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Taras Bulba and Other Tales

By: Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol

... Taras Bulba and Other Tales by Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol 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... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ... instituted—a free, wild outbreak of Russian nature—and when all the river-banks, fords, and like suit- able places were peopled by Cossacks, whose nu... ...m- mits of distant forests shone blue, on one hand, stretch- ing along the banks of the Dnieper. Once only did Taras point out to his sons a small bla... ...le flowers, over the blood- sprinkled fields, and floating along her river banks; she saw many tarry Zaporozhian trousers, and strong hands with black... ...; so they are still on the road, they have not arrived.” “You have been in Italy?” asked the lady, levelling her glass at him, as she found nothing el... ... The lady was fond of paintings, and had gone through all the galleries in Italy with her eye-glass. “But Monsieur Nohl— ah, how well he paints! what ... ...ody, to come and give his opinion upon a new work which had been sent from Italy by a Russian artist who was perfecting himself there. The painter was...

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War and Peace

By: Leo Tolstoy, Graf

...ies Publication War and Peace – Book Five by Leo Tolstoy is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity. This Portable Document file is fur... ...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... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...the little princess, and in this chapel was a marble monument brought from Italy, representing an angel with outspread wings ready to fly upwards. The... ...ouse lay behind a newly dug pond filled with wa- ter to the brink and with banks still bare of grass. It was at the end of a village that stretched al... ...him or laugh at what he said. They reached a river that had overflowed its banks and which they had to cross by ferry. While the carriage and horses w...

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Three Soldiers

By: John Dos Passos

...ICS SERIES PUBLICATION Three Soldiers by John Dos Passos 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... ...ty Editor, Hazleton, PA 18202 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...ou could hear the skylarks, now clattering fast over bridges and along the banks of jade-green rivers where the slim poplars were just coming into lea... ...ds shimmering and rustling under the July sun, and the creek with red clay banks where he used to go in swimming. He seemed to see it all before him, ... ... And he thought of the great, sudden wind of freedom that had blown out of Italy, before which dogmas and slaver- ies had crumbled to dust. In contras... ...the color-streaked river. The river was very full, and welled up above its banks, the way the water stands up above the 286 Three Soldiers rim of a g... ... “I don’t care. New Rochelle’s not the whole world. They got the movies in Italy, ain’t they?” “Sure. Let’s go to bed.” “All right. Look, you an’ me a... ...ittering masses of stars. 317 John Dos Passos “Why don’t you try Spain or Italy?” he said after a while. “Don’t know the lingo. No, I’m going to Scot...

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The Perfect Wagnerite : A Commentary on the Ring of the Niblungs

By: George Bernard Shaw

...Commentary on the Niblung’s Ring by George Bernard Shaw is a publica- tion 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... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18202-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...Germany stands consecrated as the Holy Land of the capitalist age, just as Italy, for its painters’ sakes, is the Holy Land of the early unvulgarized ... ...d rob the Church, with the cheerful co-operation of Loki, as in France and Italy for instance. The twin giants come back with their hostage, in whose ... ...ey. The sound is lost in the grander rhythm of the Rhine as he reaches its banks. We hear again an echo of the lament of the Rhine maidens for the rav... ...ize the excessive artificiality of the scene); but the Rhine overflows its banks to allow the three Rhine maidens to take the ring from Siegfried’s fi...

...ts ...................................................................................................................................... 12 The Ring of the Niblungs ............................................................................................................................................. 14 The Rhine Gold ....................................................

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Autobiography Truth and Fiction Relating to My Life

By: Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

...ns. John Oxenford, with an introduction by Thomas Carlyle 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... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18202-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...of perhaps a hundred to one. We take in, not Germany alone, but France and Italy; not the Schlegels and Schellings, but the Manzonis and De Staels. Th... ... and rewrote it. Thus far he had produced but little since his return from Italy. His friendship with Schiller was now to begin, an alli- ance which, ... ...s partiality for the Ital- ian language, and for every thing pertaining to Italy, was very decided. A small collection of marbles and natural curiosit... ...- ness of vegetation which follows in the windings of the Rhine, marks its banks, islands, and aits. Nor is the level ground, stretching down from the...

...resented in this Goethe; a singular, highly significant phenomenon, and now also means more or less complete for ascertaining its significance. A man of wonderful, nay, unexampled reputation and intellectual influence among forty millions of reflective, serious and cultivated men, invites us to study him; and to determine for ourselves, whether and how far such influence h...

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Salammbo

By: Gustave Flaubert

...ication tion tion tion tion Salammbo by Gustave Flaubert 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... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...ot the Mercenaries already possessed Rhegium and other fortified places in Italy? Who is to prevent you? Hamilcar is away; the people execrate the ric... ... lake of T unis, where flamingoes formed long rose-coloured lines amid the banks of sand, while further on beneath the catacombs the great salt lagoon... ...ans, and said to them: “When the Ligurians, Greeks, Balearians, and men of Italy are paid, they will return. But as for you, you will remain in Africa... ...Nabathae, which are lost in the sands; and had travelled on foot along the banks of the Nile from the cataracts to the sea. Shaking torches with veil-... ...twelve hundred marriageable slaves destined for prostitution in Greece and Italy , and their hair, having been rendered elastic by the use of unguents...

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The Wife and Other Stories

By: Anton Tchekhov

... Publication The Wife and other stories by Anton Chekhov is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Uni- versity. This Portable Document file is fur... ...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... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...V olga steamer and looking alternately at the water and at the picturesque banks. Beside her was stand- ing Ryabovsky, telling her the black shadows o... ...olour of the water, such as she had never seen before, the sky , the river-banks, the black shadows, and the unaccountable joy that flooded her soul, ... ...nature had removed now from the V olga the sumptuous green covers from the banks, the brilliant re- flections of the sunbeams, the transparent blue di... ...ould be in late au- tumn to go abroad somewhere to the South of France… to Italy… . to India! “I should certainly go abroad too,” his wife said. “But ...

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Master Francis Rabelais Five Books of the Lives, Heroic Deeds and Sayings of Gargantua and His Son Pantagruel

By: Thomas Urquhart

...MASTER FRANCIS RABELAIS FIVE BOOKS OF THE LIVES, HEROIC DEEDS AND SAYINGS OF GARGANTUA AND HIS SON PANTAGRUEL ... ...TUA AND HIS SON PANTAGRUEL T ranslated into English by Sir Thomas Urquhart of Cromarty and Peter Antony Motteux A Penn State Electronic Classics Serie... ...ny Motteux A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Five Books of the Lives, Heroic Deeds and Sayings of Gargantua and His Son Pantagruel ... ...oets of the Renaissance, who believed themselves bound to imitate them. Is Italy without fault in this respect? Her story-tellers in prose lie open to... ...more than a familiarity with ordinary French. It would have been easier in Italy than anywhere else. Italian, from its flexibility and its analogy to ... ... Scotland. After studying in Aber- deen he travelled in France, Spain, and Italy, where his sword was as active as that intelligent curiosity of his w... ...they did adul- terate them. He went to see the jugglers, tumblers, mounte- banks, and quacksalvers, and considered their cunning, their shifts, their ... ...ase. God be thanked that you and your men are come safe and sound unto the banks of the river Tigris. But, said he, what doth that part of our army in... ...s from the danger of that inundation under the 126 Gargantua & Pantagruel banks of his teeth. But one of them by chance, groping or sounding the coun...

...Excerpt: Five Books of the Lives, Heroic Deeds and Sayings of Gargantua and His Son Pantagruel by Master Francis Rabelais, translated by Sir Thomas Urquhart and Peter Antony Motteux....

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Howards End

By: E. M. Forster

... Classics Series Publication Howards End by E.M. Forster is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Por- table Document file is furn... ...ty. This Por- table Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18202-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...s speaking to us from his gondola. “Seven miles to the north of Venice the banks of sand which nearer the city rise little above low-wa- ter mark atta... ...les for their honeymoon.” “Lucky people!” “I can hardly imagine Charles in Italy.” “Doesn’t he care for travelling?” “He likes travel, but he does see... ...remely mixed. There is a slodgy theme in several keys at once, meaning mud-banks, and another for the navigable canal, and the exit into the Baltic is... ... posi- tions. Paul would not have left England, you would not have gone to Italy, nor Evie and I into Yorkshire, if only we had known. Well, Miss Schl... ...nd mewed. Lastly the river ap- peared, still holding the mists between its banks and its overhanging alders, and only visible as far as a hill, which ...

... or left into diningroom or drawing-room. Hall itself is practically a room. You open another door in it, and there are the stairs going up in a sort of tunnel to the first-floor. Three bed-rooms in a row there, and three attics in a row above. That isn?t all the house really, but it?s all that one notices--nine windows as you look up from the front garden....

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Walden, Or Life in the Woods

By: Henry David Thoreau

...Henry David Thoreau s or Life in the Woods This publication of Walden, or Life in the Woods is part of The Pennsylvania State Universit... ... Walden, or Life in the Woods by Henry David Thoreau 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 strong New England and com mercial scent, reminding me of the Grand Banks and the fisheries. Who has not seen a salt fish, thoroughly cured for... ... Where it ends. It fills a few hollows, And makes banks for the swallows, It sets the sand a blowing, ... ...ared over the shadow of his head at morning and evening, whether he was in Italy or France, and it was particularly conspicuous when the grass was moi... ... not very common on so large a scale, though the number of freshly exposed banks of the right material must have been greatly multiplied since railroa...

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Up from Slavery : An Autobiography

By: Booker Taliaferro Washington

...Up from Slavery: An Autobiography by Booker T. Washington is a publication of the Pennsyl- vania State University. This Portable Document file is fur... ...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... ...or, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Por- table Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...ce. The next day a letter came from two ladies who were then travelling in Italy, saying that they had decided to give us the money for such a chapel ... ...rs, books, statuary, carving, paintings, the management of drug-stores and banks, has not been trodden without contact with thorns and thistles. While... ...y which he wanted me to join him in an effort to close up all the National banks in the country. If that was done, he felt sure it would put the Negro...

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Essays

By: Ralph Waldo Emerson

...LASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Por- table Document file is furn... ...ty. This Por- table Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...make more account of them. I believe in Eternity. I can find Greece, Asia, Italy, Spain and the Islands, —the genius and creative principle of each an... ... want of self-culture that the superstition of Travelling, whose idols are Italy, England, Egypt, retains its fascination for all educated Americans. ... ...retains its fascination for all educated Americans. They who made England, Italy, or Greece venerable in the imagination did so by sticking fast where... ...re he so much admires in Homer; then in the Middle Age; then in Calvinism. Banks and tariffs, the newspaper and caucus, Methodism and Unitarianism, ar...

...Excerpt: History. There is one mind common to all individual men. Every man is an inlet to the same and to all of the same. He that is once admitted to the right of reason is made a freeman of the whole estate. What Plato has thought, he may think; what a saint has felt, he may feel; what at any time has befallen any man, he can under...

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Madame Bovary

By: Gustave Flaubert

...e Bovary by Gustave Flaubert, trans. Eleanor Marx-Aveling 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... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...es and the railings, yellow, violet, or blue. Working men, kneeling on the banks, washed their bare arms in the water. On poles projecting from the at... ...e women. A few steps from Emma a gentleman in a blue coat was talk- ing of Italy with a pale young woman wearing a parure of pearls. They were praisin... ... has naturally spread riverwards. It is seem from afar sprawling along the banks like a cowherd taking a siesta by the water-side. At the foot of the ... ...The river still flowed on, and slowly drove its ripples along the slippery banks. They had often walked there to the murmur of the waves over the moss...

...?Monsieur Roger, here is a pupil whom I recommend to your care; he?ll be in the second. If his work and conduct are satisfactory, he will go into one of the upper classes, as becomes his age.?...

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Inaugural Addresses of the Presidents of the United States from George Washington to Bill Clinton

... INAUGURAL ADDRESSES OF THE PRESIDENTS OF THE UNITED STATES is a publication of the Penn sylvania State Univer... ...ersity. This Portable Document File is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and i... ... for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. INAUGURAL ADDRESSES OF THE PRESIDENTS OF THE UNITED STATES , the Pennsylvania State Uni vers... ... the instru ment of sections, classes, and individuals. We need no national banks or other extraneous institutions planted around the Government to c... ...y and at such a low rate of interest as not to withdraw custom from existing banks. It will substantially increase the funds available for investment ... ... of rice in Burma and the planter of wheat in Iowa, the shepherd in southern Italy and the mountaineer in the Andes. It confers a common dignity upon ...

Excerpt: Inaugural addresses of the presidents of the United States.

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The French Revolution a History

By: Thomas Carlyle

...ATION The French Revolution: A History by Thomas Carlyle 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... ...or, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Docu- ment File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...h to Jardi; southward to Brienne,—for recovery of health. Then to Nice, to Italy; but shall return; shall glide to and fro, tremulous, faint-twinkling... ... true art thou, were all else untrue! The great Titan walks silent, by the banks of the murmuring Aube, in young native haunts that knew him when a bo...

...E ................................................................................................................................ 12 BOOK 1.I. DEATH OF LOUIS XV. ........................................................................................................................... 12 Chapter 1.1.I. Louis the Well-Beloved. .................................................

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What Is Man and Other Essays of Mark Twain

By: Mark Twain

...WHAT IS MAN? WHAT IS MAN? AND OTHER ESSAYS OF MARK TWAIN (Samuel Langhorne Clemens, 1835 1910) What Is Man and Other ... ...Man and Other Essays by Mark T wain (Samuel L. Clemens) 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 ... ...ms of sympathy are flowing in, from far and wide, now, just as they did in Italy five years and a half ago, when this child’s mother laid down her bla... ...oming up with his tr oming up with his tr oming up with his tr oops on the banks of the Rubic oops on the banks of the Rubic oops on the banks of the ... ... oops on the banks of the Rubic oops on the banks of the Rubic oops on the banks of the Rubic oops on the banks of the Rubic on, on, on, on, on, he ha... ...aesar Borgia as a mirror for rulers. What Machiavelli beheld round him in Italy was a civic disorder in which there was oppression without statecraft... ... and Imitations on Immortal ity. Gibbon wrote a history of his travels in Italy. This was original. George Eliot left a wife and children who mourned... ...stratford court ; just as a bright lad like me, reared in a village on the banks of the Mississippi, might become perfect in knowledge of the Bering S...

............................................................................................................................................ 4 THE DEATH OF JEAN ............................................................................................................................................ 75 THE TURNING-POINT OF MY LIFE ...............................................

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The Chaplet of Pearls

By: Charlotte Mary Yonge

...E M.YONGE A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Chaplet of Pearls by Charlotte M. Yonge is a publication of the Pennsylvania State ... ...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... ...ent or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Chaplet of Pearls by Charlotte M. Yonge, the Pennsylvania State University, Electro... ... the escort, she had only to observe whether his reminiscences had gone to Italy or to Flanders in order to be able to put in the appropriate remarks ... ...r feet in the water so as to be sheltered by the boughs that hung over the banks, while he used his ling strides to enable him to double back and ente... ...els again formed the nucleus of the bundle of clothes and spare swaddling- banks of her babe; her peasant dress was carefully arranged— a stout stripe... ...turned Master Hobbs, without taking his gaze off the coast, ‘but by yonder banks and creeks this should be the Sables d’Olonne; and I do not see the s... ...o his hands—’wearing a mask and gloves. It is, he says, in my own land, in Italy,’ and as the boy made the action of rowing, ‘in the territory of Veni... ...complexion, and, moreover, that Henry was lingering to take his pastime in Italy to the great inconvenience of his kingdom. Her next question came nea...

...Preface: It is the fashion to call every story controversial that deals with times when controversy or a war of religion was raging; but it should be remembered that there are some which only attempt to portray human feelings as affected by the events that such warfare occasioned. ?Old Mortality? and ?Woodstock? are not controversia...

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Jerusalem Delivered

By: Torquato Tasso

...T orquato T asso (1544-1595) Gerusalemme Liberata Published 1581 in Parma, Italy Translated by Edward Fairfax(1560-1635) Translation First Published i... ...alem Delivered (Gerusalemme Liberata) by Torquato Tasso (first pub. Parma, Italy 1581), trans. Edward Fairfax (London 1600) is a publication of the Pe... .... Parma, Italy 1581), trans. Edward Fairfax (London 1600) 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 per- son using this document file, for any purpose, and in... ...alem Delivered (Gerusalemme Liberata) by Torquato Tasso (first pub. Parma, Italy 1581), trans. Edward Fairfax (London 1600), the Pennsylvania State Un... ...or, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Document File pro- duced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...e with that wind. XLIX Well might you read his sickness in his eyes, Their banks were full, their tide was at the flow, His help far off, his hurt wit... ...in could forslow Their hasty pace, or stop their march at all; So when his banks the prince of rivers, Po, Doth overswell, he breaks with hideous fall... ... wind, Till on some secret rock unwares we light, The sea of glory hath no banks assigned, They who are wont to win in every fight Still feed the fire...

Excerpt: Jerusalem Delivered (Gerusalemme Liberata) by Torquato Tasso (first pub. Parma, Italy 1581), translated by Edward Fairfax (London 1600).

...Index A A blow felled Artaxerxes, with a thrust 466 A branch of Est there in the Guelfian tree 392 A bugle small he winded loud and shrill, 162 ?A burning fire, so are those deserts charmed, 307 A Christian once, Macon he now adores, 27 A dreadful thunder-clap at last he heard, 402 A f...

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History of the Britons

By: Nennius

...Britons (Historia Brittonum) by Nennius Translated by J. A. Giles History of the Britons (Historia Brittonum) by Nennius, trans. J.A. Giles is a publ... ...ritons (Historia Brittonum) by Nennius, trans. J.A. Giles 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... ...aph, is omitted in several MSS. 8 History of the Britons Latinus, king of Italy, and of the race of Silvanus, the son of Inachus, the son of Dardanus... ...his Silvius was the son of Aeneas and Lavinia, the daughter of the king of Italy. From the sons of Aeneas and Lavinia descended Romulus and Remus, who... ...e family of Brutus. Aeneas, after the T rojan war, arrived with his son in Italy; and Having vanquished T urnus, married Lavinia, the daugh- ter of ki... ...ween the two mouths: he built also a round house of polished stones on the banks of the river Carun [Carron]: he likewise erected a triumphal arch, on... ...brought up and educated by St. Germanus. He built a large monastery on the banks of the river Renis, called after his name, and which remains to the p... ...on, Guotelin, were four brothers, who built Gloiuda, a great city upon the banks of the river Severn, and in Birtish is called Cair Gloui, in Saxon, G...

...Prologue: Nennius, the lowly minister and servant of the servants of God, by the grace of God, disciple of St. Elbotus, to all the followers of truth sendeth health. Be it known to your charity, that being dull in intellect and rude of speech, I have presumed to deliver thes...

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The Aeneid of Virgil

By: Virgil

...The Aeneid of Virgil The Aeneid by Virgil is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Docu ment file is furn... ...ty. This Portable Docu ment file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this docu ment file, for any purpose, and i... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18201 1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...n am I vanquish’d? must I yield?” said she, “And must the Trojans reign in Italy? So Fate will have it, and Jove adds his force; Nor can my pow’r dive... ..., abhorr’d by me, With prosp’rous passage cut the Tuscan sea; T o fruitful Italy their course they steer, And for their vanquish’d gods design new tem... ... thy pow’r incense? Or what, alas! is vanish’d Troy’s offense? Our hope of Italy not only lost, On various seas by various tempests toss’d, But shut f... ...m’rous train And pomp of guards, ascends the sacred fane. Such on Eurotas’ banks, or Cynthus’ height, Diana seems; and so she charms the sight, When i... ...ith hasty fear; Then rous’d his drowsy train without delay: “Haste to your banks; your crooked anchors weigh, And spread your flying sails, and stand ... ...ike a tow’ring city stands; Three Trojans tug at ev’ry lab’ring oar; Three banks in three degrees the sailors bore; Beneath their sturdy strokes the b...

... Latian realm, and built the destin?d town; His banish?d gods restor?d to rites divine, And settled sure succession in his line, From whence the race of Alban fathers come, And the long glories of majestic Rome....

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The History of the Thirty Years' War in Germany

By: Friedrich Schiller

...son, M.A. A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The History of the Thirty Years’ War by Friedrich Schiller Translated by the Rev. A. J.... ...h Schiller Translated by the Rev. A. J. W. Morrison, M.A. 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... ...ch, from the interior of Bohemia to the mouth of the Scheldt, and from the banks of the Po to the coasts of the Baltic, devastated whole countries, de... ...ned to make the Austrian princes zeal- ous supporters of popery. Spain and Italy, from 11 Friedrich Schiller which Austria derived its principal stre... ...of Charles V., still further enforced by peculiar and personal motives. In Italy this monarch had a formidable rival in the King of France, under whos... ...wiss is arrayed against Swiss; German against German, to determine, on the banks of the Loire and the Seine, the succession of the French crown. The D... ...rmy, led by the king in person, was to meet the troops of the Union on the banks of the Rhine, and to assist in effecting the conquest of Juliers and ... ...rs and Cleves; then, in conjunction with the Germans, it was to march into Italy, (where Savoy, Venice, and the Pope were even now ready with a pow- e...

...Preface: The present is the only collected edition of the principal works of Schiller which is accessible to English readers. Detached poems or dramas have been translated at various times, and sometimes by men of eminence, since the first publication of the original works; a...

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Selected Writings

By: Guy de Maupassant

...Selected Writings by Guy De Maupassant Short Stories of the T ragedy and Comedy of Life with a Critical Preface by Paul Bourget ... ... Series Publication Selected Writings by Guy de Maupassant: Short Stories of the Tragedy and Comedy of Life with acritical preface by Paul Bourget of... ... French Academy and an introduction by Robert Arnot, M.A. is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...dden turf, and at the swollen Andelle beyond it, which was overflowing its banks, and he was drumming a waltz from the Rhine on the window-panes, with... ... dark, silent, mo- tionless, not a breath of air and not a star, but heavy banks of clouds which one could not see, but which weighed, oh! so heavily ... ... old women who haunt the tables d’hote of every hotel in Europe, who spoil Italy, poison Switzerland, render the charm- ing cities of the Mediterranea... ...es, when I was working among the rocks, I would suddenly descry her on the banks of the Falaise standing like a semaphore signal. She gazed passionate... ...vel, and I followed their counsel. II. I began by making an excursion into Italy. The sunshine did me much good. For six months I wan- dered about fro... ...elected Writings two years, however, her lover left her in a town in North Italy, almost without means. She was thinking of going on the stage, when c...

...Excerpt: Selected Writings by Guy de Maupassant: Short Stories of the Tragedy and Comedy of Life with a critical preface by Paul Bourget of the French Academy and an introduction by Robert Arnot, M.A....

........................................................................................................................................... 22 AN AFFAIR OF STATE............................................................................................................................................... 36 THE ARTIST ..............................................................

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War and Peace

By: Leo Tolstoy, Graf

... Publication War and Peace: Book Thirteen by Leo Tolstoy is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Uni- versity. This Portable Document file is fur... ...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... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ... His activity at that time was no less astounding than it was in Egypt, in Italy, in Austria, and in Prussia. We do not know for certain in how far hi... ...first, the hoarfrost on the dusty grass, the Sparrow Hills, and the wooded banks above the winding river vanishing in the purple distance, when he fel...

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The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope

By: Gilfillan

...AN A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Volume Two is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Un... ...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 Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Volume T wo, the Pennsylvania State University, Electron... ... 180 A flowery lotus spreads its arms above, Shades all the banks, and seems itself a grove; 61 The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: ... ...That pleased a god, succeeded to her arms. ‘A lake there was with shelving banks around, Whose verdant summit fragrant myrtles crown’d. These shades, ... ...ities send the sound. Oete, with high Parnassus, heard the voice; Eurotas’ banks remurmur’d to the noise; Again Leucothoë shook at these alarms, And p... ...to, since it is most clear it was by winds that he arrived at the shore of Italy. Jactatus, in the third, is surely as improperly applied to terris, a...

Excerpt: The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Volume Two.

...Contents THE GENIUS AND POETRY OF POPE........................................................................................ 7 MORAL ESSAYS .....................................................................................................................

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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 ... ... P UBLICATION The Kalevala trans. John Martin Crawford 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... ...is spot he knows no master.” The Finnish deities, like the ancient gods of Italy and Greece, are generally represented in pairs, and all the gods are ... ...e many deeps of ocean; Where upon her side she turned her, There the level banks have risen; Where her head was pointed landward, There appeared wide ... ... In the moist earth sows the willow, Mountain ash in virgin places, On the banks of streams the hawthorn, Junipers in hilly regions; This the work of ... ...ourses, May extend the vault of heaven Over every lake and river, O’er the banks of every island. Groves arose in varied beauty, Beautifully grew the ...

...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, social, and religious life, seems to be calle...

...INBOW ............................................................................................................................. 87 RUNE IX ORIGIN OF IRON.................................................................................................................................................... 92 RUNE X ILMARINEN FORGES THE SAMPO ...................................

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On Liberty

By: John Stuart Mill

... On Liberty by John Stuart Mill is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document File is furn... ...ersity. This Portable Document File is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any Any Any Any Any person using this document file, for an... ...Editor, Hazleton, PA 18201 1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of lit... ...uther, wherever perse cution was persisted in, it was successful. In Spain, Italy, Flanders, the Austrian empire, Protestantism was rooted out; and, ... ...ne should complain of the Niagara river for not flowing smoothly between its banks like a Dutch canal. On Liberty — Mill 76 I insist thus emphatical... ...party which aims at becoming the government. If the roads, the railways, the banks, the insurance offices, the great joint stock companies, the univer...

...Excerpt: The subject of this essay is not the so-called Liberty of the Will, so unfortunately opposed to the mis-named doctrine of Philosophical Necessity; but Civil, or Social Liberty: the nature and limits of the power which can be legitimately...

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The Works of Edgar Allan Poe in Five Volumes Volume Five

By: Edgar Allan Poe

...Volume Five A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Works of Edgar Allan Poe in Five Volumes: Volume Five is a publication of the Pen... ...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... ...ument or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Works of Edgar Allan Poe in Five Volumes: Volume Five, the Pennsylvania State Uni... ...o spend a fortnight with him in the retirement of his cottage ornee on the banks of the Hudson. We had here around us all the ordinary means of summer... ... in hand, at an open window, commanding, through a long vista of the river banks, a view of a distant hill, the face of which nearest my position had ... ...s garden was enchanted!) The pearly lustre of the moon went out: The mossy banks and the meandering paths, The happy flowers and the repining trees, W... ...he zephyr comes Laden from yonder bowers!—a fairer day, Or one more worthy Italy, methinks No mortal eyes have seen!—what said the Count? Bal. That he...

Excerpt: The Works of Edgar Allan Poe in Five Volumes: Volume Five.

...Contents PHILOSOPHY OF FURNITURE .................................................................................................................................. 6 A TALE OF JERUSALEM ..............................................................

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Thus Spake Zarathustra

By: Friedrich Nietzsche

...ke Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche, trans. Thomas Common is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furn... ...ersity. 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... ...ditor, Hazleton, PA 18201- 1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of lit... ...the greatest fool to allow my courage to be sapped from me by the climate of Italy. Now and again I am troubled by the thought: What next? My ‘future’... ...nd a night of dark trees: but he who is not afraid of my darkness, will find banks full of roses under my cypresses. And even the little God may he fi... ...erald rapture: If my wickedness be a laughing wickedness, at home among rose-banks and hedges of lilies: —For in laughter is all evil present, but it ... ...ncy! Ineffable! Recondite! Sore-frighten- ing! Thou huntsman ‘hind the cloud-banks! Now light- ning-struck by thee, Thou mocking eye that me in dark- ...

............................................................................................................................. 33 II. THE ACADEMIC CHAIRS OF VIRTUE................................................................................................................. 35 III. BACKWORLDSMEN ...................................................................................

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Catherine : A Story

By: William Makepeace Thackeray

...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... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...N CHEPE ’TWA S NOONDA Y IN CHEPE. High Tide in the mighty River City!— its banks wellnigh overflowing with the myriad-waved Stream of Man! The topplin... ...w a moss- grown ruin. The traveller of the present day, who wanders by the banks of the silvery Loire, and climbs the steep on which the magnificent e... ...cgillicuddy relate the following fact. The hours, as it is known, count in Italy from one to twenty-four: the day Mac landed at Naples his repeater ru... ... when chivalry was in full bloom, there occurred a little history upon the banks of the Rhine, which has been already written in a book, and hence mus...

...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...

.........67 A PLAN FOR A PRIZE NOVEL. ......................................................................................................74 THE DIARY OF C. JEAMES DE LA PLUCHE, ESQ., ...................................................................77 A LETTER FROM ?JEAMES, OF BUCKLEY SQUARE.? ............................................................80 THE DIARY. ........

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Twenty Three Tales

By: Leo Tolstoy, Graf

...SPARK NEGLECTED ....71 TWO OLD MEN ....86 WHERE LOVE IS, ....109 THE STORY OF IVÁN THE FOOL, .....122 EVIL ALLURES, BUT GOOD ENDURES ....149 LITTLE GI... .....188 THE REPENTANT SINNER ....206 THE EMPTY DRUM ....209 THE COFFEE HOUSE OF SURAT ....217 TOO DEAR! ....225 ESARHADDON, KING OF ASSYRIA ....230 WORK... ...Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy, trans. Louise and Aylmer Maude is a publication of the Pennsyl vania State University. This Portable Document File is furn... ...ne, the mighty God, and in His honour are built the temples on the Ganges’ banks, where his true priests, the Brahmins, worship him. They know the tru... ...ar inquiry to Twenty three Tales by Tolstoy : “Too Dear!” 226 the King of Italy. The French Government is republican, and has no proper respect for k... ...rnment is republican, and has no proper respect for kings; but the King of Italy was a brother monarch, and might be induced to do the thing cheaper. ...

...Excerpt: This volume is divided into seven parts. First we have Tales for Children, published about the year 1872, and reminding us of the time when Tolstoy was absorbed in efforts to educate the peasant children. This section of the book contains the two stories which of all that he has written Tolstoy likes best. In What is Art? he claims no place among...

...ONER IN THE CAUCASUS ....13 THE BEAR-HUNT ....40 WHAT MEN LIVE BY ....49 A SPARK NEGLECTED ....71 TWO OLD MEN ....86 WHERE LOVE IS, ....109 THE STORY OF IV?N THE FOOL, .....122 EVIL ALLURES, BUT GOOD ENDURES ....149 LITTLE GIRLS WISER THAN MEN ....152 ILY?S....154 PART V ....159 FOLK-TALES ....159 THE THREE HERMITS ....159 THE IMP AND THE CRUST ....166 HOW MUCH LAND DOES...

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War and Peace

By: Leo Tolstoy, Graf

...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... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...y thousand Austrians, with a hundred thousand Russians, were to operate in Italy and on the Rhine; how fifty thou- sand Russians and as many English w... ... Andrew remem- bered the story of Suvorov giving his saber to Bagration in Italy, and the recollection was particularly pleasant at that moment. They ... ...angeron’s and Dokhturov’s mingled forces were crowding around the dams and banks of the ponds near the village of Augesd. After five o’clock it was on... ...the little princess, and in this chapel was a marble monument brought from Italy, rep- resenting an angel with outspread wings ready to fly up- wards.... ... house lay behind a newly dug pond filled with water to the brink and with banks still bare of grass. It was at the end of a village that stretched al... ...him or laugh at what he said. They reached a river that had overflowed its banks and which they had to cross by ferry. While the carriage and horses w...

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Middlemarch

By: George Eliot

... Classics Series Publication Middlemarch by George Eliot is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Por- table Document file is furn... ...ty. This Por- table Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...rt of thing—there’s no telling,” said Mr. Brooke. “Shall you let him go to Italy, or wherever else he wants to go?” “Y es; I have agreed to furnish hi... ... Fred was gratified with nearly an hour’s practice of “Ar hyd y nos,” “Y e banks and braes,” and other favorite airs from his “Instructor on the Flute... ...iticising English states- manship: he would probably have been rambling in Italy sketch- ing plans for several dramas, trying prose and finding it too...

...Excerpt: Prelude. Who that cares much to know the history of man, and how the mysterious mixture behaves under the varying experiments of Time, has not dwelt, at least briefly, on the life of Saint Theresa, has not smiled with some gentleness at the thought of the little girl walkin...

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Middlemarch

By: George Eliot

...liot 1872 To my dear Husband, George Henry Lewes, in this nineteenth year of our blessed union. Contents Book I — Miss Brooke . . . . . . . . . . . ... ...arch 1 Book I Miss Brooke Prelude W ho that cares much to know the history of man, and how the mysterious mixture behaves under the varying experiment... ... man, and how the mysterious mixture behaves under the varying experiments of Time, has not dwelt, at least briefly, on the life of Saint Theresa, has ... ...rt of thing—there’s no telling,” said Mr. Brooke. “Shall you let him go to Italy, or wherever else he wants to go?” “Yes; I have agreed to furnish him... ...So Fred was gratified with nearly an hour’s practice of “Ar hyd y nos,” “Ye banks and braes,” and other favorite airs from his “Instructor on the Flute... ...criticising English statesmanship: he would probably have been rambling in Italy sketching plans for several dramas, trying prose and finding it too je...

...Excerpt: Prelude; Who that cares much to know the history of man, and how the mysterious mixture behaves under the varying experiments of Time, has not dwelt, at least briefly, on the life of Saint Theresa, has not smiled with some gentleness at the thought of the little girl walkin...

...Table of Contents: Book I ?Miss Brooke, 1 -- Prelude, 1 -- Chapter I., 3 -- Chapter II., 10 -- Chapter III., 16 -- Chapter IV., 25 -- Chapter V., 31 -- Chapter VI., 38 -- Chapter VII., 47 -- Chapter VIII., 51 -- Chapter IX., 55 -- ...

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