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...cey A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION Confessions of an English Opium-Eater by Thomas de Quincey is a publication of the Pennsylvan... ... for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Confessions of an English Opium-Eater by Thomas de Quincey, the Pennsylvania State University... ...ing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cove... ...is an equal opportunity university. 3 Thomas de Quincey Confessions of an English Opium- Eater by Thomas De Quincey The first edition (London Magazin... ... Magazine) text. 1886 George Routledge and Sons edition. Confessions of an English Opium-Eater: Being an Estract from the Life of a Scholar. From the ... ...ader not at all more so than Marinus in his Life of Proclus, or many other biographers and autobiographers of fair reputation. This pleasure, I have s...

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...LIAM DEAN HOWELLS ............................................................................................................................... 148 ENGLISH AS SHE IS TAUGHT ............................................................................................................................ 156 A SIMPLIFIED ALPHABET.....................................................

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...ing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them, and ... .................................................... .................... 148 ENGLISH AS SHE IS TAUGHT ..................................................... ... can come within a split hair of guessing the complexion of his religion: English—Protestant; Ameri can—ditto; Spaniard, Frenchman, Irishman, Italia... ...ss. Here is a case of a bird and a stranger as related by a naturalist. An Englishman saw a bird flying around about his dog’s head, down in the groun... ... the Persians, the Egyp tians, the Russians, the Germans, the French, the English, the Spaniards, the Americans, the South Americans, the Japanese, t... ... a thing about him. All the rest of his vast history, as furnished by the biographers, is built up, course upon course, of guesses, inferences, theor... ...he surmisers surmise that he did not keep a library. It is surmised by the biographers that the young Shakespeare got his vast knowledge of the law an... ... have beens, and the rest of that ton of plaster of Paris out of which the biographers have built the colossal brontosaur which goes by the Stratford ... ...singers, dancers, orators, judges, lawyers, poets, dramatists, historians, biographers, editors, inventors, reformers, states men, generals, admirals...

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... possible enemies. A few Scandinavians, who had already grown acquainted on the North Sea, were friendly and voluble over their long pipes; but among English speakers distance and suspicion reigned supreme. The sun was soon overclouded, the wind freshened and grew sharp as we continued to descend the widening estuary; and with the falling temperature the gloom among the pa...

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...own acquainted on the North Sea, were friendly and voluble over their long pipes; but among English speakers distance and suspicion reigned supreme. T... ...pite of his own protests, greatly diverted us by his clever, cross-country efforts to speak English, and be- came on the strength of that an universal... ...e moles and in the feluccas of the Mediterranean, so there is a free or common accent among English-speaking men who follow the sea. They catch a twan... ...from an American pedlar, and sold the other day for a hundred pounds (I think it was) to an English apothecary. It was called Golden Oil, cured all ma... ...her, by inscrutable magnetisms, upon the decks. There were Scots and Irish in plenty, a few English, a few Ameri- cans, a good handful of Scandinavian... ...nering and Rob Roy, Monte Cristo and the Vicomte de Bragelonne, immortal Boswell sole among biographers, Chaucer, Herrick, and the State T rials. The ...

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...ing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cove... ...is supposed to have been made of an oak tree which grew in the park of the English Earl of Lincoln between two and three centuries ago. In its younger... ...beard upon his chin.* There was likewise a minister of the gospel whom the English bishops had forbidden to preach, but who knew that he should have l... ... active man, and the gentle Lady Arbella, who was fading away, like a pale English flower, in the shadow of the forest! And now the great chair was of... ...t various points along the coast of New England, there were communities of Englishmen. Though these com munities were independent of one another, yet... ... be owned that your correctness entitles you to be held up as a pattern to biographers. Nevertheless, there are a few omissions which I should be glad...

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...L ESSAYS AND OTHER PAPERS By THOMAS DE QUINCEY AUTHOR OF CONFESSIONS OF AN ENGLISH OPIUM-EATER, ETC. ETC. IN TWO VOLUMES. V V V V VOL. II. OL. II. OL.... ...ing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cove... ...L ESSAYS AND OTHER PAPERS By THOMAS DE QUINCEY AUTHOR OF CONFESSIONS OF AN ENGLISH OPIUM- EATER, ETC. ETC. IN TWO VOLUMES. V V V V VOL. II. OL. II. OL... ..., there was another act open to the congregation which was not so. For the English reader must now understand, that over and above the passive and les... ... then, that a ‘call’ should sink into a pure fiction of ceremony, like the English conge-d’elire addressed to a dean and chapter, calling on them to e... ...cable indulgence with which this scandalous partition is treated by Pope’s biographers. It is simply the lowest act of self-degradation ever connected...

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...r, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literatu... ...nd I, in my turn, intend to feed my reader, with one or two little lunches from the same larder. I shall not mar Garnharn’s translation by meddling wi... ...all not mar Garnharn’s translation by meddling with its English; for the most tooth- 5 A Tramp Abroad some thing about it is its quaint fashion of bu... ... wings, stuck his head far down below his shoulders toward me and croaked again—a croak with a distinctly insulting expression about it. If he had spo... ...o fight with a Go”ttingen expert; if he is victorious, he will be invited to other colleges, or those colleges will send their experts to him. America... ...ed mob of miscreants that was rag- ing around the palace. He meant to be kingly, but he was 137 A Tramp Abroad only the female saint once more. Some ... ...ots three hun- dred years ago, and she has hardly lost all of her saintship yet. Martyrdom made a saint of the trivial and foolish Marie Antoinette, a...

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...ing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cove... ...f great men, appear to be merely the result of physical phenomena; to most biographers the head of a man of genius rises above the herd as some noble ... ...s theories in the history of great men, whose lives, as set forth by their biographers, supply very curious particulars as to the operation of their u... ...natural state. Nor had Lambert omitted the yet more recent adventure of an English girl who was passionately attached to a sailor, and set out from Lo... ...reading all the works published within the last sixty years by the patient English, by Germany, and by France, how deeply true were my youthful views ...

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...ing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cove... ...s no anachronism in his language; he put the Spanish of Cervantes into the English of Shakespeare. Shakespeare himself most likely knew the book; he m... ...or even a moder- ate popularity for Shelton was vain. His fine old crusted English would, no doubt, be relished by a minority, but it would be only by... ...here can be no thor- oughly satisfactory translation of “Don Quixote” into English or any other language. It is not that the Spanish idioms are so utt... ...at best be only distantly imitated in any other tongue. The history of our English translations of “Don Quixote” is in- structive. Shelton’s, the firs... ...con- temporary has been produced.” It is only natural, therefore, that the biographers of Cervantes, forced to make brick without straw, should have r... ...avedra, a cousin, no doubt, who was a source of great embarrassment to the biographers. That he was a student neither at Salamanca nor at Alcala is be... ...t portion of “Persiles and Sigismunda.” He also brought back with him, his biographers assert, an infant daughter, the off- spring of an amour, as som... ...mysterious Magdalena de Sotomayor calling herself his sister, for whom his biographers cannot account, and a servant-maid. Meanwhile “Don Quixote” had...

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...nk Norris Wilbur heard the Captain address him as Charlie. He spoke pigeon English fairly. Of the balance of the crew— the five Chinamen—Wilbur could ... ...half an hour Moran and Wilbur listened to a proposition in broken pi- geon English made by the beach-combers again and again and yet again, and were i... ... in a high-keyed sing-song, but with a lisp. He told them partly in pigeon English and partly in Cantonese, which Charlie translated, that their men w... ...camp and try some other plan. Charlie shouted a direction to him in pigeon English that he did not understand, but he answered all right, and moved fo... ... the only member of the crew besides Charlie who could understand or speak English, answered: “Kai-gingh him fin’ pistol, you’ pistol; Charlie him fig... ... and your tailor, your pew rent and your club dues, and you’ll be what the biographers call ‘a respect- able member of the community.’” “Did you ever ...

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...ing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cove... ...orous youth and health: marching, for example, on stated occasions, twenty English miles with- out intermission, in full armor and completely accoutre... ...hope or redemp- tion. But still let this degradation not be imputed to the English army exclusively. 88 The Cæsars bition. From the days of Marius, e... ...sually distinguished by the title of Pius, is thus described by one of his biographers:— ”He was externally of remarkable beauty; eminent for his mora... ...e is, however, a good deal of delusion prevalent on such subjects. In some English cavalry regiments, the custom is for the privates to take only one ... ...ally allow many meals, by comparison with the washy tea breakfasts of most Englishmen. The Emperor Pius died in his seventieth year. The imme- diate o...

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...ectronic Classics Series, Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student public... ...e also fancied he heard the melancholy moaning of the water which falls back again into the wells — a sad, funereal, solemn sound, which strikes the e... ... that which I am doing. I express myself badly, or perhaps, as monsieur is a foreigner, which I perceive by his accent —” In fact, the unknown spoke w... ... king), “and there are a thousand causes that might yet make your marriage fail, — well, would you approve of England’s sending to the United Province... ...eriously both his own affairs and those of Europe, for he found them very difficult and very obscure. Louis found the king of En- gland seated in the ... ...t. He was thirteen years older than Louis XIV ., his future master. Of middle height, rather lean than otherwise, he had deep-set eyes, a mean appeara...

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...ing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cove... ...agined that 8 Redgauntlet this wench had been placed in his family by the English min- isters; and, considering her sister’s situation, they seemed t... ...LATIMER TO ALAN FAIRFORD DUMFRIES. Cur me exanimas querelis tuis? In plain English, Why do you deafen me with your croaking? The disconsolate tone in ... ...he tumult of the Gaits’ Class at the High School— when I was mocked for my English accent—salted with snow as a Southern—rolled in the gutter for a Sa... ...hat scat- ter-brained. —By the way , Wilkinson must get our ale bottled in English pints now, for a quart bottle is too much, night after night, for y... ...dead weight on the progress of the narrative. T o avoid this dilemma, some biographers have used the letters of the personages concerned, or liberal e...

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...ing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cove... ...s no anachronism in his language; he put the Spanish of Cervantes into the English of Shakespeare. Shakespeare himself most likely knew the book; he m... ...or even a moder- ate popularity for Shelton was vain. His fine old crusted English would, no doubt, be relished by a minority, but it would be only by... ...here can be no thor- oughly satisfactory translation of “Don Quixote” into English or any other language. It is not that the Spanish idioms are so utt... ...at best be only distantly imitated in any other tongue. The history of our English translations of “Don Quixote” is instructive. Shelton’s, the first ... ...a contemporary has been produced.” It is only natural, therefore, that the biographers of Cervantes, forced to make brick without straw, should have r... ...avedra, a cousin, no doubt, who was a source of great embarrassment to the biographers. That he was a student neither at Salamanca nor at Alcala is be... ...t portion of “Persiles and Sigismunda.” He also brought back with him, his biographers assert, an infant daughter, the off- spring of an amour, as som... ...mysterious Magdalena de Sotomayor calling herself his sister, for whom his biographers cannot account, and a ser- vant-maid. Meanwhile “Don Quixote” h...

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...ing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cove... ...hered by the Benedictines. Louis XVI., a just mind, himself translated the English work in which Walpole en- deavored to explain Richard III.,—a work ... ...ore terrible, though less known, of Marie dé Medici. Isabella summoned the English into France against her son, and loved her brother-in-law, the Duc ... ...inently arrested them and marched them before the justice at the Chatelet. Englishwomen, who are so fond of ermine, do not know that in former times n... ...d died in prison after seven years’ captivity.” “Charles V . conquered the English,” she cried triumphantly . “No, not he, but du Guesclin. He himself... ... alchemist lived to be one hundred and thirty years old,—an age which some biographers give to Marion de Lorme. He must have heard from the Ruggieri t...

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...ing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cove... ... the quotations, which were in a most corrupt state, and of which Cotton’s English versions were singularly loose and inexact, and for the zeal with w... ...t, and for the zeal with which he has co-operated with me in collating the English text, line for line and word for word, with the best French edition... ..., is in the third person, is scarcely worth publication, as a whole, in an English dress. THE AUTHOR OF THE ESSAYS was born, as he informs us him- sel... ...ry of his early married life vies in obscurity with that of his youth. His biographers are not agreed among themselves; and in the same degree that he... ...ument was restored in 1803 by a descen- dant. It was seen about 1858 by an English traveller (Mr. St. John).’—[“Montaigne the Essayist,” by Bayle St. ...

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...ing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cove... ...s eloquent to the feelings from being profoundly mysteri- ous, and, in the English church, forced not only upon the attention, but even upon the eye o... ... most thoughtless. 5 Thomas de Quincey According to the discipline of the English church, the un- baptized are buried with “maimed rites,” shorn of t... ...ever magnificent, could conciliate his praise as long as it was clothed in English; but present him with the most trivial common-places in Greek, and ... ...eat powers, as we may call them, these pre- siding stars over all that was English in thought and action, were both impassioned admirers of Shakspeare... ...ng the situation of Worcester, impossible. Strange it is, that, whilst all biographers have worked with so much zeal upon the most barren dates or mos... ...tural insinuation. For our parts, we should have been the last amongst the biographers to unearth any forgotten scandal, or, after so vast a lapse of ... ...t ought to be mentioned, though unac- countably overlooked by all previous biographers, that one of Pope’s anonymous enemies, who hated him personally... ...divided from all direct advantage. At all events, the researches of Pope’s biographers have not been able to trace him farther back in the paternal li...

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...ing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cove... ...y sheer force of repetition, that view is imposed upon the reader. The two English mas- ters of the style, Macaulay and Carlyle, largely exemplify its... ... of us are, by its consequences, to gloss the matter over, with too polite biographers, is to do the work of the wrecker disfiguring beacons on a peri... ...on Society in England; and Mr. John Payne has translated him entirely into English, a task of un- usual difficulty. I regret to find that Mr. Payne an... ... astonishing that their work should be so different. The fact is, that the English novel was looking one way and seeking one set of effects in the han... ...ead. Lastly, we have here already some beginning of that curious series of English blunders, that makes us wonder if there are neither proof-sheets no... ... sight in the pressure of new information and the apologetical ceremony of biographers. Mr. Carlyle made an inimitable bust of the poet’s head of gold... ...d a considerable, but not authoritative, sense of the proprieties. Of what biographers refer to daintily as “her somewhat voluptuous style of beauty,”... ...ost his habits of industry, and formed the habit of pleasure. Apologetical biographers assure us of the contrary; but from the first, he saw and recog...

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...ing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cove... ... to pay his son’s expenses, which must have been far less there than at an English University; and Henry’s return to London in 1728-29 is said to have... ...ircumstantial story told on the subject by Murphy, the first of Fielding’s biographers. This legend was that Fielding, having succeeded by the death o... ... and terrible satire of Jonathan Wild, the greatest piece of pure irony in English out of Swift. Soon after the publication of the book, a great calam... ...in that Shakespeare, Milton, Swift, and Field- ing, those four Atlantes of English verse and prose, all af- fected him with lukewarm admiration, or wi... ...w everything. I have above classed Fielding as one of the four Atlantes of English verse and prose, and I doubt not that both the phrase and the appli... ...riginally afforded the pattern. In this light I have always regarded those biographers who have recorded the actions of great and worthy persons of bo... ...rks of those who celebrate the lives of great men, and are commonly called biographers, as the others should indeed be termed topographers, or chorogr... ...here the person, who is both a rogue and an honest man, lived. Now with us biographers the case is different; the facts we deliver may be relied on, t...

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...ing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cove... ...esus polite and gracious, does not make him meek. The picture of him as an English curate of the farcical comedy type, too meek to fight a policeman, ... ...han any- where else except perhaps in Ulster, retranslations into mod- ern English have been introduced perforce to save its bare intelligibility. It ... ...made so little difference. That is why, also, a nation so civilized as the English can convert negroes to their faith with great ease, but cannot conv... ...’s magnum opus you will learn how the same primitive logic which makes the Englishman believe today that by eating a beefsteak he can acquire the stre... ...among wolves. 30 Shaw MATTHEW IMPUTES DIGNITY TO JESUS Matthew, like most biographers, strives to identify the opin- ions and prejudices of his hero ...

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...ing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cove... ...an of the bed-chamber to Henry VIII., and had put thirty-seven Psalms into English verse, in hopes of improv- ing the morals of the Court. John Hopkin... ...ed-chamber. He was a principal instru- ment of translating the Psalms into English metre; the first twenty-six (and seven-and-thirty in all)* being by... ... be- fore the Lords, fled to the Netherlands and was trepanned on board an English ship, and put to death as a traitor. Bishop White was deprived the ... ...Coram of Cranbury to secure them even an eatable meal. No doubt such stout English resistance saved the days of compulsory labour from becoming a burd... ...Platonis politeia, non tanquam in Romuli faece.” It is the common fault of biographers to over-colour the character of a favourite hero, but those who...

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...ing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cove... ...iously arranged a heap of gold coins, amounting in value to twelve hundred English guineas: this being the entire sum which circumstances allowed us t... ...owever, I had made this change in the articles: a sum equal to two hundred English guineas, or one-sixth part of the whole money, he was to receive be... ...she smashed open with her axe, and took a sum equal to one hundred guineas English; which, having well secured in a pillow-case, she then lashed firml... ...ld hesitate to do the same thing under the same circumstances, on board an English vessel, though the First Lord of the Admiralty should be looking on... ... of the case stand thus between the parlies: Kant, it is agreed by all his biographers, ate only once a day; for as to his breakfast, it was nothing m...

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...ing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cove... ... one realises the gulf which divides the Leo Tolstoy 12 Slavonic from the English temperament. No average Englishman of seven and twenty (as Tolstoy ... ...that Tolstoy’s environment should be described more fully than most of his biographers have cared to do. This prefa tory note aims, therefore, at bei... ..., his associations, his nationality. Such a key is peculiarly necessary to English or American students of Tolstoy, because of the marked contrast ex... ...toy, because of the marked contrast existing be tween the Russian and the Englishman or American in these respects, a contrast by which Tolstoy himse... ...rt en dured by the sensitive Slav in the company of the frigid and silent English frequenters of the Schweitzerhof (“Journal of Prince D. Nekhludov “...

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...ing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cove... ... and edited, with an introduction by Charles Grosvenor Osgood Professor of English at Princeton University Preface IN MAKING THIS abridgement of Boswe... ...he most liberal com- munications by his friends; I flatter myself that few biographers have entered upon such a work as this, with more advantages; in... ...ar enough; she should have taken him to Rome.’ He was first taught to read English by Dame Oliver, a widow, who kept a school for young children in Li... ...as high a proof of his merit as he could conceive.’ His next instructor in English was a master, whom, when he spoke of him to me, he familiarly calle... ...nson comparison will satisfy every reader, that he is much excelled by the English Juvenal. Oldham had also imitated it, and applied it to London; all...

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...ity’s Electronic Classics Series, to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Co... ...k will perish: there be read The thirsting pride, that maketh fool alike The English and Scot, impatient of their bound. There shall be seen the Spani... ...rd imputation of his having dealt in the magical art is well known; and his biographers take some pains to clear him of it. Scriptores Ordinis Prae... ...f his horse being thrown to the ground by a wild boar, in 1314 v. 121. The English and Scot.] He adverts to the disputes between John Baliol and Ed... ... even in the present version of it, may not be without interest for the mere English reader. The translation of the second and third parts, “The Purga...

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...ing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cove... ... is wonderful, is inter- esting enough; but it must not lead us astray. We English stand as yet without the sphere of it; neither will we plunge * Wit... ...asure into his peculiar point of vision, that a right study of him, for an Englishman, even of ingenuous, open, inquisitive mind, becomes unusually di... ...ve mind, becomes unusually dif- ficult; for a fixed, decided, contemptuous Englishman, next to impossible. T o a reader of the first class, helps may ... ...o our part in it, from time to time, must rank among the best duties of an English Foreign Review. Meanwhile, our present endeavour limits itself with... ...ment at Weimar. This work is the cause of much embarrassment to the poet’s biographers. Where it ought to be the most trust- worthy source of informat...

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...going student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Co... ...he led. Let the man go: let the dead flesh be dead, And let the worms be its biographers. Song sloughs away the sin to find redress In art’s complete ... ...increase Fills Ilion, Rome, or any town you like Of olden time with timeless Englishmen; And I must wonder what you think of him — All you down there ... ... above us, who are, in his eyes, Above himself, — and that’s quite right and English. Yet here we smile, or disappoint the gods Who made it so: the go...

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...ity’s Electronic Classics Series, to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Co... ...r further particulars relating to this singular man, see Warton’s History of English Poetry, vol. i. diss. ii. and sect. ix. p 292, and the Notes to ... ...he Jew’s) who did not profess Christianity.” Mr. Ellis’s specimens of Early English Metrical Romances, vol. i. page 196, a note. Lond. 8vo. 1805. C... ...oble parents, at the castle of Ribeyrae in Perigord, and that he was at the English court, is the amount of Millot’s information concerning him (t. i... ...as afterwards subdivided into, the Sclavonian, Hungarian, Teutonic, Saxon, English, and the vernacular tongues of several other people, one sign rem... ...rd imputation of his having dealt in the magical art is well known; and his biographers take some pains to clear him of it. Scriptores Ordinis Prae...

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...g student publication project to bring classical works of litera- ture, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cove... ...IOGRAP SELECT BIBLIOGRAP SELECT BIBLIOGRAP SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY HY HY HY HY ENGLISH TRANSLATIONS. From the original Arabic by G. Sale, 1734, 1764, 179... ...anslationis.” The proper names are usually given as in our Scriptures: the English reader would not easily recognise Noah as Nûh, Lot as Lût, Moses as... ...The following transfer of this Sura from the Arabic into the corresponding English characters may give some idea of the rhyming prose in which the Kor... ...d by the repellers who repel, would not convey an intelligible idea to the English reader. Mar. renders, Per ordinantes ordinando et agitantes agitand... ...entry upon the prophetic office, Muhammad had made about 40 converts. Some biographers refer to this passage, and not to Sura lxiv. I, as the first ca...