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...Excerpt: Phase the First; The Maiden -- I -- On an evening in the latter part of May a middle-aged man was walking homeward from Shaston to the village of Marlott, in the adjoining Vale of Blakemore or Blackmoor. The pair of legs that carried him were rickety, and there was a bias in...

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...ase the First — The Maiden 1 Phase the First — The Maiden I O n an evening in the latter part of May a middle aged man was walking home ward from Sha... ...le aged man was walking home ward from Shaston to the village of Marlott, in the adjoining Vale of Blake more or Blackmoor. The pair of legs that ca... ...s. But let the elder be passed over here for those under whose bodices the life throbbed quick and warm. The young girls formed, indeed, the majority ... ...our with her wand and talked as usual. Tess Durbeyfield at this time of her life was a mere vessel of emotion untinc tured by experience. The dialect ... ...ner of the drawing room young man. A prig would have said that he had lost culture, and a prude that he had become coarse. Such was the contagion of d... ... even the unconscious instincts of human nature; but up to the present day culture, as far as he could see, might be said to have affected only the me... ...l known superstition of this county about your family when they were very popular here; and this lumbering old thing reminds you of it.’ ‘I have neve... ... the space of a mile from its outskirts every irregularity of the soil was prehistoric, every channel an undisturbed British trackway; not a sod havin... ... had been stabbed in his bed, spread through every street and villa of the popular watering place. LVII M eanwhile Angel Clare had walked automaticall...

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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 linked incidents that make up the bulk of the book called Tales of Space and Time, no short story of mine of the ...

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..........................................................................27 THE FLOWERING OF THE STRANGE ORCHID .....................................34 IN THE AVU OBSERVATORY .....................................................................42 ’PYORNIS ISLAND ....................................................................................48 THE REMARKABLE CASE OF DAVI...

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...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 Country of the Blind, and Other Stories by H.G. Wells, the ... ...ncouragement to continue from editors and read- ers. There was a time when life bubbled with short stories; they were always coming to the surface of ... ...it oceans would come float- ing out of nothingness, incubating the eggs of prehistoric monsters unawares; violent conflicts would break out amidst the... ...tory of the slightest distinction went for long unrecognised. The sixpenny popular magazines had still to deaden down the conception of what a short s... ...ay without warning me? I perceive a change clearly, and I can- not for the life of me say what it is.” Then my wife answered in her most tragic voice,... ... good but untrained tenor voice, and takes a pleasure in singing airs of a popular and cheerful character. He is fond, but not mor- bidly fond, of rea... ... proportion to the facts of the case, and she tried in vain to imagine his cultured great- ness in a “teeny weeny” little house. “Am busy enamelling a... ... granted that a day would come when everywhere about the earth, plough and culture, light tramways and good roads, an ordered se- curity, would prevai...

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Excerpt: Notes on Life and Letters by Joseph Conrad.

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......................................................................................................................................... 49 AN OBSERVER IN MALAYA?1898.......................................................................................................................... 53 A HAPPY WANDERER?1910 ..................................................................

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...oseph Conrad A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION Notes on Life and Letters by Joseph Conrad is a publication of the Pennsylvania Stat... ...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. Notes on Life and Letters by Joseph Conrad, the Pennsylvania St... ...cument or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Notes on Life and Letters by Joseph Conrad, the Pennsylvania State University, Elect... ...ration is strikingly effective. Calculated to fall in with the bent of the popular mind, so familiar with all forms of forgetfulness, it has also the ... ...is head. As a matter of fact he is courageous. Courage and justice are not popular virtues. The practice of strict justice is shocking to the multitud... ...e the beginning of histori- 76 Notes on Life and Letters cal record—since prehistoric times, for that matter; by the conventional expressions of horr... ... their trace on our minds and our imagination by their splendour, by their culture, by their art, by the ex- ploits of great conquerors. The record of... ...post of their own type of civilisation, which was the only basis of Polish culture. Whatever may be the future of Russia and the fi- nal organisation ...

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...Excerpt: Chapter 1. The problem of education is twofold: first to know, and then to utter. Every one who lives any sem blance of an inner life thinks more nobly and profoundly than he speaks; and the best of teachers can impart only broken images of the truth which they perceive. Speech which goes from one to another between two natures, and, what is worse, bet...

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...s passed. Then something recalled to the woman the companion of her young days and she wrote to him: ?I have been hearing of you lately. I know where life has brought you. You certainly selected your own road. But to us, left behind, it always looked as if you had struck out into a pathless desert....

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...pt: 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 depended on the apparatus criticus of the several editions, especially that of Rzach (1902). The arran...

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

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...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. Hesiod, The Homeric Hymns, and Homerica, edited by Hugh G. Evel... ........................................................................... 9 Life of Hesiod ............................................................... ...maxims, in information on technical subjects which are of service in daily life — agri- culture, astronomy, augury, and the calendar — in matters of r... ...formation on technical subjects which are of service in daily life — agri- culture, astronomy, augury, and the calendar — in matters of religion and i... ... that before the rise of the Ionian epos there existed in Boeotia a purely popular and indig- enous poetry of a crude form: it comprised, we may sup- ... ...B.C. downwards, it is equally consistent in regarding Homer and Hesiod as ‘prehistoric’. Herodotus indeed puts both poets 400 years before his own tim... ...Hesiod, The Homeric Hymns, and Homerica The Burlesque Poems T o Homer were popularly ascribed certain burlesque poems in which Aristotle (Poetics iv) ...

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...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... ...ained within the document or for the file as an electronic trans- mission, in any way. The Theory of the Leisure Class by Thorstein Veblen, the Pennsy... ...ss is found in its best development at the higher stages of the bar barian culture; as, for instance, in feudal Europe or feudal Japan. In such commun... ...both these classes. In the communities belong- ing to the higher barbarian culture there is a considerable differentiation of sub-classes within what ... ...e game, hunting does not hold the usual place of honour in their scheme of life. The Icelandic community in the time of the Sagas also affords a fair ... ...observances, and sports. These four lines of activity govern the scheme of life of the upper classes, and for the highest rank — the kings or chief- t... ...arfare, politics, public worship, and public merrymaking, are felt, in the popular apprehension, to differ intrinsically from the labour that has to d... ... was at the outset valued simply as an evidence of efficiency, becomes, in popular ap- prehension, itself a meritorious act. Wealth is now itself in- ... ...o which the several types and their hybrids have been subjected during the prehistoric and historic growth of culture. This necessary variation of the...

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...Excerpt: The telephone bell rings with the petulant persistence that marks a trunk call, and I go in from some ineffectual gymnastics on the lawn to deal with the irruption. There is the usual trouble in connecting up, minute voices in Folkestone and Dover and London call to one another and are submerged by buzzings and t...

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...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... ...ained within the document or for the file as an electronic trans- mission, in any way. An Englishman Looks at the World by H. G. Wells, the Pennsylvan... ... proph- esying. I was quite a desperate fellow; I said outright that in my lifetime we should see men flying. But I qualified that by repeating that f... ...nt of these waterplanes is an important step towards the huge and swarming popularisation of flying which is now certainly imminent. We ancient surviv... ...g of a new phase in human experience. For endless ages man led the hunting life, migrating after his food, camping, homeless, as to this day are many ... ... that that is the work for which he is fitted by his inferior capacity and culture, that these others are a special and select sort, very specially tr... ...our Unrest in the Press is to have learnt quite a lot about the methods of popular thought. And among other things I see now much better than I did wh... ...rld the population of to-day is more or less completely descended from the prehistoric population of the same region, and has developed its social ord... ...s. There is an ugly look comes into his eyes; something quite undefinable, prehistoric, almost dangerous, looks out of them…. In talking to him on thi...

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...Excerpt: ?Dearest Meg, ?It isn?t going to be what we expected. It is old and little, and altogether delightful--red brick. We can scarcely pack in as it is, and the dear knows what will happen when Paul (younger son) arrives tomorrow. From hall you go right or left into diningroom or drawing-room. Hall itself is practically a room. You open another door in it, and th...

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...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. Howards End by E.M. Forster, the Pennsylvania State University,... ...oking at the flowers. I inflict all this on you because once you said that life is some- times life and sometimes only a drama, and one must learn to ... ...wn as ‘Meg’s clever non- sense.’ But this morning, it really does seem not life but a play, and it did amuse me enormously to watch the W’s. Now Mrs. ... ... they are too). It was interesting, and down at Swanage no one appreciated culture more than Mrs. Munt; but it was dangerous, and disaster was bound t... ...ars, to such life as is conferred by the stench of motor-cars, and to such culture as is implied by the advertisements of antibilious pills. To histor... ...ch is peculiarly attractive to a half- baked mind. It is the basis of much popular religion; in the domain of business it dominates the Stock Exchange... ... over us. Unreality and mystery begin as soon as one touches the body. The popular view is, as usual, exactly the wrong one. Our bothers are over tang... ...he morning Henry went to business, and his sand- wich—a relic this of some prehistoric craving—was always cut by her own hand. He did not rely upon th...

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...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 Enormous Room by E.(Edward) E.(Estlin) Cummings, the Pennsy... ... It took the better part of three months to find him and bring him back to life—with the help of powerful and will- ing friends on both sides of the A... ...t confinement, he excuses the ingratitude of the country he has risked his life to serve by calling attention to the atmosphere of in- tense suspicion... ...d and creased in a hundred thou- sand directions. My puttees and shoes are prehistoric in ap- pearance …. My first request was permission to visit the... ...mmings”—he saluted me in modulated and cour- teous accents of indisputable culture, gracefully extending his pale hand. “I have heard a great deal abo... ...he knew of this person in Belgium and that this person was a man who wrote popular ditties). 143 e e cummings Would to Heaven we had got rid of the s... ... extracting his tired-looking hands from his tired-looking trousers with a cultured gesture. “Fine young fellow painted that. I knew him. Disciple of ... ...d with universal applause …. In addition to being called “Syph’lis” he was popularly known as “Chaude Pisse, the Pole.” If there is anything par- ticu...