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The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley Volume 2

By: Thomas Hutchinson

...t File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those... ........................................................... 39 A FRAGMENT: TO MUSIC. ....................................................................... ..................................................... 40 ANOTHER FRAGMENT: TO MUSIC......................................................................... ............................................................... 107 FRAGMENT: MUSIC AND SWEET POETRY. ...................................................... ......................................................................... 198 MUSIC. ....................................................................... ...e, Thy remembrance, and repentance, and deep musings are not free From the music of two voices and the light of one sweet smile. 14 V olume Two T T T...

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A Midsummer Night's Dream

By: William Shakespeare

...t File pro duced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of tho... ...song And certain stars shot madly from their spheres, To hear the sea maid’s music. PUCK: I remember. OBERON: That very ... ...y hair do but tickle me, I must scratch. TITANIA: What, wilt thou hear some music, my sweet love? BOTTOM: I have a reasonable good ear in music. Let... ...his visage now! OBERON: Silence awhile. Robin, take off this head. Titania, music call; and strike more dead Than common sleep of all these five the ... ...nd strike more dead Than common sleep of all these five the sense. TITANIA: Music, ho! music, such as charmeth sleep! [Music, still.] PUCK: Now, whe... ...CK: Now, when thou wakest, with thine own fool’s eyes peep. OBERON: Sound, music! Come, my queen, take hands with me, And rock the ground whereon th...

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Poems, In Two Volumes Volume Ii.

By: William Wordsworth

...t File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those... ...d, as I mounted up the hill, 30 The music in my heart I bore, Long after it was heard no more. 3. STEPP STEP... ...They themselves make the Reel, 20 And their Music’s a prey which they seize; It plays not for them,—what matter! ’tis... ...hat doth not slackly go away, as if dissatisfied. 35 PO PO PO PO POWER OF MUSIC WER OF MUSIC WER OF MUSIC WER OF MUSIC WER OF MUSIC An Orpheus! An ... ...store;— If a Thief could be here he might pilfer at ease; She sees the Musician, ’tis all that she sees! He stands, back’d by the Wall;—he abate... ... from delight; Can he keep himself still, if he would? oh, not he! The music stirs in him like wind through a tree. There’s a Cripple who leans ...

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Edingburgh Picturesque Notes

By: Robert Louis Stevenson

...t File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those... ... near neighbours, the workmen, may dance in their own houses to the palace music. And in this the palace is typical. There is a spark among the embers... ...ter from below; until all of a sudden, about the level of St. Giles’s, the music came abruptly to an end, and the people in the street stood at fault ... ...ints upon mortality, and any dead farmer was seized upon to be a text. The classical examples of this art are in Greyfriars. In their time, these were... ... and temperate days – with soft air coming from the inland hills, military music sounding bravely from the hollow of the gardens, the flags all waving... ...ould flock into these gardens in the cool of the evening, to hear cheerful music, to sip pleasant drinks, to see the moon rise from behind Arthur’s Se... ...nt brown build- ing on the edge of the steep – and the new Observatory – a classical edifice with a dome – occupy the central portion of the summit. A... ...me along waltzing, if you please, while the elder sang a tune to give them music. The person who saw this, and whose heart was full of bitter- ness at...

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Seven Poor Travellers

By: Charles Dickens

...t File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those... ... father’s legs. A multitude of children visitors were dancing to sprightly music; and all the servants and peas- ants about the chateau were dancing t... ...2.hn.psu.edu/faculty/jmanis/dickens.htm. If you would like to receive more classical works of literature in PDF, go to http://www2.hn.psu.edu/faculty/...

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The Great Stone Face : And Other Tales of the White Mountains

By: Nathaniel Hawthorne

...t File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those... ... times it rumbled like the thunder; sometimes it warbled like the sweetest music. It was the blast of war — the song of peace; and it seemed to have a... ...ed, was marvellous. We must not forget to mention that there was a band of music, which made the echoes of the mountains ring and reverberate with the... ...the grandest effect was when the far off mountain precipice flung back the music; for then the Great Stone Face itself seemed to be swelling the trium... ...cy, and had not willed to do so. Meantime, the cavalcade, the banners, the music, and the barouches swept past him, with the vo ciferous crowd in the... ... his life at a distance from that romantic re gion, pouring out his sweet music amid the bustle and din of cities. Often, however, did the mountains ...

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Confessions of an English Opium-Eater

By: Thomas de Quincey

...File pro- duced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those... ...reader needs neither smile at this avowal nor frown; for, not to remind my classical readers of the old Latin proverb, “Sine cerere,” &c., it may well... ... good a scholar as a nobleman needs to be, still retained an affection for classical studies and for youthful scholars. He had accordingly, from 28 C... ...f any pleasures approaching to the intellectual ones of an Englishman. For music is an intellectual or a sensual plea- sure according to the temperame... ...” I do not recollect more than one thing said adequately on the subject of music in all lit- erature; it is a passage in the Religio Medici 14 of Sir... ... has also a philosophic value, inasmuch as it points to the true theory of musical effects. The mistake of most people is to suppose 47 Thomas de Qui... ... suppose 47 Thomas de Quincey that it is by the ear they communicate with music, and there- fore that they are purely passive to its effects. But thi... ...nd an elaborate intellectual pleasure. But, says a friend, a succession of musical sounds is to me like a collection of Arabic characters; I can attac...

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The Sentimentalists an Unfinished Comedy

By: George Meredith

...t File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in En- glish, to free and easy access of tho... ...ct. ASTRAEA: His own compositions became obtrusive. LYRA: No fencing, no music, no poetry! no West Coast of Africa either, I suppose. ASTRAEA: Very...

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Crito

By: Jowett, Benjamin, 1817-1893

...ent File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of tho... ...who have the charge of this, right in commanding your father to train you in music and gymnas tic?” Right, I should reply. “Well, then, since you wer...

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Songs of Innocence and of Experience and the Book of Thel

By: William Blake

...t File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those... ...smile upon an infants face. Like the doves voice, like transient day, like music in the air: Ah! gentle may I lay me down and gentle rest my head. And...

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The Lake Gun

By: James Fenimore Cooper

...File produced as part of an ongoing student publica- tion project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those... ... was uttered in a tone so low and melancholy that it sounded like saddened music. Noth- ing that Fuller had ever before heard conveyed so much meaning...

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King Henry VIII

By: William Shakespeare

...ent File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in En glish, to free and easy access of t... ...ring his plainsong And have an hour of hearing; and, by’r lady, Held current music too. Chamberlain: Well said, Lord Sands; You... ...I : The fairest hand I ever touch’d! O beauty, Till now I never knew thee! [Music. Dance .] CARDINAL WOLSEY : My lord! Chamberlain: Your grace? CAR... ...re To lead ‘em once again; and then let’s dream Who’s best in favor. Let the music knock it. [Exeunt with trumpets .] Henry VIII, Act I, scene iv 24 ... ..., And the mountain tops that freeze, Bow themselves when he did sing: To his music plants and flowers Ever sprung; as sun and showers There had made a... ...ay, Even the billows of the sea, Hung their heads, and then lay by. In sweet music is such art, Killing care and grief of heart Fall asleep, or hearin...

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Poems

By: Wilfred Owen

...t File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those... ...h beauty In the hoarse oaths that kept our courage straight; Heard music in the silentness of duty; Found peace where shell-storms spouted... ...no time to want a drink of water. Nurse looks so far away. And everywhere Music and roses burnt through crimson slaughter. Cold; cold; he’s cold; and...

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Christ in Flanders

By: Honoré de Balzac

...t File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those... ..., without leaving its place; for the organ-pipes spoke, and I heard divine music mingling with the songs of angels, and unearthly harmony, accompanied... ...red with pictures and with frescoes, and I heard them echo with entrancing music. Myriads of human creatures flocked to these great buildings, swarmin...

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The Elixir of Life

By: Honoré de Balzac

...t File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those... ...n smiled. “Thank you,” he said, “for bringing those singing voices and the music, a banquet, young and lovely women with fair faces and dark tresses, ... ...th splendor and perfume and light and melody. Even at the moment when that music of love and thanksgiving soared up to the altar, Don Juan, too well b...

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Maggie: A Girl of the Streets

By: Stephen Crane

...ent File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of tho... ...who could don, at will, an expression of great virtue. She possessed a small music box capable of one tune, and a collection of “God bless yehs” pitch... ...ns, with maybe their wives and two or three chil dren, sat listening to the music, with the expressions of happy cows. An occasional party of sailors... ...ellow silk women and bald headed men gave vent to a few bars of anticipatory music and a girl, in a pink dress with short skirts, galloped upon the st... ...alf suppressed cheering of the tipsy men. The orches tra plunged into dance music and the laces of the dancer fluttered and flew in the glare of gas ... ... be an imitation of a planta tion darkey, under the influence, probably, of music and the moon. The audience was just enthusiastic enough over it to ...

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Enoch Arden

By: Alfred Lord Tennyson

...t File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those... ... Enoch Arden, &c. But where a passion yet unborn perhaps Lay hidden as the music of the moon Sleeps in the plain eggs of the nightingale. And thus tog... ...d head: her letters too, Tho’ far between, and coming fitfully Like broken music, written as she found Or made occasion, being strictly watch’d, Charm... ... in their blue, That all neglected places of the field Broke into nature’s music when they saw her. Low was her voice, but won mysterious way Thro’ th... ...y in it. But will you hear MY dream, for I had one That altogether went to music? Still It awed me.’ Then she told it, having dream’d O... ..., a light, A belt, it seem’d, of luminous vapor, lay, And ever in it a low musical note Swell’d up and died; and, as it swell’d, a ridge Of breaker is...

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George Silverman's Explanation

By: Charles Dickens

...ent File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of tho... ... me at night, gliding out from be hind the ghostly statue, listening to the music and the fall of dancing feet, and watching the lighted farm house w... ...! Has not yet, remember, derived a moment’s advan tage from Mr. Silverman’s classical acquirements. To say noth ing of mathematics, which she is ben... ...w2.hn.psu.edu/faculty/ jmanis/dickens.htm. If you would like to receive more classical works of literature in PDF , go to http://www2.hn.psu.edu/facul...

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An Inland Voyage

By: Robert Louis Stevenson

...ic Clas- sics Series, Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Document File pro- duced as part of an ongoing student publicat... ... was what saved us another expulsion; for I cannot say she looked gratified at our appearance. We were in a large bare apart- ment, adorned with two a... ...say, you drubbed me up hill and down dale, and I must endure; but now that I am dead, those dull thwacks that were scarcely audible in country lanes, ... ...old Bur- gundy as red as a November sunset and as odorous as a violet in April. There should be a flageolet, whence the Cigarette, with cunning touch,... ...we are to count the river. On the other side of the valley a group of red roofs and a belfry showed among the foliage. Thence some inspired bell-ringe... ... leaped out against me, in this green valley quickened by a running stream. The bells were all very pretty in their way, but I had heard some of the h... ... out; but you will he pleased to learn that the unities were properly respected, and the whole piece, with one exception, moved 94 Robert Louis Steve...

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Phantasmagoria and Other Poems

By: Lewis Carroll

...ct, the Pennsylvania State University’s Electronic Classics Series, to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of tho... ...y the train received him: Thus departed Hiawatha. MELANCHOLETTA With saddest music all day long She soothed her secret sorrow: At night she sighed “I ... ...ured, unaided, and alone, Thunders were silence to his groan, Bagpipes sweet music to its tone: “What? Ever thus, in dismal round, Shall Pain and Mys... ...hat process of Dilution which has proved so ad vantageous to her sister art Music? The Diluter gives us first a few notes of some well known Air, the... ...ssons — no more time for tricks. Five growing girls, from Fifteen to Eleven: Music, Drawing, Languages, and food enough for seven! Five winsome girls,...

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