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...ALL that I have to say to thee, my venerable friend Christophilus, reduces itself to the serious and formal examination of one single point; which, in the present constitution or system of the church and the world, appears to...

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................................383 -1- DEDICATION. To the C HURCH OF C HRIST of all denominations who Worship God in the English tongue, and ... ...y soul is greatly afflicted because of the present unawakened and even dead condition of all the churches, with respect to the coming of our Lord Jes... ...throne of the Heavenly Majesty, that by the Holy Spirit, whose office it is to show you things to come, you may come to some light of divine knowled... ...rit, I feared to shun any longer to declare the whole counsel of God, and so it came to pass that upon the day set apart for the commemoration of th... ...of the Protestant churches abroad; in the Jewish church accomplishing that refining and passing through the fire which is spoken of immediately on th... ... as the root and germ of the dispensations both Jewish and Gentile, or of “the earthly things” as distinguished from “the heavenly things,” or the ... ...as the beginner of the declension, and of all the mischief which the earth has endured, must be cast out by the seed of the woman, before the warfar... ...s now in all quarters beginning to take root and bear fruit in these parts. And here I must not be silent concerning the very wonderful and providen... ...im in the day of his espousals, and in the day of the gladness of his heart.” Solomon’s Song, iii. 11. I could expatiate largely upon that composite...

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...hile also enamoured of the world; aware moreover of the con- demnation and passionately desiring to “put in” before extinction as many of the finer vi... ...image so figured would be, at best, but half the matter; the rest would be all the picture of the struggle involved, the adventure brought about, the ... ...ded or the loss incurred, the precious experience somehow compassed. These things, I had from the first felt, would require much working-out; that ind... ...t felt, would require much working-out; that indeed was the case with most things worth working at all; yet there are subjects and subjects, and this ... ...ch working-out; that indeed was the case with most things worth working at all; yet there are subjects and subjects, and this one seemed particularly ... ...ies—even though we should have imputed to it the unsurpassable activity of passionate, of inspired resistance. This last fact was the real issue, for ... ...ite dazzlingly liveable, and that if the great pang for her is in what she must give up we shall appreciate it the more from the sight of all she has.... ...orm my centre, my circumference was ev- ery whit as treatable. Therefore I must trust myself to know when to proceed from the one and when from the ot... ...d, was most in his element at the piano; so that they had coffee and comic songs upstairs—the gentlemen, tempo- rarily relinquished, submitting easily...

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Excerpt: Songs of Travel and other verses by Robert Louis Stevenson.

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...obert Louis Stevenson A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Songs of Travel and other verses by Robert Louis Stevenson is a publication... ...road before me. Wealth I seek not, hope nor love, Nor a friend to know me; All I seek, the heaven above And the road below me. Or let autumn fall on m... ... road before me. Wealth I ask not, hope nor love, Nor a friend to know me; All I ask, the heaven above And the road below me. 6 Songs of Travel II - ... ...AND LOVE - I Once only by the garden gate Our lips we joined and parted. I must fulfil an empty fate And travel the uncharted. Hail and farewell! I m... ...eign lands and skies My Odyssey of battle. The untented Kosmos my abode, I pass, a wilful stranger: My mistress still the open road And the bright eye... ...II - YOUTH AND LOVE - II To the heart of youth the world is a highwayside. Passing for ever, he fares; and on either hand, Deep in the gardens golden ... ...e field of the present view, The whole flow of the past. One tittle of the things that are, Nor you should change nor I – One pebble in our path – one... ...vel XVI (To the tune of Wandering Willie) Home no more home to me, whither must I wander? Hunger my driver, I go where I must. Cold blows the winter w... ...gs of Travel XXV - IF THIS WERE FAITH God, if this were enough, That I see things bare to the buff And up to the buttocks in mire; That I ask nor hope...

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...Excerpt: This beginning-part is not made out of anybody?s head, you know. It?s real. You must believe this beginning-part more than what comes after, else you won?t understand how what comes after came to be written. You must believe it all; but you must believe this most, please. I am the editor of it. Bob Redfo...

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...s beginning part is not made out of anybody’s head, you know. It’s real. You must believe this beginning part more than what comes after, else you won... ...fter, else you won’t understand how what comes after came to be written. You must believe it all; but you must believe this most, please. I am the edi... ...on’t understand how what comes after came to be written. You must believe it all; but you must believe this most, please. I am the editor of it. Bob R... ...ed for it out of my pocket money. When the rap turous ceremony was over, we all four went up the lane and let off a cannon (brought loaded in Bob Red... ... Romance” Charles Dickens 4 couldn’t,’ said the colonel, pointing out the passage. ‘And the word was?’ said I. ‘Cow cow coward,’ hissed the pir... ... claiming me,’ said the bride of Tinkling to that gentleman, ‘you would have things dropped on your head from the window over the handle, or you woul... ...ghts into something educational for the grown up people, hinting to them how things ought to be. Let us veil our meaning under a mask of romance; you,... ...hat she had a bone in her old back, and it made her hobble; and Alice sang a song in an old woman’s way, but it was very pretty, and we were all merry... ...ons.’ The king was extremely frightened by the old lady’s flying into such a passion, and said he was very sorry to have offended her, and he wouldn’t...

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...to Sorrow .................................................................................................................................. 19 Three Songs of Shattering ............................................................................................................... 20 The Shroud ..................................................................................

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.................................................................... 19 Three Songs of Shattering........................................................... ... Vincent Millay R R R R Renascence enascence enascence enascence enascence All I could see from where I stood Was three long mountains and a wood; I t... ... fine, Straight around till I was come Back to where I’d started from; And all I saw from where I stood Was three long mountains and a wood. Over thes... ...l I saw from where I stood Was three long mountains and a wood. Over these things I could not see; These were the things that bounded me; And I could ... ... them with my hand, Almost, I thought, from where I stand. And all at once things seemed so small My breath came short, and scarce at all. But, sure, ... ...o I looked, and, after all, The sky was not so very tall. The sky, I said, must somewhere stop, And—sure enough!—I see the top! The sky, I thought, is... ... mind, Held up before my eyes a glass Through which my shrinking sight did pass Until it seemed I must behold Immensity made manifold; Whispered to me... ...y eyes a glass Through which my shrinking sight did pass Until it seemed I must behold Immensity made manifold; Whispered to me a word whose sound 5 ... ...tity! Thou canst not move across the grass But my quick eyes will see Thee pass, Nor speak, however silently, 8 Renascence and Other Poems But my hus...

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...hy in my pleasure, I dedicate the book to you. Ought it not to belong to you as the tithe formerly belonged to the Church in memory of God, who makes all things bud and fruit in the fields and in the intellect?...

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...u as the tithe formerly belonged to the Church in memory of God, who makes all things bud and fruit in the fields and in the intellect? A few lumps of... ... the tithe formerly belonged to the Church in memory of God, who makes all things bud and fruit in the fields and in the intellect? A few lumps of cla... ...that I have had in this difficult undertaking was in finding it apart from all religious questions,—questions which ought to be kept out of it for the... ... OF PARIS CHAPTER I DEPARTING PARIS THE TOURNIQUET S AINT-JEAN, the narrow passage entered through a turnstile, a description of which was said to be ... ...e, such as we now see it, swept away a whole section of the city. In 1830, passers along the street could still see the turnstile painted on the sign ... ...reedom and liberty of home, where will they be?—reserved for those who can muster fifty thousand francs a year! In fact, few millionaires now allow th... ...of the Thuillier salon; the other by the hero of this Scene, about whom we must content ourselves at the present moment by fixing the amount of his re... ...to chinchilla. She held herself as straight as the fairest beauty; but all things else about her showed the hardiness of her life, the deaden- ing of ... ...adame Phellion and asked her to accompany her, and between two verses of a song she said in her ear:— “Why isn’t your son here?” “He is coming,” said ...

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...Excerpt: The reader must not expect to know where I live. At present, it is true, my abode may be a question of little or no import to anybody; but if I should carry my readers with me, as I hope to do, and there should spring up between them an...

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...PTER I—MASTER HUMPHREY, FROM HIS CLOCK SIDE IN THE CHIMNEY CORNER THE READER MUST NOT EXPECT to know where I live. At present, it is true, my abode ma... ...contin gency in mind, I wish them to understand, in the out set, that they must never expect to know it. I am not a churlish old man. Friendless I c... ...pect to know it. I am not a churlish old man. Friendless I can never be, for all mankind are my kindred, and I am on ill terms with no one member of m... ...gaping closets; its small chambers, communicating with each other by winding passages or narrow steps; its many nooks, scarce larger than its corner c... ...oks, scarce larger than its corner cupboards; its very dust and dulness, are all dear to me. The moth and spider are my constant tenants; for in my ho... ...t, a monster. Mothers caught up their infants and ran into their houses as I passed; men eyed me spitefully, and muttered threats and curses. I was th... ...er me as it does? what other thing that has not life (I will not say how few things that have) could have proved the same patient, true, untiring frie... ...ought you was dead. What a fellow you are!’ Indeed, it was a pretty state of things, and worthy the tone of vexation and disappointment in which the L... ... then he gives a hiccup and says, “I’m all right,” he says; “give us another song!” Ha, ha! “Give us another song,” he says. Ha, ha, ha!’ In his exces...

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...n Vauquer) receives men and women, old and young, and no word has ever been breathed against her respectable establishment; but, at the same time, it must be said that as a matter of fact no young woman has been under her roof for thirty years, and that if a young man stays there for any length of time it is a sure sign that his allowance must be of the slenderest....

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... breathed against her respectable establishment; but, at the same time, it must be said that as a matter of fact no young woman has been under her roo... ...an stays there for any length of time it is a sure sign that his allowance must be of the slenderest. In 1819, how- ever, the time when this drama ope... ... writer, and accuse him of exaggeration, of writing romances. Ah! once for all, this drama is neither a fiction nor a romance! ALL IS TRUE,—so true, t... ...opes so sharply down to the Rue de l’Arbalete, that wheeled traffic seldom passes that way, because it is so stony and steep. This position is suffici... ... in the gutters, grass grows in the chinks of the walls. The most heedless passer-by feels the depressing influences of a place where the sound of whe... ...liest quarter of Paris, and, it may be added, the least known. But, before all things, the Rue Nueve-Sainte- Genevieve is like a bronze frame for a pi... ...t quarter of Paris, and, it may be added, the least known. But, before all things, the Rue Nueve-Sainte- Genevieve is like a bronze frame for a pictur... ...g sagacity and desire to fathom the mysteries of an appalling condition of things, which was concealed as carefully by the victim as by those who had ... ...suggested by a political event, an incident in the police courts, a street song, or a bit of burlesque at some theatre, and forgotten in a month. Anyt...

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...e eternal appetite of inevitable hunger to-morrow--a man in such straits has hardly time to think of anything but himself, and, as in a sinking ship, must make his own rush for the boats, and fight, struggle, and trample for safety....

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...s hardly time to think of anything but himself, and, as in a sinking ship, must make his own rush for the boats, and fight, struggle, and trample for ... ...ch compromises between it and that which does not belong to it—no two gods must we serve; but (as one has seen in some old portraits) the horrible gla... ...its behind you, and with his ceaseless gloomy croaking drowns the voice of all more cheer- ful companions. Happy he whose fortune has placed him where... ...cquaintances which are introduced to him along with his beard) thrust away all other society from him. Some old friends remain, it is true, but these ... ...ntain ascending, a vision of trees, and a nest by the Dove? Why should the song of a thrush cause bright volumes of vapor to glide through Lothbury, a... ... win- dows—where are they? Mr. Cruikshank may have drawn a thousand better things since the days when these were; but they are to us a thousand times ... ...er legs and wings, And heaved a moralizing sigh: Alas! how frail are human things!” A very unexceptionable morality truly; but it would have puzzled a... ...nions I ever possessed… . He embarked for America, and nearly twenty years passed by before he came back again;… but oh, how altered!—he was in every ... ... to make his famous pic- ture—his express virgin—a clerical host must have passed under Cruikshank’s eyes before he sketched this little, enor- mous p...

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...o made that journey alluded to it afterwards; but it may be believed that an infatuated youth who had looked forward to the delights of an elopement, must have found the continual presence of Gentil, the man-servant, and Albertine, the maid, not a little irksome on the way....

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...in- fatuated youth who had looked forward to the delights of an elopement, must have found the continual presence of Gentil, the man-servant, and Albe... ...ty of childhood, he openly expressed his surprise at the new and wonderful things which he saw, and thereby made a mistake. A man should study a woman... ...vanity in her lover. Many a woman is so ex- travagant a worshiper that she must always see the god in her idol; but there are yet others who love a ma... ...room. Hotel accommodation is a blot on the civilization of Paris; for with all its pretensions to elegance, the city as yet does not boast a single in... ...s a gentleman fights first and afterwards leaves his wife at lib- erty. By all means, give M. de Rubempre your love and your countenance; do just as y... ...Forgive me! You mean so much to me that I cannot help fearing all kinds of things; and, for me, parting means that desertion is at hand, and desertion... ...ting acquaintances are in the coun- try or traveling about; so it comes to pass that the best seats are filled at this season with heterogeneous theat... ...- out presumption, taking care of her in a manner that revealed a profound passion; Chatelet, elegant, and as much at home as an actor treading the fa... ... but birds in the forest? They sing, nature falls under the spell of their song, and no one should see them. That shall be my lot, always supposing th...

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... point out to the judicious those recommendations of my labours which they must necessarily anticipate from the perusal of the title-page. Nevertheles... ... Gandercleugh their abiding stage and place of rest for the night. And it must be acknowledged by the most sceptical, that I, who have sat in the lea... ...ternal shame and confusion as well as to the abashment and discomfiture of all who shall rashly take up a song against me, that I am not the writer, r... ...ell as to the abashment and discomfiture of all who shall rashly take up a song against me, that I am not the writer, redacter, or compiler, of the Ta... ...known that my Landlord was a pleasing and a facetious man, acceptable unto all the parish of Gandercleugh, excepting only the Laird, the Exciseman, an... ...mp- toms of inferior taste, and a humour of contradicting his betters upon passages of dubious construction in Latin au- thors, I did grievously lamen... ...the small river Manor, in Peeblesshire. The few people who had occasion to pass that way were much surprised, and some superstitious persons a little ... ...e, but that was in the time o’ the blackfaces—they believed a hantle queer things in thae days, that naebody heeds since the lang sheep cam in.” “The ... ...nded; “to be sure, they do say there’s a sort o’ worricows and lang-nebbit things about the land, but what need I care for them? I hae a good conscien...

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...through several weeks, and the usual tenor of my life became like an old remembrance. But this was not the effect of time so much as of the change in all my habits made by the helplessness and inaction of a sick-room. Before I had been confined to it many days, everything else seemed to have retired into a remote distance where there was little or no separation between the...

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...membrance. But this was not the effect of time so much as of the change in all my habits made by the helplessness and inaction of a sick room. Before ... ...ars. In falling ill, I seemed to have crossed a dark lake and to have left all my experiences, mingled together by the great distance, on the healthy ... ... so glad, that I was obliged to say, “Charley, if you go on in this way, I must lie down again, my darling, for I am weaker than I thought I was!” So ... ... coldly, haughtily, distantly, resentfully. Well, dearest little woman, we must look forbearingly on it. He is not to blame. Jarndyce and Jarndyce has... ... I can’t either, and no human power ever can, anyhow, I believe, to such a pass have we got), I would do it this hour. I would rather restore to poor ... ...ame Durden, well.” He was so good, his touch expressed such endearing com passion and affection, and the tone of his voice carried such comfort into ... ...erchief there, and that she put it away and kept it with the baby’s little things. I think, if you please, partly because it was yours, miss, and part... ...d never have been reserved for such a happy life. I saw very well how many things had worked together for my welfare, and that if the sins of the fath... ...looking after my housekeeping, singing refrains of barcaroles and drinking songs, Italian and German, by the score. We were all assembled shortly befo...

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...rsity. This Portable Document File is provided with out charge for any and all interested parties. The Pennsylvania State University and Jim Manis, ed... ..." thus she began, "The field’s chief flower, sweet above compare, Stain to all nymphs, more lovely than a man, More white and red than doves or roses ... ...sweating palm, The precedent of pith and livelihood, And, trembling in her passion, calls it balm, Earth’s sovereign salve to do a goddess good: Bei... ...e ready for his pay, He winks, and turns his lips another way. Never did passenger in summer’s heat More thirst for drink than she for this good tur... ... help she sees, but help she cannot get; She bathes in water, yet her fire must burn: "O! pity," ’gan she cry, "flint-hearted boy: ’Tis but a kiss... ...fresh beauty for the use, Herbs for their smell, and sappy plants to bear; Things growing to themselves are growth’s abuse: Seeds spring from seeds,... ...g his cheeks, cries, "Fie! no more of love: The sun doth burn my face; I must remove." "Ay me," quoth Venus, "young, and so unkind? What bare excuse... ...and unfinish’d? Who plucks the bud before one leaf put forth? If springing things be any jot diminish’d, They wither in their prime, prove nothing wor... ...ery tongue more moving than your own, Bewitching like the wanton mermaid’s songs, Yet from mine ear the tempting tune is blown; For know, my heart s...

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...sufferings in a desert isle; his journey in the wild highlands; his acquaintance with Alan Breck Stewart and other notorious Highland Jacobites; with all that he suffered at the hands of his uncle, Ebenezer Balfour of Shaws, falsely so called Written by himself and now set forth by Robert Louis Stevenson with a preface by Mr. Stevenson...

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...tance with Alan Breck Stewart and other notorious Highland Jacobites; with all that he suffered at the hands of his uncle, Ebenezer Balfour of Shaws, ... ...and went on with them to the house: Alan Breck Stewart said, that he hated all the name of Campbell; and the deponent said, he had no reason for doing... ...istance both in time and space on these bygone adventures of our youth, it must be stranger for you who tread the same streets—who may to-morrow open ... ... with Scott and Robert Emmet and the beloved and inglorious Macbean—or may pass the corner of the close where that great society, the L. J. R., held i... ...the scenery of dreams. How, in the intervals of present business, the past must echo in your memory! Let it not echo often without some kind thoughts ... ...nd how I should conduct myself with its inhabitants. “Be soople, Davie, in things immaterial,” said he. “Bear ye this in mind, that, though gentle bor... ...uibble) to the immaterial. I have here a little packet which contains four things.” He tugged it, as he spoke, and with some great dif- ficulty, from ... ...eir fall!” And the woman, whose voice had risen to a kind of eldritch sing-song, turned with a skip, and was gone. I stood where she left me, with my ... ...were no park walls, nor any sign of avenue, the track that I was following passed on the right hand of the pillars, and went wandering on toward the h...

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...Excerpt: All elections begin with a bustle before beginning to describe an election in the provinces, it is proper to state that the town of Arcis-sur-Aube was not the theatre of the events here related. The arrondissement of Arcis vo...

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...de Balzac T ranslated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley PART I THE ELECTION I ALL ELECTIONS BEGIN WITH A BUSTLE BEFORE BEGINNING TO DESCRIBE an election ... ...er-general of the department of the Aube, presented a singular appearance. All the furniture had been removed except the curtains to the windows, the ... ...ons which were about to take place over the whole surface of France. Often things are as spiritually intelligent as men,—an argument in favor of the o... ...r father,” said Simon Giguet, entering from the smaller salon, “you really must make that effort for me; for if there is a man in the department of th... ...mous rose Giguet, known so well to all amateurs. This old man, who had now passed into the state of a do- mestic fetich, was exhibited, as we may well... ...onger a rotten borough!” he said, “or I’ll emigrate to Paris.” Flatter the passions of the moment and you will always be a hero, even at Arcis-sur-Aub... ...ygne used all the influence the return of the Bourbons gave her to arrange things as she wished in the department of the Aube, the Comte de Gondrevill... ...s:— “It was well enough to give yourself an air of indepen- dence; but you mustn’t go to that Giguet meeting unless Achille Pigoult accompanies you; I... ...te yourselves,” said Achille Pigoult, “that you have got that estate for a song.” “Come, come!” said Jacques Bricheteau, “how long have you had it on ...

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................................................................ 27 CANCELLED PASSAGE OF MONT BLANC. ....................................................... ................................................................... 51 A HATE-SONG. ........................................................................ .......................................................................... 55 PASSAGE OF THE APENNINES. .................................................... ...ms of dewy spring shall gleam beneath thy feet: But thy soul or this world must fade in the frost that binds the dead, ... ... _5 These choicest blessings I have known. Harriet! if all who long to live In the warm sunshine of thine eye, That price beyond a... ...long to live In the warm sunshine of thine eye, That price beyond all pain must give,— Beneath thy scorn to die; ... ...all leave thee free To the universe of destiny. This world is the nurse of all we know, This world is the mother of all we feel, And the coming of dea... ...at we know, or feel, or see, Shall pass like an unreal mystery. The secret things of the grave are there, Where all but this frame must surely be, ... ...ought, among the darkness stirs, Breathed from their wormy beds all living things around, And mingling with the still night and mute sky Its awful hus...

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...n others English and American. I found many misprints and corrup- tions in all except the edition of 1821, and a few even in that. For instance in i. ... ...e seen “ cliff “ appears in place of clift,, to the manifest injury of the passage. In ii. 685, every edition that I have seen since that of 1821 has ... .... 685, every edition that I have seen since that of 1821 has “ I meant not all my heart might say,” which is worse than nonsense, the correct reading ... ...e that edition will find many additional illustrations in the Notes on the passages cited. 5 Sir Walter Scott While correcting the errors of former e... ...ing, Muffling with verdant ringlet every string,— O Minstrel Harp, still must shine accents sleep? Mid rustling leaves and fountains murmuring, St... ... shine accents sleep? Mid rustling leaves and fountains murmuring, Still must thy sweeter sounds their silence keep, Nor bid a warrior smile, nor te... ...harp unseen Filled up the symphony between. 20 The Lady of the Lake XXXI. Song. Soldier, rest! thy warfare o’er, Sleep the sleep that knows not br... ...heir strange ventures happed by land or sea, How are they blotted from the things that be! How few, all weak and withered of their force, Wait on t... ... in brilliancy of hue. … In general, if he does not mean to say much about things, the one character which he will give is colour, using it with the m...

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...llonius, may be put with much prob ability at 248 or 247 B.C. Apollonius must at that date have been at least twenty years old. Eratosthenes died 1... ...he quarrel in the writings of both. Callimachus attacks Apollonius in the passage at the end of the “Hymn to Apollo”, already mentioned, also probabl... ...to Apollo”, already mentioned, also probably in some epigrams, but most of all in his “Ibis”, of which we have an imitation, or perhaps nearly a trans... ...ion, in Ovid’s poem of the same name. On the part of Apollonius there is a passage in the third book of the “Argonautica” (11. 927 947) which is of a ... ... in tak ing stock of itself. Homer was, of course, professedly admired by all, but more admired than imitated. Epic poetry was out of fashion and we ... ...gressions by such an expression as “but this would take me too far from my song.” His business is the straight forward tale and nothing else. The ast... ...ho was born of Clymene the daughter of Minyas. (ll. 234 241) Now when all things had been made ready by the thralls, all things that fully equipped s... ...departure. There fore we will make no long delay in our sailing for these things’ sake, when the breezes but blow fair. But, friends,—for common to a... ...nd woke him at once, and thus spake: (ll. 1092 1102) “Son of A eson, thou must climb to this temple on rugged Dindymum and propitiate the mother * o...

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...Tennyson The Princess by Alfred, Lord Tennyson PROLOGUE Sir W alter Vivian all a summer’s day Gave his broad lawns until the set of sun Up to the peop... ...howed the house, Greek, set with busts: from vases in the hall Flowers of all heavens, and lovelier than their names, Grew side by side; and on the p... ...for text, and from it preached An universal culture for the crowd, And all things great; but we, unworthier, told Of college: he had climbed across t... ... let the ladies sing us, if they will, From time to time, some ballad or a song To give us breathing-space.’ So I began, A... ...nour. We remember love ourselves In our sweet youth: there did a compact pass Long summers back, a kind of ceremony— I think the year in which our o... ...r held, Was all in all: they had but been, she thought, As children; they must lose the child, assume The woman: then, Sir, awful odes she wrote, To... ...g change Beyond all reason: these the women sang; And they that know such things—I sought but peace; No critic I—would call them masterpieces: They m... ... than themselves but that which made Woman and man. She had founded; they must build. Here might they learn whatever men were taught: Let them not fe... ...ichever side be Victor, in the halloo Will topple to the trumpet down, and pass With all fair theories only made to gild A stormless summer.’ ‘Let th...

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...the composite order of architecture. The odd superstitions touched upon were all prevalent among children and slaves in the West at the period of this... ...e knows if he can make out to put me off for a minute or make me laugh, it’s all down again and I can’t hit him a lick. I ain’t doing my duty by that ... ...l the summer world was bright and fresh, and brimming with life. There was a song in every heart; and if the heart was young the music issued at the l... ... seemed hollow, and existence but a burden. Sighing, he dipped his brush and passed it along the topmost plank; repeated the operation; did it again; ... ...boys and girls were always there waiting their turns, resting, trading play things, quarrelling, fighting, skylarking. And he remembered that althoug... ... boy in the morning, Tom was literally rolling in wealth. He had besides the things before mentioned, twelve marbles, part of a jews harp, a piece of ... ... only amusement. There are wealthy gentlemen in England who drive four horse passenger coaches twenty or thirty miles on a daily line, in the summer, ... ...m, you poor thick headed thing, I’m not teasing you. I wouldn’t do that. You must go and learn it again. Don’t you be discouraged, Tom, you’ll manage ... ... door. But Mary removed the towel and said: “Now ain’t you ashamed, Tom. You mustn’t be so bad. Wa ter won’t hurt you.” The Adventures of Tom Sawyer ...