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Excerpt: The Poems of Goethe, translated by Edgar Alfred Bowring.

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...n. ..................................................................................................................................... 21 The Poems of Goethe. ................................................................................................................................................... 22 Dedication. ......................................................

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...red Bowring A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Poems of Goethe, trans. Edgar Alfred Bowring is a publication of the Pennsylvania... ...sity. 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... ......................................................................... 126 Coptic Song................................................................... .............................................. 333 THOUGHTS ON JESUS CHRIST’S DESCENT INTO HELL. ........................................................... ...ethe To the Kind Reader. No one talks more than a Poet; Fain he’d have the people know it. Praise or blame he ever loves; None in prose confess an err... ...nts* (* The name of a game, known in English as “Jack’s alight.”) We young people in the shade Sat one sultry day; Cupid came, and “Dies the Fox” With... ... boldness suck in blisses From those lips loved dearly. 1803.* 128 Goethe Coptic Song. LEAVE we the pedants to quarrel and strive, Rigid and cautious... ...mber the word!” And on the Indian breeze as it booms, And in the depths of Egyptian tombs, Only the same holy saying I’ve heard: “Vain ’tis to wait ti... ...t never will decay. 1827.* RELIGION AND CHURCH. THOUGHTS ON JESUS CHRIST’S DESCENT INTO HELL. [THE remarkable Poem of which this is a literal but fain...

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...Excerpt: After a voyage, during which the captain of the ship has displayed uncommon courage, seamanship, affability, or other good qualities, grateful passengers often present him with a token of their esteem, in the shape of teapots, tankards, trays, &c. of precious metal....

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... Cornhill to Grand Cairo by William Makepeace Thackeray is a publica- tion 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... ...ge; and, having their book-learn- ing fresh in their minds, see the living people and their cities, and the actual aspect of Nature, along the famous ... ...s shores of the Mediterranean. CHAPTER I:VIGO THE SUN BROUGHT ALL the sick people out of their berths this morning, and the indescribable moans and no... ... which is all but boiling. This has its charms; but I could not relish the Egyptian shampooing. A hideous old blind man (but very dexterous in his art... ... abominably; you sit over your horse as it were on a tower, from which the descent would be very easy, but for the big peak of the saddle. A good way ... ...ountain district, we were in a manner prepared for it, by the mounting and descent of several lonely outlying hills, up and down which our rough stony... ...h branch off the various chapels belonging to each particular sect. In the Coptic chapel I saw one coal-black Copt, in blue robes, cowering in the lit... ...ys. You might be as well impressed with Wapping as with your first step on Egyptian soil. 125 Thackeray The riding of a donkey is, after all, not a d...

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...sics Series Publication The Talisman by Sir Walter Scott is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. 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... ...n which, as far as regards Eastern manners, I was as thickly wrapped as an Egyptian in his fog—but my contemporaries were, many of them, as much enlig... ...ipal incident in the story is that from which the title is derived. Of all people who ever lived, the Persians were perhaps most remarkable for their ... ...e condescended to recruit their diminished resources at the expense of the people of Palestine—he exacted no gifts from the wretched natives for spari... ...n ear. Brave Saracen, let me ask which of the tribes of Arabia claims your descent, and by what name you are known?” “Sir Kenneth,” said the Moslem, “... ...e is such as my lips can easily utter. For me, I am no Arab, yet derive my descent from a line neither less wild nor less war- like. Know, Sir Knight ... ...accommodation, it seemed, of the Lady Edith and her attendants. One of her Coptic maidens re- ceived the message communicated by Sir Henry Neville, an...

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...Excerpt: Note. It is somewhat remarkable that Balzac, dealing as he did with traits of character and the minute and daily circumstances of life, has never been accused of representing actual persons in the two or three thousand portraits which he painted of human nature....

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...x by Honore de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. 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... ...d customs. The tradition of this splendor still lives in the memory of the people,—as in Brittany, where the native char- acter allows no forgetfulnes... ...crossed to Ireland, faithful to the ancient Breton hatred for England. The people of Guerande feigned utter ignorance of the baron’s existence. In the... ...he face, more long than oval, resembles that of some beautiful Isis in the Egyptian bas-reliefs; it has the purity of the heads of sphinxes, polished ... ... of the heads of sphinxes, polished by the fire of the desert, kissed by a Coptic sun. The tones of the skin are in harmony with the faultless modelli... ...lemish nor the small- est wrinkle. There, again, we find the granite of an Egyptian statue softened by the ages. But the line of the cheek-bones, thou... ...laude Vignon with her left, and drawing back to let the marquise pass. The descent of that ancient staircase was to Calyste like the moment of going i...

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...Introduction: The Koran admittedly occupies an important position among the great religious books of the world. Though the youngest of the epoch-making works belonging to this class of literature, it yields to hardly any in the wonderful effect which it has produced on large masses of men. It has created an all but new ph...

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...Excerpt: BOOK I. INSCRIPTIONS. One?s-self I sing, a simple separate person, Yet utter the word Democratic, the word En-Masse. Of physiology from top to toe I sing, Not physiognomy alone nor brain alone is worthy for the Muse, I say the Form complete is worthier far, The Female equally with the Male I sing. Of Life immense in passion, pulse, and powe...

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...Contents LEAVES OF GRASS.......................8 BOOK I. INSCRIPTIONS..................9 One?s-Self I Sing...................................9 As I Ponder?d in Silence.....................10 In Cabin?d Ships at Sea.......................11 T...

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