Excerpt Details
Excerpt: The Parson?s Daughter of Oxney Colne by Anthony Trollope

Full Text Search Details
...A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The Parson’s Daughter of Oxney Colne by Anthony Trollope is a publication of the Pennsylvania Sta... ...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... ... Daughter of Oxney Colne by Anthony Trollope T he prettiest scenery in all England—and if I am contradicted in that assertion, I will say in all Eu- r... ...vonshire, on the southern and south- eastern skirts of Dartmoor, where the rivers Dart, and Avon, and Teign form themselves, and where the broken moor... ...nd their way down to Oxney Colne Parsonage. It would be easy to add to the list of the things which she had not; and this list against herself she mad... ...lady, the strength of a healthy woman, and a will of her own. Such was the list as she made it out for herself, and I protest that I assert no more th... ...t board, a man who had a house in Eaton Square, and a park in the north of England; and in this way her course of life had been very much divided from...

Excerpt Details
...Excerpt: Accusations of ingratitude, and just accusations no doubt, are made against every inhabitant of this wicked world, and the fact is, that a man who is ceaselessly engaged in its trouble and turmoil, borne hither and thither upon the fierc...

Full Text Search Details
...ication George Cruikshank by William Makepeace Thackeray 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... ...- atre, after having wellnigh starved in the streets, where no- body would listen to his old guitar? No one gave a shilling to bless him: not one of u... ...y the public as by the most delicate connoisseur. There is hardly a man in England who can read but will laugh at Falstaff and the humor of Joseph And... ... to laughter? These points may be meta- physically elucidated by those who list. It is probable that Mr. Cruikshank could not give an accurate definit... ...sed in France? Shade of Napoleon, we insult you by asking the question. In England, however, see how different the case is: and designedly or undesign... ...inctively seen craft,” “the solemn shadows” and other phenomena visible on rivers at night are detailed (with not unskilful rhetoric) in order to brin...

Excerpt Details
...Preface: A preface to the first edition of Jane Eyre being unnecessary, I gave none: this second edition demands a few words both of acknowledgment and miscellaneous remark. My thanks are due in three quarters. To the Public, for the indulgent ear it has inclined t...

Full Text Search Details
...lassics Series Publication Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë 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... ...at length made up my mind to the sad truth, that they were all gone out of England to some savage country where the woods were wilder and thicker, and... ...nch books they could translate; till my spirit was moved to emulation as I listened. Besides, school would be a complete change: it implied a long jou... ...s and scarlet sashes, with hair elaborately ringletted; and afterwards, in listening to the sound of the piano or the harp played below, to the passin... ...he state of things I quite approve,” returned Mrs. Reed; “had I sought all England over, I could scarcely have found a system more exactly fitting a c... ...see the clergyman. “This, then, was his father’s residence?” “Aye; old Mr. Rivers lived here, and his father, and grandfa- ther, and gurt (great) gran... ...hn is like his kirstened name.” “And his sisters are called Diana and Mary Rivers?” “Yes.” “Their father is dead?” “Dead three weeks sin’ of a stroke....

Full Text Search Details
... by Robert Louis Stevenson A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Essays of Travel by Robert Louis Stevenson is a publication of th... ...ania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any ... ... Scots; the other claimed to be American; admitted, after some fencing, that he was born in England; and ultimately proved to be an Irishman born and ... ...or common accent among English-speaking men who follow the sea. They catch a twang in a New England Port; from a cockney skipper, even a Scotsman some... ...t the watch. That chimerical terror of good night-air, which makes men close their windows, list their doors, and seal themselves up with their own po... ...vigorous thumb-nail portrait. He had the talk to himself that night, we were all so glad to listen. The best talkers usually address themselves to som... ...if you climb an eminence, it is only to see new and father ranges behind these. Many little rivers run from all sides in cliffy valleys; and one of th... ...dis- trict; and the most striking as well as the most agreeable scenery lies low beside the rivers. There, indeed, you will find many corners that tak...

Full Text Search Details
... The Uncommercial Traveller by Charles D... ... The Uncommercial Traveller by Charles Dickens is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free... ...ndividually addressed, would have been tended in her own room, and would have had her life gently assimilated to a comfortable life out of doors. Woul... ...t week, accompanied by the amiable and fascinating Mrs. Grazinglands. Mr. G. is a gentle- man of a comfortable property, and had a little business to ... ... have expected to get for the money. It was fitted up with a platform, and the usual lecturing tools, including a large black board of a menacing appe... ... trying to pick out the prettiest sister (for which I am far from blaming him), somebody cried, Hark! The man below must be playing Blindman’s Buff by... ...cal fire. Tell me something about Great Britain, tell me some- thing about its principal productions, tell me something about its ports, tell me somet...

Table of Contents Details
...Contents of Within the Tides THE PLANTER OF MALATA......................................................................4 THE PARTNER ............................................................................................66 THE I...

Full Text Search Details
... S ERIES P UBLICA TION Within the Tides by Joseph Conrad 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... ...etired from active poli- tics after a tour in Europe and a lengthy stay in England, during which he had had a very good press indeed. The colony was p... ...… I told her my people were living in Canada, but that I was brought up in England before coming out here. I can’t imagine what interest she could hav... ...ning on his elbow, his head resting against the knuckles of his left hand, listened with great attention, but gave no sign of that surprise which Reno... ... every way… Socially too. Quite the fashion in the highest world. Renouard listened with profoundly concealed attention. “A charlatan,” he muttered la... ... the clearing, the settlement slept already, the whole land of forests and rivers was asleep. “Davidson, seeing a solitary light in the massed darknes...

Full Text Search Details
...Otto – A Romance by Robert Louis Stevenson (1905 Edition) is a publication of the Penn- sylvania State University. This Portable Document file is fur... ...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... ...o the Various Courts of Europe, by Sir John Crabtree, Baronet. Below was a list of chapters, each bearing the name of one of the European Courts; and ... ... the European Courts; and among these the nineteenth and the last upon the list was dedicated to Grunewald. ‘Ah! The Court of Grunewald!’ said Otto, ‘... ...ardly fancy the fu- ture empire of Grunewald is yet ripe to go to war with England. I conceive I am a little more than quits. I owe you no explanation... ...e retorted. ‘Is it true that you have no ambition? There was a man once in England whom they call the kingmaker. Do you know,’ she added, ‘I fancy I c... ...Prince Otto moss; or in the more favoured hollows a whole family of infant rivers would combine, and tinkle in the stones, and lie in pools to be a ba...

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

Table of Contents Details
............................................................................................................................... 19 Oh! there are spirits of the air, ..................................................................................................................................... 19 TO WORDSWORTH. ................................................................

Full Text Search Details
...THE COMPLETE POETICAL WORKS OF PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY VOLUME 2 OXFORD EDITION. INCLUDING MATERIALS NEVER ... ... 2 OXFORD EDITION. INCLUDING MATERIALS NEVER BEFORE PRINTED IN ANY EDITION OF THE POEMS. EDITED WITH TEXTUAL NOTES BY THOMAS HUTCHINSON, M. A. EDITOR ... ....................................................... 83 SONG TO THE MEN OF ENGLAND. ..................................................................... ............................................... 85 FRAGMENT: TO THE PEOPLE OF ENGLAND. ..................................................................... ...t Shelley read during several years. During the years of 1814 and 1815 the list is extensive. It includes, in Greek, Homer, Hesiod, Theocritus, the hi... .... 5. 5. 5. 5. While yet a boy I sought for ghosts, and sped Through many a listening chamber, cave and ruin, _50 And starlight wood, with fearf... ...s well known to naturalists. The vegetation at the bot- tom of the sea, of rivers, and of lakes, sympathizes with that of the land in the change of se... ...ember 29, 1820. 1. 1. 1. 1. 1. The fountains mingle with the river And the rivers with the Ocean, The winds of Heaven mix for ever With a sweet emotio...

Excerpt Details
...From my boyish days I had always felt a great perplexity on one point in Macbeth. It was this: the knocking at the gate, which succeeds to the murder of Duncan, produced to my feelings an effect for which I never could account. The effect was, that it reflected back upon the murder a peculiar awfulness and a depth of solemnity; yet, however obstinately I endeavored with my...

Table of Contents Details
...Contents On the Knocking at the Gate, in Macbeth....................................................4 On Murder, Considered as One of the Fine Arts .........................................9 LECTURE..................................................................................................... 11 Second Paper on Murder, Considered as One of the Fine...

Full Text Search Details
...es Publication Miscellaneous Essays by Thomas de Quincey 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... ...d heard Cethegus under his bed. It would have been truly diverting to have listened to him; and satis- fied I am, gentlemen, that he would have prefer... ...; Tanquam proscripto terror ubique aderat.” And accordingly he ran home to England. Now, certainly, it is very true that a man deserved a cudgelling f... ...ted love of peace and harmony, worthy of an old man and a philosopher. But listen—“For a while he was not com- posed, but related it once or twice as ... ...e frigid pleasures (so he called them) of mere amateurship, he had quitted England for the conti- nent—meaning to practise a little professionally. Fo... ...ng like these terms:— ”And, sir, arriving at London, this mighty father of rivers attains a breadth of at least two furlongs, having, in its wind- ing... ...t no Englishman out of Bedlam ever thought of looking in an island for the rivers of a continent; nor, consequently, could have thought of looking for...

Excerpt Details
...Excerpt: Subject Of Contention. One midnight of a winter month the sleepers in Riversley Grange were awakened by a ringing of the outer bell and blows upon the great hall-doors. Squire Beltham was master there: the other members of the househ...

Full Text Search Details
...redith A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Adventures of Harry Richmond by George Meredith is a publication of the Pennsylvania S... ...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... ... AM A SUBJECT OF CONTENTION ONE MIDNIGHT of a winter month the sleepers in Riversley Grange were awakened by a ringing of the outer bell and blows upo... ... and a little boy, christened Harry Lepel Richmond, the squire’s grandson. Riversley Grange lay in a rich watered hollow of the Hampshire heath-countr... ...of the knocks and repeated bell-peals which assured all those who had ever listened in the servants’ hall to prognostications of a possible night atta... ...of outrages on his character in a Court of Law, where he must of necessity listen and lock his boiling replies within his indignant bosom. ‘Now, Sewis... ...mitate them. While we remained in the cathedral he talked of glory and Old England, and dropped his voice in the middle of a mur- mured chant to intro... ...dy: and this, he said, came of the emigration of the family from Venice to England. My father only seemed angry, for he went off with Shylock’s very g...

Excerpt Details
...Excerpt: It is nearly eight years since this book was first published. I present it, unaltered, in the Cheap Edition; and such of my opinions as it expresses, are quite unaltered too. My readers have opportunities of judging for themselves whether the influences and tendencies which I distrust in America, have any existence not in my imagination. The...

Full Text Search Details
...American Notes for General Circulation by Charles Dickens A publication of PSU s Electronic Classics Series American Notes for General Circulation... ...rican Notes for General Circulation by Charles Dickens is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...oo ill to get up to break fast. I say nothing of them: for although I lay listening to this concert for three or four days, I don’t think I heard it ... ... officers in uniform again; the sun shining as on a brilliant April day in England; the land stretched out on either side, streaked with light patches... ...l the forms observed on the commencement of a new Session of Parliament in England were so closely copied, and so gravely presented on a small scale, ... ... where they took their seats in an orchestra erected for that purpose, and listened with manifest delight to a volun American Notes – Dickens 34 ta... ...was the scenery, as we approached the junction of the Ohio and Mississippi rivers, at all inspiriting in its influence. The trees were stunted in thei... ... were, in comparison with it, full of interest. At the junction of the two rivers, on ground so flat and low and marshy, that at certain seasons of th...

Excerpt Details
...Excerpt: Buda-Pesth seems a wonderful place, from the glimpse which I got of it from the train and the little I could walk through the streets. I feared to go very far from the station, as we had arrived late and would start as near the correct time as possible....

Full Text Search Details
... This publication of Bram Stoker’s Dracula is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furn... ...ersity. 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... ...on the top of steep hills such as we see in old missals; sometimes we ran by rivers and streams which seemed from the wide stony margin on each side o... ...d some of the people who were sitting on the bench outside the door—came and listened, and then looked at me, most of them pityingly. I could hear a l... ...the coming dawn. There seemed a strange stillness over everything. But as I listened, I heard as if from down below in the valley the howl ing of ma... ...eography, politics, political economy, botany, geology, law, all relating to England and En glish life and customs and manners. There were even such ... ...hours of pleasure. Through them I have Chapter 2 26 come to know your great England, and to know her is to love her. I long to go through the crowded... ...eep rift where there is a chasm. Here and there are silver threads where the rivers wind in deep gorges through the forests. But I am not in heart t...

Excerpt Details
...Excerpt: You will rejoice to hear that no disaster has accompanied the commencement of an enterprise which you have regarded with such evil forebodings. I arrived here yesterday, and my first task is to assure my dear sister of my welfare and increasing confidence in the success of my undertaking....

Full Text Search Details
...odern Prometheus by Mary Wollstonecraft (Godwin) Shelley , is a publication of the Pennsyl vania State University. This Portable Document file is fu... ...ersity. 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... ...Prometheus by Mary Wollstonecraft (Godwin) Shelley Letter 1 TO Mrs. Saville, England St. Petersburgh, Dec. 11th, 17 You will rejoice to hear that no ... ...r affectionate brother, R. Walton Frankenstein 5 Letter 2 To Mrs. Saville, England Archangel, 28th March, 17 How slowly the time passes here, encom... ...over the elemental foes of our race. As I spoke, a dark gloom spread over my listener’s countenance. At first I perceived that he tried to suppress hi... ...friend, if thus you will allow me to name you; nothing can alter my destiny; listen to my history, and you will perceive how irrevocably it is deter ... ...o the scene. I looked on the valley beneath; vast mists were rising from the rivers which ran through it and curling in thick wreaths around the oppos... ...I had a very confused knowledge of kingdoms, wide extents of country, mighty rivers, and boundless seas. But I was perfectly unacquainted with towns a...

Full Text Search Details
...s Publication Around the World in 80 Days by Jules Verne 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... ...hing to taste the sweets of domestic life, took service as a valet here in England. Find- ing myself out of place, and hearing that Monsieur Phileas F... ...e was a true Parisian of Paris. Since he had abandoned his own country for England, taking ser- vice as a valet, he had in vain searched for a master ... ...on to Passepartout’s trouble about the gas? It is not probable. He was not listening, but was cogitating a project. Passepartout and he had now reache... ..., by the visa, that he had passed through Suez?” “Why? I have no idea; but listen to me.” He reported in a few words the most important parts of his c... ...narets of the pagodas. This fertile territory is watered by numerous small rivers and limpid streams, mostly tributar- ies of the Godavery. Passeparto... ...the most venerated in India, being built at the junction of the two sacred rivers, Ganges and Jumna, the waters of which attract pilgrims from every p...

Full Text Search Details
...ic Classics Series Publication The Reef by Edith Wharton is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Por- table Document file is furn... ...ty. This Por- table Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...ountry house full of books and pictures, in the soft landscape of southern England. The presence of a large party, with all its aimless and agitated d... ...ted event threw out his calcu- lations. Summoned to town by the arrival in England of her husband’s mother, she left without giving Darrow the chance ... ...r she who...” He winced, but hid his disapproval. It made the time pass to listen to her. “And what, if one may ask, was your conclusion?” “W ell, Mrs... ...dinner invi- tations, and straightening out accounts, and copying visiting lists, and finishing golf-stockings, and matching ribbons, and seeing that ... ...hts of happiness, had had his lips at the fountain-head of its overflowing rivers; but now that source was poisoned and he would taste no more of an u...

Table of Contents Details
.......................................................................................................................................... 8 II ? A SONG OF THE ROAD .......................................................................................................... 8 III ? THE CANOE SPEAKS ....................................................................................

Full Text Search Details
...UNDERWOODS by Robert Louis Stevenson Of all my verse, like not a single line; But like my title, for it is not m... ... SERIES PUBLICATION Underwoods by Robert Louis Stevenson is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...t Wind, among lilies, in and out; I, the unnamed, inviolate, Green, rustic rivers, navigate; My dipping paddle scarcely shakes The berry in the brambl... ... so fallen earth, alas! too late, Alas! in evil days, thy steps return, To list at noon for nightingales, to grow 20 Underwoods A dweller on the beac... ...in vain So is pain cheered, death comforted; the house Of sorrow smiles to listen. Once again – O thou, Orpheus and Heracles, the bard And the deliver... ...Not yet, my soul, these friendly fields desert, Where thou with grass, and rivers, and the breeze, And the bright face of day, thy dalliance hadst; Wh... ...ong and free, But age must still decay: To-morrow for the States – for me, England and Y esterday. San Francisco. XXX – A PORTRAIT I am a kind of fart...

Table of Contents Details
...............................................5 TRANSLATORS? PREFACE.......................................................................23 THE STORY OF THE VOLSUNGS AND NIBLUNGS.............................26 APPENDIX:.................................................................................................132 EXCERPTS FROM THE POETIC EDDA.............................

Full Text Search Details
...ga Saga trans. William Morris and Eirikr Magnusson (1888) 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... ... land left where the olden learning found refuge and was kept in being. In England, Germany, and the rest of Europe, what is left of the tradi- tions ... ...the latter part of this century has it been studied, and in the brief book-list at the end of this volume may be seen the little that has been done as... ...heir hunger for the brave, fruitful, nobly-inhabited, full of cata- racts, rivers, bays, pure, smooth-plained, sweet grassy land of Erinn”—(pp. 52-53)... ...of the western seas, “fared a sea-roving” and scoured the western coast of England, Man, and the east of Ireland, but was killed in an attack on his k... ...rime dropped was that the cow hight Audhumla was made of it; but four milk-rivers ran out of her teats, and she fed Ymir; she licked rime-stones that ... ...brought upon her, and as European attention had been drawn to her, she was listened to. Newspapers, periodi- cals, and a Useful Knowledge Society were...

Excerpt Details
...Excerpt: The text is taken from the printed ?Sterling Edition? of Carlyle?s Complete Works, in 20 volumes, with the following modifications: The footnote (there is only one) has been embedded directly into text, in brackets, [thusly]. Greek text has been transliterated into Latin charact...

Table of Contents Details
................................................. 68 LECTURE IV. THE HERO AS PRIEST. LUTHER; REFORMATION: KNOX; PURITANISM. 99 LECTURE V.THE HERO AS MAN OF LETTERS. JOHNSON, ROUSSEAU, BURNS. ........ 131 LECTURE VI.THE HERO AS KING. CROMWELL, NAPOLEON: MODERN REVOLUTIONISM............................................................................................................

Full Text Search Details
...Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History by Thomas Carlyle 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... ...Let us try if, leaving out both the quack theory and the allegory one, and listening with af- fectionate attention to that far-off confused rumor of t... ...ternatural. This green flowery rock-built earth, the trees, the mountains, rivers, many-sounding seas;—that great deep sea of azure that swims overhea... ... Odin’s Day? Wednesbury, Wansborough, Wanstead, Wandsworth: Odin grew into England too, these are still leaves from that root! He was the Chief God to... ...lf, or Rollo Duke of Normandy, the wild Sea-king, has a share in governing England at this hour. Nor was it altogether nothing, even that wild sea-rov... ...as Carlyle “inspiration of the Almighty giveth him understanding:” we must listen before all to him. This Mahomet, then, we will in no wise consider a...

Full Text Search Details
... Vailima Letters by Robert Louis Stevens... ... Vailima Letters by Robert Louis Stevenson is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and... ...fellow rages at the time and rejoices to recall and to commemorate them. My troubles have been financial. It is hard to arrange wisely interests so di... ...ut in the hands of a man like Pratt it is succinct as Latin, compact of long rolling polysyllables and little and often pithy particles, and for beaut... ... or three forest trees casting their boughs against the sky, a forest-clad mountain-side beyond, and close in by the door-jamb a nick of the blue Paci... ..., and saw with extraordinary pleasure the sea lying outspread. It seemed as smooth as glass, and yet I knew the surf was roaring all along the reef, a... ...; it did not move. The two women sang, Belle joining them in the hymns she has learned at family worship. Then a squall came up; we sat a while in roa... ... to the neighbourhood of Callander. Very odd these identities of sensation, and the world of connotations implied; highland huts, and peat smoke, and ...

Excerpt Details
...Excerpt: This is America--a town of a few thousand, in a region of wheat and corn and dairies and little groves. The town is, in our tale, called ?Gopher Prairie, Minnesota.? But its Main Street is the continuation of Main Streets everywhere. The story would...

Full Text Search Details
...LASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION Main Street by Sinclair Lewis 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... ..., girls’ clubs. It had pictures of greens and garden- walls in France, New England, Pennsylvania. She had picked it up carelessly, with a slight yawn ... ...in its garden- sheltered streets and aisles of elms is white and green New England reborn. Mankato lies between cliffs and the Minne- sota River, hard... ...for-leather posses. As she climbed along the banks of the dark river Carol listened to its fables about the wide land of yellow wa- ters and bleached ... ... parting, and we’ll never see some of the bunch again!” “Carol, you got to listen to me! You always duck when I try to talk seriously to you, but you ... ...k now?” He mused, “You’re younger than I am. Your lips are for songs about rivers in the morning and lakes at twilight. I don’t see how anybody could ... ... land. They jogged from San Diego and La Jolla to Los Angeles, Pasa- dena, Riverside, through towns with bell-towered missions and orange-groves; they...