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Excerpt: The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley: Volume Three.

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................................................................................................................... 27 HOMER?S HYMN TO THE EARTH: MOTHER OF ALL .................................................................................. 28 HOMER?S HYMN TO MINERVA................................................................................................................

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...THE COMPLETE POETICAL WORKS OF PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY VOLUME 3 OXFORD EDITION. INCLUDING MATERIALS NEVER ... ... 3 OXFORD EDITION. INCLUDING MATERIALS NEVER BEFORE PRINTED IN ANY EDITION OF THE POEMS. EDITED WITH TEXTUAL NOTES BY THOMAS HUTCHINSON, M. A. EDITOR ... ...EVER BEFORE PRINTED IN ANY EDITION OF THE POEMS. EDITED WITH TEXTUAL NOTES BY THOMAS HUTCHINSON, M. A. EDITOR OF THE OXFORD WORDSWORTH. 1914. A Penn S... ......................................................................... 205 BY MRS. SHELLEY. ............................................................. ...ge increase, and their house with wealth is filled. Such honoured dwell in cities fair and free, The homes of lovely women, prosperously; Their sons e... ...e arrival of puberty, necessarily spring; the putrid atmosphere of crowded cities; the exhala- tions of chemical processes; the muffling of our bodies... ...is family to starve. Without disease and war, those sweeping curtailers of population, pasturage would include a waste too great to be afforded. The l... ...ldren invari- ably die of tetanus before they are three weeks old, and the population is supplied from the mainland.—Sir G. Mackenzie’s “History of Ic... ...2. 2. 2. 2. And the cold hand of death Chills his shuddering breath, As he lists to the fearful lay Which the ghosts of the sky, ...

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...Excerpt: Inferno: Canto I. Midway upon the journey of our life I found myself within a forest dark, for the straightforward pathway had been lost. Ah me! how hard a thing it is to say What was this forest savage, rough, and stern, Which in the very thought renews the fear....

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...The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri (1265-1321) Translated by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publi... ...low A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri trans. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow is a publication of th... ...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... .... 382 7 Dante The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri (1265-1321) TRANSLATED BY HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW (1807-1882) Incipit Comoedia Dantis Alagherii... ...wo figures mingled Into one face, wherein the two were lost. Of the four lists were fashioned the two arms, The thighs and legs, the belly and the... ...sposal of Montagna, Where they are wont make wimbles of their teeth. The cities of Lamone and Santerno Governs the Lioncel of the white lair, Wh... ... had the semblance, So that it overhead remained distinct With sevenfold lists, all of them of the colours Whence the sun’s bow is made, and Delia... ...ed and from Rudolph, If evil lordship, that exasperates ever The subject populations, had not moved Palermo to the outcry of ‘Death! death!’ And i... ...i. Ever the intermingling of the people Has been the source of malady in cities, As in the body food it surfeits on; And a blind bull more headlon...

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...Excerpt: VOL I. In the morning of life the truthful wooed the beautiful, and their offspring was Love. Like his Divine parents, He is eternal. He has his Mother?s ravishing smile; his Father?s steadfast eyes. He rises every day, fresh and glorious as the u...

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...Contents NOVELS BY EMINENT HANDS ...................................................................................................... 4 NOONDAY IN CHEPE .........................................................................................

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... Thackeray A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Burlesques by William Makepeace Thackeray is a publication of the Pennsylvania State U... ...es Publication Burlesques by William Makepeace Thackeray is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity. This Portable Document file is furn... ...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... ...ment or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Burlesques by William Makepeace Thackeray, the Pennsylvania State University, Electron... ...anes—hidden in fog and smoke by the dirtiest river in the world—in all the cities of mankind there is One Home whither men of one family may resort. O... ...ry moment ringing more clearly, until a knight in pink armor rode into the lists with his visor down, and riding a tremendous dun charger, which he ma... ...ces. Neither the Legs nor the Sailor cared for the gayety and the crowd of cities; the stout mariner’s home was in the puttock-shrouds of the old “Rep... ...ht, as the locks of the Jew- ish maiden whom the knight had rescued in the lists of 282 Thackeray Templestowe. A bit of Rowena’s hair was in Sir Wilf... ...t there were but three men to a gun. To provision this immense army, and a population of double the amount within the walls, his Majesty caused the co...

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...Excerpt: Chapter 1. Enter Dame Gossip As Chorus. Everybody has heard of the beautiful Countess of Cressett, who was one of the lights of this country at the time when crowned heads were running over Europe, crying out for charity?s sake to be amused after their tiresome work of slaughter: and ...

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... A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Amazing Marriage by George Meredith is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. T... ...ries Publication The Amazing Marriage by George Meredith 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... ...r the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Amazing Marriage by George Meredith, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classics ... ...ious meaning for them. Formerly they were proud of out- stripping the busy population of the mine, coming down on them with wild wavings and shouts of... ...er. Here, however, as elsewhere, the core of interest was with the serious population, the lov- ers and the players in earnest, who stood round the fu... ...ich was profound among the biped equine, jockeys, turfmen, sharpers, pugi- lists, demireps. He fronted Woodseer with square shoulders and wide knees, ... ...h He judged of the well-favoured girl that she could steer her way through cities: mouth and brows were a warning to challenger pirate craft of a vess... ...If she were away we should hear of black doings. Twenty dozen of his pugi- lists wouldn’t stop the burning.’ They agreed that persuasions need not be ...

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...t when it comes to brandy and peppersauce and?--?Dump it in. Who?s making this punch, anyway?? And Malemute Kid smiled benignantly through the clouds of steam. ?By the time you?ve been in this country as long as I have, my son, and lived on rabbit tracks and salmon-belly, you?ll learn that Christmas comes only once per annum. And a Christmas without punch is sinking a hole...

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...Table of Contents: To the Man on Trail, 1 -- The White Silence, 12 -- In a Far Country, 24 -- The Wisdom of the Trail, 44 -- An Odyssey of the North, 53 -- The Law of Life, 90 -- The God of His Fathers, 99 -- The League of the Old ...

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... “To Build a Fire” And Other Stories By JACK LONDON 1899 1918 DjVu Editions Copyright c 2003 by Global La... ...2 In a Far Country . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 The Wisdom of the Trail . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44 An Odyssey of the N... ... . . 44 An Odyssey of the North . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53 The Law of Life . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90 The God of His... ..., anyway?” And Male mute Kid smiled benignantly through the clouds of steam. “By the time you ’ve been in this country as long as I have, my son, and... ... the warm sunshine; where the harvests lay rich on the plains; and where great cities were fat with men that lived like women, with false words in the... ...eyes such as only the woman Unga could give. “So I wandered through a thousand cities. Some were gentle and gave me food, and others laughed, and stil... ...s about the only evidence the seafaring white men have of the teeming interior population. For the whites do not penetrate Malaita. They tried it once... ... black recruits. In addition to this, there was always the danger of the shore population, the sudden attack and the cutting off of the schooner and a... ...ough! To sleep in the rooms of the Junta meant access to their secrets, to the lists of names, to the addresses of comrades down on Mexican 400 JACK ...

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...Excerpt: Renewal of Life by Transmission. The most notable distinction between living and inanimate things is that the former maintain themselves by renewal. A stone when struck resists. If its resistance is greater than the force of the blow...

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...Contents Chapter One: Education as a Necessity of Life .............................................................................. 5 Chapter Two: Education as a Social Function .............................................................................. 14 Chapter Th...

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...Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Democracy and Education by John Dewey is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This P... ...Series Publication Democracy and Education by John Dewey 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... ...he file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Democracy and Education by John Dewey, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classics Serie... ...serving carefully cracks on the wall and set him to memorizing meaningless lists of words in an unknown tongue—which is about what we do in fact when ... ...ty. In many modern states and in some ancient, there is great diversity of populations, of varying languages, religions, moral codes, and traditions. ... ...ies to-day. The kinds of work in which the young can engage, especially in cities, are largely anti-educa- tional. That prevention of child labor is a... ...f electric agencies to means of communication, transportation, lighting of cities and houses, and more economical pro- duction of goods. These are soc...

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...Excerpt: Preface By Way Of Criticism. These studies are collected from the monthly press. One appeared in the New Quarterly, one in MacMillan?s, and the rest in the Cornhill Magazine. To the Cornhill I owe a double debt of thanks; first, that...

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...Contents PREFACE BY WAY OF CRITICISM. ........................................................................................... 4 CHAPTER I ? VICTOR HUGO?S ROMANCES ........................................................................ 15...

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...FAMILIAR STUDIES OF MEN & BOOKS by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publicati... ...NSON A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Familiar Studies of Men and Books by Robert Louis Stevenson is a publication of the Pennsylv... ... Electronic Classics Series Publication Familiar Studies of Men and Books by Robert Louis Stevenson is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer... ...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... ...key to Whitman’s attitude. To give a certain unity of ideal to the average population of America - to gather their activities about some conception of... ... be central and normal, if only for the moment -the poet must portray that population as it is. Like human 68 Robert Louis Stevenson law, human poetr... ... many crude but genuine feelings tumble together for the mastery as in the lists of tournament, we are tempted to think of the Large 139 Familiar Stu... ...ore welcome and more presents, and be convoyed by torchlight into faithful cities. And so you see, here was King Arthur home again, and matters nowise...

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...Preface: If a book by an author who must call herself a veteran should be taken up by readers of a younger generation, they are begged to consider the first few chapters as a sort of prologue, introduced for the sake of those of elder years, wh...

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...NGE A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Long Vacation by Charlotte M. Yonge is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University... ...ries Publication The Long Vacation by Charlotte M. Yonge 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... ... for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Long Vacation by Charlotte M. Yonge, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classi... ...t request for a Sister from England to form a foundation in one of the new cities of Australia on the model of St. Faith’s; and thither Mother Constan... ... done, and will do, much, there still remains greater need than a fleeting population like this can be expected to supply, and Clement thinks that a b... ...bolic. History was delightful to me for the search for true knights. I had lists of them, drawings if possible, but I never 91 Yo n g e could indoctr... ...er- formers to accompany the great Gracchus on a tour through the leading ‘cities,’ lecturing by turns with him and assist- ing. He has hitherto picke...

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...Excerpt: When The Duchess Was Dead No one, probably, ever felt himself to be more alone in the world than our old friend the Duke of Omnium, when the Duchess died. When this sad event happened he had ceased to be Prime Minister. During the first nine months after he had left office he and the Duchess remained in England. Then they had gone abroad, takin...

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...Preface: In making this abridgement of Boswell?s Life of Johnson I have omitted most of Boswell?s criticisms, comments, and notes, all of Johnson?s opinions in legal cases, most of the letters, and parts of the conversation dealing with matters which were of gr...

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...Life of Johnson by James Boswell Abridged and Edited, with an Introduction by Charles Grosvenor Osgood A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publica... ...Grosvenor Osgood A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Life of Johnson by James Boswell, abridged and edited with an introduction by Ch... ...sgood A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Life of Johnson by James Boswell, abridged and edited with an introduction by Charles Grosv... ...d edited with an introduction by Charles Grosvenor Osgood is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Docu- ment file is furn... ...d applied it to London; all which performances concur to prove, that great cities, in every age, and in every country, will furnish similar topicks of... ...rsue his travels on foot, partly by demanding at Universities to enter the lists as a disputant, by which, accord- ing to the custom of many of them, ... ... ages are made the same way.’—BOSWELL. 148 Boswell’s Life of Johnson upon cities, and palaces, and pictures, and shows, and Arcadian scenes. He was o... ... gave him of my family, and of its hereditary estate, as to the extent and population of which he asked questions, and made calculations; recommend- i... ..., was often very fortunate in his witty contests, even when he entered the lists with Johnson himself. Sir Joshua Reynolds was in company with them on...

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...RESURRECTION BY C OUNT LEO TOLSTOY Translated by Mrs. Louis Maude A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Re... ...is Maude A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Resurrection by Leo Tolstoy, trans. Louis Maude is a publication of the Pennsylvania Sta... ...lication Resurrection by Leo Tolstoy, trans. Louis Maude 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... ...23 men and 64 women; they had all to be received according to the registry lists. The sick and the weak to be sorted out, and all to be delivered to t... ... to the places appointed, to deliver up their papers, to take them off the lists of those to be conveyed to Nijni—all this was very troublesome, espec... ...e spreading of this condensed depravity and vice broadcast among the whole population “Just as if a problem had been set to find the best, the surest ... ...udoff’s remark that he had been allowed to visit the prisoners even in the cities he an- swered: “That may be so, but I do not allow it,” and his tone...

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...Excerpt: Preface to the 1857 edition. I have been occupied with this story, during many working hours of two years. I must have been very ill employed, if I could not leave its merits and demerits as a whole, to express themselves on its being read as a whole. But, as it is not unreasonable to suppose that I may have held its...

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...the 1857 Edition BOOK THE FIRST: POVERTY 1. Sun and Shadow 2. Fellow Travellers 3. Home 4. Mrs Flintwinch has a Dream 5. Family Affairs 6. The Father of the Marshalsea 7. The Child of the Marshalsea 8. The Lock 9. little Mother 10. Containing the whole Science of Government 11. Let Loose 12. Bleeding Heart Yard 13. Patriarchal 14. Little Dorrit?s Party 15. Mrs Flintwinch h...

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...Dickens A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. ... ...sics Series Publication Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens 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... ... the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Little Dorrit Poverty by Charles Dickens, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classics ... ...aking it lighter. A few people loitered about, but the greater part of the population was within doors. The old man, taking the right- hand side of th... ...ined glass, and the massive curtains that hung in the doorways. From these cities they would go on again, by the roads of vines and olives, through sq... ...ll not be a coward now. One of my frequent thoughts is this:— Old as these cities are, their age itself is hardly so curious, to my 543 Little Dorrit... ...Butler, no doubt, reflected that the course of nature required the wealthy population to be kept up, on his account. He therefore condescended to look... ...was as constant as Death to man, arrayed themselves to fight it out in the lists of Society, sworn rivals. And Little Dorrit, seeing all these things ...

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...Publication Publication Publication Publication Publication War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy is a publication of the Pennsylva- nia State University. Thi... ...ion Publication Publication War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy is a publication of the Pennsylva- nia State University. This Portable Document file is furn... ...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... ...t or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classics Seri... ...n to the Imperial family as well as to all Moscow and Petersburg, and both cities wondered at her, laughed privately at her rudenesses, and told good ... ...y of a hundred thousand men under the command of Bonaparte, encountering a population that was unfriendly to it, losing confidence in its allies, suff... ...tin. Glancing through the army orders, Pierre found in one of them, in the lists of killed, wounded, and rewarded, the name of Nicholas Rostov, awarde... ...ll the holy relics, the gunpowder, munitions, and money , and had told the population plainly that the town would be abandoned. Rostopchin, though he ... ...n the regiment. How is one to help feeling sad? Moscow—she’s the mother of cities. How can one see all this and not feel sad? But ‘the maggot gnaws th...