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...r school affairs, Fred? How did the examination go off?” “I am fourth, and Alex Langford fifth. Every one says the prize will lie between us next year... ...m now if it had not been for my verses.” “I know Beatrice is very proud of Alexander,” said Henrietta, “she would make a great deal of his success.” “... ...deed, Uncle Geoffrey says he thinks it was in great part owing to her that Alex is different from the rest. At least he began to think him worth culti... ...usy Bee perched up together in an apple-tree, she telling him the story of Alexander the Great. And how she always talks about Alex when she is here.”... ...atin, marbles, and trap-ball, and Frederick playing with dolls and working cross-stitch; and even now the custom was so far continued, that he gave le... ...t any one knows or suspects.” “Ah! I know among other things that he sends Alexander to school,” said Fred. “Yes, and the improvements at Knight Sutto... ...e calmness of the voice, and the serenity of the tranquil countenance. She crossed to her mother, and sat down on a low footstool, leaning against her... ...s old friend. “And no lamps?” “O, we know the way blindfold, and you might cross Sutton Heath a dozen times without meeting anything but a wheel- barr... ...e in front of the altar is a space, where I really think we might make the cross and ‘I H S’ in holly?” “But could you, Henrietta?” asked Beatrice. “O...

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...going to Moab to-morrow.” “Well,” I replied, “I don’t know whether I shall cross the water. It’s not very easy, I take it, at all times; but I shall c... ...ing the spot at which our Saviour is said to have fallen while bearing his cross; we passed by Pilate’s house, and paused at the gate of the Temple,—t... ... do know, though we are ignorant, and ever shall be so, of the site of His cross and of the tomb. And then we de- scended on the eastern side of the h... ... the world for the present, and shall take the next steamer from Jaffa for Alexandria. I shall only have one night in Jerusalem on my return.” After t... ...l in Egypt, I can answer for nothing.” He said that he expected letters at Alexandria which would govern his future movements. I thought he seemed sad... ...t he had hampered himself with some woman, and that she was to meet him at Alexandria. Poor fellow! thought I. But his unhappiness was not of that kin... ... Samaria. And yet we know that there, or thereabouts, the Israel- ites did cross it. I jumped from my horse the moment I got to the place, and once mo... ...w you would assist me.” “If it be in my power, I will.” “Before we part at Alexandria I will endeavour to tell 26 A Ride Across Palestine you the sto... ...a, before he can be on your track again.” “I will tell you all about it at Alexandria,” he replied; and then he scrambled up again with his horse, and...

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...r and thither,—Edward Sterling also determined on a new adventure, that of crossing to Paris, and trying what might lie in store for him. For curiosit... ... business well; but can assign no origin to it,—some penalty, indignity or cross put suddenly on John, which the hasty John considered un- bearable. H... ...he brightest green; dotted all over with handsome villas, handsome groves; crossed by roads and human traffic, here inaudible or heard only as a music... ... Doyle, Esq. James Spedding, Esq. C. L. Eastlake, Esq. Rev. John Sterling. Alex. Ellice, Esq. Alfred Tennyson, Esq. J. F. Elliott, Esq. Rev. Connop Th... ...142 The Life of John Sterling inserting: “Gladstone has three little agate crosses which he will give you for my little girls. Calvert bought them, as... ...es a shower of hail, ineffectually returned from below. The parties in two crossing carriages similarly assault each other; and there are long balconi... ... this; never, of course, to meet again. The greater part do not proceed to Alexan- dria. Considering that there was a bundle of midshipmen, 195 Thoma...

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..., these poems afford little mate- rial for conjectural emendation; for the Alexandrines now and then left in the middle of stanzas in “The Revolt of I... ...der to consider as an erratum, where there is left, most inadvertently, an alex- andrine in the middle of a stanza. But in this, as in every other res... ...icy wilderness; each delicate hand _265 Lay crossed upon her bosom, and the band Of her dark hair had fall’n, and so sh... ... and its belfry tower,’ Said Maddalo, ‘and ever at this hour Those who may cross the water, hear that bell Which calls the maniacs, each one from his ... ... forgotten our passport, and the soldiers on duty attempted to prevent our crossing the laguna; but they could not resist Shelley’s impetuosity at suc... ...: IONE: IONE: IONE: IONE: My wings are folded o’er mine ears: My wings are crossed o’er mine eyes: Yet through their silver shade appears, And through... ...TRICE: TRICE: But I remember T wo miles on this side of the fort, the road Crosses a deep ravine; ’tis rough and narrow, _245 A... ...end of Volume 3 should be consulted. 519 Shelley To His Excellency Prince Alexander Mavrocordato Late Secretary for Foreign Affairs to the Hospodar o...

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... ‘Without waiting to hear more?’ ‘There is no use in losing time. I cannot cross from Folkestone till the day after to-morrow, at night. I must go to ... ...fectly well understood that there was trouble in the air, sat straight up, crossed his paws, and looked touchingly wistful. ‘Poor dear little fellow!’... ...t be called names,’ exclaimed Fergus. ‘Well, Lois said so—when you were so cross because the poker had got on the same side as the tongs! She said she... ...any marks might be lost by whispering or bad spelling, and how ferociously cross Fraulein Adler looked at a mistake in a German verb; while Fergus had... ...h I must say he does not do as much for us as he might. Such a youth as my Alexis now was surely worthy of the position of a gentle- man.’ The good la... ...alking up the cliff, that she was sure Miss Mohun would excuse her, though Alexis and Kally would be perfectly delighted to hear of Miss Gillian’s kin... ... afraid she was going to kiss you!’ ‘I do wish I could have made out about Alexis and Kalliope.’ ‘Oh, my dear, just working like all the lot, though s... ...dy did!’ ‘Mr. White’s gardener lets us walk here. It is so nice and quiet. Alexis has taken the younger ones for a walk, but I was too much tired. But... ...we have lodgers, the organist and his wife,’ said Kalliope, laughing, ‘and Alexis is in the telegraph office, at the works; besides, it turned out tha...

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... com- panies guarding the bridge at Front Royal, destroying it en- tirely; crossed the Shenandoah, and on the 24th (yesterday) pushed to get north of ... ...n. Stripped here, as we are here, it will be all we can do to prevent them crossing the Potomac at Harper’s Ferry or above. We have about 20,000 of Mc... ...e words: “Resolved, That Simon Cameron, late Secretary of War by investing Alexander Cummings with the control of large sums of the public money and a... ...to hold the point at Fredericksburg, move this way—to Manassas Junction or Alexandria? As commander of this department, should you not be here? I ask ... ...s rains I am very anxious about the Chickahominy so close in your rear and crossing your line of communication. Please look to it. A. LINCOLN, Preside... ...ssouri. O. P . Morton, Governor of Indiana. David T odd, Governor of Ohio. Alexander Ramsey, Governor of Minne- sota. Richard Y ates, Governor of Illi... ...LELLAN. W ASHINGTON CITY, August 27, 1862 4 P .M. MAJOR-GENERAL McCLELLAN, Alexandria, V irginia: What news from the front? A. LINCOLN. TELEGRAM TO GE... ...OLN TELEGRAM TO COLONEL HAUPT . August 28, 1862. 2.40 p. m. COLONEL HAUPT, Alexandria, V irginia: Yours received. How do you learn that the rebel forc... .... Governor Curtin has just telegraphed me: “I have advices that Jackson is crossing the Potomac at Williamsport, and probably the whole rebel army wil...

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...ere the Missis- sippi runs by T ennessee and Arkansas; and both, while I was crossing the continent, lay, watched by armed men, in the horror and isol... ... of his own kidney; and that perhaps both may fall. THE DESERT OF WYOMING TO CROSS SUCH A PLAIN is to grow homesick for the moun- tains. I longed for ... ...ere in rather marked contrast to the emigrants I had met on board ship while crossing the Atlantic. They were mostly lumpish fellows, silent and noisy... ...er of that Continent. All the States of the North had sent out a fugitive to cross the plains with me. From Virginia, from Pennsylvania, from New York... ...ng to upon the Oakland side of San Francisco Bay. The day was breaking as we crossed the ferry; the fog was rising over the citied hills of San Franci... ...only torn up instead the Arethusa’s roundels! There were many works burnt at Alex- andria, there are many treasured in the British Museum, that I coul... ...ver at the pitch of his voice and his broad lowland dialect; Kinghorn, where Alexander “brak’s neckbane” and left Scotland to the English wars; Kirkca... ..., Largo Law and the smoke of Largo town mounting about its feet, the town of Alexander Selkirk, bet- ter known under the name of Robinson Crusoe. So o...

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... huge and towering monuments, hewn in massive granite, to be put upon some cross way of nations as an object of wonder and admiration for all who come... ...om which he never swerved through- out his long life. In the sixties, when Alexander Hertzen, one of the most gifted writers of our land, a sparkling,... ...aders and spokesmen of the various political parties of his day, including Alexander Hertzen him- self. T urgenev’s are always the soundest, the most ... ...itch, who served as model to the poetic and touch- ing figure of Pokorsky; Alexander Hertzen, and the great critic, Belinsky—all had their ‘circles,’ ... ...t least, it is easier to lay down before the end a novel by Victor Hugo or Alexander Dumas than Dmitri Rudin, or, indeed, any of Turgenev’s great nove... ...a mile from the village to which she was turn- ing her steps. Her name was Alexandra Pavlovna Lipin. She was a widow, childless, and fairly well off, ... ...ature, only not our contemporary literature.’ ‘Why?’ ‘I’ll tell you why. I crossed the Oka lately in a ferry boat with a gentleman. The ferry got fixe... ...ovna remarked to him that he had not been very po- lite to-day, he replied crossly, ‘When am I polite? that’s not in my line;’ and smiling grimly he a... ...us already!’ But Pigasov made her no rejoinder, and only gave her a rather cross look. Seven o’clock struck, and they were all assembled again in the ...

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...................................................................... 116 TO ALEX. SMITH, THE ‘GLASGOW POET,’ ON HIS SONNET TO ‘FAME’............... 117... ................................................................. 182 A LATER ALEXANDRIAN................................................................... ...! hush! wild heart.’ THE OLIVE BRANCH A dove flew with an Olive Branch; It crossed the sea and reached the shore, And on a ship about to launch Droppe... ...orgetting not thy lover and his vow, Leaving no human memory forgot, Shalt cross, not unattended, the dark stream Which runs by thee in sleep and ripp... ... blue and white, With intersections of quaint-fashioned beams All slanting crosswise, and the feudal gleams Of ruined turrets, barren in the light; – ... ...ke the stork, From great ruts of slaughter, Warriors of the Golden T orque Cross the lifting water. Princes seven, enchaining hands, Bear the live hea... ... mine was the foot to falter; Three cowled monks, rat-eyed, were seen; The Cross was of bones o’er the altar. VII The Cross was of bones; the priest t... ... thing looks forlorn, Bury it, bury it, bury it where it was born. 117 TO ALEX. SMITH, THE ‘GLASGOW POET,’ ON HIS SONNET TO ‘FAME’ Not vainly doth th... ...s wilds a husbandman, acclaims The crucifix that came of Nazareth. A LATER ALEXANDRIAN An inspiration caught from dubious hues Filled him, and mystic ...

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... a chair and the cushions fell down. “You naughty boy, Miss Watkin will be cross with you.” “Hulloa, Emma!” he said. The nurse bent down and kissed hi... ...t in his youth he had been good-looking. On his watch-chain he wore a gold cross. “ Y ou’re going to live with me now , Philip,” said Mr. Carey . “Sha... ...e a black dress, and her only ornament was a gold chain, from which hung a cross. She had a shy manner and a gentle voice. 14 Of Human Bondage “Did y... ... It was paved with red and yellow tiles, on which alternately were a Greek Cross and the Lamb of God. An imposing staircase led out of the hall. It wa... ...t rebelliously it can only cause you shame. But if you looked upon it as a cross that was given you to bear only be- cause your shoulders were strong ... ...ared his friend’s passion for the tragedians of Louis XIV and the sonorous Alexandrine. In the Rue Taitbout were the Concerts Rouge, where for seventy... ... he showed a pornographic picture. “Are you Masr -ed-Deen, the merchant of Alex- andria, or is it from far Bagdad that you bring your goods, O, my unc... ...with peculiar elaboration and done over the forehead in what she called an Alexandra fringe. She was very anaemic. Her thin lips were pale, and her sk... ...angles on her wrists, and circular photograph pendants, one being of Queen Alexandra; she carried a black satin bag and chewed Sen-sens. “Please to me...

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...THE ILIAD OF HOMER TRANSLATED BY ALEXANDER POPE, WITH NO WITH NO WITH NO WITH NO WITH NOTES BY TES BY TES BY... ...N STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The Iliad of Homer, trans. Alexander Pope with notes by the Rev. Theodore Alois Buckley, M. A., F . S.... ...file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Iliad of Homer, trans. Alexander Pope with notes by the Rev. Theodore Alois Buckley, M. A., F . S.... ... an equal opportunity university. 3 Pope THE ILIAD OF HOMER TRANSLATED BY ALEXANDER POPE, WITH NO WITH NO WITH NO WITH NO WITH NOTES BY TES BY TES BY... ... theorists of the last and present centuries. To question the existence of Alexander the Great, would be a more excusable act, than to believe in that... ...d: “Why leave we not the fatal T rojan shore, And measure back the seas we cross’d before? The plague destroying whom the sword would spare, ’Tis time... ...deceive? And woman’s frailty always to believe! Say, to new nations must I cross the main, Or carry wars to some soft Asian plain? For whom must Helen... ...y takes: If chance a swelling brook his passage stay, And foam impervious ‘cross the wanderer’s way, Confused he stops, a length of country pass’d, Ey... ...oomy gates he went; The triple dog had never felt his chain, Nor Styx been cross’d, nor hell explored in vain. Averse to me of all his heaven of gods,...

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...The Odyssey of Homer Translated by Alexander Pope A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Ody... ...State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Odyssey of Homer trans. Alexander Pope is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This... ...le as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Odyssey of Homer trans. Alexander Pope , the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classics Se... ...n equal opportunity university. 3 Pope The Odyssey of Homer Translated by Alexander Pope INTR INTR INTR INTR INTRODUCTION ODUCTION ODUCTION ODUCTION ... ... theorists of the last and present centuries. To question the existence of Alexander the Great, would be a more excusable act, than to believe in that... ...he came. To these the cause of meeting they explain, And Menelaus moves to cross the main; Not so the king of men: be will’d to stay, The sacred rites... ... wing the dart; And those whom Idomen from Ilion’s plain Had led, securely cross’d the dreadful main How Agamemnon touch’d his Argive coast, And how h... ...aven denies. Ev’n by celestial favour were it given, Fortune or fate would cross the will of Heaven.” “What words are these, and what imprudence thine... ...e deck he fashion’d last; Then o’er the vessel raised the taper mast, With crossing sail yards dancing in the wind; And to the helm the guiding rudder...

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...CUTIVE MANSION, W ASHINGTON, D. C., Janu- ary 2, 1864. GOVERNOR PIERPOINT, Alexandria, V a.: Please call and see me to-day if not too inconvenient. A.... ...who remarked to a companion once that “it was not best to swap horses when crossing a stream.” 135 The Writings of Abraham Lincoln: V ol Seven REPL Y... ...W AR DEPARTMENT, W ASHINGTON, D. C., Septem- ber 16, 1864. GENERAL SLOUGH, Alexandria, V a.: On the 14th I commuted the sentence of Conley, but fearin... ...Cos, 29th. ‘MAJOR-GENERAL JNO. G . P ARKE, ‘Headquarters Army of Potomac: ‘Alexander H. Stephens, R. M. T. Hunter, and J. A. Campbell desire to cross ... ...mac: ‘Alexander H. Stephens, R. M. T. Hunter, and J. A. Campbell desire to cross my lines, in accordance with an understanding claimed to exist with L... ...f Abraham Lincoln: V ol Seven CITY POINT, V A.. February 1, 1865. MESSRS. ALEXANDER H. STEPHENS, J. A. CAMPBELL AND R. M. T. HUNTER. GENTLEMEN :—I am... ...ent, and to confer with you upon the subject. ‘V ery respectfully, yours, ‘ALEXANDER H. STEPHENS. ‘J. A. CAMPBELL. ‘R. M. T. HUNTER.’ “I have sent dir...

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...eotian school (2) were unani- mously assigned to Hesiod down to the age of Alexandrian criticism, they were clearly neither the work of one man nor 1... ...e Greeks, down to the death of Odysseus, when the heroic age ended. In the Alexandrian Age these poems were arranged in chronological order, ap- paren... ...s probable that this and other superfluous incidents disappeared after the Alexandrian arrangement of the poems in the Cycle, either as the result of ... ...f the more important hymns. Conceivable the collection was arranged in the Alexandrine period. Thucydides, in quoting the “Hymn to Apollo,” calls it P... ...se he lacked sufficient livelihood. And one day he came to this very place crossing over a great stretch of sea; he left Aeolian Cyme and fled, not fr... ... a great host from divine Hellas for T roy, the land of fair women. Then I crossed over to Chalcis, to the games of wise Amphidamas where the sons of ... ...m ill-omened burial, but after a festival of the gods. (ll. 737-741) Never cross the sweet-flowing water of ever- rolling rivers afoot until you have ... ... the soft flood, and washed your hands in the clear, lovely water. Whoever crosses a river with hands unwashed of wicked- 57 Hesiod, The Homeric Hymn... ...The allusion is obscure. (28) Apollonius ‘the Crabbed’ was a grammarian of Alexandria under Hadrian. He wrote largely on Grammar and Syntax. (29) 275-...

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...-post singing his broken June tune, ‘cuckoo-cuck’, while a busy kingfisher crossed from the mill-stream, to the brook which ran on the other side of t... ...to Dan. ‘When these lands were mine, I never loved that mounted men should cross the brook except by the paved ford. But my Swallow here was thirsty, ... ...eror’s son, died of a secret arrow while he hunted in a forest. “This is a cross matter,” said De Aquila, “to meet on the threshold of a journey. If R... ... There was dust of gold in packages where we slept and along the side, and cross-wise under the benches we lashed the blackened elephants’ teeth. “‘I ... ...l, while Hugh went to Pevensey, and De Aquila sent us horses.’ Sir Richard crossed hands on his sword-hilt, and stared down stream through the soft wa... ...imes, by the fall of a coin spun between a Jew from Bury and a Jewess from Alex- andria, in his father’s house, when the Great Candle was lit. Such po...