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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 o...

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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-garment sat over-thwartly, howbeit it was ri...

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... ! "# ! St. Ives, The ... ...on of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this docu... ...anyone associated with the Pennsylvania State University assumes any re- sponsibility for the material contained within the document or for the file a... ... any skill with his fingers passed the hours of his captivity in the making of little toys and Articles of Paris; and the prison was daily visited at ... ...s almost as bad, was the great day for visitors. Those who came to our market were of all qualities, men and women, the lean and the stout, the plain ... ... of his village!’ I continued. ‘The circumstance is quaint enough. It seems to bind up into one the whole bundle of those human 11 Stevenson instinct... ... any mark of a gentleman, all who taught me died upon the scaffold, and my last school of manners was the prison of the Abbaye. Do you think you can t... ...es was scarcely suitable; till I remembered there was a town so called in the province of Cornwall, thought I might yet be glad to claim it for my pla... ... you would have fired at me, you bloody-minded man?’ I cried. ‘If you go to that, you seemed mighty reckless with your stick,’ said Dudgeon. ‘Did I in...

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...riend; there is likewise some relation between us on the mother?s side. About three years ago, Mr. Gulliver growing weary of the concourse of curious people coming to him at his house in Redriff, made a small purchase of land, with a convenient house, near Newark, in Nottinghamshire, his native country; where he now lives retired, yet in good esteem among his neighbors....

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...cotland, and of many other realms: howbeit there were many kings that were lords of many countries, but all they held their lands of King Arthur; for in Wales were two kings, and in the north were many kings; and in Cornwall and in the west were two kings; also in Ireland were two or three kings, and all were under the obeissance of King Arthur....

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...stity, That fairest vertue, farre aboue the rest; For which what needs me fetch from Faery Forreine ensamples, it to haue exprest? Sith it is shrined in my Soueraines brest, And form?d so liuely in each perfect part That to all Ladies, which haue it profest, Need but behold the pourtraict of her hart, If pourtrayd it might be by any liuing art....

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...OMAS DE QUINCEY AUTHOR OF CONFESSIONS OF AN ENGLISH OPIUM-EATER, ETC. ETC. IN TWO VOLUMES. V V V V VOL. II. OL. II. OL. II. OL. II. OL. II. A PENN STA... ...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. Theological Essays and Other Papers: Volume Two by Thomas de Qu... ...t is not the less true; and, being mon- strous, it will yet be recorded in history, that the Scottish church has split into mortal feuds upon two poin... ...ginal act of invitation. And yet, in defiance of that notorious fact, some people go so far as to assert, that a call is not good unless where it is s... ... inoperative, is and must be moonshine. Yet be- tween two moonshines, some people, it seems, can tell which is the denser. W e have all heard of Barme... ...ady, who cannot bear to be mixed up in any common charge together with low people, abomi- nates such words as ‘sin,’ and wills that the parson should ... ... out of moral forces. And it may be well, therefore, rapidly to sketch the history of religion, which is the greatest of moral forces, as it sank and ... ...did the treacherous office of a spanselled horse, as in past days upon the Cornish and the South Irish coast it was employed— expressly for showing fa...

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