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...Beside a riverbed, an old man sits lost in his thoughts; he is SEATTLE, Chief of the Suqamish Indians. He remembers his boyhood when his grandfather foretold him of his destiny, when he was told of the Web Of Life and his duties as it's protector. The Web of Life, they believe, is the symbiotic connection...

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...In Voices from the Past, a daring group of five independent novels, acclaimed author Paul Alexander Bartlett accomplishes a tour de force of historical fiction, allowing the reader to enter for the first time into the private worlds of...

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...FROM THE COVER OF VOICES FROM THE PAST: In Voices from the Past, a daring group of five independent n... ...der Bartlett accomplishes a tour de force of historical fiction, allowing the reader to enter for the first time into the private worlds of five re... ...r to enter for the first time into the private worlds of five remarkable people: Sappho of Lesbos, the famous Greek poet; Jesus; Leonardo da Vinci... ...ime into the private worlds of five remarkable people: Sappho of Lesbos, the famous Greek poet; Jesus; Leonardo da Vinci; Shakespeare; and Abraham ... ...rust you by candlelight.” In separate crimson frames: Sir Francis Drake, Sir Walter Raleigh, Ben Jonson, Shake... ...ed lost or destroyed, a velvet jacket faced with grubby ermine, a pair of crimson trousers, a leather breastplate and brass helmet ornamented with a... ... lines 5-16: quotation from Ohn Quincy, President of H a r v a r d , Harvard Record 591 lines 19-23 592 lines 1-2 598 line 26: song, “Ten... ...er coffee. She declines. Robert came and knelt by her. He will go back to Harvard next week. Tad lay asleep at the foot of Mary’s bed. Sometimes, wh... ...ia, in her attempts to refurbish the White Rouse. If she visits Robert at Harvard, that too is criticized. Her letters to relatives are sometimes co...

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...ht January 29th 2001 Canadian Copyright: 1072425 Nov 12 th 2009 Due to the ideas presented in this book, I have had to use various terms and ... ...e various terms and words that are not found in dictionaries: beginning with the title. The word: ‘Splitness’ is used to describe two complimentar... ...ary, simultaneous conditions: Connection, and Separation. This book explores the logical extrapolation of this, and other Dynamics. My challenge t... ...0 The Reason for the Human Sense of Pure Wonder Pg 1814 David Icke’s Lizard People explained Pg 1815 Secret Hidden Dynamics of The Realm of the U... ... was subtle: a slight miscalculation, but devastating in its ramifications. People didn’t realize that the slight curve of sunlight detected was o... ...t books. Fad theories and models are being constantly introduced to distract people from the fact that the basis of Scientific knowledge has been s... ... subconscious does not lie. The words stain and die and blood and purple and crimson are not coincidences. The crime, the sin of killing and bloodl... ...es. The crime, the sin of killing and bloodletting is crim… son Crime-sin… Crimson. The crime, the sin of killing your own son: staining your han... ...e water. Most of them died. The heads cut off their dead bodies and sent to Harvard labs; showed that large portions of their brains had been dest...

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...OXFORD EDITION. INCLUDING MATERIALS NEVER BEFORE PRINTED IN ANY EDITION OF THE POEMS. EDITED WITH TEXTUAL NOTES BY THOMAS HUTCHINSON, M. A. EDITOR OF ... ...ORD WORDSWORTH. 1914. A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley, Volume One is a public... ...ete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley, Volume One is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...in Shelley’s autograph. A much-corrected draft in Shelley’s hand is in the Harvard manuscript book. 1. 1. 1. 1. 1. Thy country’s curse is on thee, dar... ...ne moon, And that one star, which to her Almost seems to minister Half the crimson light she brings _325 From the s... ...hile yet the unrisen sun made glow, like iron _125 Quivering in crimson fire, the peaks unshaken Of mountains and blue isles which did envi... ...7. And, when he saw beneath the sunset’s planet A black ship walk over the crimson ocean,— Its pennon streaming on the blasts that fan it, ... ...1832; reprinted, “Poetical Works”, 1839. There is a transcript amongst the Harvard manuscripts, and another in the possession of Mr. C.W . Frederickso... ...lume 3 pages 225, 226. The transcripts are referred to in our footnotes as Harvard and Fred. respectively. 1. 1. 1. 1. 1. Corpses are cold in the tomb...

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....... 16 POSTSCRIPT IN SECOND EDITION OF 1839. ........................................................................ 21 PREFACE BY MRS. SHELLEY. TO THE VOLUME OF POSTHUMOUS POEMS PUBLISHED IN 1824......................................................................................................................... 22 THE DAEMON OF THE WORLD. ..............................

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...OXFORD EDITION. INCLUDING MATERIALS NEVER BEFORE PRINTED IN ANY EDITION OF THE POEMS. EDITED WITH TEXTUAL NOTES BY THOMAS HUTCHINSON, M. A. EDITOR OF ... ...ORD WORDSWORTH. 1914. A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley, Volume One is a public... ...ete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley, Volume One is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...the text.’ In this Centenary edition the textual varia- tions found in the Harvard College manuscripts, as well as those in the manuscripts belonging ... ... my heart, and bore my steps along. 44 44 44 44 44. ‘How, to that vast and peopled city led, Which was a field of holy warfare then, ... ...ts utmost spring! 30 30 30 30 30. For, before Cythna loved it, had my song Peopled with thoughts the boundless universe, A mighty congregation, which ... ...pale priestess kneels To gather for her festal crown of flowers The aereal crimson falls, flushing her cheek, So from our victim’s destined agony ... ... _25 The Aeolian music of her sea-green plumes Winnowing the crimson dawn? P P P P PANTHEA ANTHEA ANTHEA ANTHEA ANTHEA [Eenters]: : : : ... ...HEA: ANTHEA: ANTHEA: ANTHEA: Look how the gusty sea of mist is breaking In crimson foam, even at our feet! it rises As Ocean at the enchantment of the...

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...Excerpt: This is America--a town of a few thousand, in a region of wheat and corn and dairies and little groves. The town is, in our tale, called ?Gopher Prairie, Minnesota.? But its Main Street is the continuation of Main Streets everywhere. The story would be the same in Ohio or Montana, in Kansas or Kentucky or Illinois, and not very...

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...Preface: When I first saw Mr. Osgood?s beautiful illustrated edition of The Lady of the Lake, I asked him to let me use some of the cuts in a cheaper annotated edition for school and household use; and the present volume is the result. The text of the poem has given me unexpected trouble. When I ...

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...Excerpt: Etymology (SUPPLIED BY A LATE CONSUMPTIVE USHER TO A GRAMMAR SCHOOL.); The pale Usher --threadbare in coat, heart, body, and brain; I see him now. He was ever dusting his old lexicons and grammars, with a queer handkerchief, mockingly embellished with all the gay flags of all the known nations o...

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...Table of Contents: Etymology, 1 -- Extracts, 3 -- 1 Loomings, 15 -- 2 The Carpet-Bag, 20 -- 3 The Spouter-Inn, 24 -- 4 The Counterpane, 36 -- 5 Breakfast, 40 -- 6 The Street, 42 -- 7 The Chapel, 45 -- 8 The Pulpit, 48 -- 9 The Sermon, 51 -- 10 A Bosom Friend, 59 -- 11 Nightgown, 63 -- 12 Biogra...

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...Introduction: Homer?s ?Iliad? begins towards the close of the last of the ten years of the Trojan War: its incidents extend over some fifty days only, and it ends with the burial of Hector. The things which came before and after were told by other bards, who between the...

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...MER?S HYMN TO CASTOR AND POLLUX .................................................................................................. 26 HOMER?S HYMN TO THE MOON ....................................................................................................................... 26 HOMER?S HYMN TO THE SUN ........................................................................

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...OXFORD EDITION. INCLUDING MATERIALS NEVER BEFORE PRINTED IN ANY EDITION OF THE POEMS. EDITED WITH TEXTUAL NOTES BY THOMAS HUTCHINSON, M. A. EDITOR OF ... ...ORD WORDSWORTH. 1914. A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley: Volume Three is a publ... ...e Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley: Volume Three is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...sthumous Poems”, 1824. This alone of the “Translations” is included in the Harvard manu- script book. ‘Fragments of the drafts of this and the other H... ...lives in this obscure abode. 29 29 29 29 29 ‘But we will leave this shadow-peopled cave And live among the Gods, and pass each day In high communion, ... ... _45 With the aethereal footsteps trembled not: The light and crimson mists, Floating to strains of thrilling melody Through that unearth... .... Can the daystar dawn of love, Where the flag of war unfurled Floats with crimson stain above The fabric of a ruined world? Never but to vengeance dr... ...rty, From heart to heart, etc. The testimony of Shelley’s autograph in the Harvard Col- lege manuscript, however, is final against such a punctuation.... .... 13. 13. Hymn to Mercury, line 609. The period at now is supported by the Harvard manuscript. 317 Shelley JUVENILIA. JUVENILIA. JUVENILIA. JUVENILIA...

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