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...In Voices from the Past, a daring group of five independent novels, acclaimed author Paul Alexander Bartlett accomplishes a tour de force of historical fiction, allowing the reader to enter for the first time into the pri...

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...FROM THE COVER OF VOICES FROM THE PAST: In Voices from the Past, a daring group of five independent novels, acclai... ...ardo da Vinci; Shakespeare; and Abraham Lincoln. Each novel appears here in its entirety within a single unique volume of 644 pages beautifully il... ...am much taken with Bartlett’s work and commend it highly.” CHARLES POORE in The New York Times: “...believable characters who are stirred by intens... ...nique, beautifully designed books, many of them illustrated with original art specially created for each book. Each of our books aspires to be a wor... ...pecially created for each book. Each of our books aspires to be a work of art in itself—in both its content and its design. The press was estab... ... clay long dried by the sun. It is too bad they can’t apply some of their art to themselves. They are such emaciated creatures, I wonder what they e... ...ce, second floor, a narrow room with a pair of elegant brass spittoons, a Pennsylvania wood burning stove. High on the wall, above my desk, hung an ... ...aintings have been ex- hibited in more than forty one-man shows in leading galleries, including the Los Angeles County Museum, the Atlanta Art Museum... ...eum, the Instituto-Mexicano- Norteamericano in Mexico City, and many other galleries; and, third, he devoted much of his life to the most comprehensi...

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...ongest running independent newspaper at Williams is the Williams Record, a weekly broadsheet paper published on Wednesdays. The newspaper was founded in 1885, and now has a weekly circulation of 3,000 copies distributed in Williamstown, in addition to more than 600 subscribers across the country. The newspaper does not receive financial support from the college or from the...

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...wns entirely suo- oessful, and despite its humorous side, tied a new itnot in tlie bond of ail Williams men. The parade, the fireworks, the transparen... ...parts of a cus- tom tliftt is no empty formalitj. The Parade 1910 gathered in front of the opera house shortly after 7 o'clock, clad in night-shirts, ... ...low- ing the drag was the North Adams " band," and then came the fresh men in a blaze of fireworks. The parade marched up Main street to the Greylock ... ...of Prof. Rice's se- ries of lectures was delivered Fri- day evening in the art room of Hopkins Hall on Raphael and Uembrandt and was illustrated by sl... ...ce showed how each of these painters repre- sented idealism and realism in art; but his more immediate pur- pose was to indicate how their lives are d... ... how their lives are disclosed in the progress of their development in the art of painting. Raphael wos born in Urbino, Italy, a distinctly rural land... ...n home he was always most idealistic. His works are found in all the chief galleries of Europe. CALENDAR MONDAY, MARCH 18 7.80 p. m. —Lecture by Dr. P... ...ture of Oliver Croniwel.. The originals are scattered over many of the art galleries of Furope. most, however, Ixiing hung in the Louvre, at Paris. Co... ...n the ensuing concerts, as they have boon delared ineligible. The Williams Pennsylvania club hold a dinner at the Rich- mond hotel. North Adams, last ...

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...Excerpt: From my boyish days I had always felt a great perplexity on one point in Macbeth. It was this: the knocking at the gate, which succeeds to the murder of Duncan, produced to my feelings an effect for which I never could account. The effect was, that it reflected back upon the murder a peculiar a...

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...Contents On the Knocking at the Gate, in Macbeth....................................................4 On Murder, Considered as One of the Fine Arts .........................................9 LECTURE....................................................................

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...ication Miscellaneous Essays by Thomas de Quincey is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer- sity. This Portable Document file is furnished f... ...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...or any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone ass... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Miscellaneous Essays by Thomas de Quincey, the Pennsylvania Sta... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in En- glish, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them.... ... Thy works are not as those of other men, simply and merely great works of art; but are also like the phenomena of nature, like the sun and the sea, t... ... they meet and criticise as they would a picture, statue, or other work of art. But I need not trouble myself with any attempt to describe the spirit ... ...s; a task which might be easy enough three or four centuries ago, when the art was little understood, and few great models had been exhibited; but in ... ...rength of morning light had reached us, when we saw be- fore us the aërial galleries of the organ and the choir. Every pinnacle of the fretwork, every...

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...clipse, the Versailles of our day; the shop-window illusions, new every morning, nightly destroyed; the grace and elegance of the young men that come in contact with fair customers; the piquant faces and costumes of young damsels, who cannot fail to attract the masculine customer; and (and this especially of late) the length, the vast spaces, the Babylonish luxury of galle...

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...AMS......107 CHAPTER IX - BEGGARS...................................118 CHAPTER X - LETTER TO A YOUNG GENTLEMAN WHO PROPOSES TO EMBRACE THE CAREER OF ART............................................127 CHAPTER XII - A CHRISTMAS SERMON.........140...

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...Excerpt: Chapter 1. On a brilliant day in May, in the year 1868, a gentle man was reclining at his ease on the great circular divan which at that period occupied the centre of the Salon Carre, in the Museum of the Louvre. This commodious ottoman has since been rem...

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...Excerpt: We had been talking about the masters who had achieved but a single masterpiece--the artists and poets who but once in their lives had known the divine afflatus and touched the high level of perfection. Our host had been showing us a charming little cabinet picture by a painter whose name we had never heard, and who, after this single spas...

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...for twelve months; and had good winds from the east, though soft and weak, for five months? space and more. But then the wind came about, and settled in the west for many days, so as we could make little or no way, and were sometimes in purpose to turn back. But then again there arose strong and great winds from the south, with a point east; which carried us up, for all th...

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... has displayed uncommon courage, seamanship, affability, or other good qualities, grateful passengers often present him with a token of their esteem, in the shape of teapots, tankards, trays, &c. of precious metal. Among authors, however, bullion is a much rarer commodity than paper, whereof I beg you to accept a little in the shape of this small volume. It contains a few ...

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... successfully-- to initiate me into the mysteries of musical knowledge. You have at least taught me what difficulties and what labor genius must bury in those poems which procure us transcendental pleasures. You have also afforded me the satisfaction of laughing more than once at the expense of a self-styled connoisseur....

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