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...Excerpt: My dear Strunz:--I should be ungrateful if I did not set your name at the head of one of the two tales I could never have written but for your patient kindness and care. Accept this as my grateful acknowledgment of the readiness with which you tried--perhaps not very successful...

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...SANDRA BELLONI Originally Emilia in England By George Meredith A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publi... ...SANDRA BELLONI Originally Emilia in England By George Meredith A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publicat... ...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. Sandra Belloni by George Meredith, the Pennsylvania State Unive... ...detract. Mr. Pericles grimaced bitterly at any claim to excellence be- ing set up for the mysterious voice in the woods. T apping one forefinger on th... ... too deeply impressed to pursue their play with him. Real emotions at once set aside the semi-credence they had given to their own suggestions. “Hush!... ...ough they could discern nothing save the glimmer of the instrument and one set of fingers caressing it. How she viewed their rather impertinent advanc... ... and Art, Emilia and Opera. He knew this and that great organ, and all the operas; but he amazed the ladies by talking as if he knew great people like... ... Tracy Runningbrook to come to Brookfield, and write libretti for Emilia’s operas. The two would sit down together for an hour, drawing wonderful prec...

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...Introduction: Francois Marie Arouet, who called himself Voltaire, was the son of Francois Arouet of Poitou, who lived in Paris, had given up his office of notary two years before the birth of this his third son, and obtained some years afterwards a treasurer?s office in the Chambre des Comptes. Voltaire was born in the year 1694. He lived un...

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...ennsylvania State Univer- sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file... ...e associated with the Pennsylvania State University assumes any responsibility for the material contained within the document or for the file as an el... ...is, Faculty Editor, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Document File pro- duced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classica... ... the South Seas by Robert Louis Stevenson PART 1: THE MARQUESAS CHAPTER I—AN ISLAND LANDFALL F OR NEARLY TEN YEARS my health had been declining; and f... ...e end of June 1888, visited the eastern islands, and was left early the next year at Honolulu. Hence, lacking courage to return to my old life of the ... ...f some ornate and monstrous church, they stood there, in the sparkling brightness of the morning, the fit signboard of a world of wonders. Not one sou... ...our, but continually modified my judg- ment. A polite Englishman comes to-day to the Marquesans and is amazed to find the men tattooed; polite Italian... ...i was from home, and found the son making a cotton sack, and madame suckling made- moiselle. When I had sat down with them on the floor, the girl bega... ... any expla- nation, I would at times make out some shadowy but deci- sive outline of a plot; and I was continually reminded of certain quarrelsome con...

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... has displayed uncommon courage, seamanship, affability, or other good qualities, grateful passengers often present him with a token of their esteem, in the shape of teapots, tankards, trays, &c. of precious metal. Among authors, however, bullion is a much rarer commodity than paper, whereof I beg you to accept a little in the shape of this small volume. It contains a few ...

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...?t is true that you turn?d out a Tory at Last,-- yours has lately been a common case; And now, my Epic Renegade! what are ye at? With all the Lakers, in and out of place? A nest of tuneful persons, to my eye Like ?four and twenty Blackbirds in a pyre....

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