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.................... 34 THE SHIP THAT FOUND HERSELF......................................................................................... 53 THE TOMB OF HIS ANCESTORS ............................................................................................ 68 THE DEVIL AND THE DEEP SEA ........................................................................................

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...Excerpt: Heartbreak house is not merely the name of the play which follows this preface. It is cultured, leisured Europe before the war. When the play was begun not a shot had been fired; and only the professional diplomatists and the very few amateurs whose hobby is foreig...

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...e Russian Manner on English Themes by George Bernard Shaw is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furni... ...ity. 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 18202-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...e like to such an extent that it may be doubted whether ever before in the history of the world did soothsayers, astrologers, and unregistered thera- ... ...r vilest passions and most abject terrors. Ever since Thucydides wrote his history , it has been on record that when the angel of death sounds his tru... ...us, the shock was not the less appalling because a few stu- dents of Greek history were not surprised by it. Indeed these students threw themselves in... ...nable rent for the pro- prietor. If the twin flats and twin beds produce a guinea more than Shakespeare, out goes Shakespeare and in come the twin fla... ...e asked Londoners 34 Heartbreak House again and again why they pay half a guinea to go to a theatre when they can go to St. Paul’s or Westminster Abb... ... of people’s concert. I was singing there. As an amateur, you know: half a guinea for expenses and three songs with three encores. He was so pleased w...

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...Excerpt: The writer of a book which copies the manners and language of Queen Anne?s time, must not omit the Dedication to the Patron; and I ask leave to inscribe this volume to your Lordship, for the sake of the great kindness and friendship whi...

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............................................................................................................................... 6 BOOK I THE EARLY YOUTH OF HENRY ESMOND, UP TO THE TIME OF HIS LEAVING TRINITY COLLEGE, IN CAMBRIDGE.....................................................................................11 CHAPTER I AN ACCOUNT OF THE FAMILY OF ESMOND OF CASTLEWOOD HA...

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...THE HISTORY OF HENRY ESMOND, ESQ. A COLONEL IN THE SERVICE OF HER MAJESTY QUEEN ANNE WRITTEN BY HIMSELF by WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY... ...KEPEACE THACKERAY A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The History of Henry Esmond, Esq.: A Colonel in the Service of Her Majesty Quee... ...THACKERAY A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The History of Henry Esmond, Esq.: A Colonel in the Service of Her Majesty Queen Anne, ... ...n Anne, Written by Himself by William Makepeace Thackeray is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Uni- versity. This Portable Document file is furn... ...he document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The History of Henry Esmond, Esq.: A Colonel in the Service of Her Majesty Quee... ....................... 337 CHAPTER V MOHUN APPEARS FOR THE LAST TIME IN THIS HISTORY . ....................................................... 347 CHAPT... ...lis pauperiem pati, having lost his thousands, embarks a 89 Thackeray few guineas upon the next ship. She laid out her all upon her children, indulgi... ...London, and carried her graciousness so far as to send a purse with twenty guineas for him, to the tavern at which my lord put up (the “Greyhound,” in... ...ooked such a fine gentleman: his liberal step-mother filled his purse with guineas, too, some of which Captain Steele and a few choice spirits helped ...

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...Excerpt: Chapter 1. Above Buttons. Long after the hours when tradesmen are in the habit of commencing business, the shutters of a certain shop in the town of Lymport-on-the-Sea remained significantly closed, and it became known that death had taken Mr. Melchisedec Harrington, and struck one off the list of livin...

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...cs Series Publication Evan Harrington 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 per- son using this document file, for any purpose, and in... ...or, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Document File pro- duced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...ing from a line of princes; and it is certain that he knew enough of their history to have instructed them on particular points of it. He never could ... ...ss, which, indeed, was much in want of a mate; and while he squandered the guineas, she patiently picked up the pence. They had not lived unhappily. H... ...ts natural shine, saying: ‘By the way, mother, I ‘ve written the half of a History of Portugal.’ ‘Have you?’ said Mrs. Mel. ‘For Louisa?’ ‘No, mother,... ...d as if he had just clapped down the full amount on the table. ‘Out of the History of Portugal, half written, and the pros- pect of a Government appoi... ...ut,’ she said to Drummond, who merely nodded. And Seymour remarked, ‘Fifty guineas knocked off her value!’ One added, ‘Nothing worse, I should think’;... ...ith people who ‘ve got no titles, or carriages, and who can’t give hundred guinea com- pliments. You’re all of a piece-a set of ….’ The Major paused,...

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...Excerpt: THE SONG OF THE HAPPY SHEPHERD; THE woods of Arcady are dead, And over is their antique joy; Of old the world on dreaming fed; Grey Truth is now her painted toy; Yet still she turns her restless head: But O, sick children of the world...

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...Table of Contents: LYRICAL 3 -- CROSSWAYS 5 -- THE SONG OF THE HAPPY SHEPHERD, 5 -- THE SAD SHEPHERD, 6 -- THE CLOAK, THE BOAT, AND THE SHOES, 7 -- ANASHUYA AND VIJAYA, 8 -- THE INDIAN UPON GOD, 11 -- THE INDIAN TO HIS LOVE, 11 -- ...

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... William Butler Yeats 1889 1939 Contents LYRICAL 3 CROSSWAYS 5 THE SONG OF THE HAPPY SHEPHERD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 THE SAD SHEPHERD . . ... ...IAN TO HIS LOVE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 THE FALLING OF THE LEA VES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 EPHEMERA . . . . ... .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 THE MADNESS OF KING GOLL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 THE STOLEN CHILD . ... ...Nor be I any less of them, Because the red rose bordered hem Of her, whose history began Before God made the angelic clan, Trails all about the writte... ...he hands that play. The notes they waken shall live on When all this heavy history’s done; Our hands, our hands must ebb away. Three Voices [together]... ...alfpennies have lain To be ‘some sort of evidence’, Before you’ll put your guineas down, That things it were a pride to give Are what the blind and ig... ...thought to have fled, Being certain it was no right rock Because an ancient history said Hell Mouth lay open near that place, And yet stood still, beca...