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...Contents THE SCHOOLMISTRESS ......................................................................................................................................... 4 A NERVOUS BREAKDOWN..................................................

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...ries by Anton Chekhov A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Schoolmistress and other stories by Anton Chekhov is a publication of t... ...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 University assumes any responsibility for the materi... ... the rain and in the end be killed by a thunderbolt… . Then the first wave raced through the rye and a field of oats, there was a gust of wind, and th... ...wing ten paces away; it grumbled, lapped against the hollow clay banks and raced on swiftly towards the far-away sea. Close to the bank there was the ... ...d and opened his eyes. What river was this, the V olga? Snow was falling. “Boat!” was shouted on the further side. “Boat!” The Tatar woke up, and went... ...the same place, gracefully shifting from one foot to the other like a good race- horse, looks from side to side, salutes everyone that passes by, smil... ...way through a narrow, uncouth-looking cloud, which seemed sometimes like a boat and sometimes like a man wrapped in a quilt… . I had driven a mile and...

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...Introduction: In an age of materialism like our own the phenomenon of spiritual power is as significant and inspiring as it is rare. No longer associated with the ?divine right? of kings, it has survived the downfall of feudal and theocratic systems as a mystic personal emanat...

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... LIST OF POSTHUMOUS WORKS......................................................................................................................... 34 THE FORGED COUPON ........................................................................................................................................ 35 AFTER THE DANCE ......................................................

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...In Voices from the Past, a daring group of five independent novels, acclaimed author Paul Alexander Bartlett accomplishes a tour de force of historical fiction, allowing the reader to enter for the first time into the private worlds of...

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...illis Barnstone 3 SAPPHO’S JOURNAL 5 CHRIST’S JOURNAL 155 LEONARDO DA VINCI’S JOURNAL 221 SHAKESPEARE’S JOURNAL 343 LINCOLN’S JOURNAL 511 ABOUT THE AUTHOR 621 COLOPHON 625...

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...FROM THE COVER OF VOICES FROM THE PAST: In Voices from the Past, a daring group of five independent n... ...der Bartlett accomplishes a tour de force of historical fiction, allowing the reader to enter for the first time into the private worlds of five re... ...ime into the private worlds of five remarkable people: Sappho of Lesbos, the famous Greek poet; Jesus; Leonardo da Vinci; Shakespeare; and Abraham ... ...yself? Why were the women in a knot at the corner? Why hadn’t fast rowers raced to tell us? Had the fog tricked the fleet? Changing my clothes, putt... ...n you tell us at such crucial times? For an infinitude, the oars paced, a boat swung, another boat anchoring alongside, the armor on deck flashing, ... ...ur fleet, how he would have the ships repaired and converted into fishing boats for the use of the community...never mentioning that our fleet was r... ...th and sat beside me at the temple of Apollo, watching the people and the boats and the sea birds, and hearing the choral virgins sing. Evenings, h... ...ur clothes, we toss rover reeds, have a try at archery, play catch. Or we race or go in for leap-frog or tug-of-war. Little boys like to pester us ... ...e beached us and we scrambled ashore, drenched and shoeless. Together, we raced for the square, shouting at everyone we met. Together, we dashed for...

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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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... IIIWAINAMOINENANDYOUKAHAINEN............................................................................................................. 46 RUNE IV THE FATE OFAINO................................................................................................................................................ 58 RUNE VWAINAVOINEN’S LAMENTATION..................................

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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... ...e miles, and inhabited by some 2,000,000 of people, the last remnants of a race driven back from the East, at a very early day, by advancing tribes. ... ... amount and quality of the alloy used being not now known. The prehistoric races 7 The Kalevala of Europe were acquainted with bronze implements. It ... ...eeded three words of master magic wherewith 17 The Kalevala to finish the boat in which he was to sail to win the mystic maiden of Sariola, he first ... ...s from the Kalevala; to the writings of the two Grimms; to Latham’s Native Races of the Russian Empire; to the translations of the Kalevala by Alex. C... ...nd mirrored, 42 The Kalevala Rocked there by the winds and waters, Like a boat upon the billows; Storm winds blew them to the Northland, Some the oce... ...kahainen thus made answer: “Have at home two magic shallops, Beautiful the boats and wondrous; One rides light upon the ocean, One is made for heavy b...

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...Excerpt: BOOK I: Arms, and the man I sing, who, forc?d by fate, And haughty Juno?s unrelenting hate, Expell?d and exil?d, left the Trojan shore. Long labors, both by sea and land, he bore, And in the doubtful war, before he won The Latian realm, and bu...

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...Excerpt: Selected Writings by Guy de Maupassant: Short Stories of the Tragedy and Comedy of Life with a critical preface by Paul Bourget of the French Academy and an introduction by Robert Arnot, M.A....

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...ATE............................................................................................................................................... 36 THE ARTIST ................................................................................................................................................................ 46 THE HORLA............................................

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...Selected Writings by Guy De Maupassant Short Stories of the T ragedy and Comedy of Life with a Critical Preface by Paul Bourget of ... ...ries Publication Selected Writings by Guy de Maupassant: Short Stories of the Tragedy and Comedy of Life with acritical preface by Paul Bourget of th... ...ench Academy and an introduction by Robert Arnot, M.A. is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished... ...e, a runner, but one who drags at his feet a terrible weight. He is in the race only for the prize of effort, an effort of which ev- ery motion reveal... ...lity, the prose in which they are shrined so conforms to the genius of the race as to smack of the soil. It is enough that the critics of to-day place... ... exception 30 De Maupassant the rule which allots hooked noses to all her race, to the youngest officer, frail Count Wilhelm von Eyrick. They were al... ...t and wide Seine, which goes to Rouen and Havre, and which is covered with boats passing to and fro. On the left, down yonder, lies Rouen, populous 5... ...ght. What a delicious morning it was! About eleven o’clock, a long line of boats drawn by a steam-tug, as big a fly, and which scarcely puffed while e... ...: Perhaps? July 21. I dined at Bougival, and then I spent the evening at a boatmen’s ball. Decidedly everything depends on place and surroundings. It ...

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...Excerpt: Lo, praise of the prowess of people-kings of spear-armed Danes, in days long sped, we have heard, and what honor the athelings won! Oft Scyld the Scefing from squadroned foes, from many a tribe, the mead-bench tore, awing the earls. Since ...

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...Excerpt: A green and yellow parrot, which hung in a cage outside the door, kept repeating over and over: ?Allez vous-en! Allez vous-en! Sapristi! That?s all right!? He could speak a little Spanish, and also a language which nobody understood, unless it was the mocking-bird that hung on the...

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...Contents THE AWAKENING........................................................................3 Beyond the Bayou.........................................................................86 Ma?ame Pelagie...................................

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.......................................................................3 Beyond the Bayou................................................................... ...le Woman..................................................................99 The Kiss.................................................................... ...k Stockings..............................................................103 The Locket.................................................................. ...p into the house to awaken Robert. “Tell him I am going to the Cheniere. The boat is ready; tell him to hurry.” He had soon joined her. She had never ... ...ging up the rear. Robert knew the girl, and he talked to her a little in the boat. No one present understood what they said. Her name was Mariequita. ... .... Old Mon sieur Farival talked incessantly of what he knew about handling a boat, and of what Beaudelet did not know on the same subject. Edna liked ... ...ny years have I slept?” she inquired. “The whole island seems changed. A new race of beings must have sprung up, leaving only you and me as past relic... ...vengeful. She trusted she did them no injustice in thus condemning them as a race. She had known per sonally but one Mexican, who made and sold excel... ... never sick, Doctor. You know that I come of tough fiber— of that old Creole race of Pontelliers that dry up and finally blow away. I came to consult—...

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...ER II BAKUNIN AND ANARCHISM........................................................................................................... 29 CHAPTER III THE SYNDICALIST REVOLT............................................................................................................ 43 PART II PROBLEMS OF THE FUTURE ...............................................................

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...Contents THE GENIUS AND POETRY OF POPE........................................................................................ 7 MORAL ESSAYS ...............................................................................................

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...T wo With Memoir, Critical Dissertation, and Explanatory Notes, B B B B By the y the y the y the y the RE RE RE RE REV V V V V. GEOR . GEOR . GEOR . G... ...GILFILLAN AN AN AN AN A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Volume Two is a publication of the Pe... ...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... ...er his shoulders! What pathos Scott ex- tracts from that “black bitch of a boat,” which Mucklebackit, in the frenzy of his grief, accuses for the loss... ...with kindred eye; For Nature gladly gave them place, Adopted them into her race, And granted them an equal date With Andes and with Ararat.” Read, and... ...hold a reverend sire, whom want of grace Has made the father of a nameless race, Shoved from the wall perhaps, or rudely press’d By his own son, that ... ... of Heaven; 230 (Whose measure full o’erflows on human race) Mend Fortune’s fault, and justify her grace. Wealth in the gross is d...

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...Contents THE DEVIL IN THE BELFRY ................................................................................................................................... 4 LIONIZING ............................................................

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...Introduction: Homer?s ?Iliad? begins towards the close of the last of the ten years of the Trojan War: its incidents extend over some fifty days only, and it ends with the burial of Hector. The things which came before and after were told by other bards, who between the...

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...RA? DISCOURSES ................................................................................................................................ 33 I. THE THREE METAMORPHOSES ........................................................................................................................... 33 II. THE ACADEMIC CHAIRS OF VIRTUE............................................

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...Contents THE WITCH .................................................................................................................................... 4 PEASANT WIVES......................................................................

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...ries by ANTON CHEKHOV A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Witch and other stories by Anton Chekhov is a publication of the Pennsy... ...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 University assumes any responsibility for the materi... ... burned Bengal lights and sent up fireworks in the evenings, and a sailing-boat with red lanterns floated by Obrutchanovo. One morning the engineer’s ... ...father and son, the village elder and V olodka, punted over the river in a boat and went to a hamlet on the other side where there was a tavern, and t... ...nywhere; what do we want with a bridge? If we have to, we can cross by the boat.” Someone from the yard outside knocked at the window so violently tha... ...asion of each quarrel. On holidays Kostukov and the Juniors used to get up races, used to dash about Ukleevo and run over calves. Aksinya, rustling he... ...to show his new horse and take Varvara with him. In the evening, after the races, when people were going to bed, an expensive concertina was played in... ... dignified nose. Little circles of light danced from his hands to his cap, raced over the saddle along the horse’s back, and vanished in its mane near...

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...Excerpt: Renewal of Life by Transmission. The most notable distinction between living and inanimate things is that the former maintain themselves by renewal. A stone when struck resists. If its resistance is greater than the force of the blow struck, it remains outwa...

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................ 58 Chapter Six: Education as Conservative and Progressive ........................................................... 74 Chapter Seven: The Democratic Conception in Education ......................................................... 85 Chapter Eight: Aims in Education ...............................................................................................

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...Excerpt: Heartbreak house is not merely the name of the play which follows this preface. It is cultured, leisured Europe before the war. When the play was begun not a shot had been fired; and only the professional diplomatists and the very few amateurs whose hobby ...

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...Excerpt: William Makepeace Thackeray was born at Calcutta, July 18, 1811, the only child of Richmond and Anne Thackeray. He received the main part of his education at the Charterhouse, as we know to our profit. Thence he passed to Cambridge, remaining there from February 1829 to sometime in 1830. T...

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...Preface: The present is the only collected edition of the principal works of Schiller which is accessible to English readers. Detached poems or dramas have been translated at various times, and sometimes by men of eminence, since the ...

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...Index A A blow felled Artaxerxes, with a thrust 466 A branch of Est there in the Guelfian tree 392 A bugle small he winded loud and shrill, 162 ?A burning fire, so are those deserts charmed, 307 A Christian once, Macon he now adores, 27 A dreadful thunder-clap at last he heard, 402 A false Armenian di...

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...airest creatures we desire increase, ..................7 2 When forty winters shall beseige thy brow, ................8 3 Look in thy glass, and tell the face thou viewest ........8 4 Unthrifty loveliness, why dost thou spend ..................9 5 Those hours, that with gentle work did frame ............9 6 Then let not winter?s ragged hand deface .................10 7 Lo!...

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...................... 5 EXPOSTULATION AND REPLY .................................................................................................... 22 THE TABLES TURNED................................................................................................................... 23 ANIMAL TRANQUILLITY & DECAY ................................................................

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...s with other poems, Volume One by William Wordsworth is a publication of the Pennsylva nia State University. This Portable Document file is furnish... ...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 University assumes any responsibility for the materi... ... And in my breast the imperfect joys expire; Yet Morning smiles the busy race to cheer, And new born pleasure brings to happier men; The fields ... ...ter they arrived in that new world, In spite of his dissuasion, seized a boat, 32 LyricalBallads I And all alone, set sail by silent moonlight ... ...entimes I talked to him In very idleness. The young lambs ran a pretty race; The morning sun shone bright and warm; “Kilve,” said I, “was a pl... ...ain fold Saw on the distant lake his twinkling oar Or watch’d his lazy boat still less’ning more and more My father was a good and pious man, ... ...ould outrun, Could leave both man and horse behind; And often, ere the race was done, He reeled and was stone blind. And still there’s somethi... ...LINES LINES LINES LINES LINES W W W W W ritten when sailing in a Boat At EVENING ritten when sailing in a Boat At EVENING ritten when sailin...

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...Contents* I - THE VAGABOND (To an air of Schubert) ........................................................................................................... 5 II - YOUTH AND LOVE - I .........................................................

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...Contents CHAPTER I: THE FOREIGNER AT HOME ..................................................................................... 5 CHAPTER II: SOME COLLEGE MEMORIES................................................................................ 1...

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... Street, Boston, on January 6, 1706. His father, Josiah Franklin, was a tallow chandler who married twice, and of his seventeen children Benjamin was the youngest son. His schooling ended at ten, and at twelve he was bound apprentice to his brother James, a printer, who published the ?New England Courant.? To this journal he became a contributor, and later was for a time i...

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...Excerpt: Preface By Way Of Criticism. These studies are collected from the monthly press. One appeared in the New Quarterly, one in MacMillan?s, and the rest in the Cornhill Magazine. To the Cornhill I owe a double debt of thanks; first, that I was received there in the very best society, and un...

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