham... ...oment a servant entered with the breakfast. “Explain, thou limb of Satan, or thy time is come!” roared the man of war, and made so savage a spring tow... ...remained kind and gentle, and a sturdy and determined champion of all that were oppressed, and he made tire- less war upon unjust laws: yet upon occas...

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...Excerpt: Accusations of ingratitude, and just accusations no doubt, are made against every inhabitant of this wicked world, and the fact is, that a man who is ceaselessly engaged in its trouble and turmoil, borne hither and thither upon the fierce waves of the crowd, bustling, shifting, struggling to keep himself somewhat above water--fight...

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...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. Seraphita by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormel... ... book could belong exclusively to noble spirits, preserved like yours from worldly pettiness by solitude! They would know how to give to it the melodi... ..., which might have made it, in the hands of a poet, the glorious epic that France still awaits. But from me they must accept it as one of those sculpt... ...y in the two-fold struggle. The difficulty of communication with the outer world, either by land where the roads are impassable, or by sea where none ... ...g, like a flower wilted by the burning sun.” And the old man wept. CHAPTER II SERAPHITA LATER IN THE EVENING David re-entered the salon. “I know who i... ...tion to certain assertions made by the Commission appointed by the King of France to investigate the subject. These gentlemen de- clared that no theor... ...eases out of pleasures? When the rake of pestilence and the ploughshare of war and the demon of 85 Balzac desolation have passed over a corner of the... ...eachers of all pre- tended truths, Kings consecrated by Force and T error, War- riors and Mighty men apportioning the Peoples among them, the Learned ...

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...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. Poems by Wilfred Owen, the Pennsylvania State University, Elect... ...Greater Love’. The importance of his contribution to the literature of the War cannot be decided by those who, like myself, both ad- mired him as a po... ...- mired him as a poet and valued him as a friend. His conclu- sions about War are so entirely in accordance with my own that I cannot attempt to judg... ...azetted to the Manchester Regiment, and served with their 2nd Battalion in France from December 1916 to June 1917, when he was invalided home. Fourtee... ...urs, Was my life also; I went hunting wild After the wildest beauty in the world, Which lies not calm in eyes, or braided hair, But mocks the steady r... ... Wisdom was mine, and I had mastery; T o miss the march of this retreating world Into vain citadels that are not walled. Then, when much blood had clo... ... gaps for filling Losses who might have fought Longer; but no one bothers. II And some cease feeling Even themselves or for themselves. Dullness best ... ...im once, At home, whispering of fields unsown. Always it woke him, even in France, Until this morning and this snow. If anything might rouse him now T...

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...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 Professor by Charlotte Brontë, the Pennsylvania State Unive... ...een doing I know not; but you shall hear, if you choose to listen, how the world has wagged with me. “First, after leaving Eton, I had an interview wi... ...——shire manufacturer. At the end of the six months she brought me into the world, and then herself left it without, I should think, much regret, as it... ...will serve as an introduction. I now proceed. 13 Charlotte Brontë CHAPTER II A FINE OCTOBER MORNING succeeded to the foggy evening that had witnessed... ...c school, now in another, as their parents wandered from land to land—from France to Germany, from Germany to Belgium —they had picked up some scanty ... ...r was “No.” Here my eye, resting on the flyleaf of the book, saw written, “Frances Evan Henri.” “Your name?” I asked “Y es, sir.” My interrogations we... ...ed there, according to Napoleon; but he persevered in spite of the laws of war, and was victorious in defiance of military tactics. I would do as he d... ... elfish freak was always short: sometimes when driven a little hard in the war of words—for her tongue did ample justice to the pith, the point, the d...

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...The Writings of Abraham Lincoln In Seven V olumes V olume 7 of 7 A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Pu... ...te Electronic Classics Series Publication The Writings of Abraham Lincoln in Seven Volumes – Volume Seven is a publication of the Penn- sylvania Stat... ...tober 28, 1863. GENERAL JOHN M. SCHOFIELD: There have recently reached the War Department, and thence been laid before me, from Missouri, three commun... ... like of them ever will be announced or decided. TELEGRAM TO W. H. SEWARD. WAR DEPART- MENT, W ASHINGTON, D. C., November 1, 1863. HON. W . H. SEW ARD... ...rs, any tobacco in the United States belonging to the government either of France, Austria, or any other state with which this country is at peace, an... ...ere, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can neve... ...e departure of new hostile expeditions from British ports. The Emperor of France has, by a like proceeding, promptly vindi- cated the neutrality whic... ...mmander to sentinel, who compose them, and to whom more than to others the world must stand indebted for the home of freedom disenthralled, regenerate... ...nd made regulations under which said products may be purchased, therefore: II. All persons except such as may be in the civil, military, or naval serv...

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...ion to Canto First. November?s sky is chill and drear, November?s leaf is red and sear: Late, gazing down the steepy linn That hems our little garden in, Low in its dark and narrow glen You scarce the rivulet might ken, So thick the tangled greenwood grew....

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...tate University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpos... ...h the Pennsylvania State University assumes any responsibility for the material contained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmi... ...rk Twain (Samuel L. Clemens) First published in 1880 CHAPTER I: The Knighted Knave of Bergen ONE DAY IT OCCURRED TO ME that it had been many years sin... ...ere given in honor of the Emperor, and loud cries of joy testified the approbation with which the Queen danced still once with the Knave of Bergen.” C... ...ty of all this fairy spectacle blinked and glowed a massed multitude of gas-jets which seemed to cover acres of ground; it was as if all the diamonds ... ... word, the deluge of blows began, but before long the surgeon once more inter- fered—for the only reason which ever permits him to inter- fere—and the... ...but I finally got him to cut his obituary down to this, which he copied into his memoran- dum-book, purposing to get it by heart: Mark Twain 32 “I di... ...? Since murder was that man’s intention, why should he palter with small details? But mark you one thing: in my fall the world shall see how the chiva... ...bering him in his needs and delivering sun- dry such cargoes into his hands at times when only special providences could have relieved him. He was a d...

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