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The Portrait of a Lady

By: Henry James

...The implements of the little feast had been disposed upon the lawn of an old English country house, in what I should call the perfect middle of a sple... ... such consideration and was the most characteristic object in the peculiarly English picture I have attempted to sketch. It stood upon a low hill, abo... ...ne of these was a remarkably well made man of five and thirty, with a face as English as that of the old gentleman I have just sketched was something e... ...emained for some days a mystery. Isabel remembered perfectly the neat little male child whose hair smelt of a delicious cosmetic and who had a bonne a... ...hey drew near the choir on the left of the entrance the voices of the Pope’s singers were borne to them over the heads of the large number of persons ...

...this simple history offered an admirable setting to an innocent pastime. The implements of the little feast had been disposed upon the lawn of an old English country-house, in what I should call the perfect middle of a splendid summer afternoon. Part of the afternoon had waned, but much of it was left, and what was left was of the finest and rarest quality. Real dusk would...

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The Book of Ezra

By: Ezra

...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. Copy... ...Jeshua and Kadmiel, of the children of Hodaviah, seventy and four. 41 The singers: the children of Asaph, an hundred twenty and eight. 42 The childr... ...ments. 70 So the priests, and the Levites, and some of the people, and the singers, and the porters, and the Nethinims, dwelt in their cities, and all... ...me of the children of Israel, and of the priests, and the Levites, and the singers, and the porters, and the Nethinims, unto Jerusalem, in the sev en... ...sons of Pharosh; Zechariah: and with him were reckoned by genealogy of the males an hundred and fifty. 4 Of the sons of Pahathmoab; Elihoenai the son ... ...ons of Pahathmoab; Elihoenai the son of Zerahiah, and with him two hundred males. 5 Of the sons of Shechaniah; the son of Jahaziel, and with him three... ...Of the sons of Shechaniah; the son of Jahaziel, and with him three hundred males. 6 Of the sons also of Adin; Ebed the son of Jonathan, and with him f...

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Aaron's Rod

By: D. H. Lawrence

...g student publication project to bring classical works of litera- ture, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cove... ...ritish Government,” and “bad for the people—good for the people,” made him malevolently angry. The doctor was nonplussed for a moment. Then he gath- ... ...are in England. We hear continual complaints of the stodgy dullness of the English. It would be quite as just to complain of their freakish, unusual c... ... Bricknell, the old man, was one of the partners in the Colliery firm. His English was incorrect, his accent, broad Derbyshire, and he was not a gentl... ...ith disgust. The sham Egypt of Aida hid from her nothing of its shame. The singers were all colour- washed, deliberately colour-washed to a bright ora... ...on heads, a million hands, and one monstrous, unnatural consciousness. The singers ap- peared before the curtain—the applause rose up like clouds of d... ... can’t stand it that Robert offers to hand her into the taxi.” He gave his malevolent grin round the company, then went out. He did not reappear for t... ... answer. “Did you ever keep count?” Tanny persisted. Jim looked up at her, malevolent. “I believe I did,” he replied. “Forty is the age when a man sho...

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The Whole History of Grandfathers Chair or True Stories from New England History, 1620-1808

By: Nathaniel Hawthorne

...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... ...is supposed to have been made of an oak tree which grew in the park of the English Earl of Lincoln between two and three centuries ago. In its younger... ...beard upon his chin.* There was likewise a minister of the gospel whom the English bishops had forbidden to preach, but who knew that he should have l... ...ful eye has caught two boys at play. Now we shall see awful times. The two malefactors are sum moned before the master’s chair, wherein he sits with ... ...th of Queen Anne. Hitherto the people had been in continual dread that the male line of the Stuarts, who 67 Hawthorne were descended from the beheade... ...hrough the same scene of sorrow and distress. In this manner was the whole male part of the population of the District of Minas put on board the five ... ...e drum, fife, and bugle drowning the holy organ peal and the voices of the singers. It would appear as if the British took every method to insult the ...

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The Caged Lion

By: Charlotte Mary Yonge

...e ven- tured to say of the really historical personages. Mr. Fox Bourne’s ‘English Merchants’ furnished the tradition respect- ing Whittington. I am a... ...ad it been 16 The Caged Lion France, it had been endurable, but praise of English habits was mere disloyalty; and yet, whenever Patrick tried to thro... ...the slander, that our noble King has been caught in the toils of an artful Englishwoman, and been drawn in to promise her a share in his crown.’ A flu... ...d at Esclairmonde for perverseness and obstinacy in not accepting the only male thing she had ever favoured. The Bishop of Therouenne threatened and a... ...ng lay of victory was over; and King Henry had roused himself to thank the singers, then sighed, and said, ‘How long ago that was!’ ‘Six years,’ said ... ..., where sat the three la- dies in the midst of their circle of attendants, male and fe- male ranged on opposite sides; and old Lady Salisbury knew the... ...did her best to persuade her to overcome the superstition that kept her in male garments, thus greatly tending to increase the belief in her connectio...

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The History of Tom Jones, A Foundling

By: Henry Fielding

...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, and ... ... of men; and De non apparentibus, et non existentibus eadem est ratio *—in English, “When a woman is not seen to blush, she doth not blush at all.” ... ...ich he frequently bestowed on her own. To say the truth, she had read much English di vinity, and had puzzled more than one of the neighbouring curat... ...on of our reader. Indeed we would, for certain causes, advise those of our male readers who have any hearts, to read no farther, were we not well assu... ...ll be found wor thy to satisfy any passion, and to answer any idea of fe male perfection which our pencil will be able to raise. And now, without ... ...I know, some derive from their being of a more bloody inclination than the males. On which account they apply to the nose, as to the part whence blood... ...ad, never missed church o’ Sundays, and was reckoned one of the best psalm singers in the whole parish. He would indeed now and then take a cup too mu...

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The Note Book of an English Opium-Eater

By: Thomas de Quincey

...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... ..., which would be better still, to import from Lancashire the Handel chorus-singers. But then, again, whatever change in the music were made, so as to ... ...e maternal ancestors of the present Wellesleys. Garret Wellesley, the last male heir of the direct line, in the year 1745, left his whole estate to on...

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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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The First Book of the Kings, Commnonly Called: The Third Book of the Kings

By: Various

...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 of the LORD, and for the king’s house, harps also and psalteries for singers: there came no such almug trees, nor were seen unto this day. 13 An... ...tain of the host was gone up to bury the slain, after he had smitten every male in Edom; 16 (For six months did Joab remain there with all Israel, unt... ...x months did Joab remain there with all Israel, until he had cut off every male in Edom:) First Kings 11:3 – 11:16 34 17 That Hadad fled, he and cer...

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The Brotherhood of Consolation

By: Honoré de Balzac

...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... ...d rose amid the appointments of modern luxury and the choice appliances of English “com- fort,” he remembered the details of his visit to that cloiste... ...om the confidence expressed in the house of Mongenod was not a wound. Like English houses, the Mongenods made no external display of luxury. They live... ...is money on a newspaper, living no doubt in the the- atres, connected with singers at the Feydeau, with musicians, and all the queer people who lurk b... ... of a certain sum; and he entailed the estate of la Chanterie on the heirs male of the marriage. “But the Revolution,” said Monsieur Alain in a parent... ... called Champ-Landry, these criminals, obeying the impulse which leads all male- factors into the blunders and miscalculations of crime, threw their g...

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The Two Sides of the Shield

By: Charlotte Mary Yonge

...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... ... being wept over and caressed on the mournful return, she decided that the English had no feeling, and acquiesced in the routine of lessons and expedi... ...ldren had the same birthplace. She had been able to see very little of her English relations, being much tied by the number of her children while all ... ...Yo n g e chiefly about music for the choral society, and the voices of the singers, about which Dolores neither knew nor cared. By one o’clock the lon... ...he French original existed in the house, and Fly started the idea that the male performers should speak En- glish and the female French; but this was ...

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Cousin Betty

By: Honoré de Balzac

...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... ...assion of this character, marked by eccentricities— a word invented by the English to describe the craziness not of the asylum, but of respectable hou... ...an of the past; now and again the Frenchman wakes up and kicks against his English-made casing; but ambition stifles him, and he submits to be smother... ...He rushed off to Josepha’s lodgings in the Rue Chauchat; for, like all the singers, she lived close at hand. “Whom do you want, sir?” asked the porter... ...few exceptions, who ought to be rewarded with the Montyon prize, the cook, male or female, is a domestic rob- ber, a thief taking wages, and perfectly... ...are equally applicable to any lady-killing rake; he is, in fact, a sort of male courtesan. Valerie’s last fancy was a madness; above all, she was bent...

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The French Revolution a History Volume One

By: Thomas Carlyle

...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... ...y as thou didst, from the Mill of St. Cast, on Quiberon and the invad- ing English; thou, ‘covered if not with glory yet with meal!’ Fortune was ever ... ...ith and against Feudalism (but not against Nature and her bounty), gave us English a Shakspeare and Era of Shakspeare, and so produced a blossom of Ca... ...nd who knows what nameless innumerable multitude of ready Writers, profane Singers, Romancers, Players, Disputators, and Pamphleteers, that now form t... ...ndemn to death for preaching, ‘put in execution.’ (Boissy d’Anglas, Vie de Malesherbes, i. 15-22.) And, alas, now not so much as Baron Holbach’s Athei... ... Darkness? Among the Paris Long-robes there may be more than one patriotic Malesherbes, whose rule is conscience and the public good; there are clearl... ...he heavier; for did it not employ the working- classes too,—manufacturers, male and female, of laces, es- sences; of Pleasure generally, whosoever cou...

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The Georgics

By: Virgil

...going student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them, an... ...r ploughing. Meantime, while youth’s delight Survives within them, loose the males: be first T o speed thy herds of cattle to their loves, THE GEORGIC... ... POLLIO DAMON ALPHESIBOEUS Of Damon and Alphesiboeus now, Those shepherd singers at whose rival strains The heifer wondering forgot to graze, The ... ...wool fillet bind These altars round about, and burn thereon Rich vervain and male frankincense, that I May strive with magic spells to turn astray My ... ...hoots in early Spring. Come, let us rise: the shade is wont to be Baneful to singers; baneful is the shade Cast by the juniper, crops sicken too In sh...

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Up from Slavery : An Autobiography

By: Booker Taliaferro Washington

...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... ... over, and a million men fought about, and that had so dwarfed the mass of English men in the Southern States as to hold them back a hundred years beh... ...that his claim to our gratitude rests. To teach the Negro to read, whether English, or Greek, or Hebrew, butters no parsnips. To make the Negro work, ... ...ect the women and children who were left on the plantations when the white males went to war, the slaves would have laid down their lives. The slave w... ...ave who was selected to sleep in the “big house” during the absence of the males was considered to have the place of honour. Any one attempting to har... ... or to allow the holiday to continue as long as the “yule log” lasted. The male members of the race, and often the fe- male members, were expected to ... ...riv- ing there I found that the General had decided to take a quartette of singers through the North, and hold meet- ings for a month in important cit...

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Where Angels Fear to Tread

By: E. M. Forster

...uld have been entertaining. But even Philip, who in theory loved outraging English con- ventions, rose to the occasion, and gave her a talking which s... ...eodata, one of the most beautiful churches in Italy.” “Of course I mean an English church,” said Harriet stiffly. “Lilia promised me that she would al... ... hotel.” The letter only said that. What kind of per- son? A gentleman? An Englishman? The letter did not say. “Wire reason of stay at Monteriano. Str... ... crossed herself also. Thus did the two women pay homage to their outraged male. It was clear to Lilia at last that Gino had married her for money. Bu... ...u will not come up till you have seen the Italian.” “La signorina si sente male,” said Philip, “C’ e il sole.” “Poveretta!” cried the landlady and the... ... note was drowned in a shout of universal joy. So the opera proceeded. The singers drew inspira- tion from the audience, and the two great sextettes w... ...te such a note, partly because her education inclined her to reverence the male, partly because she had got to like Philip a good deal after their las...

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War and Peace

By: Leo Tolstoy, Graf

...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... ...fifteen rubles a head, and at which there were two bands and two choirs of singers. Rostov danced the Trepak with Major Basov; the tipsy officers toss... ..., while Nicholas rode with Natasha and Petya to “Uncle’s” house. Some five male domestic serfs, big and little, rushed out to the front porch to meet ... ...ner voice told her that now or never her fate would be decided, and in her male attire she seemed quite a different person. Louisa Ivanovna con- sente... ... with them into the back rooms where a cork and various dressing gowns and male garments were called for and received from the footman by bare girlish...

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John Keble's Parishes a History of Hursley and Otterbourne

By: Charlotte Mary Yonge

...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... ...an of the bed-chamber to Henry VIII., and had put thirty-seven Psalms into English verse, in hopes of improv- ing the morals of the Court. John Hopkin... ...ed-chamber. He was a principal instru- ment of translating the Psalms into English metre; the first twenty-six (and seven-and-thirty in all)* being by... ...ondence ensued, as to the settlement of Hursley upon Dorothy and her heirs male, and the compensation to her younger sister Anne. Cromwell was anxious... ...nd the collar of the Golden Fleece around his neck, followed by a group of male figures, one with a beautiful face. On the other side kneels a lady, n... ...lace in Church, which was more im- portant when there was no choir and the singers sat in the gallery. He was very happy in this office, moving about ... ...rt’s T ongue (Scolopendrium officinale). (Polystichum angulare).—Cranbury. Male Fern (Lastrea Filix-mas). (L. spinulosa). (L. dilatata).—Otterbourne P...

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The Divine Comedy

By: Dante Aligheri

...g student publication project to bring classical works of litera- ture, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cove... ...e the puissance divine. I understood that unto such a torment The carnal malefactors were condemned, Who reason subjugate to appetite. 23 Dante A... ...n the cold season in large band and full, So doth that blast the spirits maledict; It hither, thither, downward, upward, drives them; No hope doth... ...ever way I turn, and gaze. In the third circle am I of the rain Eternal, maledict, and cold, and heavy; Its law and quality are never new. Huge ha... ...hat had addressed me showed how great An artist ’twas among the heavenly singers. To my right side I turned myself around, My duty to behold in Be... ...ere shall be seen the pride that causes thirst, Which makes the Scot and Englishman so mad That they within their boundaries cannot rest; 325 Dan...

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The Divine Comedy Volume 3 Paradise

By: Dante Aligheri

...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... ...the words he uses here, and they are no less unfamiliar in Italian than in English. 21 The Mediterranean. 37 Dante – Paradise was wont to make the h... ...loquy. She smiles, not reproachfully, at Dante’s vainglory. 4 The Dame de Malehault, who coughed at seeing the first kiss given by Lancelot to Guenev... ...ul which had spoken with me showed me how great an artist it was among the singers of heaven. I turned me round to my right side to see my duty signi-... ...shall be seen the pride that quickens thirst, which makes the Scot and the English- man mad, so that neither can keep within his own bounds. 15 The lu... ... supposed to be the source of the light of the stars. 2 That is, in those singers. 3 David. See 2 Samuel, vi. 4 So far as it proceeded from his own... ... secure salvation. After the first ages were, complete, it was needful for males with their innocent plumage to ac- quire virtue through circumcision....

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To Build a Fire : And Other Stories

By: Jack London

...y and pepper sauce and” — “Dump it in. Who ’s making this punch, anyway?” And Male mute Kid smiled benignantly through the clouds of steam. “By the ... ...e of a glori ous ferment of sugar and sour dough. That was before your time,” Malemute Kid said as he turned to Stanley Prince, a young mining expert... ... he had heard of this wild deed, when at Forty Mile the preceding winter. Then Malemute Kid, who was a born raconteur, told the unvar nished tale of ... ...nd the board. Aliens from a dozen lands, they toasted each and all. It was the Englishman, Prince, who pledged “Uncle Sam, the precocious infant of th... ... Smiling incredulously, the Kid glanced at his well stocked ar senal, and the Englishman, realizing his impotency, turned for the door. But the dog d... ...tion; but when she came to him with her wonderful smile and her straight clean English, and talked to the point, without pleading or persuad ing, he ... ...me to pass in the time when the fools are dead, and when there will be no more singers to stand still and sing the ‘Song of the Bees.’ Bees are not me... ...r women, with his priests and sorcerers, his dancers and flute players and hula singers, and fighting men and servants, and his high chiefs with their w...

...le too strong? Whiskey and alcohol?s bad enough; but 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 ann...

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Ferragus Chief of the Devorants

By: Honoré de Balzac

...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... ...stre”; he never contra- dicted them, and he made them shine. But among his male friends, when the topic of the sex came up, he laid down the principle... ...s, beggars, occasionally insolent countesses, admired actresses, applauded singers; she has even given, in the olden time, two quasi- queens to the mo... ...e with claws, scissors, impudent as a Spanish woman, snarling as a prudish English woman pro- claiming her conjugal rights, coquettish as a great lady... ... husband to eau de Melisse for faintness, sugarplums for the children, and English court-plaster in case of cuts. Jules studied all. He looked attenti... ...erings of the cradle, swelling to the griefs of other ages in the stronger male voices and the quavering of the priests,—all this strident harmony, bi...

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Jerusalem Delivered

By: Torquato Tasso

...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... ...op, and but a thousand all, Under another Robert fierce they run. Then the English squadron, soldiers stout and tall, By William led, their sovereign’... ...y word, Ralph, Rosimond, and Eberard request, A Scottish, an Irish, and an English lord, Whose lands the seas divide far from the rest, And for the fi... ...he did, Those glances shamefaced were, close, secret, hid. XLII As cunning singers, ere they strain on high, In loud melodious tunes, their gentle voi... ...oniface And Beatrice his dear possessed the stage; Nor was there left heir male of that great race, To enjoy the sceptre, state and heritage; The Prin... ...spond the birds, the streams, the wind, But yet unseen those nymphs, those singers were, Unseen the lutes, harps, viols which they bear. 404 Jerusale...

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The Wife and Other Stories

By: Anton Tchekhov

...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... ... minute of proceedings. Another point: I find it easier to write German or English than to write Russian. As regards my present manner of life, I must... ...ing them. Gnekker and the young ladies talk of fugues, of counterpoint, of singers and pianists, of Bach and Brahms, while my wife, afraid of their su... ...haracteristic reflection on the ill- behaviour of the young people in both male and female high- schools, the uproar in the classes. “Oh, he hoped it ...

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The Schoolmistress and Other Stories

By: Anton Chekhov

...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... ...evilles, with singing in them, and opportunities for disporting herself in male attire, in tights. In fact it was — ough! Well, I ask your attention. ... ...nd side by side with these people I can quote you hundreds of all sorts of singers, acrobats, buf- 106 Anton Chekhov foons, whose names are known to ...

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Madame Bovary

By: Gustave Flaubert

...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... ...dress wearing an alms-bag at her belt; or there were nameless portraits of English ladies with fair curls, who looked at you from under their round st... ...s; all were pale; all got up at four o’clock; the women, poor angels, wore English point on their petticoats; and the men, unappreciated geniuses unde... ...d be strong and dark; she would call him George; and this idea of having a male child was like an expected revenge for all her impotence in the past. ... ...h hat fell at a gesture he made, and imme- diately the instruments and the singers began the sextet. Edgar, flashing with fury, dominated all the othe... ..., near the espalier, and he ground his teeth; he raised to heaven looks of malediction, but not so much as a leaf stirred. A fine rain was falling: Ch...

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What Is Man and Other Essays of Mark Twain

By: Mark Twain

...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, and ... .................................................... .................... 148 ENGLISH AS SHE IS TAUGHT ..................................................... ... can come within a split hair of guessing the complexion of his religion: English—Protestant; Ameri can—ditto; Spaniard, Frenchman, Irishman, Italia... ...hen we have lately had a season or two of them in New York with these same singers in the several parts, and possibly this same orchestra. I resolved ... ...ou can lay on your keelson except gravel. THURSDAY.—They keep two teams of singers in stock for the chief roles, and one of these is composed of the m... ...oon till ten at night. Nearly all the labor falls upon the half dozen head singers, and apparently they are required to furnish all the noise they can... ...e so tram meled in his material that his name stands for whatever is most malevo lent and perfidious in human nature. You see how easy and flowing i... ...the laborers. No work is done, in the hive or out of it, save by them. The males do not work, the queen does no work, unless laying eggs is work, but ...

...LIAM DEAN HOWELLS ............................................................................................................................... 148 ENGLISH AS SHE IS TAUGHT ............................................................................................................................ 156 A SIMPLIFIED ALPHABET.....................................................

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The Kalevala the Epic Poem of Finland Translated into English

By: John Martin Crawford

...THE KALEVALA The Epic Poem of Finland T ranslated into English By John Martin Crawford 1888 1888 1888 1888 1888 A P ENN S TATE E L... ...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... ....462 5 The Kalevala THE KALEVALA The Epic Poem of Finland Translated into English By John Martin Crawford 1888 1888 1888 1888 1888 To Dr. J.D. Buck, ... ...on, Gout, Sterility, and Cancer.” The third daughter of Tuoni combines the malevolent and repugnant attributes of her two sisters, and is represented ... ...aracters of the Kalevala are mostly superhuman, magic beings. Even the fe male actors are powerful sorceresses, and the hostess of Pohyola, especiall... ...oldest legends, Chant to him my garnered wisdom, That this best of boasted singers, That this famous bard of Suomi, Shall be worsted in the contest, S... ...be as flint stone, And as oak his nether raiment; And this famous, best of singers, Thus bewitched, shall carry ever, In his heart a stony burden, On ... ...kahainen thus beseeches: “O thou ancient Wainamoinen, Wisest of the wisdom singers, Cease at last thine incantations, Only turn away thy magic, And my... ...than the pike of Suomi, Has less fins than any female, Not the fins of any male fish, 71 The Kalevala Not the stripes of sea born maidens, Not the be...

...Preface: The following translation was undertaken from a desire to lay before the English-speaking people the full treasury of epical beauty, folklore, and mythology comprised in The Kalevala, the national epic of the Finns. A brief description of this peculiar people, and of their ethical, linguistic, soc...

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Twice Told Tales

By: Nathaniel Hawthorne

...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... ...for a new St. Bartholomew!” cried others. “We are to be massacred, man and male child!” Neither was this rumor wholly discredited, although the wiser ... ...ers of the age. Authority on these points may be found in Strutt’s Book of English Sports and Pastimes. Bright were the days at Merry Mount, when the ... ..., and others, of still richer blush, which the colo- nists had reared from English seed. O, people of the Golden Age, the chief of your husbandry was ... ...s of the congregation, many of the middle aged, and nearly all the younger males. Pearson found it difficult to sustain their united and disapproving ... ..., while she undid the door, and stood up in the sacred desk from which his maledictions had just been thundered. She then divested herself of the cloa... ...of a song, which resounded, in broken notes, between the cliffs, while the singers hesitated whether to continue their journey or put up here for the ...

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Sartor Resartus the Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdr Ockh

By: Thomas Carlyle

..., and Rot ten Boroughs, and Revolts of Paris, deafen every French and every English ear, the German can stand peaceful on his scientific watch tower; ... ...on in which pure Science, especially pure moral Science, languishes among us English; and how our mercantile great ness, and invaluable Constitution,... ...ution, impressing a political or other immediately practical tendency on all English culture and endeavor, cramps the free flight of Thought,—that this... .... Observe too how fond they are of peaks, and Gothic arch intersections. The male world wears peaked caps, an ell long, which hang bobbing over the si... ...(Offscourings of Vienna) vociferously superintending games of chance. Ballad singers brayed, Auctioneers grew hoarse; cheap New Wine (heuriger) flowed ...

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The Witch and Other Stories

By: Anton Chekhov

...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... ....................................................................... 139 A MALEFACTOR ................................................................... ...eemed as though the whole house were smiling, too. Beggars and pil- grims, male and female, began to come into the yard, a thing which had never happe... ...ights and the bright coloured dresses dazzled Lipa; she felt as though the singers with their loud voices were hitting her on the head with a hammer. ... ...rd instead of a tie, stared at the same spot lost in thought, and when the singers shouted loudly he hurriedly crossed himself. He felt touched and di... ...tion to them. The young couple had scarcely crossed the threshold when the singers, who were already standing in the outer room with their music books... ...r little axes… .” He drank little and was now only drunk from one glass of English bitters. The revolting bitters, made from nobody knows what, intoxi... ...wn life. The sheep were pondering, too. 149 The Witch and other stories A MALEFACTOR AN EXCEEDINGLY LEAN little peasant, in a striped hempen shirt an...

...135 HAPPINESS ................................................................................................................................. 139 A MALEFACTOR ........................................................................................................................ 149 PEASANTS....................................................................................

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War and Peace

By: Leo Tolstoy, Graf

...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... ...vlovna. “Y ou are staying the whole evening, I hope?” “And the fete at the English ambassador’s? Today is W ednesday. I must put in an appearance ther... ...e secret motive in our actions. What answer did Novosiltsev get? None. The English have not understood and cannot understand the self-abnega- tion of ... ... the count, with the hussar colonel on his left and Shinshin and the other male visitors on his right. Midway down the long table on one side sat the ... ... Poles—all under the Russian crown—but here they’re all regular Germans.” “Singers to the front “ came the captain’s order. And from the different ran... ...nty men ran to the front. A drummer, their leader, turned round facing the singers, and flourishing his arm, began a long-drawn- out soldiers’ song, c... ...round, the drummer—a lean, handsome soldier of forty—looked sternly at the singers and screwed up his eyes. Then having satisfied himself that all eye... ...Pavlograd commander. The com- manders met with polite bows but with secret malevo- lence in their hearts. “Once again, Colonel,” said the general, “I ... ...always happens when women lead lonely lives for any length of time without male society, on Anatole’s appearance all the three women of Prince Bolkons...

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Middlemarch

By: George Eliot

...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... ...d lost their parents, on plans at once narrow and promiscuous, first in an English family and afterwards in a Swiss family at Lausanne, their bachelor... ...plexion which became a student; as different as possible from the blooming Englishman of the red-whis- kered type represented by Sir James Chettam. “I... ...an appetite for submission afterwards. And certainly, the mistakes that we male and female mortals make when we have our own way might fairly raise so... ..., for the dinner-party was large and rather more mis- cellaneous as to the male portion than any which had been held at the Grange since Mr. Brooke’s ... ...here the teach- ing included all that was demanded in the accomplished fe- male—even to extras, such as the getting in and out of a car- riage. Mrs. L... ...ist on my singing. But I shall tremble before you, who have heard the best singers in Paris. I have heard very little: I have only once been to London... ...ed that he could not find his hearth free. When he opened the door the two singers went on towards the key-note, raising their eyes and looking at him... ...n a scowl as he walked across the room and flung himself into a chair. The singers feeling themselves excused by the fact that they had only three bar...

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Middlemarch

By: George Eliot

...ad lost their parents, on plans at once narrow and promiscuous, first in an English family and afterwards in a Swiss family at Lausanne, their bachelor... ...plexion which became a student; as different as possible from the blooming Englishman of the red whiskered type represented by Sir James Chettam. “I a... ...d: it is true that when he used a Greek or Latin phrase he always gave the English with scrupu lous care, but he would probably have done this in any... ...an appetite for submission afterwards. And certainly, the mistakes that we male and female mortals make when we have our own way might fairly raise so... ...g, for the dinner party was large and rather more miscellaneous as to the male portion than any which had been held at the Grange since Mr. Brooke’s ... ... missy to come down.” Rosamond and Mary had been talking faster than their male friends. They did not think of sitting down, but stood at the toilet t... ...ist on my singing. But I shall tremble before you, who have heard the best singers in Paris. I have heard very little: I have only once been to London... ...yed that he could not find his hearth free. When he opened the door the two singers went on towards the key note, raising their eyes and looking at him... ... and flung himself into a chair. 476 Book VI — The Widow and the Wife. The singers feeling themselves excused by the fact that they had only three bar...

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Jerusalem Delivered

By: Torquato Tasso

...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... ...op, and but a thousand all, Under another Robert fierce they run. Then the English squadron, soldiers stout and tall, By William led, their sovereign’... ...y word, Ralph, Rosimond, and Eberard request, A Scottish, an Irish, and an English lord, Whose lands the seas divide far from the rest, And for the fi... ...he did, Those glances shamefaced were, close, secret, hid. XLII As cunning singers, ere they strain on high, In loud melodious tunes, their gentle voi... ...oniface And Beatrice his dear possessed the stage; Nor was there left heir male of that great race, To enjoy the sceptre, state and heritage; The Prin... ...spond the birds, the streams, the wind, But yet unseen those nymphs, those singers were, Unseen the lutes, harps, viols which they bear. 404 Jerusale... ...calmed again 284 As an old rock, which age or stormy wind 418 As cunning singers, ere they strain on high, 364 “As diverse be their nations,” answe...

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Thus Spake Zarathustra

By: Friedrich Nietzsche

...going student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Co... ...hee; and they repay thy benefi- 58 Thus Spake Zarathustra cence with secret maleficence. Thy silent pride is always counter to their taste; they rejo... ...snow. In all their lamentations soundeth vengeance, in all their eulogies is maleficence; and being judge seemeth to them bliss. But thus do I counsel... ...hough I be alone in an empty house, and must sing it to mine own ears. Other singers are there, to be sure, to whom only the full house maketh the voi... ...it happened that the ass also found ut- terance: it said distinctly and with malevolence, Y-E-A.) ’Twas once—methinks year one of our blessed Lord,— D... ...t terrifies the modern soul; it is his one anxi- ety, his one ghastly fear” (English Edition, page 141). In his feverish scurry to find entertainment ... ...which, at first sight, seems to be merely “le manoir a l’envers,” indeed one English critic has actually said of Nietzsche, that “Thus Spake Zarathust...

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