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...Excerpt: ?HOLE!? said Mr. Polly, and then for a change, and with greatly increased emphasis: ??Ole!? He paused, and then broke out with one of his private and peculiar idioms. ?Oh! Beastly Silly Wheeze of a Hole!?...

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...Excerpt: Right well I wote most mighty Soueraine, That all this famous antique history, Of some th?aboundance of an idle braine Will iudged be, and painted forgery, Rather then matter of iust memory, Sith none, that breatheth liuing aire, does know, Where is that happy land of Faery, Which I so much do ...

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...THE SECOND BOOKE OF THE FAERIE QVEENE. Contayning THE LEGEND OF SIR GVYON. by Edmund Spencer THE SECOND BOOKE OF THE FAERIE QVEENE. Con... ...und Spencer THE SECOND BOOKE OF THE FAERIE QVEENE. Contayning THE LEGENDE OF SIR GVYON, OR OF TEMPERAUNCE. by Edmund Spencer is a publication of th... ...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 ... ...Right well I wote most mighty Soueraine, That all this famous antique history, Of some th’aboundance of an idle braine Will iudged be, ... ...e him stoup so low, Though otherwise it did him litle harme: Tho hurling high his yron braced arme, He smote so manly on his shoulder p... ...cursed thiefe, That direfull stroke thou dearely shalt aby. Then hurling vp his harmefull blade on hye, Smote him so hugely on his haug... ...nt of womens prayse, Matchable either to Semiramis, Whom antique history so high doth raise, Or to Hypsiphil’ or to Thomiris: Her ... ... That seemd a worke of admirable wit; And therein all the famous history Of Iason and Medæa was ywrit; Her mighty charmes, her fur...

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...Excerpt: Chapter 1. How a young man came into the court of King Arthur, and how Sir Kay called him in scorn La Cote Male Taile. At the court of King Arthur there came a young man and bigly made, and he was richly beseen: and he desired to be made knight of the king, but his over-g...

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...Le Morte Darthur by Thomas Malory Sir Thomas Malory»s Book of King Arthur and of his Noble Knights of the Round Table Book Nine A Penn... ...cation Le Morte D’Arthur: Book Nine by Sir Thomas Malory 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... ...tower of stone, and it happened that he at that time brake loose, and came hurling afore the queen and her knights. And when the queen saw the lion sh... ... they avoided their saddles, passing sore wounded; and forthwithal he rode hurling into that castle. And anon the lord of the castle, that was that ti... ...d where sat King Mark playing at the chess. And when the king saw one come hurling over his head he said: Fellow, what art thou, and what is the cause... ...ad it of Queen Morgan le Fay, sister unto King Arthur. So here endeth this history of this book, for it is the first book of Sir Tristram de Liones an...

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... “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” by Washington Irving is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is fur... ...rsity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this docu ment file, for any purpose, and... ...ument or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” by Washington Irving, the Pennsylvania State Universit... .... In this by place of nature there abode, in a remote period of American history, that is to say, some thirty years since, a worthy wight of the n... ...d several books quite through, and was a perfect master of Cotton Mather’s “History of New England Witchcraft,” in which, by the way, he most firmly ... .... Just then he saw the goblin rising in his stirrups, and in the very act of hurling his head at him. Ichabod endeavored to dodge the horrible missile... ...f the schoolhouse, they belonged to the community, excepting Cotton Mather’s History of Witchcraft, a New England Almanac, and book of dreams and fort...

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Excerpt: Sartor Resartus. The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdrockh.

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...SARTOR RESARTUS: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdrockh By Thomas Carlyle A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SE... ...TRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION Sartor Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdrockh by Thomas Carlyle is a publication of the Pennsylvani... ...ty. This Portable Document file is furnished free and with- out any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...or nothing of a fundamental character, whether in the way of Philosophy or History, has been written on the subject of Clothes. Our Theory of Gravitat... ...we not a Doctrine of Rent, a Theory of Value; Philosophies of Language, of History, of Pottery, of Apparitions, of In- toxicating Liquors? Man’s whole... ..., though you see them alive, and feel certain enough that they must have a History, no History seems to be discov- erable; or only such as men give of... ...ad attached a long cord of plaited thongs; thereby recover- ing as well as hurling it with deadly unerring skill. Never- theless, the pains of Hunger ... ...n, she is,—has descended, like thyself, from that same hair-mantled, flint-hurling Aboriginal Anthropophagus! Out of the eater cometh forth meat; out ...

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...Excerpt: Good Comedies are such rare productions, that notwithstanding the wealth of our literature in the Comic element, it would not occupy us long to run over the English list. If they are brought to the test I shall propose, very reputable Comedies will be found unworthy of their station, like the ladi...

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...Series Publication An Essay on Comedy 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 person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...seholders, that they should follow up the shot at a burglar in the dark by hurling the pistol after it, so that if the bullet misses, the weapon may s... ...akespeare lived in a later and less emotional, less heroical period of our history, he might have turned to the painting of manners as well as humanit... ...is often wanting in proportion and in discretion. Humourists touching upon History or Society are given to be capricious. They are, as in the case of ... ...tesque, to the exclusion of the Comic. That was an affecting moment in the history of the Prince Regent, when the First Gentleman of Europe burst into...

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...Contents SECESSION FROM THE CHURCH OF SCOTLAND ................................................................ 4 TOILETTE OF THE HEBREW LADY........................................................................................ 43 CHARLEMAGNE...................

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...ERIES PUBLICATION A Little Tour in France 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... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...rs in the current of the Loire. Some of the most striking events of French history have occurred on the banks of that river, and the soil it waters bl... ...on. And he was, moreover, the product of a soil into which a great deal of history had been trodden. Balzac was genuinely as well as affectedly monarc... ...make the attempt. There are so many chateaux in Touraine com- memorated in history, that it would take one too far to look up those which have been co... ...of a castle, with the defenders (little figures between the crenellations) hurling down missiles with a great deal of fury and expression. It would ha...

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...Excerpt: In the latter half of 1914 a few of us were writing that this war was a ?War of Ideas.? A phrase, ?The War to end War,? got into circulation, amidst much sceptical comment. It was a phrase powerful enough to sway many men, essentially pacifists...

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...ICS SERIES PUBLICATION The World Set Free by H. G. Wells 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... ... Editor, Hazleton, PA 18202 is a Portable Document File pro- duced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...THE SUN SNARERS S S S S Section I ection I ection I ection I ection I T HE HISTORY OF MANKIND is the history of the attain- ment of external power. Ma... ...priest and king began to develop their roles in the opening drama of man’s history. The priest’s solicitude was seed-time and harvest and fertility, a... ...he subjugation of himself and oth- ers to larger and larger societies. The history of man is not simply the conquest of external power; it is first th... ...uments sound enough to stand this new force even for so rough a purpose as hurling a missile. Their first guns had barrels of coopered timber, and the...

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...Table of Contents: I: Into the Primitive, 1 -- II: The Law of Club and Fang, 9 -- III: The Dominant Primordial Beast, 16 -- IV: Who Has Won to Mastership, 26 -- V: The Toil of Trace and Trail, 33 -- VI: For the Love of a Man, 44 --...

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...Introduction: Immediately after Lincoln?s re-election to the Presidency, in an off-hand speech, delivered in response to a serenade by some of his admirers on the evening of November 10, 1864, he spoke as follows: ?It has long been a grave question whether any government not too strong for the liberties of its people can be strong enough to maintain its existence...

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...rned a few pence--I had perhaps even had time to begin to think I was finer than was perceived by the patronising; but when I take the little measure of my course (a fidgety habit, for it?s none of the longest yet) I count my real start from the evening George Corvick, breathless and worried, came in to ask me a service. He had done more things than I, and earned more penc...

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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 of his activities in this world seem more i...

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...omas Carlyle A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The Life of John Sterling by Thomas Carlyle is a publication of the Pennsylvania Sta... ...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... ...cument or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Life of John Sterling by Thomas Carlyle, the Pennsylvania State University, Elec... ...ght, on certain terms? What is indispens- able let us not omit to say. The history of a man’s child- hood is the description of his parents and enviro... ...his parents and environment: this is his inarticulate but highly important history, in those first times, while of articulate he has yet none. Edward ... ...e with which I was wont to carry to his seat a well-thumbed duodecimo, the History of Greece by Oliver Goldsmith. I remember the mental agonies I endu... ...ight, if I have ever seen one; recognizing the truth, if truth there were; hurling overboard his vani- ties, petulances, big and small interests, in r... ...ly withal, rather letting them drop as pitiably dead for him, than angrily hurling them out of doors as needing to be killed. By few English- men of h...

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... Liones was born, and how his mother died at his birth, wherefore she named him Tristram. It was a king that hight Meliodas, and he was lord and king of the country of Liones, and this Meliodas was a likely knight as any was that time living. And by fortune he wedded King Mark?s sister of Cornwall, and she was called Elizabeth, that was called both good and fair. And at th...

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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... ...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... ...he document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. One of Our Conquerors by George Meredith, the Pennsylvania State University, El... ...en she willed and flying when wanted. Not until nigh upon the close of his history did she return, full-statured and embraceable, to Victor Radnor. 1... ... classic pictures, Victor had known his purse to leap for a Raphael with a history in stages of descent from the Master, and critics to swarm: a Rapha... ...ring and good: yes, finding the man to lift them the one step up! Read the history of the error. But presently we shall teach the Puritan to act by th... ...ique attack, Napoleon’s employment of the artillery arm preparatory to the hurling of the cataract on the spot of weakness, Wellington’s parallel marc... ...he gets no compensation: Pessimy is in- vulnerable. You waste your time in hurling a common ‘tu- quoque’ at one who hugs the worst. 171 George Meredi...