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Excerpt: The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: Volume One, with Memoir, Critical Dissertation, and Explanatory Notes by the Rev. George Gilfillan.

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... POPE VOL. I. With Memoir, Critical Dissertation, and Explanatory Notes by THE REV. GEORGE GILFILLAN M.DCCC.L M.DCCC.L M.DCCC.L M.DCCC.L M.DCCC.LVI. V... ... VI. VI. A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: Volume One, with Memoir, Critical Dissertation, an... ...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: Volume One, with Memoir, ... ...nt or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: Volume One, with Memoir, Critical Dissertation, an... ...the “Pastorals,” and a portion of “Windsor Forest,” although they were not published for some time afterwards. By his incessant exertions, he now bega... ...n person as Pope himself. Her family seems to have been noble. In 1713, he published “Windsor Forest,” an “Ode on St Cecilia’s Day,” and several paper... ...RIATIONS VER. 36. And clusters lurk beneath the curling vines. VER. 49-52. Originally thus in the MS.— Pan, let my numbers equal Strephon’s lays, Of P... ...urple wool the proud Assyrian coast, Blest Thames’s shores, &c. VER. 61-68 Originally thus in the MS.— Go, flowery wreath, and let my Sylvia know, Com...

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...Excerpt: Advertisement. The story of ?Catherine,? which appeared in Fraser?s Magazine in 1839-40, was written by Mr. Thackeray, under the name of Ikey Solomons, Jun., to counteract the injurious influence of some popular fictions of that day, which ...

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...on Haight Turk, Ph.D. A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The English Mail-Coach and Joan of Arc By Thomas de Quincey is a publicatio... ...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The English Mail-Coach and Joan of Arc By Thomas de Quincey, th... ...duced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing t... ...e same periodical. The Confessions of an English Opium-Eater was forthwith published in book form. De Quincey now made literary acquaintances. T om Ho... ...ish Mail-Coach appeared in 1849 in Blackwood. Joan of Arc had already been published (1847) in T ait. De Quincey continued to drink laudanum throughou... ...cess. During his last years he nearly completed a collected edition of his works. He died in Edinburgh on the 8th of December, 1859. II. CRITICAL REMA... ...esults followed. As regarded the enemy, this 23d Dragoons, not, I believe, originally three hundred and fifty strong, paralysed a French column six th... ... sense of the Litany, the mutineer’s death is far from sudden: his offence originally, his imprisonment, his trial, the interval between his sentence ...

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Excerpt: The Odyssey of Homer translated by Alexander Pope.

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Excerpt: The Iliad of Homer, translated by Alexander Pope with notes by the Rev. Theodore Alois Buckley, M.A., F.S.A.

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...elville A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Moby Dick; or The Whale by Herman Melville is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Uni... ...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Moby Dick; or The Whale by Herman Melville, the Pennsylvania St... ...duced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing t... ...le.” —Pilgrim’ s Progress. “That sea beast Leviathan, which God of all his works Cre- ated hugest that swim the ocean stream.” —Paradise Lost. — “Ther... ...r Nantuck- 81 Herman Melville eters, was a Quaker, the island having been originally settled by that sect; and to this day its inhabitants in general... ...rious things the veriest of all trifles—Cap- tain Bildad had not only been originally educated according to the strictest sect of Nantucket Quakerism,... ...n, again, in 1825, Bernard Germain, Count de Lacepede, a great naturalist, published a scientific systemized whale book, wherein are several pictures ... ... the scientific Frederick Cuvier, brother to the famous Baron. In 1836, he published a Natural History of Whales, in which he gives what he calls a pi...

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...Contents CHAPTER I - ACROSS THE PLAIN........................3 CHAPTER II - THE OLD PACIFIC CAPITAL........38 CHAPTER III - FONTAINEBLEAU VILLAGE COMMUNITIES OF PAINTERS...............................52 CHAPTER IV - EPILOGUE TO ?AN INLAND VOYAGE?..........

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