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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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...tion, sort with such a name; 150 If prophecy be madness; if things viewed By poets in old time, and higher up By the first men, earth’s first inhabitant... ...y and the moon’s soft pace, RESIDENCE AT CAMBRIDGE 41 I called him Brother, Englishman, and Friend! Yea, our blind Poet, who in his later day, Stood ... ...il air; And your officious doings bring disgrace On the plain steeples of our English Church, Whose worship, ’mid remotest village trees, 420 Suffers f... ...ase of enduring joy 595 From the great Nature that exists in works Of mighty Poets. Visionary power Attends the motions of the viewless winds, Embodie... ...erent, may rightly be compared), So was it then with me, and so will be With Poets ever. Mighty is the charm Of those abstractions to a mind beset Wit... ...was loud With amity and glee; we bore a name Honoured in France, the name of Englishmen, And hospitably did they give us hail, 405 As their forerunner... ...d with a throng Of chance spectators, chiefly dissolute men 360 And shameless women, treated and caressed; Ate, drank, and with the fruit and glasses p... ...s cheeks, The silver collared Negro with his timbrel, Equestrians, tumblers, women, girls, and boys, Blue breeched, pink vested, with high towering pl... ...the whole were one vast mill, Are vomiting, receiving on all sides, 720 Men, Women, three years’ Children, Babes in arms. Oh, blank confusion! true ep...

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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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Excerpt: Confessions of an English Opium-Eater by Thomas de Quincey.

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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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...Originally published 1869 THE SUBJECTION OF WOMEN BY JOHN STUART MILL The Subjection of Women by John Stuart Mill is... ...for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way . The Subjection of Women by John Stuart Mill, the Pennsylvania State University , Electronic... ...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... ...qual opportunity university . Originally published 1869 THE SUBJECTION OF WOMEN BY JOHN STUART MILL CHAPTER I THE OBJECT OF THIS E SSAY is to expl... ...would have permitted their first establishment. Less than forty years ago, Englishmen might still by law hold human beings in bondage as saleable prop... ...queen; the thing seems to them so unnatural as to be almost incredible. To Englishmen this does not seem in the least degree unnatural, because they a... ...istinguished success. The Greeks always accounted Sappho among their great poets; and we may well suppose that Myrtis, said to have been the teacher o...

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

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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... ..................................................... 115 IMITATIONS OF ENGLISH POETS ................................................................ ............................................. 115 IMITATIONS OF ENGLISH POETS ........................................................................ ...es.” His prin- cipal favourites were Virgil’s “Eclogues,” in Latin; and in English, Spencer, Waller, and Dryden—admiring Spencer, we presume, for his ... ...ire of the Second Book of Horace. In 1735 were is- sued his “Characters of Women: An Epistle to a Lady” (Martha Blount). In this appears his famous ch... ...gether idle. In 1740, he did nothing but edit an edition of select Italian Poets. This year, Crousaz, a Swiss professor of note, having attacked (we t... ..., or erred in any particular point: and can it then be wondered at, if the poets in general seem resolved not to own them- 2 ‘Preface:’ to the miscel... ...a hundred honest gentlemen will dread him as a wit, and a hundred innocent women as a satirist. In a word, whatever be his fate in poetry, it is ten t... ... of blood. Others for language all their care express, And value books, as women men, for dress: Their praise is still—‘The style is excellent;’ The s...

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...Excerpt: We had been talking about 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 the high level of perfection. Our host had been showing us a charming little cabinet picture by a painter whose name we had never heard, and who, aft...

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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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...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... ... 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 awa... ...sts, now so much in request by antiquaries, were the arse- nals from which women drew the rich and elegant treasures of their personal adornment,—lace... ...rricane. In her helplessness she thought of trusting herself to one of the women,—all creatures of her husband,—when, pass- 19 Balzac ing into her or... ...heartening had either given a meaning to their confused desires. They were poets and poem both. Music, the most sensual of arts for loving souls, was ...

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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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................... 14 A CHILD?S DREAM OF A STAR................................................................................................. 21 OUR ENGLISH WATERING-PLACE ......................................................................................... 24 OUR FRENCH WATERING-PLACE.......................................................................................

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.......................................................51 In Reference to M. Michelet?s History of France.........................................51 THE ENGLISH MAIL-COACH; ...............................................................85 GOING DOWN WITH VICTORY...........................................................104 THE VISION OF SUDDEN DEATH..............................

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...ichelet’s History of France.........................................51 THE ENGLISH MAIL-COACH; .......................................................... ...e last sentence, which is so weighty, that I shall attempt to convey it in English: “Now, if merely to be present at a murder fastens on a man the cha... ... 24 ing of murder? Here was Leviathan, no longer afraid of the daggers of English cavaliers or French clergy, but “frightened from his propriety” by ... ... not with a view to regulate your prac- tice, but your judgment: as to old women, and the mob of newspaper readers, they are pleased with anything, pr... ... the poor king (Charles VI.) falling in at such a crisis, like the case of women laboring in childbirth during the storming of a city, trebled the awf... ... Domrémy, and, by a satisfactory consequence, how thinly sown with men and women must have been that region even in its inhabited spots. But the fores... ...he old fancy (adopted by Spenser, and no- ticed by so many among our elder poets) of his graciousness to maiden innocence. The wretch is the basest an... ...n this principle we come to understand why it is, that, whenever the Latin poets speak of an army as taking food, the word used is always prandens and...

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...MERICAN EDITOR OF THIS WORKS. ...................................................................................................... 4 PREFACE TO THE ENGLISH EDITION ..................................................................................... 6 CHAPTER I: THE AFFLICTION OF CHILDHOOD ................................................................ 16 CHAPTER II: IN...

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...ght And Patience ....................................................................................................... 35 Fragments of the Iliad in English Hexameter Verse..................................................................... 41 Poem: The Invective of Achilles ....................................................................................................

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................................................ 35 Fragments of the Iliad in English Hexameter Verse....................................................... ...beseech. But scorn she has for them that walk alone; Blanched men, starved women, whom no arts can pleach. The men as chief of criminals she disdains,... ...hought. More pitiable, like rivers lacking rains, Kissing cold stones, the women shrink for drought. Those faceless discords, out of nature strayed, R... ...p; the shortest cut; The roadway missed; were our discourse; At times dear poets, whom some view T ranscendent or subdued evoked T o speak the memorab... ... they pored. They governed, even as men; they welcomed lays. The treasures women are whose aim is praise, Was shown in them: the Garden half restored... ... and through disaster sings. 41 George Meredith Fragments of the Iliad in English Hexameter Verse Poem: The Invective of Achilles [Iliad, B. I. V . 1...