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...UNDERWOODS by Robert Louis Stevenson Of all my verse, like not a single line; But like my title, for it is not m... ...e. That title from a better man I stole: Ah, how much better, had I stol’n the whole! A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION Underwoods ... ... SERIES PUBLICATION Underwoods by Robert Louis Stevenson is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...RIES PUBLICATION Underwoods by Robert Louis Stevenson is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...er speed; Yet hope not thou at all; hope is no more; And O, long since the golden groves are dead The faery cities vanished from the land! 21 Stevens... ...Where honour has the world to gain, Pour forth and bravely do your part, O knights of the unshielded heart! Forth and forever forward! – out From prud... ... my irreverent tail All over the most holy place; And when at length, some golden day, The unfailing sportsman, aiming at, Shall bag, me – all the wor... ...ng: Our house, they say; and mine, the cat declares And spreads his golden fleece upon the chairs; And mine the dog, and rises stiff with wrath If any...

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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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...enty-six, and before he went to Weimar, he began to write ?Egmont? After working on it at intervals for twelve years, he finished it at Rome in 1787. The scene of the drama is laid in the Low Countries at the beginning of the revolt against Spain. In the fifteenth century Philip of Burgundy had usurped dominion over several of the provinces of the Netherlands, and through ...

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...airest creatures we desire increase, ..................7 2 When forty winters shall beseige thy brow, ................8 3 Look in thy glass, and tell the face thou viewest ........8 4 Unthrifty loveliness, why dost thou spend ..................9 5 Those hours, that with gentle work did frame ............9 6 Then let not winter?s ragged hand deface .................10 7 Lo!...

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