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...The Wings of the Dove by Henry James The Wings of the Dove by Henry James The Wings of the Dove by Henry James A PENN STAT... ...Henry James A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The Wings of the Dove by Henry James is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Unive... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any per- son using this document file, for any purpose, and in... ...ent reflexion, invented for him in the twilight of time and the infancy of art by the Angel, not to say by the Demon, of Compro- mise, that nothing is... ... of their response to which opening involves also, in its order, no vulgar art of exhibition; but what they have most to tell us is that, all unconsci... ... of ideal reigning, I gather, in the connexion. The enjoyment of a work of art, the accep- tance of an irresistible illusion, constituting, to my sens... ...d of question her delicacy might have to contend with. Would she start for Europe with her young friend at the earliest possible date, and should she ... ...y’s unpacified state, in short, that now troubled her—though certainly, as Europe was the great American sedative, the failure was to some extent to b... ... still showed itself ticking as hard as an honest old watch. The embalmed “Europe” of her younger time had partly stood for three years of Switzer- la...

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...Excerpt: Predictions for the year 1708. Wherein the month, and day of the month are set down, the persons named, and the great actions and events of next year particularly related, as will come to pass. Written to prevent the people of England from being farther imposed on by vulgar almanack...

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... The Bickerstaff Partridge Papers by Jonathan Swift 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... ...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... ...debating the matter with myself, I could not possibly lay the fault upon the art, but upon those gross impostors, who set up to be the artists. I know... ... ex- cused for thinking so, when he sees in how wretched a manner that noble art is treated by a few mean illiterate traders be- tween us and the star... ...ns. I intend in a short time to publish a large and rational defence of this art, and therefore shall say no more in its justification at present, tha... ... better face. May, against common conjectures, will be no very busy month in Europe, but very signal for the death of the Dau- phin, which will happen... ...or not. On the 11th will begin a most important siege, which the eyes of all Europe will be upon: I cannot be more particular: The Bickerstaff Partrid... ...ve of next year s events, shall take in the principal affairs that happen in Europe; and if I be denied the liberty of offering it to my own country, ...

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... Essay on Man by Alexander Pope 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... ...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... ... one disposing pow’r, Or in the natal, or the mortal hour. All nature is but art, unknown to thee; All chance, direction, which thou canst not see; Al... ...nd; Alas what wonder! man’s superior part Uncheck’d may rise, and climb from art to art; But when his own great work is but begun, What reason weaves,... ...’s smiling train, Hate, fear, and grief, the family of pain, These mixt with art, and to due bounds confin’d, Make and maintain the balance of the min... ...ilt and greatness equal ran, And all that rais’d the hero, sunk the man: Now Europe’s laurels on their brows behold, But stain’d with blood, or ill ex...

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...Excerpt: After a voyage, during which the captain of the ship 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....

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... Cornhill to Grand Cairo by William Makepeace Thackeray is a publica- tion 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... ...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... ...u command (and whose fleet alone makes them a third-rate maritime power in Europe) should appoint a few admirals in their navy, I hope to hear that yo... ...ous, all the world over; and that there is scarcely a capital city in this Europe but has its pomp- ous bronze statue or two of some periwigged, hook-... ... Roch, to see a famous piece of mosaic-work there. It is a famous work of art, and was bought by I don’t know what king for I don’t know how much mon... ... period a building mania seems to have seized upon many of the monarchs of Europe, and innumerable public edifices were erected. It seems to me to hav... ...urt allegories were represented, which, atrocious as they were in point of art, might yet serve to attract the re- gard of the moraliser. There were F... ... the Duke of Wellington, done in a very characteristic style of Portuguese art. There is also a chapel, which has been decorated with much care and s...

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...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 spasmodic bid for fame, had apparently relapsed into obscurity and mediocrit...

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...nry James A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Madonna of the Future by Henry James is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Uni... ...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... ...ent or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Madonna of the Future by Henry James, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic... ...hem, in his cap and gown, had a taste in the matter! That was the prime of art, sir. The sun stood high in heaven, and his broad and equal blaze made ... ... man is a sordid New Yorker.” “New Yorkers have been munificent patrons of art!” he answered, urbanely. For a moment I was alarmed. Was this midnight ... ...-respectful head-shake to his American origin. “We are the disinherited of Art!” he cried. “We are con- demned to be superficial! We are excluded from... ...fec- tion. An American, to excel, has just ten times as much to learn as a European. We lack the deeper sense. We have neither taste, nor tact, nor po... ...ver. The very heat of his devotion was a sign of conversion; those born to European opportunity manage better to reconcile enthusiasm with comfort. He... ...ccess. They are especially admired by Americans. I have sent them all over Europe—to London, Paris, Vienna! You may have observed some little specimen...

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...s by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley 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... ...tor, Hazleton, PA 18202- 1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...me and fame, mentioned so often for the last sixteen years by the press of Europe, has at last penetrated to the valley of the Eastern Pyrenees, where... ...e character dance and pantomime. If the two others had not revealed in the art of dancing a poetry hitherto unperceived, she would have been the leadi... ...d glory of her husband. Vital loves artists, not that he has any taste for art, but from fellowship; for he feels himself an art- ist, and makes this ... ... asked the manu- facturer, intending to compete in liveliness with the two art- ists. “T o you, monsieur, who come from the country, it will be only t... ...gainst the toilers of the continent by force of misery, as Napoleon fought Europe by force of regiments.” “Here we are, at my friend the usurer’s,” sa... ...ist.” “Well! we are coming along, we are advancing! In five years from now Europe will be with us. Switzerland and Italy are fermenting finely; and wh...

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Excerpt: Sartor Resartus. The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdrockh.

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...SARTOR RESARTUS: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdrockh By Thomas Carlyle A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SE... ...TRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION Sartor Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdrockh by Thomas Carlyle is a publication of the Pennsylvani... ...ty. This Portable Document file is furnished free and with- out any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ... every direction, so that not the smallest cranny or dog-hole in Nature or Art can remain unilluminated,—it might strike the reflective mind with some... ...nd Senates, and creating a whole new Democratic world: he had invented the Art of Print- ing. The first ground handful of Nitre, Sulphur, and Char- co... ...nd more purely scientific and historic, when he reaches the Middle Ages in Europe, and down to the end of the Seventeenth Century; the true era of ext... ... in some seven years, has become obsolete, and were now a foreigner to his Europe. Thus is the Law of Progress secured; and in Clothes, as in all othe... ...eate protuberance enough. Thus do the two sexes vie with each other in the art of Decoration; and as usual the stronger carries it.” Our Professor, wh... ...s ascertain its significance. A dangerous, difficult temper for the modern European; above all, disadvantageous in the hero of a Biography! Now as her...

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...rrasine by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Clara Bell and others 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... ...or, Hazleton, PA 18202-1291 is a Portable Docu- ment File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...ly an old man. Some young men, who were accustomed to decide the future of Europe every morning in a few fashionable phrases, chose to see in the stra... ...nificently framed painting. We stood for a moment gazing at that marvel of art, which seemed the work of some supernatural brush. The picture represen... ...the Marquis de Marigny, Madame de Pompadour’s brother, who did so much for art. Diderot praised Bouchardon’s pupil’s statue as a masterpiece. Not with... ...Sarrasine was Bouchardon’s guest for six years. Fanatically devoted to his art, as Canova was at a later day, he rose at dawn and went to the studio, ... ...f Louis XV.’s time contributed somewhat, I fancy, to the demoralization of Europe and the clergy.” “Somewhat!” exclaimed the marchioness. “Have you re...

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...Introduction: This dialogue begins abruptly with a question of Meno, who asks, ?whether virtue can be taught.? Socrates replies that he does not as yet know what virtue is, and has never known anyone who did. ?Then he cannot have met Gorgias when he was at Athens.? Yes, Socrates had m...

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...Contents. I. The birth of the Prince and the Pauper. II. Tom?s early life. III. Tom?s meeting with the Prince. IV. The Prince?s troubles begin. V. Tom as a patrician. VI. Tom receives instructions. VII. Tom?s first royal dinner. VIII. The question ...

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...Excerpt: Chapter 1. Of Diaries and Diarists Touching The Heroine. Among the diaries beginning with the second quarter of our century, there is frequent mention of a lady then becoming famous for her beauty and her wit: ?an unusual combination,? ...

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...George Meredith A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Diana of the Crossways by George Meredith 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... ... document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Diana of the Crossways by George Meredith, the Pennsylvania State University, Ele... ...ation has acknowledged that it is as yet but in the fisticuff stage of the art of condensing our purest sense to golden sentences, a readier appreciat... ...mities.’ The writer was created for popularity, had he chosen to bring his art into our literary market. Perry Wilkinson is not so elaborate: he descr... ...e, and we can copy from him. Then, ah! then, moreover, will the novelist’s Art, now nei- ther blushless infant nor executive man, have attained its ma... ... days. ‘You are to know, dear Emmy, that we English are the aristocracy of Europeans.’ Lady Dunstane inclined to think we were; nevertheless, in the m... ...of being born to command: in fine, an aristocrat among the ‘aristocracy of Europeans.’ His differences of opinion were prefaced by a ‘Pardon me,’ and ... ... and beats her; strikes that woman! He drags her about to every Capital in Europe to make money for him, and the scoundrel pays her with blows.’ In th...

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...Introduction: Much has been written about the chronology of Alexandrian literature and the famous Library, founded by Ptolemy Soter, but the dates of the chief writers are still matters of conjecture. The birth of Apollonius Rhodius is placed by scholars at various times between 29...

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...Excerpt: Chapter 1. A narrow grave-yard in the heart of a bustling, indifferent city, seen from the windows of a gloomylooking inn, is at no time an object of enlivening suggestion; and the spectacle is not at its best when the mouldy tombstones and funereal umbrage have receiv...

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...ns by Henry James A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The Europeans by Henry James is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univers... ...CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The Europeans by Henry James is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Por- table Document file is furn... ...ty. This Por- table Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...he document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Europeans by Henry James, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Cla... ...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... ...ia State University is an equal opportunity university. 3 Henry James The Europeans by Henry James CHAPTER I A narrow grave-yard in the heart of a b... ...his umbrella. “Why should I come to see you?” he asked. “I know nothing of Art.” “It would sound very conceited, I suppose,” said Felix, “if I were to... ... and I should have no answer to that. I suppose a minister has no need for Art, eh?” “He has need for good temper, sir,” said Mr. Brand, with decision... ... I splash my red paint! I beg a thousand pardons! You see what bad manners Art gives a man; and how right you are to let it alone. I did n’t mean you ...

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...Excerpt: All elections begin with a bustle before beginning to describe an election in the provinces, it is proper to state that the town of Arcis-sur-Aube was not the theatre of the events here related. The arrondissement of Arcis votes at Bar-sur-Aube, which is forty miles from Arcis; consequently there is no deputy from Arcis in the Chamber....

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