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...pyright c 2002 by Global Language Resources, Inc. All rights reserved. JACK LONDON Contents Part I: The Wild 1 I: The Trail of the Meat . . . . . ... ...ain. It is not the way of the Wild to like movement. Life is an offence to it, for life is movement; and the Wild aims always to destroy movement. It ... ...as the abysses of space. They travelled on without speech, saving their breath for the work of their bod ies. On every side was the silence, pressing... ...nt effort. “Meat is scarce,” answered his comrade. “I ain’t seen a rabbit sign for days.” Thereafter they spoke no more, though their ears were keen f... ...derisively at White Fang. At such times reason fled from White Fang, and in his transports of rage he was even more mad than Beauty Smith. Formerly, Wh... ...om now left him. The mere sight of Beauty Smith was sufficient to send him into transports of fury. And when they came to close quarters, and he had be...

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...k that might live, it was a reasonable thing that he should take a review of his own mind, and examine how far Nature and Education had qualified him for such an employment. ?As subsidiary to this preparation, he undertook to record, in verse, the origin and progress of his own powers, as far as he was acquainted with them. ?That work, addressed to a dear friend, most dist...

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...NCE AT CAMBRIDGE, 33 -- BOOK FOURTH SUMMER VACATION, 51 -- BOOK FIFTH BOOKS, 64 -- BOOK SIXTH CAMBRIDGE AND THE ALPS, 81 -- BOOK SEVENTH RESIDENCE IN LONDON, 103 -- BOOK EIGHTH RETROSPECT?LOVE OF NATURE LEADING TO -- LOVE OF MAN, 125 -- BOOK NINTH RESIDENCE IN FRANCE, 144 -- BOOK TENTH RESIDENCE IN FRANCE (continued), 161 -- BOOK ELEVENTH FRANCE (concluded), 178 -- BOOK TW...

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... CAMBRIDGE AND THE ALPS . . . . . . . . . . . . 81 BOOK SEVENTH RESIDENCE IN LONDON . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103 BOOK EIGHTH RETROSPECT—LOVE OF NATUR... ...w of his own mind, and examine how far Nature and Education had qualified him for such an employment. “As subsidiary to this preparation, he undertook ... ...ainted with them. “That work, addressed to a dear friend, most distinguished for his knowledge and genius, and to whom the Author’s intellect is deepl... ...ews of Man, Nature, and Society, and to be entitled the ‘Recluse’; as having for its principal subject the sensations and opinions of a poet living in... ... presence of my eye: Hence my obeisance, my devotion hence, 380 And hence my transport. Nor should this, perchance, Pass unrecorded, that I still had ... ..., in the wave itself, And mighty depth of waters. Wonder not 415 If high the transport, great the joy I felt, Communing in this sort through earth and... ... left those academic bowers When thou wert thither guided. From the heart Of London, and from cloisters there, thou camest. And didst sit down in temp... ...ound my steps like sunshine o’er green fields. 780 BOOK SEVENTH RESIDENCE IN LONDON SIX changeful years have vanished since I first Poured out (saluted... ...mble to this Verse: I sang Aloud, with fervour irresistible 5 Of short lived transport, like a torrent bursting, From a black thunder cloud, down Scaf...

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...s by miraculous gift ?tis shaken off, That burthen of my own unnatural self, The heavy weight of many a weary day Not mine, and such as were not made for me. Long months of peace--if such bold word accord ......

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...nce at Cambridge, 34 -- Book Fourth Summer Vacation, 53 -- Book Fifth Books, 67 -- Book Sixth Cambridge and the Alps, 85 -- Book Seventh Residence in London, 105 -- Book Eighth Retrospect: Love of Nature Leading to Love of Mankind, 126 -- Book Ninth Residence in France, 150 -- Book Tenth Residence in France and French Revolution, 176 -- Book Eleventh Imagination, How Impai...

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... the Alps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85 Book Seventh Residence in London . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105 Book Eighth Retrospect... ...lf, The heavy weight of many a weary day Not mine, and such as were not made for me. 25 Long months of peace—if such bold word accord 2 The Prelude o... ... floating thing Upon the river point me out my course? Enough that I am free, for months to come May dedicate myself to chosen tasks, May quit the tire... ... may trust myself, this hour Hath brought a gift that consecrates my joy; 40 For I, methought, while the sweet breath of heaven Was blowing on my body... ... the presence of my eye. Hence by obeisance, my devotion hence, And hence my transport. 400 Nor should this, perchance, Pass unrecorded, that I still ... ...e, yea, in the wave itself And mighty depth of waters. Wonder not If such my transports were; for in all things 435 I saw one life, and felt that it w... ...among those academic bowers When thou wert thither guided. From the heart Of London, and from cloisters there, thou cam’st And didst sit down in tempe... ...my steps As constant as the grass upon the fields. Book Seventh Residence in London FIVE years are vanished since I first poured out, Saluted by that a... ...ens, with their frame Imperial, and elaborate ornaments, Would to a child be transport over great, When but a half hour’s roam through such a place 16...

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... Thomas Mowbray do I turne to thee, 41 And marke my greeting well: for what I speake, 42 My body shall make good vpon this earth, 43 ... ...his cause betwixt vs twaine: 56 The blood is hot that must be cool’d for this. 57 Yet can I not of such tame patience boast, 58 As t... ...y hath receiu’d eight thousand Nobles, [b6v 94 In name of lendings for your Highnesse Soldiers, 95 The which he hath detain’d for lewd e... ...e- borne Armes. 1192 Enter Yorke. 1193 Bull. I shall not need transport my words by you, 1194 Here comes his Grace in Person. My Nobl... ...0 For doe we must, what force will haue vs doe. 1801 Set on towards London: 1802 Cousin, is it so? 1803 Bull. Yea, my good Lord. 1... ... And with that oddes he weighes King Richard downe. 1902 Poste you to London, and you’l finde it so, 1903 I speake no more, then euery one do... ...epe 1908 Thy sorrow in my breast. Come Ladies goe, 1909 To meet at London, Londons King in woe. 1910 What was I borne to this: that my sad...

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... said his lady to him one day, ?have you heard that Netherfield Park is let at last?? Mr. Bennet replied that he had not. ?But it is,? returned she; ?for Mrs. Long has just been here, and she told me all about it.? Mr. Bennett made no answer. ?Do not you want to know who has taken it?? cried his wife impatiently. ?You want to tell me, and I have no objection to hearing it....

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... let at last?” Mr. Bennet replied that he had not. “But it is,” returned she; “for Mrs. Long has just been here, and she told me all about it.” Mr. Be... ...! A single man of large fortune; four or five thousand a year. What a fine thing for our girls!” “How so? how can it affect them?” 4 JANE AUSTEN “My de... ...hem, and therefore you must visit him as soon as he comes.” “I see no occasion for that. You and the girls may go, or you may send them by themselves,... ...ady Lucas quieted her fears a little by starting the idea of his being gone to London only to get a large party for the ball; and a report soon follow... ...ball by hearing, that instead of twelve, he had brought only six with him from London, his five sisters and a cousin. And when the party entered the as... ... am fond of superior society; but I did not feel quite certain that the air of London would agree with Lady Lucas.” He paused in hopes of an answer; b... ...appointment and spleen. What are men to rocks and mountains? Oh! what hours of transport we shall spend! And when we do return, it shall not be like o... ...” Her eldest daughter endeavoured to give some relief to the violence of these transports, by leading her thoughts to the obligations which Mr. Gardin... ...sent, was to have as little trouble in the business as possible. When the first transports of rage which had produced his activity in seeking her were ...

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... I did see, Which I desir?d, and got, t?was but a dreame of thee. And now good morrow to our waking soules, Which watch not one another out of feare; For love, all love of other sights controules, And makes one little roome, an every where. Let sea-discoverers to new worlds have gone, Let Maps to other, worlds on worlds have showne, Let us possesse one world, each hath one...

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...d morrow to our waking soules, Which watch not one another out of feare; For love, all love of other sights controules, And makes one little roome,... ...ths image, them unloose? Or, your owne end to Justifie, For having purpos’d change, and falsehood; you Can have no way but false... ...spute, and conquer, if I would, Which I abstaine to doe, For by to morrow, I may thinke so too. - 3 - WOMANS CONSTANCY John Donne’s... ...of Court, Or cities quelque choses, let report My minde transport. This bargaine’s good; if when I’am old, I bee ... ...ther part, But take my word, shee doth not know a Heart. Meet mee at London, then, Twenty dayes hence, and thou shalt see Mee fresher, and...

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... chief mourner. Scrooge signed it. And Scrooge’s name was good upon ’Change, for anything he chose to put his hand to. Old Marley was as dead as a doo... ... simile; and my unhallowed hands shall not disturb it, or the Country’s done for. You will therefore permit me to repeat, emphatically, that Marley wa... ...d? Of course he did. How could it be otherwise? Scrooge and he were partners for I don’t know how many years. Scrooge was his sole executor, his sole ... ...ge had as little of what is called fancy about him as any man in the City of London, even including — which is a bold word — the corporation, aldermen... ...nimal that growled and grunted sometimes, and talked sometimes, and lived in London, and walked about the streets, and wasn’t made a show of, and wasn... ...care. I’d rather be a baby. Hallo! Whoop! Hallo here!” He was checked in his transports by the churches ringing out the lustiest peals he had ever hea...

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...ternoon. Part of the afternoon had waned, but much of it was left, and what was left was of the finest and rarest quality. Real dusk would not arrive for many hours; but the flood of summer light had begun to ebb, the air had grown mellow, the shadows were long upon the smooth, dense turf. They lengthened slowly, however, and the scene expressed that sense of leisure still...

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...hat was left was of the finest and rarest quality. Real dusk would not arrive for many hours; but the flood of summer light had begun to ebb, the air ha... ...nt colours. He disposed of its contents with much circumspection, holding it for a long time close to his chin, with his face turned to the house. His... ...ow hill, above the river—the river being the Thames at some forty miles from London. A long gabled front of red brick, with the complexion of which ti... ...at the end of twenty years, had become conscious of a real aesthetic passion for it, so that he knew all its points and would tell you just where to s... ...ously definite. It struck her husband in the same light, in a foggy square in London, where it was at times the most definite fact he discerned; but he ... ...ssible; and it was for this purpose that, before Isabel was fourteen, he had transported them three times across the Atlantic, giving them on each occ... ...d she lived in, abundant opportunity for dancing, plenty of new dresses, the London Spectator, the latest publications, the music of Gounod, the poetr... ...ER 20 173 After selecting from among its furniture the objects she wished to transport to her other abode, she left the rest of its contents to be dis...

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...House Education, and a Country Free School generally goes, and design’d me for the Law; but I would be satisfied with nothing but going to Sea, and my ... ...e what Reasons more than a meer wandring Daniel Defoe 3 Inclination I had for leaving my Father’s House and my native Country, where I might be well ... ...lication and Industry, with a Life of Ease and Pleasure. He told me it was for Men of desperate Fortunes on one Hand, or of aspiring, superior Fortune... ...me; but I say, being there, and one of my Companions being going by Sea to London, in his Father’s Ship, and prompting me to go with them, with the co... ...od knows. On the first of September 1651 I went on Board a ; Ship bound for London; never any young Adventurer’s Misfortunes, I believe, began sooner, ... ...nd Owners of Ships, and had Money given us sufficient to carry us either to London or back to Hull, as we thought fit. Had I now had the Sense to have g... ...e. I believe it is impossible to express to the Life what the Extasies and Transports of the Soul are, when it is so sav’d, as I may say, out of the v... ...wn’d, and my self spar’d, I was surpriz’d with a Kind of Extasie, and some Transports of Soul, which, had the Grace of God assisted, might have come u...

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...Moby Dick or The Whale HERMAN MELVILLE 1851 IN TOKEN OF MY ADMIRATION FOR HIS GENIUS, This book is Inscribed TO NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE. Contents Et... .... * * * Sw. and Dan. hval. This animal is named from roundness or rolling; for in Dan. hvalt is arched or vaulted.” Webster’s Dictionary. “WHALE. * * ... ...iggledy piggledy whale statements, how ever authentic, in these extracts, for veritable gospel cetology. Far from it. As touching the ancient authors... ... a whale in air, To express unwieldy joy.” Cowper, on the Queen’s Visit to London. “Ten or fifteen gallons of blood are thrown out of the heart at a st... ... of a whale is larger in the bore than the main pipe of the water works at London Bridge, and the water roaring in its passage through that pipe is in... ...oyage.” Currents and Whaling. U.S. Ex. Ex. “Pedestrians in the vicinity of London and elsewhere may recollect having seen large curved bones set uprig... ...pted to endure hot latitudes, his flesh being hard as twice baked biscuit. Transported to the Indies, his live blood would not spoil like bottled ale.... ...y concerning the mystic modes whereby, after sounding to a great depth, he transports himself with such vast swiftness to the most widely distant poin... ...ets of all sorts, who one way or other have shed distinction upon it, I am transported with the reflection that I myself belong, though but subordinate...

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...ful dance they beat the ground, Their shouts of joy the hills resound And catch the jocund noise: Without a tear, without a sigh Their moments all in transports fly Till evening ends their joys....

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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 the Death of Chatterton, 16 --...

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... . . . . . . . 5 Sonnet to the Autumnal Moon . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Anthem for the Children of Christ’s Hospital . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ... .... . . . . . . 37 Music . . . . . . . . . . . . 38 Sonnet: On Quitting School for College . . . . 39 Absence: A Farewell Ode on Quitting School for Je... ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 314 The Mad Monk . . . . 316 Inscription for a Seat by the Road Side half-way up a Steep Hill facing South . . . ... ...atch the jocund noise: Without a tear, without a sigh Their moments all in transports fly Till evening ends their joys. But little think their joy... ...loat the scientific line? Or with dishevell’d hair all madly do ye run For transport that your task is done? For done it is — the cause is tried! ... ...ys celestial move, And what so sweet below as Woman’s love? With such high transport every moment flies, I curse Experience that he makes me wise; ... ...en Madam Memory with a smile Thus twitch’d my ear — ‘‘Why sure, I ween, In London streets thou oft hast seen The very image of this pair: A little... ... Bower my Prison 1797 [Addressed to Charles Lamb, of the India House, London] In the June of 1797 some long-expected friends paid a visit to t...

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...eneral wish of doing right, and a desire of seeing all that were connected with him in situations of respectability, he would have been glad to exert for the advantage of Lady Bertram?s sister; but her husband?s profession was such as no interest could reach; and before he had time to devise any other method of assisting them, an absolute breach between the sisters had tak...

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...ted with him in situations of respectability, he would have been glad to exert for the advantage of Lady Bertram’s sister; but her husband’s professio... ...could not possibly keep to herself, put an end to all intercourse between them for a considerable period. Their homes were so distant, and the circles... ... possibly assist her. A large and still increasing family, an husband disabled for active service, but not the less equal to company and good liquor, ... ...ouble about it. My own trouble, you know, I never regard. I will send Nanny to London on purpose, and she may have a bed at her cousin, the sadler’s, ... ...eld should not satisfy the habits of a young woman who had been mostly used to London. Miss Crawford was not entirely free from similar apprehensions,... ...ry fine young men, that two such young men were not often seen together even in London, and that their manners, par ticularly those of the eldest, wer... ...erie! Thinking, I hope, of one who is always thinking of you. Oh! that I could transport you for a short time into our circle in town, that you might ... ...ually, it was most tempting. To be finding herself, perhaps, within three days, transported to Mansfield, was an image of the greatest felicity — but it...

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...of Dashwood had been long settled in Sussex. Their estate was large, and their residence was at Norland Park, in the centre of their property, where, for many generations, they had lived in so respectable a manner, as to engage the general good opinion of their surrounding acquaintance. The late owner of this estate was a single man, who lived to a very advanced age, and w...

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...d their residence was at Norland Park, in the centre of their property, where, for many generations, they had lived in so respectable a manner, as to ... ...ner of this estate was a single man, who lived to a very advanced age, and who for many years of his life, had a constant companion and housekeeper in... ... happened ten years before his own, produced a great alter ation in his home; for to supply her loss, he invited and received into his house the fami... ...ches upon a poor dependant cousin, by Chapter 15 51 sending me on business to London. I have just received my dispatches, and taken my farewel of All... ...nham; and by way of exhilaration I am now come to take my farewel of you.” “To London! — and are you going this morning?” “Almost this moment.” “This ... ...ise and inquiries of meet ing, Marianne asked Edward if he came directly from London. No, he had been in Devonshire a fortnight. “A fortnight!” she r... ... and walks thickly covered with dead leaves.” “Oh!” cried Marianne, “with what transporting sensations have I formerly seen them fall! How have I deli... ...ich a few days before would have made every nerve in Elinor’s body thrill with transport, not arrived to be read with less emotion than mirth. Mrs. Je...

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...Excerpt: PREFACE; Among many matters thrown into relief by a refreshed acquaintance with ?The Golden Bowl? what perhaps most stands out for me is the still marked inveteracy of a certain indirect and oblique view of my presented action; unless indeed I make up my mind to call this mode of treatment, on the contrary, any superficial appearance notwithstanding,...

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...refreshed acquaintance with “The Golden Bowl” what perhaps most stands out for me is the still marked invet eracy of a certain indirect and oblique v... ...as an accepted habit, and even to extravagance commented on, my preference for dealing with my subject matter, for “seeing my story,” through the oppo... ...author’s concrete deputy or delegate, a convenient substitute or apologist for the creative power otherwise so veiled and disembodied. My instinct app... ...ut incidentally, instructive form of an enquiry into the street scenery of London; a field yielding a ripe harvest of treasure from the moment I held u... ... largely consists in a “rendering” of certain inanimate characteristics of London streets; the ability of which to suffice to this furnishing forth of ... ... business at once began to do in those prizes of cu riosity for which the London lover is at any time ready to “back” the prodigious city. It was n’t... ...hich might have been determined on the part of superior powers by views of transport and accommodation, and which in fact verged on the abnormal. He “... ...property,” that our friend had often found himself wishing he were able to transport, as it stood, for its simple sweetness, in a glass case, to one o... ...ntrast in blackness, saw her waver in the field of vision, saw her removed, transported, doomed. And he had named Charlotte, named her again, and she h...

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...-- CONSIDERING our present advanced state of culture, and how the Torch of Science has now been brandished and borne about, with more or less effect, for five thousand years and upwards; how, in these times especially, not only the Torch still burns, and perhaps more fiercely than ever, but innumerable Rushlights, and Sulphur-matches, kindled thereat, are also glancing in ...

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...f Science has now been brandished and borne about, with more or less effect, for five thousand years and upwards; how, in these times especially, not o... ...eme. Whereby, at least, our nautical Logbooks can be better kept; and water transport of all kinds has grown more commodious. Of Geology and Geognosy... ...d, his whole Faculties work, his whole Self lives, moves, and has its being? For if, now and then, some straggling broken winged thinker has cast an o... ...ct, what o’clock it really is. Not unfrequently the Germans have been blamed for an unprofitable diligence; as if they struck into devious courses, whe... ... digs up certain black stones from the bosom of the earth, and says to them, Transport me and this luggage at the rate of file and thirty miles an hour... ...ving of approval: nor is it without satisfaction that I hear of a celebrated London Firm having in view to introduce the same fashion, 30 SARTOR RESA... ...ous, quick changing; as if our Traveller, instead of limbs and highways, had transported himself by some wishing carpet, or Fortunatus’ Hat. The whole... ...rosyfingered, rainbow dyed Aurora out of mere aqueous clouds; nay brightening London smoke itself into gold vapor, as from the crucible of an alchemist... ...sh work, there exists nothing like an authentic diary of this his sojourn in London; and of his Meditations among the Clothes shops only the obscurest...

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...ix, 184 -- I. TREES., 184 -- II. FLOWERS AND SHRUBS., 185 -- III. LIST OF PLANTS., 188 -- IV. LIST OF BIRDS, 196 -- V. QUADRUPEDS., 197 -- VI. OUTFIT FOR AN EXCURSION., 198 -- VII. A LIST OF INDIAN WORDS., 199...

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...QUADRUPEDS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197 VI. OUTFIT FOR AN EXCURSION. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 198 VII. A LIST OF INDIAN... ...taadn 1 Ktaadn O N THE 31st of August, 1846, I left Concord in Massachusetts for Bangor and the backwoods of Maine, by way of the railroad and steambo... ...teau and the boatman’s life. I was fortunate also in the season of the year, for in the summer myriads of black flies, mosquitoes, and midges, or, as t... ...t, and dinner on board, if you wish. She is chiefly used by lumberers for the transportation of themselves, their boats, and supplies, but also by hunt... ...the transcenden tia, in the collection of Thomas Steel, Upper Brook Street, London, whose “entire length of horn, from tip to tip, along the curve, i... ... an Indian and canoe at Oldtown, it will cost seven or eight dollars more to transport them to the lake. VII. A LIST OF INDIAN WORDS. 1. Katadn, said ...