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...glish, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cover Design: Jim Manis Copyright © 2004 The Pennsylvania State University The Pe... ... a blind man should have reached such a place alone, and what could be his design in coming. He then went up to him and inquired who he was, and how h... ...riends of Peisistratus, could hardly have failed to notice, even with out design, had they then, for the first time, undertaken the task of piecing t... ...e 21 Pope sented itself, and the Achilleis grew under his hand. Unity of design, however, caused him to publish the poem under the same pseudonyme a... ...ition.” Having thus given a brief account of the poems comprised in Pope’s design, I will now proceed to make a few remarks on his translation, and on... ...ew to the plow, unpractised in the trace.” Unknowing of the course to Pyle design’d, A sudden horror seized on either mind; The prince in rural bower ... ...re dreadful than your boding soul divines; But pitying Jove avert the dire designs! The darling object of your royal care Is marked to perish in a dea... ...oly silence broke: “Some other motive, goddess! sways thy mind (Some close design, or turn of womankind), Nor my return the end, nor this the way, On ... ... 91 Pope Glide through the shades, and bind the attesting gods! No form’d design, no meditated end, Lurks in the counsel of thy faithful friend; Kind...

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...glish, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cover Design: Jim Manis Copyright © 2004 The Pennsylvania State University The Pe... ...t, but so wofully shattered that it was impossible to trace the origi nal design from the chaos of remaining fragments. The wa ter, however, continu... ...iend Bunyan—a truthful man, but infected with many fan tastic notions—has designated, in terms plainer than I like to repeat, as the mouth of the inf... ...the sake of the good brig, I stand ready to do my best. And which of these designs do you prefer? Here,”—pointing to a staring, half length fig ure, ... ...her, and reveal the grace and loveliness of a divinity. Imper fect as the design, the attitude, the costume, and especially the face of the image sti... ... irregular and misty outline into distincter grace and beauty. The general design was now obvious to the common eye. It was a female figure, in what a... ...stinct perception either of the process of achieving this object or of the design itself. “I have thrown it all aside now,” he would say. “It was a dr... ...rev erence to say so, in the hues of heaven. But rather such in complete designs of this life will be perfected nowhere. This so frequent abortion o...

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...glish, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cover Design: Jim Manis Copyright © 2004 The Pennsylvania State University The Pe... ... but I ad- vise you not to irritate that yet. Let me see that drawing, the design for the cottages that Frampton nipped in the bud—’ ‘How pretty and c... ...re, before I planned the gardens.’ ‘Mary seems to be a good friend to your designs,’ said the Earl, looking kindly at her. ‘The best!’ said Louis. ‘I ... ...g manners belong to her as a woman of the world who cannot see you without designs on you.’ ‘Of course,’ said Louis, ‘I yield to your expressed wishes... ...at the relations, among whom she had unfortunately been thrown, had formed designs on her for- tune, such as they had every reason to expect; that eve... ...ar, often passing his evenings with his aunt, or bring- ing her to see his designs; dining out whenever he was in- vited, and returning odd uncertain ... ...erous Fitzjocelyn, too—’ As soon as Mrs. Frost understood whom Lady Conway designated as her brother, she drew herself up, and said, coldly , 291 Yo ...

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...glish, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cover Design: Jim Manis Copyright © 2003 The Pennsylvania State University The Pe... ...il. She was a woman who knew how to dress; and she had not spent a week on designing that dress and having it gored, and hemmed, and herring-boned, an... ...e of the Middle-classes,” and that, in all probability, he had “suggested, designed, founded, and endowed all the public institutions in Madras.” Whic... ... Of course you don’t believe it. Y ou would credit anything about Russia’s designs on India, or the recommen- dations of the Currency Commission; but ...

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...glish, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cover Design: Jim Manis Copyright © 2002 The Pennsylvania State University The Pe... ...al colour), superb chargers both; the other three were stout active hacks, designed for the road, or for his domestics, of whom two were to attend him... ... the hamlet could be trusted, had once represented, at least had been once designed to represent, two rampant Bears, the supporters of the family of B... ...ecessary, and when the Scottish architects had not yet acquired the art of designing a domestic residence. The windows were number- less, but very sma... ... ebrii, or drunken, were, to say the least, ebrioli, by which the ancients designed those who were fuddled, or, as your English vernacular and metapho... ...his claymore and the fowling-piece, which he held in his hand, seemed only designed for sport. He had shot in the course of his walk some young wild-d... ...he had just received from his family, he could not but suppose that it was designed to make him feel, in his present situa- tion, the same pressure of... ...e head, not on the hand; on the tyrannical and oppressive Government which designed and directed these premeditated and reiterated insults, not on the... ... Fergus, whose eyes flashed when he was told by Cathleen that her mistress designed to keep her apartment that evening, went himself in quest of her; ...

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...glish, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cover Design: Jim Manis Copyright © 2004 The Pennsylvania State University The Pe... ...” he said with an unlighted cigarette in his hand—his mind troubled with a design of the furtive administration of chlo- ral. “Only cold mutton, you k... ...And with all that mighty activity, with an omnipresent sense of motive and design, this snow-clad desolation of mecha- nism seemed void of all human p... ... got—a dose, he learnt, invariably administered to those about to fly, and designed to counteract the possible effect of di- minished air pressure upo... ... He dis- cerned that this damask substance was patterned with grace- fully designed trade advertisements. In a sort of recess before each diner was a ...

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...iety applauded Christine Nilsson at the Academy of Music and basked in the sunsets of the Hudson River School on the walls of the National Academy of Design, an inconspicuous shop with a single show window was intimately and favourably known to the feminine population of the quarter bordering on Stuyvesant Square....

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...English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cover Design: Jim Manis Copyright © 1999 The Pennsylvania State University The... ... could not pierce. I thought it the most prudent method to lie still, and my design was to continue so till night, when, my left hand being already lo... ...e inhabitants or their houses. The people had notice, by proclamation, of my design to visit the town. The wall which encompassed it is two feet and a... ...ar manners and customs, with other matters very curious and useful; my chief design at present being only to relate such events and transactions as ha... ...onfounded with astonishment. They had seen me cut the cables, and thought my design was only to let the ships run adrift or fall foul on each other: b... ...sole monarch of the whole world. But I endeav oured to divert him from this design, by many argu ments drawn from the topics of policy as well as ju... ... handicrafts, are managed pro portionably after the same manner; only those designed for trades are put out apprentices at eleven years old, whereas ... ...Gulliver’ s Travels – Swift 54 CHAPTER VII The author, being informed of a design to accuse him of high treason, makes his escape to Blefuscu. His ... ...fferer more innocent. Yet, as to myself, I must con fess, having never been designed for a courtier, either by my birth or education, I was so ill a ...

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...glish, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cover Design: Jim Manis Copyright © 2003 The Pennsylvania State University The Pe... ...pected you, and you are welcome!” The young Count—as perhaps we had better designate him in his ancestral tower—vanished from the battlements; and 6 ... ...brilliant when first executed, and perhaps for generations afterwards. The designs were of a festive and joyous character, repre- senting Arcadian sce... ...quite van- ished out of them all. It was often difficult to puzzle out the design; and even where it was more readily intelligible, the figures showed... ...n Donatello’s characteristics. “You startle me, my friend, by so ascetic a design! It would hardly have entered your head, when we first met. Pray do ... ...al link of an allegory, by which (as is of- ten the case in such pictorial designs) the whole series of frescos were bound together, but which it woul... ...n- sels of Providence and kindly helping out its otherwise im- practicable designs. And now the broad valley twinkled with lights, that glim- mered th... ...by the artist thought to improve or hasten the result, interfered with the design of his unseen spiritual assistant, and spoilt the whole. There was s... ... take one inevitable shape; then comes in the unexpected, and shatters our design in fragments. The travellers set forth on horseback, and purposed to...

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...glish, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cover Design: Jim Manis Copyright © 2004 The Pennsylvania State University The Pe... ................................................ 119 ON A FAN OF THE AUTHOR’S DESIGN, IN WHICH WAS PAINTED THE STORY OF CEPHALUS AND PROCRIS, WITH THE MO... ...ne of an ill judgment; but such a critic’s is to put them out of humour,—a design he could never go upon with- out both that and an ill temper. I thin... ...re seems necessary to give some account of this kind of poem; and it is my design to comprise in this short paper the substance of those nu- merous di... ... is discovered. This may be made to ap- pear rather done by chance than on design, and sometimes is best shown by inference; lest by too much study to... ...f, and that it be differ- ent in every eclogue. Besides, in each of them a designed scene or prospect is to be presented to our view, which should lik... ...their gifts are all bestow’d again. For you the swains the fairest flowers design, And in one garland all their beauties join; Accept the wreath which... ...aro in his boundless mind, 130 A work t’ outlast immortal Rome design’d, Perhaps he seem’d above the critic’s law, And but from Nature’s f... ... and Homer were, he found, the same. Convinced, amazed, he checks the bold design, And rules as strict his labour’d work confine, As if the Stagyrite ...

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...ed as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to m... ...warmly as high as to my knees, and play with cocoa-nut husks as our more homely ocean plays with wreck and wrack and bottles. As the reflux drew down,... ...sect, a company of artists, its members all under oath to spread unchastity, and all forbid- den to leave offspring—I do not know how it may appear to... ...ure of the system— that it should be regarded from without with such a mental and implicit awe, and, when examined from within, should present so many... ...but what a power it places in the hands of the instructors, and how languidly and dully is that power employed by the mission! Too much concern to mak... ...and a second that, for some mysterious reason, has never been used. The new church is of stone, with twin towers, walls flangeing into buttresses, and... ...onnes femmes?’ asked the Resident; and the jailer cheerfully responded: ‘Je crois, Monsieur le Resident, qu’elles sont allees quelquepart faire une vi... ...r another tainted with a cannibal element, and one after another has placed them on the proscript list. Their art of tattooing stood by itself, the ex... ...le fled and vanished in the woods. They were never identi- fied; no prosecution followed; but it was currently sup- posed they had some grudge against...

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...glish, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cover Design: Jim Manis Copyright © 2001 The Pennsylvania State University The Pe... ... must know that I am thinking of his marry- ing one of them.” “Is that his design in settling here?” “Design! Nonsense, how can you talk so! But it is... ...ough—one meets with it everywhere. But to be candid without ostentation or design— to take the good of everybody’s character and make it still better,... ...I should adopt it. But these are not Jane’s feelings; she is not acting by design. As yet, she cannot even be certain of the degree of her own regard ... ...nd pray let her know that I am quite in raptures with her beautiful little design for a table, and I think it infi- nitely superior to Miss Grantley’s... ...n an expostulation with her brother for talking such nonsense. “I see your design, Bingley,” said his friend. “You dislike an argument, and want to si... ...y’s carriage immediately, and at length it was settled that their original design of leaving Netherfield that morning should be men- tioned, and the r... ...sons for marrying— and, moreover, for com- ing into Hertfordshire with the design of selecting a wife, as I certainly did.” The idea of Mr. Collins, w... ...viction that if they saw him depart, they could not fail to conjecture his design, and he was not willing to have the attempt known till its success m...

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...glish, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cover Design: Jim Manis Copyright © 2001 The Pennsylvania State University The Pe... ...t he seemed rather to stand in need of more money himself than to have any design of giving money away. In a very few weeks from the day which brought... ...to the objects around him; and on Mrs. Dashwood’s happening to mention her design of improving the cottage in the spring, he warmly opposed ev- ery al... ...like himself, greatly disturbed her. One moment she feared that no serious design had ever been formed on his side; and the next that some unfortunate... ...f independence, and his better knowledge of Mrs. Ferrars’s disposition and designs. The shortness of his visit, the steadiness of his purpose in leavi... ...attack, though almost hopeless of success, she forced herself to begin her design by saying, as calmly as she could, “I like Edward Ferrars very much,... ...n sporting with the affections of her sis- ter from the first, without any design that would bear inves- tigation. Absence might have weakened his reg... ...im him. But now, after such dishonorable usage, who can tell what were his designs on her. Whatever they may have been, however, she may now, and here... ..., the misery of that poor girl, and the doubt of what his 167 Jane Austen designs might once have been on herself, preyed altogether so much on her s...

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...glish, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cover Design: Jim Manis Copyright © 2004 The Pennsylvania State University The Pe... ...ed by a direct effort. But circumstances prevented him from perfecting the design which had been before his mind for seven years, and upon the shaping... ...great beauty and an heiress, whom likewise the eldest son of the house had designed to make his wife. And these broth ers, cruel men, caught their in... ...sed. “You have not sought access to his house,” he observed. “Y ou have no designs, it seems, no settled designs at all events, against his Lordship,—... ... present. We have met again; our adventures have shown that Providence has designed a relation in my fate to yours. Elsie, are you lonely as I am?” “N... ...his fantastic humor of indifference, and emerged from his chamber with the design of finding his way about the lower part of the house. The mansion ha... ... delightful intri cacy which can never be contrived; never be attained by design; but is the happy result of where many builders, many designs,—many ... ...many ages, perhaps,—have concurred in a struc ture, each pursuing his own design. Thus it was a house that you could go astray in, as in a city, and ... ...nt wish to make him happy, combined with his own subtile suspicion of some design with which he had been invited here, or which had grown up since he ...