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...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... ...DANISH. W AL, DUTCH. HW AL, SWEDISH. WHALE, ICELANDIC. 4 Moby Dick WHALE, ENGLISH. BALEINE, FRENCH. BALLENA, SPANISH. PEKEE-NUEE-NUEE, FEGEE. PEKEE-N... ...gy. Far from it. As touching the ancient authors generally, as well as the poets here appearing, these extracts are solely valuable or entertaining, a... ...pture of this one whale, amounted altogether to 10,440 yards or nearly six English miles. ... “Sometimes the whale shakes its tremendous tail in the a... ...and Trucks. “On one occasion I saw two of these monsters (whales) probably male and female, slowly swimming, one after the other, within less than a s... ...d incessant expostulations upon the unbecomingness of his hugging a fellow male in that matrimonial sort of style, I succeeded in extracting a grunt; ... ...y complete. Reference to nearly all the leviathanic allusions in the great poets of past days, will satisfy you that the Greenland whale, without one ... ...o a volatile salts for fainting ladies, the same way that the horns of the male deer are manufactured into hartshorn. Originally it was in itself acco... ...kes a man who regards them both with equal eye. CHAPTER 86 The Tail O THER POETS HA VE WARBLED the praises of the soft eye of the antelope, and the lo...

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...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... ...1 CHAPTER I WE ARE TO MAKE ACQUAINTANCE with some serious damsels, as this English generation knows them, and at a season verg- ing upon May. The ladi... ...point of the other, he observed that to sing abroad in the night air of an English Spring month was conclusive of imbecility; and that no imbecile san... ...ttention to his sisters’ refined conversation that he formed part of their male escort to the place of worship. Mr. Pericles met the church-goers on t... ...we are rich enough; but in prose also we owe everything to the licence our poets have taken in the teeth of critics. Shall I give you examples? It is ... ...implest prose style is nearer to poetry with us, for this reason, that the poets have made it. Read French poetry. With the first couplet the sails ar... ...f a momentary shame to them, rather a sign of promise than not) the gentle male need not be deeply fascinated. Lady Charlotte was not a fascinating pe... ...d the ladies, when alarm and suspicion had subsided. Fear of some wretched male baseness on the part of their brother was happily diverted by a letter... ... with us; and we never did a wiser thing than when we decided to patronize poets. If kept in order—un- der—they are the aristocracy of light conversat...

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...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... ...air Lewis therefore taboo, but he had come from Boston, he had lived among poets and socialists and Jews and million- aire uplifters at the University... ...lf-way through it before the three o’clock bell called her to the class in English history. She sighed, “That’s what I’ll do after college! I’ll get m... ...Charles, would it interrupt your undoubt- edly fascinating pursuit of that malevolent fly if I were to ask you to tell us that you do not know anythin... ...for it, she felt robbed of her work. It was the advice of the professor of English which led 11 Sinclair Lewis her to study professional library-work... ...s—the light of the library, an authority on books, invited to dinners with poets and explorers, read- ing a paper to an association of distinguished s... ...ng up some cute kids and knowing nice homey people?” It was the immemorial male reply to the restless woman. Thus to the young Sappho spake the melon-... ... official. None of them made her more than pause in thought. For months no male emerged from the mass. Then, at the Marburys’, she met Dr. Will Kennic... ...umber of very interesting papers, this is such an interesting subject, the poets, they have been an inspiration for higher thought, in fact wasn’t it ...

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...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... ...t is his turn to deal, selecting the game to be played. 5 Balzac Spanish, English, and German, with sufficient fluency to lead one to suppose that th... ...irl of sixteen, whose beauty realized the fabulous conceptions of Oriental poets! Like the Sultan’s daughter in the tale of the Wonderful Lamp, she sh... ... the old style, and his linen was of dazzling whiteness. A shirt- frill of English lace, yellow with age, the magnificence of which a queen might have... ...Sarrasine came to Paris to seek a refuge against the threats of a father’s malediction. Having one of those strong wills which know no obstacles, he o... ...s frantic admiration could not long escape the no- tice of the performers, male and female. One evening the Frenchman noticed that they were laughing ... ...e red facets sparkled merrily. He recognized the singers from the theatre, male and female, mingled with charming women, all ready to begin an artists...

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...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... ...is supposed to have been made of an oak tree which grew in the park of the English Earl of Lincoln between two and three centuries ago. In its younger... ...beard upon his chin.* There was likewise a minister of the gospel whom the English bishops had forbidden to preach, but who knew that he should have l... ...ful eye has caught two boys at play. Now we shall see awful times. The two malefactors are sum moned before the master’s chair, wherein he sits with ... ...th of Queen Anne. Hitherto the people had been in continual dread that the male line of the Stuarts, who 67 Hawthorne were descended from the beheade... ...” Since Grandfather first spoke these words, the most fa mous of American poets has drawn sweet tears from all of us by his beautiful poem Evangeline... ...hrough the same scene of sorrow and distress. In this manner was the whole male part of the population of the District of Minas put on board the five ...

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...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... ...hatred to move you to such an act; but he employs you as they do condemned malefactors in execu- tions of justice, an office as necessary as dishonour... ...me. I there scalded myself in my youth, and suffered all the torments that poets say befall those who pre- cipitate themselves into love without order... ...edge: “Obsterix, virginis cujusdam integritatem manu velut explorans, sive malevolentia, sive inscitia, sive casu, dum inspicit, perdidit.” [“By malev... ...les of this kind; thy life is full of them. Whilst the verses of these two poets, treat so reservedly and discreetly of wantonness as they do, methink... ...r eyes, a conscious blush covers her face.”—Catullus, lxv. 19.] I say that males and females are cast in the same mould, and that, education and usage... ...who expressed his critical opinions with too great a freedom to please the poets of his day.” D.W .] The network also that was set before the people t...

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...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... ... is part three of a trilogy. Eve and David’s story begins in part one, Two Poets. Part one also introduces Eve’s brother, Lucien. Part two, A Distingu... ...ego the least of his ambitions. He is indolent, like all who would fain be poets; he thinks it clever to juggle with the difficulties of life instead ... ...and fondled the child, who held out both little arms to him. No heir to an English peerage could be more tenderly cared for than this little one in th... ...it becomes intolerable to keep perpetual watch over looks and words. Great poets know this; Paul and Virginie die before youth is over; can we think o... ...of those days were sown with notes 99 Balzac of admiration, as reports of English election speeches are stud- ded with “cheers” in brackets.) “In spi... ...gem. Then he went up to his room and locked himself in, struck dumb by the male- diction in his mother’s eyes. In the dead of night he wrote one more ... ...e contracted a bad habit, a trick—he took to chewing paper. The late M. de Malesherbes use to rap people over the knuckles; and he did this once, by t... ...s. A prisoner detained on arrest used to be subjected to rules devised for malefactors, unless he brought a special exemp- tion signed by the public p...

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...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 ... ... epigrams of this period—some by Callimachus—directed against the “cyclic” poets, by whom were meant at that time those who were always dragging in co... ...ith the captives did they slay on account of the marriage bed, but all the males at the same time, that they might thereafter pay no retribution for t... ... begone elsewhither, they and their captives. So they begged of us all the male children that were left in the city and went back to where even now th... ...to sail afar and return to the land of Hellas, and if thou shouldst bear a male child, send him when grown up to Pelasgian Iolcus, to heal the grief o...

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...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... ...r, are you not charmed to be in this famous neighbourhood, in this land of poets and heroes, of whose history your classical edu- cation ought to have... ...to me, that I can’t at present reconcile myself to you in age. I read your poets, but it was in fear and trembling; and a cold sweat is but an ill acc... ...er four were playing with a dirty pack of cards, at a barrack that English poets have christened the “Half-way House. ”Does external nature and beauty... ...as en- deavouring to get the likeness of one or two of these comfort- able malefactors. One old and wrinkled she-criminal, whom I had selected on acco... ...th. Hard by was Rebecca’s Well: a dead body was lying there, and crowds of male and female mourners dancing and howling round it. Now and then a littl... ...it. Then one of his companions got up and showed us his black cattle. The male slaves were chiefly lads, and the women young, well formed, and abomin...

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...going student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them, an... ...Wordsworth has his place in the Excise. You’re shabby fellows — true — but poets still, And duly seated on the immortal hill. Your bays may hide... ...for my new one); So, as I said, I ‘ll take my friend Don Juan. Most epic poets plunge ‘in medias res’ (Horace makes this the heroic turnpike ... ... problem, As if she deem’d that mystery would ennoble ‘em. She liked the English and the Hebrew tongue, And said there was analogy between ‘em... ...ments lean ‘em, ‘’T is strange — the Hebrew noun which means “I am,” The English always use to govern d—n.” Byron’s Don Juan “Canto One” 8 S... ...n the leafy nooks Where the wild branch of the cork forest grew; There poets find materials for their books, And every now and then we read ... ... It seems when this allotment was made out, There chanced to be an odd male, and odd female, Who (after some discussion and some doubt, If... ...ter some discussion and some doubt, If the soprano might be deem’d to be male, They placed him o’er the women as a scout) Were link’d togeth... ...him o’er the women as a scout) Were link’d together, and it happen’d the male Was Juan, — who, an awkward thing at his age, Pair’d off with a ...

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...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... ...ey the result of an ingenious arrangement of fragments 11 Pope by earlier poets? Well has Landor remarked: “Some tell us there were twenty Homers; so... ... and harmonious form by the directions of the Athenian ruler. If the great poets, who flour ished at the bright period of Grecian song, of which, ala... ...e find no contradictions warranting this belief, and the so called sixteen poets concur in getting rid of the following leading men in the first battl... ...it as a most delightful work in itself,— a work which is as much a part of English literature as Homer himself is of Greek. We must not be torn from o... ...aults of Pope, especially when we think of Chapman’s fine, bold, rough old English;—far be it from us to hold up his transla tion as what a translati... ...e of storms, your royal brother pass’d, Till, coasting nigh the cape where Malen shrouds Her spiry cliffs amid surrounding clouds, A whirling gust tum... ...aps, the unnumber’d flock. Big udder’d ewes, and goats of female kind (The males were penn’d in outward courts behind); Then, heaved on high, a rock’s... ...all his fleecy flock Before him march, and pour into the rock: Not one, or male or female, stayed behind (So fortune chanced, or so some god designed)...

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...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... ...om the thorn! Apart from its historical value, the ballad is an example to poets of our day, who fly to mythological Greece, or a fanci- ful and morbi... ... mark!—abstract ideas, for themes of song, of what may be done to make our English life poetically interesting, if they would but pluck the treasures ... ...eart of the people. A living native duke is worth fifty Phoebus Apollos to English- men, and a buxom young lass of the fields mounting from a pair of ... ...tain of bills, with the lawyers piled above—Pelion upon Ossa, to quote our poets. In fact, obeying the dictates of a soul steeped in gener- osity, she... ...House, she had as completely divided the ordinary guests of the Wells into male and female in opinion as her mother Nature had done in it sex. And the... ...at work reviewing him sternly, estimating him not less accurately than the male mor- alist charitable to her sex would do. She quitted the bed, with a...

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...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... ...ere to be for ever dis- appointed by the intervention, as it were, of some malevo- lent being, and who was at last to come off victorious from 10 Guy... ...t of the village of Kirk Yetholm, in the Cheviot hills, adjoin- ing to the English Border. The author gave the public some account of this remarkable ... ...TER I. IT WAS IN THE BEGINNING of the month of November, 17—, when a young English gentleman, who had just left the uni- versity of Oxford, made use o... ...n, and Argol? Do not Christians and Hea- thens, and Jews and Gentiles, and poets and philosophers, unite in allowing the starry influences?” “Communis... ...because its existence was secret (that is, presumed to be so) from all the males of the family, but especially from the hus- band and master. He was, ... ...lieves Divinities, being himself divine. The intelligible forms of ancient poets, The fair humanities of old religion, The power, the beauty, and the ... ... for the Laird to pass.” “He shall have his share of the road,” answered a male gipsy from under his slouched and large-brimmed hat, and without raisi... ... is a d-d cake-house, the resort of walking gentlemen of all descriptions, poets, players, painters, musicians, who come to rave, and recite, and madd...

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...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 ... ... of men; and De non apparentibus, et non existentibus eadem est ratio *—in English, “When a woman is not seen to blush, she doth not blush at all.” ... ...ich he frequently bestowed on her own. To say the truth, she had read much English di vinity, and had puzzled more than one of the neighbouring curat... ...s. First, this is an art well known to, and much practised by, our tragick poets, who seldom fail to prepare their audience for the reception of their... ...ey will most probably be composed by the ensuing scene. And not only the poets, but the masters of these poets, the managers of playhouses, seem to ... ...on of our reader. Indeed we would, for certain causes, advise those of our male readers who have any hearts, to read no farther, were we not well assu... ...ll be found wor thy to satisfy any passion, and to answer any idea of fe male perfection which our pencil will be able to raise. And now, without ... ...I know, some derive from their being of a more bloody inclination than the males. On which account they apply to the nose, as to the part whence blood... ...tener hours of labour and fatigue, of pain and sorrow. One of the Ro man poets, I remember, likens our leaving life to our depar ture from a feast;...

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...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... ... famous officer of King William’s, the bravest and most beloved man of the English army. The two jolly prisoners had been drinking with a party of fri... ...h as he chose. His kinswoman’s greater faith had swallow for them all. The English High Church party did not adopt these legends. But truth and honor,... ...fiddlers, laced clothes, fine furniture, and parasites, Jew and Christian, male and female, who clung to him. As, according to the famous maxim of Mon... ...ess that set one of his auditors a-laughing. “I admire the license of your poets,” says Esmond to Mr. Addison. (Dick, after reading of the verses, was... ...barous. The rites performed before it are shocking to think of. Y ou great poets should show it as it is—ugly and horrible, not beautiful and serene. ... ...a battle, that your humble servant is riding his sleek Pegasus. We college poets trot, you know, on very easy nags; it hath been, time out of mind, pa...

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...going student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Co... ...l plant Plantagenet, root him up who dares: Resolve thee, Richard; claim the English crown. [Flourish. Enter KING HENRY VI, CLIFFORD, NORTHUMBERLAND, ... ... a thing it is to wear a crown; Within whose circuit is Elysium And all that poets feign of bliss and joy. Why do we finger thus? I cannot rest Until ... ...f King of Naples, Of both the Sicils and Jerusalem, Yet not so wealthy as an English yeoman. Hath that poor monarch taught thee to insult? It needs no... ...ee daughters: by your leave I speak it, You love the breeder better than the male. [Enter a Messenger .] But what art thou, whose heavy looks foretell... ...d in a bush, With trembling wings misdoubteth every bush; And I, the hapless male to one sweet bird, Have now the fatal object in my eye Where my poor...

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...n; and thereafter to confine, imprison, and do sharpest justice on them as malefactors. For books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a ... ...ress the pure conceit of an Imprimatur; but rather, as I hope, for that our English, the language of men, ever famous and foremost in the achieveme... ...not easily find servile letters enow to spell such a dictatory presumption English. And thus ye have the inventors and the original of book ... ...t no defilement to insert into Holy Scripture the sentences of three Greek poets, and one of them a tragedian; the question was notwithstanding ... ...aio eastward, or of Canada westward, while our Spanish licensing gags the English press never so severely. But on the other side that infecti... ...s wanton garb. Who shall regulate all the mixed conversation of our youth, male and female together, as is the fashion of this country? Who shall st...

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...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... ...n a cave (like the Baron of Bradwardine), he lay for many days so near the English sentinels, that he could hear their muster-roll called, His food wa... ...sors, I had only to seize upon the most sounding and euphonic surname that English history or topography affords, and elect it at once as the title of... ... 22 Waverley particularly well acquainted with Spenser, Drayton, and other poets who have exercised themselves on romantic fiction, of all themes the ... ...her it was by the ‘merest accident in the world,’ a phrase which, from fe- male lips, does not always exclude Malice Prepense, or whether it was from ... ... next halt, and wait for the con- veyance of Prince Hussein’s tapestry, or Malek the Weaver’s flying sentry-box. Those who are contented to remain wit... ...cer, as a pledge of her regard, a valuable diamond ring (often worn by the male sex at that time), and a purse of broad gold pieces, which also were m... ...e wa’, And stately stepped he west. As for literature, he read the classic poets, to be sure, and the Epithalamium of Georgius Buchanan, and Arthur Jo... ...rds whom the chieftains of more distinguished name and power retain as the poets and historians of their tribes. These, of course, possess various deg...

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...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... ...en the wild Highlanders broke through all the laws of disci- pline and the English lines; and, being on the spot, did he see the famous ghost which di... ...ed being of those days I confess I never cared for, and that was the chief male dancer — a very important per- sonage then, with a bare neck, bare arm... ...ilded halls; and now they are at Newgate, seeing the irons knocked off the malefactors’ legs previous to execution. What hardened ferocity in the coun... ...efore — that these Christmas pieces are prophetic! How kind of artists and poets to devise the festivi- ties beforehand, and serve them pat at the pro...

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... yeomanry and his hedges, are sad to note. His bursts of pot-valiancy (the male side of the maiden Panic within his bosom) are awful to his friends. P... ...ut, think of us! He sat down to write them a challenge. He is not the only Englishman who has been impelled by a youthful chivalry to do that. He is p... ...ation and polish, and the art of conversing. He had read the French tragic poets and Moliere; he could even relish the Gallic- classic—’Qu’il mourut!’... ...supposing he addressed a body of midshipmen just a little loftily. But the English, when translated, was bald and blunt to the verge of offensiveness.... ...emen of the French Guard, ‘I take up the glove you have tossed us. I am an English- man. That will do for a reason.’ This might possibly pass with th... ...r he loved the prospect of the title. Yet, as there were no cousins of the male branch extant, the lack of an heir was a serious omission, and to beco... ...on, country, and the young woman herself. I assure you, a perfect model of male fidelity! She is married. He is on her track. He knows his time will c... ...t, to re- lease your shoulders in a trice. Mr. Timothy felt for his art as poets do for theirs, and considered what was best adapted to speaking, pure... ... Tory’s mentor and his cordial, with other great ancient comic and satiric poets, his old Port of the classical cellarage, reflecting veneration upon ...