...WHAT IS MAN? WHAT IS MAN? AND OTHER ESSAYS OF MARK TWAIN (Samuel Langhorne Clemens, 1835 1910) What Is Man and Other ... ...Man and Other Essays by Mark T wain (Samuel L. Clemens) is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...ion: English—Protestant; Ameri can—ditto; Spaniard, Frenchman, Irishman, Italian, South American—Roman Catholic; Russian—Greek Catholic; T urk—Moham... ...aled. O.M. That is what she surely does. In all his history the aboriginal Australian never thought out a house for him self and built it. The ant is... ... her tongue took to languages with an easy facility. She never allowed her Italian, French, and German to get rusty through neglect. The telegrams of ... ...find an instance to put with this one. The oldest family of unchal lenged descent in Christendom lives in Rome and traces its line back seventeen hun... ...hen we have lately had a season or two of them in New York with these same singers in the several parts, and possibly this same orchestra. I resolved ... ...ou can lay on your keelson except gravel. THURSDAY.—They keep two teams of singers in stock for the chief roles, and one of these is composed of the m... ...o neglect and gradual ruin and progressive degradation; a Mark T wain 153 descent which reaches bottom at last, when the street be comes a roost for...

............................................................................................................................................ 4 THE DEATH OF JEAN ............................................................................................................................................ 75 THE TURNING-POINT OF MY LIFE ...............................................

...y George Meredith A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication One of Our Conquerors 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... ...s recent mishap. But, in fact, a thing had occurred to vex him more than a descent upon the pavement or damage to his waistcoat’s whiteness: he abomin... ...ctor had known his purse to leap for a Raphael with a history in stages of descent from the Master, and critics to swarm: a Raphael of the deal- ers, ... ...d drew his next remark to Fenellan. ‘How Wagner seems to have stricken the Italians! Well, now, the Germans have their Emperor to head their armies, a... ...ther in Sapho-delicious. I held out against Wagner as long as I could. The Italians don’t much more than Wagnerize in exchange for the loss of melody.... ... you. But you are hungry? Y ou have been singing twice: three times! Opera singers, they say, eat hot suppers; they drink stout. And I never heard you... ...o greet her being shown. Colney Durance came in, bringing the rumour of an Australian cantatrice to kindle Europe; Mr. Peridon, a seeker of tidings fr... ... one hundred years hence to be a place of pilgrimage for Americans and for Australians. Age, he said, improves true beauty; and his eyelids indicated ...

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...RIES PUBLICATION The Research Magnificent by H. G. Wells 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... ...er of charming people of the war that was then imminent, listened to gipsy singers until dawn, careered in sledges about the most silent and stately o... ...ort. He 110 The Research Magnificent could produce wine, a half-bottle of Australian hock, Big Tree brand No. 8, a virile wine, he thought of sardine... ...it, and then they commented on Amanda and Benham, assuming an ignorance of Italian in the visitors that was only partly justifiable. “Bellissima,” “br... ... up to when he wanted the money beforehand.” He came to the * This is vile Italian. It may—with a certain charity to Benham—be rendered: “The beastlie... ... Durazzo. The eye fell in succession down the stages of a vast and various descent, on the bazaars and tall minarets of the town, on jagged rocks and ...

... The Uncommercial Traveller by Charles D... ... The Uncommercial Traveller by Charles Dickens is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free... ...ng this page by the fireside at Home, and hearing the night wind rumble in the chimney, that slight obstruction was the uppermost fragment of the Wrec... ...th little or no aid from the imagination, could yet see how the bodies had been turned, and where the head had been and where the feet. Some faded tra... ...down its innocent nose. Those inscru- table pigeon-hole offices, with nothing in them (not so much as an inkstand) but a model of a theatre before the... .... And yet within half an hour I was in an immense theatre, capable of holding nearly five thousand people. Charles Dickens 30 What Theatre? Her Majes... ...he postilions Charles Dickens 62 counting what money they got, into their hats, and never making enough of it; there were the standard population of ... ...gical periods, Criticism on Milton, the Steam-engine, John Bunyan, and Arrow-Headed Inscriptions, before they might be tickled by those unac- countabl... ... girl, was writing another letter on the bare deck. Later in the day, when this self-same boat was filled with a choir who sang glees and catches for ...

...ge Meredith A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Poems of George Meredith by George Meredith is a publication of the Pennsylvania ... ...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... ................................................................222 THE THREE SINGERS TO YOUNG BLOOD ....................................................... ...ere!’ 127 THE PROMISE IN DISTURBANCE How low when angels fall their black descent, Our primal thunder tells: known is the pain Of music, that nigh t... ... The day is never darkened That had thee here obscure. III Water, first of singers, o’er rocky mount and mead, First of earthly singers, the sun-loved... ...redominant; And he cried, ‘Had I petitioned for a cup of chill aconite, My descent to awful Hades had been soft, for now must I go With the curse by f... ...postured statues barred his tread. On high in amphitheatre field on field, Italian, Egyptian, Austrian, Far heard and of the carnage discord clear, Be... ...I who can’; Start to the softened, tremulous bugle-blare Of that Caesarean Italian Across the storied fields of trampled grain, As to a Vercingetorix ... ... 487 That truth once scored on Britain’s breast Now keeps her mind awake. Australian, Canadian, T o tone old veins with streams of youth, Our trust b...

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........................... 23 THE WILD ROSE AND THE SNOWDROP ............................................................................. 24 THE DEATH OF WINTER .......................................................................................................... 25 SONG .......................................................................................................

... Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Por table Document file is f... ...ity. 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 i... ...Leaves of Grass –Whitman 5 Wandering at Morn...........................412 Italian Music in Dakota.....................412 With All Thy Gifts.......... ...latencies will thrill to every page. POETS TO C OME Poets to come! orators, singers, musicians to come! Not to day is to justify me and answer what I... ...l upon you shall grow fierce and athletic girls, new artists, musicians, and singers, Leaves of Grass –Whitman 114 The babes I beget upon you are to... ... I heard your long stretch’d sighs up above so mournful, I heard the perfect Italian tenor singing at the opera, I heard the soprano in the midst of t... ...sounds of children and of animals early in the day, I hear emulous shouts of Australians pursuing the wild horse, I hear the Spanish dance with castan... ...of all good. These faces bear testimony slumbering or awake, They show their descent from the Master himself. Off the word I have spoken I except not ...

...Excerpt: BOOK I. INSCRIPTIONS. One?s-self I sing, a simple separate person, Yet utter the word Democratic, the word En-Masse. Of physiology from top to toe I sing, Not physiognomy alone nor brain alone is worthy for the Muse, I say the Form complete is worthier far, The Female equally with the Male I sing. Of Life immense in passion, pulse, and powe...

...Contents LEAVES OF GRASS.......................8 BOOK I. INSCRIPTIONS..................9 One?s-Self I Sing...................................9 As I Ponder?d in Silence.....................10 In Cabin?d Ships at Sea.......................11 T...