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... these passages, instead of utilizing a renowned translation from Greek to English, because there seems to be no translation from Greek into English... ...ral titles of the author’s books are mentioned. Some are already available English, and their titles are only in English. Some are in the process of... ... Some are in the process of being translated, and their titles are also in English. Some are available as of this time only in Italian: these titles... ...us, Ajax who refuses to forgive even after he is dead, and many other men, women and semi-gods such as Hercules), parade before Ulysses, who entered ... ...For this reason, Ulysses must get involved with and then detach from three women: Circe, Calypso and Nausicaa. The last separation is the easiest of ... ...f artistic beauty or of beauty itself. Nevertheless, artists, writers and poets do exist, and we recognize them for what they are. They also recogn...

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...omeland, feeling lost in Korean culture and that his own life is an outlier to this conservative society. As he lives there, making his living as an English teacher, he writes of Gabriele, a single parent in Ithaca New York who manifests a more open and less asphyxiating rebellion against society...

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... despised him and suspected his son was gay; and that Yang Lin felt that his English level was the same as his Korean. Abstract ideas must not have e... ...hing him the sounds of Korean letters were glad to get the youngest child an English teacher. Little did they know of the pleasurable respites from p... ...xperiences of their petty and selfish lives to compare others with. In Japan women who left their children locked up in hot cars were rarely accused o... ...hool friend, took him to eat kimbop (a Korean version of sushi). He spoke in English the entire time neglecting his school friend from the conversatio... ...He had hardly looked at them lustfully while in America. Occasionally Korean women also got his attention but not as much as American women. He had tr... ... out with a baby in his arms. He wore an undershirt and boxer underwear. The women cooked. Then, after they served Sang Huin a second helping of kimch... ...had found a more internal brooding in the Hokkaido cold. She had feasted on poets and philosophers. She had learnt of Japanese history, art, and trad...

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...s many ideas of what we are and what approaches to life we need to take to be happy. Philosophers have added to the mix. As have playwrights, poets,... ...ms. In boys this is often called the Oedipus complex, in girls, the Electra situation. Both of these ideas come to us from the ancient Greek poets ... ...d name the organ 14 several inches lower as the path to a man‘s heart. Women ... ...part of the power package.‖ --―Chuck, do you remember when our Secretary of State, Henry Kissinger, was chided for dating beautiful women ... ...s true from mice to men. Get your power through politics, money, beauty or celebrity and you‘ll get enough sex!‖ —―Generally true, Con. Women ... ...ll is God, tolerate all beliefs as being within the One. This doesn‘t mean that some Hindus will not fight to the death over whether Hindi or Englis... ...neffective method of reducing inferiority feelings. ―Then there was the movement to teach black children Ebonics, the name for black street Englis... ...ove can be based primarily on the knowledge of science, but is tempered by insights and speculations of philosophers, religious thinkers, and poets.... ...y the society in which a person lives. It is based more on what is average behavior, the norm, rather than on what might be ideal behavior. An Englis...

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...tion and an acuteness in the delineation of character.” FORD MADOX FORD, English novelist, about Bartlett: “...a writer of very considerable merit.... ...trough and a fence. Time had also swept away the star and the Magi. Men, women and children pressed around me, talking, praising, asking ques- tions... ... help men see...” Last week I cured lepers on the Jericho road, men and women, all in rags. All were afraid of me, afraid of themselves. I thought... ...The sun sent sweat down the boy’s face. Tired, they sat by a spring where women and girls were filling jars. People recognized me and soon a crowd f... ...the courtesy of the translator, Dr. Ray Rummers, Chairman, Department of English, Baylor University. 67 ABOUT THE AUTHOR ... ...s of international poetry that honor the work of outstanding contemporary poets. Paul and Elizabeth’s son, Steven, edited and designed this volume.... ...e first official copies of the Declaration of Independence. In the 1730s, Englishman William Caslon refined Garamond’s version of Aldine roman, the ...

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...eory of Cosmo-Art, which unites heaven and earth, life and death, men and women, pain and wisdom;and it reveals the profound meaning of Homer’s ide... ... these passages, instead of utilizing a renowned translation from Greek to English, because there seems to be no translation from Greek into English... ...ral titles of the author’s books are mentioned. Some are already available English, and their titles are only in English. Some are in the process of ... ... Some are in the process of being translated, and their titles are also in English. Some are available as of this time only in Italian: these titles... ...r create the immortality it longs for without the collaboration of men and women. Humanity would not long for immortality if the cosmos had not plac... ...d not placed this aspiration within us. The immortality that writers and poets attributed to the Olympian gods is a false immortality that does no... ...rse of action. This is why they have become immortal archetypes of men and women across the ages. q. Sex, Homer says, is nothing to feel guilty a... ...eeks were not willing to settle for ephemeral beauty and a large number of poets, sculptors, painters and artists of all types attempted to create a ... .... It is not impossible for a visionary mind like the ones that artists and poets had in the past. We cannot take as role models the artists of today...

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...by Ellen Marriage A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Two Poets by Honore de Balzac, trans. Ellen Marriage is a publication of the Pe... ...he document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Two Poets by Honore de Balzac, trans. Ellen Marriage, the Pennsylvania State Un... ...g student publication project to bring classical works of lit- erature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cove... ...lvania State University is an equal opportunity university. 3 Balzac T wo Poets by Honore de Balzac T ranslated by Ellen Marriage Dedication T o Mons... ...ashed itself against the win- dow pane and flown away again. “Where is the English press that could go at that pace?” the parent asked of his astonish... ... out the type. You in Paris have been making such a to-do over that damned Englishman’s invention—a foreigner, an enemy of France who wants to help th... ...kroom, which raised her slightly above the class of working-girls. The two women’s slender earnings, together with Mme. Chardon’s three hundred francs... ...the beauty of the antique; the Greek profile, with the velvet whiteness of women’s faces, and eyes full of love, eyes so blue that they looked dark ag... ... denoted race; they were shapely hands; hands that men obey at a sign, and women love to kiss. Lucien was slender and of middle height. From a glance ...

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...Contents The Note Book of an English Opium-Eater ...4 THREE MEMORABLE MURDERS .............................................................................................. 4 THE TRUE RELATIONS OF THE BIBLE TO MERELY HUMAN SCIENCE...................... 5...

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...Y A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The Note Book of an English Opium-Eater by Thomas de Quincey is a publication of the Pennsylvan... ...or the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Note Book 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... ...s stopped by a sort of portcullis. The panic was not confined to the rich; women in the humblest ranks more than once died 8 The Note Book of an Engl... ...rants, meditating probably nothing worse than a robbery, but whom the poor women, misled by the London newspapers, had fancied to be the dreadful Lond... ...opo- lis there are many thousands of households, composed ex- clusively of women and children; many other thousands there are who necessarily confide ... ...teenth and eighteenth century, into the costly collections of the ‘British Poets.’ And really, if you will insist on odious comparisons, they were not... ...eally exist in the Grecian drama? Even Sophocles, who, of the three tragic poets surviving from the wrecks of the Athenian stage, is reputed the supre... ...h broods over the Grecian trag- edy, and to court which feeling the tragic poets of Greece naturally spread all their canvas, was more nearly allied t...

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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... ...of time have deployed into life, as it were, upon this planet) our English poets have possessed in the highest degree, and Scottish pro- fessors 3 in... ...n London; more of- ten I wrote love-letters to their sweethearts for young women who had lived as servants at Shrewsbury or other towns on the English... ...y having so readily discovered them. The reception one meets with from the women of a family generally determines the tenor of one’s whole entertainme... ...e brothers, the only unoccupied bed standing in the apartment of the young women; but in all other points they treated me with a re- spect not usually... ...t of gratitude, to mention what that was. The sublimer and more passionate poets I still read, as I have said, by snatches, and occasionally. But my p...

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...................................................................................................................................... 115 IMITATIONS OF ENGLISH POETS .................................................................................................................. 116 I. CHAUCER ....................................................................................

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...bout the masters who had achieved but a single masterpiece—the artists and poets who but once in their lives had known the divine afflatus and touched... ... loggia, where he had been sitting in the shadow, and addressed me in good English—a small, slim personage, clad in a sort of black velvet tunic (as i... ...er; we hung upon his lips and proclaimed his genius on the house-tops. The women were all dying to sit to him for their portraits and be made immortal... ... days, and let her hand it round among her guests, she tells them in plain English that you are an impostor!” This attempt of mine to test Mrs. Covent... ... over his forehead. “De beaux restes? I thank you for sparing me the plain English. I must make up my Madonna out of de beaux restes! What a masterpie... ...e, and were at once very perfect cats and monkeys and very natural men and women. I confess, however, that they failed to amuse me. I was doubtless no... ...d in perfect silence before her, was tinged with the sinister irony of the women of Leonardo. Perfect silence, indeed, marked our whole progress—the s...

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...Excerpt: ENVOI. Felix de Vandenesse to Madame la Comtesse Natalie de Manerville: I yield to your wishes. It is the privilege of the women whom we love more than they love us to make the men who love them ignore the ordinary rules of common-sense. To smooth the frown upon their brow, to soften the pout upon their lips, what obstacles we miraculously overco...

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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... ... Natalie de Manerville: I yield to your wishes. It is the privilege of the women whom we love more than they love us to make the men who love them ign... ...l, nothing can prevent the latter from talking of lovers, or the former of women. But in Paris, and especially at this particular time, such talk amon... ...n her great house as though Louis XV . were not dead, and saw none but old women and men of a past day,—a fossil society which made me think I was in ... ...o vast a number of women. Everything at Clochegourde bore signs of a truly English cleanliness. The room in which the countess received us was panelle... ...e which her father had sent her, and for which the count had purchased two English horses. The old huntsman had prepared the surprise while Jacques wa... ...ty who stanches the wound, of the mother who forgives a child. Artists and poets are not the only ones who suffer; men who work for their country, for...

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...n official party, composed of the persons invited, a fashionable and much-bored circle. Each one grimaces for his neighbor?s eye; most of the younger women are there for one person only; when each woman has assured herself that for that one she is the handsomest woman in the room, and that the opinion is perhaps shared by a few others, a few insignificant phrases are excha...

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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... ...ored circle. Each one grimaces for his neighbor’s eye; most of the younger women are there for one person only; when each woman has assured herself th... ...play of luxury, a review of self-con- ceits in full dress, is one of those English inventions which tend to mechanize other nations. England seems ben... ...getting up late. Hence, there is no second soiree now but at the houses of women rich enough to entertain, and since July 1830 such women may be count... ...pite of the covert opposition of the Faubourg Saint- Germain, two or three women, among them Madame d’Espard and Mademoiselle des T ouches, have not c... ...aud. Such refined hypocrisy is as good as virtue.—I am not speaking to you Englishwomen, my lady,” said the Minister, suavely, addressing Lady Barimor... ...i a match for Camargo? or Malibran the equal of Saint-Huberti? Are not our poets superior to those of the eighteenth century? If at this moment, throu...

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...medies are such rare productions, that notwithstanding the wealth of our literature in the Comic element, it would not occupy us long to run over the English list. If they are brought to the test I shall propose, very reputable Comedies will be found unworthy of their station, like the ladies of Arthur?s Court when they were reduced to the ordeal of the mantle....

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...terature in the Comic element, it would not occupy us long to run over the English list. If they are brought to the test I shall propose, very reputab... ...great Comic poet remains without a fellow. A society of cultivated men and women is required, wherein ideas are current and the perceptions quick, tha... ...om the quality of some of the stuff dredged up for the laughter of men and women who sat through an Athenian Comic play, that they could have had smal... ... of a case. However that may be, there can be no question that the men and women who sat through the acting of Wycherley’s Country Wife were past blus... .... And were there more in this posi- tion, Comic genius would flourish. Our English idea of a Comedy of Manners might be im- aged in the person of a bl... ...acing-yacht. Morality is a duenna to be circumvented. This was the view of English Comedy of a sagacious essayist, who said that the end of a Comedy w... ...ce raised the idea of woman from the mire it was plunged into by the comic poets, or rather satiric dramatists, of the middle period of Greek Comedy p... ...f its due reward in Clouds and Birds, his po- sition as chief of the comic poets of his age was unchallenged. Plutarch very unnecessarily drags Aristo... ...e have this beautiful translucency of language: and the study of the comic poets might be recommended, if for that only. A singular ill fate befell th...

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...trict that lies between the Latin Quarter and the Faubourg Saint-Marcel. Her house (known in the neighborhood as the Maison Vauquer) receives men and women, old and young, and no word has ever been breathed against her respectable establishment; but, at the same time, it must be said that as a matter of fact no young woman has been under her roof for thirty years, and that...

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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... ... house (known in the neighborhood as the Maison V auquer) receives men and women, old and young, and no word has ever been breathed against her respec... ...the portrait of its mistress. Mme. Vauquer at the age of fifty is like all women who “have seen a deal of trouble.” She has the glassy eyes and innoce... ...ery limp article of clothing looked like the ghost of its former self. The women’s dresses were faded, old-fashioned, dyed and re-dyed; they wore glov... ...o slender form, her faintly colored face and light-brown hair, that modern poets find in mediaeval statuettes; and a sweet expression, a look of Chris... ...se. “Why cannot you come to the Italiens?” “Affairs! I am to dine with the English Ambassador.” “Throw him over.” When a man once enters on a course o... ...and took up a sheet of dainty notepaper. “When, instead of dining with the English Ambassador,” she wrote, “you go to the Rochefides, you owe me an ex...

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...se new sufferings, or to reflect on her situation. She was a prey to cruel fears,--caused less by the dread of a first lying-in, which terrifies most women, than by certain dangers which awaited her child. In order not to awaken her husband who was sleeping beside her, the poor woman moved with precautions which her intense terror made as minute as those of a prisoner ende...

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...Excerpt: If the French have as great an aversion for traveling as the English have a propensity for it, both English and French have perhaps sufficient reasons. Something better than England is everywhere to be found; whereas it is excessively difficult to find the charms of France outside Fran...

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...69 CHAPTER VI ? EL DORADO ...................................................................................................... 77 CHAPTER VII ? THE ENGLISH ADMIRALS .......................................................................... 80 CHAPTER VIII ? SOME PORTRAITS BY RAEBURN............................................................ 91 CHAPTER IX ? CHILD?S PLAY ...

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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... ........................................................ 77 CHAPTER VII – THE ENGLISH ADMIRALS ............................................................. ...thing that Don Quixote was a bachelor and Marcus Aurelius married ill. For women, there is less of this danger. Marriage is of so much use to a woman,... ...enefit. It is true, however, that some of the merriest and most genuine of women are old maids; and that those old maids, and 7 Virginibus Puerisque ... ...ten most of the true motherly touch. And this would seem to show, even for women, some narrowing influence in comfortable mar- ried life. But the rule... ..., to reign here and revel. Indeed, if this be love at all, it is plain the poets have been fooling with mankind since the foundation of the world. And... ...kespeare bombastic and most absurd, and all of him written in very obscure English and wearisome to read. And not long ago I was able to lay by my lan... ...al. I have spo- ken with Jesuits and Plymouth Brethren, mathematicians and poets, dogmatic republicans and dear old gentlemen in bird’s-eye neckcloths... ... All this, and much more of the same sort, accompanied by the eloquence of poets, has gone a great way to put humanity in error; nay, in many philosop...

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

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