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...Excerpt: Chapter 1. Now come ye for peace here, or come ye for war? ?The abbot, in his alb arrayed,? stood at the altar in the abbey-chapel of Rubygill, with all his plump, sleek, rosy friars, in goodly lines disposed, to solemnise the nuptials of the beautiful Matilda Fitzwater, daughter of t...

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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, to my ey...

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... Don Juan by George Byron is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnish... ...le, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyo... ...rain yourself, or so, And tumble downward like the flying fish Gasping on deck, because you soar too high, Bob, And fall, for lack of moisture... ... Excise. You’re shabby fellows — true — but poets still, And duly seated on the immortal hill. Your bays may hide the baldness of your brows— ... ...ather. In Seville was he born, a pleasant city, Famous for oranges and women — he Who has not seen it will be much to pity, So says the pr... ...English always use to govern d—n.” Byron’s Don Juan “Canto One” 8 Some women use their tongues — she look’d a lecture, Each eye a sermon, an... ...h; And then he thought of earthquakes, and of wars, How many miles the moon might have in girth, Of air balloons, and of the many bars To ... ... I like to be particular in dates, Not only of the age, and year, but moon; They are a sort of post house, where the Fates Change horses,... ...n ways and means How to encounter with this martial scold, This modern Amazon and queen of queans; And the perplexity could not be told Of...

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...Contents INTRODUCTION ............................................................................................................................. 5 THE JILTING OF JANE ................................................................................10 THE CONE.....................................................................................................16 THE STOLEN...

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...est Myers, M.A. A P ENN S TATE E LECTRONIC C LASSICS S ERIES P UBLICATION The Iliad of Homer, trans. Andrew Lang, Walter Leaf, and Ernest Myers is ... ...r, trans. Andrew Lang, Walter Leaf, and Ernest Myers is a publication of the Pennsyl vania State University. This Portable Document file is furnish... ...n. Even in these, however, a certain elasticity has been deemed desirable. On a few doubtful points, though very rarely, the opinion of two of the tra... ... And strives to rend thy songs, too blind is she To know the crown on thine immortal head Of indivisible supremacy. A.I. Athwart the... ...u now ill content and lacking? Surely thy huts are full of bronze and many women are in they huts, the chosen spoils that we Achaians give thee first ... ...ring the sons of the Achaians to ill. Soft fools, base things of shame, ye women of Achaia and men no more, let us depart home with our ships, and lea... ...os. For I too being their ally was numbered among them on the day that the Amazons came, the peers of men. Yet were not even they so many as are the g... ...res burned in multitude. Even as when in heaven the stars about the bright moon shine clear to see, when the air is windless, and all the peaks appear... ... as it had been fire, nor wouldst thou have thought there was still sun or moon, for over all the battle where the chiefs stood around the slain son o...

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...E........................................................................................................................................ 4 CHAPTER I THE EARLY MARRIED LIFE OF THE MORELS ............................................................................ 4 CHAPTER II THE BIRTH OF PAUL, AND ANOTHER BATTLE................................................................

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...................................................................................................................................................... 4 THE DEATH OF JEAN ............................................................................................................................................ 75 THE TURNING-POINT OF MY LIFE .....................................

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...ture by William James A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature by William J... ...s Experience: A Study in Human Nature by William James is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ....................................... 502 WILLIAM JAMES (1842-1910): A NOTE ON THE AUTHOR OF “THE V ARIETIES OF RELIGIOUS EXPE- RIENCE” .................. ... often neurotic— Criticism of medical materialism, which condemns religion on that account—Theory that religion has a sexual origin refuted— All state... ...rom the emotional point of view.[20] We shall see how in cer- tain men and women it takes on a monstrously as- cetic form. There are saints who have l... ...o please him. He appeared to like (and I believe he did like) all the men, women, and children he saw (though I never knew him to say that he liked an... ...ver- biage of a good deal of the mind-cure literature, some of which is so moonstruck with optimism and so vaguely expressed that an academically trai... ...of sleep had come I had the habit of walking up and down. I see again that moon, half-veiled by clouds, which now and again illuminated the frigid win... ...es began the study of medicine, and in 1865 he joined an expedition to the Amazon. Before long, he wrote: “If there is anything I hate, it is col- lec...