...ries Publication The Three Musketeers by Alexandre Dumas 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... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...ich we are about to have the honor to relate to our readers have noth- ing mythological about them. A short time ago, while making researches in the R... ...me time to pay him.” The officers were full of thanks, and took away their prey. As they were going down D’Artagnan laid his hand on the shoulder of t... ...onfused im- ages of trees, mountains, and landscapes are lost. It was as a prey to this hallucination that D’Artagnan traveled, at what- ever pace his... ...the seed may have fallen upon stone, another upon the highway, or that the birds of heaven have eaten the rest, aves coeli comederunt illam.” “Plague ... ...between French and English cruisers, like the bat between the mice and the birds—was 469 Alexandre Dumas in great haste to regain England, and positi... ...rmy find these days short which were not only so long to the Rochellais, a prey to famine and anxiety, but even to the cardinal, who blockaded them so...

...Preface: In which it is proved that, notwithstanding their names? ending in os and is, the heroes of the story which we are about to have the honor to relate to our readers have nothing mythological about them....

...ics Series Publication The Hated Son by Honoré de Balzac 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... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18202-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...ature of these new sufferings, or to re- flect on her situation. She was a prey to cruel fears,—caused less by the dread of a first lying-in, which te... ...gels; and columns of the same wood, supporting the tester were carved with mythological allegories, the explanation of which could have been found eit... ...ilk covered with brilliant de- signs called “ramages”—possibly because the birds of gay plumage there depicted were supposed to sing. The folds of the... ...ity. The shape of the aquiline nose, which resembled the beak of a bird of prey, the black and crinkled lids of the yellow eyes, the prominent bones o... ...iet happiness of animals. T o him the stars were the flowers of night, the birds his friends, the sun was a father. Everywhere he found the soul of hi... ...stillness. Ideas come into my mind which shake me, and fly away like those birds be- fore the windows; I cannot hold them. Well, when I have made a bo...

...Excerpt: On a winter?s night, about two in the morning, the Comtesse Jeanne d?Herouville felt such violent pains that in spite of her inexperience, she was conscious of an approaching confinement; and the instinct which makes us hope for ease in a change of posture induced her to sit up in her bed, either to study the nature of these new sufferings, ...

...THE COMPLETE POETICAL WORKS OF PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY VOLUME 1 OXFORD EDITION. INCLUDING MATERIALS NEVER ... ... 1 OXFORD EDITION. INCLUDING MATERIALS NEVER BEFORE PRINTED IN ANY EDITION OF THE POEMS. EDITED WITH TEXTUAL NOTES BY THOMAS HUTCHINSON, M. A. EDITOR ... ... State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley, Volume One is a publication of the Pennsylvania St... ...se, the stream, the lake, and the waterfall. Ill health and continual pain preyed upon his powers; and the solitude in which we lived, particularly on... ... the echoing vaults, but soothing notes Of ivy-fingered winds and gladsome birds And merriment are resonant around. The fanes of Fear and Falsehood he... ... darkness eddying by. _150 There is a pause—the sea-birds, that were gone Into their caves to shriek, come forth, to spy What c... ...s day—two mighty Spirits now return, _645 Like birds of calm, from the world’s raging sea, They pour fresh light from Hope... ...om torture on condition of its being communicated to him. According to the mythological story, this referred to the off- spring of Thetis, who was des... ... of the Oceanides, is the wife of Prometheus—she was, accord- ing to other mythological interpretations, the same as V enus and Nature. When the benef...

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

.................................. 7 PREFACE BY MRS. SHELLEY TO FIRST COLLECTED EDITION, 1839. ......................... 16 POSTSCRIPT IN SECOND EDITION OF 1839. ........................................................................ 21 PREFACE BY MRS. SHELLEY. TO THE VOLUME OF POSTHUMOUS POEMS PUBLISHED IN 1824...................................................................

....S.A. .S.A. A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The Iliad of Homer, trans. Alexander Pope with notes by the Rev. Theodore Alois Buckl... ...otes by the Rev. Theodore Alois Buckley, M. A., F . S. A. 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... ...or such a display; and my pur- pose was to touch briefly on antiquarian or mythological allusions, to notice occasionally some departures from the ori... ... the power, but fonder of the prize! Would’st thou the Greeks their lawful prey should yield, The due reward of many a well-fought field? The spoils o... ...thy own actions if compared to mine. Thine in each conquest is the wealthy prey, Though mine the sweat and danger of the day. Some trivial present to ... ... Jove himself displays, Of long, long labours, but eternal praise. As many birds as by the snake were slain, So many years the toils of Greece remain;... ...le on this signal day; That wretch, too mean to fall by martial power, The birds shall mangle, and the dogs devour.” The monarch spoke; and straight a... ...kes orphans, bathes the cheeks of sires, Steeps earth in purple, gluts the birds of air, And leaves such objects as distract the fair.” Ulysses hasten...

Excerpt: The Iliad of Homer, translated by Alexander Pope with notes by the Rev. Theodore Alois Buckley, M.A., F.S.A.

...inibus Puerisque & Other Papers by Robert Louis Stevenson is a publication of the Pennsylva- nia 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... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...anicus, with a fine rhetorical inspiration, “Forward! and follow the Roman birds.” It would be a very heavy spirit that did not give a leap at such a ... ...rosperous humanitarians tell me, in my club smoking- room, that they are a prey to prodigious heroic feelings, and that it costs them more nobility of... ...ure; and there is all the world between gaping wonderment at the jargon of birds, and the emotion with which a man listens to articulate music. At the... ...ome disqui- eted about the bringing up of children. Surely they dwell in a mythological epoch, and are not the contemporaries of their parents. What c... ...wn you sit to smoke a pipe in the shade. You sink into your- self, and the birds come round and look at you; and your smoke dissipates upon the aftern... ...the agonies, how surprised they would be if they could hear their attitude mythologically expressed, and knew themselves as tooth- chattering ones, wh...

...by Apollonius Rhodius, translation by R. C. Seaton, 1912 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 ... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18201 1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...uch skill is shown in fusing into a tolerably harmonious whole conflicting mythological and histori cal details. He interweaves with his narrative lo... ...Titaresian Mopsus, whom above all men the son of Leto taught the augury of birds; and Eurydamas the son of Ctimenus; he dwelt at Dolopian Ctimene near... ...strious Aeolids; and himself taught him the art of prophecy—to pay heed to birds and to observe the signs of the burning sacrifice. (ll. 146 150) Mor... ... on the sand of the shore and their feet in the deep wa ter, both alike a prey to birds and fishes at once. (ll. 1012 1076) But the heroes, when the... ...sand of the shore and their feet in the deep wa ter, both alike a prey to birds and fishes at once. (ll. 1012 1076) But the heroes, when the contest... ... his great sword he started in pursuit, in fear lest the boy should be the prey of wild beasts, or men should have lain in ambush for him faring all a...

...Introduction: Much has been written about the chronology of Alexandrian literature and the famous Library, founded by Ptolemy Soter, but the dates of the chief writers are still matters of conjecture. The birth of Apollonius Rhodius is placed by scholars at various times between 29...

...THE TALE OF CHLOE AN EPISODE IN THE HISTORY OF BEAU BEAMISH By George Meredith A Penn State Electronic Classics Series ... ...rge Meredith A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Tale of Chloe, An Episode in the History of Beau Beamish by George Meredith is a... ...isode in the History of Beau Beamish by George Meredith is a publica- tion of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...historical value, the ballad is an example to poets of our day, who fly to mythological Greece, or a fanci- ful and morbid mediaevalism, or—save the m... ...arnest the fruit- ful ways of treachery. Their feelings are warm for their prey, moreover; and choosing to judge their victim by the present warmth of... ... not bear the shock awaiting you tomorrow with the first light. Hear these birds! When next they sing, you will be broad awake, and of me, and the wor... ...t a beast I feel, with my grandeur, and the time in an hour or two for the birds to sing, and me ready to drop. I must go and undress.’ She rushed on ...

Excerpt: The Tale of Chloe, An Episode in the History of Beau Beamish by George Meredith.

...s Publication A Modern T elemachus by Charlotte M. Yonge 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... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...d cups were chalices, and that a complete set of altar equip- ments fell a prey to the Cabeleyzes, whose name the good fathers endeavour to connect wi... ...as the answer. ‘What do those robbers care for that? We are all the better prey for them! I have heard histories of Spanish cruelty and lawlessness th... ...it so increased the confusion in Estelle’s mind between the actual and the mythological, that Arthur told her that she was looking out for the car of ... ... to her part, sometimes as a possible martyr, sometimes as a figure in the mythological or Arcadian romance that had filtered into her nursery. CHAPTE... ...screaming and calling of gulls, terns, cormorants, and all manner of other birds, as they entered the little strait, and such a cloud of them hovered ... ...been seen, describing the wonderful sil- ver tree of Tlemcen, covered with birds, who, by the action of wind, were made to produce the songs of each d...

...i by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Clara Bell and James Waring 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... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18202-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...between them. Massimilla, young as she was, had the majestic bearing which mythological tradition ascribes to Juno, the only goddess to whom it does n... ...d wandered out together that morning, repeating such a hymn of love as the birds warbled in the branches. On their return, the youth, whose situation ... ...ire that stands straight? Do you not perceive that the sea is claiming its prey?” The Prince bent his head; he dared no more speak to his friend of lo... ...C, reminds us by its shrill accent and playful rhythm of the song of early birds. “Thus the same key, freshly treated by the master’s hand, expresses ... ...en made, he arms himself in wrath. Pharaoh rises to his feet to clutch the prey that is escaping. “Rossini never wrote anything grander in style, or s... ...the true God, curling round it, like a long African serpent enveloping its prey. But how beautiful is the lament of the duped and disappointed Hebrews...

...Excerpt: My dear Strunz:--I should be ungrateful if I did not set your name at the head of one of the two tales I could never have written but for your patient kindness and care. Accept this as my grateful acknowledgment of the readiness with which you tried--perhaps not very successfully-- to initiate me into t...

... Publication 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea 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... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...lection of the seas of China and Japan. These fish, more numerous than the birds of the air, came, attracted, no doubt, by the brilliant focus of the ... ...alked amidst a shoal of little fishes of all kinds, more numerous than the birds of the air, and also more agile; but no aquatic game worthy of a shot... ... which their broken tops multiplied on the water, and the shadows of large birds passing above our heads, whose rapid flight I could dis- cern on the ... .... As soon as I had changed my clothes I went up on to the platform, and, a prey to conflicting emotions, I sat down near the binnacle. Captain Nemo jo... ...sentatives of the animal kingdom in the interior of this volcano. Birds of prey hovered here and there in the shadows, or fled from their nests on the... ...sea-mammals covering them, and I involuntarily sought for old Proteus, the mythological shepherd who watched these immense flocks of Neptune. There we...

...h doubtless no one has yet forgotten. Not to mention rumours which agitated the maritime population and excited the public mind, even in the interior of continents, seafaring men were particularly excited. Merchants, common sailors, captains of vessels, skippers, both of Europe and America, naval officers of all countries, and the Governments of several States on the two c...

...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... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18202-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...treasure; Andvari, the V olsungs, Fafnir, and Regin are all forgotten; the mythological features have become faint, and the general air of the whole i... ... very closely to the “Lay of Fafnir”; for the insertion of the song of the birds to Sigurd the present translators are responsible. Then comes the wak... ...ted deer day- long till the evening; and when they gathered together their prey in the evening, lo, greater and more by far was that which Bredi had s... ...ng, lo, greater and more by far was that which Bredi had slain than Sigi’s prey; and this thing he much misliked, and he said that great wonder it was... ..., and dwelt ever in the river, and bare fish to bank in his mouth, and his prey would he ever bring to our father, and that availed him much: for the ... ...gue Playing about her: The sleep-thorn set Odin (1) The Songs of the Birds were inserted from “Reginsmal” by the translators. 69 The V olsunga ...

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

...ation The Dove In The Eagle’s Nest by Charlotte M. Yonge 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... ...or, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Docu- ment File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...and every load that was overthrown in the river was regarded as the lawful prey of the noble on whose banks the catastrophe befell. Any freight of goo... ...dance, and keeping numerous rural or religious feasts, where old T eutonic mythological observances had received a Christian colouring and adaptation.... ..., whose mind had been much impressed by the Minnesinger’s be- quest to the birds. “Nor like any true Christian knight. Alas, my poor boys, must you be... ...is not hard after the first” said Friedel. “I only waited to watch the old birds out again.” “Robbed the eagles! And the young ones?” “Well,” said Fri... ...es of wonderful costli- ness of material and beauty of workmanship; little birds, with thin cakes fastened to their feet, were let loose to fly about ... ...ush to keep up with the attractive part of the show. Pageants of elaborate mythological character impeded the imperial progress at every stage, and it...

...Introduction: In sending forth this little book, I am inclined to add a few explanatory words as to the use I have made of historical personages. The origin of the whole story was probably Freytag?s first series of pictures of German Life: probably, I say, for its first commencement was a dream, dreamt some weeks after reading that most intere...

... Chronicles: Roman De Brut by Wace, trans. Eugene Mason is a publication of the Pennsylva nia State University. 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... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18201 1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...a notable indication of the great emphasis that Welsh legend laid upon his mythological attributes and his character as otherworld adventurer. The abo... ...eves from Scotland torment me grievously at this time, burning my land and preying on my cities. So it be God’s pleasure, your coming may turn to my r... ... like lions amongst their enemies. They were as lions a hungered for their prey, killing ewes and lambs, and all the sheep of the flock, whether small... ... sea. Sixty islands lie upon this water, the haunt and home of innumerable birds. Each island holds an eyrie, where none but eagles repair to build th... ...dly one against an other. One day, or two days, three or four, the mighty birds will strive together; and the interpretation thereof portends horror ... ...his blows, and every blow a death. For as the ravenous lion deals with his prey, so likewise did the fair king raven amongst his enemies. Not one he s...

... Don Juan by George Byron 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 i... ...Editor, Hazleton, PA 18201 1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of lit... ... by falling waters; sweet the hum Of bees, the voice of girls, the song of birds, The lisp of children, and their earliest words. Sweet is the v... ...d of rhyme, Good workmen never quarrel with their tools; I ‘ve got new mythological machinery, And very handsome supernatural scenery. There... ..., like woodcocks, upon suction, But, like the shark and tiger, must have prey; Although his anatomical construction Bears vegetables, in a g... ...out for different marts in the Levant; Except some certain portions of the prey, Light classic articles of female want, French stuffs, lace, t... ... all, and ne’er could say too much; A language, too, but like to that of birds, Known but to them, at least appearing such As but to lovers ... ...and Care: How lonely every freeborn creature broods! The sweetest song birds nestle in a pair; The eagle soars alone; the gull and crow Floc...

...Excerpt: Dedication. Bob Southey! You?re a poet -- Poet-laureate, And representative of all the race, Although ?t is true that you turn?d out a Tory at Last,-- yours has lately been a common case; And now, my Epic Renegade! what are ye at? With all the Lakers, in and out of place? A nest of tuneful persons, t...

...A Journey to the Interior of the Earth By Jules Verne A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publica... ...nn State Electronic Classics Series Publication A Journey to the Interior of the Earth by Jules Verne is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univ... ...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... ...nd the head when the blood is rushing upwards with undue violence. I was a prey to a kind of hallucination; I was stifling; I wanted air. Unconsciousl... ...h the night terror had hold of me. I spent it dreaming of abysses. I was a prey to delirium. I felt myself grasped by the Professor’s sinewy hand, dra... ...e comforting voice accompa- nied our steps. With my reviving spirits these mythological notions seemed to come unbidden. As for my uncle, he was begin... ...m the shores. I gaze upward in the air. Why should not some of the strange birds restored by the immortal Cuvier again flap their ‘sail-broad vans’ in... ...to and fro in the heavy air. In the upper- most regions of the air immense birds, more powerful than the cassowary, and larger than the ostrich, sprea... ...es before the creation of living beings. The mammals dis- appear, then the birds vanish, then the reptiles of the sec- ondary period, and finally the ...

...Excerpt: While the translation is fairly literal, and Malleson (a clergyman) has taken pains with the scientific portions of the work and added the chapter headings, he has made some emendations concerning Biblical references of his own, listed below?...

...es Publication Pictures from Italy by Charles Dickens 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 ... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18201 1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ... presence was only invaded, when I saw them, by the twittering of the many birds that were flying in and out of the crevices in the stones and little ... ... por tions of the town. Again, brown piles of sacred buildings, with more birds flying in and out of chinks in the stones; and more snarling monsters... ...here is a stewed pigeon, with the gizzards and livers of himself and other birds stuck all round him. There is a bit of roast beef, the size of a smal... ...they see a carriage coming, they swoop down upon it, like so many birds of prey. When we got on the mountain pass, which lies beyond this place, the w... ...Italy game, bottles, glasses, and the like; familiar classical stories, or mythological fables, always forcibly and plainly told; con ceits of cupids...

...Series Publication God the Invisible King by H. G. Wells 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 per- son using this document file, for any purpose, and in... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ... and claws, are soaked with poison and bright with threats or allurements, prey slyly or openly on one another, hold their own for a little while, bre... ...bsolutes and infinities and mysteries of the Christian theo- logians; from mythological virgin births and the cosmogonies and intellectual pretentious... ...God that one hears here and there to-day, like that little twitter- ing of birds which comes before the dawn, will have swollen to a choral unanimity.... ...te or a pet wife, a mere kept instrument of indulgence. These are lives of prey, these are lives of futility; the light of God will not tolerate such ...

...Preface: This book sets out as forcibly and exactly as possible the religious belief of the writer. That belief is not orthodox Christianity; it is not, indeed, Christianity at all; its core nevertheless is a profound belief in a personal and intimate God. There is nothing in its statements that need shock or...

...SARTOR RESARTUS: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdrockh By Thomas Carlyle A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SE... ...TRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION Sartor Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdrockh by Thomas Carlyle is a publication of the Pennsylvani... ...ty. This Portable Document file is furnished free and with- out any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...ite natural and spontaneous, like the leaves of trees, like the plumage of birds. In all speculations they have tacitly figured man as a Clothed Anima... ...aradise and Fig- leaves, and leads us into interminable disquisitions of a mythological, metaphorical, cabalistico-sartorial and quite antediluvian ca... ...Caledonian, squatted himself in morasses, lurking for his bestial or human prey; without implements, with- out arms, save the ball of heavy Flint, to ... ...he remote Mountain peaks: so bright, so mild, and everywhere the melody of birds and happy creatures: it was all as if man had stolen a shelter from t... ...onscious? Why, if there is no Devil; nay, unless the Devil is your God?” A prey incessantly to such corrosions, might not, more- over, as the worst ag... ...ight soil, and now stretching out strong boughs to the four winds, for the birds of the air to lodge in,—may have been properly my doing? Some one’s d...

Excerpt: Sartor Resartus. The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdrockh.

... A Tramp Abroad by Mark Twain (Samuel L. Clemens) is a publi... ...y Mark Twain (Samuel L. Clemens) is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any ... ...wain (Samuel L. Clemens), the Pennsylvania State University, Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Document File produced a... ...lived in a lonely corner of California, among the woods and mountains, a good many years, and had studied the ways of his only neighbors, the beasts a... ...“showing off.” Baker said, that after long and careful observation, he had come to the conclusion that the bluejays were the best talkers he had found... ..., because I know better. And memory, too. They brought jays here from all over the United States to look down that hole, every summer for three years.... ... in the chambers, and their quilts and curtains and canopies were decorated with curious hand- work, and the walls and ceilings frescoed with historic... ...e lake. The legend goes that after the Crucifixion his conscience troubled him, and he fled from Jerusalem and wandered about the earth, weary of life... ...affled Expedition exceeded all bounds. They even wanted to wreak their unreasoning vengeance on this innocent dumb brute. But I stood between them and...

...Series Publication Beauchamp’s Career by George Meredith 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... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...ns on one another, and were an assurance to this acute politician that his birds were safe. He preserved game rigor- ously, and the deduction was the ... ...nants. He swarmed with game, and, though he was liberal, his hares and his birds were immensely de- structive: computation could not fix the damage do... ... ing-pans. Heroes we would have. It happens in war as in wit, that all the birds of wonder fly to a flaring reputation. He that has done one wild thin... ...oncerning the episode of eagle and hare, though it was a case of a bird of prey interfering with an object of the chase. Nevil wrote home most entreat... ...ies! I guessed it,’ said the elector. ‘Did you guess that one of them is a mythological lady?’ ‘I’m not far wrong in guessing t’other’s not much bette... ...bsolutely uncivilized in your views of women.’ ‘Common sense, Beauchamp!’ ‘Prey. You eye them as prey. And it comes of an idle aris- tocracy. You have...

...Excerpt: The Champion Of His Country. When young Nevil Beauchamp was throwing off his midshipman?s jacket for a holiday in the garb of peace, we had across Channel a host of dreadful military officers flashing swords at us for some critical observ...

...sions Part II) by Honore de Balzac, trans. Ellen Marriage 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... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18202-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ... pass; how different it is from the terrace at Beaulieu! How far finer the birds on this perch than the Angouleme species! It is as if you beheld all ... ... great men of every age are obliged to lead lives apart. What are they but birds in the forest? They sing, nature falls under the spell of their song,... ...ne hand, and in the other a flaming sword. An angel, something akin to the mythological ab- straction which lives at the bottom of a well, and to the ... ...ify the temple of prostitution. A woman might come and go, taking away her prey whithersoever seemed good to her. So great was the crowd attracted thi... ...are dispute. Y ou saw gentlemen and celebrities cheek by jowl with gallows-birds. There was something indescrib- ably piquant about the anomalous asse... ... himself, like his manner of life, was in grotesque contrast with the airy mythological look of his rooms; and it may be remarked that the most eccent...

...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-se...

...rescott Wormeley A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Sons of the Soil by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley is a pu... ...l by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley 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... ...by the lower middle classes who make him at once their auxiliary and their prey. This essentially unsocial element, created by the Revolution, will so... ...in the park, which has four gates, each superb in style, you feel that our mythological Arcadias are flat and stale. Arcadia is in Burgundy, not in Gr... ...st century,— a singer, forgotten of the guillotine and the nobility, after preying upon exchequers, upon literature, upon aristocracy, and all but rea... ...th the sunshine, with all that sings and skips and shines and sprouts,—the birds, the squirrels, the flowers, the grass; they know nothing about these... ...ace in that charming room with the blue monochromes, where beautiful ideal birds are painted on the ceilings and the shutters, where Chinese monsters ... ... the steps and lighted by the eyes of a certain person, one would envy the birds their wings and long to get back to the endless, exciting scenes of P...

Excerpt: Sons of the Soil by Honore de Balzac, translated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley.

...rans. D. J. Hogarth, with an introduction by John Cournos 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... ... tor, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...by oilcloth with a trayful of glasses (the glasses looking like a flock of birds roosting by the seashore), and a selection of oil paintings. In short... ...e room was hung with old striped curtains, and ornamented with pictures of birds and small, antique mirrors—the latter set in dark frames which were c... ...d the room, and perceived that not all the pictures were representative of birds, since among them hung also a portrait of Kutuzov* and an oil paintin... ...d to be hovering between her lips like hawks preparing to stoop upon their prey. Only a person of the 181 Gogol unhumanity of a “true friend” would h... ...shing us on a business footing than because I de- sire to win your favour. Prey, therefore, accept this ear- nest money of three thousand roubles.” An... ...oks on the Arts. Extracting a huge tome in which some by no means reticent mythological illustrations were contained, he set himself to examine these ...

...Introduction: Dead Souls, first published in 1842, is the great prose classic of Russia. That amazing institution, ?the Russian novel,? not only began its career with this unfinished masterpiece by Nikolai Vasil?evich Gogol, but practically all the Russian masterpieces that have come since have grown o...

...ics Series Publication The Professor 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... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18202-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ... at tracking a rascal; a downright, dishonourable villain is their natural prey—they could not keep off him wherever they met him; you used the word p... ...utes’ silence, I asked:— “Will she ever marry, do you think?” “Marry! Will birds pair? Of course it is both her intention and resolution to marry when... ...hose primitive days, relying on the scriptural Jehovah for aid against the mythological 111 Charlotte Brontë Destiny. This she had done without a hin... ...on I passed in those green bowers; All silent, tranquil, and alone With birds, and bees, and flowers. Yet, when my master’s voice I heard Call, f... ...ad known formerly , but had thought for ever departed. I was temporarily a prey to hypochondria. She had been my acquaintance, nay, my guest, once bef...

... Ten Years Later– Volume One (The Thr... ... Ten Years Later– Volume One (The Three Musketeers) by Alexandre Duma [Pere] is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portabl... ...The Three Musketeers) by Alexandre Duma [Pere], the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classics Series, Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, Hazleton, PA... ....” And that was all. Whilst, however, the horses were climbing the steep ac- clivity which leads from the river to the castle, several shop- boys appr... ...nd Monsieur made his solemn entry into the castle. When he had disappeared under the shades of the porch, three or four idlers, who had followed the c... ...eir service for the day was over, laid themselves down very comfortably in the sun upon some stone benches; the grooms disappeared with their horses i... ...urn home presently, and shall ex- pect you as soon as your duty permits.” Raoul bowed, and, at that moment, M. le Prince came up to them. The prince h... ...ve and the king left the apartment. Athos, by a sign made to Bragelonne, renewed the desire he had expressed at the beginning of the scene. By degrees... ....” “I was trying,” said the marquise, raising her beautiful eyes brightened with an indication of growing temper, “I was trying to discover to what yo...

...Excerpt: Towards the middle of the month of May, in the year 1660, at nine o?clock in the morning, when the sun, already high in the heavens, was fast absorbing the dew from the ramparts of the castle of Blois a little cavalcade, composed of three men a...

...y Joseph Conrad A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION A Set of Six by Joseph Conrad is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Universi... ...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... ... document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. A Set of Six by Joseph Conrad, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Clas... ...s a scoundrel of the deepest dye, and the unhappy state of Mendoza was the prey of thieves, robbers, traitors, and murderers, who formed his party. He... ...ated, musingly. “That brute wouldn’t let him—not even him—cheat her of her prey. But he made her fast in dock next morning. He did. We hadn’t exchange... ... declaration; and through the open window Lieut. D’Hubert heard the little birds singing sanely in the garden. He said, preserving his calm, “Why! If ... ...act 184 A Set of Six as marvellous and incredible as the exploits of some mythological demi-god, found General D’Hubert still quite unable to sit a h...

Excerpt: A Set of Six by Joseph Conrad.

...Contents AUTHOR?S NOTE .........................................................................................4 A SET OF SIX ..................................................................................................8 GASPAR RUIZ .................................................................................................8 AN IRON...

...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... ... or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Adventures of Harry Richmond by George Meredith, the Pennsylvania State University, El... ...med less real and living than the wonder of the sweet-smelling chairs, the birds, and the elegant dogs. Richest of treats, a monkey was intro- duced t... ...s cheered—chirped, I should say, they exulted so, and merely sang out like birds, without any wilfulness of delight or defiance. After the fall of Bod... ...was all grey, our dell in shadow, and the tops of the trees burning, a few birds twittering. I sucked a blade of grass. ‘I wish it was all water here,... ...gs in their company brought us in front of a fire. There we saw two houses preyed on by the flames, just as if a lion had his paws on a couple of huma... ...he cried, yet kept her hand off it like a bird alighting on ground, not on prey. When I compelled her to feel the money tight, she sighed, ‘If I wasn’... ...ntitling him the Perkin Warbeck of society …’ ‘—Reference might be made to mythological heroes …’ Hereat I cried out mercy. Captain DeWitt (stretched ...

...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...

...on Cousin Betty by Honoré de Balzac, trans. James Waring 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... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of lit- ... ...e her father, her benefactor, and—well, out with it—her lover; to kill two birds with one stone, a good action and a sweetheart. For five years I was ... ...nd hastily vanished, as though the Baron’s face had affected them like the mythological head of Medusa. “It would seem that they know me,” thought the... ...tragic attitude, and spouted: “’Tis Venus whose grasp never parts from her prey. And there you are!” and she pirouetted on her toe. Vice, Hulot found,... ...s, breathed the fires of hell, and resembled the beak of some evil bird of prey. The spirit of intrigue lurked behind her low, cruel brow. Long hairs ... ... in denial. “Yes,” she went on, “you want this Madame Marneffe to drop the prey she has between her teeth. But how do you expect to make a tiger drop ...

...Excerpt: It is neither to the Roman Prince, nor to the representative of the illustrious house of Cajetani, which has given more than one Pope to the Christian Church, that I dedicate this short portion of a long history; it is to the learned commentator of Dante....

...ASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The Ambassadors by Henry James 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... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ... gardens mainly to themselves. The shadows were long, the last call of the birds, who had made a home of their own in the noble interspaced quarter, s... ...une which was unluckily to make her more 168 The Ambassadors or less of a prey later on. She had been in particular, at school, dazzlingly, though qu... ...the great legend; elements clinging still to all the con- sular chairs and mythological brasses and sphinxes’ heads and faded surfaces of satin stripe... ...on, con- tributed to an effect that might have been felt by a poet as half mythological and half conventional. He could have compared her to a goddess... ...h, and he had now more than ever the sense of her success in leaving him a prey to anxiety. It wasn’t to be denied that she had had a happy instinct, ...

...Excerpt: Volume I. Preface: Nothing is more easy than to state the subject of ?The Ambassadors,? which first appeared in twelve numbers of The North American Review (1903) and was published as a whole the same year. The situation involved is gathered up betimes, that is in the second chapter of Book...

... II. FLOWERS AND SHRUBS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185 III. LIST OF PLANTS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 188 IV . LIST OF... ...ST OF PLANTS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 188 IV . LIST OF BIRDS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 196 V . QUADRUPEDS.... ...7 VI. OUTFIT FOR AN EXCURSION. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 198 VII. A LIST OF INDIAN WORDS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199 Ktaadn 1 Ktaadn O N... ...IAN WORDS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199 Ktaadn 1 Ktaadn O N THE 31st of August, 1846, I left Concord in Massachusetts for Bangor and the backw... ... for a fish down straight as an arrow, from a great height, but he missed his prey this time. It 4 The Maine Woods was the Houlton road on which we we... ...spect to perspiration. In every gang there will be a large proportion of red birds. We took here a poor and leaky batteau, and began to pole up the Mi... ...rene infant, is too happy to make a noise, except by a few tinkling, lisping birds and trickling rills? What a place to live, what a place to die and ... ...d the poetry and mythology which retire as he advances. He ignorantly erases mythological tablets in order to print his handbills and town meeting war...

...Excerpt: ON THE 31st of August, 1846, I left Concord in Massachusetts for Bangor and the backwoods of Maine, by way of the railroad and steamboat, intending to accompany a relative of mine engaged in the lumber-trade in Bangor, as far as a dam on...

...Table of Contents: Ktaadn, 1 -- Chesuncook, 51 -- The Allegash and East Branch, 96 -- Appendix, 184 -- I. TREES., 184 -- II. FLOWERS AND SHRUBS., 185 -- III. LIST OF PLANTS., 188 -- IV. LIST OF BIRDS, 196 -- V. QUADRUPEDS., 197 -- ...

... William Butler Yeats 1889 1939 Contents LYRICAL 3 CROSSWAYS 5 THE SONG OF THE HAPPY SHEPHERD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 THE SAD SHEPHERD . . ... ...IAN TO HIS LOVE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 THE FALLING OF THE LEA VES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 EPHEMERA . . . . ... .... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 THE MADNESS OF KING GOLL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 THE STOLEN CHILD . ... ...YOU ARE OLD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 THE WHITE BIRDS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 A DREAM OF D... ...ains rolled and filled From year to year by the unnumbered nests Of aweless birds, and round their stirless feet The joyous flocks of deer and antelope,... ...ughed aloud and hurried on By rocky shore and rushy fen; I laughed because birds fluttered by, And starlight gleamed, and clouds flew high, And rushes w... ... the surges running by. ‘And wisdom is a butterfly And not a gloomy bird of prey. ‘If little planned is little sinned But little need the grave distres... ...their tread Goes to the barbarous clangour of a gong. III Some moralist or mythological poet Compares the solitary soul to a swan; I am satisfied with ...

...Excerpt: THE SONG OF THE HAPPY SHEPHERD; THE woods of Arcady are dead, And over is their antique joy; Of old the world on dreaming fed; Grey Truth is now her painted toy; Yet still she turns her restless head: But O, sick children of the world...

...Table of Contents: LYRICAL 3 -- CROSSWAYS 5 -- THE SONG OF THE HAPPY SHEPHERD, 5 -- THE SAD SHEPHERD, 6 -- THE CLOAK, THE BOAT, AND THE SHOES, 7 -- ANASHUYA AND VIJAYA, 8 -- THE INDIAN UPON GOD, 11 -- THE INDIAN TO HIS LOVE, 11 -- ...

...ns, and Homerica, edited by Hugh G. Evelyn-White (1914) is a publica- tion 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... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ....................................................... 38 THE DIVINATION BY BIRDS (fragments) ............................................................ ...f the poet needed a lay-figure the ordinary practice was to introduce some mythological person — as, in fact, is done in the “Precepts of Chiron.” In ... ...the scantiest fragments survive. One at least of these, the “Divination by Birds,” was, as we know from Proclus, attached to the end of the Works unti... ...ing how man can avoid disasters by attending to the omens to be drawn from birds. It is possible that the “ Astronomy” or “ Astrology” (as Plutarch ca... ...brought up and made to haunt the hills of Nemea, a plague to men. There he preyed upon the tribes of her own people and had power over T retus of Neme... ...ed. IV. (17 lines) (ll. 1-17) To what a fate did Zeus the Father give me a prey even while he made me to grow, a babe at my mother’s knee! By the will...

...Excerpt: This volume contains practically all that remains of the post- Homeric and pre-academic epic poetry. I have for the most part formed my own text. In the case of Hesiod I have been able to use independent collations of several MSS. by Dr. W.H.D. Rouse; otherwise I have depend...

................................................................................................................................................. 9 Life of Hesiod ............................................................................................................................................................... 10 The Hesiodic Poems ....................................

... SARTOR RESARTUS The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdr¨ ockh THOMAS CARLYLE 1831 DjVu Editions Copyright c ... ...— MISCELLANEOUS HISTORICAL . . . . . . . . . 31 CHAPTER VIII — THE WORLD OUT OF CLOTHES . . . . . . . . . 34 CHAPTER IX — ADAMITISM . . . . . . . . . ... ...OMANCE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88 CHAPTER VI — SORROWS OF TEUFELSDR ¨ OCKH . . . . . . . . . 97 CHAPTER VII — THE EVERLASTING NO... ...quite natural and spontaneous, like the leaves of trees, like the plumage of birds. In all speculations they have tacitly figured man as a Clothed Anim... ...n Paradise and Fig leaves, and leads us into interminable disquisitions of a mythological, metaphorical, cabalistico sartorial and quite antediluvian ... ...t Caledonian, squatted himself in morasses, lurking for his bestial or human prey; without implements, without arms, save the ball of heavy Flint, to ... ... peaks: so bright, so mild, and everywhere the melody of 92 SARTOR RESARTUS birds and happy creatures: it was all as if man had stolen a shelter from... ... conscious? Why, if there is no Devil; nay, unless the Devil is your God?” A prey incessantly to such corrosions, might not, moreover, as the worst ag... ... right soil, and now stretching out strong boughs to the four winds, for the birds of the air to lodge in,—may have been properly my doing? Some one’s...

...Excerpt: CHAPTER I; PRELIMINARY -- CONSIDERING our present advanced state of culture, and how the Torch of Science has now been brandished and borne about, with more or less effect, for five thousand years and upwards; how, in these times especially, not only the Torch still burns, and perhaps more...

...Table of Contents: BOOK I 3 -- CHAPTER I ?PRELIMINARY, 3 -- CHAPTER II ?EDITORIAL DIFFICULTIES, 7 -- CHAPTER III ?REMINISCENCES, 11 -- CHAPTER IV? CHARACTERISTICS, 19 -- CHAPTER V? THE WORLD IN CLOTHES, 24 -- CHAPTER VI? APRONS, 29...

...gnum Bonum, or Mother Carey’s Brood by Charlotte M. Yonge is a publication of the Pennsyl- vania State University. 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... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...aid Armine, looking up sleepily. “And there were such lots of jolly little birds,” went on Jock. “Never mind that now. What happened?” “Why, the brute... ...ry gleaming afternoon; All through April, May, and June, Boys and maidens, birds and bees, Airy whisperings from all trees. Petition of the Flowers— —... ...ike the gentle- man who dined with you one day, and told me about the snow birds. But there were only these flower-trees, and a pond, and statues stan... ...y of Belforest. Opin- ions varied as to his being a miser, or a lunatic, a prey to conscience, disease, or deformity; and reports were so di- 130 Mag... ...her awful at first in the twilight gloom of the great hall, with a painted mythological ceiling, and cold white pavement, varied by long perspective l... ...ld is to be sent to town, and surrounded with Mrs. Brownlow’s creatures to prey upon her innocence. But you have no care for your own niece—none!” CHA...

...their sister has children, and she will have to roam from room to room before the whitewashers, which is not what I should wish in the critical state of chest left by measles.?...

...lassics Series Publication The Egoist by George Meredith 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... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...e of his big round headpiece on those tyrannous puzzles. But the habits of birds, and the place for their eggs, and the management of rabbits, and the... ... on the road in a gig, and had driven him to a farm to show him strings of birds’ eggs and stuffed birds of every English kind, kingfish- ers, yaffles... ...ce of studious concentration. Observe the hawk on stretched wings over the prey he spies, for an idea of this change in the look of a young lady whom ... ..., dearest, are too strong for transcription. I feel, pen in hand, like the mythological Titan at war with Jove, strong enough to hurl mountains, and f... ..., you silly boy!” He began to brighten dubiously. “I used to be as fond of birdsnesting as you are. I like brave boys, and I like you for wanting to e... ...inconsistent, she was volatile, she was unprincipled, she was worse than a prey to wickedness—capable of it; she was only waiting to be misled. Nay, t...

...Excerpt: A chapter of which the last page only is of any importance comedy is a game played to throw reflections upon social life, and it deals with human nature in the drawing-room of civilized men and women, where we have no dust of the strug...

...m James A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature by William James is a publ... ...ious Experience: A Study in Human Nature by William James 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... ...l is of this sky-blue tint, whose af- finities are rather with flowers and birds and all en- chanting innocencies than with dark human passions, who c... ...Marie Bashkirtseff, i. 67. 87 William James the sky, and listening to the birds, the crickets, the tree frogs, and all the hundreds of natural sounds... ... reflection upon death. The in- dividual must in his own person become the prey of a pathological melancholy. As the healthy-minded en- thusiast succe... ...quirol observed the case of a very intelligent mag- istrate who was also a prey to hepatic disease. Every emotion appeared dead within him. He manifes... ...he sort. Heaven did not seem to me worth going to. It was like a vacuum; a mythological elysium, an abode of shad- ows less real than the earth. I cou... ...ars together. “And now I was sorry that God had made me a man. The beasts, birds, fishes, etc., I blessed their condi- tion, for they had not a sinful...

Excerpt: The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature by William James.

...NEUROLOGY............................................................................................................. 11 Lecture II: CIRCUMSCRIPTION OF THE TOPIC ................................................................................................ 34 Lecture III: THE REALITY OF THE UNSEEN ............................................................................

... Classics Series Publication Middlemarch by George Eliot 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... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...wards grouse and foxes, and did not regard his future wife in the light of prey, valuable chiefly for the excitements of the chase. Neither was he so ... ...till allowed to grow in bushy beauty and to spread out coral fruit for the birds. Little details gave each field a particular physiog- nomy, dear to t... ...ave studied music, probably?” said Rosamond. “No, I know the notes of many birds, and I know many melodies by ear; but the music that I don’t know at ... ...elf when you first came here—that you are a bear, and want teaching by the birds.” 248 Middlemarch “Well, there is a bird who can teach me what she w... ...py of himself; moreover, he had not yet succeeded in issuing copies of his mythological key; but he had always intended to acquit himself by marriage,... ... which such pos- session might expose her to the more danger. She is ready prey to any man who knows how to play adroitly either on her affectionate a...

...Excerpt: Prelude. Who that cares much to know the history of man, and how the mysterious mixture behaves under the varying experiments of Time, has not dwelt, at least briefly, on the life of Saint Theresa, has not smiled with some gentleness at the thought of the little girl walkin...

...liot 1872 To my dear Husband, George Henry Lewes, in this nineteenth year of our blessed union. Contents Book I — Miss Brooke . . . . . . . . . . . ... ...arch 1 Book I Miss Brooke Prelude W ho that cares much to know the history of man, and how the mysterious mixture behaves under the varying experiment... ... man, and how the mysterious mixture behaves under the varying experiments of Time, has not dwelt, at least briefly, on the life of Saint Theresa, has ... ...wards grouse and foxes, and did not regard his future wife in the light of prey, valuable chiefly for the excitements of the chase. Neither was he so w... ...till allowed to grow in bushy beauty and to spread out coral fruit for the birds. Little details gave each field a particular physiognomy, dear to the ... ...ave studied music, probably?” said Rosamond. “No, I know the notes of many birds, and I know many melodies by ear; but the music that I don’t know at ... ...elf when you first came here— that you are a bear, and want teaching by the birds.” “Well, there is a bird who can teach me what she will. Don’t I list... ...py of himself; moreover, he had not yet succeeded in issuing copies of his mythological key; but he had always intended to acquit himself by marriage,... ...in which such possession might expose her to the more danger. She is ready prey to any man who knows how to play adroitly either on her affectionate a...

...Excerpt: Prelude; Who that cares much to know the history of man, and how the mysterious mixture behaves under the varying experiments of Time, has not dwelt, at least briefly, on the life of Saint Theresa, has not smiled with some gentleness at the thought of the little girl walkin...

...Table of Contents: Book I ?Miss Brooke, 1 -- Prelude, 1 -- Chapter I., 3 -- Chapter II., 10 -- Chapter III., 16 -- Chapter IV., 25 -- Chapter V., 31 -- Chapter VI., 38 -- Chapter VII., 47 -- Chapter VIII., 51 -- Chapter IX., 55 -- ...

...Bowl” what perhaps most stands out for me is the still marked invet eracy of a certain indirect and oblique view of my presented action; unless indee... ... of my presented action; unless indeed I make up my mind to call this mode of treatment, on the contrary, any superficial appearance notwithstanding, t... ...matter, for “seeing my story,” through the opportunity and the sensibility of some more or less detached, some not strictly involved, though thoroughl... ...ly interrupted by some vague analogy of turn and attitude, something shyly mythological and nymph like. The trick, he was n’t uncomplacently aware, w... ... her temples, in the constant manner of her mother, who had n’t been a bit mythological. Nymphs and nuns were certainly separate types, but Mr. Verver... ... occasions of contact that they had always so freely celebrated, a pair of birds of the upper air could scarce have appeared less to invite each other... ...s well, those that hung over Charlotte herself, those that marked her as a prey to equal suspicions—to the idea in particular of a change, such a chan... ... the peacocks on the balustrades let their tails hang limp and the smaller birds lurked among the leaves. Nothing therefore would have appeared to sti...

...many matters thrown into relief by a refreshed acquaintance with ?The Golden Bowl? what perhaps most stands out for me is the still marked inveteracy of a certain indirect and oblique view of my presented action; unless indeed I make up my mind to call this mode of treatment, on the contrary, any superficial appearance notwithstanding, the very straightest and closest poss...

...Table of Contents: PREFACE, iii -- Volume I 3 -- Book I 3 -- Chapter 1, 3 -- Chapter 2, 15 -- Chapter 3, 25 -- Chapter 4, 35 -- Chapter 5, 50 -- Chapter 6, 58 -- Book II 69 -- Chapter 1, 69 -- Chapter 2, 79 -- Chapter 3, 85 -- Chap...