...nder Pope A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Odyssey of Homer trans. Alexander Pope is a publication of the Pennsylvania State... ...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... ...ent or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Odyssey of Homer trans. Alexander Pope , the Pennsylvania State University, Elect... ... were to feed Homers, they would be encumbered with a multitude of useless people.” “From this circumstance,” says the writer, “Melesigenes acquired t... ... sense). It argued a new way of looking at the old epical treasures of the people, as well as a thirst for new poetical effect; and the men who stood ... ... of his modesty and talent, than of his mere drudging arrangement of other people’s ideas; for, as Grote has finely observed, arguing for the unity of... ... closed in sleep his ever watchful eyes. There view’d the Pleiads, and the Northern Team, And great Orion’s more refulgent beam. To which, around the ... ...e cape doubled, adverse winds prevail’d. Strong was the tide, which by the northern blast Impell’d, our vessels on Cythera cast, Nine days our fleet t... ...es! ask no mortal guide. Rear but the mast, the spacious sail display, The northern winds shall wing thee on thy way. Soon shalt thou reach old Ocean’...

Excerpt: The Odyssey of Homer translated by Alexander Pope.

...ublication The Prince and the Page by Charlotte M. Yonge is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...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... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...of all inevitable faults, this style of composition does tend to fix young people’s interest and attention on the scenes it treats of, and to vivify t... ... characters it describes; and if this sketch at all tends to prepare young people’s minds to look with sympathy and appreciation on any of the great c... ...understood than his flock; and her lady spoke little but langue d’oui, the Northern French, which was as little serviceable in dealing with her Spanis... ...s to the noble temper that actuated him in his championship of the English people, they became mere lawless rebels—fiercely profiting by his elevation... ..., marble columns.” “But, brother, for whom do you hold it? For the King of Cyprus or—?” “For myself, boy! For King Simon, an it like you better! None ... ...dom of Jerusalem, that took place in consequence of the disputed rights of Cyprus and Hohenstaufen, most of them had become free from all control. If ...

... The Winter’s Tale by William Shakespeare 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 in... ...Editor, Hazleton, PA 18201 1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of lit... ...ot to me and thy places shall Still neighbor mine. My ships are ready and My people did expect my hence departure Two days ago. This jealousy Is for a... ...nk. [Enter AUTOLYCUS, singing .] AUTOLYCUS: Lawn as white as driven snow; Cyprus black as e’er was crow; Gloves as sweet as damask roses; Masks for... ...s white as it, Or Ethiopian’s tooth, or the fann’d snow that’s bolted By the northern blasts twice o’er. POLIXENES: What follows this...

... 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... ...Editor, Hazleton, PA 18201 1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of lit... ...au, Petion, Clootz, Danton, Marat, La Fayette, Were French, and famous people, as we know: And there were others, scarce forgotten yet, Jo... ...ly inurn’d; Because the army ‘s grown more popular, At which the naval people are concern’d; Besides, the prince is all for the land service, ... ... named, With virtues equall’d by her wit alone, She made the cleverest people quite ashamed, And even the good with inward envy groan, Fin... ...at blew; Some thought it was Mount AEtna, some the highlands, Of Candia, Cyprus, Rhodes, or other islands. Meantime the current, with a rising g... ...ear debates whose thunder roused (not rouses) The world to gaze upon those northern lights Which flash’d as far as where the musk bull browses; ...

...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...

...ns, and Homerica, edited by Hugh G. Evelyn-White (1914) is a publica- tion of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...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... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...rdly we may ascribe the rise of the new epic to the nature of the Boeotian people and, as already re- marked, to a spirit of revolt against the old ep... ...ady re- marked, to a spirit of revolt against the old epic. The Boeotians, people of the class of which Hesiod represents himself to be the type, were... ... little for works of fancy, for pathos, or for fine thought as such. T o a people of this nature the Homeric epos would be inacceptable, and the post-... ...d it has also been pointed out that ‘mutterrecht’ still left its traces in northern Greece in historical times. The following analysis (after Marcksch... ...d Arctinus of the same incident. The Cyprian Lays, ascribed to Stasinus of Cyprus (14) (but also to Hegesinus of Salamis) was designed to do for the e... ...gain, and Damnameneus, the first of the Idaean Dactyls, discovered iron in Cyprus; but bronze smelting was discovered by Delas, another Idaean, though...

...Excerpt: This volume contains practically all that remains of the post- Homeric and pre-academic epic poetry. I have for the most part formed my own text. In the case of Hesiod I have been able to use independent collations of several MSS. by Dr. W.H.D. Rouse; otherwise I have depend...

................................................................................................................................................. 9 Life of Hesiod ............................................................................................................................................................... 10 The Hesiodic Poems ....................................

...A Journal of the Plague Year by Daniel Defoe A JOURNAL OF THE PLAGUE YEAR being observations or memorials of the most remarkable o... ...lic before. A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication A Journal of the Plague Year by Daniel Defoe is a publication of the Pennsylvania Sta... ...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... ...y their T urkey fleet; others said it was brought from Candia; others from Cyprus. It mattered not from whence it came; but all agreed it was come int... ...l was kept very private. Hence it was that this rumour died off again, and people began to forget it as a thing we were very little concerned in, and ... ...rtality in the usual manner, thus – Plague, 2. Parishes infected, 1. The people showed a great concern at this, and began to be alarmed all over the... ...ther house, but in the same parish and in the same manner. This turned the people’s eyes pretty much towards that end of the town, and the weekly bill... ... be among them, which made them fare the better. For the security of those northern traders, the coal-ships were ordered by my Lord Mayor not to come ...

...Excerpt: It was about the beginning of September, 1664, that I, mong the rest of my neighbors, heard in ordinary dis course that the plague was returned again in Holland; for it had been very violent there, and particularly at Amsterdam and Rotterdam, in the ye...

...THE 9/11 COMMISSION REPORT Final FM.1pp 7/17/04 5:25 PM Page i List of Illustrations and Tables ix Member List xi Staff List xiii–xiv Pr... ...omeland Defense 14 1.3 National Crisis Management 35 2. THE FOUNDATION OF THE NEW TERRORISM 47 2.1 A Declaration of War 47 2.2 Bin Ladin’s App... ... of War 47 2.2 Bin Ladin’s Appeal in the Islamic World 48 2.3 The Rise of Bin Ladin and al Qaeda (1988–1992) 55 2.4 Building an Organization, De... ...esident of the United States, the United States Congress, and the American people for their consideration. Ten Commissioners—five Republicans and five... ...mitted to share as much of our investi- gation as we can with the American people.T o that end, we held 19 days of hearings and took public testimony ... ... have examined the staggering impact of the events of 9/11 on the American people and their amazing resilience and courage as they fought back.We have... ... in Kashmir. In mid-1991, Bin Ladin dispatched a band of supporters to the northern Afghanistan border to assist the Tajikistan Islamists in the ethni... ...n inspector general’s report recommending that the Border Patrol develop a northern border strategy, the only positive step was that the number of Bor... ...out 1999 and ulti- mately become entangled with debate about enlisting the Northern Alliance as an ally for covert action. 84 Another diplomatic optio...

...Excerpt: We present the narrative of this report and the recommendations that flow from it to the President of the United States, the United States Congress, and the American people for their consideration. Ten Commissioners--five Republicans and five Democra...

...CONTENTS List of Illustrations and Tables ix Member List xi Staff List xiii?xiv Preface xv 1. ?WE HAVE SOME PLANES? 1 1.1 Inside the Four Flights 1 1.2 Improvising a Homeland Defense 14 1.3 National Crisis Management 35 2. THE FOUNDATION O...