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...Contents ITALIANS IN EXILE ......................................................................................4 THE RETURN JOURNEY ..............................................................................4 The Crucifix Across the Mountains ...............................................................................................

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...eries Publication Twilight in Italy by D. H. Lawrence is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...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... ... JOURNEY The Crucifix Across the Mountains THE IMPERIAL ROAD to Italy goes from Munich across the T yrol, through Innsbruck and Bozen to Verona, over ... ...he great processions passed as the emperors went South, or came home again from rosy Italy to their own Germany. And how much has that old imperial va... ...o the fact of the nails and the cross, which he could not escape. It was a man nailed down in spirit, but set stubbornly against the bondage and the d... ... spirit, but set stubbornly against the bondage and the disgrace. He was a man of middle age, plain, crude, with some of the meanness of the peasant, ... ...ays the strange radiance of the mountains, there is the mystery of the icy river rushing through its pink shoals into the darkness of the pine-woods, ... ...ght in Italy place. The road went beside the river, that was seething with snowy ice-bubbles, under the rocks and the high, wolf-like pine-trees, betw... ... cence of all life and is unchanged, the issue is bright and immortal, the snowy not-being. What, then, is being? As one draws nearer to the turning-p...

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...an By Herman Melville A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Confidence-Man by Herman Melville is a publication of the Pennsylvania ... ...lville A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Confidence-Man by Herman Melville is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Universit... ... for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Nei- ther the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ... or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Confidence-Man by Herman Melville, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Class... ...-bag, nor parcel. No porter followed him. He was unaccompanied by friends. From the shrugged shoul- ders, titters, whispers, wonderings of the crowd, ... ...or the capture of a mysterious impostor, supposed to have recently arrived from the East; quite an original genius in his vocation, as would appear, t... ...idence-Man the Mississippi, and the brothers Harpe, the Thugs of the Green River country, in Kentucky—creatures, with others of the sort, one and all ... ...t contact with bedding, his ferret eyes, blink- ing in the sunlight of the snowy boat, as imbecilely eager, and, at intervals, coughing, he peered hit... ...ing. Besides, Polonius is an old man—as I remember him upon the stage—with snowy locks. Now charity requires that such a figure—think of it how you wi...

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Excerpt: Scenes from a Courtesan?s Life by Honore de Balzac, translated by James Waring.

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Excerpt: The Two Brothers by Honore de Balzac, translated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley.

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...ine Prescott Wormeley A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Two Brothers by Honore de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley is... ...y Honore de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ..., etc. Here, my dear Nodier, is a book filled with deeds that are screened from the action of the laws by the closed doors of domestic life; but as to... ... how fatal the results of feminine weakness, how great the dangers arising from selfish interests when indulged without restraint. May a society which... ...n enjoyed the services of a physician named Rouget, whom they held to be a man of consummate malignity. Were we to believe certain bold tongues, he ma... ...eeded in laying bare the interior of that house- hold. Doctor Rouget was a man of whom we say in com- mon parlance, “He is not pleasant to deal with.”... ...other, to whose mind a horrible vision of Philippe dragged dead out of the river pre- sented itself. Gloomy silence reigned for a short time. The day ... ... of the rampart. The “Riviere forcee” forms an artificial arm of a natural river, the T ournemine, which unites with several other streams beyond the ... ...e Bra- zier standing directly behind him, with her hair dressed, a pair of snowy shoulders and a dazzling bosom showing through a gauze neckerchief, w...

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Excerpt: The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley, Volume One.

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....... 16 POSTSCRIPT IN SECOND EDITION OF 1839. ........................................................................ 21 PREFACE BY MRS. SHELLEY. TO THE VOLUME OF POSTHUMOUS POEMS PUBLISHED IN 1824......................................................................................................................... 22 THE DAEMON OF THE WORLD. ..............................

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...OXFORD EDITION. INCLUDING MATERIALS NEVER BEFORE PRINTED IN ANY EDITION OF THE POEMS. EDITED WITH TEXTUAL NOTES BY THOMAS HUTCHINSON, M. A. EDITOR OF ... ...ORD WORDSWORTH. 1914. A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley, Volume One is a public... ...llation of the early editions; and in every material instance of departure from the wording of those originals the rejected reading has been subjoined... ...es capriciously. In the very act of transcribing his mind was apt to stray from the work in hand to higher things; he would lose himself in contemplat... ...her allude to them than to remark that the errors of action committed by a man as noble and generous as Shelley, may, as far as he only is concerned, ... ... rather than to the outward form—a curious and metaphysical anatomy of hu- man passion and perception. The second class is, of course, the more popula... ... progress, or create That peace which first in bloodless victory waved Her snowy standard o’er this favoured clime: _425 There... ...fled, like foam _345 Down the steep cataract of a wintry river; Now pausing on the edge of the riven wave; Now leaving far behind th... ...it the colours of that varying cheek, _600 That snowy breast, those dark and drooping eyes. The dim and horned moon hung lo...

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...Excerpt: Dombey sat in the corner of the darkened room in the great arm-chair by the bedside, and Son lay tucked up warm in a little basket bedstead, carefully disposed on a low settee immediately in front of the fire and close to it, as if his con...

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...cs Series Publication Dombey & Son by Charles Dickens is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnishe... ...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... ...nutes. Dombey was rather bald, rather red, and though a handsome well-made man, too stern and pomp- ous in appearance, to be prepossessing. Son was ve... ...ed-for event, jingled and jingled the heavy gold watch-chain that depended from be- low his trim blue coat, whereof the buttons sparkled phos- phoresc... ...rment to Mrs Dombey’s name (though not without some hesitation, as being a man but little used to that form of address): and said, ‘Mrs Dombey , my—my... ...ey and Son to trade in, and the sun and moon were made to give them light. Rivers and seas were formed to float their ships; rainbows gave them promis... ... had risen, as his father had before him, in the course of life and death, from Son to Dombey, and for nearly twenty years had been the sole represent... ...rts and waggons, she peeped into a kind of wharf or landing-place upon the river-side, where there were a great many packages, casks, and boxes, strew... ...wn upon a robe she wore, thrown loosely over shoulders that could hear its snowy neighbourhood. ‘Why do you present yourself to me, as you have done, ...

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...aster Holidays; Hail! festal Easter that dost bring Approach of sweetly-smiling spring, When Nature?s clad in green: When feather?d songsters through the grove With beasts confess the power of love And brighten all the scene. Now youths the breaking stages load That swiftly rattling o?er the road To Greenwich haste away: While some with sounding oars divide Of smoothly-flo...

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...Table of Contents: Easter Holidays, 1 -- Dura Navis, 2 -- Nil Pejus est Caelibe Vit‘, 4 -- Sonnet to the Autumnal Moon, 5 -- Anthem for the Children of Christ?s Hospital, 6 -- Julia, 7 -- Quae Nocent Docent, 8 -- The Nose, 9 -- To the Muse, 11 -- Destruction of the Bastile, 12 -- Life, 14 -- Progress of Vice, 15 -- Monody on...

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...Excerpt: The life and adventures of Nicholas Nickleby, containing a Faithful Account of the Fortunes, Misfortunes, Uprisings, Downfallings and Complete Career of the Nickelby Family by Charles Dickens....

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...Excerpt: BOOK I; Of Mans First Disobedience, and the Fruit Of that Forbidden Tree, whose mortal tast Brought Death into the World, and all our woe, With loss of EDEN, till one greater Man Restore us, and regain the blissful Seat, Sing Heav?nly Muse, that on the secret top O...

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...Excerpt: CANTO I. In the midway of this our mortal life, I found me in a gloomy wood, astray Gone from the path direct: and e?en to tell It were no easy task, how savage wild That forest, how robust and rough its growth, Which to remember only, m...

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...Introduction: ?For this my son was dead, and is alive again; he was lost; and is found.? He was lost by the Norton-Harjes Ambulance Corps. He was officially dead as a result of official misinformation....

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...ward Estlin Cummings) A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Enormous Room by E.(Edward) E.(Estlin) Cummings 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... ... long ago as October 7. Against Cummings both private and official advices from Paris state that there is no charge what- ever. He has been subjected ... ... has made among the French soldiers, that even while suffer- ing in health from his unjust confinement, he excuses the ingratitude of the country he h... ...u to be, in this world crisis, with the weightiest task ever laid upon any man. But I have another reason for asking this favor. I do not speak for my... ... world. Then it was enough to ask the question, “Is it lawful to scourge a man that is a Roman, and uncondemned?” Now, in France, it seems lawful to t... ...at one time, seen a bridge hastily constructed by les alliés over the Yser River, the ca- davers of the faithful and the enemy alike being thrown in h... ... the octaves of its parallel edges, leaningly strode upward into firm hard snowy sunlight; the noises of America nearingly throbbed with smokes and hu...

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...Contents THE GENIUS AND POETRY OF POPE........................................................................................ 7 MORAL ESSAYS ...............................................................................................

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...T wo With Memoir, Critical Dissertation, and Explanatory Notes, B B B B By the y the y the y the y the RE RE RE RE REV V V V V. GEOR . GEOR . GEOR . G... ...GILFILLAN AN AN AN AN A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Volume Two is a publication of the Pe... ................................................................ 121 VERBATIM FROM BOILEAU. ................................................................ ................................................................. 143 EPIGRAM FROM THE FRENCH. ............................................................. ... has raged a critical controversy, involving not merely his character as a man, but his claims as a poet. For this, unquestionably, there are some sub... ... of Cowper, the most popular poet of the eighteenth century. His “Essay on Man,” and his “Eloisa and Abelard,” are probably in every good library, pub... ...like motion of Milton’s loftier passages; or the gliding, pausing, fitful, river-like progress of Shakspeare’s verse; or the fretted fury, and “torren... ... 200 Back to his bonds their subject sea command, And roll obedient rivers through the land; These honours, peace to happy Britain brings, Thes... ...d the great Apollo’s praise.’ ‘O father Phoebus! whether Lycia’s coast And snowy mountains thy bright presence boast: 830 Whether to sweet Ca...