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...t without a spiritual screen, relates to books of Kabbalah as if they were fairy tale stories of things that happen in our world. But Kabbalists will ... ...out a spiritual screen, relates to books of Kabbalah as if they were fairy tale stories of things that happen in our world. But Kabbalists will not be... ...word moshe, which means pulling out of this world. The Torah is a historic tale about the exodus of the peo- ple of Israel from Egypt. But in fact, it... ...6 including harmful ones. All of these themes are portrayed as a historic tale about human development. In fact, the Torah describes a certain era in... ...r again. The Kabbalist Moshe De Leon was the first to publish the Zohar in thirteenth-century Spain. It contained not only com- mentaries on the Torah...

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...ptured by the Indians.’ Rosita knew this game, which the children played: it had evolved from the tales of sailors and adventurers returning from th... ...de and along the whole length of this raised pathway were flaming torches lighting the way to the fairy tale palace and setting the waters of the la... ... along the whole length of this raised pathway were flaming torches lighting the way to the fairy tale palace and setting the waters of the lake on ... ... Queen of Scots and her husband as the hapless Lord Darnley: John MacGregor had donned the wild, thirteenth century Highland dress of the brave Sir ...

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... that shackle mankind -- The growl of superstition at the door of knowledge -- Tales of goblins damned -- The hand of Satan on the sea - - Beliefs of ... ...equest for permission to return to Venice -- Description of Marco's travels -- Tale of a devout shoemaker -- How faith removed a mountain -- The sight... ...orn (40,000 bushels), ten thousand jars of Sicilian salt fish, twenty thousand talents' weight of wool, and twenty thousand talents' weight of bulk ca... ..., and desires that they keep his festival as a holiday. He has a horror of the thirteenth; of each month; it is the Devil's Day. On the principle "the... ...them." It thus appears that the vessels used in this India-Cathay trade in the thirteenth century would compare favorably with the largest sailing ves... ... met with a better fate. About this period, or shortly before the close of the thirteenth century, there sprang up in Central and South America two gr... ...dows and arches of evergreens gave the narrow crooked streets the semblance of fairy bowers. Despite the torrid heat of a summer sun, the entire popul...

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...plain why it is that a child may have the same THE RELIGIOUS DIMENSION 20 talents, features, or temperament as someone who died perhaps years before ... ...ing. I think there is no better way to describe it than with a poem from a thirteenth century Zen master, Dai-o Kokushi: There is a reality even prior... ...were equally aware of the moral bankruptcy of society and the never-ending tale of the rich getting fewer and richer while the poor became always more... ...am drunken in this world, That except of drunkenness and revelry I have no tale to 86. These letters in Arabic spell the Hebrew name of God. THE RELIG... ...nly a dramatic storyline is presented. Frequently the myths are reduced to fairy-tales and fables of lit- tle weight, stories such as “Why the crow is...

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...nd I used to… Alas, no one lives who can write the parts for an actor of my talents. The words that pass for drama these days clog my brain and sti... ... lecture on her ingratitude and a suggestion where someone with her minimal talents could earn her living. If she dared wonder aloud about the lega... ... is. “Orpheus and Eurydice”. I’m sure you’ll appreciate the pathos of the tale, star-crossed love and other nonsense. And so ideal for tonight…” ... ... Connecticut River north of East Haddam, Daniel Connolly had built a gothic fairytale of a house for his bride, Helene, and his newborn son, Ronan. ... ...ned to sail home for her daughter’s eighth birthday — or her eleventh — or thirteenth. Of course, Barbara Scott 80 she never came. But somehow,... ...tried to reach for her, she swirled away from him. The candle flame, like a fairy’s wand, danced through the air ahead of her as she visited each co...

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...al works or those who transcribed the oral traditions. ―So Homer‘s tale of Troy, which would have actually occurred in about the 12 th Centur... ...e Fourth Century Emperor Theodosis made heresy punishable by death. In the Thirteenth 58 Century the Fourth Lateran Council and Pope Gregory IX‘s... ... observation that ‗This is undoubtedly the greatest amount of intellectual talent in this room since Thomas Jefferson dined alone.‘‖ --―I knew ... ...f the grossest vices and a collection of the most paltry and contemptible tales, I cannot dishonor my Creator by calling it by His name.‘ Then late... ...s should we saddle our children? Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny, the Tooth Fairy, the wolf who ate Red Riding Hood‘s grandmother, the witch of Hansel... ...tions of the real world with the 106 parentally provided mythology of fairy tales and the community imposed basic assumptions— whether they be of... ...nvince us of the existence of Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny and the tooth fairy. By the time we are 10 we have lost our belief in the Easter bunny an...

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Excerpt: Taras Bulba and Other Tales by Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol.

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...A PENN STATE ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION Taras Bulba and Other Tales by Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol is a publication of the Pennsylvania Sta... ... the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Taras Bulba and Other Tales by Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol, the Pennsylvania State University, Elec... .......................................... 270 4 Gogol Taras Bulba and Other Tales by Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol Introduction by John Cournos INTRODUCTIO... ...e people, known as the Cossacks, whose ap- pearance towards the end of the thirteenth century or at the beginning of the fourteenth was a remarkable e... ...wer for individual and general good. “It combines all the fascination of a fairy tale and all the simple truth of human adventure, holding out the sam... ... children of both sexes, beginning at an age when a child begins to love a fairy tale—all might read it or listen to it, without tedium.” Every one wi... ...er subjects. I never studied the sciences: I began to learn to write in my thirteenth year. Of course you know that I was a soldier in the ranks.” “Hm...

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...Excerpt: My dear Strunz:--I should be ungrateful if I did not set your name at the head of one of the two tales I could never have written but for your patient kindness and care. Accept this as my grateful acknowledgment of the readiness with which you tried--perhaps not very successfully-- to initiate me into the mysteries of mu...

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...uld be ungrateful if I did not set your name at the head of one of the two tales I could never have written but for your patient kindness and care. Ac... ...V enice after so many great poets and petty travelers. The interest of the tale requires only this record of the most startling con- trast in the life... ...n such a dress as the Senators wore whom Titian painted. But alas! in this fairy palace, not unlike that of the Peschieri at Genoa, the Duchess Catane... ...s waking eyes the magnificence of which he had just been dreaming, and the fairy had exercised admirable taste. Splen- dor worthy of a parvenu soverei... ...e bed. “A prince, and poor, young, and handsome!” cried she. “Why, it is a fairy tale!” The Sicilian perched herself on the bed with the artless freed... ... “A prince, and poor, young, and handsome!” cried she. “Why, it is a fairy tale!” The Sicilian perched herself on the bed with the artless freedom of ... ...o be is a love beyond curing. The young Venetian, by dint of living in his thirteenth century republic, and in the arms of that perni- cious courtesan...

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... IN FRANCE (continued), 161 -- BOOK ELEVENTH FRANCE (concluded), 178 -- BOOK TWELFTH IMAGINATION AND TASTE, HOW IMPAIRED -- AND RESTORED, 192 -- BOOK THIRTEENTH IMAGINATION AND TASTE, HOWIMPAIRED -- AND RESTORED (concluded), 202 -- BOOK FOURTEENTH CONCLUSION, 213...

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...IRED AND RESTORED . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 192 BOOK THIRTEENTH IMAGINATION AND TASTE, HOW IMPAIRED AND RESTORED (concluded) .... ...ings for a regular sea, Will settle on some British theme, some old Romantic tale by Milton left unsung; More often turning to some gentle place 170 W... ... reports Of dire enchantments faced and overcome 175 By the strong mind, and tales of warlike feats, Where spear encountered spear, and sword with swo... ...independence and stern liberty. 220 Sometimes it suits me better to invent A tale from my own heart, more near akin To my own passions and habitual th... ...ng of the hills, A northern villager. 35 As if the change Had waited on some Fairy’s wand, at once Behold me rich in monies, and attired In splendid g... ...an powers, Than I beheld, loitering on calm clear nights Alone, beneath this fairy work of earth. On the vague reading of a truant youth 95 ’Twere idl... ...to find some change In look and air, from that new region brought, As if from Fairy land. Much I questioned him; 106 The Prelude of 1850 And every wor... ...r busy in the course they took, 335 Or animate an hour of vacant ease. BOOK THIRTEENTH IMAGINATION AND TASTE, HOW IMPAIRED AND RESTORED (concluded) F...

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... France and French Revolution, 176 -- Book Eleventh Imagination, How Impaired and Restored, 205 -- Book Twelfth Same Subject (Continued), 217 -- Book Thirteenth Conclusion, 228...

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... Twelfth Same Subject (Continued) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217 Book Thirteenth Conclusion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 228 ... ...ngs for a regular sea, I settle on some British theme, some old 180 Romantic tale by Milton left unsung; More often resting at some gentle place Withi... ...g the shepherds, with reposing knights Sit by a fountain side and hear their tales. 185 Sometimes, more sternly move, I would relate How vanquished Mi... ...ndence and stern liberty. 220 Sometimes it suits me better to shape out Some tale from my own heart, more near akin To my own passions and habitual th... ...on for a mountain youth, A northern villager. As if by word Of magic or some fairy’s power, at once Behold me rich in monies and attired 35 In splendi... ...e, for my inner eye had seen Such sights before among the shining streams Of fairyland, the forests of romance— Thence came a spirit hallowing what I ... ...uperhuman powers, Than I beheld standing on winter nights Alone beneath this fairy work of earth. ’Twould be a waste of labour to detail 110 The rambl... ...proved indeed that not in vain I had been taught to reverence a power 3 Book Thirteenth begins here in 1850 version. 218 The Prelude of 1805 That is ... ...pirit, and best power, Both of the object seen, and eye that sees. 380 Book Thirteenth Conclusion IN one of these excursions, travelling then 4 Throu...

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...Excerpt: Certain persons have interrogated the author as to why there was such a demand for these tales that no year passes without his giving an installment of them, and why he has lately taken to writing commas mixed up with bad syllables, at which the ladies publicly knit their brows, and have put to him other question...

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...LL STORIES COLLECTED FROM THE ABBEYS OF TOURAINE VOLUME III: THE THIRD TEN TALES by HONORE DE BALZAC THIRD TEN TALES A Penn State Electronic Classics ... ...Stories Collected from the Abbeys of Touraine: Volume Three: The Third Ten Tales by Honore de Balzac is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer... ...Stories Collected from the Abbeys of Touraine: Volume Three: The Third Ten Tales by Honore de Balzac, the Pennsylvania State University, Electronic Cl... ...ll Stories- V ol. Three PERSEVERANCE IN LOVE DURING THE FIRST YEARS of the thirteenth century after the coming of our Divine Saviour there happened in... ...e no answer, and let this queen of beauty depart, and believed her to be a fairy, until a workman told her that the fairy was Madame de l’Ile Adam. Al...

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...te MSS., preserved in thirty-one fragments, fifteen of which date from the thirteenth and four- teenth centuries. Of all these MSS., but nine are so w... ...th century, although the poem itself is thought to go back at least to the thirteenth. The legend was also dramatized by Hans Sachs, the shoemaker poe... ...e ancient Germanic Legend. *A is a parchment MS. of the second half of the thirteenth century, now found in Munich. It forms the basis of Lachmann’s e... ...a”, and follows these accounts closely. The younger “Edda” is not really a tale, but a book of poetics; it relates, however, the Siegfried saga briefl... ...n tradition, does not represent the simplest and most original form of the tale; but what the original form was, has long been and still is a matter o... ...lity of a mythological interpretation, seeks a purely human origin for the tale, namely, a quarrel among relatives for the possession of treasure. The... ... 18 The Nibelungenlied long to the Siegfried story, but to the well-known fairy tale of Sleeping Beauty (“Erlosungsmurchen”), which occurs in a varie... ...leeping Beauty, or of being sewed into a garment, as in No. 111 of Grimm’s fairy tales. By the union of the two stories, i.e., the Hagen-Siegfried sag... ...dreksaga” Brunhild’s castle is called “Saegarthr” (‘Sea Garden’), and in a fairy tale (No. 93 of Grimm) “Stromberg,” referring to the fact that it was...

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... But there is matter for a second rhyme, And I to this would add another tale. 8 Lyrical Ballads – Vol 2 P P P P PAR AR AR AR ART SECOND T SECOND T... ...’T was one well known to him in former days, A Shepherd-lad: who ere his thirteenth year Had chang’d his calling, with the mariners 1 This Poem w... ...en for our immortal part, we want No symbols, Sir, to tell us that plain tale: The thought of death sits easy on the man Who has been born and d... ... Brother— PRIEST. That is but A fellow tale of sorrow. From his youth James, though not sickly, yet was delicat... ...f green Savannahs spake, And many an endless endless lake With all its fairy crowds Of islands that together lie As quietly as spots of sky ... ...ets of five seasons re-appear And fade, unseen by any human eye, Where fairy water-breaks do murmur on For ever, and I saw the sparkling foam, ...

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...n antiquarian toward facts for which he has not full proof. Through Breton tales, for example, he heard of the fairy fountain of Barenton in the fores... ... he has not full proof. Through Breton tales, for example, he heard of the fairy fountain of Barenton in the forest of Broceliande, where fays and man... ...ature of any period. This is the Brut, writ ten in the first half of the thirteenth century, after the year 1204, by Layamon, an English priest of t... ..., gives a truly Celtic version of Arthur’s disap pearance from earth. Two fairy maidens bear the wounded king in a boat from the battle field over th... ...ases conveys the idea of bril liant whiteness, a characteristic of Celtic fairy objects. His ship, for example, is named White Form, his shield “Nigh... ...the story of the Round Table is Wace. He and Layamon agree in calling it a tale of the Brit ons, and in saying that Arthur had it made to prevent riv... ...o barbaric a tone, as to make it evident that he is here recounting a folk tale of pure Celtic origin, which must have been connected with Arthur befo...

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... and many years ago the romance of the encounter led the author to begin a tale upon it, in which the outlaw became the protector of one of the proscr... ...te, and the manners therein certainly are scarcely accordant with the real thirteenth cen- tury, and still less with our notions of the days of chival... ...ew to the hallowing of their own tombs. The author is well aware that this tale has all the incorrectnesses and inconsistencies that are sure to atten... ...e incorrectnesses and inconsistencies that are sure to attend a historical tale; but the dream that has been pleasant to dream may be pleasant to list... ...ng. Simon and Guy, on the other hand, were commonplace young nobles of the thirteenth century, heedless of all but them- selves, and disdaining all be... ...s IS the land of enchantment! Thou knowst it is. Did we not see a fleet of fairy boats sailing on the sea? and a leaf eat up a fly here on this very t... ...run off in a breath. Reyna del Rocio—that’s more majestic, but not so like fairyland as Queen of the Dew-drops!” Princess Joan’s mouth was effectually... ...ost to himself, “those eyes had a soul and memories that ne’er came out of fairyland!” “Ha!” exclaimed the innkeeper, “there’s old Blind Hal un- der t...

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...ublime, ’ He deign’d not to belie his soul in songs, Nor turn his very talent to a crime; He did not loathe the Sire to laud the Son, But cl... ...shore, The vulgarest tool that Tyranny could want, With just enough of talent, and no more, To lengthen fetters by another fix’d, And offer ... ...as but a doubt; but ne’er magician’s wand Wrought change with all Armida’s fairy art Like what this light touch left on Juan’s heart. And if she... ...lls, and give them to the passing gale, According to some good old woman’s tale. Thus would he while his lonely hours away Dissatisfied, nor k... ...rds; harsh truth; a truth which many know. Enough.— The faithful and the fairy pair, Who never found a single hour too slow, What was it mad... ... once it was a magic sound to me; And still it half calls up the realms of fairy, Where I beheld what never was to be; All feelings changed, b... ...Danube’s border Were briskly fired and answer’d in due order. But on the thirteenth, when already part Of the troops were embark’d, the siege ... ...And tell me what you think of your great thinkers. CANTO THE THIRTEENTH. I now mean to be serious;—it is time, Since laughter no...

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...y in the sixteenth century—Bandello, the bishop and author of some strange tales indeed, who left us the splendid collection of romances whence Shakes... ...man problem; and Diderot, imitat- ing him, once wrote, “This is not a mere tale”—in what is perhaps Diderot’s masterpiece, where he shows us the beaut... .... There are certain movements so undisguisedly heavy that they are as tell-tale as a register of birth. The cap- tain put on his lemon-colored right-h... ... about it; the Baron knows nothing of it as yet; for it is the same in the Thirteenth Arrondissement as in every other: the lover, like the husband, i... ... in the funds, or in a duke of the realm, or some Prince Charming out of a fairy tale?” “Oh, I should so much like to see him!” cried Hortense, smilin... ...nded, in this drawing-room with three windows looking out on a garden like fairyland, one of those gardens that are created in a month with a made soi... ...lties before him instead of conquering them one by one, like the lovers in fairy tales, who to win their princesses overcome ever new enchantments, th... ... a bell, and as good as a young man? He will 303 Balzac marry you (in the Thirteenth Arrondissement) and be very kind to you; he will place seven tho... ... Ma- demoiselle Olympe Bijou is perhaps divorced. Divorce is common in the thirteenth arrondissement.” Josepha rose, and foraging among the rare plant...

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...mfortable, optimistic, rather indolent opinions. Balzac says in one of his tales that the real Tourangeau will not make an effort, or dis- place himse... ...t least have been detached. There is a charming description, in his little tale of “La Grenadiere,” of the view of the opposite side of the Loire as y... ...his modest title, appar- ently, we must recognize one of the most original talents of the French Renaissance; and it is a proof of the vigor of the ar... ... my turn brought me into sight of a house as charming as an old manor in a fairy tale. I had but a rapid and partial view of Cheverny; but that view w... ... it was projected “des 1172,” but commenced only in the first years of the thirteenth century. “The nave” the writer adds, “was finished tant bien que... ...“was finished tant bien que mal, faute de ressources; the facade is of the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries in its lower part, and of the fourteent... ...ear, after all, that the cathedral of Angers, built during the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, is a suffi- ciently honorable church; the more that i... ...scape. In the warm southern dusk it looked more than ever like a city in a fairy-tale. To make the thing perfect, a white young moon, in its first qua...

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...ro- duce an unfavourable contrast. The Poet Laureate also, in the charming tale of “Thalaba,” had shown how extensive might be the researches of a per... ...said, in general, that most of the incidents intro- duced in the following tale are fictitious, and that reality, where it exists, is only retained in... ...eels thereof savour, Out of ague if he be went, He shall have thereto good talent. When he has a good taste, And eaten well a good repast, And supped ... ...dest exceeded not her twentieth year, the youngest had scarce attained her thirteenth; and so like were they to each other that they could not have be... ...pressed on her that she herself must venture, were it but the point of her fairy foot, beyond the prescribed boundary, if she ever hoped to give a lov... ... the dread of Heathenesse, and imprisoning its strength in both her little fairy hands, she bent upon it her brow, and united to it her lips. “What ne...

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...of a wherry.” “Hush!” cried Miss Sedley. “Why, will the black footman tell tales?” cried Miss Rebecca, laughing. “He may go back and tell Miss Pinkert... ...d in the society of women: her father, repro- bate as he was, was a man of talent; his conversation was a thousand times more agreeable to her than th... ...ult with Miss Sharp’s conduct, except to my- self; and must allow that her talents and accomplishments are of a high order. As far as the head goes, a... ...indbad the Sailor in the V alley of Diamonds, or with Prince Ahmed and the Fairy Peribanou in that delight- 44 V anity Fair – V olume One ful cavern ... ...at heavy thump on the child’s hand. A moan followed. Dobbin looked up. The Fairy Peribanou had fled into the inmost cavern with Prince Ahmed: the Roc ... ...ectators. Nevertheless, his in- trepid adversary prepared to close for the thirteenth time. If I had the pen of a Napier, or a Bell’s Life, I should l... ... as is only felt by children—such an affection, as we read in the charming fairy- book, uncouth Orson had for splendid young V alentine his conqueror.... ...he house of Sir Lapin War- ren, whose lady was about to present him with a thirteenth blessing), regarding Miss Crawley and her case. “What a little h...