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# On the Sublime/Chapter 18

XVIII
The figures of question and interrogation also possess a specific quality which tends strongly to stir an audience and give energy to the speaker's words. "Or tell me, do you want to run about asking one another, is there any news? what greater news could you have than that a man of Macedon is making himself master of Hellas? Is Philip dead? Not he. However, he is ill. But what is that to you? Even if anything happens to him you will soon raise up another Philip." Or this passage: "Shall we sail against Macedon? And where, asks one, shall we effect a landing? The war itself will show us where Philip's weak places lie." Now if this had been put baldly it would have lost greatly in force. As we see it, it is full of the quick alternation of question and answer. The orator replies to himself as though, he were meeting another man's objections. And this figure not only raises the tone of his words but makes them more convincing.2 For an exhibition of feeling has then most effect on an audience when it appears to flow naturally from the occasion, not to have been laboured by the art of the speaker; and this device of questioning and replying to himself reproduces ​the moment of passion. For as a sudden question addressed to an individual will sometimes startle him into a reply which is an unguarded expression of his genuine sentiments, so the figure of question and interrogation blinds the judgment of an audience, and deceives them into a belief that what is really the result of labour in every detail has been struck out of the speaker by the inspiration of the moment.
There is one passage in Herodotus which is generally credited with extraordinary sublimity. …
* ↑ See Note.
* ↑ Phil. i. 44.
* ↑ Phil. i. 44.
# On the Sublime/Chapter 2

II
The first question which presents itself for solution is whether there is any art which can teach sublimity or loftiness in writing. For some hold generally that there is mere delusion in attempting to reduce such subjects to technical rules. "The Sublime," they tell us, "is born in a man, and not to be acquired by instruction; genius is the only master who can teach it. The vigorous products of nature" (such is their view) "are weakened and in every respect debased, when robbed of their flesh and blood by frigid technicalities." But I 2maintain that the truth can be shown to stand otherwise in this matter. Let us look at the case in this way; Nature in her loftier and more passionate moods, while detesting all appearance of restraint, is not ​wont to show herself utterly wayward and reckless; and though in all cases the vital informing principle is derived from her, yet to determine the right degree and the right moment, and to contribute the precision of practice and experience, is the peculiar province of scientific method. The great passions, when left to their own blind and rash impulses without the control of reason, are in the same danger as a ship let drive at random without ballast. Often they need the spur, but sometimes also the curb. The remark of Demosthenes with regard to human life in general,—that the greatest of all blessings is to be fortunate, but next to that and equal in importance is to be well advised—for good fortune is utterly ruined by the absence of good counsel,—may be applied to literature, if we substitute genius for fortune, and art for counsel. Then, again (and this is the most important point of all), a writer can only learn from art when he is to abandon himself to the direction of his genius.
These are the considerations which I submit to the unfavourable critic of such useful studies. Perhaps they may induce him to alter his opinion as to the vanity and idleness of our present investigations.
# Poems (Greenwood)/Emilie plater

EMILIE PLATER.
The young Countess Plater did in truth die for Poland, though it was not hers to fall in the field. Her health was destroyed by the terrible hardships which she endured, and her heart broken that she had endured them in vain.
# Poems (Greenwood)/L'envoi

THE END.
# Plays by Anton Tchekoff

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# Plays by Anton Tchekoff (Fell)/Chronological List

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CHRONOLOGICAL LIST OF THE PRINCIPAL WORKS OF ANTON TCHEKOFF
# Plays by Anton Tchekoff/The Three Sisters

Three Sisters (Russian: Три сёстры - Tri sjostry), written in 1900 and first produced in 1901, is a naturalistic play about the decay of the privileged class in Russia and the search for meaning in the modern world. It describes the lives and aspirations of the Prozorov family, the three sisters (Olga, Masha, and Irina) and their brother Andrei. They are a family dissatisfied and frustrated with their present existence. The sisters are refined and cultured young women who grew up in urban Moscow; however for the past eleven years they have been living in a small provincial town. Moscow is a major symbolic element: the sisters are always dreaming of it and constantly express their desire to return. They identify Moscow with their happiness, and thus to them it represents the perfect life. However as the play develops Moscow never materializes and they all see their dreams recede further and further. Meaning never presents itself and they are forced to seek it out for themselves.
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A Drama In Four Acts
CHARACTERS
* ANDREY SERGEYEVITCH PROSOROV
* NATALIA IVANOVA (NATASHA), his fiancee, later his wife (28)
    His sisters:
* OLGA
* MASHA
* IRINA
* FEODOR ILITCH KULIGIN, high school teacher, married to MASHA (20)
* ALEXANDER IGNATEYEVITCH VERSHININ, lieutenant-colonel in charge of a battery (42)
* NICOLAI LVOVITCH TUZENBACH, baron, lieutenant in the army (30)
* VASSILI VASSILEVITCH SOLENI, captain
* IVAN ROMANOVITCH CHEBUTIKIN, army doctor (60)
* ALEXEY PETROVITCH FEDOTIK, sub-lieutenant
* VLADIMIR CARLOVITCH RODE, sub-lieutenant
* FERAPONT, door-keeper at local council offices, an old man
* ANFISA, nurse (80)
The action takes place in a provincial town.
[Ages are stated in brackets.]
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# Plays by Anton Tchekoff (Fell)

This is the "first series" volume, first published in 1912. A "second series" volume was published in 1916, using a different translator. The plays in this transcription include audio from LibriVox.
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PLAYS
BY
ANTON TCHEKOFF
BOOKS BY ANTON TCHEKOFF
Published by CHARLES SCRIBNER’S SONS
RUSSIAN SILHOUETTES. 12mo $1.35 net
STORIES OF RUSSIAN LIFE. 12mo $1.35 net
PLAYS. FIRST SERIES: “Uncle Vanya,” “Ivanoff,” “The Sea Gull,” “The Swan Song.” 12mo $1.50 net
PLAYS. SECOND SERIES: “On the High Road,” “The Proposal,” “The Wedding,” “The Bear,” “A Tragedian in Spite of Himself,” “The Anniversary,” “The Three Sisters,” “The Cherry Orchard.” 12mo $1.50 net
PLAYS
BY
ANTON TCHEKOFF
UNCLE VANYA IVANOFF THE SEA-GULL THE SWAN SONG
TRANSLATED FROM THE RUSSIAN, WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY
MARIAN FELL
NEW YORK
CHARLES SCRIBNER’S SONS
1916
Copyright, 1912, by
CHARLES SCRIBNER’S SONS
Published September, 1912
CONTENTS
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# 7. God Blesses Jacob

07-01
As the boys grew up, Jacob loved to stay at home, but Esau loved to hunt animals. Rebekah loved Jacob, but Isaac loved Esau.
07-02
One day when Esau came back from hunting, he was very hungry. Esau said to Jacob, “Give me some of the food you have made.” Jacob responded, “First, promise me that everything you should receive because you were born first, you will give it all to me.” So Esau promised to give to Jacob all those things. Then Jacob gave him some food.
07-03
Isaac wanted to give his blessing to Esau. But before he did, Rebekah and Jacob tricked him by having Jacob pretend to be Esau. Isaac was old and could no longer see. So Jacob put on Esau’s clothes and put goatskins on his neck and hands.
07-04
Jacob came to Isaac and said, “I am Esau. I have come so that you can bless me.” When Isaac felt the goat hair and smelled the clothes, he thought it was Esau and blessed him.
07-05
Esau hated Jacob because Jacob had stolen his rights as oldest son and also his blessing. So he planned to kill Jacob after their father died.
07-06
But Rebekah heard of Esau’s plan. So she and Isaac sent Jacob far away to live with her relatives.
07-07
Jacob lived with Rebekah’s relatives for many years. During that time he married and had 12 sons and a daughter. God made him very wealthy.
07-08
After 20 years away from his home in Canaan, Jacob returned there with his family, his servants, and all his flocks and herds of animals.
07-09
Jacob was very afraid because he thought Esau still wanted to kill him. So he sent many of his animals to Esau as a gift. The servants who brought the animals said to Esau, “Your servant, Jacob, is giving you these animals. He is coming soon.”
07-10
But Esau no longer wanted to harm Jacob. Instead, he was very happy to see him again, so the brothers lived peacefully in Canaan. Then Isaac died, and Jacob and Esau buried him. The covenant promises God had made to Abraham now passed on from Isaac to Jacob.
A Bible story from: Genesis 25:27-35:29
# 8. God Saves Joseph and His Family

08-01
Many years later, when Jacob was an old man, he sent his favorite son, Joseph, to check on his brothers who were taking care of the flocks.
08-02
Joseph’s brothers hated him because their father loved him most, and because Joseph had dreamed that he would be their ruler. When Joseph came to his brothers, they took him captive and sold him to some slave traders.
08-03
Before Joseph’s brothers returned home, they tore Joseph’s robe and dipped it in goat’s blood. Then they showed the robe to their father so he would think that a wild animal had killed Joseph. Jacob was very sad.
08-04
The slave traders took Joseph to Egypt. Egypt was a large, powerful country located along the Nile River. The slave traders sold Joseph as a slave to a wealthy government official. Joseph served his master well, and God blessed Joseph.
08-05
His master’s wife tried to sleep with Joseph, but Joseph refused to sin against God in this way. She became angry and falsely accused Joseph so that he was arrested and sent to prison. Even in prison, Joseph remained faithful to God, and God blessed him.
08-06
After two years, Joseph was still in prison even though he was innocent. One night the Pharaoh, which is what the Egyptians called their kings, had two dreams that disturbed him greatly. None of his advisors could tell him the meaning of the dreams.
08-07
God had given Joseph the ability to interpret dreams, so Pharaoh had Joseph brought to him from the prison. Joseph interpreted the dreams for him and said, “God is going to send seven years of plentiful harvests followed by seven years of famine.”
08-08
Pharaoh was so impressed with Joseph that he appointed him to be the second most powerful man in all of Egypt!
08-09
Joseph told the people to store up large amounts of food during the seven years of good harvests. When the seven years of famine came, Joseph sold the food to the people so they would have enough to eat.
08-10
The famine was severe not only in Egypt, but also in Canaan where Jacob and his family lived.
08-11
So, Jacob sent his older sons to Egypt to buy food. The brothers did not recognize Joseph when they stood before him to buy food. But Joseph recognized them.
08-12
After testing his brothers to see if they had changed, Joseph said to them, “I am your brother, Joseph! Do not be afraid. You tried to do evil when you sold me as a slave, but God used the evil for good! Come and live in Egypt so I can provide for you and your families.”
08-13
When Joseph’s brothers returned home and told their father, Jacob, that Joseph was still alive, he was very happy.
08-14
Even though Jacob was an old man, he moved to Egypt with all of his family, and they all lived there. Before Jacob died, he blessed each of his sons.
08-15
The covenant promises that God gave to Abraham were passed on to Isaac, then to Jacob, and then to Jacob’s 12 sons and their families. The descendants of the 12 sons became the 12 tribes of Israel.
A Bible story from: Genesis 37-50
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* The Creation7
* Sin Enters the World16
* The Flood23
* God’s Covenant with Abraham32
* The Son of Promise38
* God Provides for Isaac44
* God Blesses Jacob49
* God Saves Joseph and His Family55
* God Calls Moses64
* The Ten Plagues73
* The Passover80
* The Exodus85
* God’s Covenant with Israel93
* Wandering in the Wilderness102
* The Promised Land111
* The Deliverers119
* God’s Covenant with David129
* The Divided Kingdom137
* The Prophets145
* The Exile and Return155
* God Promises the Messiah163
* The Birth of John172
* The Birth of Jesus177
* John Baptizes Jesus183
* Satan Tempts Jesus189
* Jesus Starts His Ministry194
* The Story of the Good Samaritan200
* The Rich Young Ruler207
* The Story of the Unmerciful Servant213
* Jesus Feeds Thousands of People219
* Jesus Walks on Water225
* Jesus Heals a Demon-Possessed Man & a Sick Woman230
* The Story of the Farmer239
* Jesus Teaches Other Stories245
* The Story of the Compassionate Father251
* The Transfiguration259
* Jesus Raises Lazarus from the Dead264
* Jesus Is Betrayed271
* Jesus Is Put on Trial280
* Jesus Is Crucified287
* God Raises Jesus from the Dead293
* Jesus Returns to Heaven298
* The Church Begins305
* Peter and John Heal a Beggar313
* Stephen and Philip319
* Saul Becomes a Follower of Jesus327
* Paul and Silas in Philippi333
* Jesus Is the Promised Messiah341
* God’s New Covenant349
* Jesus Returns359
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# 9. God Calls Moses

09-01
After Joseph died, all of his relatives stayed in Egypt. They and their descendants continued to live there for many years and had many children. They were called the Israelites.
09-02
After hundreds of years, the number of Israelites had become very large. The Egyptians were no longer grateful that Joseph had done so much to help them. They became afraid of the Israelites because there were so many of them. So the Pharaoh who was ruling Egypt at that time made the Israelites slaves to the Egyptians.
09-03
The Egyptians forced the Israelites to build many buildings and even whole cities. The hard work made their lives miserable, but God blessed them, and they had even more children.
09-04
Pharaoh saw that the Israelites were having many babies, so he ordered his people to kill all Israelite baby boys by throwing them into the Nile River.
09-05
A certain Israelite woman gave birth to a baby boy. She hid the baby for as long as she could.
09-06
When the boy’s mother could no longer hide him, she put him in a floating basket among the reeds along the edge of the Nile River in order to save him from being killed. His older sister watched to see what would happen to him.
09-07
A daughter of Pharaoh saw the basket and looked inside. When she saw the baby, she took him as her own son. She hired an Israelite woman to nurse him without realizing the woman was the baby’s own mother. When the child was old enough that he no longer needed his mother’s milk, his mother returned him to Pharaoh’s daughter, who named him Moses.
09-08
One day, when Moses had grown up, he saw an Egyptian beating an Israelite slave. Moses tried to save his fellow Israelite.
09-09
When Moses thought nobody would see, he killed the Egyptian and buried his body. But someone saw what Moses had done.
09-10
Pharaoh learned what Moses had done. He tried to kill him, but Moses fled from Egypt into the wilderness. Pharaoh’s soldiers could not find him there.
09-11
Moses became a shepherd in the wilderness far away from Egypt. He married a woman from that place and had two sons.
09-12
Moses was taking care of his father-in-law’s flock of sheep. One day he saw a bush on fire, burning without being destroyed. He went close to the bush to look at it. When he was very close, God spoke to him and said, “Moses, take off your shoes. You are standing on holy ground.”
09-13
Then God said, “I have seen the suffering of my people. I will send you to Pharaoh so that you can bring the Israelites out of their slavery in Egypt. I will give them the land of Canaan, the land I promised to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.”
09-14
Moses asked, “What if the people want to know who sent me, what should I say?” God said, “I AM WHO I AM. Tell them, ‘I AM has sent me to you.’ Also tell them, ‘I am Yahweh, the God of your ancestors Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.’ This is my name forever.”
09-15
Moses was afraid and did not want to go to Pharaoh because he thought he could not speak well, so God sent Moses’ brother, Aaron, to help him.
A Bible story from: Exodus 1-4
# 6. God Provides for Isaac

06-01
When Abraham was very old, his son Isaac had grown to be a man. So Abraham sent one of his servants back to the land where his relatives lived to bring back a wife for his son, Isaac.
06-02
After a very long journey to the land where Abraham’s relatives lived, God led the servant to Rebekah. She was the granddaughter of Abraham’s brother.
06-03
Rebekah agreed to leave her family and go back with the servant to Isaac’s home. Isaac married her as soon as she arrived.
06-04
After a long time, Abraham died. God then blessed Abraham’s son Isaac because of the covenant he had made with Abraham. One of God’s promises in that covenant was that Abraham would have countless descendants. But Isaac’s wife, Rebekah, could not have children.
06-05
Isaac prayed for Rebekah, and God allowed her to get pregnant with twins. The two babies struggled with each other while they were still in Rebekah’s womb, so Rebekah asked God what was happening.
06-06
God told Rebekah, “You will give birth to two sons. Their descendants will become two different nations. They will struggle with each other. But the nation coming from your older son will have to obey the nation coming from your younger son.”
06-07
When Rebekah’s babies were born, the older son came out red and hairy, and they named him Esau. Then the younger son came out holding on to Esau’s heel, and they named him Jacob.
A Bible story from: Genesis 24:1-25:26
# 41. God Raises Jesus from the Dead

41-01
After the soldiers crucified Jesus, the Jewish leaders said to Pilate, “That liar, Jesus, said he would rise from the dead after three days. Someone must guard the tomb to make sure that his disciples do not steal the body. If they do, they will say he has risen from the dead.”
41-02
Pilate said, “Take some soldiers and guard the tomb as well as you can.” So they placed a seal on the stone at the entrance of the tomb. They also put soldiers there to make sure no one could steal the body.
41-03
The day after Jesus died was a Sabbath day. No one could work on the Sabbath day, so no friends of Jesus went to his tomb. But on the day after the Sabbath, very early in the morning, several women got ready to go to Jesus’ tomb. They wanted to put more spices on his body.
41-04
Before the women arrived, there was a great earthquake at the tomb. An angel came from heaven. He rolled away the stone that was covering the entrance to the tomb and sat on it. This angel was shining as brightly as lightning. The soldiers at the tomb saw him. They were so terrified that they fell to the ground like dead men.
41-05
When the women arrived at the tomb, the angel told them, “Do not be afraid. Jesus is not here. He has risen from the dead, just like he said he would! Look in the tomb and see.” The women looked into the tomb and saw where Jesus’ body had been laid. His body was not there!
41-06
Then the angel told the women, “Go and tell the disciples, ‘Jesus has risen from the dead and he will go to Galilee ahead of you.’”
41-07
The women were amazed and very joyful. They ran to tell the disciples the good news.
41-08
As the women were on their way to tell the disciples the good news, Jesus appeared to them. They bowed down at his feet. Then Jesus said, “Do not be afraid. Go and tell my disciples to go to Galilee. They will see me there.”
A Bible story from: Matthew 27:62-28:15; Mark 16:1-11; Luke 24:1-12; John 20:1-18
# Opals (Custance)/Virelay: Regret

Virelay: Regret
# Opals (Custance)/With a Book of Fairy Tales

With a Book of Fairy Tales
# 4. God’s Covenant with Abraham

04-01
Many years after the flood, there were again many people in the world, and they still sinned against God and each other. Because they all spoke the same language, they gathered together and built a city instead of spreading out over the earth as God had commanded.
04-02
They were very proud, and they did not want to obey God’s commands about how they should live. They even began building a tall tower that would reach heaven. God saw that, if they all kept working together to do evil, they could do many more sinful things.
04-03
So God changed their language into many different languages and spread the people out all over the world. The city they had begun to build was called Babel, which means “confused.”
04-04
Hundreds of years later, God spoke to a man named Abram. God told him, “Leave your country and family and go to the land I will show you. I will bless you and make you a great nation. I will make your name great. I will bless those who bless you and curse those who curse you. All families on earth will be blessed because of you.”
04-05
So Abram obeyed God. He took his wife, Sarai, together with all of his servants and everything he owned and went to the land God showed him, the land of Canaan.
04-06
When Abram arrived in Canaan, God said, “Look all around you. I will give to you all this land, and your descendants will always possess it.” Then Abram settled in the land.
04-07
There was a man named Melchizedek who was a priest of God Most High. One day, after Abram had been in a battle, he and Abram met. Melchizedek blessed Abram and said, “May God Most High who owns heaven and earth bless Abram.” Then Abram gave Melchizedek a tenth of everything he had won in the battle.
04-08
Many years went by, but Abram and Sarai still did not have a son. God spoke to Abram and promised again that he would have a son and as many descendants as the stars in the sky. Abram believed God’s promise. God declared that Abram was righteous because he believed in God’s promise.
04-09
Then God made a covenant with Abram. Normally, a covenant is an agreement between two parties to do things for each other. But in this case, God made a promise to Abram while Abram was in a deep sleep, but he could still hear God. God said, “I will give you a son from your own body. I give the land of Canaan to your descendants.” But Abram still did not have a son.
A Bible story from: Genesis 11-15
# Poems (Ingelow)/The High Tide on the Coast of Lincolnshire (1571)

THE
HIGH TIDE ON THE COAST OF LINCOLNSHIRE.
(1571.)