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...iiXfl* 56fforoj VOL. XXI WILLIAMSTOWN, MASS., MONDAY, MARCH 18, 1907 NO. 1 THE HATCHET BURIED Conclusion of Hostilities Be- tween the Classes of 1909 ... ...AMSTOWN, MASS., MONDAY, MARCH 18, 1907 NO. 1 THE HATCHET BURIED Conclusion of Hostilities Be- tween the Classes of 1909 and 1910 End of the March J7th... ...ED Conclusion of Hostilities Be- tween the Classes of 1909 and 1910 End of the March J7th Celebration —The Shirt-Tail Parade- Speeches of the Four Ora... ...nd 1910 End of the March J7th Celebration —The Shirt-Tail Parade- Speeches of the Four Orators on the Old Campus When the four olnsseB joined hands an... ...com- mittee, composed of M. Brown, Bradley, Ford, Soutbworth, War- ren and Wight, and the sophomore and freshmen speakers. Follow- ing the drag was th... .... Hifenberg ex- '08. A tract c(jntaiiiing an extract fron) " I{eligion and Politics," by Algernon S. CrapH(!y, has been placed in .Jeriup Hall for rli... ...ven, Conn. Prof. Kellogg will probably pass July and August at Little Deer Isle, Me. Dr. Kennon intends to devote his time to visits in Baltimore, Md.... ...gain rosumod the prac- tice of law. Since lOOSheMiaa occupied the ohoir of politics rtt Princeton university, vacated liy John Houston Finloy, now jir... ... -A. WOOD. FEBRUARY 27—Thomas Jefferson in " l^i|t Van Winkle '' MARCH 9— "Isle of Spice" WILLIAMS RECORD, MONDAY, MARCH 2, 1908 . P.J. BOLAND&SON Ta...

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Excerpt: The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: Volume One, with Memoir, Critical Dissertation, and Explanatory Notes by the Rev. George Gilfillan.

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...Contents LIFE OF ALEXANDER POPE.................................................................................................................................. 6 PREFACE2......................................................................

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... POPE VOL. I. With Memoir, Critical Dissertation, and Explanatory Notes by THE REV. GEORGE GILFILLAN M.DCCC.L M.DCCC.L M.DCCC.L M.DCCC.L M.DCCC.LVI. V... ....LVI. VI. VI. VI. VI. A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: Volume One, with Memoir, Critical Dis... ...I. A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: Volume One, with Memoir, Critical Dissertation, and Expl... ...ation, and Explanatory Notes by the Rev. George Gilfillan is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...es are neither horse nor ass. Those half-learn’d witlings, numerous in our isle, 40 As half-form’d insects on the banks of Nile; Unfinished... ...r wiser sons, no doubt, will think us so. Once school-divines this zealous isle o’erspread; 440 Who knew most sentences, was deepest read; ... ...peace; Like a cursed cur, Malice before her clatters, And vexing every wight, tears clothes and all to tatters. 5 Her dugs were mark’d by every co... ...lains, whom no faith could fix, 410 Of crooked counsels, and dark politics; Of these a gloomy tribe surround the throne, And beg to make the ... ...alf-froth, half-venom, spits himself abroad, 320 In puns or politics, or tales, or lies, Or spite, or smut, or rhymes, or blasphemies. ...

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Excerpt: The Volsunga Saga translated by William Morris and Eirikr Magnusson (1888).

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.........................................................5 TRANSLATORS? PREFACE.......................................................................23 THE STORY OF THE VOLSUNGS AND NIBLUNGS.............................26 APPENDIX:.................................................................................................132 EXCERPTS FROM THE POETIC EDDA...................

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...The V olsunga Saga with Excerpts from the Poetic Edda Anonymous Old Norse and Icelandic Mythologies T ranslated b... ...Eirikr Magnusson 1888 A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Volsunga Saga trans. William Morris and Eirikr Magnusson (1888) is a pu... ...ga Saga trans. William Morris and Eirikr Magnusson (1888) 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... ...hair or Saint Olaf; the Viking (1) kingdoms in these (the British) Western Isles; the settlement of Iceland, or even of Normandy. The knowledge of all... ...m.” Under many and brave leaders they first of all came round the “Western Isles” (2) toward the end of the eighth century; soon after they invaded No... ...for his own folk, offered sacrifice, performed cer- emonies, and so on. In politics the homestead, with its franklin-owner, was the unit; the “thing”,... ...unes shalt thou deal with If thou wilt be of all men Fairest-souled wight, and wisest, These areded These first cut These first took... ...arbour near the highway, though thou be benighted, for oft abide there ill wights for men’s bewilderment. “Let not fair women beguile thee, such as th...

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.................................. 7 PREFACE BY MRS. SHELLEY TO FIRST COLLECTED EDITION, 1839. ......................... 16 POSTSCRIPT IN SECOND EDITION OF 1839. ........................................................................ 21 PREFACE BY MRS. SHELLEY. TO THE VOLUME OF POSTHUMOUS POEMS PUBLISHED IN 1824...................................................................

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...THE COMPLETE POETICAL WORKS OF PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY VOLUME 1 OXFORD EDITION. INCLUDING MATERIALS NEVER ... ... 1 OXFORD EDITION. INCLUDING MATERIALS NEVER BEFORE PRINTED IN ANY EDITION OF THE POEMS. EDITED WITH TEXTUAL NOTES BY THOMAS HUTCHINSON, M. A. EDITOR ... ...OXFORD EDITION. INCLUDING MATERIALS NEVER BEFORE PRINTED IN ANY EDITION OF THE POEMS. EDITED WITH TEXTUAL NOTES BY THOMAS HUTCHINSON, M. A. EDITOR OF ... ...ORD WORDSWORTH. 1914. A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley, Volume One is a public... ...e unloosed; _365 And fragrant zephyrs there from spicy isles Ruffle the placid ocean-deep, that rolls Its broad, bright surges to ... ...395 Of kindliest human impulses respond: Those lonely realms bright garden-isles begem, With lightsome clouds and shining seas between, And fertile va... ...She saw between the chestnuts, far beneath, An old man toiling up, a weary wight; _155 And soon within her hospitable h... ...se or wall Fencing some lonely court, white with the scrawl Of our unhappy politics;—or worse— A wretched woman reeling by, whose curse Mixed with the... ...re almost all men of com- prehension and enlightened views on religion and politics. (4) THE FREEDMAN OF A WESTERN POET-CHIEF [L. 563]. A Greek who ha...

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...Preface: There are of course peculiar advantages as well as disadvantages in endeavouring to write the life of one recently departed. On the one hand, the remembrances connected with him are far fresher; his contemporaries can he consulted, and...

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...Life of John Coleridge Patteson: Missionary Bishop of the Melanesian Islands By Charlotte Mary Yonge A Penn State Electronic C... ...Life of John Coleridge Patteson: Missionary Bishop of the Melanesian Islands By Charlotte Mary Yonge A Penn State Electronic Clas... ...lotte Mary Yonge A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Life of John Coleridge Patteson: Missionary Bishop of the Melanesian Islands by ... ... Series Publication Life of John Coleridge Patteson: Missionary Bishop of the Melanesian Islands by Charlotte M. Yonge is a publication of the Pennsy... ...ding the few years that passed between his Commissioner-ship in the Ionian Isles and his Commandership in Ireland. He was connected with the Coleridge... ...hooner which was being built at Blackwall for voyages among the Melanesian isles. In expectation of this, Patteson went up to London in the beginning ... ... I think my idea of a cosy home is rather that of a cottage in the Isle of Wight, or, better still, a house near such a Cathedral as Wells, in one of ... ...and a good fellow he is, my head nurse in my illness. ‘I can’t write about politics. Then comes the astounding news of this fearful war. What am I to ...

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