...st T en T ales by Honore de Balzac Droll Stories Collected from the Abbeys of Touraine A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Droll Stor... ...ries, Volume One: The First Ten Tales by Honore de Balzac is a publication of the Pennsyl- vania State University. This Portable Document file is furn... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...ce quite a good-looking little priest of Touraine whose ways and manner of speech was so charming that he passed for a son of La Soldee and the Govern... ...y villainous and ribald partner!” Hearing the commencement of these little speeches of the seneschal, whose youth came back in his oaths, the page ran... ...terfered, stood quite discomfited, but at the same time he heard the cruel speech of his tormentor he caught sight through the slits and tears in her ... ... their mouths, for there is never any equivoque in the transactions of the parts of nature, and everything therein is rational and of easy comprehensi...

...Excerpt: When, in March, 1832, the first volume of the now famous Contes Drolatiques was published by Gosselin of Paris, Balzac, in a short preface, written in the publisher?s name, replied to those attacks which he anticipated certain critics would make upon his hardy exp...

...OW AND BY WHOM THE SAID CHILD WAS PROCURED. ................................................................... 44 HOW THE SAID LOVE-SIN WAS REPENTED OF AND LED TO GREAT MOURNING. ...................... 49 THE KING?S SWEETHEART ...................................................................................................... 54 THE DEVIL?S HEIR............................

... An Inland Voyage by Robert Louis Steven... ... An Inland Voyage by Robert Louis Stevenson is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free an... ...venson, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Clas- sics Series, Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Document Fil... ... declare I never knew what glory was before. ‘Yes, yes, the Royal Sport Nautique is the oldest club in Belgium.’ ‘We number two hundred.’ ‘We’ – this ... ... stood in the middle of the street. What it had been in past ages, I know not: probably a hold in time of war; but now-a-days it bore an illegible dia... ...the oaks of Broceliande. I should not be satisfied with one tree; but if the wood grew together like a banyan grove, I would be buried under the tap-r... ...ers, a rooted piece of nature in the scene; and yet if only the canal below were to open, one junk after another would hoist sail or harness horses an... ...concluded another, ‘and then tum-tumty-tum’ – he imitated the result with spirit. Was not this a graceful little ovation? Where this people finds the ... ...paddle; I was weary of living on the skirts of life; I wished to be in the thick of it once more; I wished to get to work; I wished to meet people who...

...so small a book with a preface is, I am half afraid, to sin against proportion. But a preface is more than an author can resist, for it is the reward of his labours. When the foundation stone is laid, the architect appears with his plans, and struts for an hour before the public eye. So with the writer in hisPreface: he may have never a word to say, but he must show himsel...

... The Black Tulip by Alexandre Dumas is a... ... The Black Tulip by Alexandre Dumas is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and withou... ...as, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Classics Series, Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Document File prod... ... promised, and all the diabolical strata- gems planned beforehand to smooth for him, Tyckelaer, all the difficulties in the path of murder. And every ... ... haranguing the mob; but the mob preferred forcing the guard of the States — which, however, offered no re- sistance to the sovereign people — to list... ...is indeed Chris- tian charity.” Cornelius cast his eyes on the beautiful girl, quite aston- ished to hear from the mouth of one so humble such a noble... ...ng in water.” “I breathe again.” “It is in a good, sound stone pot, just about the size of the jug in which you had planted yours. The soil is com- po...

...Excerpt: A Grateful People. On the 20th of August, 1672, the city of the Hague, always so lively, so neat, and so trim that one might believe every day to be Sunday, with its shady park, with its tall trees, spreading over its Gothic houses, with its canals like la...

...on The Pickwick Papers, Volume One by Charles Dickens is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer sity. This Portable Document file is furn... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in ... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18201 1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ... head,—’cod I would,—pig’s whisper—pieman too,—no gammon.’ THIS COHERENT SPEECH was interrupted by the entrance of the Rochester coachman, to announ... ...e room, the other classes of society were imitating their example in other parts of it. The less aristo cratic officers of the 97th devoted themselve... ...y par ticle of his hitherto bottled up indignation effervescing, from all parts of his countenance, in a perspiration of passion. The stranger was re... ...e, sir—Doctor Payne of the 43rd. Good evening, Sir.’ Having concluded this speech, and uttered the last three words in a loud key, he stalked majestic... ...hat—very. So you’ve been spilt, eh? Never mind. Com mon accident in these parts. Joe—he’s asleep again!—Joe, take that horse from the gentlemen, and ... ...ed with the reply made by an individual, who —to use an ordinary figure of speech— ”hung out” in a tub, to the emperor Alexander:—”if I were not Dioge...

...on enn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Ocotopus: A Story of California by Frank Norris is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Un... ...ity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ... the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Ocotopus: A Story of California by Frank Norris, the Pennsylvania State University, Electroni... ...ly.” But Hooven was not to be put off. No doubt he had been meditating his speech all the morning, formulating his words, preparing his phrases. “Say,... ...their treasures found in a day and gambled in a night, their direct, crude speech, their generosity and cruelty, their heroism and bestiality, their r... ...e still remained one of the people, rough al- most to insolence, direct in speech, intolerant in his opin- ions, relying upon absolutely no one but hi... ...till kept him company. Now the details came throng- ing back—the component parts of his poem, the signs and symbols of the West. It was there, close a... ...rness room later on, winking with vast intelligence. Ranchers from remoter parts of the country appeared: Garnett, from the Ruby rancho, Keast, from t... ... Chattern of the Bonanza, about a score of others, ranch- ers from various parts of the county, and, last of all, Dabney, ignored, silent, to whom nob...

Excerpt: The Ocotopus: A Story of California by Frank Norris.

... A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is fur... ...rsity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18201 1291 is a Portable Document File pro duced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of lit... ... hair at all, and then you will play bare faced. But, masters, here are your parts: and I am to entreat you, request you and desire you, to con them b... ...be, then all is well. Come, sit down, every mother’s son, and rehearse your parts. A Midsummer Night’s Dream , Act III, scene i 25 Pyramus, you begi... ...s Dream , Act III, scene i 25 Pyramus, you begin: when you have spoken your speech, enter into that brake: and so every one according to his cue. [En... ...w, You would not use a gentle lady so; To vow, and swear, and superpraise my parts, When I am sure you hate me with your hearts. You both are rivals, ... ...e like a child on a recorder; a sound, but not in government. THESEUS: His speech, was like a tangled chain; noth ing impaired, but all disordered....

...Excerpt: ACT I. SCENE I. Athens. The palace of THESEUS. [Enter THESEUS, HIPPOLYTA, PHILOSTRATE, and Attendants.] THESEUS: Now, fair Hippolyta, our nuptial hour Draws on apace; four happy days bring in Another moon: but, O, methinks, how slow This old moon wanes! she li...

... Across the Plains by Robert Louis Stevenson is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furn... ...ersity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Document File pro- duced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of lit... ...de in Pennsylvania, and I have thought so a dozen times since in far distant parts of the continent. If it be an illusion it is one very deeply rooted... ...the bandit, his troops being dispersed and the hunt too hot for him in other parts of California, returned to his native Monterey, and was seen public... ...enniless Miguel. It is a sort of local currency by courtesy. Credit in these parts has passed into a superstition. I have seen a strong, violent man s... ...omptly pun- ished. A man might be as plain, as dull, as slovenly, as free of speech as he desired; but to a touch of presumption or a word of hectorin... ...ooting, insensi- bly imposed their etiquette upon the docile, and by caustic speech enforced their edicts against the unwelcome. T o think of it is to... ...place, there sprang up young outlandish voices and a chatter of some foreign speech; and I saw, pursuing the coach with its load of Hebridean fishers ...

... 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?................................................................. 68 CHAPTER V - RANDOM MEMORIES.................79 CHAPTER VI - RANDOM M...

...Le Morte Darthur by Thomas Malory Sir Thomas Malory’s Book of King Arthur and of his Noble Knights of the Round Table Book Eight A Pen... ...ation Le Morte D’Arthur: Book Eight by Sir Thomas Malory is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furni... ...ity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...ained poison for to have poisoned Sir Tristram. B ut then through the fair speech of the gentlewoman, and by the means that she made, the most part of... ...y so happen that ye shall win more by my life than by my death, for in the parts of England it may happen I may do you service at some season, that ye... ...g Mark lived he loved never Sir Tristram after that; though there was fair speech, love was there none. And thus it passed many weeks and days, and al... ...the judges there were many kings and knights beheld Sir Tristram, and much speech they had of him because that he slew Sir Marhaus, the good knight, a... ...shield afore him and drew his sword. And there began strong battle on both parts, for both they fought for the love of one lady, and ever she lay on t...

... Liones was born, and how his mother died at his birth, wherefore she named him Tristram. It was a king that hight Meliodas, and he was lord and king of the country of Liones, and this Meliodas was a likely knight as any was that time living. And by fortune he wedded King Mark?s sister of Cornwall, and she was called Elizabeth, that was called both good and fair. And at th...

...es Publication Mrs. Lirriper’s Legacy by Charles Dickens is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity. This Portable Document file is fur... ...ity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...or, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Document File pro- duced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...he town of Sons in France an unknown English- man lay a dying. That he was speechless and without motion. That in his lodging there was a gold watch a... ...f the world are the ways of the world varying ac- cording to the different parts of it, and dancing at all in the open Square with a lady that kept a ... ...ers at Eighty-one Norfolk Street, and if he didn’t bring ‘em out with this speech: “Here you are Gran! Here you are godfather! More of ‘em! I’ll read.... ...ttle things and don’t let solemn big-wigs stare them out of countenance or speechify them dull, of which said solemn big-wigs I have ever had the one ... ...was born Somewhere, and chose a profes- sion Somehow. It is not with those parts of his career that we have to deal; but with his early attachment to ...

...ies Publication King Richard II by William Shakespeare is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18201 1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ..., Act I, scene i 5 HENRY BOLINGBROKE : First, heaven be the record to my speech! In the devotion of a subject’s love, Tendering the precious safety ... ...reverence of your highness curbs me From giving reins and spurs to my free speech; Which else would post until it had return’d These terms of treason ... ...firmness of my upright soul: He is our subject, Mowbray; so art thou: Free speech and fearless I to thee allow. Richard II, Act I, scene i 7 THOMAS M... ...s to thy heart, Through the false passage of thy throat, thou liest. Three parts of that receipt I had for Calais Disbursed I duly to his highness’ so...

... Three Ghost Stories by Charles Dickens is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furn... ...ersity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and i... ...Editor, Hazleton, PA 18201 1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of lit... ... the present) to the wisest medical practitio ner we could hear of in those parts, and to take his opinion. A change in his time of duty would come r... ...ever taken the least notice of any of our many uproars. An imperturbable and speechless man, he had sat at his supper, with Streaker present in a swoo... ...s; and the play is, really, not all Wolf and Red Riding Hood, but has other parts in it.” However, I digress. Belinda, as I have mentioned, occupied... ... the throat of the murdered man had been cut straight across. In the opening speech for the defence, it was suggested that the deceased might have cut... ...ing at its severed throat, it is undeniable that the counsel faltered in his speech, lost for a few seconds the thread of his ingenious discourse, wip...

...Excerpt: ?Halloa! Below there!? When he heard a voice thus calling to him, he was standing at the door of his box, with a flag in his hand, furled round its short pole. One would have thought, considering the nature of the ground, that he could not have doubted from what quarter the voice came; but instead of looking up to whe...

...by Honoré de Balzad, trans. Ellen Marriage and Clara Bell is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18202-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...inct nor reason, and who had never heard nor spoken any kind of articulate speech? It seemed difficult to expend any regrets over the poor wretch now ... ...th people’s prejudices. The faultily constructed plowshares in use in some parts of France were unknown here, the hoe sufficed for the little field wo... ...se about him never address him without using certain respect- ful forms of speech, while every one remains standing and uncovered in his presence. Men... ...e of the best- natured alderman that ever traveled for pleasure in foreign parts.” “Let us go on as fast as possible!” cried Genestas. He had listened... ...every building going, al- ways busy—’the devourer,’ they call him in these parts.” Benassis had scarcely finished speaking when the wicket gate which ... ...ly wrong the yet more ardent emotions which strive to find an utterance in speech; I found, nevertheless, in the merest trifles a channel through whic...

...Excerpt: Chapter 1. The countryside and the man on a lovely spring morning in the year 1829, a man of fifty or thereabouts was wending his way on horseback along the mountain road that leads to a large village near the Grande Chartreuse. This village is the market town of a populous canton that lies within the limits of a ...

...Le Morte Darthur by Thomas Malory Sir Thomas Malory»s Book of King Arthur and of his Noble Knights of the Round Table Book Ten A Penn ... ...ication Le Morte D’Arthur: Book Ten by Sir Thomas Malory is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...alis. But when Sir Lamorak heard King Mark speak, then wist he well by his speech that he was a Cornish knight. Sir, said Sir Lamorak, I understand by... ...ight nought by these threats, for King Mark is so villainous, that by fair speech shall never man get of him. But ye shall see what I shall do; I will... ...rty had the victory, so to end. And then were both hosts assembled on both parts of the field, without the Castle of Tintagil, and there was none but ... ...r came the Earl of Pase with four hundred knights, and set on fire all the parts of the castle, that or they ceased they left not a stone standing. An... ... father to the good knight Sir Marhaus that Sir Tristram slew, had all the speech that Sir Tristram might hear it. He said: Lords and fellows, let us ...

... can descrive what ye bear, ye are worthy to bear the arms. As for that, said Sir Tristram, I will answer you; this shield was given me, not desired, of Queen Morgan le Fay; and as for me, I can not descrive these arms, for it is no point of my charge, and yet I trust to God to bear them with worship. Truly, said King Arthur, ye ought not to bear none arms but if ye wist w...

... Euthydemus by Plato, trans. Benjamin Jowett is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer sity. This Portable Document file is f... ... sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in... ...Editor, Hazleton, PA 18201 1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of lit... ...hich is required in any particular art; nor again the art of the composer of speeches, who knows how to write them, but cannot speak them, although he... ...r of man was this censorious critic. Not an orator, but a great composer of speeches. Socrates under- stands that he is an amphibious animal, half p... ...warfare; they will plead themselves and teach others to speak and to compose speeches which will have an effect upon the courts. And this was only the... ...y asked you whether men learn what they know or what they do not know. These parts of learning are not serious, and therefore I say that the gentlemen...

...y fairly claim to be the oldest treatise on logic; for that science originates in the misunderstandings which necessarily accompany the first efforts of speculation. Several of the fallacies which are satirized in it reappear in the Sophistici Elenchi of Aristotle and are retained at the end of our manuals of logic....

...HE LIFE AND ADVENTURES OF NICHOLAS NICKLEBY, containing a Faithful Account of the Fortunes, Misfortunes, Uprisings, Downfallings and Complete Career o... ...OLUME ONE A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication V olume One of THE LIFE AND ADVENTURES OF NICHOLAS NICKLEBY, containing a Faithful Acco... ...HE LIFE AND ADVENTURES OF NICHOLAS NICKLEBY, containing a Faithful Account of the Fortunes, Misfortunes, Uprisings, Downfallings and Complete Career o... ...d pending the arrangement of the proceed- ings, and a fair division of the speechifying, the public in the large room were eyeing, by turns, the empty... ...at commercial and mercantile com- munity.’ The honourable gentleman made a speech which drew tears from the eyes of the ladies, and awakened the live-... ...e eyes in con- sequence, came forward to tell his fellow-countrymen what a speech he meant to make in favour of that petition whenever it should be pr... ...LAS NICKLEBY the prevalent notion of Snow Hill, in those remote and rustic parts, through which the Saracen’s Head, like some grim ap- parition, rushe... ...er way through certain small loopholes in the wall, and actually made some parts of the wide halls and galleries quite light, while she left others in... ... be- cause it sounds better, but they don’ t know it by that name in these parts. A man may call his house an island if he likes; there’s no act of Pa...

...Excerpt: Volume One of the life and adventures of Nicholas Nickleby, containing a Faithful Account of the Fortunes, Misfortunes, Uprisings, Downfallings and Complete Career of the Nickelby Family by Charles Dickens....

... Plato’s “Timaeus,”translated by Benjamin Jowett is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document File is furn... ...ersity. This Portable Document File is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and i... ...Editor, Hazleton, PA 18201 1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of lit... ...ful empire which had rule over the whole island and several others, and over parts of the continent, and, furthermore, the men of Atlantis had subject... ...ts of the continent, and, furthermore, the men of Atlantis had subjected the parts of Libya within the columns of Heracles as far as Egypt, and of Eur... ...nner disappeared in the depths of the sea. For which reason the sea in those parts is impass able and impenetrable, because there is a shoal of mud i... ...ng courses of God and regulate our own vagaries. The same may be affirmed of speech and hearing: they have been given by the gods to the same end and ... ...gods to the same end and for a like reason. For this is the principal end of speech, whereto it most contributes. Moreover, so much of music as is ada... ...at is necessary which enters in and gives food to the body; but the river of speech, which flows out of a man and ministers to the intelligence, is th...

...onge A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Clever Woman of the Family by Charlotte M. Yonge is a publication of the Pennsylvania St... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...r for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Clever Woman of the Family by Charlotte M. Yonge, the Pennsylvania State University, Ele... ... anything for the Major, and indeed so will they all.” Three Majors in one speech, thought Rachel; and by way of counteraction she enunciated, “I coul... ...ch in such a matter.” “He always does manage whatever one wants.” At which speech Rachel cast a glance towards her mother, and saw her look questionin... ...kable look of concentration and vigour, her upright bearing, clear decided speech, and glance of kindness won instant respect and reli- ance, but her ... ...r canon, who had eked out his means with a combination of chaplaincies and parts of curacies, and by teaching at the school where his son was educated... ...w what a home is out of it. Our birthplaces—yes, and our graves—are in all parts of the world.” “Were you ever in Scotland?” “Never; and I dread nothi... ...EAR ALEXANDER DEAR ALEXANDER “I pray thee now tell me, for which of my bad parts didst thou first fall in love with me?” —Much Ado about Nothing. “AL...

...in itself, and shows how well nature can be imitated; but it is meant for a mere girl, and this is the very day I had fixed for hauling down the flag of youth.?...

...es Cotton Edited by William Carew Hazilitt 1877 1877 1877 1877 1877 ESSAYS OF MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE Book the Second T ranslated by Charles Cotton Edited... ...es P P P P Publication ublication ublication ublication ublication Essays of Michel de Montaigne, Book the Second trans. Charles Cotton, ed. William ... ... Second trans. Charles Cotton, ed. William Carew Hazilitt is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Docu- ment file is furn... ... progress of its operation, and how the cold by degrees seized the several parts of her body one after another, till having in the end told them it be... ...d quick instant of death, I could perceive the motion of the soul when she parts from the body, and whether she has any sentiment at the separation, t... ...e day hap- pen to fall into his hands, when I shall neither have mouth nor speech left to deliver it to him, that he shall receive from me a true acco... ... province of ours is, in plain truth, a little more decried than the other parts of the kingdom; and yet we have several times seen, in our times, men... ...w the propension of my own nature for want of art; using the same liberty, speech, and countenance towards great persons, that I bring with me from my... ...What any one will propound to me, he must do it piecemeal, for to answer a speech consisting of several heads I am not able. I could not receive a com...

Excerpt: Essays of Michel de Montaigne, Book the Second translated by Charles Cotton, ed. William Carew Hazilitt.

...Contents CHAPTER I OF THE INCONSTANCY OF OUR ACTIONS ...................................................... 5 CHAPTER II OF DRUNKENNESS .............................................................................................. 14 CHAPTER II...

...thurus Flos Regum Arthurus Flos Regum Arthurus Flos Regum Arthurus (Joseph of Exeter) (Joseph of Exeter) (Joseph of Exeter) (Joseph of Exeter) (Joseph... ...f Exeter) (Joseph of Exeter) (Joseph of Exeter) (Joseph of Exeter) (Joseph of Exeter) A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication A Penn State... ...es Publication A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Idylls of the King: In Twelve Books by Alfred, Lord Tennyson is a publication of t... ... world, “Take me,” but turn the blade and ye shall see, And written in the speech ye speak yourself, “Cast me away!” And sad was Arthur’s face Taking... ...ned brightening as she lay; Then, as the white and glittering star of morn Parts from a bank of snow, and by and by Slips into golden cloud, the maide... ...in she said, ‘O wild and of the woods, Knowest thou not the fashion of our speech? Or have the Heavens but given thee a fair face, Lacking a tongue?’ ... ...ide Restrained him with all manner of device, So that he could not come to speech with her. And when she gained her castle, upsprang the bridge, Down ...

...Excerpt: Dedication. These to His Memory--since he held them dear, Perchance as finding there unconsciously Some image of himself--I dedicate, I dedicate, I consecrate with tears-- These Idylls....

...Contents Idylls of the King ............................................................................................................................... 4 Dedication ...........................................................................

... M.A. A P ENN S TATE E LECTRONIC C LASSICS S ERIES P UBLICATION The Iliad of Homer, trans. Andrew Lang, Walter Leaf, and Ernest Myers is a publicat... ...omer, trans. Andrew Lang, Walter Leaf, and Ernest Myers is a publication of the Pennsyl vania State University. This Portable Document file is furn... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ... Iliad has been entrusted to the three T ranslators in the following three parts: Books I. – IX. . . . . W . Leaf. " X. – XVI. ... ... of the Greek and Latin names of the gods and goddesses who play important parts in the narrative. When the Greek names are new to him, the correspond... ...im Atreides waxed furious. Then in their midst rose up Nestor, pleasant of speech, the clear voiced orator of the Pylians, he from whose tongue flowed... ...lace upon the benches, only Thersites still chattered on, the uncontrolled speech, whose mind was full of words many and disorderly, wherewith to stri... ...d said to him: “Verily hast thou again outdone the sons of the Achaians in speech, old man. Ah, father Zeus and Athene and Apollo, would that among th... ...nthos and that dwelt in Samos, and possessed the mainland and dwelt in the parts over against the isles. Them did Odysseus lead, the peer of Zeus in c...

...Excerpt: Prefatory Note: The execution of this version of the Iliad has been entrusted to the three Translators in the following three parts: Each Translator is therefore responsible for his own portion; but the whole has been revised by all three Translators, and...