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...This work is about a Korean American teaching in his homeland, feeling lost in Korean culture and that his own life is an outlier to this conservative society. As he lives there, making his living as an English teacher, he writes of Gabriele, a single parent in Ithaca New York who manifests a more open and less asphy...

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...uld arrive in our city, so clever as to be able to assume any character and imitate any object, and should propose to make a public display ... ... object, and should propose to make a public display of his talents and his productions, we shall pay him reverence as a sacred, admirab... ...en a month ago that Sung Ki had left him. Sung Ki: even now the name sounded musical. After the video pang girl's attempt at marital entrapment, this... ...wife and children unbearable, and even his hobby of playing a cello was as a musical dilettante. He looked out of the window and smoothed out his hair... ...ies, temporary exhibits, and then to have him sit alone in a corner at these art parties where cheques were often signed. He saw him sitting in those... ...attentiveness within his infantile limitations. She often played for him the classical music, "Scaramouche-modere" by Darius Milhaud. It was her favor... ...ot under the directive of his own will. The book is of 20th century American art and contains a few examples of his mother's work. Only pleasures from... ...fauna. She knew the guilt and fear of pouring oneself from the container of traditions he or she was raised with. Most people needed to change conta... ...n your coat. I'm leaving it right here." The radio music suddenly changed to classical music with a National Public Radio DJ. Gabriele waited a coupl...

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...Excerpt: My dear sir, I am on the point of revising and considerably altering, for republication in England, an edition of such amongst my writings as it may seem proper deliberately to avow. Not that I have any intention, or consciously any reason, expressly to disown any one...

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... FIRST REBELLION.......................................................................................... 206 CHAPTER X: FRENCH INVASION OF IRELAND, AND SECOND REBELLION............ 227 CHAPTER XI: TRAVELLING.................................................................................................... 243 CHAPTER XII: MY BROTHER ........................................

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...T C H E S S K E T C H E S AUTOBIOGRAPHIC S K E T C H E S Selections, Grave and Gay, from Writings Published and Unpublished BY THOMAS DE QUINCEY A PEN... ...sylvania State Uni- versity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ...File pro- duced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those... ...d to ask for a more determi- nate adjudication on their claims as works of art. At present, I feel authorized to make haughtier pretensions in right o... ..., where a single false note, a single word in a wrong key, ruins the whole music; and, secondly, I desire him to consider the utter sterility of unive... ... so much in request among us. It ruled us and swayed us as mysteriously as music. Our younger nurse, whom we all loved, would sometimes, according to ... ...he grave, the coffin, the face are sealed up forever and ever. Grief! thou art classed amongst the depressing passions. And true it is that thou humbl... ...the hand of man has cre- ated, is represented, on the authority of ancient traditions, to have uttered at sunrise, or soon after as the sun’s rays had... ...miles from Greenhay; and to him we went over daily, for the benefit of his classical instructions. One sole cotton factory had then risen along the li...

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...er of the new notes I owe to a review of the Selections by Dr. Lane Cooper, of Cornell University. I wish also to thank for many favors the Committee and officers of the Glasgow University Library....

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...h Mail-Coach and Joan of Arc BY THOMAS DE QUINCEY Edited with Introduction and Notes by Milton Haight Turk, Ph.D. A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SER... ... PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The English Mail-Coach and Joan of Arc By Thomas de Quincey is a publication of the Pennsylvania S... ...t File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those... ...the victim of the worst of bad habits? We can hardly praise too highly the art which even as we look beneath it throws its glamour over us still. Nor ... ... language is joined to so much constructive skill, the result is narrative art of high quality,—an achievement that must be in no small measure the so... ...y sad fu- neral blights upon the gorgeous mosaics of dreams? Frag- ment of music too passionate, heard once, and heard no more, what aileth thee, that... ...tly. 56 The English Mail-Coach and Joan of Arc drifting towards us amidst music and incense, amidst blos- soms from forests and gorgeous corymbi from... ...s known to have hunted there. That, of itself, was a grand incident in the traditions of a forest or a chase. In these vast forests, also, were to be ... ...It should be further re- marked that neither of the two compounds cited is classical. As to De Quincey’s interpretation of Cæsar’s meaning here, cf. M...

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...sylvania State Univer- sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ... charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania Sta... ...t File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those... ...arbour; and lastly, in the stillness of falling night, listen to the organ music, the chanting of the services, the wonderful sound of bells pealing o... ... entirely by the great stained-glass rose-window suspended by a miracle of art above the centre doorway; for upon that side the expo- sure permits of ... ...ough their one point of contact with humanity. Strangely enough, the organ music seemed to be- long to the school of Rossini, the musician who brings ... ...the school of Rossini, the musician who brings most human passion into his art. Some day his works, by their number and extent, will re- ceive the rev... ...r in the Faubourg Saint-Germain, where the spirit of the ancient court and traditions of by- gone feuds between the nobles and the Crown still lingere... ...ted so absurdly to visitors at the Palais Royal. T wo or three kept up the traditions of the Re- gency, filling cleverer women with something like dis...

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... Oblonskys? house. The wife had discovered that the husband was carrying on an intrigue with a French girl, who had been a governess in their family, and she had announced to her husband that she could not go on living in the same house with him. This position of affairs had now lasted three days, and not only the husband and wife themselves, but all the members of their f...

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...on an intrigue with a French girl, who had been a governess in their family, and she had announced to her hus band that she could not go on living in... ...the same house with him. This position of affairs had now lasted three days, and not only the husband and wife themselves, but all the members of thei... ... impossi ble now, at least till night time; he could not go back now to the music sung by the decanter women; so he must forget himself in the dream ... ...ating the views held by the majority. And in spite of the fact that science, art, and politics had no special interest for him, he firmly held those vi... ... to work; why they were visited by those professors of French literature, of music, of drawing, of dancing; why at certain hours all the three young l... ... case a subject should be lacking, two heavy guns—the relative advantages of classical and of modern education, and universal military service— had no... ...on of her attire, was very much annoyed. She was generally a mistress of the art of dressing well without great expense, and before leaving Moscow she... ...a subtle smile.”It is the accepted view now that real culture must be purely classical; but we see most intense disputes on each side of the question,... ...ers there is,” said Sergey Ivanovitch, frowning with displeasure. “There are traditions still extant among the people of Slavs of the true faith suffe...

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...It was known to me his setting up in 1980’s of a new literary and artistic avant-garde movement that he called “paradoxism”, because I received some books and papers dealing with it in order to review them for the German journal “Zentralblatt fár Mathematik”. It was an inspired connecti...

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...Paradoxism is an avant-garde movement in literature, art, philosophy, science, based on excessive used of antitheses, antinomies, contradictions, parables, odds, paradoxes in creations....

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...ying field in sets: 112 4. Neutrosophic Probability - a generalization of classical and imprecise probabilities - and Neutrosophic Statistics: 116 ... ... in sets: 112 4. Neutrosophic Probability - a generalization of classical and imprecise probabilities - and Neutrosophic Statistics: 116 5. Addenda... ...: Definitions derived from Neutrosophics: 120 2 Preface to Neutrosophy and Neutrosophic Logic by Charles T. Le 1 Introduction. It was a surpris... ...m. 2.1. Definition: PARADOXISM is an avant-garde movement in literature, art, philosophy, science, based on excessive used of antitheses, antinomie... ...aradoxes to paradoxism was documentarily described by Titu Popescu in his classical book concerning the movement: "Paradoxism's Aesthetics" (1994). ... ...untry. I started from politic, social, and immediately got to literature, art, and philosophy, even science. Through experiments one brings new lite... ...ower countries deliberately ignore the arts, literature, science, culture, traditions of third world countries. More, they even boycott, scorn them..... ...e but commerce and money". His attack against luxury: "those artists and musicians pursuing luxury are lowering their genius to the mediocre level ... ...s and inspire ideas. c) Sonorous Philosophy: a symphony melody, the jazz music, a sound, any noise are all ideas, or inspire ideas - because they d...

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...Introduction: The species of publication which has come to be generally known by the title of Annual, being a miscellany of prose and verse, equipped with numerous engravings, and put forth every year about Christmas, had flourished for a long while in Germany before it was imitated in this country by an enterprising bookseller, a German by birth, Mr. A...

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...sylvania State Univer- sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ... charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania Sta... ...t File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those... ...about the end of the last century. I never saw him indeed; but my mother’s traditions were full of his wit, gallantry, and dissipation. This gay knigh... ... As he observed carefully all the usual forms towards his lady, he had the art to deprive her even of the compassion of the world; and useless and una... ...the time; deliver my let- ters of introduction; learn as much of the noble art of war as may suffice a poor interloping amateur; and then take a glanc... ...the thoughts of both were diverted from their own situation by a strain of music so singularly sweet and solemn that, while it seemed calculated to av... ...mn excitation which the preceding interview was calculated to produce. The music was that of some instrument with which they were unacquainted; but ci...

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... of merry England which is watered by the river Don, there extended in ancient times a large forest, covering the greater part of the beautiful hills and valleys which lie between Sheffield and the pleasant town of Doncaster. The remains of this extensive wood are still to be seen at the noble seats of Wentworth, of Warncliffe Park, and around Rotherham. Here haunted of yo...

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...sylvania State University. This Por- table Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ... charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania Sta... ...t File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those... ...er; and which has since been so richly improved by im- portations from the classical languages, and from those spo- ken by the southern nations of Eur... ...hou hast spoken treason against the Norman, 11 Sir Walter Scott —and thou art but a cast-away swineherd,—thou wouldst waver on one of these trees as ... ...the dog where the deer lies, if I have no mind he should chase him.” “Thou art right,” said Gurth; “it were ill that Aymer saw the Lady Rowena; and it... ... riders. As the procession entered the lists, the sound of a wild Barbaric music was heard from behind the tents of the challengers, where the perform... ... lances! stand forth gallant knights, fair eyes look upon your deeds!” The music also of the challengers breathed from time to time wild bursts expres... ...ink it strange that no attempt has been made to excite an interest for the traditions and manners of Old England, similiar to that which has been obta...

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...nnsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ... charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Nei- ther the Pennsylvania S... ...t File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in En- glish, to free and easy access of tho... ...ch to see themselves as they once were. That comes of realism in the Comic art; and it is not public caprice, but the conse- quence of a bettering sta... ...he sentimentalist is as averse as the Puritan and as the Bacchanalian. Our traditions are unfortunate. The public taste is with the idle laughers, and... ...ar. And how difficult it is for writers to disentangle themselves from bad traditions is no- ticeable when we find Goldsmith, who had grave command of... ...the quick, but they painted with spiritual strength, which is the solid in Art. The idealistic conceptions of Comedy gives breadth and opportunities o... ... watch and are silent, their force of char- acter tells. They are kings in music, we may say princes in poetry, good speculators in philosophy, and ou...

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...ish country-house, in what I should call the perfect middle of a splendid summer afternoon. Part of the afternoon had waned, but much of it was left, and what was left was of the finest and rarest quality. Real dusk would not arrive for many hours; but the flood of summer light had begun to ebb, the air had grown mellow, the shadows were long upon the smooth, dense turf. T...

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... summer afternoon. Part of the afternoon had waned, but much of it was left, and what was left was of the finest and rarest quality. Real dusk would no... ...dows were long upon the smooth, dense turf. They lengthened slowly, however, and the scene expressed that sense of leisure still to come which is perh... ...omen don’t know how to write them, but my mother has thoroughly mastered the art of condensation. ‘Tired America, hot weather awful, return England wi... ...very particular about the appearance of her linen) was not a mistress of her art. At fixed intervals she paid a visit to her own country; but this last... ...g, plenty of new dresses, the London Spectator, the latest publications, the music of Gounod, the poetry of Browning, the prose of George Eliot. These... ...ed, and his native country, his charming new found cousin. “I keep a band of music in my ante room,” he said once to her. “It has orders to play witho... ...f in the last category. Madame Merle had thick, fair hair, arranged somehow “classically” and as if she were a Bust, Isabel judged—a Juno or a Niobe; ... ...at as he had been there before, as he was a military man and as he had had a classical education—he had been bred at Eton, where they study nothing bu... ...t it, but that he was better off; though from what source he had derived his traditions she never learned. He had a very large collection of them, how...

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...th century there first became abundant in this strange world of ours a class of men, men tending for the most part to become elderly, who are called, and who are very properly called, but who dislike extremely to be called--?Scientists.? They dislike that word so much that from the columns of Nature, which was from the first their distinctive and characteristic paper, it i...

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... A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The Food of the Gods and How It Came Down to Earth by H. G. Wells is a publication of the Pennsy... ...sylva- nia State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ...t File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those... ...oking up in response to an inquiry. “For my part I incline to the good old classical allusion. It— it makes Science res—. Gives it a touch of old-fash... ...limsy parti- tion the voice of the Caddles infant wailed. “Bless ‘is poor ‘art,” said Mrs. Skinner; and then, with her solitary tooth biting her lip i... ...in- vent cities— “I think I must give him a little theatre. “Then there is music!” Redwood thought that over, and decided that his son might best begi... ...ad gone to an ivy-clad public school in its anecdotage, with magnifi- cent traditions, aristocratic associations, and no chemical laboratories, and pr... ...ere were the germs of religious feeling somewhere in that big carcase. The music perhaps drew him. He was often in the churchyard on a Sunday morning,... ...t trouble with the river. He made little boats out of whole newspapers, an art he learnt by watching the Spender boy, and he set them sailing down the...

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...nnsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ... charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania Sta... ...t File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those... ... was the universal belief that every boy who read the Koran or studied the traditions in his pres- ence, would assuredly attain to honor and happiness... ...all feed in turn, How long be crying, ‘Mercy on them, God!’ Why, who art Thou to teach, and He to learn?” The Bodleian Quatrain pleads Pantheism... ...inal Rubaiyat (as, missing an Arabic Guttural, these T etrastichs are more musically called) are independent Stanzas, consisting each of four Lines of... ... to come!” Ah, take the Cash in hand and waive the Rest; Oh, the brave Music of a distant Drum! XIII. Look to the Rose that blows about us—”Lo, ... ...press, End in the Nothing all Things end in—Yes- Then fancy while Thou art, Thou art but what Thou shalt be—Nothing—Thou shalt not be less. XLVII...

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...ber of the Palais Royal, formerly styled the Palais Cardinal, a man was sitting in deep reverie, his head supported on his hands, leaning over a gilt and inlaid table which was covered with letters and papers. Behind this figure glowed a vast fireplace alive with leaping flames; great logs of oak blazed and crackled on the polished brass andirons whose flicker shone upon t...

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... Twenty Years After (The Third Volume of The Three Musketeers) by Alexandre Dumas is a publica- tion of the Pennsylvania State ... ...lexandre Dumas is a publica- tion of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any k... ...Pennsyl- vania State University, Electronic Classics Series, Jim Manis, Faculty Editor, Hazleton, PA 18201- 1291 is a Portable Document File produced ... ...Patrol. IN TEN MINUTES Mazarin and his party were traversing the street “Les Bons Enfants” behind the theatre built by Richelieu expressly for the pla... ...-chair, her head supported by her hand, her elbow resting on a table, was looking at her son, who was turning over the leaves of a large book filled w... ...h!” said D’Artagnan, Planchet’s recital agreeing with his own observations. “Well?” “One of these two men said, `He must certainly be at Noisy, or be ... ... in our an- cient pleasures.” “And whenever,” added Athos, “we meet in battle, at this word, `Place Royale!’ let us put our swords into our left hands... ...that insolent fellow be- fore he leaves the court.” 629 Dumas “Your majesty,” answered Mazarin, “desires me to do only what I was going to ask you to...

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...nnsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, fo... ... charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania Sta... ...t File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those... ...ay. When my piercing gaze attracted her notice, when she asked me (in that musical voice of hers, with more volume in it, as it seemed to me, than all... ... sportsmen, owners of land, and consumers of tobacco; and are apt to treat art, sci- ences, letters, poetry, or anything offensively above their in- t... ...s in the lives of prodigal sons the same confusion which fancy brings into art. Victurnien was quick-sighted, he saw clearly and without illusion, but... ...nough to make him shudder. Can anything better prove the enormous power of music than that sublime rendering of the disorder and confusion arising out... ...ern luxury into the town, M. and Mme. de Ronceret were faithful to the old traditions. They had always 101 Balzac lived in the old-fashioned house be...

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...Excerpt: William Shakespeare, the protagonist on the great arena of modern poetry, and the glory of the human intellect, was born at Stratford-upon- Avon, in the county of Warwick, in the year 1564, and upon some day, not precisely ascertained, in the month of April. It is certain that he was baptized on th...

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...uncan, produced to my feelings an effect for which I never could account. The effect was, that it reflected back upon the murder a peculiar awfulness and a depth of solemnity; yet, however obstinately I endeavored with my understanding to comprehend this, for many years I never could see why it should produce such an effect....

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...NS OF THE BIBLE TO MERELY HUMAN SCIENCE...................... 54 SCHLOSSER?S LITERARY HISTORY OF THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY ...................... 60 FOX AND BURKE .................................................................................................................................................... 84 JUNIUS............................................................

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... in the following three parts: Each Translator is therefore responsible for his own portion; but the whole has been revised by all three Translators, and the rendering of passages or phrases recurring in more than one portion has been determined after deliberation in common. Even in these, however, a certain elasticity has been deemed desirable....

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... Homer Done into English Prose by Andrew Lang, M.A., Walter Leaf, Litt.D., And Ernest Myers, M.A. A P ENN S TATE E LECTRONIC C LASSICS S ERIES P UBLIC... ... ERIES P UBLICATION The Iliad of Homer, trans. Andrew Lang, Walter Leaf, and Ernest Myers is a publication of the Pennsyl vania State University. ... ...t File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those... ...him lord Agamemnon made answer and said: “Not in this wise, strong as thou art, O godlike Achilles, beguile thou me by craft; thou shalt not outwit me... ...that shall do me honour, and above all Zeus, lord of counsel. Most hateful art thou to me of all kings, fosterlings of Zeus; thou ever lovest strife a... ...t bear it in their hands, even they that by Zeus’ com mand watch over the traditions—so shall this be a mighty oath in thine eyes—verily shall longin... ...ad been poured into the cups. So all day long worshipped they the god with music, singing the beautiful paean, the sons of the Achaians making music t... ...eet fruit in plaited baskets. And in the midst of them a boy made pleasant music on a clear toned viol, and sang thereto a sweet Linos song [probably...

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...ecause they have grown to be the common inheritance of all the world, so many of the most noble deeds that earth can show have become the best known, and enjoyed their full meed of fame. Therefore it may be feared that many of the events here detailed, or alluded to, may seem trite to those in search of novelty; but it is not for such that the collection has been made....

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...ON HEROES, HERO-WORSHIP , AND THE HEROIC IN HISTORY By Thomas Carlyle A PENN S TAT E ELECTRONIC CLASS... ...N S TAT E ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History by Thomas Carlyle is a publication of the Pennsyl... ...t File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those... ... Hardened round us, encasing wholly every notion we form, is a wrappage of traditions, hearsays, mere words. We call that fire of the black thunder-cl... ...tre de Poste, with a broad oath, orders his Postilion, “Va bon train; thou art driving M. de Voltaire.” At Paris his carriage is “the nucleus of a com... ...they were poetic men these, men who had deep thoughts in them, and uttered musically their thoughts. Much would be lost, had Iceland not been burst up... ...as Carlyle great ingenuity, native talent, what one might call unconscious art; altogether a perspicuous clear work, pleasant reading still: this is t... ... Heroes navian one. Snorro tells us farther that Odin invented Poetry; the music of human speech, as well as that miraculous runic marking of it. T ra... ...adowy Edda matters, amid all that fantas- tic congeries of assertions, and traditions, in their musical Mythologies, the main practical belief a man c...

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...Excerpt: This volume contains practically all that remains of the post- Homeric and pre-academic epic poetry. I have for the most part formed my own text. In the case of Hesiod I have been able to use independent collations of several MSS. by Dr. W.H.D. Rouse; otherwise I have depended on the apparatus c...

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.............................. 53 CHAPTER IX: THOMAS STEVENSON ? CIVIL ENGINEER...................................................... 58 CHAPTER X: TALK AND TALKERS ............................................................................................. 63 CHAPTER XI: TALK AND TALKERS ..........................................................................................

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