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...E VOLUMES Volume Five A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Works of Edgar Allan Poe in Five Volumes: Volume Five is a publication ... ... Works of Edgar Allan Poe in Five Volumes: Volume Five is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnishe... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ...Duzi-Ben-Levi were the Gizbarim, or sub-collectors of the offering, in the holy city of Jerusalem. “V erily,” replied the Pharisee; “let us hasten: fo... ...me shall accuse us of appropriating to the appetites of the flesh the most holy and consecrated elements? Have we lived to see the day when—”’ “Let us... ...on the projection of Y onder crag, there will be a woful outpouring of the holy things of the sanctuary.” By the assistance of some rudely constructed... ..., to disturb the serenity of his meditations. In attempting des oeufs a la Princesse, he had unfortunately perpetrated an omelette a la Reine; the dis... ... too. Its letters, although naturally lying Like the knight Pinto—Mendez Ferdinando— 139 V olume Five Still form a synonym for Truth—Cease trying! ... ...—a similar tale Told of a beauteous dame beyond the sea! Thus speaketh one Ferdinand in the words of the play — “She died full young”—one Bossola answ...

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...Excerpt: Preface to the 1857 edition. I have been occupied with this story, during many working hours of two years. I must have been very ill employed, if I could not leave its merits and demerits as a whole, to express themselves on its being r...

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...CONTENTS Preface to the 1857 Edition BOOK THE FIRST: POVERTY 1. Sun and Shadow 2. Fellow Travellers 3. Home 4. Mrs Flintwinch has a Dream 5. Family Affairs 6. The Father of the Marshalsea 7. The Child of the Marshalsea 8. The Lock 9. little Moth...

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...s Series Publication Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnishe... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ...ate University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone associ- ated with the Pennsylvania State University assumes any responsibility for the materi... ...e Neptune’s, wrinkles like tattooing, and such coats of varnish that every holy personage served for a fly-trap, and became what is now 193 Little Do... ...lready in giving you pain with- out having any such intentions, before the holy Heavens! that there is no fear of my saying it unless I have your leav... ...m: ‘Blandois, you shall turn the tables on society, my little child. Haha! Holy blue, you have begun well, Blandois! At a pinch, an excellent master i... ...cial argument? ‘Indeed,’ said the sprightly young Barnacle, whose name was Ferdinand; ‘how so?’ 548 Charles Dickens ‘Nay,’ smiled Bar. ‘If you don’t ... ...and, or heavy in hand, according to the customer he had to deal with. With Ferdinand Barnacle he was gossamer. Bar was likewise always modest and self... ...ness would have been seduced by the Humph? into an affirmative answer, But Ferdinand Barnacle looked knowingly at Bar as he strolled up-stairs, and ga...

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...Preface: The following translation was undertaken from a desire to lay before the English-speaking people the full treasury of epical beauty, folklore, and mythology comprised in The Kalevala, the national epic of the Finns. A brief d...

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... 1888 1888 1888 A P ENN S TATE E LECTRONIC C LASSICS S ERIES P UBLICATION The Kalevala trans. John Martin Crawford is a publication of the Pennsylv... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone... ...State University nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone associated with the Pennsylvania State Uni versity assumes any responsibility for the mate... ...ere her golden infant lies bidden. “Yonder is thy golden infant, There thy holy babe lies sleeping, Hidden to his belt in water, Hidden in the reeds a... ...nto German by Anton Schiefuer, in 25 The Kalevala 1852; into Hungarian by Ferdinand Barna, in 1871; and a very small portion of it—the legend of Aino... ...nslations of the Kalevala by Alex. Castren, Anton Schieffier, L. LeDuc and Ferdinand Barna; and especially to the excellent treatises on the Kalevala,... ... most thorough manner, has compared this translation with the Hungarian by Ferdinand Barna, and who, familiar with the habits, customs, and religious ... ...w, Lingers at the end of Fog point, By the river flowing seaward, Near the holy stream and whirlpool, Near the sacred river’s fire fall. Finally the L... ...O’er the meadow lands and pastures, To the river of the death land, To the holy stream and whirlpool, T o the kingdom of T uoni, To the islands of Man...

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...The Perfect Wagnerite: A Commentary on the Niblung’s Ring by Bernard Shaw A Penn State Electronic Classics Series ... ... Ring by Bernard Shaw A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Perfect Wagnerite: A Commentary on the Niblung’s Ring by George Bernard... ...mentary on the Niblung’s Ring by George Bernard Shaw is a publica- tion of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnishe... ...with an easy conscience. For their sakes Germany stands consecrated as the Holy Land of the capitalist age, just as Italy, for its painters’ sakes, is... ...Land of the capitalist age, just as Italy, for its painters’ sakes, is the Holy Land of the early unvulgarized Renascence; France, for its builders’ s... ...d faith; and Greece, for its sculptors’ sakes, of the Periclean age. These Holy Lands are my fatherlands: in them alone am I truly at home: all my wor... ...he Mimes held their own as against Siegfried. With the single exception of Ferdinand Lassalle, there was no revolutionary leader who was not an obviou... ...ting his music, sat out the performances in the row of boxes set apart for princes. They all complimented him on the astonishing “push” with which, in...

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...Excerpt: A Fragment of Autobiography. IN 1897, after spending five years at St Thomas?s Hospital I passed the examinations which enabled me to practise medicine. While still a medical student I had published a novel called Liza of Lambeth which caused a mild sensation, and on the strength of that I rashly decided to abandon docto...

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...OBIOGRAPHY 1908 A P ENN S TATE E LECTRONIC C LASSICS S ERIES P UBLICATION The Magician by Somerset Maugham is a publication of the Pennsylvania Stat... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State Uni versity nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyo... ...ate Uni versity nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone associated with the Pennsylvania State University assumes any responsibility for the materi... ...ume. There was a knock at the door, and Arthur came in. ‘This is the fairy prince,’ said Margaret, bringing him to her friend. ‘I’m glad to see you in... ...gold. ‘You know that it is almost impossible for an infidel to acquire the holy book, and this is a particularly rare copy, for it was written by Kaït... ...s entering upon an unknown region of romance. She felt like an adventurous princess who rode on her palfrey into a forest of great bare trees and myst... ...hope of gain, sometimes journeying to a petty court at the invitation of a prince. His folly and the malice of his rivals prevented him from remain i... ...ordinary account I have ever read of certain spirits gen erated by Johann Ferdinand, Count von Küffstein, in the T yrol, in 1775. The sources from wh...

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...Excerpt: General Introduction: There are few amusements more dangerous for an author than the indulgence in ironic descriptions of his own work. If the irony is depreciatory, posterity is but too likely to say, ?Many a true word is spoken in jest;? if it is encomiastic, the same ruthless and ungrateful critic is b...

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...s Series Publication Joseph Andrews by Henry Fielding is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...e, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State Uni- versity nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyo... ...ate Uni- versity nor Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, nor anyone associated with the Pennsylvania State University assumes any responsibility for the materi... ... dans le monde, for it will consist almost entirely of my sighs. Adieu, ma princesse! Ah, l’amour! “BELLARMINE.” I shall not attempt, ladies, to descr... ...sion, and are as unregarded, as a set of servile courtiers by the proudest prince in Christendom. But if such temporal pride is ridiculous, surely the... ...ious and detestable; if such a puffed—up empty human bladder, strutting in princely robes, justly moves one’s deri- sion, surely in the habit of a pri... ...country wherein you live. I would willingly have taken a pilgrimage to the Holy Land to have beheld you; for the advantages which we draw from your go... ...ld such a sceptic as to disbelieve the madness of Cardenio, the perfidy of Ferdinand, the impertinent curi- osity of Anselmo, the weakness of Camilla,... ...rry with a view of gratifying those inclinations is a prostitution of that holy ceremony, and must entail a curse on all who so lightly un- dertake it...