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...cument or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Winter’s Tale by William Shakespeare , the Pennsylvania State University, Elec... ...nsylvania State University is an equal opportunity university. 3 THE WINTER’S TALE By William Shakespeare (written about 1610 1611) DRAMATIS PERSONA... ...) (Second Servant:) Time: as Chorus. SCENE: Sicilia, and Bohemia. THE WINTER’S TALE ACT I SCENE I: Antechamber in LEONTES’ palace. [Enter CAMILLO and ... ... freedom of my knowledge: we cannot with such magnificence—in so The Winter’ s Tale, Act I, scene i 5 rare—I know not what to say. We will give you ... ...e us, as little ac cuse us. CAMILLO: You pay a great deal too dear for what’s given freely. ARCHIDAMUS: Believe me, I speak as my understanding instr... ...endants .] POLIXENES: Nine changes of the watery star hath been The shepherd’s note since we have left our throne Without a burthen: time as long agai... ...therefore, like a cipher, Yet standing in rich place, I multiply The Winter’ s Tale, Act I, scene ii 6 With one ‘We thank you’ many thousands moe Th... ...hanks a while; And pay them when you part. POLIXENES: Sir, that’s to morrow. I am question’d by my fears, of what may chance Or breed upo... ...ENES: Very sooth, to morrow. LEONTES: We’ll part the time between’s then; and in that I’ll no gainsaying. POLIXENES: Press me not,...

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... something human is dearer to me than the wealth of all the world.” Grimm’ s T ales. To My Wife YOUTH: A NARRATIVE YOUTH THIS COULD HAVE OCCURRED nowh... ...ge to the East, and my first voyage as second mate; it was also my skipper’s first command. Y ou’ll admit it was time. He was sixty if a day; a little... ... he had blue eyes in that old face of his, which were amazingly like a boy’s, with that candid expression some quite common men preserve to the end of... ...ptain, everyone, hardly able to keep our feet, engaged on that gravedigger’s work, and trying to toss shovelfuls of wet sand up to windward. At every ... ...light men falling down with a great flour- ish of shovels. One of the ship’s boys (we had two), impressed by the weirdness of the scene, wept as if hi... ...ed us off to a tier where we remained for a month. Mrs. Beard (the captain’s name was Beard) came from Colchester to see the old man. She lived on boa... ...e shirts, she said: ‘And the socks? They want mending, I am sure, and John’s— Captain Beard’s—things are all in order now. I would be glad of somethin... ...r me, and meantime I read for the first time ‘Sartor Resartus’ and Burnaby’s ‘Ride to Khiva.’ I didn’t understand much of the first then; but I rememb... ... shadow maneuvering a little way off. They shouted at us some name—a woman’s name, Miranda or Melissa—or some such thing. ‘This means another month in...

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...lvania State University is an equal opportunity university. Alexander Pope s The Rape of the Lock is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univers... ...he Rape of the Lock is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University s ongoing Electronic Classics Series, Jim Manis, Senior Faculty Editor. Al... ...ctronic Classics Series, Jim Manis, Senior Faculty Editor. Alexander Pope s The Rape of the Lock is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univers... ... or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Alexander Pope s The Rape of the Lock the Pennsylvania State University, Jim Manis, Facu... ...ss of those wishing to make use of them, the Pennsylvania State University s Electronic Classics Series. Copyright ' 1998 The Pennsylvania State Unive... ..., who have good sense and good humor enough to laugh not only at their sex s little unguarded follies, but at their own. But it was communicated with ... ...ir. 7 As now your own, our beings were of old, And once enclosed in woman s beauteous mold; Thence, by a soft transition, we repair From earthly vehi... ...on, we repair From earthly vehicles to these of air. Think not, when woman s transient breath is fled, That all her vanities at once are dead: Succeed... ...: The sprites of fiery termagants in flame Mount up, and take a Salamander s name. Soft yielding minds to water glide away, And sip, with Nymphs, thei...

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... for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. William Shakespeare’s Titus Andronicus , the Pennsylvania State University, Jim Manis, Facult... ... that was the last That wore the imperial diadem of Rome; Then let my father’s honours live in me, Nor wrong mine age with this indignity. BASSIANUS: ... ... Romans, friends, followers, favorers of my right, If ever Bassianus, Caesar’s son, Were gracious in the eyes of royal Rome, Keep then this passage to... ...s valiant sons In coffins from the field; And now at last, laden with horror’s spoils, Returns the good Andronicus to Rome, Renowned Titus, flourishin... ...ame, Whom worthily you would have now succeed. And in the Capitol and senate’s right, Whom you pretend to honour and adore, That you withdraw you and ... ...is sons, And her to whom my thoughts are humbled all, Gracious Lavinia, Rome’s rich ornament, That I will here dismiss my loving friends, And to my fo... ...hat I will here dismiss my loving friends, And to my fortunes and the people’s favor Commit my cause in balance to be weigh’d. [Exeunt the followers o... ... .] Captain: Romans, make way: the good Andronicus. Patron of virtue, Rome’s best champion, Successful in the battles that he fights, With honour an... ... in silence, as the dead are wont, And sleep in peace, slain in your country’s wars! O sacred receptacle of my joys, Sweet cell of virtue and nobility...

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...PYGMIES ............................................................................................................................... 33 THE DRAGON’S TEETH.............................................................................................................. 50 CIRCE’S PALACE.............................................................................................

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...rnally pronounce the whole thing a bore, until I led him to my predecessor’s little ruined, rustic summer house, midway on the hillside. It is a mere ... ...ossibly not,” I remarked. “I know from my own experi ence, that an author’s last work is always his best one, in his 6 TanglewoodTales own estimate,... ... shine comes in, warmly and brightly, through the better half of a winter’s day. Eustace put his bundle of manuscript into my hands; and I skimmed th... ...ch than those of the former volume; nor did I at all doubt that Mr. Bright’s audacity (so far as that endowment might avail) had enabled him to take f... ...f grief that ever the world saw; was such material the stuff that children’s playthings should be made of! How were they to be purified? How was the b... ...rly upon him. Thus the stories (not by any strained effort of the narrator’s, but in harmony with their inherent germ) transform them selves, and re ... ...rst poet or romancer told these marvellous legends (such is Eustace Bright’s opinion), it was still the Golden Age. Evil had never yet existed; and so... ...ner life of the legends cannot be come at save by making them entirely one’s own property—there is no defense to be made. Eustace informed me that he ... ...able distinction at the next Commencement. In his oration for the bachelor’s degree, he gives me to un derstand, he will treat of the classical myths...

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................................................................................................................................... 22 THE POOR RELATION?S STORY ................................................................................................................. 27 NOBODY?S STORY.........................................................................................

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........................................................ 22 THE POOR RELATION’S STORY ...................................................................... ................................................................... 27 NOBODY’S STORY ...................................................................... ...h Snuff-boxes in dreams, when least expected. Nor is the frog with cobbler’s wax on his tail, far off; for there was no knowing where he wouldn’t jump... ...here he wouldn’t jump; and when he flew over the candle, and came upon one’s hand with that spotted back—red on a green ground—he was horrible. The ca... ...e its stolid features so intolerable? Surely not because it hid the wearer’s face. An apron would have done as much; and though I should have pre- fer... ...nsupportable, like the mask. Was it the immovability of the mask? The doll’s face was im- movable, but I was not afraid of her. Perhaps that fixed and... ...to awake me in the night all perspira- tion and horror, with, “O I know it’s coming! O the mask!” I never wondered what the dear old donkey with the p... ... the other, rather a weak-minded person—though good-natured; but the Jacob’s Ladder, next him, made of little squares of red wood, that went flap- pin... ...ened by small bells, was a mighty marvel and a great delight. Ah! The Doll’s house!—of which I was not propri- etor, but where I visited. I don’t admi...

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...Contents BOTTICELLI?S MADONNA ......................................................................................................... 4 IN THE LOUVRE ................................................................................................

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... State University is an equal opportunity university. Contents BOTTICELLI’S MADONNA .................................................................... ................................ 9 4 Verse Verse by Edith Wharton BOTTICELLI’S MADONNA IN THE LOUVRE What strange presentiment, O Mother, lies On thy wa... ...other, lies On thy waste brow and sadly-folded lips, Forefeeling the Light’s terrible eclipse On Calvary, as if love made thee wise, And thou couldst ... ...at death would fain disown thee, grief made wise With prophecy thy husband’s widowed eyes And bade him call the master’s art to rear Thy perfect image... ...uise Beneath the breast that seems to fall and rise, And lips that at love’s call should answer, “Here!” First-born of the Renascence, when thy soul C... ... flesh aside, Into these lovelier marble limbs it stole, Regenerate in art’s sunrise clear and wide As saints who, having kept faith’s raiment whole, ... ...m, that like some chalice of old time Contain’st the liquid of the poet’s thought Within thy curving hollow, gem-enwrought With interwoven tr... ...ted cup. TWO BACKGROUNDS I LA VIERGE AU DONATEUR. Here by the ample river’s argent sweep, Bosomed in tilth and vintage to her walls, A tower-crowned ... ...heir base, And, equipoised o’er tower and market-place, The Gothic minster’s winged immensity; And in that narrow burgh, with equal mood, Two placid h...

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...Excerpt: Introduction to Canto First. November?s sky is chill and drear, November?s leaf is red and sear: Late, gazing down the steepy linn That hems our little garden in, Low in its dark and narrow glen You scarce the rivulet might ken, So thick the tangled greenwood gre...

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... FIRST. TO WILLIAM STEW ART ROSE, ESQ. Ashestiel, Ettrick Forest. November’s sky is chill and drear, November’s leaf is red and sear: Late, gazing dow... ... with doubled speed, Hurries its waters to the T weed. No longer Autumn’s glowing red Upon our forest hills is shed; No more, beneath the evening b... ...d wintry sky, And far beneath their summer hill, Stray sadly by Glenkinnon’s rill: The shepherd shifts his mantle’s fold, And wraps him closer from th... ...the mountain child, Feel the sad influence of the hour, And wail the daisy’s vanished flower; Their summer gambols tell, and mourn, And anxious ask: ... ...nd blossoms clothe the hawthorn spray?” Yes, prattlers, yes. The daisy’s flower Again shall paint your summer bower; Again the hawthorn shall supp... ...ial call dead Nature hears, And in her glory reappears. But oh! my country’s wintry state What second spring shall renovate? What powerful call shall ... ...d arise The buried warlike and the wise; The mind that thought for Britain’s weal, The hand that grasped the victor steel? The vernal sun new life bes... ...that blows; But vainly, vainly may he shine, Where glory weeps o’er Nelson’s shrine; 5 Sir Walter Scott And vainly pierce the solemn gloom, That shro... ...ng levin, Short, bright, resistless course was given. Where’er his country’s foes were found, Was heard the fated thunder’s sound, Till burst the bolt...

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...Contents. I. The birth of the Prince and the Pauper. II. Tom?s early life. III. Tom?s meeting with the Prince. IV. The Prince?s troubles begin. V. Tom as a patrician. VI. Tom receives instructions. VII. Tom?s first royal dinner. VIII. The question of the Seal. IX. The river pageant. X....

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...or the byrth of our prynce, hoom we hungurde for so longe, then ther was (I trow), inter vicinos att the byrth of S. J. Baptyste, as thys berer, Maste... ...learned and the simple loved it and credited it. Contents. I. The birth of the Prince and the Pauper. II. Tom’s early life. III. Tom’s meeting wi... ...he Prince. IV. The Prince’s troubles begin. V. Tom as a patrician. VI. Tom receives instructions. VII. Tom’s first royal dinner. VIII. The que... ... escape. XXV. Hendon Hall. XXVI. Disowned. XXVII. In prison. XXVIII. The sacrifice. XXIX. To London. XXX. Tom’s progress. XXXI. The Recognition p... ...poor rags, except among the family of paupers whom he had just come to trouble with his presence. II Tom’s early life et us skip a number o... ... solid material between, coated with plaster. The beams were painted red or blue or black, according to the owner’s taste, and this gave the houses a ... ...nd-shaped panes, and they opened outward, on hinges, like doors. 7 The Prince and the Pauper The house which Tom’s father lived in was up a foul litt... ...ut of Pudding Lane. It was small, decayed, and rickety, but it was packed full of wretchedly poor families. Canty’s tribe occupied a room on the third... ...o could not have endured such a queer accomplishment in them. All Offal Court was just such another hive as Canty’s house. Drunkenness, riot and brawl...

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................................4 THE FULNESS OF LIFE ...............................................................................33 A VENETIAN NIGHT?S ................................................................................43 ENTERTAINMENT........................................................................................43 XINGU..................................

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..........................................................33 A VENETIAN NIGHT’S ............................................................................ ...al practical and judicious suggestions that she threw it out: “Well, there’s Lyng, in Dorsetshire. It belongs to Hugo’s cous- ins, and you can get it ... ... she assured them of the deplor- able uncertainty of the water-supply. “It’s too uncomfortable to be true!” Edward Boyne had con- tinued to exult as t... ...of independent per- ceptions, had noted a sudden flatness of tone in Alida’s an- swering hilarity. “Oh, Dorsetshire’s full of ghosts, you know.” “Y es... ...hat won’t do. I don’t want to have to drive ten miles to see somebody else’s ghost. I want one of my own on the premises. IS there a ghost at Lyng?” H... ... ghost except the fact of its being known for one?” “I can’t say. But that’s the story.” “That there’s a ghost, but that nobody knows it’s a ghost?” “... ...t any rate.” “Till afterward?” “Not till long, long afterward.” “But if it’s once been identified as an unearthly visitant, why hasn’t its signalement... ...cav- ernous depth of divination—”suddenly, long afterward, one says to one’s self, ‘That was it?’” She was oddly startled at the sepulchral sound with... ...e other two, and she saw the shadow of the same surprise flit across Alida’s clear pu- pils. “I suppose so. One just has to wait.” “Oh, hang waiting!”...

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.............................................................. 4 MRS. MANSTEY’S VIEW........................................................................ ...t Fiction of Edith Wharton Part One KERFOL as first published in Scribner’ s Magazine, March 1916 I “Y ou ought to buy it,” said my host; “it’s just t... ...most romantic house in Brittany. The present people are dead broke, and it’s going for a song— you ought to buy it.” It was not with the least idea of... ... by sunset—and don’t forget the tombs in the chapel.” I followed Lanrivain’s directions with the hesitation occa- sioned by the usual difficulty of re... ...nted only to sit there and be penetrated by the weight of its silence. “It’s the very place for you!” Lanrivain had said; and I was overcome by the al... ... still watching me. “At a given point, they’ll all charge at my ankles: it’s one of the dodges that dogs who live together put up on one,” I thought. ... ...ou look like, the whole lot of you? You look as if you’d seen a ghost—that’s how you look! I wonder if there IS a ghost here, and nobody but you left ... ...continued to gaze at me without moving… . It was dark when I saw Lanrivain’s motor lamps at the cross- roads—and I wasn’t exactly sorry to see them. I... ...l, those dogs are the ghosts of Kerfol. At least, the peas- ants say there’s one day in the year when a lot of dogs appear there; and that day the kee...

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...e cuckoo clock that hung over the mantelpiece in the dining-room, when Victorine brought in the halved watermelon and set it in front of Mr. Bessemer?s plate. Then she went down to the front door for the damp, twisted roll of the Sunday morning?s paper, and came back and rang the breakfast-bell for the second time....

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...orine brought in the halved watermelon and set it in front of Mr. Bessemer’s plate. Then she went down to the front door for the damp, twisted roll of... ... down to the front door for the damp, twisted roll of the Sun- day morning’s paper, and came back and rang the breakfast-bell for the second time. As ... ...d actions; as, for in- stance, upon this occasion: “Nine o’clock—the clock’s a little fast. I think I’ll wind my watch. No, I’ve forgot- ten my watch.... ...y watch. No, I’ve forgot- ten my watch. Watermelon this morning, eh? Where’s a knife? I’ll have a little salt. Victorine’s forgot the spoons—ha, here’... ...ve a little salt. Victorine’s forgot the spoons—ha, here’s a spoon! No, it’s a knife I want.” After he had finished his watermelon, and while Victorin... ...underclothes twice a week, and was dissuaded from playing with the dentist’s son who lived three doors below and who had St. Vitus’ dance. His little ... ...torine of Howard and Snooky, as she pushed the cream pitcher out of Howard’s reach. It was significant of Mr. Bessemer’s relations with his family tha... ... family that Victorine did not address her question to him. “Yes, yes, she’s coming,” said both the children, speaking together; and Howard added: “He... ...oward—who was atrociously bad, as usual of a Sunday morning—and her father’s plate. Mr. Bessemer was as like as not to leave the table without any bre...