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...what will happen when Paul (younger son) arrives tomorrow. From hall you go right 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 tha...

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...Howards End by E. M. Forster A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Howards End by E.M. Fo... ...ate Electronic Classics Series Publication Howards End by E.M. Forster is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Por- table Documen... ...nic Classics Series, Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, Hazleton, PA 18202-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication... ... be- cause we associate them with expensive hotels—Mrs. Wilcox trailing in beautiful dresses down long cor- ridors, Mr. Wilcox bullying porters, etc. ... ...ubject. “This long letter is because I’m writing before breakfast. Oh, the beautiful vine leaves! The house is covered with a vine. I looked out earli... ...nd say so—at least, Mr. Wilcox does—and when that happens, and one doesn’t mind, it’s a pretty sure test, isn’t it? He says the most horrid things abo... ... sort? Are they likely people? Could they appre- ciate Helen, who is to my mind a very special sort of person? Do they care about Literature and Art? ... ...of these Wilcoxes by asking one of your im- petuous questions—not that one minds offending them.” “I shall ask no questions. I have it in Helen’s writ... ...estions, plans, lines of action—no, Aunt Juley, no.” Away she hurried, not beautiful, not supremely brilliant, but filled with something that took the...

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...ll and powerful voices to be heard. The students who read these essays will learn that they too have permission to state what is important to them in a public voice....

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...... 10 My Earliest Memory......................................................................................................................... 12 A Modest Proposal ............................................................................................................................ 14 A Stay in Greece .................................................................

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... #3 Faculty Editor Jim Manis Student Editor Paul Surdi The Best of Four is a publication of The Pennsylvania State University. The Pennsylvania Univer... ............................................................. ............ 12 A Modest Proposal ............................................................ ........................................................... .............. 14 A Stay in Greece ............................................................. ... tone appropriate for a college au- dience. Throughout the magazine we re- mind students to examine their handbooks on a regular basis. Almost all que... ...ription. Try to write words that create memorable pictures in the readers’ minds. Precision, being exact, this is the hallmark of college writing. Thi... ...eece also boasts some of the best beaches the world has to offer, with its beautiful white sand, crystal clear water, and the warm Mediterranean clima... ... abundance of wonderful things to offer. Whether it is ancient Greece, the beautiful beaches, or the ability to experience several different cultures ... ...es in the middle, break them up with an additional short sentence. Keep in mind, as a rule long sentences take more time to read and thus slow the pac... ... with a comma. The comma “splices” —joins to gether—seperate ideas like a film editor splices together strips of film: two scenes that were made to s...

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............................. 4 THE THOUSAND-AND-SECOND TALE OF SCHEHERAZADE......................................................................... 21 A DESCENT INTO THE MAELSTR™M. ............................................................................................................... 39 VON KEMPELEN AND HIS DISCOVERY.....................................................

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...THE WORKS OF EDGAR ALLAN POE IN FIVE VOLUMES Volume Two A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Works of Edgar All... ...s Publication The Works of Edgar Allan Poe in Five Volumes: Volume Two is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document ... ...nic Classics Series, Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication... ... G—, what of the purloined letter? I presume you have at last made up your mind that there is no such thing as overreaching the Minister?” 11 V olume... ...like to say how much, precisely; but one thing I will say, that I wouldn’t mind giving my individual check for fifty thousand francs to any one who co... ...ssion of his, and then wait to see what thoughts or sentiments arise in my mind or heart, as if to match or correspond with the expression.’ This resp... ... makes a vow, by his beard and the prophet, to espouse each night the most beautiful maiden in his dominions, and the next morning to deliver her up t... ...— when she would and did marry him, I say, will I, nill I, it was with her beautiful black eyes as thoroughly open as the nature of the case would all... ...accomplished and refined; and would be every thing that is interesting and beautiful, but for an unhappy fatality that besets them, and from which not...

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...d into English by Sir Thomas Urquhart of Cromarty and Peter Antony Motteux A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Five Books of the Live... ...r Francis Rabelais, trans. Sir Thomas Urquhart and Peter Antony Motteux is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document ... ...nic Classics Series, Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, Hazleton, PA 18202-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication... .... He is of those that die hard. Be as fastidious as you will; make up your mind to recognize only those who are, without any manner of doubt, beyond a... ...the encyclopaedic movement of the Renaissance was attracting all the lofty minds. Rabelais threw himself into it with enthusiasm, and Latin antiquity ... .... A later work than any of his, the Novelle of Bandello, should be kept in mind—for the writer was Bishop of Agen, and his work was translated into Fr... ...he would cast some into the backs of those women whom he judged to be most beautiful and stately, which did so ticklishly gall them, that some would s... ...oman gentleman encountering by chance, at the foot of Mount Celion, with a beautiful Latin lady named Verona, who from her very cradle upwards had alw... ... of that horned cattle, then may I conclude with an Ergo, thy wife will be beautiful, and Ergo, thou wilt be kindly used by her. Likewise with this Er...

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...: Jim Manis Student Editor: Paul Surdi The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. The Pennsylvania State ... ... The Tragedy of Romeo & Juliet Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity. This Portable Docume... ...ia State University, Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication... ... the worshipp’d sun Peer’d forth the golden window of the east, A troubled mind drave me to walk abroad; Where, underneath the grove of sycamore That ... ...more: These happy masks that kiss fair ladies’ brows Being black put us in mind they hide the fair; He that is strucken blind cannot forget The precio... ...s of the moonshine’s watery beams, Her whip of cricket’s bone, the lash of film, Her wagoner a small grey coated gnat, Not so big as a round little wo... ...is an empty hazel nut Made by the joiner squirrel or old grub, Time out o’ mind the fairies’ coachmakers. And in this state she gallops night by night... ...ent heart, hid with a flowering face! Did ever dragon keep so fair a cave? Beautiful tyrant! fiend angelical! Dove feather’d raven! wolvish ravening...

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... The Georgics & The Eclogues of Virgil is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Documen... ...ania State University, Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, Hazleton, PA 18201 1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publicati... ...to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them, and as such is a part of the Pennsylvania State University’s Electronic Classics Series.... ... And first was he by human skill to rouse The slumbering glebe, whetting the minds of men With care on care, nor suffering realm of his In drowsy slot... ... edges, nor the moon As borrowing of her brother’s beams to rise, Nor fleecy films to float along the sky. Not to the sun’s warmth then upon the shore... ...owers spins rattling on the roof. And this yet more ‘twill boot thee bear in mind, When now, his course upon Olympus run, He draws to his decline: for... ...oods and waves Lycaean. All themes beside, Which else had charmed the vacant mind with song, Are now waxed common. Of harsh Eurystheus who The story k... ... she wept to see me go, And, lingering on the word, ‘farewell’ she said, ‘My beautiful Iollas, fare you well.’” THE ECLOGUES 79 DAMOETAS “Fell as the... ... Myrtle nor bay the hazel shall out vie.” THYRSIS “Ash in the forest is most beautiful, Pine in the garden, poplar by the stream, Fir on the mountain ...

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...THREE SOLDIERS BY JOHN DOS PASSOS A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION Three Soldiers by John... ...ECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION Three Soldiers by John Dos Passos is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document ... ...ectronic Classics Series, Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, Hazleton, PA 18202 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication... ...ange it was that he was not thinking of anything. In the last few days his mind seemed to have become a hard meaningless core. “How long do we have to... .... As he worked a rhythm began pushing its way through the hard core of his mind, leavening it, making it fluid. It expressed the vast dusty dullness, ... ...th from making themselves the same length as mil- lions of other legs. His mind began unconsciously , from habit, working on it, orchestrating it. He ... ...an, he would sit at the piano playing, like Chopin in the engraving, while beautiful women wept and men with long, curly hair hid their faces in their... ...adimerzels, won’t we, kid?” said Bill Grey, slapping Fuselli on the knee. “Beautiful Katy, Ki-Ki-Katy, You’re the only gugugu-girl that I adore; An... ...ith borders of little roses on them, seemed, after the army mess, the most beautiful things Fuselli had ever seen. The wine bottle was black beside th...

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...The Aeneid of Virgil The Aeneid by Virgil is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Docu men... ...ia State University, Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, Hazleton, PA 18201 1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication... ... free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them, and as such is a part of the Pennsylvania State University’s Electronic Classics Series. C... ...fe in endless cares, Expos’d to wants, and hurried into wars! Can heav’nly minds such high resentment show, Or exercise their spite in human woe? Agai... ...’ring Greece against the Trojan state. Besides, long causes working in her mind, And secret seeds of envy, lay behind; Deep graven in her heart the do... ...ch was a cause alone; and all combin’d T o kindle vengeance in her haughty mind. For this, far distant from the Latian coast She drove the remnants of... ...ruction brought. Now cast your eyes around, while I dissolve The mists and films that mortal eyes involve, Purge from your sight the dross, and make y... ...r The blaze of arms, and shields, and shining war. The troops, drawn up in beautiful array, O’er heathy plains pursue the ready way. Repeated peals of...

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...PHY OF FURNITURE .................................................................................................................................. 6 A TALE OF JERUSALEM ........................................................................................................................................... 12 THE SPHINX.......................................................

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...THE WORKS OF EDGAR ALLAN POE IN FIVE VOLUMES Volume Five A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Works of Edgar All... ... Publication The Works of Edgar Allan Poe in Five Volumes: Volume Five is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document... ...nic Classics Series, Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication... ...ppurtenances would be so likely as with us, to create an impression of the beautiful in respect to the ap- purtenances themselves—or of taste as regar... ...abinets of our friends across the water. Even now, there is present to our mind’s eye a small and not, ostentatious chamber with whose decorations no ... ...et us hasten: for this gener- osity in the heathen is unwonted; and fickle-mindedness has ever been an attribute of the worshippers of Baal.” “‘That t... ...ever been an attribute of the worshippers of Baal.” “‘That they are fickle-minded and treacherous is as true as the Pentateuch,” said Buzi-Ben-Levi, “... ...ting of his lips, and the innocent folding of his limbs. His eyes are more beautiful than the jewels of the Pectoral, and his flesh is like the honey ... ...strong glare of a lamp, I perceived that his linen, although dirty, was of beautiful texture; and my vision deceived me, or, through a rent in a close...

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...THE WORKS OF EDGAR ALLAN POE IN FIVE VOLUMES Volume Four A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Works of Edgar All... ... Publication The Works of Edgar Allan Poe in Five Volumes: Volume Four is a publication of the Pennsylva- nia State University. This Portable Docume... ...nic Classics Series, Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication... ... carving about it, with but a trifling variety of pattern for, time out of mind, the carvers of V ondervotteimittiss have never been able to carve mor... ...nd in the steeple is the belfry, where exists, and has existed time out of mind, the pride and wonder of the village—the great clock of the borough of... ...the back of her chair. I approached the artist and turned up my nose. “Oh, beautiful!” sighed her Grace. “Oh my!” lisped the Marquis. “Oh, shocking!” ... ...sand pounds?” inquired the artist, musingly. “A thousand pounds,” said I. “Beautiful!” said he, entranced. “A thousand pounds,” said I. “Do you warran... ... West. I must do him the justice to say, however, that when he made up his mind finally to settle in that town, it was under the im- pression that no ... ...(?) of him (the “Gazette”) a leading article, of some extent, in which the beautiful vowel— the emblem of Eternity—yet so offensive to the hyper-exqui...

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...s Experienced Midwife, his Book of Problems and his Remarks on Physiognomy A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The Works of Aristotle... ...RONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The Works of Aristotle, trans. Anon. is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document... ...ectronic Classics Series, Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, Hazleton, PA 18202 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication... ...ood, which is no longer to augment their bodies, abounding, stirs up their minds to venery. External causes may also incline them to it; for their spi... ...the mother; for if she fix her eyes upon any object it will so impress her mind, that it oftentimes so happens that the child has a representation the... ... if in act of copulation, the woman earnestly look on the man, and fix her mind on him, the child will resemble its father. Nay, if a woman, even in u... ...time. Both these proceed from an ill constitution of body. Ev- erything is beautiful in its order, in nature as well as in mo- rality; and if the orde... ...ndition and quality hath a man of a sanguine complexion? A. It is fair and beautiful; hath his hair for the most part smooth; is bold; retaineth that ... ...to be of a long life, a desirer of novelties, and things that are fair and beautiful, but of a high spirit, and one that will have his humour in all t...

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... Thus Spake Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche, trans. Thomas Common is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Documen... ...onic Classics Series, Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, Hazleton, PA 18201- 1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publicati... ................................................................ 63 XVII. THE W A Y OF THE CREA TING ONE ................................................... ...est hopes and remotest aims. My brother had the figure of Zarathustra in his mind from his very earliest youth: he once told me that even as a child h... ...ersonality, were early 8 Thus Spake Zarathustra conceptions of my brother’s mind. Whoever reads his post- humously published writings for the years 1... ...ct of the resentment of the botched and the weak, has put in ban all that is beautiful, strong, proud, and powerful, in fact all the qualities resulti... ...untries and corners of the ideal known hitherto, a world so over-rich in the beautiful, the strange, the questionable, the fright- ful, and the divine... ... the sacred place where the first thought of ‘Zarathustra’ flashed across my mind, I con- ceived the second part. Ten days sufficed. Neither for the s... ... strive against each other, the divinely striving ones.— Thus, steadfast and beautiful, let us also be enemies, my friends! Divinely will we strive ag...