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...Seventh book in the Chautauqua Girls series. Written by Isabella Alden under the pseudonym “Pansy.” Erskine, Ruth's son (a 5-year-old at the end of Judge Burnham’s Daughters ) is now a grown man, and Ruth is 50-something. He brings home an American wife from Paris, a woman who seems to want to tear apart mother and son. But Irene has som...

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...Eleven linguistic categories are presented (Murphy’s laws, the clichés, homonyms, tautologies, proverbs, metagrams, translations, definitions, figures of paradoxism, monorhymes, and abbreviations), which afterwards are respectively turned into their corresponding Florentin’s ...

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...Let’s Make Experiments in Linguistics (General preface) - 6 1. FLORENTIN’S LAWS If anything can go wrong, pass it on to someone else! - 8 1.1. ADVENTURES and VARIATIONs IN MURPHY’s LAW (Preface) - 9 1.2. What and Why Florenti...

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...A Boy's Will is Robert Frost's first full volume of poetry. Issued when Frost was approaching forty, it established his reputation and created a revolution in American poetry. With this publication, Frost became an established poet...

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...Joseph Conrad A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Almayer’s Folly: A Story of an Eastern River by Joseph Conrad is a publication of t... ...ument or for the file as an electronic trans- mission, in any way. Almayer’s Folly: A Story of an Eastern River by Joseph Conrad, the Pennsylvania Sta... ...te University is an equal opportunity university. 3 Joseph Conrad ALMAYER’S FOLLY: A STORY OF AN EASTERN RIVER by Joseph Conrad CHAPTER I “KASPAR! MA... ...would spread a glowing gold tinge on the waters of the Pantai, and Almayer’s thoughts were often busy with gold; gold he had failed to secure; gold th... ...n this coast where he felt like a prisoner. All this was nearly 4 Almayer’s Folly within his reach. Let only Dain return! And return soon he must—in ... ...more than a week late! Perhaps he would return to-night. Such were Almayer’s thoughts as, standing on the verandah of his new but already decaying hou... ...uded branch, like a hand lifted in mute appeal to heaven against the river’s brutal and unneces- sary violence. Almayer’s interest in the fate of that... ...rifted in sight of Celebes, as far as Macassar, perhaps! Macassar! Almayer’s quickened fancy distanced the tree on its imaginary voyage, but his memor... ... a Bornean evening, he recalled with pleasurable regret the image of Hudig’s lofty and cool warehouses with their long and straight avenues of gin cas...

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...or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. A Midsummer Night’s by William Shakespeare , the Pennsylvania State University, Electroni... ...ia State University is an equal opportunity university. 3 A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM William Shakespeare (written about 1593 1594) DRAMATIS PERSONAE T... ...eseus and Hippolyta. SCENE: Athens, and a wood near it. 4 A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM ACT I SCENE I: Athens. The palace of THESEUS. [Enter THESEUS, HI... ...S: Happy be Theseus, our renowned duke! THESEUS: Thanks, good Egeus: what’s the news with thee? EGEUS: Full of vexation come I, with complaint Aga... ... with my child: Thou hast by moonlight at her window sung, A Midsummer Night’s Dream , Act I, scene i 5 With feigning voice verses of feigning love, ... ... prevailment in unharden’d youth: With cunning hast thou filch’d my daughter’s heart, Turn’d her obedience, which is due to me, To stubborn harshness:... ...SEUS: In himself he is; But in this kind, wanting your father’s voice, The other must be held the worthier. HERMIA: I would my father ... ...our youth, examine well your blood, Whether, if you yield not to your father’s choice, You can endure the livery of a nun, For aye to be in shady cloi... ...den pilgrimage; But earthlier happy is the rose distill’d, A Midsummer Night’s Dream , Act I, scene i 6 Than that which withering on the virgin thorn...

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...Excerpt: Chapter 1. Mother Bunch. There was once a wonderful fortnight in little Lucy?s life. One evening she went to bed very tired and cross and hot, and in the morning when she looked at her arms and legs they were all covered with red spots, rather pretty to look at, only they were dry and prickly. Nurse w...

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... M. Yonge A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Little Lucy’s Wonderful Globe by Charlotte M. Yonge is a publication of the Pennsylvani... ...ent or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Little Lucy’s Wonderful Globe by Charlotte M. Yonge, the Pennsylvania State University,... ...ate University is an equal opportunity university. 3 Yo n g e LITTLE LUCY’S WONDERFUL GLOBE by Charlotte M. Yonge “Young fingers idly roll The mimic ... ...CH UNCH UNCH UNCH UNCH THERE WAS ONCE a wonderful fortnight in little Lucy’s life. One evening she went to bed very tired and cross and hot, and in th... ...ng turned into a spotted leopard, just like the cowry shell on Mrs. Bunker’s mantel-piece. Indeed, he said he thought 4 Little Lucy’s Wonderful Globe... ...active man, much less easily tired than their own papa. He had been a ship’s surgeon in his younger days, and had sailed all over the world, and col- ... ...had left Mother Bunch behind him. Nobody knew exactly what was Mrs. Bunker’s nation; indeed she could hardly be said to have any, for she had been bor... ...y be said to have any, for she had been born at sea, and had been a sailor’s wife; but whether she was mostly English, Dutch or Spanish, nobody knew a... ...e was noth- ing that the children liked better than a walk to Uncle Joseph’s, and, after a play in the garden, tea with her. And such quan- tities of ...

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...A Doll's House, written two years after The Pillars of Society, was the first of Ibsen's plays to create a sensation and is now perhaps his most famous play, and required reading in many secondary schools and universities. The play ...

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...Fifth in the Chautauqua Girls series. Ruth Erskine Burnham has helped raise her husband's two daughters, but all have rejected her faith and values. The constant pressure to compromise has weakened her walk and made her life miserable. Her one comfort is her sickly 5 year old son. Will she return to the strong f...

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...cott A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication My Aunt Margaret’s Mirror by Sir Walter Scott is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Uni... ...r for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. My Aunt Margaret’s Mirror by Sir Walter Scott, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic... ...y is an equal opportunity university. 3 Sir Walter Scott My Aunt Margaret’s Mirror by Sir Walter Scott INTRODUCTION. T he species of publication whic... ...to assist in it; and I accordingly placed with much pleasure at the Editor’s disposal a few frag- ments, originally designed to have been worked into ... ...ose tales, of which the first in order was that entitled “My Aunt Margaret’s Mirror.” By way of introduc- tion to this, when now included in a general... ... with very little embellishment, of a story that I re- 4 My Aunt Margaret’s Mirror membered being struck with in my childhood, when told at the fires... ...any credit by con- fessing. AUGUST 1831. 5 Sir Walter Scott AUNT MARGARET’S MIRROR “There are times When Fancy plays her gambols, in despite Even of ... ...orn, with the hope of their being subdued by the kindness of Aunt Margaret’s discipline;—in short, she had all the various du- ties of a mother, witho... ...o little left to torment me in life, that it is one of 6 My Aunt Margaret’s Mirror my greatest vexations to know that several of these seques- tered ...

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A critical study of Ovid's Metamorphoses hyper-linked to the preceding translation.

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...I The Golden Honeycomb II The Dual Paths of Art III The Structure of the Metamorphoses IV Ovid’s Interest in Myth V Nature,The Matrix VI The Power of the Gods VII The Nature of the Male Gods VIII The Nature of the Goddess IX Justice, Moderation, Order and Rights X Anger, Vengeance and Destiny XI Magic and Prophe...

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...Excerpt: ACT I. SCENE I. The king of Navarre?s park. [Enter FERDINAND king of Navarre, BIRON, LONGAVILLE and DUMAIN.] FERDINAND: Let fame, that all hunt after in their lives, Live register?d upon our brazen tombs And then grace us in the disgrace of death; When, spite o...

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...the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Love’s Labours Lost by William Shakespeare , the Pennsylvania State Universit... ... The Pennsylvania State University is an equal opportunity university. LOVE’S LABOURS LOST By William Shakespeare (written about 1590) DRAMATIS PERSO... ... a country wench. Lords, Attendants, &c. (First Lord:) SCENE: Navarre. LOVE’S LABOURS LOST ACT I SCENE I: The king of Navarre’s park. [Enter FERDINA... ...deavor of this present breath may buy That honor which shall bate his scythe’s keen edge And make us heirs of all eternity. Therefore, brave conqueror... ...you are, That war against your own affections And the huge army of the world’s desires,— Our late edict shall strongly stand in force: Navarre shall b... ...contemplative in living art. You three, Biron, Dumain, and Longaville, Love’ s Labours Lost Act I, Scene i 3 Have sworn for three years’ term to liv... ...AIN: My loving lord, Dumain is mortified: The grosser manner of these world’s delights He throws upon the gross world’s baser slaves: To love, to wea... ... not know. BIRON: Things hid and barr’d, you mean, from common sense? Love’ s Labours Lost Act I, Scene i 4 FERDINAND: Ay, that is study’s godlike... ... too hard a keeping oath, Study to break it and not break my troth. If study’s gain be thus and this be so, Study knows that which yet it doth not kno...

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...Excerpt: COUNTESS. In delivering my son from me, I bury a second husband. BERTRAM: And I in going, madam, weep o?er my father?s death anew: but I must attend his majesty?s command, to whom I am now in ward, evermore in subjection....

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...LL THAT ENDS WELL BY WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The Pennsylvania State University s Electronic Classics Series Senior Faculty Editor: Jim Manis All s Well T... ...The Pennsylvania State University is an equal opportunity university. All s Well That Ends Well is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University... ...he document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. All s Well That Ends Well by William Shakespeare, the Pennsylvania State Univer... ...The Pennsylvania State University is an equal opportunity University. ALL S WELL THAT ENDS WELL DRAMATIS PERSONAE KING OF FRANCE... ... (Gentleman:) SCENE: Rousillon; Paris; Florence; Marseilles. 3 ALL S WELL THAT ENDS WELL ACT I SCENE I: Rousillon. The COUNT s palace. [Ente... ...ury a second husband. BERTRAM: And I in going, madam, weep o er my father s death anew: but I must attend his majesty s command, to whom I am now in... ...here there is such abundance. COUNTESS: What hope is there of his majesty s amendment? LAFEU: He hath abandoned his physicians, madam; under whose p... ...mmortal, and death should have play for lack of work. Would, for the king s sake, he were living! I think it would be the death of the king s dis- ea... ...ine enemy Rather in power than use, and keep thy friend Under thy own life s key: be check d for silence, But never tax d for speech. What heaven mo...

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...John Fletcher's comedy (probably written and performed around 1611) is a sequel to Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew, in which, as the title suggests, the tamer will be tamed. Petruchio, the shrew-tamer, has been widowed, and marries a...