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The Treason and Death of Benedict Arnold; A Play for a Greek Theatre

By: John Jay Chapman

...erious than any since the Duke Brought back King Charles. Two true- born Englishmen, If you'll accept my hand, shall this day place I A jewel in... ... obeys the signal; he [ 43 I OF BENEDICT ARNOLD stands in the prow; the rowers smite the water. With fury they row, for he com- mands them; with ... ...ive up the scene, give up, ye sordid - rocks, The last of Arnold in his English home, Which in your bosom lives for evermore, A deathless picture... ...m lives for evermore, A deathless picture; England cast it out Not being English, and it shivered on, Coiling about the world, till it was caught ... ...not repel a foreigner, - TREASON AND DEATH One they had cause to envy? English- men Are very unforgiving of defeat. It is your glory, the imped... ... impediment: So gluttonous are soldiers of reward - So sporting-keen are Englishmen for fame. Arnold. It may be so. Mrs. Arnold. Your temperament...

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Heroes of Unknown Seas and Savage Lands

By: J. W. Buel

...50 B.C. -- The monstrous ship built by Ptolemy IV, which was propelled by 4000 rowers -- The magnificent and colossal Thalamegus -- The giant fleet wh... ...England and France give license to prey on Spanish commerce -- A defeat of the English -- Capture of colonists -- They are freed and re-establish them... ...blish themselves -- Formation of a communistic settlement -- Occupation by the English and French of many islands -- A fort built at Tortuga -- Captur... ...by Spaniards and massacre of the people -- A few survivors turn freebooters -- English and French sailors and Colonists become pirates against Spanish... ...-- Cromwell's defeat of Charles I -- The effect on the naval war with Spain -- English are driven from their designs on Hayti -- Poisoned thorns in th... ...o official rogues -- The citizens hire filibusters to guard their homes -- The English outwitted by the French -- The French return and plunder the ci... ...ich Islanders surf-bathing......................................... 495 Masked rowers of Sandwich Islands....................................... 496 B... ...highest point of poop-deck, 72 feet. This immense vessel was propelled by 4000 rowers, besides which she had a crew of 3000 marines, and a great numbe... ...ng, which swung upon pivots with equal facility. To afford space for the 2000 rowers on each side, the ship's decks were terraced into five banks, so...

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Sappho's Journal

By: Paul Alexander Bartlett

...tion and an acuteness in the delineation of character.” FORD MADOX FORD, English novelist, about Bartlett: “...a writer of very considerable merit.... ...asked myself? Why were the women in a knot at the corner? Why hadn’t fast rowers raced to tell us? Had the fog tricked the fleet? Changing my clothe... ... The blue of the Aegean is reflected in the faces of the 50 rowers of the trireme as they chant and pull; the blue is reflected on ... ...e first official copies of the Declaration of Independence. In the 1730s, Englishman William Caslon refined Garamond’s version of Aldine roman, the ...

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Voices from the Past

By: Paul Alexander Bartlett

...tion and an acuteness in the delineation of character.” FORD MADOX FORD, English novelist, about Bartlett: “...a writer of very considerable merit.... ...asked myself? Why were the women in a knot at the corner? Why hadn’t fast rowers raced to tell us? Had the fog tricked the fleet? Changing my clothe... ... The blue of the Aegean is reflected in the faces of the 50 rowers of the trireme as they chant and pull; the blue is reflected on ... ...the courtesy of the translator, Dr. Ray Rummers, Chairman, Department of English, Baylor University. LEONARDO DA VINCI... ...ours in his cabin where I gave up to his booked walls: volumes in French, English, Italian, Greek, manuscripts in Latin and Hebrew, his literary wor... ...S FROM THE PAST 418 settlements and these may present hazards to any English force. A Spaniard, a Captain Berrio, is entrenched there, along th... ... each generation, across fog hills, across sunny hills, Ital- ian, French, English, Scot. Escape with me: Now at the prow, now in the waist, th...

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Essays

By: Michel Eyquem de Montaigne

...ing foster-father, having transported it from France to England; put it in English clothes; taught it to talke our tongue (though many-times with a j... ...e your other servants: it may not onely serve you two, to repeate in true English what you reade in fine French, but many thousands more, to tell th... ...aigne's Essays norable, Lucie Countesse of Bedford. Relucent lustre of our English Dames, In one comprising all most priz'de of all, Whom Ve... ...I have done Montaigne as Terence by Menander, made of good French no good English. If I have done no worse, and it be no worse taken, it is well. As... ... it was but a French wit ferdillant, legier, and extravagant. Now say you English wits by the staydest censure of as learned a wit as http://www.uor... ..., and never required; ever holding my back toward ambition; but if not as rowers, who goe forward as it were backeward: Yet so, as I am lesse beholdi...

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Christ in Flanders

By: Honoré de Balzac

...ing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cove... ...arated from the passengers in the forward part of the boat by the bench of rowers. The belated traveler glanced about him as he stepped on board, saw ... ...t empty wal- let, on a great coil of rope that lay in the prow. One of the rowers, an old sailor, who had known her in the days of her beauty and pros... ...s by watching the brawny arms, the tanned faces, and sparkling eyes of the rowers, the play of the tense muscles, the physical and mental forces that ... ...bring them for a trifling toll across the channel. So far from pitying the rowers’ distress, they pointed out the men’s faces to each other, and laugh...

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The Phantom Rickshaw and Other Ghost Stories

By: Rudyard Kipling

...g student publication project to bring classi- cal works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cove... ...oubled, and at the end of twenty he knows, or knows something about, every Englishman in the Empire, and may travel anywhere and everywhere without pa... ...ons as to the manner of my death. Shall I die in my bed decently and as an English gentle- man should die; or, in one last walk on the Mall, will my ... ... No native ghost has yet been authentically reported to have frightened an Englishman; but many English ghosts have scared the life out of both white ... ...sition—with the old khansamah babbling behind my chair about dead and gone English people, and the wind-blown candles playing shadow-bo-peep with the ... ...the ship rolls. When the overseer misses the rope once and falls among the rowers, remember the hero laughs at him and gets licked for it. He’s chaine... ...that all the oars in the ship that I was talking about get broken, and the rowers have their chests smashed in by the bucking oar- heads. By the way, ... ...e fought. The men were trampling all over my back, and I lay low. Then our rowers on the left side—tied to their oars, you know—began to yell and back... ...houghts were out on the sea with Longfellow. “Charlie,” I asked, “when the rowers on the galleys muti- nied how did they kill their overseers?” “Tore ...

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Pictures from Italy

By: Charles Dickens

... themes I have now in my mind, without inter ruption: and while I keep my English audience within speak ing distance, extend my knowledge of a noble... ...h the first chapter of a Middle Aged novel is usually attained—but when an English travelling carriage of considerable proportions, fresh from the sha... ... Meurice in the Rue Rivoli at Paris. I am no more bound to explain why the English family travelling by this carriage, inside and out, should be start... ..., now and then, in such ramshackle, rusty, musty, clattering coaches as no Englishman would believe in; and bony women dawdle about in solitary places... ... In a sort of summer house, or whatever it may be, in this colonnade, some Englishmen had been living, like grubs in a nut; but the Jesuits had given ... ...on the water, like a raft—which we were gliding past. The chief of the two rowers said it was a burial place. Full of the interest and wonder which a ... ...odious cry of warning, sent it skimming on without a pause. Sometimes, the rowers of another black boat like our own, echoed the cry, and slackening t... ...hat opened straight upon the water. Some of these were empty; in some, the rowers lay asleep; towards one, I saw some figures coming down a gloomy arc...

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The Wreck of the Golden Mar Mary

By: Charles Dickens

...ing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cove... ...r. There was an awful silence in our boat, and such a kind of palsy on the rowers and the man at the rudder, that I felt they were scarcely keep ing ...

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Ballads

By: Robert Louis Stevenson

...Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature,... ... mode, In every tongue and meaning much my friend, This story of your country and your clan, In your loved house, your too much honoured guest, I made... ...r, Lay in the offing by south where the towns of the Tevas are, * “Let the pigs be tapu.” It is impos- sible to explain tapu in a note; we have it as... ...e canoe to the gunwale with all that is toothsome to eat; And all day long on the sea the jaws are crushing the meat, The steersman eats at the helm, ...

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The Lady of the Lake

By: William J. Rolfe

...ing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cove... ... Lockhart’s first edition, the “ Globe “ edition, and about a dozen others English and American. I found many misprints and corrup- tions in all excep... ...the sounding harp, O white-haired Allan-bane! II. Song. ‘Not faster yonder rowers’ might Flings from their oars the spray, Not faster yonder rippli... ... with silver spread, And winked aside, and told each son Of feats upon the English done, Ere Douglas of the stalwart hand Was exiled from his native l... ... maiden’s hold Forced bluntly back the proffered gold:— ‘Forgive a haughty English heart, And O, forget its ruder part! The vacant purse shall be my s... ... laid in the Highlands, were now sunk in the generous compassion which the English, more than any other nation, feel for the misfortunes of an honoura... ...e is lengthened and doubled, as it were, and those which were timed to the rowers of an ordinary boat” (Scott). 410. Beltane. See on 319 above. 415. R...

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The Prince and the Page

By: Charlotte Mary Yonge

...ing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cove... ...e authorities quoted by Sismondi, assisted in picturing the arrival of the English after the death of St. Louis, and the murder of Henry of Almayne is... ... bending of his head, he said in the soft Provencal—far more familiar than English to Adam’s ears— ”Hast room for another suppliant, mi Dona?” The swe... ...h a judge!” Then turning to the prisoners, she began to say in her foreign English, “Follow the good father, friends—” when she broke off at fuller si... ... difficulties in compre- hending her various petitioners. The priest being English, was hardly more easily understood than his flock; and her lady spo... ...,” interposed an elderly man of lower rank, who was in charge of the stout rowers in the royal colours of red and gold. “Young gentlemen, the Mass mus...

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Notes on a Journey from Cornhill to Grand Cairo

By: William Makepeace Thackeray

...ing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cove... ...rounded by a host of mendicants, screaming, “I say, sir! penny, sir!I say, English! tam your ays! penny!” in all voices, from extreme youth to the mos... ...mythological pieces relative to the kings before alluded to, and where the English visitor will see some astonishing pictures of the Duke of Wellingto... ...or are there any corks to the bulls’ horns here, as at Lisbon. A small old English guide who seized upon me the moment my foot was on shore, had a sto... ... famous Murillos has been turned into an academy of the fine arts; but the English guide did not think the pictures were of sufficient interest to det... ...en in beards and tarbooshes, passed continually among these old hulks, the rowers bending to their oars, so that at each stroke they dis- appeared bod...

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One of Our Conquerors

By: George Meredith

...with applause of the boys and girls of both ages in this land; and all the English critics heap their honours on its brave old Simplicity: our nationa... ...was pencilling upon letters perused. ‘Skepsey’s craze: regeneration of the English race by box- ing—nucleus of a national army?’ ‘To face an enemy at ... ...t be a privilege to dine with him—to know him. I know what he has done for English Commerce, and to build a colossal fortune: genius, as I said: and h... ...it in such a way, then Mr. Durance must be right when he called the social English the most sheepy of sheep:— and Nesta could not consent to the cruel... ...c severity in ethics is easily overlooked by the enthusiast for things old English. She was consciously ahead of them in the knowledge that her father... ... will occasionally condescend to taste, like some tribe in Greece; boxers, rowers, runners, climbers; braced, indomitable; mag- nanimous, as only the ...

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The Argonautica

By: Apollonius Rhodius

...ing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them, and ... ...But Heracles by the might of his The Argonautica 39 arms pulled the weary rowers along all together, and made the strong knit timbers of the ship to ... ... the end of the dove’s tail feathers; but away she flew unscathed. And the rowers gave a loud cry; and Tiphys himself called to them to row with might... ...d they with a shout smote the water. And as far as the ship yielded to the rowers, twice as far did she leap back, and the oar, were bent like curved ...

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Aaron's Rod

By: D. H. Lawrence

...g student publication project to bring classical works of litera- ture, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cove... ...are in England. We hear continual complaints of the stodgy dullness of the English. It would be quite as just to complain of their freakish, unusual c... ... Bricknell, the old man, was one of the partners in the Colliery firm. His English was incorrect, his accent, broad Derbyshire, and he was not a gentl... ...od at the round table pouring out red wine. He was a fresh, stoutish young Englishman in khaki, Julia’s husband, Robert Cunningham, a lieutenant about... ... dangerous impassivity of the Bohemian, Pari- sian or American rather than English. “Cigarette, Julia?” said Robert to his wife. She seemed to start o... ...o the naked elbow struck smartly against the stake as the boat passed. The rowers rowed on. And still the flesh-and-blood Aaron sat with his arm over ... ...earing. “Will he heed, will he heed?” thought the anxious second self. The rowers gave the strange warning cry. He did not heed, and again the elbow s... ...he next stake. But still the flesh-and- blood Aaron sat on, and though the rowers cried so acutely that the invisible Aaron almost understood their ve...

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Typee a Romance of the South Seas

By: Herman Melville

...ing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cove... ...tor, was then in charge of the school, and remembers the lad’s deftness in English composition, and his struggles with mathematics. The following year... ...the Continent, and the Holy Land, partly to superintend the publication of English editions of his works, and partly for recreation. A pronounced feat... ...ness for discussing such matters is pointed out by Hawthorne also, in the ‘English Note Books.’ This habit in- creased as he advanced in years, if pos... ...th them alone; for, in spite of the melodramatic declarations of vari- ous English gentlemen, Melville’s seclusion in his latter years, and in fact th... ...and I soon reached the Kanaka, who had anxiously watched my movements; the rowers pulled in as near as they dared to the edge of the surf; I gave one ... ...ant I found myself safe in the boat, and Karakoee by my side, who told the rowers at once to give way. Marheyo and Kory-Kory, and a great many of the ... ...reached the headland, the savages were spread right across our course. Our rowers got out their knives and held them ready between their teeth, and I ... ...he savages reached the boat. He seized the gunwhale, but the knives of our rowers so mauled his wrists, that he was forced to quit his hold, and the n...

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The Second Jungle Book

By: Rudyard Kipling

...ing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cove... ... that if any one wished to get on in the world he must stand well with the English, and imitate all that the English believed to be good. At the same ... ...ficult game, but the quiet, close- mouthed young Brahmin, helped by a good English educa- tion at a Bombay University, played it coolly, and rose, ste... ...than his master the Maharajah. When the old king—who was suspicious of the English, their railways and telegraphs—died, Purun Dass stood high with his... ...and the Government of India were delighted. Very few native States take up English progress altogether, for they will not believe, as Purun Dass showe... ...skin “woman-boats,” when the dogs and the babies lay among the feet of the rowers, and the women sang songs as they glided from cape to cape over 101...

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Ten Years Later

By: Alexandre Dumas

...ectronic Classics Series, Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student public... ...e also fancied he heard the melancholy moaning of the water which falls back again into the wells — a sad, funereal, solemn sound, which strikes the e... ... that which I am doing. I express myself badly, or perhaps, as monsieur is a foreigner, which I perceive by his accent —” In fact, the unknown spoke w... ... king), “and there are a thousand causes that might yet make your marriage fail, — well, would you approve of England’s sending to the United Province... ...eriously both his own affairs and those of Europe, for he found them very difficult and very obscure. Louis found the king of En- gland seated in the ... ...ts of mossy grass, there glided majestically a long, flat bark adorned with the arms of England, surmounted by a dais, and carpeted with long damasked... ...arer to her, and had presented his. Then Rochester, with an ill-dissembled pride, which pierced the heart of the un- happy Buckingham through and thro... ...is rate, we shall only take one hour instead of two.” “To go how far, do you say, Porthos?” “Four leagues and a half.” “That will be a good pace.” “I ... ...ked you on the canal, but the devil take rowers and boat-horses! The first are like tortoises; the second like snails; and when a man is able to put a...

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Albert Savarus

By: Honoré de Balzac

...ing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cove... ...for the Chorus of Esther or of Athalie. Hoops, intro- duced at Paris by an Englishwoman, were invented in Lon- don, it is known why, by a Frenchwoman,... ...ious Duchess of Portsmouth. They were at first so jeered at that the first Englishwoman who appeared in them at the T uileries narrowly escaped being ... ...r half a century. At the peace of 1815, for a year, the long waists of the English were a standing jest; all Paris went to see Pothier and Brunet in L... ...ept, his beard trimmed, the smallest details of his dress attended to with English precision. Hence Amedee de Soulas was looked upon as the finest man... ... sung. When the singing ceased, Rodolphe landed and sent away the boat and rowers. At the cost of wetting his feet, he went to sit down under the wate...

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