...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...

...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...

...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...

... By Indrek Pringi Library of Congress Txu 987-756 Copyright January 29th 2001 Canadian Copyri... ...ns: Connection, and Separation. This book explores the logical extrapolation of this, and other Dynamics. My challenge to the reader is simple. ... ...not? Preface The Basic Elements of Human Understanding are: ... ...ed our Universe in organic seeds, plants, insects, reptiles, shellfish, fish, birds, mammals and brains. This basic design of Splitness is older th... ...ed the perimeter of the band being defended; it ended their need to fight off preying killers during the night. It ended the Law of Survival of the... ...Walking out of a land transformed into stillness and whitened devastation. No birds, no animals, no sound, no green, everything covered in dirty whi... ... their surroundings. They sacrificed this loss of general awareness where any preying animal could sneak up on them more easily because the trade-of... ...mething that tastes good. You can get it from a warm sun shining on you with birds singing, and the wind wafting delicate scents of sweet-smelling ... ... classical source of 250 myths. "The poem is the most comprehensive, creative mythological work that has come down to us from antiquity" In other ...

...The Path of Splitness is a major non fiction work of 1,868 pages: This is the latest revised version. The book analyzes and explains: 1: The origins of our Universe: where it came from and how it was created. 2: Basic aspects a...

...Chapter 1: The Universe. Pgs 1-112 How the Universe came into being. Chapter 2: Life Pgs 113-131 Structural dynamics of the Universe and Life Chapter 3: Hominids Pgs 132-187 A: How we evolved into Humans Pgs 188-222 B: Summary of Hominid-Human Development Chapter 4: Modern Human Dynamics P...

...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....

... 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...

...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...

...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...

...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....

...Henry David Thoreau s or Life in the Woods This publication of Walden, or Life in the Woods is part of The Pennsylvania State Universit... ... Walden, or Life in the Woods by Henry David Thoreau is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furni... ...ity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...le dry wood under a pot, and are whirled round the globe with the speed of birds, in a way to kill old people, as the phrase is. Age is no bet ter, h... ...h our beds, which are our night clothes, robbing the nests and breasts of birds to pre pare this shelter within a shelter, as the mole has its bed o... ...did not speak so much from under a roof, or the saint dwell there so long. Birds do not sing in caves, nor do doves cherish their innocence in dovecot... ...epose is never complete. The wildest animals do not repose, but seek their prey now; the fox, and skunk, and rabbit, now roam the fields and woods wit... ...s a carnivorous animal? True, he can and does live, in a great measure, by preying on other animals; but this is a miserable way as any one who will ... ...nd astounding part in our New England life, and de serves, as much as any mythological character, to have his biography written one day; who first co...

...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 ....................................

... 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 -- ...

... 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...

...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...

...ion Publication Publication War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy 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... ...d up- set them. Let’s go to the nursery.” All four, like a flock of scared birds, got up and left the room. “The unpleasant things were said to me,” r... ...on’t get on against Buonaparte; you’ll have to call in the French, so that birds of a feather may fight together. The German, Pahlen, has been sent to... ...ttle; he was only redder than usual. With his shaggy head thrown back like birds when they drink, pressing his spurs mercilessly into the sides of his... ...appiness or peace of mind. Can anything in the world make her or me less a prey to evil and death?—death which ends all and must come today or tomorro... ...t hearken to his appeal. At the very moment when she would have seized her prey, the hare moved and darted along the balk between the winter rye and t... ...orward in an armchair, bending closely over the blonde lady and paying her mythological compliments with a smile that never left his face. Jauntily sh...