...DER POPE VOL. I. With Memoir, Critical Dissertation, and Explanatory Notes by THE REV. GEORGE GILFILLAN M.DCCC.L M.DCCC.L M.DCCC.L M.DCCC.L M.DCCC.LVI... ... VI. VI. A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: Volume One, with Memoir, Critical Dissertation, an... ...ope: Volume One, with Memoir, Critical Dissertation, and Explanatory Notes by the Rev. George Gilfillan is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Uni... ...nt or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: Volume One, with Memoir, Critical Dissertation, an... ...ope: Volume One, with Memoir, Critical Dissertation, and Explanatory Notes by the Rev. George Gilfillan, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic... ...duced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing t... ...EF PREF PREFA A A A ACE CE CE CE CE 2 I am inclined to think that both the writers of books, and the readers of them, are generally not a little unrea... ...ld be sacrificed to its entertainment. Therefore I cannot but believe that writers and readers are under equal obligations for as much fame, or pleasu... ... passed upon poems. A critic supposes he has done his part, if he proves a writer to have failed in an expression, or erred in any particular point: a...

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...r the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. An Essay on Criticism by Alexander Pope , the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classi... ...roduced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in En glish, to free and easy access of those wishi... ... State University is an equal opportunity university. An Essay on Criticism By Alexander Pope ’Tis hard to say, if greater Want of Skill Appear in W... ... faintly, are drawn right. But as the slightest Sketch, if justly trac’d, Is by ill Colouring but the more disgrac’d, So by false Learning is good... ... and End, and Test of Art Art from that Fund each just Supply provides, Works without Show , and without Pomp presides: In some fair Body thus... ...e at once before your Eyes, Cavil you may, but never Criticize. Be Homer’s Works your Study, and Delight, Read them by Day, and meditate by Night,... ... Thinks what ne’er was, nor is, nor e’er shall be. In ev’ry Work regard the Writer’s End , Since none can compass more than they Intend; And if the ... ...which we thro’ Mists descry, Dulness is ever apt to Magnify. Some foreign Writers, some our own despise; The Ancients only, or the Moderns prize... ...ploy their Pains to spurn some others down; And while Self Love each jealous Writer rules, Contending Wits becomes the Sport of Fools : But still th...

...KNOCK, KNOCK, KNOCK And Other Stories By Ivan T urgenev Translated from the Russian By Constance Garnett A Penn S... ...ctronic Classics Series Publication Knock, Knock, Knock and other stories by Ivan Turgenev, trans. Constance Garnett is a publica- tion of the Pennsy... ...ec- tronic transmission, in any way. Knock, Knock, Knock and other stories by Ivan Turgenev, trans. Constance Garnett, the Pennsyl- vania State Univer... ...duced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing t... ...e to him. He not only enjoyed the reputation of being the foremost Russian writer; but—something much more difficult and more rarely met with—he did t... ...e into his mind he immediately drove it away by reading various devotional works for which he cher- ished a profound respect (he had learned to read w...

...RY ESMOND, ESQ. A COLONEL IN THE SERVICE OF HER MAJESTY QUEEN ANNE WRITTEN BY HIMSELF BOOK THREE by WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY A Penn State Electroni... ... Esmond, Esq.: A Colonel in the Service of Her Majesty Queen Anne, Written by Himself: Book Three by William Makepeace Thackeray is a publication of t... ... Esmond, Esq.: A Colonel in the Service of Her Majesty Queen Anne, Written by Himself: Book Three by William Makepeace Thackeray, the Pennsylvania Sta... ...duced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing t... ... To the Right Honorable William Bingham, Lord Ashburton. My Dear Lord, The writer of a book which copies the manners and lan- guage of Queen Anne’s ti... ...hed his instructions with his young pupil. 9 Thackeray The gazetteers and writers, both of the French and English side, have given accounts sufficien... ...re generously. He professed to Monsieur de Torcy, so Mr. St. John told the writer, quite an eagerness to be cut in pieces for the exiled Queen and her... ... I don’t encourage the ladies to pursue any such studies), may read in the works of Mr. Congreve, and Dr. Swift and others, what was the conversation ... ...s of that age, who have rendered Queen Anne’s reign illustrious, and whose works will be in all Englishmen’s hands in ages yet to come, Mr. Esmond saw...

...Excerpt: The writer of a book which copies the manners and language of Queen Anne?s time, must not omit the Dedication to the Patron; and I ask leave to inscribe this volume to your Lordship, for the sake of the great kindness and friends...

...Dead Souls by Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol Translation by D. J. Hogarth Introduction by John Cournos A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASS... ...hn Cournos A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION Dead Souls by Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol, trans. D. J. Hogarth, with an introduction by... ...ment or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Dead Souls by Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol, trans. D. J. Hogarth, with an introduction by... ...duced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing t... ...lled the quality of the Russian soul. The English reader familiar with the works of Dostoieffsky, Turgenev, and Tolstoi, need hardly be told what this... ...e proved of the greatest use both to my head and to my heart—I beg of such writers again to favour me with their reviews. For in all sincerity I can a... ...he Post- master went in more for philosophy, and diligently pe- rused such works as Young’s Night Thoughts, and Eckharthausen’s A Key to the Mysteries... ...ed that the person who had brought it had omitted to leave the name of the writer. Beginning abruptly with the words “I must write to you,” the letter... ...but to quote them. “What, I would ask, is this life of ours?” inquired the writer. “’Tis nought but a vale of woe. And what, I would ask, is the world...

...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 out of it, like the limbs of a single tree. Dostoieffsky goes so far as to bestow this tribute upon an earlier work by...

...assics Series Publication Hesiod, The Homeric Hymns, and Homerica, edited by Hugh G. Evelyn-White (1914) is a publica- tion of the Pennsylvania State... ... transmission, in any way. Hesiod, The Homeric Hymns, and Homerica, edited by Hugh G. Evelyn-White (1914), the Pennsyl- vania State University, Jim Ma... ...duced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing t... ...................................................................... 31 THE WORKS OF HESIOD .............................................................. .......................................................................... 38 WORKS AND DAYS (832 lines) ................................................... .......................................................... 38 THE DIVINATION BY BIRDS (fragments) ......................................................... ...alogies of men. Its attitude is summed up in the words of the Muses to the writer of the Theogony: `We can tell many a feigned tale to look like truth... ...st be added traditions concerning his death and burial gathered from later writers. Hesiod’s father (whose name, by a perversion of Works and Days, 29... ... appearance of Muses must be treated as a graceful fiction, we find that a writer, later than the Works and Days by perhaps no more than three-quarter...

...ademic 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 depended on the apparatus criticus of the several editions, especially that of Rzach (1902). The arrangement adopted in this edition, by which the complete and fragmentary poems are resto...

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...le of Contents: How to Contact Best of Four You can contac Best of Four by writing to Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, Best of Four , Pennsylvania State... ...nia State University. All the student essays contained herein were prodced by students registered in English 004 on the Hazleton Campus during the Fal... ...tion courses throughout the Commonwealth College. Stay tuned for an update by viewing our Web site at http://www2.hn.psu.edu/faculty/jmanis/bof.htm. ... ...uying new computers or opening more of the computer rooms to all students. Works Cited Home Pages: Penn State Hazleton 2 Dec. 98. <http:// www.hn.psu.... ...an worked at another Penn State satellite campus it should work here, too. Works Cited Dalton, Mary M. When Laptops are Required, How Does Campus Life... ...car club would be a welcome addition to the Penn State Hazleton club list. Works Cited Maryland Sports Car Club. 1995/Dec/19. Internet. 1998 A vailabl... ...n work which explores ma ture ideas through the unique perspective of the writer. In both cases, college writing is both specific and devoid of clich... ...cases, college writing is both specific and devoid of cliches. The college writer never simply repeats what others have to say and always finds her or... ...ng difficult. The other major area of difficulty lies within the col lege writer’s mandate to always seek the truth, even when that truth is embarras...

...THE POETICS OF ARISTOTLE A TRANSLATION BY S. H. BUTCHER A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication THE P... ...duced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing t... ...ersity. 3 THE POETICS OF ARISTOTLE THE POETICS OF ARISTOTLE A TRANSLATION BY S. H. BUTCHER [T ranscriber’s Annotations and Conventions: the translato... ...on, in order to retain the accuracy of this text, those words are rendered by spelling out each Greek letter individually , such as {alpha beta gamma ... ...et, the other physicist rather than poet. On the same principle, even if a writer in his poetic imitation were to combine all metres, as Chaeremon did... ...w diverged in two directions, according to the individual character of the writers. The graver spirits imitated 8 THE POETICS OF ARISTOTLE noble acti... ...nnot indeed be put down to any author earlier than Homer; though many such writers probably there were. But from Homer onward, instances can be cited,...

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...Life of Johnson by James Boswell Abridged and Edited, with an Introduction by Charles Grosvenor Osgood A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publica... ...sgood A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Life of Johnson by James Boswell, abridged and edited with an introduction by Charles Grosv... ...or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Life of Johnson by James Boswell, abridged and edited with an introduction by Charles Grosv... ...duced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing t... ...s, masses of diverting material which would have tempted a less scrupulous writer beyond resistance. ‘I observed to him,’ said Boswell, ‘that there we... ...ruth, brilliance, and lifelike spontaneity of Boswell’s art. It is in such works as these that we shall find the real Johnson, and through them that h... ...talk and other anecdotes of our cel- 20 Boswell’s Life of Johnson ebrated writers is valued, and how earnestly it is regretted that we have not more,... ... part of the book. What he read during these two years he told me, was not works of mere amusement, ‘not voyages and travels, but all literature, Sir,... ... amusement, ‘not voyages and travels, but all literature, Sir, all ancient writers, all manly: though but little Greek, only some of Anacreon and Hesi...

...duced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing t... ... find your house at Mentone nice. I have been obliged to stop from writing by the want of a pen, but now I have one, so I will con- tinue. My dear pap... ..., and the general ailments of the human race have been successfully braved by yours truly. Does not this deserve remuneration? I appeal to your charit... ... lies at the end or elbow of an open triangular bay, hemmed on either side by shores, either cliff or steep earth-bank, of no great height. The grey h... ... of genius, that makes one rather sorry for one’s own generation of better writers, and – I don’t know what to say; I was going to say ‘smaller men’; ... ...ake it readable. I am such a dull person I cannot keep off my own immortal works. Indeed, they are scarcely ever out of my head. And yet I value them ... ...e magazines (probably from a guilty con- science) are apt to suppose their works practically unpub- lished. It seems unlikely that any one would take ... ... much more popular and larger too. Fancy, it is my fourth. That voluminous writer. I was vexed to hear about the last chapter of ‘The Lie,’ and please... ...w see that, although so cos- tive, when I once begin I am a copious letter-writer. I thank you, and au revoir. ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON. 138 The Letter...

...IN THE FOURTH YEAR Anticipations of a World Peace BY H. G. WELLS 1918 A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication In... ...ics Series Publication In the Fourth Year: Anticipations of a World Peace by H.G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This P... ...ansmission, in any way. In the Fourth Year: Anticipations of a World Peace by H.G. Wells, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classics Serie... ...duced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing t... ...duce now as a pair of skates in winter when the ice begins to bear. All we writers find ourselves engaged perforce in some part or other of a world-wi... ... kings; much more does it claim the self-subjugation of the journal- istic writer. Our innumerable books upon this great edifice of a World Peace do n... ...r people unused to the scientific method, and so on. For the last year the writer has been doing what he can—and a number of other writers have been d... ...unknown men, of carpet- bag candidates who work a constituency as a hawker works a village, of local pomposities and village-pump “leaders” al- most i...

...ia State University. All the student essays contained herein were produced by students registered in English 004, 015 and 030, within the Commonwealth... ..., during the academic year of 2003-04, and the essays appear here with the writers’ express written permission. No portion of Best of Freshman Writing... ...s produced in the courses listed above, and the essays must be submit- ted by faculty members from the campuses. In other words, Best is not an “open ... ... them. All documentation should be in MLA parenthetical style and verified by the student’s instructor. (Please see the edito- rial at the end.) Facul... ...dition is, for the most part, gone. My older brother is now twenty-two and works full time, unable to make time to spend Sun- days with the family, al... ...ave exchanged roles, and by doing so, the sin- ister balance is preserved. Works Cited Frye, Roland Muschat. “Macbeth’s Usurping Wife.” Renaissance Ne... ...for our rights and the rights of our neigh- bor, or we will never be free. Works s s s s Cited Bush, George W. State of the Union Address. 19 January ... ...is most often a matter of demonstrating to an audience the validity of the writer’s argument and a mastery of the materials pertinent to making such a... ...hink” or “I believe” has little resonance with educated readers unless the writer’s point is a lack of total conviction. In order to validate one’s co...

...f Herr Teufelsdr¨ ockh THOMAS CARLYLE 1831 DjVu Editions Copyright c 2001 by Global Language Resources, Inc. All rights reserved. Contents BOOK I ... ...ssue of all Tissues, the only real Tissue, should have been quite overlooked by Science,— the vestural Tissue, namely, of woollen or other cloth; whic... ...speculations they have tacitly figured man as a Clothed Animal; whereas he is by nature a Naked Animal; and only in certain circumstances, by purpose a... ...end that this Work on Clothes entirely contents us; that it is not, like all works of genius, like the very Sun, which, though the highest published c... ...uries it.—On the other hand, let us be free to admit, he is the most unequal writer breathing. Often after some such feat, he will play truant for lon... ... ten intervene! On the whole, Professor Teufelsdr¨ ockh, is not a cultivated writer. Of his sentences perhaps not more than nine tenths stand straight... ...d millions, but a huge scarlet colored, iron fastened Apron, wherein Society works (uneasily enough); guarding itself from some soil and stithy sparks... ...ms he, “proceed in the small chink lighted, or even oil lighted, underground workshop of Logic alone; and man’s mind become an Arithmetical Mill, wher... ...yment to read character in speculation, and from the Writing to construe the Writer. A certain groundplan of Human Nature and Life began to fashion it...

...s. How, then, comes it, may the reflective mind repeat, that the grand Tissue of all Tissues, the only real Tissue, should have been quite overlooked by Science,--the vestural Tissue, namely, of woollen or other cloth; which Man?s Soul wears as its outmost wrappage and overall; wherein his whole other Tissues are included ......

...a State University. All the student essays contained herein were produced by students registered in English 004, within the Commonwealth College of t... ................ 31 How to contact Best of Four You can contact Best of Four by writing to Jim Manis Faculty Editor Best of Four Penn State University A... ...uch as suspension. In most states, students are required to attend school, by law. Of course this is not true at the college level, and the fact that ... ...been the most enduring, most covered, and best-loved band in all of music. Works Cited “The Backstreet Boys.” Rolling Stone <http:// rollingstone.tune... ...ays and then list the source material in alphabetical order on a separate “Works Cited” page at the end of our essays. Failure to do these two things ... ...per place and with the proper punctuation indicates to the reader that the writer is lazy or inept and thus NOT TRUSTWORTHY . If, as a writer, you are... ...ent in a few weeks. Who would pick me up from school everyday since my mom works until seven? How would I get to church on Sundays without my dad driv... ...ch came about after I missed the free throw.” Fused sentences occur when a writer simply writes two sentences as if they were one: “Mary told Bob to s... ...ay out of her life she was sick of his silly innuendos.” In this case, the writer probably meant to subordinate the second clause rather than to start...

... Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Memories and Portraits by Robert Louis Stevenson (1912 Chatto and Windus edition) is a publica- ti... ...e file as an electronic trans- mission, in any way. Memories and Portraits by Robert Louis Stevenson (1912 Chatto and Windus edition), the Penn- sylva... ...duced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing t... .........................117 4 Robert Louis Stevenson Memories and Portraits by Robert Louis Stevenson 1912 Chatto and Windus edition. NOTE THIS VOLUME ... ... mentous fields of life where destiny awaits us. Upon the av- erage book a writer may be silent; he may set it down to his ill-hap that when his own y... ...and third, in a laborious pasticcio of Sir Thomas Browne. So with my other works: Cain, an epic, was (save the mark!) an imitation of Sordello: Robin ... ...ly from a school. It is only from a school that we can expect to have good writers; it is almost invariably from a school that great writers, these la... ...orms, as they did the other day to General Boulanger; and buy his literary works, as I hope you have just done for me. Our fathers, when they were upo... ...t only by endless avatars, the original re-embodying after each. So that a writer, in time, begins to wonder at the perdu- rable life of these impress...

...Excerpt: Chapter 1. The Foreigner At Home. ?This is no my ain house; I ken by the biggin? o?t.? Two recent books* one by Mr. Grant White on England, one on France by the diabolically clever Mr. Hillebrand, may well have set people thinking on the divisions of races and nations. Such thoughts should ...