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...nder Pope A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Odyssey of Homer trans. Alexander Pope 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... ...anxiety to acquire. And this difficulty attaches itself more closely to an age in which progress has gained a strong ascendency over preju dice, and ... ...e union was a girl named Critheis. The girl was left an orphan at an early age, under the guard ianship of Cleanax, of Argos. It is to the indiscreti... ...e wrote memoirs of all that he deemed worthy of preservation. Hav ing set sail from Tyrrhenia and Iberia, they reached Ithaca. Here Melesigenes, who ... ...yssey of Homer to set out for Chios. No vessel happened then to be setting sail thither, but he found one ready to start for Erythrae, a town of Ionia... ...vernments, the close military array, the improved 19 Pope construction of ships, the Amphiktyonic convocations, the mutual frequentation of religious... ...eep circumfluent waves embrace; A duteous people, and industrious isle, To naval arts inured, and stormy toil. Freighted with iron from my native land... ...hou to the court ascend : and to the shores (When night advances) bear the naval stores; Bread, that decaying man with strength supplies, And generous...

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...Excerpt: Preface To The American Edition. On the death of Fleeming Jenkin, his family and friends determined to publish a selection of his various papers; by way of introduction, the following pages were drawn up; and the whole, forming two considerable volumes, has been issued i...

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...Excerpt: Dedication. Bob Southey! You?re a poet -- Poet-laureate, And representative of all the race, Although ?t is true that you turn?d out a Tory at Last,-- yours has lately been a common case; And now, my Epic Renegade! what are ye at? With all the Lakers, in and out of place? A nest of tuneful persons, t...

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...Preface: In which it is proved that, notwithstanding their names? ending in os and is, the heroes of the story which we are about to have the honor to relate to our readers have nothing mythological about them....

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...338 XLVIII 347 Part I Chapter I A BOUT thirty years ago, Miss Maria Ward of Huntingdon, with only seven thousand pounds, had the good luck to ca... ...only seven thousand pounds, had the good luck to captivate Sir Thomas Bertram, of Mansfield Park, in the county of Northampton, and to be thereby raise... ...to undertake the care of her eldest daughter, a girl now nine years old, of an age to require more attention than her poor mother could possibly give?... ...duty by her, and she will at least have the advantage of companions of her own age, and of a regular instructress.” “Very true,” cried Mrs. Norris, “w... ...e seemed to want her; but William determining, soon after her removal, to be a sailor, was invited to spend a week with his sister in Northamptonshire... ... fession, and might perceive that I am neither a lawyer, nor a soldier, nor a sailor.” “Very true; but, in short, it had not occurred to me. And you ... ...ral, in having for many years taken in the paper esteemed to have the earliest naval intelligence. He proved, however, to be too late. All those fine fi... ...e gentlemen, as they stood at the door, could do more than begin upon the last naval regulations, or settle the number of three deckers now in commiss... ...influence of such a sky, the effects of the shadows pursuing each other, on the ships at Spithead and the island beyond, with the ever varying hues of ...

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...NSON A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Familiar Studies of Men and Books by Robert Louis Stevenson is a publication of the Pennsylv... ...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 right road; yet I cannot help feeling that in this attempt to trim my sails be- tween an author whom I love and honour and a public too averse to... ...beyond his first. And just as the most imbecile production of any literary age gives us sometimes the very clue to comprehension we have sought long a... ...id nothing about them. But Scott’s instinct, the instinct of the man of an age pro- foundly different, taught him otherwise; and, in his work, the ind... ... are of a sort that is really indifferent in art. If Shakespeare makes his ships cast anchor by some seaport of Bohemia, if Hugo imagines T om- Tim-Ja... ...ia, if Hugo imagines T om- Tim-Jack to be a likely nickname for an English sailor, or if either Shakespeare, or Hugo, or Scott, for that matter, be gu... ...uperficial, even at command; he could not swoop into a parlour and, in the naval phrase, “cut out” a human being from that dreary port; nor had he inc... ... rigging of ships from a model; and “looking and improving himself of the (naval) stores with” – hark to the fellow! -”great delight.” His familiar sp...