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Excerpt: PART I. Mme. De Bargeton and Lucien de Rubempre had left Angouleme behind, and were traveling together upon the road to Paris. Not one of the party who made that journey alluded to it afterwards; but it may be believed that an infatuated youth who had looked forward to the delights of an elopement, must have found the continual presence of Gentil, the man-servant, and Albertine, the maid, not a little irksome on the way....

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Excerpt: My Young Alcides A Faded Photograph by Charlotte M. Yonge.

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Excerpt: The Life of Timon of Athens; Actus Primus -- Scoena Prima -- Enter Poet, Painter, Jeweller, Merchant, and Mercer, at severall doores. Poet. Good day Sir. Pain. I am glad y?are well. Poet. I have not seene you long, how goes the World? Pain. It weares sir, as it growes. Poet. I that?s well knowne: But what particular Rarity? What strange, Which manifold record not matches: see Magicke of Bounty, all these spirits thy power Hath conjur?d to attend. I know the Merchant. Pain. I know them both: th? others a Jeweller. Mer. O ?tis a worthy Lord. Jew. Nay that?s most fixt. Mer. A most incomparable man, breath?d as it were, To an untyreable and continuate goodnesse: He passes. Jew. I have a Jewell heere. Mer. O pray let?s see?t. For the Lord Timon, sir? Jewel. If he will touch the estimate. But for that--Poet. When we for recompence have prais?d the vild, It staines the glory in that happy Verse, Which aptly sings the good. Mer. ?Tis a good forme. Jewel. And rich: heere is a Water looke ye. Pain. You are rapt sir, in some worke, some Dedication to the great Lord. Poet. A thing slipt idlely from me. Our Poesie is as a Gowne, which u...

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Table of Contents: The Life of Timon of Athens, 1 -- Actus Primus. Scoena Prima., 1

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Excerpt: Predictions for the year 1708. Wherein the month, and day of the month are set down, the persons named, and the great actions and events of next year particularly related, as will come to pass. Written to prevent the people of England from being farther imposed on by vulgar almanack- makers....

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Excerpt: Poems by Wilfred Owen.

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Contents Introduction .................................................................................................................................................................................... 4 POEMS ........................................................................................................................................................................................... 6 Preface ........................................................................................................................................................................................... 6 Strange Meeting .............................................................................................................................................................................. 6 Greater Love ................................................................................................................................................................................... 8 Apologia pro Poemate Meo .............................................................................................................................................

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Excerpt: Chapter 1. And Solomon the son of David was strengthened in his kingdom, and the LORD his God was with him, and magnified him exceedingly -- 2. Then Solomon spake unto all Israel, to the captains of thousands and of hundreds, and to the judges, and to every governor in all Israel, the chief of the fathers -- 3. So Solomon, and all the congregation with him, went to the high place that was at Gibeon; for there was the tabernacle of the congregation of God, which Moses the servant of the LORD had made in the wilderness....

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Excerpt: A Personal Record by Joseph Conrad.

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Excerpt: Lord Ormont and His Aminta by George Meredith.

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Excerpt: The Rescue by Joseph Conrad.

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Preface: For an explanation of the allusions in the present Tale, scarcely any Notes are necessary, save a reference to the bewitching Chronicle of Froissart; and we cannot but hope that our sketch may serve as an inducement to some young readers to make acquaintance with the delectable old Canon for themselves, undeterred by the size of his tomes....

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Excerpt: Here, madame, is one of those books which come into the mind, whence no one knows, giving pleasure to the author before he can foresee what reception the public, our great present judge, will accord to it. Feeling almost certain of your sympathy in my pleasure, I dedicate the book to you. Ought it not to belong to you as the tithe formerly belonged to the Church in memory of God, who makes all things bud and fruit in the fields and in the intellect?...

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Excerpt: Chapter 1. On the afternoon of a warm day in the end of July, an open carriage was waiting in front of the painted toy-looking building which served as the railway station of Teignmouth. The fine bay horses stood patiently enduring the attacks of hosts of winged foes, too well-behaved to express their annoyance otherwise than by twitchings of their sleek shining skins, but duly grateful to the coachman, who roused himself now and then to whisk off some more pertinacious tormentor with the end of his whip....

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Excerpt: The Pupil by Henry James.

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Excerpt: Recuerdo. We were very tired, we were very merry-- We had gone back and forth all night on the ferry. It was bare and bright, and smelled like a stable-- But we looked into a fire, we leaned across a table, We lay on a hill-top underneath the moon; And the whistles kept blowing, and the dawn came soon....

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Contents First Fig ........................................................................................................................................................................ 4 Second Fig .................................................................................................................................................................... 4 Recuerdo ....................................................................................................................................................................... 5 Thursday ...................................................................................................................................................................... 5 Macdougal Street ......................................................................................................................................................... 6 The Singing-Woman from theWood’s Edge .............................................................................................................. 7 She Is Overheard Singing ...............................................................................

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Excerpt: Florence, April 5th, 1874.--They told me I should find Italy greatly changed; and in seven-and-twenty years there is room for changes. But to me everything is so perfectly the same that I seem to be living my youth over again; all the forgotten impressions of that enchanting time come back to me. At the moment they were powerful enough; but they afterwards faded away....

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Excerpt: Using sing Equations Sitting here in a Pennsylvania afternoon grading papers just before mid-term break I read a technical report about blueprints and think of you in the ground, how you came home after Vo-Tech school to drink beer and turn the kitchen light on to read books or draw lines/ your thin hands moving on that paper in a way they never did before....

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Table of Contents Using Equations............................................................. 6 Coal ..............................................................................7 Fighting......................................................................... 8 Lines of Rain ............................................................... 10 Wind over Land........................................................... 11 Drunk in the Snow ......................................................12 Ritual .......................................................................... 13 Rebuilding a House Near the Delaware River ................15 Making Breakfast ......................................................... 16 The Servant ................................................................. 17 First Rooms ................................................................. 18 Floating ....................................................................... 19 The Whole Way ........................................................... 21 On Waking from a Dream of Coal Miners .................... 22 One More Thing..............................

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Excerpt: The Prime Minister by Anthony Trollope.

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Excerpt: A Passion in the Desert by Honore de Balzac, translated by Ernest Dowson.

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Excerpt: A Tramp Abroad by Mark Twain (Samuel L. Clemens).

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