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Excerpt: Modeste Mignon by Honore de Balzac, translated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley.

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Excerpt: Don Quixote. Part One by Miquel de Cervantes, translated by John Ormsby, 1922 ed.

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Excerpt: A Romance of the South Seas by Herman Melville.

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Excerpt: The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley: Volume Three.

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................................................................................................................... 27 HOMER?S HYMN TO THE EARTH: MOTHER OF ALL .................................................................................. 28 HOMER?S HYMN TO MINERVA................................................................................................................

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...THE COMPLETE POETICAL WORKS OF PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY VOLUME 3 OXFORD EDITION. INCLUDING MATERIALS NEVER ... ... 3 OXFORD EDITION. INCLUDING MATERIALS NEVER BEFORE PRINTED IN ANY EDITION OF THE POEMS. EDITED WITH TEXTUAL NOTES BY THOMAS HUTCHINSON, M. A. EDITOR ... ...EVER BEFORE PRINTED IN ANY EDITION OF THE POEMS. EDITED WITH TEXTUAL NOTES BY THOMAS HUTCHINSON, M. A. EDITOR OF THE OXFORD WORDSWORTH. 1914. A Penn S... ... did live and move 72. 72. 72. 72. 72. Within the heart of great Apollo—he Listened with all his soul, and laughed for pleasure. Close to his side sto... ... The impious Cyclops. ... UL UL UL UL ULYSSES: YSSES: YSSES: YSSES: YSSES: Listen then what a punishment I have For this fell monster, how secure a fl... ...tain the end The affections of the actors in the scene Must have been thus influenced by his voice. _165 CYPRIAN: CYPRIAN: CYP... ...res sur les Sciences, a Voltaire”.) We find, from the testimony of ancient writers, that Britain, Germany, and France were much colder than at present... ...A human being can only be supposed accountable for those actions which are influenced by his will. But belief is utterly distinct from and unconnected... ...d faithful, and true, _45 Such as I fear can be made but by few— Of writers this age has abundance and plenty, Three score and a thousand, two ...

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...Excerpt: Chapter 1. Childhood and early education it seems proper that I should prefix to the following biographical sketch some mention of the reasons which have made me think it desirable that I should leave behind me such a memorial of so uneventful a life as mine. I do not for a moment imagine that any part of what I have to relate can be interesting to th...

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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 depend...

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................................................................................................................................................. 9 Life of Hesiod ............................................................................................................................................................... 10 The Hesiodic Poems ....................................

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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...

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...Excerpt: Five Books of the Lives, Heroic Deeds and Sayings of Gargantua and His Son Pantagruel by Master Francis Rabelais, translated by Sir Thomas Urquhart and Peter Antony Motteux....

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Excerpt: The Works of Edgar Allan Poe in Five Volumes: Volume One.

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