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...This work is about a Korean American teaching in his homeland, feeling lost in Korean culture and that his own life is an outlier to this conservative society. As he lives there, making his living as an English teacher, he writes of Gabriele, a single ...

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...world's biggest dummy. Sang Huin gave his typical defense of "Miguk sarem" ("American") which would bring on a confused and critical look--in this cas... ...rica, and so existing as a Korean only by birth and race definitely made him American in every way but a legal one. Most persons under such a scenario... ...ere two sides of the same coin. He loved his mother and she was alone on the American continent as he was in Asia. They were indeed alone in the world... ...xperiences of their petty and selfish lives to compare others with. In Japan women who left their children locked up in hot cars were rarely accused o... ...He had hardly looked at them lustfully while in America. Occasionally Korean women also got his attention but not as much as American women. He had tr... ... out with a baby in his arms. He wore an undershirt and boxer underwear. The women cooked. Then, after they served Sang Huin a second helping of kimch... ...had found a more internal brooding in the Hokkaido cold. She had feasted on poets and philosophers. She had learnt of Japanese history, art, and trad...

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...ed to answer his inquiry as best I could. As far as the equity of men and women, Westerners deflect the subject to the sexual life in a matriarchate,... ...al view, the relationship between the fundamental and the incidental: Are Americans universally unselfish, living on highly advanced science and tec... ...k series, Vol. 13), edited by Jack Allen, Feng Liu, Dragos Constantinescu, American Research Press 2002, pp.200-203) The point is: absolute truth do... ... series, Vol. 13), edited by Jack Allen, Feng Liu, Dragos Constantinescu, American Research Press 2002, pp.200-203 Jack Allen, Feng Liu, Dragos Cons... ... only): …… Sexuality plays an immense role in the manipulation of men by women, because the women "have monopoly of sex," as an American friend exp... ...the lower class to the leading spheres. Freud was 32 right. One uses women in espionage, in influencing politicians' decisions, in attracting bu... ...tors for more and better creation or work. (This applies to some artists, poets, painters, sculptors, and spiritualists.) (What we yearn for is real...

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..., who were his nearest connections on the side of the Pallisers. They were women to whom he had ever been kind, but to whom he had never opened his he... ...ndship. But she knew also—no one knew better—that the judgement of men and women does not always run parallel with facts. She entertained, too, a conv... ...rs Finn could not but remember that the friend she had lost was not, among women, the one best able to give a girl good counsel in such a crisis. ‘Why... ...ing that they would like to lick the Russians, or to get the better of the Americans in a matter of fisheries or frontiers. But he invented a pseudo-p... ... said you came to see me, you know. Have you met Miss Boncassen yet?’ ‘The American beauty? No. Is she here?’ ‘Yes; and she particularly wants to be ... ... standing there amidst a crowd, and to Miss Boncassen. Mr Boncassen was an American who had lately arrived in England with the object of carrying out ... ...with any others of the party. Perhaps she liked to talk about Scandinavian poets, of whom, Mr Boncassen was so fond. Perhaps she 347 Anthony Trollope...

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...ion of her.” “Any man of unusual powers is bound to take Oriental views of women,” said Blondet. “The Baron blended the opinions of East and West in a... ... old stand- ing, you are not bound to know that,” said Blondet. “There are women,” Bixiou gravely resumed, “and for that matter, men too, who can cut ... ...undervalue such an advantage as that! After a ball, when a score of pretty women stand behooded waiting for their carriages, with their husbands and a... ...e feet of the men that carried the coffin over the stone floor. “There are poets and romancers and writers that say many fine things abut Parisian man... ...ngen had purposely and with his eyes open invested his five millions in an American investment, foreseeing that the profits would not come in until it... ...air dancing saloons at the barriers; him he engaged to play the part of an American captain staying at Meurice’s and buying for export trade. He was t... ...to the woolen weaver and rushed upon the stock. After that, no more of the American captain, you understand, and great plenty of caps. If you interfer...

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...It wanted but fifteen minutes of noon, yet even at that early hour several women in gala dress were coming away from the T uileries, not without backw... ...toe the young girl contrived to catch a glimpse of a crowd of well-dressed women, thronging either side of the old marble arcade along which the Emper... ... of the T uileries. The dense living mass, variegated by the colors of the women’s dresses, traced out a bold line across the centre of the Place du C... ...s of him; but a few days before Spain recog- nized the independence of the American Republics, he wrote that he was coming home. 141 Balzac So, one f... ...rcelain vases painted by Madame Jacotot; tiny South 150 A Woman of Thirty American birds, like living rubies, sapphires, and gold, hov- ered among th... ...- monplace artist sees nothing there. An old face is the prov- ince of the poets among poets of those who can recognize that something which is called...

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...e with Maule’s malediction in The story. Furthermore, there occurs in The “American Note-Books” (August 27, 1837), a reminiscence of The author’s fami... ...nt of lands in Waldo County, Maine, owned by the Pyncheon family. In the “ American Note-Books” there is an entry, dated August 12, 1837, which speaks... ...,—and stept across the room on tiptoe, as is the customary gait of elderly women. Passing through an intervening passage, she opened a door that commu... ...p. This business of setting up a petty shop is almost the only resource of women, in circumstances at all similar to those of our unfortunate recluse.... ...ady with streaks of gray among her hair, like silver ribbons; one of those women, naturally delicate, whom you at once recognize as worn to death by a... ..., we might sug- gest an explanation of an often-suggested mystery. Why are poets so apt to choose their mates, not for any similarity of poetic endowm...

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...hless man is but a general villain or funny monster, a subject rejected of poets, taking no hue in the flat chronicle of history: but a faithless woma... ...at chronicle of history: but a faithless woman, how shall we speak of her! Women, sacredly endowed with beauty and the wonderful vibrating note about ... ...d beasts, which at some remembering touch bewail their higher state. Those women are sovereignly attractive, too, loathsomely. 7 George Meredith Ther... ...mily?’ ‘By a distant cousin, chancing to have been one of my godmothers.’ ‘Women do these things,’ Mr. Adister said, not in perfect approbation of the... ...acific Islands, but they will soon be snapped up by the European and North American Govern- ments, and a single one of them does not offer space. It w... ...e smoked this identical pipe. She acknowledged the merits of my whisky, as poets do hearing fine verses, never clapping hands, but with the expressive... ...time.’ ‘I have been in America.’ ‘We are not exactly on the pattern of the Americans.’ Philip hinted a bow. He praised the Republican people. ‘Yes, bu... ...ntil he was caught by the masterly playing of a sonata by the chief of the poets of sound. He was caught by it, but he took the close of the introduc-...

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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 consider...

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...evenson Memoir of Fleeming Jenkin by Robert Louis Stevenson PREFACE TO THE AMERICAN EDITION. ON THE DEATH OF FLEEMING JENKIN, his family and friends d... ...t of seeming so; played the part of a belle in society, while far lovelier women were left unat- tended; and up to old age had much of both the exigen... ...etc. An uncountable troop of gentlemen, workmen, shopkeepers’ wives (Paris women dare anything), ladies’ maids, common women – in fact, a crowd of all... ...rincipal of them. The streets were very unquiet, filled with armed men and women, for the troops had followed the ex-King to Neuilly and left Paris in... ...ugh some half-built streets of two-storied houses’; he had Carlyle and the poets, engineering and math- ematics, to study by himself in such spare tim... ...s.’ A TELEGRAM OF JULY 20: ‘I have received your four welcome letters. The Americans are charming people.’ VI. AND HERE TO MAKE AN END are a few rando... ...phonograph which to our great joy talked, and talked, too, with the purest American accent. It was so good that a second instrument was got ready fort...

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...lish-speaking man. No doubt the spirit of the inquiry is more British than American, that the aban- donment of Rousseau and anarchic democracy is more... ...e aban- donment of Rousseau and anarchic democracy is more com- plete than American thought is yet prepared for, but that is a difference not of quali... ...ed develop principles of primary importance in the fundamen- tal schism of American politics between the local State gov- ernment and the central powe... ...l revision. These papers have indeed been honoured by letters from men and women of almost every profession, and by a really very considerable amount ... ...ld-world wisdom, the ultimate mystery of Oriental philosophy is to contemn women and offspring, to abandon costume, cleanliness, and all the de- cenci... ...nd he has also proposed that “diplomas” should be granted to young men and women of high class—big S and upward—and that they should be encouraged to ... ... outside their range. Certain things that have been rather well treated by poets and artists (for the most part dead and of Academic standing) they re...

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...awing-room where, clearly, he was an object of interest, especially to the women. I had caught his name as Monsieur Mills. The lady who had introduced... ... present. There were more than a dozen people in that drawing-room, mostly women eating fine pastry and talking passionately. It might have been a Car... ...ried, astonished. “Y ou can’t bribe the French Customs. This isn’t a South-American republic.” 13 Joseph Conrad “Is it a republic?” he murmured, very... ...trifle, for her,” Mr. Blunt remarked indifferently. “At that sort of thing women are best. They have less scruples.” “More audacity,” interjected Mr. ... ...r any remark. He inquired with extreme politeness what did I know of South American republics? I confessed that I knew very little of them. W andering... ... things; half-light in the rooms; surrounded by the works of her favourite poets, and all that sort of thing. I say to myself: I must just run in and ... ..., Madame Leonore,” I said, amused by her expression of disgust. “That’s an American.” “Ah! Un Americano! Well, never mind him. It was her that I went ...

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...hat we are! Three Quatrains I As long as Fame’s imperious music rings Will poets mock it with crowned words august; And haggard men will clamber to ... ...hed, instead, Till his cheeks were sere and his hairs were gray. “There are women enough, God knows,” he said. . . . “There are stars enough — when ... ...m going, to Tilbury Town. The men are asleep, — or awake, may be, — But the women are calling John Evereldown. Ever and ever they call for me, And wh... ...oing so late, so late, — Why are you going, John Evereldown?” “I follow the women wherever they call, — That’s why I’m going to Tilbury Town. God kn... ...yourselves with your descent, What comes of all your visions and your fears? Poets and kings are but the clerks of Time, Tiering the same dull webs of... ... Hamilton and Aaron Burr, which is not based upon any spe cific incident in American history, may be supposed to have occurred a few months previous ... ...rr—who has been characterized, without much exaggeration, as the inventor of American politics — began to be conspicuously formidable to the Federalis... ... man’s havoc and affairs, And yet was not all hostile to their tumult, Where poets would have served and honored him, And saved him, had there been an...

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...re, if he could maintain a tolerable familiarity with the fore- most Latin poets, and a very slender one indeed with the Grecian. How slender, we can ... ...ns, should have failed so conspicuously; for possibly the mothers had been women of excessive and even exem- plary stupidity. In the case of Shakspear... ...ish and the Gothic races in general; since, under the immunity which their women enjoy from all servile labors of a coarse or out-of- doors order, by ... ... class, however noble in appearance, is somewhat de- graded in the eyes of women, by the necessity which his in- digence imposes of working under a ma... ... power can be looked for there. The Antigone and the Electra of the tragic poets are the two leading female characters that classical antiquity offers... ... whole is for each and in each. They only are real incarnations. The Greek poets could not exhibit any approximations to female character, without vio... ...he whole weight of his name and personal responsibility, (M Simond, now an American citizen,) records the following abominable scene as one of no unco...

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...ften that I could wish there were a closer parallel between myself and the American aloe. It is particularly agreeable and ap propriate to know that ... ... visible population, except half a dozen men in smock frocks, half a dozen women with umbrellas and pattens, and a washed out dog or so shivering unde... ...e once, no doubt, blooming chil dren were born, and grew up to be men and women, and married, and brought their own blooming children back to patter ... ... may read in the Hospital Report, with a glow of pleasure, that these poor women are so respondent as to have made, even in a toiling year of difficul... ...of that good blacksmith, as it was written of another of his trade, by the American poet: “Toiling, rejoicing, sorrowing, Onward through life he goes;... ...ne, which seems to my mind to have a certain application. My friend was an American sea captain, and, therefore, it is quite unnecessary to say his st... ...l interest the writings and persons of great men—historians, philosophers, poets, and novelists, vividly illustrated around them here. And they hope t...

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... 381 English . . . . . 382 To a Lady offended by a Sportive Observation that Women have no Souls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 383 Reason for Love’s ... ...m Surgit amari aliquid. Julia was blest with beauty, wit, and grace: Small poets lov’d to sing her blooming face. Before her altars, lo! a numerous... ...y; His feeble frame consumptive as his purse, His aching head did wine and women curse; His fortune ruin’d and his wealth decay’d, Clamorous his d... ...8 - Pity Coleridge: Poems To the Nightingale 1795 Sister of love-lorn Poets, Philomel! How many Bards in city garret pent, While at their win... ..., while thy remembered Home Gnaws like a viper at thy secret heart! O agØd Women! ye who weekly catch The morsel tossed by law-forced charity, And... ...oralist prates, ’Tis the keystone and cement of civilized States. Those American Reps! And i’ faith, they were serious! It shock’d us at Paris,...

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Excerpt: Two Poets by Honore de Balzac, translated by Ellen Marriage.

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...by Ellen Marriage A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Two Poets by Honore de Balzac, trans. Ellen Marriage is a publication of the Pe... ...he document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Two Poets by Honore de Balzac, trans. Ellen Marriage, the Pennsylvania State Un... ...lvania State University is an equal opportunity university. 3 Balzac T wo Poets by Honore de Balzac T ranslated by Ellen Marriage Dedication T o Mons... ...kroom, which raised her slightly above the class of working-girls. The two women’s slender earnings, together with Mme. Chardon’s three hundred francs... ...e cost of production by one-half; and he had another plan for employing an American vegetable fibre for making paper, something after the Chinese fash... ...the beauty of the antique; the Greek profile, with the velvet whiteness of women’s faces, and eyes full of love, eyes so blue that they looked dark ag... ... denoted race; they were shapely hands; hands that men obey at a sign, and women love to kiss. Lucien was slender and of middle height. From a glance ...

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...r (German), Revolution (French), Revolutionary War or War of Independence (American), Whiskey Insurrection (American), Civil War (American), War of... ... (for illustrations of these see 260-63) : The Men Who Made the Nation; The American College-- Its Past and Presmt; the Report of the Committee of N... ..." as part of the title, unless necessary to the sense: the Forum, the North American Review, the Chicago Tribune; but: The World To-Day.) NoTE.-T~~... ...ntence in ordinary reading-matter : "Five hundred and ninety-three men, 417 women, and 126 children under eighteen, besides 63 of the crew, went dow... ...in all matter of a statistical character, use figures: "Admission: men, $2; women, $I; children, 25 cents." 88. Time of day, in ordinary reading-mat... ...nster Confession, the Thirty- nine Articles." "Shakspere and other, lesser, poets." "The books which I have read I herewith return" (i. e., I return... ...ith return" (i. e., having read them [all1 I now return them). ''Gossiping, women are happy;" and: "Gossiping women are happy." "Of these four, two ...

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...g of the beginning, there was a little girl, LIFE, a Puer Eternus¸ as other poets have called it. She liked to play with soap bubbles, just like litt... ...asures of wisdom equal to those written by the Hindu, Buddhist and Chinese poets in their sacred poems, written in more or less the same epoch (VII C... ...cal to another. Every crystal of snow has a unique, unrepeatable shape. An American photographer named Bentley took pictures of more than six thousa... ... Cosmo-Art. These pathways both affirm and activate the ability of men and women to be born, to grow and to become artists of their own lives and of... ... a work of art, instead of feeding into an infinite destructivity. Men and women, if so inclined, can choose the freedom to love themselves instead o...

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...any importance comedy is a game played to throw reflections upon social life, and it deals with human nature in the drawing-room of civilized men and women, where we have no dust of the struggling outer world, no mire, no violent crashes, to make the correctness of the representation convincing. Credulity is not wooed through the impressionable senses; nor have we recourse...

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...e, and it deals with human nature in the drawing-room of civilized men and women, where we have no dust of the struggling outer world, no mire, no vio... ...which is imagined to have in- habited the island at one time; as among our poets the dream of the period of a circle of chivalry here is encouraged fo... ... has done with pretending to retire, will walk straight into the hearts of women. Nothing so fatal to them. Self-satisfied it must be. Humbleness does... ...was a widow unmarried a second time, and it has been known of the stedfast women who retain the name of their first husband, or do not ham- per his ti... ...nca- pable of…” “My love, I detest artifice. Poetry is a profession.” “Our poets would prove to you …” “As I have often observed, Clara, I am no poet.... ...re not ‘calculating’. More offensive than debris of a midnight banquet! An American tour is in- structive, though not so romantic. Not so romantic as ... ...d she had the love of wild flowers, the watchful happiness in the seasons; poets thrilled her, books absorbed. She dwelt strongly on that sincerity of...

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...ple picking their way among the stones and the water and the brambles; the women especially, with the weights poised on their heads and walk- ing all ... ...uary 1st: this morning I got January 3rd. Into the bargain with Marie, the American girl, who is grace itself, and comes leaping and dancing simply li... ... both the Russian ladies; they talked very nicely, and are bright, likable women both. They come from Georgia. WEDNESDAY , 10.30. – We have all been t... ...RS. SITWELL [MENTONE, JANUARY 1874.] … Last night I had a quarrel with the American on poli- tics. It is odd how it irritates you to hear certain poli... ...h. 10.45. – And I did. I want to say something more to you about the three women. I wonder so much why they should have been women, and halt between t... ... good and bright piece of work, and recognised a link of sympathy with the poets who ‘play in hostelries at euchre.’ – Believe me, dear sir, yours tru... ...rain ten to fourteen days’ journey; warranted extreme discomfort. The only American institution which has yet won my respect is the rain. One sees it ...

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...all rags are as becoming as purple. The childish and savage taste of men and women for new patterns keeps how many shaking and squinting through kalei... ...the map. Contrast the physical condition of the Irish with that of the North American Indian, or the South Sea Islander, or any other savage race befo... ...; but perchance the first news that will leak through into the broad, flapping American ear will be that the Princess Adelaide has the whooping cough. A... ...cceeded. The human race is interested in these experiments, though a few old women who are incapacitated for them, or who own their thirds in mills, m... ...e one and all unhesitatingly preferred to remain poor. While my townsmen and women are devoted in so many ways to the good of their fellows, I trust t... ...airest and most memorable of the actions of men, date from such an hour. All poets and heroes, like Memnon, are the children of Aurora, and emit their... .... By such a pile we may hope to scale heaven at last. The works of the great poets have never yet been read by mankind, for only great poets can read ... ..., unless it be in Milwaukie, as those splendid articles, English, French, or American prints, ginghams, muslins, &c., gathered from all quarters both ... ...nsonian. Wise midnight hags! It is no honest and blunt tu whit tu who of the poets, but, without jesting, a most solemn graveyard ditty, the mutual co...

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........................................... 148 BOOK VII. THE INSURRECTION OF WOMEN ........................................................................ ...e public places with cries of despair; crowds gather, get excited: so many women in destraction run about exaggerating the alarm: an absurd and horrid... ... received as a grace of Heaven. (Campan, i. 11- 36.) Poor withered ancient women! in the wild tossings that yet await your fragile existence, before i... ...s, it is said, What a spec- tacle! Now too behold our Deane, our Franklin, American Pleni- potentiaries, here in position soliciting; (1777; Deane som... ...ant glances on the Bust of Lafayette, which has stood there ever since the American War of Liberty. Whereupon, by acclamation, Lafayette is nominated.... ...ning forth perpetual pamphlets: and no man to gag them! Neither, as in the American Con- gress, do the arrangements seem perfect. A Senator has not hi... ...ational Guards lies encompassing it, as blue Nep- tune (in the language of poets) does an island, wooingly. Thither may the wrecks of rehabilitated Lo... ...her. Here, accordingly, if anywhere, the ‘hundred tongues, ’ which the old Poets often clamour for, were of supreme service! In defect of any such org...

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...me coloured, and white, flowering trees. “They said they would show me the Americans,” she said. “Why was it, mother? I thought Americans were like th... ...es, and a pond, and statues standing round it, and I don’t think they were Americans, for I know one was Diana, because she had a bow and quiver. I wa... ...rk, and did not spare herself, or have what would seem indulgences to most women; but nobody could see the light of her eyes and smile without trying ... ...e had been taught anatomy enough to make her work superior to that of most women, and Mr. Acton found no difficulty in disposing of them to a porcelai... ...fted his ground to another possibil- ity—”when there’s nobody but a lot of women, the thing goes into abeyance among them.” “Who gets it, then?” “Chan... ...hen the family were alone, than of finding himself in the midst of what an American guest had called Mrs. Brownlow’s surprise parties. They were 451 ... ...hn. “You haven’t ac- counted for the pronoun?” “Oh, never mind that. Great poets are above rules. I want Essie to promise us bridesmaids blackcock tai...

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...d do very little. The men hunted wild boars, and wolves and stags, and the women dug the ground, and raised a little corn, which they ground to flour ... ... cruel things, and one of the worst that they did was the stealing of men, women, and children from their homes, and selling them to strangers, who ma... ... many of them the very same that we have now. Here and there, when men and women wanted to be very good indeed, and to give their whole lives to doing... ...me when there were many very great men living —soldiers, sailors, writers, poets—and they all loved and look up to the queen as the mother of her coun... ...d there was a heavy duty laid upon it when the king wanted money. Now, the Americans got their tea straight from China, and thought it was unfair that... ...ne thing, and at first a few French gentlemen came over to fight among the Americans, and then the king Louis XVI., quarreled with George III., and he... ...George III., and helped them openly. There was a very clever man among the Americans named Benjamin Franklin, a printer by trade, but who made very cu...

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...celebrated for his daring vault ing act as the Wild Huntsman of the North American Prai ries; in which popular performance, a diminutive boy with an... ...d themselves and him into the room. There were two or three handsome young women among them, with their two or three husbands, and their two or three ... ...they took it in extraordinary dudgeon. The men mut tered ‘Shame!’ and the women ‘Brute!’ and Sleary, in some haste, communicated the following hint, ... ...thes, give me my clothes, and let me go away before I break my heart!’ The women sadly bestirred themselves to get the clothes together—it was soon do... ...The Hours did not go through any of those rosy performances, which foolish poets have ascribed to them at such times; neither did the clocks go any fa...

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...II., Henry VIII., and his mother; besides many more of illustrious men and women; and a picture of the Siege of Malta. VII. A small hermitage, half hi... ...ptivated the heart of King Henry II. that he lost the thought of all other women; she is said to have been poisoned at last by the Queen. All that re-... ...haps, they would signify Ceres; this they keep moving about, while men and women, men and maid servants, riding through the streets in the cart, shout... ...velvet, in some of which were woven history pieces; in others, Turkish and American dresses, all extremely natural. In the hall are these curiosities:... ...d mute and amazed to behold her own mark; but these are the particulars of poets. Certain it is he was a noble and matchless gentleman, and it may be ...

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...Walt Whitman (1819-1892) is widely considered to be the greatest and most influential of all American poets. LEAVES OF GRASS, Whitman's sole book published at his own expense, represents almost the entirety of his poetical output. The first edition of LEAVES OF GRASS, which he would continue to revise over the course...

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...trice Me Imperturbe Savantism The Ship Starting I Hear America Singing What Place Is Besieged Still though the One I Sing Shut Not Your Doors Poets to Come To You Thou Reader STARTING FROM PAUMANOK SONG OF MYSELF CHILDREN OF ADAM To the Garden the World From Pent-Up Aching Rivers I Sing the Body Electric A Woman Waits for Me Spontaneous Me One Hour to Ma...

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...s many ideas of what we are and what approaches to life we need to take to be happy. Philosophers have added to the mix. As have playwrights, poets,... ...ms. In boys this is often called the Oedipus complex, in girls, the Electra situation. Both of these ideas come to us from the ancient Greek poets ... ...d name the organ 14 several inches lower as the path to a man‘s heart. Women ... ...‘t be surprised when young Germans tortured and killed for Hitler, when young Chinese and Cambodians killed for Mao or Pol Pot, or even young Americ... ...part of the power package.‖ --―Chuck, do you remember when our Secretary of State, Henry Kissinger, was chided for dating beautiful women ... ...s true from mice to men. Get your power through politics, money, beauty or celebrity and you‘ll get enough sex!‖ —―Generally true, Con. Women ... ... in the vitamin D producing sun, could add the A and D to their skim milk. They don‘t, but are finally thinking about it—sixty years after the Americ... ...ental side, wartime British Prime Minister, historian and author Winston Churchill had a father who wrote of him ‗I have an idiot for a son.‘ Americ... ...ove can be based primarily on the knowledge of science, but is tempered by insights and speculations of philosophers, religious thinkers, and poets....

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...The Mongols hunted small animals and—given the chance—stole livestock and women from neighbor tribes on the grassier steppes. The Mongol male was ... ...rial goods. The attackers rarely pursued. The raiders would take young women as wives and young boys as slaves. Older women and the youngest chil... ... tribe‘s aristocratic lineage by killing off their men and marrying their women to his sons and other followers. Taking the name Genghis Khan, h... ... more likely stemmed from his encounters with sailors who had touched the American continent. In his revealing COD: A Biography of the Fish that ... ...fisherman kept secret their profitable catches of cod on regular trips to American waters. Mongols fostered exchange of ideas and inventions The ... ...its strength in a righteous fight. By Anonymous, from MacKellar’s “The American Printer” 1887 1... ... buyers from the growing literate populace, such as scholars, professors, poets, and mathematicians, would gather to interact in a weeklong, intelle...

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...er cloud pale eyelids falling on dream dimmed eyes: I cried in my dream, O women, bid the young men lay Their heads on your knees, and drown their eye... ... TELLS OF THE PERFECT BEAUTY O CLOUD PALE eyelids, dream dimmed eyes, The poets labouring all their days To build a perfect beauty in rhyme Are overt... ...is eyes. And Cumhal saw like a drifting smoke All manner of blessed souls, Women and children, young men with books, And old men with croziers and sto... ...F W.B. YEATS THE LOVER SPEAKS TO THE HEARERS OF HIS SONGS IN COMING DAYS O WOMEN, kneeling by your altar rails long hence, When songs I wove for my be... ...ECTED POEMS OF W.B. YEATS TO A POET, WHO WOULD HA VE ME PRAISE CERTAIN BAD POETS, IMITATORS OF HIS AND MINE YOU say, as I have often given tongue In p... ... 1914 98 THE COLLECTED POEMS OF W.B. YEATS RESPONSIBILITIES THE GREY ROCK Poets with whom I learned my trade. Companions of the Cheshire Cheese, Here... ...assed against the world. THE WINDING STAIR AND OTHER POEMS 245 The First. American colonies, Ireland, France and India Harried, and Burke’s great mel...

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... them old and ugly, as his father did before him.” On which papa said—”All women were alike; that there was never one so beautiful as that one; and th... ...sher the chaplain. The English household divines often marry the wait- ing-women.” “Y ou will not marry the French woman, will you? I saw her laughing... ...es these my lady had her faithful poor Tusher, and one, two, three gentle- women whom Harry Esmond could recollect in his time. They could not bear th... ...n this desultory way the works of most of the English, French, and Italian poets came under his eyes, and he had a smattering of the Spanish tongue li... ...ess that set one of his auditors a-laughing. “I admire the license of your poets,” says Esmond to Mr. Addison. (Dick, after reading of the verses, was... ...barous. The rites performed before it are shocking to think of. Y ou great poets should show it as it is—ugly and horrible, not beautiful and serene. ... ... is independent in all but the name, (for that 350 Henry Esmond the North American colonies shall remain dependants on yon- der little island for twe...

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...n “was red painted on the nose, and white painted on the cheeks, as her tire women, when from spleen and wrinkles she would no longer look in any glas... ...ewest can find the kernel.” In such rose colored light does our Professor, as Poets are wont, look back on his childhood; the historical details of whi... ...ether unspeakable. A visible Divinity dwelt in them; to our young Friend all women were holy, were heavenly. As yet he but saw them flitting past, in t... ... incipient Dotage, would crown with no new myrtle garland. To the Professor, women are henceforth Pieces of Art; of Celestial Art, indeed, which celes... ...iritual sort on Europe: I mean the epidemic, now endemical, of View hunting. Poets of old date, being privileged with Senses, had also enjoyed externa... ...t as articulately perhaps as the case admitted. Or call him, if you will, an American Backwoodsman, who had to fell unpenetrated forests, and bat tle... ... here been often irrefragably evinced, of the Tailor alone?—What too are all Poets and moral Teachers, but a species of Metaphorical Tailors? Touching... ..., considerably involved in haze. To the first English Edition, 1838, which an American, or two American had now opened the way for, there was slighting... ...ed and pacificated.’ Here is a”...—Sun Newspaper, 1st April, 1834. III. NORTH—AMERICAN REVIEWER. . . . . . “After a careful survey of the whole ground,...

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...ion we speak of the life of a savage tribe, of the Athenian people, of the American nation. “Life” covers customs, institutions, beliefs, victories an... ...e members of any group while it is isolated. The assimilative force of the American public school is eloquent testimony to the effi- cacy of the commo... ...ine. The logical result is expressed with literal truth in the words of an American humorist: “It makes no difference what you teach a boy so long as ... ..., get- ting a livelihood, “making a living,” must signify for most men and women doing things which are not sig- nificant, freely chosen, and ennoblin... ...n- talities of an expanding and controlled experience, and the artists and poets who have celebrated his struggles, triumphs, and defeats in such lang... ...by domestic slaves they remain on a lower plane of excellence. More- over, women are classed with slaves and craftsmen as factors among the animate in... ... are had without effort and without attention. Hence slaves, artisans, and women are employed in furnishing the means of subsis- tence in order that o...

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...nd finally developed into the University of Pennsylvania; and he founded an “American The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin 3 Philosophical Society”... ...ned he received a place only second to that of Washington as the champion of American indepen The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin 4 dence. He die... ...ber thirteen sitting at one time at his table, who all grew up to be men and women, and married; I was the youngest son, and the young est child but ... ...tton Mather in his church history of that country, entitled Magnalia Christi Americana, as ‘a godly, learned Englishman,” if I remember the words righ... ...t we took in a number of passengers for New York, among which were two young women, companions, and a grave, sensible, matron like Quaker woman, with ... ...efore, when she saw a daily growing familiarity between me and the two young women, which they appear’d to encourage, she took me aside, and said: “Yo... ...t become eminent in it, and make his for tune by it, alleging that the best poets must, when they first began to write, make as many faults as he did...

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...ter another, in the master’s presence. We then passed on to a table, where women combed and powdered our hair. Thus the place, being cleaned but once ... ...ss which must surely characterize the intellectual perceptiveness of great poets and often bring them to the verge of madness. “Do you ever feel,” sai... ...dispute, of which there is ample evidence in many instances, especially of women who by a sad fatality are doomed to let unappreciated feelings evapor... ...k him. She found him, with- out a guide, making her way alone in the North American wilderness, reaching him just in time to save his life. Louis had ... ...rsion, in the heart of the Paris world, to the savage passion that regards women as its prey, an effect of animal instinct combining with the almost l... ...ne spirit, if I gave my hours to study—ideas to the world and poems to the poets? Nay, nay, my very life, I will treasure everything for you; I will b...

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...- tion of the day. How could I be otherwise? I had read and reread all the American and European papers without be- ing any nearer a conclusion. This ... ...ofes- 11 Jules Verne sor, and not give too much cause for laughter to the Americans, who laugh well when they do laugh. I reserved for myself a way o... ...friends and collections—and accepted without hesita- tion the offer of the American Government. “Besides,” thought I, “all roads lead back to Europe; ... ... of the animal to be disputed on board. He believed in it, as certain good women believe in the leviathan—by faith, not by reason. The monster did exi... ... nothing but love and emotion; it is the `Living Infinite,’ as one of your poets has said. In fact, Professor, Nature manifests herself in it by her t... ... of bones. Most of these savages were naked. Amongst them, I remarked some women, dressed from the hips to knees in quite a crinoline of herbs, that s... ...aint such pictures, one must have the pen of the most illustri- ous of our poets, the author of The Toilers of the Deep. I have said that Captain Nemo...

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...evolution, much of which had been recently written in the blood of men and women of great distinction who were his progenitors; and had witnessed the ... ...eral government that was ever devised for a free people. He found that the American people, through their chosen representatives who were instructed b... ...ent country, or among any different people. The pride and comfort that the American people enjoy in the great commentaries of De Tocqueville are far r... ...ment which has afflicted mankind for many ages, that gives joy to the true American, as it did to De T ocqueville in his great triumph. When De Tocque... ..., they thought themselves transported into those fabulous regions of which poets had sung. The sea sparkled with phosphoric light, and the extraordina... ..., they thought themselves transported into those fabulous regions of which poets had sung. The sea sparkled with phosphoric light, and the extraordina... ...ve to many of them.” The emigrants were about 150 in number, including the women and the children. Their object was to plant a colony on the shores of... ...as taken. This feeling pervades the most trifling habits of life; even the women frequently attend public meetings and listen to political harangues a... ...ss progress than in the United States; and in few have great artists, fine poets, or celebrated writers been more rare. Many Europe- ans, struck by th...

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...ng about it!’ ‘They can’t mend,’ said Mysie. ‘Besides, do you know, in the American war, all the sewing-machines in the Southern States got out of ord... ...t she had gone to bed with congealed lungs or else Brown Titus, as the old women called it. His mother, however, heard the cough—which, in- deed, was ... ...rl as good as an or- phan,’ said Miss Hacket, who, if not the cleverest of women, was one of the best and most warm-hearted. ‘And, indeed, 85 Yo n g ... ...tions,’ said Constance. ‘I am sure he never would. Men don’t. It is always women, with their nasty, prying, tyrannous instincts.’ ‘I am sure,’ returne... ...umpery,’ said Gillian, making a youthfully sweeping assertion. ‘Many great poets have begun with a periodical press,’ said Dolores, picking up a sente... ...that a person answering to his description had embarked at Liverpool in an American-bound steamer. This idea, though very uncertain, was a relief, at ...

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...ender art thou of thy people,” said the Tigress. “They are my own. The old women dream of me turning in their sleep; the maids look and listen for me ... ...eople.” “It is very far away,” grunted Bhairon. “Also, it is a lie.” “Many women have kissed Krishna. They told him this to cheer their own hearts whe... ...p while she gathers the pretty flowers—yes, an’ pick a maouthful, too. The women-folk all say I hev to be humoured, an’ I don’t kerry things to the sw... ... across the sea. As the Guiding Light she was very badly wanted in a South American port for the little matter of entering harbour at full speed, coll... ...ving-wheels into the brick ash-pit beneath him. 007 was an eight-wheeled “American” loco, slightly different from others of his type, and as he sto... ...ive-cent sidewalk-fakirs’ mechanical toys! Here’ s an eight-wheel coupled ‘American’ don’t know what a hot-box is! Never heard of an emergency-stop ei... ...flected red from the twirling metal. He be- lieves that there are only two poets in the world; one being Robert Burns, of course, and the other Gerald...

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.... She struck a rock and began to sink. There was room in the boats for the women and children only. The colonel lined up his regiment on the deck and ... ...ay be saved.” There was no murmur, no protest. The boats carried away the women and children. When the death moment was come, the colonel and his off... ...rotestant; Ameri can—ditto; Spaniard, Frenchman, Irishman, Italian, South American—Roman Catholic; Russian—Greek Catholic; T urk—Mohammedan; and so o... ...her . Otherwise the girl would have been rung up, distress and all. I know women who would have gotten a No. 1 pleasure out of ringing Jane up—and so... ...ns, the Russians, the Germans, the French, the English, the Spaniards, the Americans, the South Americans, the Japanese, the Chinese, the Hindus, the ... ...ow remember why. After that we made the English pegs fence in European and American history as well as English, and that answered very well. English a... ...history as well as English, and that answered very well. English and alien poets, statesmen, artists, heroes, battles, plagues, cataclysms, revolution... ...es, slaughter one another’s subjects; it has raised up prize fighters, and poets, and villages mayors, and little and big politicians, and big and lit... ...nfin ished literary work, not a scrap of manuscript of any kind . Many poets have died poor, but this is the only one in history that has died th...

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...wenty-seven patients here; and, of that number, no less than eighteen were women; but, lately, matters have changed very much, as you see.” “Y es—have... ... She has her little eccentricities, to be sure—but then, you know, all old women—all very old women—are more or less eccentric!” 43 V olume Four “To ... ...—“my very good friends and assistants.” “What! all of them?” I asked,—“the women and all?” “Assuredly,” he said,—“we could not do at all without the w... ...ously laid by itself “solitary and alone” (excuse me for quoting the great American poet Benton!), as a guarantee of the magnani- mous intention. We a... ...it. The truth is, I labored under the disadvantage of having no monkey—and American streets are so muddy, and a Democratic rabble is so obstrusive, an... ... not meet for man in the in- fant condition of his soul. And these men—the poets—living and perishing amid the scorn of the “utilitarians” —of rough p... ... which could have been properly applied only to the scorned—these men, the poets, pondered piningly, yet not unwisely, upon the ancient days when our ...

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............................. 170 CHAPTER IX – JOHN KNOX AND HIS RELATIONS TO WOMEN .................................. 190 4 Robert Louis Stevenson Fami... ... history, and religion, but of the growth and liberties of art. Of the two Americans, Whitman and Thoreau, each is the type of some- thing not so much... ...ght them forth, an author would require a large habit of life among modern Americans. As for Yoshida, I have already disclaimed respon- sibility; it w... ... irregularity and the too frequent vanity and meanness of his relations to women. Hence, in the eyes of many, my study was a step towards the demonstr... ...dramatic author has to paint his beaches with real sand: real live men and women move about the stage; we hear real voices; what is feigned merely put... ...ndignation against the zeal of a Whig clergyman, he writes: “I daresay the American Congress in 1776 will be allowed to be as able and as enlightened ... ...vid medium for all that had to do with social life. Hence, whenever Scotch poets left their laborious imitations of bad English verses, and fell back ... ...hrase of one tough verse of the original; and for those who know the Greek poets only by paraphrase, this has the very quality they are accustomed to ... ...ream so deep and easy that I will venture to call him the best of humorous poets. He turns about in the midst to utter a noble sentiment or a trenchan...