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........................... 23 THE WILD ROSE AND THE SNOWDROP ............................................................................. 24 THE DEATH OF WINTER .......................................................................................................... 25 SONG .......................................................................................................

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...ge Meredith A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Poems of George Meredith by George Meredith is a publication of the Pennsylvania ... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... .............................................. 169 LINES TO A FRIEND VISITING AMERICA....................................................................... ... of the poles. The wild Atlantic’s weltering gloom, Earth-clasping seas of North and South, The Baltic with its amber spume, The Caspian with its froz... ...nd yearning of the earth T o be a mother and give happy birth, Ere yet the northern sun such rapture brings, Lo, from her virgin breast the Snowdrop s... ...root, Whose quaint face peers green and dusky ‘Mongst the matted growth of plants, While she rises wild and weltering, Speeding on with many pants. T ... ...nd bring the army of the faithful through. 170 LINES TO A FRIEND VISITING AMERICA I Now farewell to you! you are One of my dearest, whom I trust: Now... ... the noon-ray’s quickening wheat, Ere touch’d, the pendulous flower of the plants of sloth, The plants of rigidness, answered question and squeeze, Re... ...cook, was he, fanged, horned, plumed; Original man, as philosophers vouch; Carnivorous, cannibal; length-long exhumed, Frightfully living and armed to...

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...Introduction: The enterprise of messrs. T. Nelson & Sons and the friendly accommodation of Messrs. Macmillan render possible this collection in one cover of all the short stories by me that I care for any one to read again. Except for the two series of l...

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...RODUCTION ............................................................................................................................. 5 THE JILTING OF JANE ................................................................................10 THE CONE.....................................................................................................16 THE STOLEN BACILLUS......

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... G. Wells A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Country of the Blind, and Other Stories by H.G. Wells is a publication of the Penns... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...o-day,” he continued, after a pause, “Peters’ are going to sell a batch of plants from the Andamans and the Indies. I shall go up and see what they ha... ...d some of them have never been found with seed.” “But how do they form new plants?” “By runners and tubers, and that kind of outgrowth. That is easily... ...OBSERVATORY AT AVU, in Borneo, stands on the spur of the mountain. T o the north rises the old crater, black at night against the unfathomable blue of... ...patch of stars he saw was in Sagittarius and south- eastward; the door was north—or was it north by west? He tried to think. If he could get the door ... ...8 The Country of the Blind on a way of settling him at last. It is a South American dodge. I joined all my fishing-lines together with stems of seawee... ...the moon when she nears her full, but very large; and the silvery shape of America was now in the noonday blaze wherein (as it seemed) little England ... ...s. They obeyed greater leaders even as the leaf-cutting ants do. They were carnivorous, and where they came they stayed… The forest was very still. Th...

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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, t...

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... Don Juan by George Byron is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furn... ...ersity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and i... ...ch more common where the climate ‘s sultry. Happy the nations of the moral North! Where all is virtue, and the winter season Sends sin, withou... ... Perhaps it may be follow’d by the great. ‘T is said the great came from America; Perhaps it may set out on its return, The population th... ...aily task had kept his fancy cool, At least, had he been nurtured in the north; Spain may prove an exception to the rule, But then exception... ...ell as cargo, Like the first old Greek privateer, the Argo. But man is a carnivorous production, And must have meals, at least one meal a day;... ...od deal to say, There being no such profusion in the North Of oriental plants, ‘et cetera,’ But that of late your scribblers think it worth ... ...od use. The gentle Juan flourish’d, though at times He felt like other plants called sensitive, Which shrink from touch, as monarchs do from r... ...orld in a cutter, Or brigantine, or pink, of no great tonnage, While yet America was in her non age. When Adeline, in all her growing sense ...

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...Excerpt: Selden paused in surprise. In the afternoon rush of the Grand Central Station his eyes had been refreshed by the sight of Miss Lily Bart. It was a Monday in early September, and he was returning to his work from a hurried dip into the country; but what was Miss Bart doing i...

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...Preface: What is exaggeration to one class of minds and perceptions, is plain truth to another. That which is commonly called a long-sight, perceives in a prospect innumerable features and bearings non-existent to a short-sighted person. I sometimes ask myself whether...

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...erpt: Chapter 1. The Boarding-House. Mrs. Tibbs was, beyond all dispute, the most tidy, fidgety, thrifty little personage that ever inhaled the smoke of London; and the house of Mrs. Tibbs was, decidedly, the neatest in all Great Coram-street. The area and the area-steps, and the street-door and the street-door steps, and the brass handle, and the door-plate, and the knock...

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... Darwin A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Uni... ...ity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...Geometrical powers of increase — Rapid increase of naturalised animals and plants —Nature of the checks to increase — Competition universal 5 Charles... ...tion from the number of individuals — Complex relations of all animals and plants throughout nature — Struggle for life most severe between individual... ...truck with certain facts in the distribution of the inhabit- ants of South America, and in the geological rela- tions of the present to the past inhab... ...ine the reproduction of animals under confinement, I may just mention that carnivorous animals, even from the tropics, breed in this country pretty fr... ... finement, with the exception of the plantigrades or bear family; whereas, carnivorous birds, with the rarest exceptions, hardly ever lay fertile eggs... ...dwarfed plants on Alpine summits, or the thicker fur of an animal from far northwards, would not in some cases be inherited for at least some few gen-... ...ut are common in sepa- rated areas. How many of those birds and insects in North America and Europe, which differ very slightly from each other, have ...

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................................................................................................................... 27 HOMER?S HYMN TO THE EARTH: MOTHER OF ALL .................................................................................. 28 HOMER?S HYMN TO MINERVA................................................................................................................

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...THE COMPLETE POETICAL WORKS OF PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY VOLUME 3 OXFORD EDITION. INCLUDING MATERIALS NEVER ... ... 3 OXFORD EDITION. INCLUDING MATERIALS NEVER BEFORE PRINTED IN ANY EDITION OF THE POEMS. EDITED WITH TEXTUAL NOTES BY THOMAS HUTCHINSON, M. A. EDITOR ... ................................................... 261 TO THE REPUBLICANS OF NORTH AMERICA ................................................................ ............................................. 261 TO THE REPUBLICANS OF NORTH AMERICA ...................................................................... ............................................................. 276 FAREWELL TO NORTH DEVON .................................................................. ... intricate wild wilderness of trees And flowers and undergrowth of odorous plants, Leave me; the books you brought out of the house To me are ever bes... ...raves the frost Basks in the moonlight’s ineffectual glow, Shrank with the plants, and darkened with the night; 146 Volume 3 His chilled and narrow e... ...omy teaches us that man resembles fru- givorous animals in everything, and carnivorous in nothing; he has neither claws wherewith to seize his prey, n... ...rk as this.’ Then, and then only, would he be consistent. Man resembles no carnivorous animal. There is no excep- tion, unless man be one, to the rule...

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...Table of Contents: Economy, 1 -- Where I Lived, and What I Lived For, 50 -- Reading, 62 -- Sounds, 69 -- Solitude, 80 -- Visitors, 87 -- The Bean-Field, 97 -- The Village, 105 -- The Ponds, 109 -- Baker Farm, 126 -- Higher Laws, 13...

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...den Economy 1 Economy W HEN I wrote the following pages, or rather the bulk of them, I lived alone, in the woods, a mile from any neighbor, in a hous... ... a mile from any neighbor, in a house which I had built myself, on the shore of Walden Pond, in Concord, Massachusetts, and earned my living by the la... ...d Negro Slavery, there are so many keen and subtle masters that enslave both north and south. It is hard to have a southern overseer; it is worse to h... ...rth and south. It is hard to have a southern overseer; it is worse to have a northern one; but worst of all when you are the slave driver of yourself.... ... he may rise in the same proportion into the heavens above? — for the nobler plants are valued for the Economy 9 fruit they bear at last in the air a... ... that of mankind. We don garment after garment, as if we grew like exogenous plants by addition without. Our outside and often thin and fanciful cloth... .... The head monkey at Paris puts on a traveller’s cap, and all the monkeys in America do the same. I sometimes despair of getting any thing quite simpl... ...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... ...sh and fat. I am satisfied that it is not. Is it not a reproach that man is a carnivorous animal? True, he can and does live, in a great measure, by pr...

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...Excerpt: Chapter 1. Lakeside was a pleasant little town of five or six thousand inhabitants, and a rather pretty one, too, as towns go in the Far West. It had church accommodations for thirty-five thousand, which is the way of the Far West and the South, where everybody is religio...

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.... 134 EDWARD MILLS AND GEORGE BENTON: A TALE...................................................................................... 137 THE FIVE BOONS OF LIFE ................................................................................................................................ 143 THE FIRST WRITING-MACHINES ............................................................

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...E ................................................................................................................................ 12 BOOK 1.I. DEATH OF LOUIS XV. ........................................................................................................................... 12 Chapter 1.1.I. Louis the Well-Beloved. .................................................

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Excerpt: The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature by William James.

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...NEUROLOGY............................................................................................................. 11 Lecture II: CIRCUMSCRIPTION OF THE TOPIC ................................................................................................ 34 Lecture III: THE REALITY OF THE UNSEEN ............................................................................

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