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... D. H. Lawrence A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Women in Love by D. H. Lawrence is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Univer... ...e of any kind. Any per- son using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Women in Love by D. H. Lawrence, the Pennsylvania State Univers... ...st come back from London, where she had spent several years, working at an art-school, as a student, and living a studio life. ‘I was hoping now for a... ... highest, whether in society or in thought or in public action, or even in art, she was at one, she moved among the foremost, at home with them. No on... ...s brows in sudden exasperation. ‘Don’t you see that it’s not a question of visual apprecia- tion in the least,’ he cried. ‘I don’t want to see you. I’... ...ed. ‘Y es,’ he said, ‘you are invisible to me, if you don’t force me to be visually aware of you. But I don’t want to see you or hear you.’ ‘What did ... ...t was a mask. He dared not touch it, for fear it should prove to be only a composition mask. His eyes were blue and keen as ever, and as firm in their... ... than a visible object, Gerald was aware of him completely, but not really visually. Whereas Gerald himself was concrete and noticeable, a piece of pu...

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... PIKES ............................................................................................................................. 6 Chapter 2.1.I. In the Tuileries. ..................................................................................................................................... 6 Chapter 2.1.II. In the Salle de Manege. ..................................

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...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The French Revolution: A History (Volume Two) by Thomas Carlyle... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. C... ...e-roi need not fail; and so by substance and show, shall Royalty, if man’s art can popularise it, be popularised. (Deux Amis, iii. c. 10.) Or, alas, i... ...arsis, it is a headlong, swift-going faith. Mounted thereon, meseems, thou art bound hastily for the City of Nowhere; and wilt arrive! At best, we may... ...his day present it; and save the Monarchy and World. Unaccountable pair of visual-objects! Ye should be men, and of the Eighteenth Century; but your m... ...nstables have shut the Thespian barn, and her Antony pleaded in vain? Such visual spectra flit across this Earth, if the Thespian Stage be rudely inte... ...rom home, in the interim, over to Montmedi. These are of the Phenomena, or visual Appearances, of this wide-working terrestrial world: which truly is ... ...dy and rhythm; into his Hymn or March of the Marseillese: luckiest musical-composition ever promulgated. The sound of which will make the blood tingle...

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...Excerpt: The text is taken from the printed ?Sterling Edition? of Carlyle?s Complete Works, in 20 volumes, with the following modifications: The footnote (there is only one) has been embedded directly into text, in brackets, [thusly]. Greek text has been transliterated into Latin characters with the notation [Gr.] j...

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...ON HEROES, HERO-WORSHIP , AND THE HEROIC IN HISTORY By Thomas Carlyle A PENN S TAT E ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBL... ...RONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History by Thomas Carlyle is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Uni... ...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...eorists; a shadowing forth, in allegorical fable, in personifi- cation and visual form, of what such poetic minds had known and felt of this Universe.... ...ensely, he struggles to speak out of him, to see represented before him in visual shape, and as if with a kind of life and historical reality in it. N... ...tre de Poste, with a broad oath, orders his Postilion, “Va bon train; thou art driving M. de Voltaire.” At Paris his carriage is “the nucleus of a com... ...as Carlyle great ingenuity, native talent, what one might call unconscious art; altogether a perspicuous clear work, pleasant reading still: this is t... ...get nothing said. The meaning that is in him shapes itself into no form of composition, is stated in no sequence, method, or coherence;—they are not s... ...so solid-looking material world is, at bottom, in very deed, Nothing; is a visual and factual Manifestation of God’s power and presence,—a shadow hung...

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...Introduction: The enterprise of messrs. T. Nelson & Sons and the friendly accommodation of Messrs. Macmillan render possible this collection in one cover of all the short stories by me that I care for any one to read again. Except for the two series of linked incidents that make up the bulk of the book called Tales of Space and Time, no short story of mine of the ...

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..........................................................................27 THE FLOWERING OF THE STRANGE ORCHID .....................................34 IN THE AVU OBSERVATORY .....................................................................42 ’PYORNIS ISLAND ....................................................................................48 THE REMARKABLE CASE OF DAVI...

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...Excerpt: I believe he had seen us out of the window coming off to dine in the dinghy of a fourteen-ton yawl belonging to Marlow my host and skipper. We helped the boy we had with us to haul the boat up on the landing-stage before we went up to the riverside inn, where we found our new acquaintan...

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...ition. A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication Chance: A Tale in Two Parts by Joseph Conrad is a publication of the Pennsylvania State Un... ...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Chance: A Tale in Two Parts by Joseph Conrad, the Pennsylvania ... ...ning, inlaid writing table which looked like a rare piece from a museum of art; his chair had a high, oval, carved back, upholstered in faded tapestry... ...And the disclosure which so often rewards a moment of detachment from mere visual impressions gave me a thrill very much ap- proaching a shudder. I se... ...be, I feared, since, for me, that idea was inseparably associated with the visual impression of Fyne. Where, why, how, a rapid striding rush could be ... ...g; and (you know how one’s memory gets suddenly stimulated) I was reminded visually, with an almost painful distinctness, of the ghostly white 104 Ch... ...r eyes on my face as though in doubt whether I had enough femininity in my composition to under- stand the case. I waited for her to speak. She seemed... ...ably and give herself up to the delights of audacious thought and literary composition. Only a week before the blow fell she, happening to raise her e...

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...s arms to carry him and kiss him. and when thou hast finished reading, close the book and give thanks for every word out of the mouth of god; because in the lord?s field thou hast found a hidden treasure.?...

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...arge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania Stat... ...contained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. THE LOVE OF BOOKS THE PHILOBIBLON OF RICHARD DE BURY TRANSLAT... ...ngo 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,... ...f lights, that thou mayest exalt the rational soul to the very heavens! Thou art the celestial nourishment of the in tellect, which those who eat sh... ...ars shall never be con The Philobiblon Richard de Bury 10 founded. Thou art the moderator and rule of morals, which he who follows shall not sin... ...her than the angels. For to whom of His angels has He said at any time: Thou art a priest for ever after the order of Melchisedech? Ye dispense the pa... ...nd dust by which we are continuously plagued have dulled the keenness of our visual rays, and are now infecting our bleared eyes with ophthalmia. With... ...e disposition of the heavenly bod ies, which frequently control our natural composition, so that some men choose to devote themselves to architecture...

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...Excerpt: CANTO I. In the midway of this our mortal life, I found me in a gloomy wood, astray Gone from the path direct: and e?en to tell It were no easy task, how savage wild That forest, how robust and rough its growth, Which to remember only...

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... inquirers into Foreign Literature, for all men anxious to see and understand the European world as it lies around them, a great problem is presented in this Goethe; a singular, highly significant phenomenon, and now also means more or less complete for ascertaining its significance. A man of wonderful, nay, unexampled reputation and intellectual influence among forty mill...

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......................................................................................................................................... 49 AN OBSERVER IN MALAYA?1898.......................................................................................................................... 53 A HAPPY WANDERER?1910 ..................................................................

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...Preface: In making this abridgement of Boswell?s Life of Johnson I have omitted most of Boswell?s criticisms, comments, and notes, all of Johnson?s opinions in legal cases, most of the letters, and parts of the conversation dealing wi...

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...han the force of the blow struck, it remains outwardly unchanged. Otherwise, it is shattered into smaller bits. Never does the stone attempt to react in such a way that it may maintain itself against the blow, much less so as to render the blow a contributing factor to its own continued action....

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...ix: Education as Conservative and Progressive ........................................................... 74 Chapter Seven: The Democratic Conception in Education ......................................................... 85 Chapter Eight: Aims in Education .............................................................................................. 105 Chapter Nine: Natur...

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... fun and high spirits besides her good looks, which you may judge of for yourself on a walk down most of our great noblemen?s collections of pictures in England, where you will behold her as the goddess Diana fitting an arrow to a bow; and elsewhere an Amazon holding a spear; or a lady with dogs, in the costume of the day; and in one place she is a nymph, if not Diana hers...

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

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...Contents THE DEVIL IN THE BELFRY ................................................................................................................................... 4 LIONIZING ......................................................................

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...THE WORKS OF EDGAR ALLAN POE IN FIVE VOLUMES Volume Four A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publica... ...State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Works of Edgar Allan Poe in Five Volumes: Volume Four is a publication of the Pennsylva- nia State U... ...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...- puted by the society) that I have been made aware of the exact method of composition. This method is very simple, but not so much so as the politics... ...intermediate agency or connivance. The beauty, if I may so call it, of his art mystifique, lay in that consummate ability (resulting from an almost in... ...he ancient savans. But in all ages the great obstacles to ad- vancement in Art have been opposed by the so-called men of science. To be sure, our men ... ...dily, will not find matter of offence, in what is techni- cally termed the composition of a natural landscape. And yet how unintelligible is this! In ... ...in his instinctive opinions, by the concurrence of all his compeers. Let a composition be defective, let an emendation be wrought in its mere arrangem... ... could not roll in their sockets but all ob- jects within the range of the visual hemisphere were seen with more or less distinctness; the rays which ...

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...tant period, it might possibly be unpleasing to the feelings of the descendants of the parties. But as he finds an account of the circumstances given in the Notes to Law?s Memorials, by his ingenious friend, Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe, Esq., and also indicated in his reprint of the Rev. Mr. Symson?s poems appended to the Large Description of Galloway, as the original of th...

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...rge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State U... ...ntained within the document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. Narrative and Miscellaneous Papers by Thomas de Quincey, the Pe... ...ngoing student publication project to bring classical works of literature, in English, to free and easy access of those wishing to make use of them. C... ...ary instances were cited amongst the highest circles of her success in the art which she professed. So ample were the pecuniary trib- utes which she l... ...e proportion of other popular assemblages less uniformly wretched in their composition, was here to be found all day long; and doubtless my excited st... ...etween two stars, or simply an apparent prox- imity from lying in the same visual line, though in far other depths of space? As regards the first dile... ...t a passage of this length without greatly disturbing* the texture of the composition: by alter- ing, one makes it partly one’s own; but it is right ... ...where all is one blank ocean of sand, but much more from the sounds or the visual appearances which are supposed to beset and to seduce all insulated ... ... spite of his fine theorizing upon 280 Narrative and Miscellaneous Papers composition, Mr. Bowyer did not prosper in the practice. Of which he gave u...

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Excerpt: Paradise Lost, A Poem in Twelve Books by John Milton.

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...ION .................................................................................................................................... 61 THE FACTS IN THE CASE OF M. VALDEMAR ................................................................................................... 70 THE BLACK CAT.....................................................................................

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...erson who contributes to the case mainly a certain amount of criticism and in terpretation of it. Again and again, on review, the shorter things in e... ...ries have ranged themselves not as my own impersonal account of the affair in hand, but as my account of somebody’s impression of it—the terms of this... ...ness—that is, as I say, its effective interest—enriched by the way. I have in other words constantly inclined to the idea of the particular attaching ... ... me the moral of the endless interest, endless worth for “delight,” of the compositional contribution. Their chronicle strikes me as quite of the stuf... ...m, set up some semblance of them in his own other medium, by his own other art—nothing could better consort than that, I nat urally allow, with the d... ...convenience for those who passionately cultivate the image of life and the art, on the whole so beneficial, of projecting it. The seer and speaker unde... ...do so to the effect either of seeing the buried, the latent life of a past composition vibrate, at renewal of touch, into no activity and break throug... ...e possible effect of this process of re dreaming on many of these gathered compositions, shorter and longer; I have prayed that the finer air of the be... ...ith her one of his most artlessly familiar signals. This simplicity of his visual attention struck her, even with the other things she had to think ab...

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...Introduction: In September of the year during the February of which Hawthorne had completed ?The Scarlet Letter,? he began ?The House of the Seven Gables.? Meanwhile, he had removed from Salem to Lenox, in Berkshire County, Massachusetts, ...

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... a Homeland Defense 14 1.3 National Crisis Management 35 2. THE FOUNDATION OF THE NEW TERRORISM 47 2.1 A Declaration of War 47 2.2 Bin Ladin?s Appeal in the Islamic World 48 2.3 The Rise of Bin Ladin and al Qaeda (1988?1992) 55 2.4 Building an Organization, Declaring War on the United States (1992?1996) 59 2.5 Al Qaeda?s Renewal in Afghanistan (1996?1998) 63 3. COUNTERTERR...

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...EOPARD .............................................................................................................................. 108 THE MURDERS IN THE RUE MORGUE............................................................................................................ 115 THE MYSTERY OF MARIE ROGET. ......................................................................

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