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... of the Roses history plays, with events following those of King Richard II . As the play opens, King Henry IV (formerly Henry Bolingbroke) and Henry Percy (Hotspur) argue over the disposition of prisoners from the Battle of Holmedon. The King’s attitude toward Mortimer and the Percy family prompts them to plot rebellion. In the meantime, his son Prince Hal is living the l...

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...21 Earlsfort and Irish 22 Not good enough 23 Burnt Dahlias 24 Straight 25 Fight to be Me 26 An end 27 On yer bike 28 Functional family 29 Spit 30 Mobile’s cry 31 Pot-bellied Percy 32 Sixteen years 33 Northside lights 35 The pup 36 The covering 37 Lecher 38 Hock 40 Conjoined sugar 41 Poorness 42 The Crowd 43 Bodl...

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...re the Castle is a 17-year-old bluestocking, living with her impoverished family in an English castle during the war years. I am completely hooked by... ...me by on his hospital chaplain rounds and say hello, pray with me and any family member who was there and then go on his way. When I got out of the h... ...n sanctuary to watch a video presentation by James Dobson of Focus on the Family. The little Christian Church had affiliated with them and I remembe... ...r get a sitter or go to Denny's." Well, when I start to consider that the family at Denny's, or even McDonald's, may have saved up for their less ex... ...ties as dating or romance. At least, that was what I told myself. What had Percy Shelley written about that broken statue? "I am Ozymandias, king of k...

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...n, and Flossie and Freddie, and their cat, Snoop. Two sets of twins in one family! Lacey ached to belong to a family like that, or even to have her ow... ...pent entire days sprawled on her bed engrossed in the lives of the Bobbsey family, and Nancy Drew or Frank and Joe Hardy. And whenever she could, she ... ...the city twinkle on all around her. “I love this place,” she said happily. Percy Faith was playing If You Said Goodbye. Jake rose and opened his arms,... ...is- tent. Jake felt anew the desire to protect and help this woman and her family. “Well, I’m ready,” Lacey said, with a big grin. She kissed Jana and... ...URAGEOUS BATTLE slip by as they left the city behind. “So, what about your family?” she asked, wondering about his wife. “I told you about my folks. M... ... in the winter.” “Sounds nice,” Lacey said wistfully. “What about your own family?” “I married Nicole in 1968. She worked at the bank where I had my a...

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Excerpt: The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley, Volume One.

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...THE COMPLETE POETICAL WORKS OF PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY VOLUME 1 OXFORD EDITION. INCLUDING MATERIALS NEVER BEF... ...ate Electronic Classics Series Publication The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley, Volume One is a publication of the Pennsylvania State... ... as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley, Volume One, the Pennsylvania State University, Electr... ...metheus Unbound by Joseph Severn 7 Shelley THE COMPLETE POETICAL WORKS OF PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY VOLUME 1 OXFORD EDITION. INCLUDING MATERIALS NEVER BEF... ...ley’s widow, and passed from her to her son and daughter-in-law. After Sir Percy Shelley’s death, Lady Shelley took the occasion of the erec- tion of ... ...tears. —Virgil’s “Gallus”. Count Maddalo is a Venetian nobleman of ancient family and of great fortune, who, without mixing much in the soci- ety of h... ... of his adventures in different countries. Julian is an Englishman of good family, passionately at- tached to those philosophical notions which assert... ..., who lent him the use of a villa he rented near Este; and he sent for his family from Lucca to join him. I Capuccini was a villa built on the site of... ...ent: It fortunately serves my close designs That ’tis a trick of this same family To analyse their own and other minds. Such self-anatomy shall teach ...

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Excerpt: The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley: Volume Three.

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...THE COMPLETE POETICAL WORKS OF PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY VOLUME 3 OXFORD EDITION. INCLUDING MATERIALS NEVER BEF... ...ate Electronic Classics Series Publication The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley: Volume Three is a publication of the Pennsylvania Sta... ... as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley: Volume Three, the Pennsylvania State University, Elec... ................................325 7 Shelley THE COMPLETE POETICAL WORKS OF PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY V V V V VOL OL OL OL OLUME 3 UME 3 UME 3 UME 3 UME 3 O... ... with a lady of considerable accomplishments, and the mother of a numerous family, whom the Christian religion has goaded to incurable insanity. A par... ... The peasant cannot gratify these fashionable cravings without leaving his family to starve. Without disease and war, those sweeping curtailers of pop... ...nclude a waste too great to be afforded. The labour requisite to support a family is far lighter’ than is usually supposed. (It has come under the aut... ...ies of Nature and society. ‘Sir, ‘I am your obliged and obedient servant, ‘Percy B. Shelley. ‘Pisa, June 22, 1821.’ Of the following pieces the “Origi...

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...tter carefully preserved in the pocketbook of our junior traveler. Be- neath the address, in the left-hand corner of the enve- lope, were the words, “... ... make you see everyone; trust to him for putting you into circulation. He has got a tremendously pretty wife.” It was natural that in the hour of trib... ...o that he lived in the Fifth Avenue, and that the Fifth Avenue, as they had ascer- tained the night before, was contiguous to their hotel. “Ten to one... ...mo’ning, he ain’t liable to come home all day.” This was discouraging; but the address of Mr. Westgate’s office was freely imparted by the intelligent... ...iend of mine was saying to me only a day or two ago, ‘It’s time for the watermel- ons and the Englishmen.” “The Englishmen and the watermelons just no... ...Mrs. Westgate, turning to Beaumont with her bright exposi- tory air, “must buy something every day of her life. If she can not do it herself, she must... ...not make out, as Mrs. Westgate had said, she was shy. If she was shy, she carried it off very well. “Mr. Beaumont,” she had said, “please tell me some... ...umont would have said, Mrs. Westgate disembarked on the 18th of May on the British coast. She was accompanied by her sis- ter, but she was not attende... ...ushes and notepaper. The most she would consent to do in this line was to spend half an hour at Madame Tussaud’s, where she saw several dusty wax effi...

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...eing asked to perform the ceremony, without the consent of the young man’s family.’ ‘He cannot do it,’ exclaimed the young lady; ‘you had bet- ter wri... ... not as he chooses. Oh, if papa were at home—oh, if Mr. Wingfield were but Percy 7 Yonge Fotheringham—he who fears no man, and can manage any one! Oh... ...companion or comfort, and whom you would be ashamed to see beside your own family. Or, supposing your own affections untouched, what right have you to... ...ruck, not unpleasingly, by the second name. ‘Well, that is the case in our family. My sister has an uncommon name.’ ‘Theodora,’ said Violet, pausing, ... ...ly want to know how my father takes it.’ ‘He cannot endure the notion of a family feud; but the first step must come from you.’ ‘Very well:—and so you... ...h his letters, and Arthur, as his eye fell on one of them, asked, ‘What is Percy doing now?’ ‘He has been in Anatolia, going over some of the places w... ..., ‘Jane, you want me to talk to you; I cannot, unless you unsay that about Percy 39 Yonge Fotheringham. He is not to be accused of baseness.’ ‘I beg ... ...ips him!’ ‘I thought Mrs. Nesbit was fond of him.’ ‘Did you ever hear that Percy Fotheringham once said of her, “That woman is a good hater”? She dete... ...n. Nothing but consider- ation for Brown induces him to allow my father or Percy Fotheringham now and then to sit up.’ ‘ A comfortable misanthropical ...

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... meet with all the comforts of a cheerful musical home in a select private family, residing within ten min- utes’ walk of’—everywhere. Answers out of ... ..., ’ said Mr. Calton, with an air of great self-complacency. ‘We may have a family. ’ ‘We!—That won’t affect you, surely?’ ‘The devil it won’t!’ ‘No! h... ...laid in the front parlour at ten o’clock. Nine was the usual time, but the family always breakfasted an hour later on sabbath. Tibbs enrobed himself i... ...eplied the man with the red whiskers, who was an established friend of the family, or in other words was always invited by Mrs. Budden, whether Mr. Bu... ... that con- nected with The Black Veil. CHAPTER VII THE STEAM EXCURSION MR. PERCY NOAKES was a law student, inhabiting a set of chambers on the fourth ... ...ting nurs- ery-maids, and town-made children, with parenthetical legs. Mr. Percy Noakes was what is generally termed—‘a devilish good fellow.’ He had ... ...erally useful. ’ If any old lady, whose son was in India, gave a ball, Mr. Percy Noakes was master of the ceremonies; if any young lady made a stolen ... ...s was master of the ceremonies; if any young lady made a stolen match, Mr. Percy Noakes gave her away; if a juvenile wife presented her husband with a... ...ife presented her husband with a blooming 113 Charles Dickens cherub, Mr. Percy Noakes was either godfather, or deputy-godfather; and if any member o...

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...King’s camp at the siege of Meaux. Another alteration of fact is that Ralf Percy, instead of be- ing second son of Hotspur, should have been Henry Per... ...footsteps, and two young people entered the hall; the first a girl, with a family likeness to Malcolm, but tall, upright, beautiful, and with the rich... ...ency enabled the House of Albany to exercise over the orphans of the royal family, whose head was absent; and a captive knight could be no mischievous... ... ruder speeches, had long made it known to the House of Glenuskie that the family policy was to cajole or to drive the sickly heir into a convent, and... ... broad lands inherited from both parents, unite her and them to the Albany family The almost barbarous fierceness and wild licentiousness of Walter wo... ...f- insouciant air, who had greatly taken his fancy, was, he was told, Ralf Percy, the second son of Sir Harry Percy. ‘Of him they called Hotspur?—who ... ...ssed, and chafing, above all, at the gay contempt he fancied in young Ralf Percy’s eye. He became constantly 62 The Caged Lion more discontented with... ...ubtful and diffident, was look- ing hesitatingly at the gateway, when Ralf Percy called out, ‘Ha! you there, this is our way. That is only for the roy... ...r; this is no place for you!’ ‘Let me alone!’ entreated Malcolm, as he saw Percy’s amazed look and whistle of scorn. ‘They don’t want me.’ ‘You will n...

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... surmounted the great iron gateway; but they had vanished, either with the family, or at the indications of an approach- ing rust. Rust defiled its ba... ...ut whole pages of a book called the ‘Field of Mars,’ which was next to the family Bible in size among the volumes of the farmer’s small library. The d... ...ung man, calling himself Robert Armstrong, underwent a presentation to the family. He paid the stipulated sum, and was soon enrolled as one of them. H... ...om the abstract. The farmer saw round figures among the possessions of the family, and he assisted mentally in this money-turning of Anthony’s, counte... ...is friend; first reproaching him for not being by, and then by the name of Percy, calling to him endearingly, and reproaching himself for not having w... ... him. “Two to one, and in the dark!” he kept moaning “and I one to twenty, Percy, all in broad day. Was it fair, I ask?” Robert’s outcries became anyt... ...ed by that everlasting phrase in the mouth of the military par- rot. Major Percy Waring, the son of a clergyman, was a work- ing soldier, a slayer, if... ... in the glad ear given to him by Robert. Between them it was “Robert” and “Percy.” Robert had rescued him from drowning on the East Anglian shore, and... ...bert’s quitting the post of trooper and buying himself out. It was against Percy’s advice, who wanted to purchase a com- mission for him; but the humb...

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... of speech,’ she shuddered; she de- cided that a place where her husband’s family had lived ought not to stand forth meretriciously spangled and daube... ...’ said Emma. ‘You don’t know the other? I am sure the one you mean must be Percy Dacier.’ His retiring was explained: the Hon. Percy Dacier was the ne... ... to Parliament by a stout majority for the Borough of Orrybridge: the Hon. Percy Dacier delivered a brilliant speech in the House of Commons, necessar... ...y the man her husband. 129 George Meredith CHAPTER XV INTRODUCES THE HON. PERCY DACIER THE GODS of this world’s contests, against whom our poor strip... ...e had been a lawyer! It must be a lawyer’s initiative—a lawyer’s Bill. Mr. Percy Dacier also spoke well, as might have been expected, and his uncle’s ... ...mine has been.’ On the Nile, in the winter of the year, Diana met the Hon. Percy Dacier. He was introduced to her at Cairo by Redworth. The two gentle... ...as there, listening to that Bell, instead of having obeyed the call of his family duties, when the latter were urgent. He had received letters at Luga... ..., and could give ear to ideas. Furthermore, a couple of the members of his family inclined to do her injustice. At least, they judged her harshly, owi... ... a chance he is entertaining. He has fine gifts. If I were a member of his family I should beat about for a match for him. He strikes me as one of the...

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...hey used to look down upon Dante, and mutely asking me to adopt them into my family, which I do with pleasure, for my remotest ancestors are but sprin... ...th him we have no concern. The Tragedy of Pudd nhead Wilson - Mark Twain 6 Percy Northumberland Driscoll, brother to the judge, and younger than he ... ...ound the same day, with her hands full, for she was tending both babes. Mrs. Percy Driscoll died within the week. Roxy remained in charge of the child... ...er size, and said: “Oh, I kin tell ‘em ‘part, Misto Wilson, but I bet Marse Percy couldn’t, not to save his life.” Wilson chatted along for awhile, a... ...way—a little sugar, or cake, or honey, or some thing like that, that “Marse Percy wouldn’t mind or miss” but not money—never a cent of money. They we... ...ct. Within a few days the fate of the speculation became so dubious that Mr. Percy went away with his brother, the judge, to see what could be done wi... ...ent the scandal—for public sentiment did not approve of that way of treating family servants for light cause or for no cause. Percy Driscoll had worn ... ... empty for a year now, to her sorrow. Her income was only sufficient for the family support, and she needed the lodging money for trifling luxuries. B... ...r she was to have two lodgers instead of one. She had read the letter to the family, and Rowena had danced away to see to the cleaning and airing of t...

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...asked. “Oh, his mother was frightened—she was afraid I should have all the family jewels reset. And she wanted me to prom- ise that I wouldn’t do over... ...faint smile re- laxed the drawn lines of her mouth. She had known that Mr. Percy Gryce was to be at Bellomont, but she had not counted on the luck of ... ...an advance on her part. It amused her to think that any one as rich as Mr. Percy Gryce should be shy; but she was gifted with treasures of indulgence ... ...d in this case her mental excursion took the form of a rapid survey of Mr. Percy Gryce’s future as combined with her own. The Gryces were from Albany,... ...of thanks were pasted formed the chief ornament of her drawing-room table. Percy had been brought up in the principles which so excel- lent a woman wa... ... Y ork. She accordingly installed herself in the Madison Avenue house, and Percy, whose sense of duty was not inferior to his mother’s, spent all his ... ... life went on through Lily’s teens: a zig-zag broken course down which the family craft glided on a rapid current of amusement, tugged at by the under... ...of reflected superiority, and she did not need Mrs. Bart’s comments on the family frumps and misers to foster her naturally lively taste for splendour... ... how the luncheon-table looked when there was no one present at it but the family. But she smiled at her daughter’s innocence. “Lilies-of-the-valley,”...

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...ides as he now stands before me in memory. 5 Charlotte M. Yonge Our family history is a strange one. I, Lucy Alison, never even saw my twin bro... ...ld that in after times it was always a shock to me to read on his tablet, “Percy Alison, aged fifty-seven;” and I was but seven years old when he died... ...ars old when he died under the final blow of the loss of my little brother Percy from measles. The dear old place—house with five gables on the garden... ...ially, the whole of the ricks and build- ings being burnt down, though the family of the occupant was saved, partly by Prometesky’s exertions. When th... ...th which to set themselves up in a large farm in the Bush. And when little Percy died, he wanted again to have his eldest grandson sent home to him, a... ...at his farm that made Lord Erymanth refuse to renew the lease and turn the family out so harshly, and with as little notice as possible. The cruelty, ... ...at Gov- ernment House, and thus was viewed as the polished mem- ber of the family, though, if he had come as master, I should 13 Charlotte M. Y... ... a miniature-case containing a portrait, by Thorburn, of my little brother Percy, in loose brown holland. Harold started as he came in, and exclaimed,... ...o find Harold there, leaning over the table, with that miniature of little Percy, which, two months before, he had bidden me shut up, open before him,...

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...ous frauds; and, finally, that he wrote under the patronage of the Flavian family: by his sycophancy he had won their protection, which would have ove... ... from the first, with the simplicity of truth, in what order of society my family moved at the time from which this preliminary narrative is dated. Ot... ... as of some higher rank than did really 18 Thomas de Quincey belong to my family. And this impression might seem to have been designedly insinuated b... ...and very soon after the incidents recorded in this chapter, leaving to his family, then consisting of a wife and six children, an unburdened estate pr... ... as it exists in England, it will readily occur that in an opulent English family of that class—opulent, though not emphatically rich in a mercantile ... ...visited, or attempted to visit, Petworth, near London, (then a seat of the Percys, now of Lord Egremont,) about the year 1685. I forget how many times...

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...University is an equal opportunity university. 3 Robert Louis Stevenson The Master of Ballantrae A Winter’s Tale by Robert Louis Stevenson To Sir Pe... ...ne and Manor: scenes which rise before me as I write, along with the faces and voices of my friends. Well, I am for the sea once more; no doubt Sir Pe... ...But in the mean- while it is truly mysterious, no eye having looked on it for near a hundred years; it is highly genteel, for it treats of a titled fa... ... will flow more smoothly, and my white hair lie quieter on the pillow, when the debt is paid. The Duries of Durrisdeer and Ballantrae were a strong fa... .... 8 The Master of Ballantrae Authentic history besides is filled with their exploits which (to our modern eyes) seem not very commendable: and the fa... ... liable. But all these I pass over, to come to that memorable year 1745, when the foundations of this tragedy were laid. At that time there dwelt a fa... ...orse-doctor besides; and took a chief hand, almost from a boy, in the management of the estates. How hard a part that was, in the situation of that fa...

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...e arched gate of Bothwell proud, While many a minstrel answered loud, When Percy’s Norman pennon, won In bloody field, before me shone, And twice ten ... ...w my deed, ‘t were best not know myself.” 103. Cambusmore. The estate of a family named Buchanan, whom Scott frequently visited in his younger days. I... ...d chieftains, to a late pe- riod, retained in their service the bard, as a family officer, admits of very easy proof. The author of the Letters from t... .... The Graeme. Scott has the following note here: “The ancient and powerful family of Graham (which, for metrical reasons, is here smelled after the Sc... ...f the Bleeding Heart. The bleeding heart was the cognizance of the Douglas family. Robert Bruce, on his death-bed, bequeathed his heart to his friend,... ...191 below. 216. A Lennox foray. That is, a raid in the lands of the Lennox family, bordering on the southern end of Loch Lomond. On the island of Inch... ...was made prisoner by Hotspur. He was no less unfortunate when allied with Percy, being wounded and taken at the battle of Shrewsbury. He was so unsuc... ...307. What time, etc. That is, at the time when Douglas allied himself with Percy in the rebellion against Henry IV . of En- gland. See Shakespeare, 1 ... ...heir greeting was confused and shy.” 495. Bothwell. See on 141 above. 497. Percy’s Norman pennon. T aken in the raid which led to the battle of Otterb...

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.......................................................................... 25 Percy Bysshe Shelley ......................................................... ...here is no marriage in heaven But there is love. 26 Spoon River Anthology Percy Bysshe Shelley MY father who owned the wagon-shop And grew rich shoei... ...urt two weeks Listening to every witness. It was clear he had got her in a family And to let the child be born Would not do. Well, how about me with e... ... to ride it for a purpose, To use great feelings and passions of the human family For base designs, for cunning ends, To wear a mask like the Greek ac... ...girl. Then like a bolt old Rhodes accused me, And promised me mercy for my family’s sake If I confessed, and so I confessed, And begged him to keep it... ...king politics, Or sat at home reading Grant’s Memoirs; And I supported the family by washing, Learning the secrets of all the people From their curtai... ...vote Should get enough from the people’s betrayal To wall the whole of his family in. He vexed my life till I went back home And lived like an old mai...

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... in the hall of the earl’s castle. I)o not you see the coat of arms of the family of Lincoln carved in the open work of the back? But when his daughte... ...country. But his descendants still remain in New England; and the good old family name is as much respected in our days as it was in those of Sir Rich... ...d tarry in Salem for a time; she was probably received as a guest into the family of John Endicott. He was the chief person in the plantation, and had... ...you, were you bidden to copy every chapter, and verse, and word, in yonder family Bible! Would not this be a heavy toil? But if the task were, not to ... ...n can hardly grasp so wide a subject as is embraced in the experience of a family chair.” “It makes my breath flutter, my heart thrill, to think of it... ...vening of the 18th of April, 1775. The next morning the general sent Lord’ Percy with nine hundred men to strengthen the troops that had gone before. ...