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...Commentary on the Niblung’s Ring by George Bernard Shaw is a publica- tion of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furni... ...an version of my book in the Manuscript of my friend Siegfried T rebitsch, I was struck by the inadequacy of the merely negative explanation given by ... ... of The Ring. That explanation is cor- rect as far as it goes; but, put as I put it, it now seems to me to suggest that the operatic character of Nigh... ...y simply because I should have perished of despair in my youth but for the world created for me by that great German dy- nasty which began with Bach a... ...s: in them alone am I truly at home: all my work is but to bring the whole world under this sanctification. And so, O worthy, respectable, dutiful, pa... ...he idea of forming a heroic bodyguard. He has trained his love children as war-maidens (Valkyries) whose duty it is to sweep through battle-fields and... ...him lying on the hearth. He explains that he has been in a fight; that his weapons not being as strong as his arms, were broken; and that he had to fl... ...called the Neidings, upon whom he and Wolfing thenceforth waged implacable war until the day when his father disappeared, leaving no trace of himself ... ...ers and is bound to avenge them. He tells the Volsung that in the morning, weapons or no weap- ons, he must fight for his life. Then he orders the wom...

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...AN A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Volume Two is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Un... .................................................................. 25 EPISTLE I.—TO SIR RICHARD TEMPLE, LORD COBHAM.*....................................... ......................... 133 EPIGRAM, ENGRA VED ON THE COLLAR OF A DOG WHICH I GAVE TO HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS. 134 THE TRANSLATOR. ............................ ...mpression he has made on, and impulse he has given to, his own age and the world. In other words, what were his native powers, and what has he done, f... ...he judged of beauty by fashion; he sought for truth in the opinions of the world; he judged the feelings of others by his own. The capacious soul of S... ..., the breaking of a flower-pot or the fall of a China jar; for the tug and war of the elements, or the deadly strife of the passions, “‘Calm contempla... ... charity should own, Must act on motives powerful, though unknown. P. Some war, some plague, or famine, they foresee, Some revelation hid from you and... ...miled serene, ‘Take at this hand celestial arms: 2 ‘Secure the radiant weapons wield; This golden lance shall guard desert; And if a vice da... ...stab it to the heart.’ 3 Awed, on my bended knees I fell, Received the weapons of the sky; And dipp’d them in the sable well, The fount of f...

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...THE KALEVALA The Epic Poem of Finland T ranslated into English By John Martin Crawford 1888 1888 1888 ... ...o the Finnish. Both belong to the Ugrian stock of agglutinative languages, i.e., those which preserve the root most carefully, and effect all changes ... ...ent to the French eu) of the first syllable must be followed by an e or an i. The Finnish, like all Ugrian tongues, admits rhyme, but with reluctance,... ...of the forest demons, and is inconceivably wicked. He was brought into the world consentaneously with Suoyatar, from whose spittle, as sung in The Kal... ...o, is thought by the Finlanders to have a hand in all the evil done in the world. T urning from the outer world to man, we find deities whose energies... ... enchanted arrows, Arrows for the great magician, There to shape them into weapons, Weapons for the skilful archer, Since the mighty oak has fallen, N... ...m, That the one may hear the other, That the one may judge the other, In a war of wizard sayings.” 49 The Kalevala Wainamoinen, wise and ancient, Thu... ...dless blue sea, Like a pretty song bird perished. Never bring thy prancing war horse, Never bring thy royal racer, Never bring thy steeds to water, To... ...l Youkahainen Slew my steed with bow and arrow, T ried to slay me with his weapons. On the waters fell I headlong, Plunged beneath the salt sea’s surf...

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...n Captain Brassbound’s Conversion by George Bernard Shaw is a publication 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... ...nd’s Conversion Captain Brassbound’s Conversion by George Bernard Shaw ACT I On the heights overlooking the harbor of Mogador, a sea- port on the west... ...ffle all the traditional vowel pronunciations. He pronounces ow as ah, and i as aw, using the ordinary ow for o, i for a, a for u, and e for a, with t... ... captains, but of thr Maaker. And there are gentlemen and gentlemen in the world, espaecially in these latitudes. Which sort of gentleman is he? DRINK... ...ve matters as they were for many years; for I had my own posi- tion in the world to make. But at last I made it. In the course of a holiday trip to th... ...he railway from the Cape to Cairo. Who are you, that a nation should go to war for you? If you are missing, what will your newspapers say? A foolhardy... ...e hands of them that set the sea on fire but yesterday with their ships of war? Where are the Franguestani cap- tives? LADY CICELY. Here we are, Cadi.... ...earts and strike fire from the hard kind ones. He handles the other lethal weapons as familiarly as the pen: medieval sword and mod- ern Mauser are to...