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...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...

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...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...

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...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...

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...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...

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...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 ...

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...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...

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...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...

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...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...

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