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...ing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cove... ...ivil War. During the last war, these en- croachments were greater than any American could have possibly dreamed; and so far there seems little immedia... ...d it was openly violated and defied by the great mass of the people of the North. The Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments to the Federal Constitution,... ...rough the needs of the rulers in war they were given to the poor. When the American Revolution separated us from Great Britain, the spirit of democrac... ...ch and nerves, and Nature will have revenge. T o be sure, the professional American rhapso- dist points out that we are immune from natural law becaus... ...rew tranquil. Our Civil War brought its harvest of crime. It was felt both North and South. It was not confined to homicide but was shown in all sorts... ...nd their descendants prospered and were as orderly and conventional as the English society that banished them for England’s good. The colonies in Virg...

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...ing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cove... ...ers of the age. Authority on these points may be found in Strutt’s Book of English Sports and Pastimes. Bright were the days at Merry Mount, when the ... ..., and others, of still richer blush, which the colo- nists had reared from English seed. O, people of the Golden Age, the chief of your husbandry was ... ...ge than General George Washington; and the other principal officers of the American army, such as Gates, Lee, Putnam, Schuyler, Ward and Heath, were r... ...h, and bear him onward to heavenly purity and bliss. His breth- ren of the north had now courteously invited him to be present on an occasion, when th...

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...s Flashes the fire of sadness, for they see The icicles that famish all the North, Where men lie frozen in the glimmering snow; And in the flaming fores... ...cient Ollave said, While he bent down his fading head. ‘He drives away the Northern cold.’ They will not hush, the leaves a flutter round me, the beech... ...shy place, A lug worm with its grey and muddy mouth Sang that somewhere to north or west or south There dwelt a gay, exulting, gentle race Under the g... ...assed against the world. THE WINDING STAIR AND OTHER POEMS 245 The First. American colonies, Ireland, France and India Harried, and Burke’s great mel... ...ever get the answers right. Did that play of mine send out Certain men the English shot? Did words of mine put too great strain On that woman’s reelin...

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...going student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Co... ...od frowned, and shut the village from His sight. 26 E.A. Robinson Boston My northern pines are good enough for me, But there’s a town my memory uprea... ... Hamilton and Aaron Burr, which is not based upon any spe cific incident in American history, may be supposed to have occurred a few months previous ... ...rr—who has been characterized, without much exaggeration, as the inventor of American politics — began to be conspicuously formidable to the Federalis... ...Dreaming that I believed. The Voice I heard When I left you behind me in the north, — To wait there and to wonder and grow old Of loneliness, — told o... ...increase Fills Ilion, Rome, or any town you like Of olden time with timeless Englishmen; And I must wonder what you think of him — All you down there ... ... above us, who are, in his eyes, Above himself, — and that’s quite right and English. Yet here we smile, or disappoint the gods Who made it so: the go... ...y terrors more severe 142 Look you, Dominie; look you, and listen! 36 M My northern pines are good enough for me, 26 N No longer torn by what she k...

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...ing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cove... ... Tell me a story / Lisa Suhay. p. cm. ISBN 1-55725-247-5 (hc) 1. Fables, American. I. Title. PS3569.U2533 T45 2000 813'.54—dc21 99-057509 Pho... ...hange your tune.” What’s Good for the Goose t winter’s end, the geese flew north. They settled into the area around a pretty little lake and set about... ...rs that seemed to swim in the air like a million ghostly bright seals. The Northern Lights filled the sky. 65 TELL ME A STORY LISA SUHAY “Oh,” Ceylon...

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...ing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cove... ... Tell me a story / Lisa Suhay. p. cm. ISBN 1-55725-247-5 (hc) 1. Fables, American. I. Title. PS3569.U2533 T45 2000 813'.54—dc21 99-057509 Pho... ...hange your tune.” What’s Good for the Goose t winter’s end, the geese flew north. They settled into the area around a pretty little lake and set about... ...rs that seemed to swim in the air like a million ghostly bright seals. The Northern Lights filled the sky. 65 TELL ME A STORY LISA SUHAY “Oh,” Ceylon...

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...ing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cove... ... Rachel in it, to give her helpless cousin assistance in this beginning of English habits. A roomy fly had been engaged for nurses and children, and M... ...ht Francis just commencing an onslaught on the globules, tak- ing them for English sweetmeats of a minute description. The afternoon passed with the s... ...ossible to read, also the neat writing and thin wavy water-marked paper of American professors and phi- lanthropists in high commendation of his abili... ... e Grace suggested communication with the clergyman of the parish; but the North Hill turned out not to belong to St. Norbert’s proper, being a part o... ... you told me.” “Only ill enough to convince me that the need of avoiding a northern winter was not a fallacy, and likewise to make Tibbie insist on co... ...t of criticising, and left her touched and impressed, not judging. On what north country folk call the loosing of the kirk, she, moving outwards after...

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...ing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cove... ...n a little Greek Testament, in which Ethel had been reading it, within her English Bible. “Now, go and mend that deplorable frock, and if you don’t dr... ...is steadiness and intre- pidity had saved the lives of himself and his few English com- panions. He was, in fact, as Dr. May reported, pretty much of ... ... own brother. It was believed that the Alcestis was destined for the South American station. “A three years’ business,” said Dr. May, with a sigh. “Bu... ...hey should have come from the east, when, by the compass, Stoneborough was north-north- west. And then the boys took to tumbling over one another, whi... ...ering slowly and dropping. The letter was from a clergyman far away in the north of England, who said he could not, though a stranger, resist the desi... ...e enough, and they saw our signal of distress!” The vessel proved to be an American whaler, which had just parted with her cargo to a homeward bound s... ... hunt him up.” Flora supposed he meant a directory; and all possible South American merchants having been overlooked, and the Mack- intoshes selected,...

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...ing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cove... ...dress wearing an alms-bag at her belt; or there were nameless portraits of English ladies with fair curls, who looked at you from under their round st... ...ut. But she—her life was cold as a garret whose dormer window looks on the north, and ennui, the silent spider, was weaving its web in the dark- ness ... ...s; all were pale; all got up at four o’clock; the women, poor angels, wore English point on their petticoats; and the men, unappreciated geniuses unde... ...lish scale), not more. And, as a matter of fact, we are sheltered from the north winds by the forest of Argueil on the one side, from the west winds b... ... into the church. At last the cab appeared. “ At all events, go out by the north porch,” cried the beadle, who was left alone on the threshold, “so as... ...r for calls. I saw that the very moment that I came in. I’ve the eye of an American!” He did not send the stuff; he brought it. Then he came again to ...

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...ing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cove... ...imovna was sitting. I had a feeling very much like that which I had on the North Sea during a storm when every one thought that our ship, which had no... ... minute of proceedings. Another point: I find it easier to write German or English than to write Russian. As regards my present manner of life, I must... ... from gaunt trees, broken windows, grey walls, and doors covered with torn American leather! 84 Anton Chekhov When I go to my own entrance the door i... ...an, has denounced him, proving that the discovery was made in 1870 by some American; while a third person, also a German, trumps them both by proving ...

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...going student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Co... ...n which Buckle lived. Take Napoleon—the Great and also the present one. Take North America—the eternal union. Take the farce of Schleswig Holstein...... ... a beggar’s. And I brought myself to go out to dinner in such a suit! And my American leather sofa with the stuffing sticking out. And my dressing gow...

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...ion we speak of the life of a savage tribe, of the Athenian people, of the American nation. “Life” covers customs, institutions, beliefs, victories an... ...a fish because it is necessary to the fish’s activi- ties—to its life. The north pole is a significant element in the environment of an arctic explore... ...e members of any group while it is isolated. The assimilative force of the American public school is eloquent testimony to the effi- cacy of the commo... ...ine. The logical result is expressed with literal truth in the words of an American humorist: “It makes no difference what you teach a boy so long as ... ...te is trained by the more advanced study of languages, and still better by English literature; imagination by all higher language teaching, but chiefl... ...tin and Greek; for expression, Greek and Latin composition comes first and English composition next; for abstract reasoning, mathematics stands almost... ...be at all complete includes Latin, one modern language, some history, some English literature, and one science.” There is much in the word- ing of thi...

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...g student publica- tion project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cove... ...o first to Jerusalem to do homage to the Holy Places and then to go to the north to Siberia: “There is the place for thee and not here.” The monk, ove... ...of our monastery, but a visitor from an obscure religious house in the far north. He too sought the elder’ s blessing. But Father Zossima, on entering... ...in his own way, a stubborn one. He announced that he had come from the far north, from Obdorsk, from Saint Sylvester, and was a member of a poor monas... ...i- ably, and was very fond of cleaning his smart calf boots with a special English polish, so that they shone like mirrors. He turned out a first rate... ...n country than we are? I wouldn’t change a dandy I know of for three young englishmen,” observed Marya Kondratyevna tenderly , doubt- less accompanyin... ..., already. Even though Grusha will be with me. Just look at her; is she an American? She is Russian, Russian to the marrow of her bones; she will be h... ...s soon as we’ve learnt it—good-bye to America! We’ll run here to Russia as American citizens. Don’t be uneasy—we would not 722 THE BROTHERS KARAMAZO... ...work on the land here, too, somewhere in the wilds, and I’ll make up as an American all my life. But we shall die on our own soil. That’s my plan, and...

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...ing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cove... ...nds of the valleyside to Bunker’s Hill, branching off there, and run- ning north to Beggarlee and Selby, that looks over at Crich and the hills of Der... ...n she spoke to him, it was with a southern pronuncia- tion and a purity of English which thrilled him to hear. She watched him. He danced well, as if ... ...s in him to dance. His grandfather was a French refugee who had married an English barmaid—if it had been a marriage. Gertrude Coppard watched the you... ... followed the manufacturer into a grubby little room, upholstered in black American leather, glossy with the rub- bing of many customers. On the table... ...e between was traced, violated by a great train rushing south to London or north to Scotland. The trains roared by like projectiles level on the darkn... ...hey both looked up the road that ran in shadow right under the glow of the north-west sky. On the crest of the hill, Selby, with its stark houses and ...

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...ing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cove... ...ley was in those days the perpetual curate of Hogglestock, a pariah in the northern extremity of East Barsetshire; a man known by all who knew anythin... ...ied Lord Dumbello, the eldest don of the Marquis of Hartletop—than whom no English nobleman was more puissant, if broad acres, many castles, high titl... ...ter very well knew. And even to this day he would sometimes recite to them English poetry, lines after lines, stanzas upon stanzas, in a sweet low mel... ...bs Broughton, a man very well known both in the City and over the grass in Northamptonshire, was supposed to have a good deal more than four thousand ... ...through the hall, upstairs, to a certain small sitting-room looking to the north which was much used by the mistress of the house. It was quite clear ... ...n as a peacemaker, changed the conversation again and began to talk of the American war. But even that was made a matter of discord on church matters—... ...rt to the door. It was better by far that he should go, and so he went. An American when he has spent a pleasant day will tell you that he has had a ‘...