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...A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers by Henry David Thoreau A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publi... ...lectronic Classics Series Publication A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers by Henry David Thoreau is a publication of the Pennsylva nia Stat... ...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers by Henry David Thor... ...t to east; now expanded into the “tale divine” of bards, now shrunk into a popular rhyme. This is an approach to that universal lan guage which men h... ....” 52 AWeekontheConcordandMerrimackRivers One man says,— “The world’s a popular disease, that reigns Within the froward heart and frantic brains ... ...ion of the worthies of the world, betrays the narrowness of his Euro pean culture and the exclusiveness of his reading. None of her children has done... ...high Seems a calking the sky. The haze, the sun’s dust of travel, had a Lethean influence on the land and its inhabitants, and all creatures resign... ...the seed vessels of the poppy, like small goblets filled with the water of Lethe, be fore the door, but without disturbing the sluggish house hold b...

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....................................... 14 HELL .............................................................................. 16 CANTO I. Dante, astray in a wood, reaches the foot of a hill which he begins to ascend; he is hindered by three beasts; he turns back and is met by Virgil, who proposes to guide him into the eternal world. ....................................... 16...

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...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Divine Comedy, Volume One, Hell [The Inferno] by Dante Alig... ...n.—Nessus.—The Riv essus.—The Riv essus.—The Riv essus.—The Riv essus.—The River of Boiling B er of Boiling B er of Boiling B er of Boiling B er of Bo... ... in Cr r r r rete.—The Riv ete.—The Riv ete.—The Riv ete.—The Riv ete.—The Rivers of H ers of H ers of H ers of H ers of Hell. ell. ell. ell. ell. ...... ...I am broken by the rain. And I, wretched soul, am not alone, 1 Ciacco, in popular speech, signifies a hog. 31 Dante for all these endure like punish... ...Attila, but T otila, who in 542 besieged Florence, and, according to false popular tradition, burned it. The names and personages were frequently conf... ... bring wonder to thy face.” And I again, “Master, where are Phlegethon and Lethe found, for of the one thou art silent, and of the other thou sayest t... ...ut the boiling of the red water ought truly to solve one that thou askest. Lethe thou shalt see, but outside of this ditch, there where souls go to la... ...ing that way, the cruel virgin saw a land in the middle of the fen without culture and bare of inhabitants. There, to avoid all human fellowship, she ...

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...arge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk . Neither the Pennsylvania Stat... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an elec tronic transmission, in any way. The Divine Comedy of Dante Purgatory , Translated by H.F. C... ... shore Where Tyber’s wave grows salt, of him gain’d kind Admittance, at that river’s mouth, tow’rd which His wings are pointed, for there always thron... ...hat the land Contain’d not; and, as mightiest streams are wont, To the great river with such headlong sweep Rush’d, that nought stay’d its course. My ... ... such a growth has sprung Of rank and venom’d roots, as long would mock Slow culture’s toil. Where is good Lizio? where Manardi, Traversalo, and Carpi... ...pake me: “What from thee I hear Is grav’d so deeply on my mind, the waves Of Lethe shall not wash it off, nor make A whit less lively. But as now thy ... ...ools Talk on, who think the songster of Limoges O’ertops him. Rumour and the popular voice They look to more than truth, and so confirm Opinion, ere b... ...t to bring Remembrance back of every good deed done. From whence its name of Lethe on this part; On th’ other Eunoe: both of which must first Be taste... ...e more of kindly strength is in the soil, So much doth evil seed and lack of culture The Divine Comedy of Dante Purgatory 88 Mar it the more, and ...

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...Excerpt: CANTO I. In the midway of this our mortal life, I found me in a gloomy wood, astray Gone from the path direct: and e?en to tell It were no easy task, how savage wild That forest, how robust and rough its growth, Which to remember only...

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...arge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk . Neither the Pennsylvania Stat... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic trans mission, in any way. The Divine Comedy of Dante , Translated by H.F. Cary , the Pe... ...d with shame, Fearing my words offensive to his ear, Till we had reach’d the river, I from speech Abstain’d. And lo! toward us in a bark Comes on an ... ...e wrath of God, All here together come from every clime, And to o’erpass the river are not loth: For so heaven’s justice goads them on, that fear Is t... ...ooks.” Then I again inquir’d: “Where flow the streams Of Phlegethon and Lethe? for of one Thou tell’st not, and the other of that shower, Thou sa... ...’d I hear. Yet the red seething wave might have resolv’d One thou proposest. Lethe thou shalt see, But not within this hollow, in the place, Whither t... ...ed to in the Paradise, Canto II. 52. The curious reader may consult Brand on Popular Antiquities, 4to. 1813. vol. ii. p. 476. The Divine Comedy of D... ... such a growth has sprung Of rank and venom’d roots, as long would mock Slow culture’s toil. Where is good Lizio? where Manardi, Traversalo, and Carpi... ...ools Talk on, who think the songster of Limoges O’ertops him. Rumour and the popular voice They look to more than truth, and so confirm Opinion, ere b...

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...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson, the Pennsylvania State Universit... ...ng character, yea further in every fact and circum- stance,—in the running river and the rustling corn. Praise is looked, homage tendered, love flows,... ...triots in the Retreat of the Ten Thousand. “After the army had crossed the river Teleboas in Armenia, there fell much snow, and the troops lay mis- er... ...of hundreds, whose affections must now enter into his account. There is no Lethe for this. Ah, that he could pass again into his neutrality! Who can t... ... secur- ing of his bread to each shareholder, to surrender the liberty and culture of the eater. The virtue in most re- quest is conformity. Self-rel... ... and sold; for them I will go to prison if need be; but your miscellaneous popular charities; the education at college of fools; the building of meeti... ... which by and by I shall have the manhood to withhold. Virtues are, in the popular estimate, rather the excep- tion than the rule. There is the man an... ...g to the old belief stands at the door by which we enter, and gives us the lethe to drink, that we may tell no tales, mixed the cup too strongly, and ...

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...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Volume T wo, the Pennsylv... ...s religious creed, his po- litical connexions, his easy circumstances, his popularity with the upper classes, as well as his testy temper and maliciou... ...ire of Pope. He is still, with the exception, perhaps, of Cowper, the most popular poet of the eighteenth century. His “Essay on Man,” and his “Eloisa... ...lowing elements to be analysed:—His original genius—his kind and degree of culture—his purpose—his special faculties—the works he has written—and the ... ...like motion of Milton’s loftier passages; or the gliding, pausing, fitful, river-like progress of Shakspeare’s verse; or the fretted fury, and “torren... ... 200 Back to his bonds their subject sea command, And roll obedient rivers through the land; These honours, peace to happy Britain brings, Thes... ...branch of Styx here rises from the shades, That, tinctured as it runs with Lethe’s streams, 219 The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: V ol. 2 And waf... ... led by a mad poetical Sibyl, to the Elysian shade; where, on the banks of Lethe, the souls of the dull are dipped by Bavius, before their entrance in...