...a by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley is a publication of the Penn- sylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furn... ...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... ...or, Hazleton, PA 18202-1291 is a Por- table Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classi- cal works of lit... ...r a long time in front of the palace of the Tuileries, near the ruins of a house recently pulled down, at the point where in our day the wing begins w... ...ntended to unite the chateau of Catherine de Medici with the Louvre of the Valois. The man stood there with folded arms and a bowed head, which he som... ...s, I left home because I had business at Bastia. The Portas remained in my house, and set fire to my vine- yard at Longone. They killed my son Gregori... ... morning, escaped; the Virgin protected them. When I re- turned I found no house; my feet were in its ashes as I searched for it. Suddenly they struck...

...Excerpt: In the year 1800, toward the close of October, a foreigner, accompanied by a woman and a little girl, was standing for a long time in front of the palace of the Tuileries, near the ruins of a house recently pulled down, at the point where in our day the wing b...

...meley A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Brotherhood of Consolation by Honore de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley is a... ...n by Honore de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley 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 of the Franks, from the Normans to the Burgundians, the Middle-Ages, the Valois, Henri IV., Louis XIV., Napo- leon, and Louis-Philippe. Vestiges are... ...ing two steps, look down upon the rags and tatters of that ignoble nest of houses huddling between the quai de la Tournelle and the Hotel-Dieu,—a foul... ...o the sap of the trees; it preserves it, feeds it, and conceals it. II OLD HOUSE, OLD PEOPLE, OLD CUSTOMS Weary of himself, Godefroid attempted one da... ...o give himself a voca- tion. The manners and customs of bourgeois boarding-houses shocked his delicacy, sanitariums seemed to him unhealthy, and he wa... ...d as le- gitimate warfare. The d’Esgrignons, Casterans, the Cheva- lier de Valois, in short, the whole aristocracy and the Church opened their arms to...

...Excerpt: The malady of the age. On a fine evening in the month of September, 1836, a man about thirty years of age was leaning on the parapet of that quay from which a spectator can look up the Seine from the Jardin des Plantes to Notre-Dame, an...

...d by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley 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 18202-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ... brother-in-law, De Balzac AN OLD MAID CHAPTER I ONE OF MANY CHEVALIERS DE VALOIS MOST PERSONS have encountered, in certain provinces in France, a num... ...ave encountered, in certain provinces in France, a number of Chevaliers de Valois. One lived in Normandy, another at Bourges, a third (with whom we ha... ...sent tale. All these cheva- liers, among whom were doubtless some who were Valois as Louis XIV. was Bourbon, knew so little of one another that it was... ...dest, to say the best of it, in the rue du Cours, on the second floor of a house belonging to Ma- dame Lardot, the best and busiest washerwoman in the... ...eased to the chevalier two rooms on the 8 An Old Maid second floor of her house, for the modest sum of one hun- dred francs a year. The worthy gentle... ...his misfortunes. His place at table was laid in all the most distinguished houses in Alencon, and he was bidden to all soirees. His talents as a card-...

Excerpt: As a testimony to the affection of his brother-in-law?

...i by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katherine Prescott Wormeley 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... ... make head against factions and ambitions like those of the Guises and the house of Bour- bon, against men such as the two Cardinals of Lorraine, the ... ...k and so defeat, successively, the Guises who were seeking the ruin of the house of Valois, the Bourbons who sought the crown, and the Reformers (the ... ...defeat, successively, the Guises who were seeking the ruin of the house of Valois, the Bourbons who sought the crown, and the Reformers (the Radicals ... ...have, however, nothing to reform. Consequently , so long as she lived, the Valois kept the throne of France. The great historian of that time, de Thou... ... woman who had the eyes to see this future and fought it bravely. That the house of Bourbon was able to succeed to the house of Valois, that it found ... ... it bravely. That the house of Bourbon was able to succeed to the house of Valois, that it found a crown preserved to it, was due solely to Catherine ...

...Excerpt: When we think of the enormous number of volumes that have been published on the question as to where Hannibal crossed the Alps, without our being able to decide to-day whether it was (according to Whittaker and Rivaz) by Lyon, Geneva, the ...

...rriage A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Collection of Antiquities by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Ellen Marriage is a publication ... ...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... ... or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Collection of Antiquities by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Ellen Marriage, the Pennsylvania... ...The Collection of Antiquities THE COLLECTION OF ANTIQUITIES THERE STANDS A HOUSE at a corner of a street, in the middle of a town, in one of the least... ... annalist of his own time, he is bound to touch on many sore subjects. The house was called the Hotel d’Esgrignon; but let d’Esgrignon be considered a... ... vineyard over. The “Hotel d’Esgrignon” was nothing more nor less than the house in which the old Marquis lived; or, in the style of ancient documents... ...t I can see. The King does not ask you whether you are a descendant of the Valois or a conquerer of Gaul; he asks whether you pay a thousand francs in... ...rles IX. And so it befell that the d’Esgrignons, all but princes under the Valois, and all-power- ful in the time of Henri IV ., had no fortune whatev... ...le in the per- son of the Vidame de Pamiers. The Vidame was a Chevalier de Valois raised to the tenth power, invested with all the pres- tige of wealt...

...Excerpt: Dear Baron, you have taken so warm an interest in my long, vast ?History of French Manners in the Nineteenth Century,? you have given me so much encouragement to persevere with my work, that you have given me a right to associate your name with some portion of it. Are you not one of the most impor...

...ra Bell A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Another Study of Woman by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Ellen Marriage and Clara Bell is a pub... ... Honoré de Balzac, trans. Ellen Marriage and Clara Bell is a publica- tion 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... ...n go away, and the waxlights burn down to the sconces. The mistress of the house then waylays a few artists, amus- ing people or intimate friends, say... ... itself, and dull in the same way. So this second party is, in some French houses, a happy protest on the part of the old spirit of our light-hearted ... ...of the old spirit of our light-hearted people. Only, unfortunately, so few houses protest; and the reason is a simple one. If we no longer have many s... ...ut I do not believe that the Marechal de Richelieu, or Lauzun, or Louis de Valois ever effected a more judicious retreat at the first attempt. As to m...

...Excerpt: At Paris there are almost always two separate parties going on at every ball and rout. First, an official party, composed of the persons invited, a fashionable and much-bored circle. Each one grimaces for his neighbor?s eye; most of the younger women are there for one person only; when each woman has assured herself that for that one she is the ...

...s by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley 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 18202-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...e you still.” “How am I to pay it to you?” asked d’Orgemont. “Your country-house at Fougeres is not far from Gibarry’s farm where my cousin Galope-Cho... ... De Chatillon, and Suzannet), were agitating the country. The Chevalier de Valois, the Marquis d’Esgrignon, and the T roisvilles were, it was said, co... ...owers which are some- times taken from their native fields to Parisian hot-houses, 58 The Chouans where so many blasting rays are concentrated, witho... ...zing the word “madame”; “there are two demoiselles de V erneuil; all great houses, as you know, have several branches.” The lady, surprised at this fr... ...u met at the hotel in Alencon; she will betray you,” said the Chevalier de Valois, in the young man’s ear; and immediately he and his little Breton ho... ...and, he thinks all my warnings selfish. Our friends in Paris, Messieurs de Valois and d’Esgrignon, have warned him of a trap set for him by throwing s...

...Excerpt: An Ambuscade. Early in the year VIII., at the beginning of Vendemiaire, or, to conform to our own calendar, towards the close of September, 1799, a hundred or so of peasants and a large number of citizens, who had left Fougeres in the morning on their way to Mayenne, were going up...

...n by Honore de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley 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 18202-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...bor, and the docks present a very different aspect from the fifty thousand houses of Paris. At the foot of Montmartre an ocean of slate roofs lies in ... ...t, the suburban residence of the merchants of Havre. Here they build their houses on terraces around its ampitheatre of hills, and breathe the sea air... ... off the burden of their counting-rooms and the at- mosphere of their city houses, which are built closely to- gether without open spaces, often witho... ...!” thought Ernest; “there was a celebrated Cardinal d’Herouville under the Valois, and a terrible marshal whom they made a duke in the time of Henri I... ...amous marshal to the nation, cardinals to the church, great leaders to the Valois, knights to Louis XIV., was reduced to a little fragile being smalle...

...Publication The Duchesse de Langeais by Honoré de Balzac is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity. This Portable Document file is furn... ...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 18202-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...rdinary as this may seem, it is none the less true. Almost every religious house in the Peninsula, or in Eu- rope for that matter, was either destroye... ...ome 5 Balzac to take the air among their flowers of an evening, above the houses and the tops of the trees in their little gardens; add a few sails d... ...after hunting through his pa- pers, ransacking his memory, and turning his house upside down; after one or two days spent in vain search, and hope, an... ...d smiling, while she held her hand in a tight clasp. “We are not under the Valois now, dear child. You have compromised your husband and your position...

...Excerpt: In a Spanish city on an island in the Mediterranean, there stands a convent of the Order of Barefoot Carmelites, where the rule instituted by St. Theresa is still preserved with all the first rigour of the reformation brought about by that illustrious woman. Extraordinary as this may seem, it is none...

... Series Publication The Caged Lion by Charlotte M. Yonge 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... ...grand old foundation, and the struggle for appointments between the parent house at Durham and the Scottish Government. Priors Akefield and Drax are h... ...est of them, should tear her away to be the lady of their fierce un- godly households.’ ‘You could give her to Patrick, Uncle.’ ‘No, Malcolm, that wer... ...ch war,’ sighed Malcolm; ‘and I must be scorned by my cousins whenever the House of Stewart meets together; 9 Yo n g e and must strive with these fie... ...es were so faint between the princes and the nobility; and as Catherine of Valois was fond of company, and indolently heedless of all that did not aff... ...infant was proclaimed king over each grave— heir to France and England, to Valois and Lancaster. Poor child, his real heirloom was the insanity of the...

...Preface: When the venture has been made of dealing with historical events and characters, it always seems fair towards the reader to avow what liberties have been taken, and how much of the sketch is founded on history. In the present case, it is scarcely necessary...

...y by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley 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... ...tor, Hazleton, PA 18202- 1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...n as pronounced. The great fortune of the Simeuse family, adherents of the House of Burgundy, dates from the time when the Guises were in conflict wit... ...of Burgundy, dates from the time when the Guises were in conflict with the Valois. Richelieu first, and after- wards Louis XIV . remembered their devo... ...st, and after- wards Louis XIV . remembered their devotion to the factious house of Lorraine, and rebuffed them. Then the Marquis de Simeuse, an old B... ...se mansion at T royes, not far from that of the Cinq-Cygnes. These two old houses and the bishop’s palace were long the only stone mansions at Troyes....

...Excerpt: The autumn of the year 1803 was one of the finest in the early part of that period of the present century which we now call ?Empire.? Rain had refreshed the earth during the month of October, so that the trees were still green and leafy...

...James Waring A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Muse of the Department by Honoré de Balzac, trans. James Waring is a publication... ...f the Department by Honoré de Balzac, trans. James Waring 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... ...ns, Langeais, Blamont- Chauvrys, Chaulieus, Arthez, Esgrignons, Mortsaufs, Valois—the hundred great names that form the Aristoc- racy of the “Human Co... ...tal to the Vistula— the Loire of the northern coast. The hill on which the houses of Sancerre are grouped is so far from the river that the little riv... ...show that the great cross-shuffle of 1830 was a thing of the past, for the House of Orleans has always had a care for substantial im- provements, thou... ...reets are narrow and paved with pebbles carted up from the Loire. Some old houses are to be seen there. The citadel, a relic of military power and feu...

Excerpt: The Muse of the Department by Honore de Balzac, translated by James Waring.

...Courtesan’s Life by Honoré de Balzac, trans. James Waring 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 18202-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...me at the beginning of an es- sentially Parisian work, thought out in your house during these latter days. Is it not natural that I should offer you t... ...” to country people, to inexperienced youths, and to foreigners, the opera house must on those nights be the palace of fatigue and dulness. T o these,... ...ss and manners were above reproach; he trod the classic floor of the opera house as one accustomed there. Who can have failed to observe that there, a... ...sequently erected backing on to the Hotel Saint-Pol. Thus, under the later Valois, the kings came back from the Bastille to the Louvre, which had been...

...Don Quixote by Miquel de Cervantes Translated by John Ormsby 1922 edition of Ormsby’s translation A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication... ...ote by Miguel de Cervantes, trans. John Ormsby (1922 ed.) 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... ...incidents have now been for more than two centuries and a half familiar as household words in English mouths, it seems to me that the old familiar nam... ...a little collection of verses by different hands on the death of Isabel de Valois, second queen of Philip II, published by the professor in 1569, to w... ...im as his camarero (chamberlain), the office he himself held in the Pope’s household. The post would no doubt have led to advancement at the Papal Cou... ...f a gentleman, the victim of a street brawl, who had been carried into the house in which he lived. In these he himself is described as a man who wrot...

... ... ... Twenty Years After (The Third Volume of The Three Musketeers) by Alexandre Dumas is a publica- tion of the Pennsylvania State University. This Porta... ... the Pennsylvania State University assumes any re- sponsibility for the material contained within the document or for the file as an electronic trans-... ...owing occurrences had taken place between the two contending parties On the seventh of January between seven and eight hun- dred tradesmen had assembl... ...came before them pale and trembling, declaring that his son had very nearly been assassinated the day before, near the palace. The mob had insulted hi... ...- nity of calling out his guard, the Swiss troops and the mus- keteers, and he had planted them round the Palais Royal, on the quays, and on the Pont ... ...at does he expect to have at the end of his devotion?” “Well, my lord, my friend has three magnificent estates: that of Vallon, at Corbeil; that of Br...

...Excerpt: The Shade of Cardinal Richelieu. In a splendid chamber of the Palais Royal, formerly styled the Palais Cardinal, a man was sitting in deep reverie, his head supported on his hands, leaning over a gilt and inlaid table which was covered...

...E M.YONGE A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Chaplet of Pearls by Charlotte M. Yonge is a publication of the Pennsylvania State ... ...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... ...ent or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Chaplet of Pearls by Charlotte M. Yonge, the Pennsylvania State University, Electro... ...should be the wife of his young son, and that all the posses- sions of the house should be settled upon the little couple, engaging to provide for the... ...went rolling over together on the floor with a hubbub that brought all the household together, exclaiming and scolding. Madame de Ribaumont’s displeas... ...tely more strict and rigid than themselves. He was never able to leave the house again after his first arrival at Hurst Walwyn, and sank under the col... ...uardhouse?’ added the attendant, coming up on the other side; but Henri de Valois waved them both back, and burst into a derisive laugh. ‘No, no; do y... ...Queen’s that made me hope for your sanction.’ ‘All the sanction Charles de Valois can give is yours, and welcome,’ said the King, hastily. ‘The sancti... ...always led the French peasant to smuggle, ever since the days of the first Valois. The room had a certain appearance of com- fort; there was a partiti...

...Preface: It is the fashion to call every story controversial that deals with times when controversy or a war of religion was raging; but it should be remembered that there are some which only attempt to portray human feelings as affected by the events that such warfare occasioned. ?Old Mortality? and ?Woodstock? are not controversia...

...Don Quixote by Miquel de Cervantes Translated by John Ormsby 1922 edition of Ormsby’s translation. Part One A Penn State Electronic Classics Series P... ... One by Miquel de Cervantes, trans. John Ormsby, 1922 ed. is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furni... ...y. 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... ...incidents have now been for more than two centuries and a half familiar as household words in English mouths, it seems to me that the old familiar nam... ...a little collection of verses by different hands on the death of Isabel de Valois, second queen of Philip II, published by the professor in 1569, to w... ...im as his camarero (chamberlain), the office he himself held in the Pope’s household. The post would no doubt have led to advancement at the Papal Cou... ... Ormsby’s 1922 ed. victim of a street brawl, who had been carried into the house in which he lived. In these he himself is described as a man who wrot...

...ench Revolution: A History (Volume Two) by Thomas Carlyle is a publication of the Penn- sylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furn... ...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... ...not only shall Paris be fed, but the King’s hand be seen in that work. The house- hold goods of the Poor shall, up to a certain amount, by royal bount... ...s a-day your National Deputy has, be sup- posed equal to this expenditure? House in the Chaussee d’Antin; Country-house at Argenteuil; splendours, sum... ...ht have earned instead of prowling,—to thee it is no theory! In the Senate-house again, the attitude of the Right Side is that of calm unbelief. Let a... ...n furlough, burnt-out Seigneurs, may likewise be met with, ‘in the Cafe de Valois, and at Meot the Restaurateur’s. ’ There they fan one another into h... ...grammatical Saint-Antoine! Most different, again, from both is the Cafe-de-Valois eloquence, and suppressed fanfaronade, of this multitude of men with... ...cure element of fetchers and carriers, of Half-pay braggarts from the Cafe Valois, of Chambermaids, whisperers, and subaltern officious persons; fierc...

...TITUTION ...................................................................................................................... 6 BOOK 2.I. THE FEAST OF PIKES ............................................................................................................................. 6 Chapter 2.1.I. In the Tuileries. ..........................................................

...topher Marlowe Massacre at Paris by Christopher Marlowe 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 ... ...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... ...Duke Dumain: How they did storme at these your nuptiall rites, Because the house of Burbon now comes in, And joynes your lineage to the crowne ofFranc... .... Now shall I prove and guerdon to the ful, The love thou bear’st unto the house of Guise: Where are those perfumed gloves which late I sent To be poy... ...Paris Christopher Marlowe 11 GUISE. Away then, break into the Admirals house. GETES. I let the Admirall be first dispatcht. GUISE. The Admirall, C... ...ine for you: Pope excommunicate, Philip depose, The wicked branch of curst Valois’s line. Vive la messe , perish Hugonets, Thus Caesar did goe foorth,... ... is no stay for us: I am thy brother, and ile revenge thy death, And roote Valois’s line from forth of France, The Massacre at Paris Christopher Ma...

...Excerpt: Prince of Navarre, Charles, my honourable brother, Prince Condy, and my good Lord Admirall, wishe this union and religious league, Knit in these hands, thus joyn?d in nuptiall rites, May not desolve, till death desolve our lives, An...

...blication Two Penniless Princesses by Charlotte M. Yonge 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... ...ery tender or affection- ate, and had the haughty demeanour with which the house of Somerset had thought fit to assert their claims to royalty. The cr... ...e con- dition of her young ladies, so different from the splendours of the house of Somerset, Ankaret saw that Eleanor was as fit 12 Two Penniless Pr... ...ed as an intimation that supper was ready, at five o’clock, for the entire household, and all made their way down—Jean first, in all the glory of her ... ... a sweetness all his own; but both these kings were, like all the house of Valois, small men with insignificant features and sallow complexions. Rene,...

...le, standing on steep rocks above the North Sea, was not only inaccessible on that side, but from its donjon tower commanded a magnificent view, both of the expanse of waves, taking purple tints from the shadows of the clouds, with here and there a sail fleeting before the wind, and of the rugged headlands of the coast, point beyond point, the nearer distinct, and showing ...

...es Cotton Edited by William Carew Hazilitt 1877 1877 1877 1877 1877 ESSAYS OF MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE Book the First T ranslated by Charles Cotton Edited ... ...es P P P P Publication ublication ublication ublication ublication Essays of Michel De Montaigne, Book the First, trans. Charles Cotton, Ed. William ... ... First, trans. Charles Cotton, Ed. William Carew Hazilitt is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...he afterwards hired, at twenty crowns a month, fine furnished rooms in the house of a Spaniard, who in- cluded in these terms the use of the kitchen f... ...e no recourse to other founda- tions than the vaults and arches of the old houses, upon which, as on slabs of rock, they raise their modern palaces. I... ...th year. It was the 13th September 1592. Montaigne was buried near his own house; but a few years after his decease, his remains were removed to the c... ...e he will come to visit you. Nay, Queen Margaret of Navarre—[Marguerite de Valois, authoress of the ‘Heptameron’]—further adds, that it would be a rud...

Excerpt: Essays of Michel De Montaigne, Book the First, translated by Charles Cotton, Ed. William Carew Hazilitt.

............................................................................................................................................. 6 THE LIFE OF MONTAIGNE ...................................................................................................................................... 9 THE LETTERS OF MONTAIGNE .....................................................

... Narrative and Miscellaneous Papers by Thomas de Quincey 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... ...ty Editor, Hazleton, PA 18202 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ....................................................................... 4 THE HOUSEHOLD WRECK............................................................... ...QUINCEY V V V V Volume O olume O olume O olume O olume One ne ne ne ne THE HOUSEHOLD THE HOUSEHOLD THE HOUSEHOLD THE HOUSEHOLD THE HOUSEHOLD WRECK WRE... ...irst looked at her, when yet upon the early thresh- old of womanhood ‘With household motions light and free, And steps of virgin liberty’ you might ha... ...Duc de Chartres before the Revolution, whereas his proper title was Duc de Valois. And the origin of the change was this:—The Regent’s father had been... ...at in consequence of some omi- nous circumstances relating to the title of Valois, which was the proper second title of the Orleans family, her son, t... ...ght be, which occasioned much whisper- ing at the time, the great title of Valois was laid aside for ever as of bad augury; nor has it ever been resum...

...Contents Volume One ..................................................................... 4 THE HOUSEHOLD WRECK.......................................................................................................... 4 THE SPANISH NUN ........................................................................................

...ATION The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle 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... ...or, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Docu- ment File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...ms and equerries booted and spurred: waiting for some signal to escape the house of pestilence. (One grudges to interfere with the beautiful theatrica... ... with their money-quarrels, divorce- cases, wheresoever a glimpse into the household existence can be had, what indications! The Parlements of Besanco... ...t length of time might not almost any Falsehood last! Your So- ciety, your Household, practical or spiritual Arrangement, is untrue, unjust, offensive... ...n furlough, burnt-out Seigneurs, may likewise be met with, ‘in the Cafe de Valois, and at Meot the Restaurateur’s. ’ There they fan one another into h... ...grammatical Saint-Antoine! Most different, again, from both is the Cafe-de-Valois eloquence, and suppressed fanfaronade, of this multitude of men with... ...cure element of fetchers and carriers, of Half-pay braggarts from the Cafe Valois, of Cham- bermaids, whisperers, and subaltern officious persons; fie...

...E ................................................................................................................................ 12 BOOK 1.I. DEATH OF LOUIS XV. ........................................................................................................................... 12 Chapter 1.1.I. Louis the Well-Beloved. .................................................

...NSON A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Familiar Studies of Men and Books by Robert Louis Stevenson is a publication of the Pennsylv... ...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... ...r for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Familiar Studies of Men and Books by Robert Louis Stevenson, the Pennsylvania State Universi... ........................ 107 CHAPTER VI – FRANCOIS VILLON, STUDENT, POET, AND HOUSEBREAKER .........117 CHAPTER VII – CHARLES OF ORLEANS ................... ...iner in conception than that voice from the people heard sud- denly in the House of Lords, in solemn arraignment of the pleasures and privileges of it... ...k a farm, married, and, like an emigrant in a new country, built himself a house with his own hands. Pov- erty of the most distressing sort, with some... ...ng more specious was to be looked for from the son of his father, Louis de Valois, Duke of Orleans, brother to the mad king Charles VI., lover of Quee...

...Excerpt: Preface By Way Of Criticism. These studies are collected from the monthly press. One appeared in the New Quarterly, one in MacMillan?s, and the rest in the Cornhill Magazine. To the Cornhill I owe a double debt of thanks; first, that I was ...

...Contents PREFACE BY WAY OF CRITICISM. ........................................................................................... 4 CHAPTER I ? VICTOR HUGO?S ROMANCES ........................................................................ 15 CHAPTE...

... This publication of The Divine Comedy of Dante , Translated by H.F. Cary , is a publication of the Pennsylva... ...rsity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and i... ... for the file as an electronic trans mission, in any way. The Divine Comedy of Dante , Translated by H.F. Cary , the Pennsylvania State University, J... ...arm’d my veins. The harlot, who ne’er turn’d her gloating eyes From Caesar’s household, common vice and pest Of courts, ‘gainst me inflam’d the minds ... ... against the volley with mine hands. As were the torment, if each lazar house Of Valdichiana, in the sultry time ‘Twixt July and September, with ... ...st fall.] The Bianchi. v. 69. Of one, who under shore Now rests.] Charles of Valois, by whose means the Neri were replaced. v. 73. The just are two i... ... Orl. Fur. c. iii. st 32. He died in 1293 according to Gibbon. Ant. of the House of Brunswick. Posth. Works, v. ii. 4to. v. 119. He.] “Henrie, the ... ...ll find him in the Paradise, Canto X. v. 69. Another Charles.] Charles of Valois, brother of Philip IV, was sent by Pope Boniface VIII to settle t... ...I, king of Naples and Sicily. Is it not more likely to allude to Charles of Valois, son of Philip III of France, who was sent for, about this time,...

...Excerpt: CANTO I. In the midway of this our mortal life, I found me in a gloomy wood, astray Gone from the path direct: and e?en to tell It were no easy task, how savage wild That forest, how robust and rough its growth, Which to remember only, my dismay Re...

... This publication of The Divine Comedy of Dante Hell , Translated by H.F. Cary , is a publication of the Pe... ...rsity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and i... ...or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Divine Comedy of Dante Hell , Translated by H.F. Cary , the Pennsylvania State Univer... ...arm’d my veins. The harlot, who ne’er turn’d her gloating eyes From Caesar’s household, common vice and pest Of courts, ‘gainst me inflam’d the minds ... ... against the volley with mine hands. As were the torment, if each lazar house Of Valdichiana, in the sultry time ‘Twixt July and September, with ... ...st fall.] The Bianchi. v. 69. Of one, who under shore Now rests.] Charles of Valois, by whose means the Neri were replaced. v. 73. The just are two i... ... Orl. Fur. c. iii. st 32. He died in 1293 according to Gibbon. Ant. of the House of Brunswick. Posth. Works, v. ii. 4to. v. 119. He.] “Henrie, the ...

...Excerpt: CANTO I. In the midway of this our mortal life, I found me in a gloomy wood, astray Gone from the path direct: and e?en to tell It were no easy task, how savage wild That forest, how robust and rough its growth, Which to remember only, my dismay Re...

... This publication of The Divine Comedy of Dante Purgatory , Translated by H.F. Cary , is a publication of t... ...rsity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and i... ... for the file as an elec tronic transmission, in any way. The Divine Comedy of Dante Purgatory , Translated by H.F. Cary , the Pennsylvania State U... ...ay who are ye, that stemming the blind stream, Forth from th’ eternal prison house have fled?” He spoke and moved those venerable plumes. “Who hath co... ...without a pilot in loud storm, Lady no longer of fair provinces, But brothel house impure! this gentle spirit, Ev’n from the Pleasant sound of his dea... ...To whom their glory is not manifest? The fame, that honours your illustrious house, Proclaims the nobles and proclaims the land; So that he knows it w... ...vine Comedy of Dante Purgatory 113 v. 69. Another Charles.] Charles of Valois, brother of Philip IV, was sent by Pope Boniface VIII to settle t...

Excerpt: This publication of The Divine Comedy of Dante - Purgatory, Translated by H.F. Cary.

...Purgatorio] by Dante Aligheri, trans Charles Eliot Norton 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... ...ty Editor, Hazleton, PA 18202 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...well in all Europe that they are not renowned? The fame that honoreth your house proclaims its lords, proclaims its district, so that he knows of them... ...h, in 1306, he received from the Marquis Moroello and other members of the house. 16 Seven years shall not pass, the sun being at this time in the si... ...e 5 “And they set the ark of God on a new cart, and brought it out of the house … and Uzzah and Ahio drave the new cart … and when they came to Nacho... ...Achan each one recalls how he stole the spoils, so that the 16 Charles of Valois, brother of Philip the Fair, sent by Boniface VIII., in 1301, to Flo...

...Contents PURGATORY................................................................... 6 CANTO I. Invocation to the Muses.?Dawn of Easter on the shore of Purgatory.?The Four Stars.?Cato.?The cleansing of Dante from the stains of Hell. ............................................................................................................ 6 CANTO I...

... This publication of The Divine Comedy of Dante Paradise , Translated by H.F. Cary , is a publication of th... ...rsity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and i... ... for the file as an elec tronic transmission, in any way. The Divine Comedy of Dante Paradise , Translated by H.F. Cary , the Pennsylvania State Un... ... mortal wax, Doth well her art, but no distinctions owns ‘Twixt one or other household. Hence befalls That Esau is so wide of Jacob: hence Quirinus of... ...pale. For fear the age and dowry should exceed On each side just proportion. House was none Void of its family; nor yet had come Hardanapalus, to exhi... ...s’d and seemly fellowship, Such faithful and such fair equality, In so sweet household, Mary at my birth Bestow’d me, call’d on with loud cries; and t... ...I, king of Naples and Sicily. Is it not more likely to allude to Charles of Valois, son of Philip III of France, who was sent for, about this time,...