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

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...Publication New Arabian Nights by Robert Louis Stevenson 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... ...dd,” broke out Geraldine, giving a look to Prince Florizel, “that we three fellows should have met by the merest accident in so large a wilderness as ... ...at city was new to him; he had gone from a provincial school to a military college, and thence direct to the East- ern Empire; and he promised himself... ... “Upon my word,” the Lieutenant reflected, “this is one of the pleasantest fellows and, I do not doubt, one of the most agreeable societies in London.... ... was R. Northmour, Esquire, of Graden Easter, in Scot- land. We had met at college; and though there was not much liking between us, nor even much int... ...” Leon explained their misadventure; and the other told them that he was a Cambridge undergraduate on a walking tour, that he had run short of money, ...

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...my son was dead, and is alive again; he was lost; and is found.? He was lost by the Norton-Harjes Ambulance Corps. He was officially dead as a result of official misinformation....

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...tion The Enormous Room by E.(Edward) E.(Estlin) Cummings 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... ...the Atlantic. The following docu- ments tell the story: 104 Irving Street, Cambridge, December 8, 1917. President Woodrow Wilson, White House, Wash- i... ... The victims are two American ambulance drivers, Edward Estlin Cummings of Cambridge, Mass., and W S B … . More than two months ago these young men we... ...unks. They had quite a layout, a regular picnic-lunch elaborate enough for kings or even presidents. The v-f-g in particular annoyed me by uttering al... ... of yellowish froth. From behind me a chunk of hurtling spittle joined its fellows. I decided to stand up. At this moment, at the far end of the room,... ...his herding of men like cattle—they treat us no better than pigs here. The fellows drop their dung in the very room where they sleep. What is one to e... ...y receives it: into which it utterly and peacefully disappears. Man with a college degree returning from Spain, not disagreeable sort, talks Spanish w...

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...Excerpt: They, who to states and governors of the Commonwealth direct their speech, High Court of Parliament, or, wanting such access in a private condition, write that which they foresee may advance the public good; I suppose them, as at the beginning of no mean ende...

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...agitica, Comus, “L’Alegro,” “Il Penseroso,” and “Lycidas” is a publication of the Penn sylvania State University. This Portable Document file is fu... ...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... ...uise, knew of learning little but what their twelve Tables, and the Pontific College with their augurs and flamens taught them in religion and law; so... ...hn Milton: A Brief Bio, 1608 - 74 Educated at St. Paul s School and Christ s College, Cambridge. Early works included L Alegro, Il Penseroso, the... ...: A Brief Bio, 1608 - 74 Educated at St. Paul s School and Christ s College, Cambridge. Early works included L Alegro, Il Penseroso, the masque C... ...else some neighbour woodman, or, at worst, Some roving robber calling to his fellows. SEC. BRO . Heaven keep my sister! Again, again, and near! Best d...

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...Excerpt: Chapter 1. How did he get it? ?I can never bring myself to believe it, John,? said Mary Walker the pretty daughter of Mr. George Walker, attorney of Silverbridge. Walker and Winthrop was the name of the firm, and they were respectable people, who did all the solicitors? business that had to be done in that part of Barsetshire on behalf of...

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...pe A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Last Chronicle of Barset by Anthony Trollope 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... ...t at Malbro’ School, from whence it was intended that he should proceed to Cambridge, and be educated there at the expense of his godfather Dean Arabi... ... to Mr Crawley. Bob, indeed, who had done well at school, might do well at Cambridge—might achieve great things there. But Mr Crawley would almost pre... ...ake a glass.’ ‘I shall drink two or three glasses of claret. But you young fellows have become so desperately temperate.’ ‘We take our wine at dinner,... ...indows of the house of his friend the dean, and told himself how, in their college days, he and the dean had been quite equal—quite equal, except by t... ...that the dean and Mr Crawley had lived together on the closest intimacy at college, and that the friendship had been maintained through life;—though, ... ...r he would not go. ‘What’s the use of paying two guineas for a dinner with fellows you see every day of your life?’ he said. To Lady Glencora’s he wou...