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...lting of the snows had filled the boulder- strewn bed of the torrent (often dry) that flows through this valley, which is closely shut in between two parallel mountain barriers, above which the peaks of Savoy and of Dauphine tower on every side....

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...part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make us... ... dry) that flows through this valley, which is closely shut in between two parallel mountain barriers, above which the peaks of Savoy and of Dauphine ... ...ay about the worn cider path. A sec- ond row of buildings had been erected parallel with these. There was a sufficiently wretched dwelling which house...

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...een goggling glasses deceitfully ta pered downwards to a cheating bottom. Parallel meridians rudely pecked into the 26 Chapter 3 The Spouter Inn gla... ...however, the sperm whale, scientific or poetic, lives not com plete in any literature. Far above all other hunted whales, his is an unwritten life. No... ...of perch is the head of the t’ gallant mast, where you stand upon two thin parallel sticks (almost peculiar to whalemen) called the t’ gallant cross ... ...nal Chapter 71 The Jeroboam’s Story 307 use of its oars contrived to keep parallel to the Pequod, as she heavily forged through the sea (for by this ... ...To the student of old Roman walls, the middle layer will furnish a curious parallel to the thin course of tiles always alternating with the stone in t... ...an exemplary, sulky old soul, goes about all alone among the meridians and parallels saying his prayers, and warning each young Leviathan from his amo...

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...part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make us... ...many renowned English writers. Dana is, indeed, great. There is nothing in literature more remarkable than the impression produced by Dana’s portrai- ... ...ndard books of all classes, including, of course, a proportion of nautical literature. Especially interesting are fifteen or twenty first editions of ... ...erican critics alike recognised the book’s importance as a contribution to literature. Melville, in a letter to Hawthorne, speaks of himself as having... ...- ington Group has been bestowed. They form a triangle, and lie within the parallels of 8 degrees 38" and 9 degrees 32" South latitude and 139 degrees... ...al being bro- ken into steep ridges, divided by dark ravines, extending in parallel lines at right angles to our direct course. All these we would be ... ...econd elevation, the lofti- est of those I have described as. extending in parallel lines between us and the valley we desired to reach. It commanded ... ...dwelling; one of them placed closely against the rear, and the other lying parallel with it some two yards distant, the interval between them being sp... ... not at all discernible. Just upon the fall of the shoulder were drawn two parallel lines half an inch apart, and perhaps three inches in length, the ...

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...part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make us... ...there are cases. The pleader is thrown back on journalism, on politics, on literature. In fact, the State, besieged for the small- est appointments un... ... discussed the proceedings of a Court whose wilful ignorance could find no parallel but in the platitude of the courtiers, the mediocrity of the men f... ...uste, seeing that I was speechless, asked Marcas jestingly: “You cultivate literature, monsieur?” “Far from it!” replied Marcas. “I should not be so w... ...defeat. Morey, the Guatimozin of the “Mountain,” preserved an attitude un- paralleled in the annals of European justice. This is what Marcas told us d...

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...part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make us... ...quite useless to Mr. Fogg; for at the Reform two libraries, one of general literature and the other of law and politics, were at his ser- vice. A mode... ...ngapore to Yokohama. Could he have followed without deviation the fiftieth parallel, which is that of London, the whole distance would only have been ... ...t was de- cided to lay the road between the forty-first and forty-sec- ond parallels. President Lincoln himself fixed the end of the line at Omaha, in... ...Camp Walbach was passed on the left; 139 Jules Verne Lodge Pole Creek ran parallel with the road, marking the boundary between the territories of Wyo...

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...part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make us... ...ry, with laws, boundaries, conventions, and traditions, with schools, with literature and religious organisation, with creeds and customs, with everyt... ...ipulation; every race of this planet earth is to be found in the strictest parallelism there, in numbers the same—only, as I say, with an entirely dif... ..., that not only is every earthly mountain, river, plant, and beast in that parallel planet beyond Sirius also, but every man, woman, and child alive h... ...et beyond Sirius also, but every man, woman, and child alive has a Utopian parallel. From now onward, of course, the fates of these two planets will d... ...experience, behind this first picture of the urbanised Urseren valley. The literature of the subject will be growing and developing with the easy swif... ...tion 2 ection 2 ection 2 Now if this Utopian world is to be in some degree parallel to contemporary thought, it must have been concerned, it may be st... ...idst the heights that made the opening gorge so different from its earthly parallel, with a fine disrespect. “But they are beautiful,” I protested. “T... ...entional courage, of honest thought, and steady endeavour. There must be a literature to embody their common idea, of which this Modern Utopia is mere...

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...s part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make ... ... withstand, Build on the wave or arch beneath the sand? Who made the spiller parallels design, Sure as De Moivre, without rule or line? Who bid the st...

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...part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make us... ...mind for the modern equivalent of a Prince. At various times I redrafted a parallel dedication to the Prince of Wales, to the Emperor William, to Mr. ... ...t length from a treatise to the telling of my own story. In my life I have paralleled very closely the slow realisations that are going on in the worl... ... and a thoroughly sanguine temperament, in a manner that I have never seen paralleled in any human being. He was always trying to do 21 H G Wells new... ... of life. Property! Ugh! Look at this country all cut up into silly little parallelograms, look at all those villas we passed just now and those potat... ...eadows, being no longer in fear of floods, were now to be slashed out into parallelograms of untidy road, and built upon with rows of working-class co... ...ous or historical reasons, their prevalent art and the clipped and limited literature that satisfied their souls? That age which bore me was indeed a ... ...ressed our boyhood, by much indulgence in blasphemous wit. We had a secret literature of irreverent rhymes, and a secret art of theological caricature... ...ject modestly as a manuscript magazine of satirical, liberal and brilliant literature by which in some rather inex- plicable way the vague tumult of i...

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...part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make us... ...ry record of the famous Round Table, 9 and the first definite mention in literature of the “hope of Britain.” 10 Wace is not to be regarded as one ... ...rved as the direct source for one of the greatest members of the Arthurian literature of any period. This is the Brut, writ ten in the first half of... ... verse 13 and phraseology, he shows the influence of earlier Anglo Saxon literature. The sound of the Ode on Athelstane’s Victory and of Beowulf ... ...ition to any peculiarly distinguished leader. Layamon’s version so closely parallels early Celtic sto ries of banquet fights, and has so barbaric a t... ...Brown, The Round T able before Wace in Studies and Notes in Philology and Literature , VII. (Boston, 1900), 183 ff.; L.F . Mott, Publications of the...

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...ies, Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Document File pro- duced as part of an ongoing student publication project to br... ...onspicuous habitations, that patch of culture, had we but known it, were a mark of the passage of whites; and we might have approached a hundred islan... ...o great dames, and in the most sacred enclosure of a High Place, Father Simeon Delmar was shown a stone, and told it was the throne of some well-desce... ...for a new province of creation. That wide field of ocean, called loosely the South Seas, extends from tropic to tropic, and from perhaps 123 degrees W... ...tainly averse to superstition, but he keeps his head, and takes a certain superior interest, which I may be allowed to call scientific. The last point... ... until water came, and the body re-interred face down. The still recent stak- ing of suicides in England and the decapitation of vam- pires in the eas...

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...part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make us... ...n Eastern college, where he had devoted himself to a pas- sionate study of literature, and, more especially, of poetry. It was his insatiable ambition... ...rizon, losing itself in a mere smudge in the distance, ran the illimitable parallels of the wire fence. And that was all; that and the burnt-out blue ... ...n who could rhyme words, de- ferring to him whenever there was question of literature or works of fiction. No doubt, there was not much use in poetry,... ... ate of some years’ standing from the State Normal School and was teaching literature, music, and penmanship in a seminary in the town of Marysville. ... ...ble Faun,” Raphael’s “Madonnas” and “Il Trovatore” were her beau ideals of literature and art. She dreamed of Italy, Rome, Naples, and the world’s gre... ...ara. It was the road that connected that town with Bonneville and that ran parallel with the railroad tracks. On the other side of the track he could ... ...f hot steam and smoke reeked in his nostrils, and on ei- ther side of him, parallel panoramas, the two halves of the landscape sliced, as it were, in ... ... way. He passed through the warehouses and came out upon the dock that ran parallel with the shore of the bay. A great quantity of shipping was in vie...

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...part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make us... ...and tears which is declared to be the highest achievement of imagina- tive literature. Only, to be a great magician one must surrender oneself to occu... ... Thackeray, it was otherwise. My first introduction to English imaginative literature was “Nicholas Nickleby.” It is extraordinary how well Mrs. Nickl... ...elieve that I am wrong. That book was not my first introduction to English literature. My first acquaintance was (or were) the “Two Gentlemen of Veron... ... to consideration, I believe, and also my first introduction to the sea in literature. If I do not remember where, how and when I learned to read, I a... ... that makes life really lovable and gentle— something for which a material parallel can only be found in the everlasting sombre stress of the west- wa...

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...cs Series, Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project t... ... of such an acci dental pattern; the very name, I hear, was in- vented at a supper-party by the man who found the springs. The railroad and the highwa... ...so close our house was planted under the overhanging rock. THE HUNTER’S FAMILY here is quite a large race or class of people in America, for whom ... ...rticularly meeting him with open arms; and I must say that traveller had ill requited his reception. His book, in short, was a capital instance of the... ...te to place a bishop, is to rise to new ideas. But, alas! there was no Patterson about the Toll House. Only, alongside of “From Palace to Hovel,” a si...

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...part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make us... ... to draw par- allel lines. Susan found that she had quite an aptitude for parallel lines, and altogether had a good time of it that evening. It is du...

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...part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make us... ...isfied that she understood. He came again with a queer little worn book, a parallel vocabulary of half-a-dozen European languages. He turned over the ... ... was not secularism but dissent. One could draw a score of such contrasted parallels. And now it was in a state of intolerable stress, that laid bare ... ...self for a war that will shatter a tyrannous presumption. Most imaginative literature, all scientific in- vestigation, all sound criticism, all good b... ... mass of population in the world, paved the way for much beautiful art and literature and living. “But in the end, all your stern orderliness, Benham,...

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...part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make us... ...r and tears which is declared to be the highest achievement of imaginative literature. Only, to be a great magician one must surrender oneself to occu... ...hackeray, it was otherwise. My first intro- duction to English imaginative literature was “Nicholas Nickleby.” It is extraordinary how well Mrs. Nickl... ... to consideration, I believe, and also my first introduction to the sea in literature. If I do not remember where, how, and when I learned to read, I ... ...l that makes life really lovable and gentle—something for which a material parallel can only be found in the everlasting sombre stress of the west- wa... ...g the opportunity to make a fool of yourself, exactly as in the pursuit of literature. But the quarter-deck criticism is somewhat different from liter...

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...enious anticipations of the methods of the early avia- tors. Durer was his parallel and Roger Bacon—whom the Franciscans silenced—of his kindred. Such... ...7 AT THE CLOSE of the nineteenth century as a multitude of passages in the literature of that time witness, it was thought that the fact that man had ... ...ions to the collective future, is trace- able more and more clearly in the literature of those times, and movement after movement fretted itself away ... ... onward to the Slavs. Later ages were to store and neglect the vast insane literature of this obsession, the intricate treaties, the secret agreements... ...lready there had been accumulating for a hundred years before the crisis a literature of foresight; there was a whole mass of ‘Modern State’ scheming ... ...r hand, the men of the new time could still appreci- ate the older English literature…. Certain minor acts of uni- formity accompanied this larger one...

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...part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make us... ... in consulting authorities will find them given in the introduction to the parallel edition in the Riverside Lit- erature Series. A short list of Engl... ...February 15, 1909. INTRODUCTORY SKETCH There is probably no poem of German literature that has excited such universal interest, or that has been so mu... ...cal li- braries, there to wait till a more cultured age, curious as to the literature of its ancestors, should bring it forth from its hiding places. ... ... of rediscovering the “Nibelungenlied” and of restoring it to the world of literature belongs to a young phy- sician by the name of J.H. Obereit, who ... ... with the exception of the “Nibelungenlied” and the popular ballad, German literature has preserved almost no trace of the legend, and such as exist a...

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...part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make us... ...r coarseness, vulgarity, and buffoonery is al- most unexampled even in the literature of that day. Ned Ward’s “Life and Notable Adventures of Don Quix... ...n 1712 by Peter Motteux, who had then recently combined tea-deal- ing with literature. It is described as “translated from the original by several han... ...what we want. What Hallam says of Shakespeare may be applied to the almost parallel case of Cervantes: “It is not the register of his baptism, or the ... .... The men whose names by common consent stand in the front rank of Spanish literature, Cervantes, Lope de Vega, Quevedo, Calderon, Garcilaso de la Veg... ...panion and counsellor on the roads of Spain, is seldom wrong in matters of literature or history. In this instance, however, he is in error. It has ev... ... “and don’t mind any other, for thou knowest nothing about colures, lines, parallels, zodiacs, ecliptics, poles, solstices, equinoxes, plan- ets, sign... ...ll these things, or any portion of them, thou wouldst see clearly how many parallels we have cut, what signs we have seen, and what constella- tions w...

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...part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make us... ...green goggling glasses deceitfully tapered downwards to a cheating bottom. Parallel meridians rudely pecked into the glass, sur- round these footpads’... ... however, the sperm whale, scientific or poetic, lives not complete in any literature. Far above all other hunted whales, his is an unwritten life. No... ...of perch is the head of the t’ gallant-mast, where you stand upon two thin parallel sticks (almost peculiar to whalemen) called the t’ gallant cross- ... ...p, the Jeroboam’s boat by the occasional use of its oars contrived to keep parallel to the Pequod, as she heavily forged through the sea (for by this ... ...To the student of old Roman walls, the middle layer will furnish a curious parallel to the thin course of tiles always alternating with the stone in t... ...an exemplary, sulky old soul, goes about all alone among the meridians and parallels saying his prayers, and warning each young Leviathan from his amo...