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...Alfred, Lord Tennyson A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Princess by Alfred, Lord Tennyson is a publication of the Pennsylvania ... ...e, 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 anyone... ...wers of all heavens, and lovelier than their names, Grew side by side; and on the pavement lay Carved stones of the Abbey-ruin in the park, Huge Ammon... ...e Abbey-ruin in the park, Huge Ammonites, and the first bones of Time; And on the tables every clime and age Jumbled together; celts and calumets, Cla... ...beat her foes with slaughter from her walls. 4 The Princess ‘O miracle of women,’ said the book, ‘O noble heart who, being strait-besieged By this wi... ...here such a woman now?’ Quick answered Lilia ‘There are thousands now Such women, but convention beats them down: It is but bringing up; no more than ... ...le they spake, I saw my father’s face Grow long and troubled like a rising moon, Inflamed with wrath: he started on his feet, Tore the king’s letter,... ...o float about a glimmering night, and watch A full sea glazed with muffled moonlight, swell On some dark shore just seen that it was rich. As through ... ...ook A bird’s-eye-view of all the ungracious past; Glanced at the legendary Amazon As emblematic of a nobler age; Appraised the Lycian custom, spoke of...

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...lutarch’s Lives – Volume One trans. Arthur Hugh Clough is a publication of the Pennsyl- vania State University. This Portable Document file is furnish... ...e, 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 anyone... ................................... 126 126 126 126 126 SOL SOL SOL SOL SOLON ON ON ON ON .................................................................. ...ARISON OF POPLICOLA A A A A WITH SOL WITH SOL WITH SOL WITH SOL WITH SOLON ON ON ON ON ............................................................. .... ...nd the other made Athens be inhabited. Both stand charged with the rape of women; neither of them could avoid domestic misfortunes nor jealousy at hom... ...e combat, Minos readily complied. And as it was a custom in Crete that the women also should be admitted to the sight of these games, Ariadne, being p... ...e made it with Hercules, offer- ing him his service in the war against the Amazons, and had 24 V olume One Antiope given him for the reward of his va... ...many years after Hercules, with a navy under his own command, and took the Amazon prisoner, the more probable story, for we do not read that any other... ...y had no sort of knowledge of the inequality in the motions of the sun and moon; they only kept to the one rule that the whole course of the year cont...

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...Introduction: Much has been written about the chronology of Alexandrian literature and the famous Library, founded by Ptolemy Soter, but the dates of the chief writers are still matters of conjecture. The birth of Apollonius Rhodius is placed by scholars at various t...

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...Preface: When I first saw Mr. Osgood?s beautiful illustrated edition of The Lady of the Lake, I asked him to let me use some of the cuts in a cheaper annotated edition for school and household use; and the present volume is the result. The text of the poem has given me unexpected trouble. When I ...

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...dith Wharton Part Two A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Early Short Fiction of Edith Wharton, Part Two is a publication of the ... ...e, 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 anyone... ... The words had been spoken by their friend Alida Stair, as they sat at tea on her lawn at Pangbourne, in reference to the very house of which the libr... ...t of a country place in one of the southern or southwestern counties, had, on their arrival in England, carried their problem straight to Alida Stair,... ...t I have walked through Lethe. The past has melted like a cloud before the moon. I never lived until I saw you.” 41 Wharton She made no answer to his... ...a friend of mine did; a very brilliant man; and he told me it was best for women—not to …” A shudder ran around the room. Mrs. Leveret coughed so that... ... of no less than one thousand one hundred and eighteen miles, entering the Amazon near the mouth of the latter river. The upper course of the Xingu is... ... how she could!” and Miss Van Vluyck said, picking up her note-book: “Some women stop at nothing.” “—but if,” Mrs. Plinth took up her argument impress... ...rmia Croft, at the last Grafton Gallery show, stopped me before Gisburn’s “Moon-dancers” to say, with tears in her eyes: “We shall not look upon its l...

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...Reef by Edith Wharton A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Reef by Edith Wharton is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer... ...e, 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 anyone... ...s of the telegram into George Darrow’s ears, ringing every change of irony on its commonplace syllables: rattling them out like a discharge of musketr... ...The fact of her dealing so reasonably with their case shed an ironic light on the idea that there had been any exceptional warmth in the greeting she ... ...ful?—In London—in the season—in a mob?” Little enough, on the part of most women; but it was a sign of Mrs. Leath’s quality that every movement, every... ... see that sort of thing about her day after day, and never wonder why some women, who don’t seem to have any more right to it, have it all tumbled int... ...t a night it’s going to be!” He pointed over their heads, to where a white moon hung in the misty blue above the roofs of the rue de Rivoli. She made ... ...her take a boat to Bellevue? Have you ever dined there, on the terrace, by moonlight? It’s not at all bad. And there’s no earthly use in sitting here ... ...her small head, with its strong chin and close-bound hair, like that of an amazon in a frieze. It was their first moment alone since she had left him,...

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... Drama set in India By Audrey Blankenhagen ‘GOD IS LOVE, IS THIS THE FINAL MESSAGE OF INDIA’ E.M. Forster, 1924 ... ...s, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without written permission from the author. ISBN: 1-4033-8037-6 (e-book) ISBN: ... ...book) ISBN: 1-4033-8038-4 (Paperback) ISBN: 1-4033-8039-2 (Dustjacket) This book is printed on acid free paper. ... ...h their so-called sacred ’rumels’ (a scarf or cord) and secretly burying their bodies. They lived on the proceeds of their homicidal activities and ... ...of the bazaars, invited him to make love to her, to take her as as he would a prostitute. ‘These women are my friends,’ she giggled. ‘They have show... ...y again so soon?’ ‘He knows he must produce an heir. There is no one in India among the European women that he wishes to make his wife and, frankly,... ...ht. The sweet scent of jasmine and other exotic perfumes wafted towards her and looking up at the moonlit sky, she wondered why the stars seemed big... ...going to tease her again, ‘Helen Forsythe, you never fail to surprise me. Am I marrying a little Amazon? Ah, here we are.’ The carriage turned into... ...back in the case. ‘You amaze me, Madam French. Which of these women are you really? The intrepid Amazon who can shoot and ride as well as any man, t...

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...Out by Virginia Woolf A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Voyage Out by Virginia Woolf is a publication of the Pennsylvania State... ...e, 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 anyone... ...ecoming brisk a tall man strode along the edge of the pavement with a lady on his arm. Angry glances struck upon their backs. The small, agitated figu... ...ople brushing past her was evidently pain- ful. After watching the traffic on the Embankment for a minute or two with a stoical gaze she twitched her ... ...y the action of walking. The shooting motor cars, more like spiders in the moon than terrestrial objects, the thundering drays, the jingling hansoms, ... ...nant. Already, though there was sunlight in the haze, tattered old men and women were nodding off to sleep 6 The Voyage Out upon the seats. When one ... ...red behind one cloak, seemed to her sordid, past their passion; the flower women, a contented company, whose talk is always worth hearing, were sod- d... ... deck, and the light beating through them when the ship was roasted on the Amazons had turned the prints on the opposite wall to a faint yellow colour... ...ngers by special arrangement, her business being to carry dry goods to the Amazons, and rubber home again. “By special arrangement,” however, were wor...

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