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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... ...e Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access... ... works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cover Design: Jim Manis Copyright © 2004 The Pennsylva... ...” pomatum takes the place of poetry; the en- chanted lock, of an enchanted isle; and the transformation of original imagination into ingenious fancy i... ...d, to plant, judge paintings, what you will? Then why not Kent as well our treaties draw, Bridginan explain the gospel, Gibs the law? 56 The Poetical... ...he gods at once survey The realms of rising and declining day, And all th’ extended space of earth, and air, and sea. Full in the midst, and on a star... ... And in their hearts imbrues her cruel claws. The youths surround her with extended spears; But brave Choroebus in the front appears; Deep in her brea... ... nodded at the helm: The vapour mild o’er each committee crept; Unfinish’d treaties in each office slept; And chiefless armies dozed out the campaign;...

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...Preface: The present is the only collected edition of the principal works of Schiller which is accessible to English readers. Detached poems or dramas have been translated at various times, and sometimes by men of eminence, since the ...

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...AN ENGLISHMAN LOOKS AT THE WORLD Being a Series of Unrestrained Remarks upon Contemporary Matters By H.G. WELLS 1914 A Penn... ... Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication An Englishman Looks at the World by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univers... ...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 Edi- tor, nor anyo... ...e Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access... ... works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cover Design: Jim Manis Copyright © 2004 The Pennsylva... ...by wa- ter along the trade routes. And such toleration as there was rarely extended to active teaching and propaganda. Even in liberal Athens the heml... ...rs from the east end of Lon- don into Kent, but that is a mere hint of the extended picnic which a broadly planned cultivation might afford. A fully d... ...ms to be drift- ing very rapidly towards a social explosion in the British Isles. The organised masses of labour find themselves baffled both by their... ...groups each pledged to specific measures and making the most extraordinary treaties and sacrifices of the public inter- est in order to secure the pas...

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...Excerpt: Preface By Way Of Criticism. These studies are collected from the monthly press. One appeared in the New Quarterly, one in MacMillan?s, and the rest in the Cornhill Magazine. To the Cornhill I owe a double debt of thanks; first, that I was ...

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