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...INCIPLE .......................................................................................................................................... 97 OLD ENGLISH POETRY .......................................................................................................................................... 119 POEMS ............................................................

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...ing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cove... .......................................................................... 97 OLD ENGLISH POETRY ........................................................... ...................................................................... 97 OLD ENGLISH POETRY ............................................................... .............................................................. 97 OLD ENGLISH POETRY ....................................................................... ...l decoration, if not in the external architecture of their residences, the English are supreme. The Italians have but little sentiment beyond marbles ... ...lass. The division of the upper clerks of staunch firms, or of the “steady old fellows,” it was not possible to mistake. These were known by their coa... ...ob, when suddenly there came into view a counte- nance (that of a decrepid old man, some sixty-five or seventy years of age,)—a countenance which at o... ...hrough with a Paixhan bomb, or knocked him in the head with the “Poets and Poetry of America,” he could hardly have been more discomfited than when I ... ...d. While discussing, very much at random, the essentiality of what we call Poetry, my principal purpose will be to cite for consideration, some few of...

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... Prescott Wormeley A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication An Old Maid by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley is a publi... ...the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. An Old Maid by Honoré de Balzac, trans. Katharine Prescott Wormeley, the Penns... ...ing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cove... ...sylvania State University is an equal opportunity university. 3 Balzac An Old Maid by Honoré de Balzac T ranslated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley Ded... ...ment invented by the Prince of Wales; but he did practice the rudiments of English elegance with a personal satisfaction little understood by the peop... ...he tone of it was pleasing from a slightly muffled quality like that of an English bugle, which is firm and sweet, strong but velvety. The chevalier h... ...r saintly 26 An Old Maid in them, nor anything grand; to them there is no poetry in the senses, only gross sensuality. Where such jurisprudence preva...

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...Contents The Note Book of an English Opium-Eater ...4 THREE MEMORABLE MURDERS .............................................................................................. 4 THE TRUE RELATIONS OF THE BIBLE TO MERELY HUMAN SCIENCE...................... 5...

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...Y A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The Note Book of an English Opium-Eater by Thomas de Quincey is a publication of the Pennsylvan... ...or the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Note Book of an English Opium-Eater by Thomas de Quincey, the Pennsylvania State University... ...ing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cove... ...? Oh, no: he had suited himself with a vic- tim some time before, viz., an old and very intimate friend. For he seems to have laid it down as a maxim—... ... kitchen, and rocked at intervals by the young mother, a baby eight months old. Nineteen months have Marr and herself been married; and this is their ... ...arth? Fourthly, there is a stoutish boy, an apprentice, say thirteen years old; a Devonshire boy, with handsome features, such as most Devonshire yout... ...ty for dealing with the grandeurs of the human spirit, with religion, with poetry, or even with science, when it rose above the mercenary practical, i... ...me for saying that men of the most sense are apt, upon two subjects, viz., poetry and style, to talk most like blockheads), have invariably regarded S... ...ial and random T emple de Gout ‘shows the supe- riority in this species of poetry to have been greatly on the side of the Frenchman.’ Let’s hear a rea...

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...cey A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION Confessions of an English Opium-Eater by Thomas de Quincey is a publication of the Pennsylvan... ... for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Confessions of an English Opium-Eater by Thomas de Quincey, the Pennsylvania State University... ...ing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. Cove... ...all here briefly retrace them. My father died when I was about seven years old, and left me to the care of four guardians. I was sent to various schoo... ...bowed to him, and looked earnestly in his face, thinking to myself, “He is old and infirm, and in this world I shall not see him again.” I was right; ... ...body’s face, and I could make an ample al- lowance for the garrulity of an old servant. Of necessity, how- ever, I must have appeared in her eyes very... ...ositions: Milton she cannot read sufferably. People in general either read poetry without any passion at all, or else overstep the modesty of nature, ...

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...BLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE............................................................................................................................ 11 THE ENGLISH MAIL-COACH....................................................................13 SECTION I?THE GLORY OF MOTION .................................................................................. 13 GOING DOWN WITH VICT...

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.......... 27 THE SLEEPING CITY.................................................................................................................. 27 THE POETRY OF CHAUCER .................................................................................................... 30 THE POETRY OF SPENSER.....................................................................................

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...is, Faculty Editor, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical ... ...s Dickens Charles Dickens Charles Dickens Charles Dickens CHAPTER I – THE DAWN CHAPTER I – THE DAWN CHAPTER I – THE DAWN CHAPTER I – THE DAWN CHAPTER ... ...ER I – THE DAWN CHAPTER I – THE DAWN AN ANCIENT ENGLISH CATHEDRAL TOWER? How can the ancient English Cathedral tower be here! The well-known massive g... ...ses in the background, where it cannot be, and still no writhing figure is on the grim spike. Stay! Is the spike so low a thing as the rusty spike on ... ...ng-to, and I ses to my poor self, “I’ll have another ready for him, and he’ll bear in mind the market price of opium, and pay according.” O my poor he... ...murmurs. ‘ – Poorly, Tope?’ ‘Why, sir, Mr. Jasper was that breathed – ‘ ‘I wouldn’t say “That breathed,” Tope,’ Mr. Crisparkle interposes with the sam... ...’ Mr. Jasper, still in the same attitude, murmurs: ‘“Nothing half so sweet in life,” Ned!’ ‘Here’s the parcel in my greatcoat-pocket. They must be pre... ...nd as constantly seeking that. If I was to say seeking that, as a bird seeks its nest, I should make an ass of myself, because that would trench upon ...

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... THE AUTHOR?S MANUSCRIPT PREFACE. ........................................................................ 31 PASTORALS, WITH A DISCOURSE ON PASTORAL POETRY. WRITTEN IN THE YEAR MDCCIV...... 32 SPRING ...................................................................................................................................................................... 37 SUMM...

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...Preface: As the most striking lines of poetry are the most hackneyed, because 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. Theref...

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...................................................................................................................................... 11 Parable of the Old Men and the Young......................................................................................................................................... 12 Arms and the Boy .................................................

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