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Excerpt: Virgin Soil by Ivan S. Turgenev, translated by R. S. Townsend.

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.... S. T ownsend A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Virgin Soil by Ivan S. Turgenev, trans. R. S. Townsend is a publication of the Pen... ...document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Virgin Soil by Ivan S. Turgenev, trans. R. S. Townsend, the Pennsylvania State Uni... ...ia State University is an equal opportunity university. 3 Turgenev Virgin Soil by Ivan S. T urgenev T ranslated from the Russian by R. S. Townsend IN... ...enough for it, to interpret mod- ern Russia to the outer world, and Virgin Soil was the last word of his greater testament. It was the book in which m... ...a, both expressed in what M. Haumand terms his “Hamletisme.” But in Virgin Soil he is easy and almost negligent master of his instrument, and though h... ... dom, but cannot achieve it. It is one of a series of portraits, 4 Virgin Soil wonderfully traced psychological studies of the Russian dreamers and i... ...finely revealed .and brought to a rare point of characterisation in Virgin Soil, is the prophetic intention he had of the woman’s part in the new orde... ...895; A Lear of the Steppe, from the French, by W . H. Browne, 1874; Virgin Soil, from the French, by T . S. Perry, 1877, 1883, by A. W . Dilke, 1878; ... ...oyd, T wo Russian Reformers: Ivan T urgenev, Leo T olstoy, 1910. 6 Virgin Soil VIRGIN SOIL “T o turn over virgin soil it is necessary to use a deep p...

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Excerpt: Sons of the Soil by Honore de Balzac, translated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley.

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... Wormeley A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Sons of the Soil by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley is a publicati... ...ent or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Sons of the Soil by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley, the Pennsylva... ...State University is an equal opportunity university. 3 Balzac Sons of the Soil by Honoré de Balzac T ranslated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley Dedicat... ...t indefatigable mole, that ro- dent which undermines and disintegrates the soil, par- cels it out and divides an acre into a hundred fragments,— 4 So... ... cels it out and divides an acre into a hundred fragments,— 4 Sons of the Soil ever spurred on to his banquet by the lower middle classes who make hi... ...g my greatest consolations in misfortune. De Balzac. 5 Balzac SONS OF THE SOIL PART I Whoso land hath, contention hath. CHAPTER I THE CHATEAU Les Aig... ...tracks can be seen along its double width of way. The great 6 Sons of the Soil age of the trees, the breadth of the avenue, the venerable constructio... ...landscape on such free lines covers a great deal of ground. 8 Sons of the Soil Nothing is smoothed off; rakes are unknown, ruts and ditches are full ... ...tears, and all are clearly defined on the dark-blue ether. Above the ruddy soil of the terraces flames that joyous natural punch which intoxicates the...

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...ouls who have made life Fragrant and white as tube roses From earth’s dark soil, Eternal peace! Daniel M’Cumber WHEN I went to the city, Mary McNeely,... ...s. His sister called me his mistress; And Daniel wrote me: “Shameful word, soiling our beautiful love!” But my anger coiled, preparing its fangs. My L... ...s— gravitation. The secret of the earth— layers of rock. The secret of the soil— to receive seed. The secret of the seed— the germ. The secret of man—... ...the seed— the germ. The secret of man— the sower. The secret of woman— the soil. My secret: Under a mound that you shall never find. 63 Edgar Lee Mas... ...eace. And what could I do, all covered over And weighted down with western soil Except aspire, and pray for another Birth in the world, with all of Sp... ...Which fronts the sun and the south-wind, This plant draws from the air and soil Poison and becomes poison ivy? And this plant draws from the same air ... ... Poison and becomes poison ivy? And this plant draws from the same air and soil Sweet elixirs and colors and becomes arbutus? And both flourish? Y ou ... ...es you dock-weed, Jimpson, dandelion or mullen And which can never use any soil or air So as to make you jessamine or wistaria? 98 Spoon River Anthol... ...ace Through a cycle of birth hereafter run. Y ou may know the seed and the soil; Y ou may feel the cold rain fall, But only the earth—sphere, only hea...

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...so sure as ever his breakfast is ended, and so neat his ways that it never soils his linen which is scrupulous though more in quality than quantity, n...

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...ly built fellow of about five and thirty, in a black velveteen coat, very soiled drab breeches, lace up half boots, and grey cotton stockings which i... ...s a history of the lives and trials of great criminals; and the pages were soiled and thumbed with use. Here, he read of dreadful crimes that made the... ...brought into the house with her feet cut and bruised with walking, and all soiled with dust and blood. She gave birth to a boy, and died. Let me think... ... and seemed, by a certain haggardness in his look, as well as by the dusty soils on his dress, to have travelled some distance. He eyed Bumble askance... ...no degree improved by the cadaverous hue of illness, and the addition of a soiled nightcap, and a stiff, black beard of a week’s growth. The dog sat a... ...ved, backward, towards the door: dragging the dog with him, lest he should soil his feet anew and carry out new evidence of the crime into the streets...

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...mber. I have often been asked how I felt when first I found myself on free soil. There is scarcely anything in my experience about which I could not g... ...ons, which I was destined to meet in New Bedford and elsewhere on the free soil of Massachusetts. For instance, though colored children attended the s...

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...position. At length, from years of anxious toil, Bold Robin seeks his native soil; Wisely arranges his affairs, And to his native dale repairs. The Br...

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...ried six feet deep in Paris? How was I to get through the enormous mass of soil above me? Even if I succeeded in slitting the lid of my bier open the ... ...lid as a screen and, thus protected, to open a sort of shaft in the clayey soil. Unfortunately I was assailed by unexpected difficulties. Some heavy c... ...foresaw that I should never reach the surface in that way, for the mass of soil was al ready bending my spine and crushing my face. Once more I stopp...

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... con- demned to be superficial! We are excluded from the magic circle. The soil of American perception is a poor little barren artificial deposit. Yes... ...Nothing is so idle as to talk about 7 Henry James our want of a nutritive soil, of opportunity, of inspira- tion, and all the rest of it. The worthy ... ... to genius panting with inspi- ration. But it can spring now only from the soil of pas- sionate labour and culture. Do you really fancy that while, fr...

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...ol, and wise. Plant of celestial seed! if dropt below , Say , in what mortal soil thou deign’st to grow? Fair op’ning to some court’s propitious shine... ...where grows it not? If vain our toil, We ought to blame the culture, not the soil: Fix’d to no spot is happiness sincere, ’ Tis no where to be found, ... ... may merit, ’tis the price of toil; The knave deserves it, when he tills the soil, The knave deserves it, when he tempts the main, Where folly fights ...

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...ower of the tropics, such as appeared to have sprung passionately out of a soil the very weeds of which would be fervid and spicy. Unlike as was the f... ...t to vegetate among the bricks of an enclosed court, where there is scanty soil and never any sunshine. At present, though with no approach to bloom, ... ...y realized some of Fourier’s predictions. Their enlightened culture of the soil, and the virtues with which they sanctified their life, had be gun to... ...stle’s voice was wont to sound, had fallen an immemorial time ago. But the soil, be ing of the rudest and most broken surface, had apparently never b... ...ures, out of which sprang shrubs, bushes, and even trees; as if the scanty soil within those crevices were sweeter to their roots than any other earth... ...a show of novelty to existence, and contemplated it as hopefully as if the soil be neath our feet had not been fathom deep with the dust of deluded g... ...ant, as well it might, in a situation so warm and sheltered, and where the soil had doubtless been enriched to a more than natural fertility. In two o... ...perious, she had a warm and generous nature; show ing the richness of the soil, however, chiefly by the weeds that flourished in it, and choked up th... ...ays, there is absolutely no rusticity, except when the actual labor of the soil leaves its earth mould on the person. There was likewise a considerabl...

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...ty, and Sonoma County, march across its cliffy shoulders. Its naked peak stands nearly four thousand five hundred feet above the sea; its sides are fr... ...os Vougeot and Lafite. Those lodes and pockets of earth, more precious than the precious ores, that yield inimitable fragrance and soft fire; those vi... ... but took at once to the rough foot-hills, where alone it can expect to pros- per. A basking inclination, and stones, to be a reservoir of the day’s h... ...nger gust would carry clear of the canyon and scat- ter in the subjacent woods. Even moisture and decaying vegetable matter could not, with all nature... ...ew, From Indies borrowing gold, from Eastern skies Most bright cinoper …” Yet this is but half the picture; our Silverado plat- form has another side ... ...ee collect the ingredients of its perfume. But 77 there they all grew together, healthy, happy, and happy- making, as though r...

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...y assignable to the deep and aged roots which my family has stuck into the soil. It is now nearly two centuries and a quar ter since the original Bri... ...have been born and died, and have mingled their earthly substance with the soil, until no small portion of it must necessarily be akin to the mortal f... ... the streets, get covered half way to the eaves by the accumulation of new soil. From father to son, for above a hundred years, they followed the sea;... ...and re planted, for too long a series of generations, in the same worn out soil. My children have had other birth places, and, so far as their fortune... ...ey go, into a regular history of Salem, should my veneration for the natal soil ever impel me to so pious a task. Meanwhile, they shall be at the comm... ...ng their earliest practical necessi ties to allot a portion of the virgin soil as a cemetery, and another portion as the site of a prison. In accorda... ...uch unsightly vegetation, which evidently found something congenial in the soil that had so early borne the black flower of civilised society, a priso... ... it. Her sin, her igno miny, were the roots which she had struck into the soil. It 64 The Scarlet Letter was as if a new birth, with stronger assimi... ...ttage. It had been built by an earlier settler, and abandoned, because the soil about it was too sterile for cultivation, while its comparative remote...

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...that slavery is an unqualified evil to the negro, to the white man, to the soil, and to the State. Regarding it as an evil, they will not molest it in... ...evil from becoming larger and involving more negroes, more white men, more soil, and more States in its deplorable consequences. They will, if possibl... ...a thing which, like the Canada thistle or some other of those pests of the soil, cannot be dug out by the millions of men who will come thereafter; th... ...t it has nor effect upon anybody save the few men who first plant upon the soil; that it is not a thing which in any way affects the family of communi... ...ry for a year or two, and pass away, without his track being left upon the soil, or an act which he did for good or for evil being left behind, is a q... ...ings of Abraham Lincoln: V ol Five other matter of planting slavery upon a soil,—a thing which, once planted, cannot be eradicated by the succeeding m... ...while the durable, the im- portant, and the mischievous one is, Shall this soil be planted with slavery? This is an idea, I suppose, which has arisen ... ... drawn by the Almighty across this continent, on the one side of which the soil must always be cultivated by slaves”; that he did not pretend to know ... ...t there is one portion of this continent where the Almighty has signed the soil shall always be cultivated by slaves; that its being cultivated by sla...

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...ll in this state, they reached the ground still mainly solid, and, melting soil and rock in their progress, bored into the earth. There, as more and m... ...isperse, freely drove into and mixed up with a boiling confusion of molten soil and superheated steam, and so remained spinning furiously and maintain... ...agination outstripped their development. He was never quite subdued to the soil nor quite tamed to the home. Everywhere it needed teaching 120 The Wo... ...ndy deserts, and frozen lands. Men still clung closely to water and arable soil in temperate or sub-tropical climates, they lived abundantly only in r... ... threw off fragments or came into contact with water or a fresh texture of soil. Barnet, who came within forty miles of Paris early in October, is con... ...er, a traveller, and a maker. How much he ceases to be a cultivator of the soil the returns of the Re- distribution Committee showed. Every year the w... ...es the productivity and simpli- fies the labour of those who work upon the soil, and the food now of the whole world is produced by less than one per ... ...nt and interesting to eat natural produce and to grow such things upon the soil. Each year adds to the variety of our fruits and the delightfulness of... ...s revived again and ‘claims’ began to sprout, they sprouted upon the stony soil of law-courts reformed, of laws that pointed to the fu- ture instead o...

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...hoes; others, by way of economy, carried them in their hand. This costume, soiled by long usage, blackened with sweat and dust, and less original than... ...xtent, the basin of this intervale, as remarkable for the fertility of its soil as for the variety of its aspects. Mountains of gneiss and slate rose ... ...utlines presenting a sort of vague likeness to the granite which forms the soil of the region), was the only visible portion of the body of this singu... ...river-scenery. The narrow causeway is bordered on each side by ditches the soil of which, being constantly thrown out upon the fields, has formed high... ... the wife of the First Consul; but if I fail in this, I mean to die on the soil of my native land, fighting beside my friend Montauran. I am now on my... ...may give them at her discretion.’ “A worthless hussy takes a noble name to soil it with such treachery,” added Madame du Gua. A movement of astonishme... ...before me in any of their new-fangled councils of war, my honor will be as soiled as the shirt of a young trooper who is under fire for the first time... ...h is dedicated to Saint-Leonard, is a small, ir- regular square, where the soil is held up by a buttressed wall, which forms a balustrade and communic... ...evelled, a gun in her hand, her shawl and gown whitened against the walls, soiled with mud and wet with dew, the curiosity of the people was keenly ex...

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...ered with salty crust, the eczema, it might be called, of earth. Here, the soil was mapped out in squares of unequal size and shape, all encased with ...

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...ness, the application, The wholesomness, the ingenuitie, From rust, from soil, from fire ever free: But if I love it, ’tis because ’tis made 15...

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... away from France five years, would not be sorry to set foot on his native soil again. Perhaps they would go as far as Paris, and it would do his eyes... ...ought to know that he would not be safe an hour in India, which is English soil.” “Unless,” objected the consul, “he is exceptionally shrewd. An Engli... .... “No, I’ll stay,” muttered he. “An offence has been commit- ted on Indian soil. I’ve got my man.” Just then the locomotive gave a sharp screech, and ... ...as been aroused against us! Why have the soldiers of the Union invaded the soil of Utah? Why has Brigham Young, our chief, been imprisoned, in contemp... ...to be beyond the dan- ger of delays and accidents, and set foot on English soil. At ten o’clock at night the train stopped at Fort Bridger station, an... ...ore powerful than Amphion’s lyre, was about to bid them rise from American soil. Fort McPherson was left behind at eight in the morning, and three hun... ... heels of his master, only to arrest him the moment he set foot on English soil. Passepartout wept till he was blind, and felt like blowing his brains...

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...ife, a foe Hath lain our Lady’s chapel low, Yet still beneath the hallowed soil, The peasant rests him from his toil, 35 Sir Walter Scott And, dying,... ...word as he withdrew: But yet the moonlight did betray The falcon-crest was soiled with clay; And plainly might Fitz-Eustace see, By stains upon the ch... ... Thy thousands, trained to martial toil, Full red would stain their native soil, Ere from thy mural crown there fell The slightest knosp or pinnacle. ... ... lone in Lithgow pile, And weeps the weary day, The war against her native soil, Her monarch’s risk in battle broil; And in gay Holyrood the while Dam... ...pear I summon one and all: I cite you by each deadly sin That e’er hath soiled your hearts within; I cite you by each brutal lust That e’er defiled...