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Lucy had done so never. She was no dazzling excutante her runs were not at all like strings of pearls, and she struck no more right notes than was suitable for one of her age and situation. Nor was she the passionate young lady, who performs so tragically on a summer's evening with the window open. Passion was there, b...	C	en
All you do and all you say, He can see and hear: When you work and when you play, Think the Lord is near. All your joys and griefs He knows Counts each falling tear. When to Him you tell your woes, Know the Lord is near. ] LESSON LIX. whis'tle (whis'l) poc'ket wil'low note filled dead sick walk ev'ery blew lane lame ta...	A	en
Yet is he not more mindful of his trembling? For what is it to die but to stand naked in the wind and to melt into the sun? And what is it to cease breathing, but to free the breath from its restless tides, that it may rise and expand and seek God unencumbered? Only when you drink from the river of silence shall you in...	A	en
Woman is carrying a basket.] James has been to market with his mamma. She has bought some bread, some meat, and some tea, which are in the basket on her arm. James is trying to tell his mamma what he has seen in the market. LESSON XXXIX. reads so wears please could hair fast love eas'y gray chair who glass'es [Illustra...	A	en
He walked along the upwardcurving path. Liliata rutilantium. Turma circumdet. Iubilantium te virginum. The priest's grey nimbus in a niche where he dressed discreetly. I will not sleep here tonight. Home also I cannot go. A voice, sweettoned and sustained, called to him from the sea. Turning the curve he waved his hand...	C	en
It is of this neglected half that I have written, in the hope that the whole fabric of Japanese socialviii life will be better comprehended when the women of the country, and so the homes that they make, are better known and understood. The reason why Japanese homelife is so little understood by foreigners, even by tho...	C	en
How vexatious. I shall go and say we are sorry. Hadn't I better? Then perhaps he will come back. 'He will not come back, said George. But Mr. Emerson, contrite and unhappy, hurried away to apologize to the Rev. Cuthbert Eager. Lucy, apparently absorbed in a lunette, could hear the lecture again interrupted, the anxious...	C	en
Jack rode to his mother, The news for to tell, She called him a good boy And said it was well. Jack sold his gold egg To a rogue of a Jew, Who cheated him out of The half of his due. Then Jack went a-courting A lady so gay, As fair as the lily, And sweet as the May. The Jew and the Squire Came behind his back, And bega...	A	en
A dog stand by the boys.] This is a fine day. The sun shines bright. There is a good wind, and my kite flies high. I can just see it. The sun shines in my eyes; I will stand in the shade of this high fence. Why, here comes my dog! He was under the cart. Did you see him there? What a good time we have had! Are you not g...	A	en
There is no doubt that Marley was dead. This must be distinctly understood, or nothing wonderful can come of the story I am going to relate. If we were not perfectly convinced that Hamlet's Father died before the play began, there would be nothing more remarkable in his taking a stroll at night, in an easterly wind, up...	C	en
'So it seems to me. 'And then, when there is a ray of sun, the garden is very small for the convalescents. 'That was what I said to myself. 'In case of epidemics,we have had the typhus fever this year we had the sweating sickness two years ago, and a hundred patients at times,we know not what to do. 'That is the though...	B	en
Sitting at his side Stephen solved out the problem. He proves by algebra that Shakespeare's ghost is Hamlet's grandfather. Sargent peered askance through his slanted glasses. Hockeysticks rattled in the lumberroom the hollow knock of a ball and calls from the field. Across the page the symbols moved in grave morrice, i...	C	en
'My dear, she told her sister in a high, mincing shout, 'most of these fellas will cheat you every time. All they think of is money. I had a woman up here last week to look at my feet, and when she gave me the bill you'd of thought she had my appendicitis out. 'What was the name of the woman? asked Mrs. McKee. 'Mrs. Eb...	B	en
If you or I or Wendy had been there we should have seen that he was very like Mrs. Darling's kiss. He was a lovely boy, clad in skeleton leaves and the juices that ooze out of trees but the most entrancing thing about him was that he had all his first teeth. When he saw she was a grownup, he gnashed the little pearls a...	B	en
This at once determined him to set out for Chios. No vessel happened then to be setting sail thither, but he found one ready to start for Erythr, a town of Ionia, which faces that island, and he prevailed upon the seamen to allow him to accompany them. Having embarked, he invoked a favourable wind, and prayed that he m...	B	en
The immediate pressure of necessity has brightened their intellects, enlarged their powers, and hardened their hearts. And looking across space with instruments, and intelligences such as we have scarcely dreamed of, they see, at its nearest distance only ,, of miles sunward of them, a morning star of hope, our own war...	C	en
He recited jerks of verse with odd glances at the text Weep no more, woful shepherds, weep no more For Lycidas, your sorrow, is not dead, Sunk though he be beneath the watery floor... It must be a movement then, an actuality of the possible as possible. Aristotle's phrase formed itself within the gabbled verses and flo...	C	en
For self is a sea boundless and measureless. Say not, 'I have found the truth, but rather, 'I have found a truth. Say not, 'I have found the path of the soul. Say rather, 'I have met the soul walking upon my path. For the soul walks upon all paths. The soul walks not upon a line, neither does it grow like a reed. The s...	A	en
On the other hand, it is clear that there are many who desire to have not merely the story he tells, but the story as he tells it, so far at least as differences of idiom and circumstances permit, and who will give a preference to the conscientious translator, even though he may have acquitted himself somewhat awkwardl...	C	en
'The Signora had no business to do it, said Miss Bartlett, 'no business at all. She promised us south rooms with a view close together, instead of which here are north rooms, looking into a courtyard, and a long way apart. Oh, Lucy! 'And a Cockney, besides! said Lucy, who had been further saddened by the Signora's unex...	C	en
You fail, or you go from my words in any partickler, no matter how small it is, and your heart and your liver shall be tore out, roasted, and ate. Now, I ain't alone, as you may think I am. There's a young man hid with me, in comparison with which young man I am a Angel. That young man hears the words I speak. That you...	A	en
A brilliant and successful career seemed to open before him, but those hopes were soon dashed. In he was arrested. Though neither by temperament nor conviction a revolutionist, Dostoevsky was one of a little group of young men who met together to read Fourier and Proudhon. He was accused of 'taking part in conversation...	B	en
As young readers like to know 'how people look', we will take this moment to give them a little sketch of the four sisters, who sat knitting away in the twilight, while the December snow fell quietly without, and the fire crackled cheerfully within. It was a comfortable room, though the carpet was faded and the furnitu...	C	en
'I'd like to do more work on Long Island, if I could get the entry. All I ask is that they should give me a start. 'Ask Myrtle, said Tom, breaking into a short shout of laughter as Mrs. Wilson entered with a tray. 'She'll give you a letter of introduction, won't you, Myrtle? 'Do what? she asked, startled. 'You'll give ...	B	en
This expedition has been the favourite dream of my early years. I have read with ardour the accounts of the various voyages which have been made in the prospect of arriving at the North Pacific Ocean through the seas which surround the pole. You may remember that a history of all the voyages made for purposes of discov...	C	en
He swam around, and got Bess in his mouth, and brought her to the shore. Ponto then found Rose, and brought her out, too. Kate said, "Good, old Ponto! Brave old dog!" What do you think of Ponto? LESSON XXXII. June Lu'cy's air kind trees sing'ing blue when pure says (sez) sky pic'nic u a [Illustration: Woman and girl si...	A	en
They were awfully nice little nightlights, and one cannot help wishing that they could have kept awake to see Peter but Wendy's light blinked and gave such a yawn that the other two yawned also, and before they could close their mouths all the three went out. There was another light in the room now, a thousand times br...	C	en
The traffic of the great city went on in the deepening night upon the sleepless river. We looked on, waiting patientlythere was nothing else to do till the end of the flood but it was only after a long silence, when he said, in a hesitating voice, 'I suppose you fellows remember I did once turn freshwater sailor for a ...	C	en
We'll have a glorious drunk to astonish the druidy druids. Four omnipotent sovereigns. He flung up his hands and tramped down the stone stairs, singing out of tune with a Cockney accent O, won't we have a merry time, Drinking whisky, beer and wine! On coronation, Coronation day! O, won't we have a merry time On coronat...	C	en
Every one, as he is bound to preserve himself, and not to quit his station wilfully, so by the like reason, when his own preservation comes not in competition, ought he, as much as he can, to preserve the rest of mankind, and may not, unless it be to do justice on an offender, take away, or impair the life, or what ten...	B	en
Give it to me I shan't let you carry it. We will simply drift. Accordingly they drifted through a series of those greybrown streets, neither commodious nor picturesque, in which the eastern quarter of the city abounds. Lucy soon lost interest in the discontent of Lady Louisa, and became discontented herself. For one ra...	C	en
'I should think so! exclaimed Madame Magloire. 'Monseigneur has not even claimed the allowance which the department owes him for the expense of his carriage in town, and for his journeys about the diocese. It was customary for bishops in former days. 'Hold! cried the Bishop, 'you are quite right, Madame Magloire. And h...	B	en
While he was wearying every one with his tears and complaints, and turning his house into a sink of debauchery, a faithful servant of the family, Grigory, took the threeyearold Mitya into his care. If he hadn't looked after him there would have been no one even to change the baby's little shirt. It happened moreover th...	B	en
'There go the ships there is that Leviathan whom thou hast made to play therein. Psalms. 'In that day, the Lord with his sore, and great, and strong sword, shall punish Leviathan the piercing serpent, even Leviathan that crooked serpent and he shall slay the dragon that is in the sea. Isaiah. 'And what thing soever bes...	B	en
But when I asked her she laughed immoderately, repeated my question aloud, and told me she lived with a girl friend at a hotel. Mr. McKee was a pale, feminine man from the flat below. He had just shaved, for there was a white spot of lather on his cheekbone, and he was most respectful in his greeting to everyone in the...	B	en
A collection of textile samples lay spread out on the tableSamsa was a travelling salesmanand above it there hung a picture that he had recently cut out of an illustrated magazine and housed in a nice, gilded frame. It showed a lady fitted out with a fur hat and fur boa who sat upright, raising a heavy fur muff that co...	C	en
Let me hope my constitution is almost peculiar my dear mother used to say I should never have a comfortable home and only last summer I proved myself perfectly unworthy of one. While enjoying a month of fine weather at the seacoast, I was thrown into the company of a most fascinating creature a real goddess in my eyes,...	B	en
The man was limping on towards this latter, as if he were the pirate come to life, and come down, and going back to hook himself up again. It gave me a terrible turn when I thought so and as I saw the cattle lifting their heads to gaze after him, I wondered whether they thought so too. I looked all round for the horrib...	B	en
I followed him in, and I remember observing the contrast the neat, bright doctor, with his powder as white as snow and his bright, black eyes and pleasant manners, made with the coltish country folk, and above all, with that filthy, heavy, bleared scarecrow of a pirate of ours, sitting, far gone in rum, with his arms o...	B	en
(Alice had no idea what Latitude was, or Longitude either, but thought they were nice grand words to say.) Presently she began again. 'I wonder if I shall fall right through the earth! How funny it'll seem to come out among the people that walk with their heads downward! The Antipathies, I think (she was rather glad th...	B	en
So Lucy felt, or strove to feel. And yetthere was a rebellious spirit in her which wondered whether the acceptance might not have been less delicate and more beautiful. At all events, she entered her own room without any feeling of joy. 'I want to explain, said Miss Bartlett, 'why it is that I have taken the largest ro...	C	en
Now then, Mr Deasy said, rising. He came to the table, pinning together his sheets. Stephen stood up. I have put the matter into a nutshell, Mr Deasy said. It's about the foot and mouth disease. Just look through it. There can be no two opinions on the matter. May I trespass on your valuable space. That doctrine of lai...	C	en
Then he carried the dish and a large teapot over to the table, set them down heavily and sighed with relief. I'm melting, he said, as the candle remarked when... But, hush! Not a word more on that subject! Kinch, wake up! Bread, butter, honey. Haines, come in. The grub is ready. Bless us, O Lord, and these thy gifts. W...	C	en
She believed to her last day in oldfashioned remedies like rhubarb leaf, and made sounds of contempt over all this newfangled talk about germs, and so on. It was a lesson in propriety to see her escorting the children to school, walking sedately by their side when they were well behaved, and butting them back into line...	C	en
On another day, when the whole world was singing and the air ran into the mouth, like wine, she would refuse to stir from the drawingroom, saying that she was an old thing, and no fit companion for a hearty girl. 'Miss Lavish has led your cousin astray. She hopes to find the true Italy in the wet I believe. 'Miss Lavis...	C	en
A haze rested on the low shores that ran out to sea in vanishing flatness. The air was dark above Gravesend, and farther back still seemed condensed into a mournful gloom, brooding motionless over the biggest, and the greatest, town on earth. The Director of Companies was our captain and our host. We four affectionatel...	B	en
'Mrs. Joe has been out a dozen times, looking for you, Pip. And she's out now, making it a baker's dozen. 'Is she? 'Yes, Pip, said Joe 'and what's worse, she's got Tickler with her. At this dismal intelligence, I twisted the only button on my waistcoat round and round, and looked in great depression at the fire. Tickle...	B	en
However, this bottle was not marked 'poison, so Alice ventured to taste it, and finding it very nice, (it had, in fact, a sort of mixed flavour of cherrytart, custard, pineapple, roast turkey, toffee, and hot buttered toast,) she very soon finished it off. 'What a curious feeling! said Alice 'I must be shutting up like...	B	en
DID you ever see the nest Of Chaffinch or of Linnet, When the little downy birds Are lying snugly in it, Gaping wide their yellow mouths For something nice to eat? Caterpillar, worm, and grub, They reckon dainty meat. When the mother-bird returns, And finds them still and good, She will give them each, by turns, A prop...	A	en
Brow, brow, brinkie, Eye, eye, winkie, Mouth, mouth, merry, Cheek, cheek, cherry, Chin chopper, chin chopper, &c. If you are to be a gentleman, as I suppose you'll be, You'll neither laugh nor smile for a tickling of the knee. [Illustration] "Where are you going to, my pretty maid?" "I am going a-milking, sir," she sai...	A	en
The greatest of all logical truths, and the one of which writers on philosophy are most apt to lose sight, the difference between words and things, has been most strenuously insisted on by him (cp. Rep. Polit. Cratyl. , ff), although he has not always avoided the confusion of them in his own writings (e.g. Rep.). But h...	B	en
'Monsieur, said he, 'how many beds do you think this hall alone would hold? 'Monseigneur's diningroom? exclaimed the stupefied director. The Bishop cast a glance round the apartment, and seemed to be taking measures and calculations with his eyes. 'It would hold full twenty beds, said he, as though speaking to himself....	B	en
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we h...	C	en
They have been so zealous in this point, that, if I have done him any wrong, I cannot hope they should spare me. I wish, where they have done the truth and the public wrong, they would be as ready to redress it, and allow its just weight to this reflection, viz. that there cannot be done a greater mischief to prince an...	B	en
I have rebel blood in me too, Mr Deasy said. On the spindle side. But I am descended from sir John Blackwood who voted for the union. We are all Irish, all kings' sons. Alas, Stephen said. Per vias rectas, Mr Deasy said firmly, was his motto. He voted for it and put on his topboots to ride to Dublin from the Ards of Do...	B	en
The clear sound of the lock as it snapped back was Gregor's sign that he could break his concentration, and as he regained his breath he said to himself 'So, I didn't need the locksmith after all. Then he lay his head on the handle of the door to open it completely. Because he had to open the door in this way, it was a...	C	en
'Army shoes, best to be had, cried Jo. 'Some handkerchiefs, all hemmed, said Beth. 'I'll get a little bottle of cologne. She likes it, and it won't cost much, so I'll have some left to buy my pencils, added Amy. 'How will we give the things? asked Meg. 'Put them on the table, and bring her in and see her open the bundl...	B	en
T. and Co. 'I know this messenger, guard, said Mr. Lorry, getting down into the roadassisted from behind more swiftly than politely by the other two passengers, who immediately scrambled into the coach, shut the door, and pulled up the window. 'He may come close there's nothing wrong. 'I hope there ain't, but I can't m...	C	en
To this purpose, I think it may not be amiss, to set down what I take to be political power that the power of a MAGISTRATE over a subject may be distinguished from that of a FATHER over his children, a MASTER over his servant, a HUSBAND over his wife, and a LORD over his slave. All which distinct powers happening somet...	C	en
And he answered, Was it I who spoke? Was I not also a listener? Then he descended the steps of the Temple and all the people followed him. And he reached his ship and stood upon the deck. And facing the people again, he raised his voice and said People of Orphalese, the wind bids me leave you. Less hasty am I than the ...	B	en
For I'm a devil at a quick mistake, and when I make one it takes the form of Lead. So now let's look at you. The figures of a horse and rider came slowly through the eddying mist, and came to the side of the mail, where the passenger stood. The rider stooped, and, casting up his eyes at the guard, handed the passenger ...	B	en
Then the gates of his heart were flung open, and his joy flew far over the sea. And he closed his eyes and prayed in the silences of his soul. But as he descended the hill, a sadness came upon him, and he thought in his heart How shall I go in peace and without sorrow? Nay, not without a wound in the spirit shall I lea...	B	en
Once during that long evening, the door on one side of the room was opened very slightly and hurriedly closed again later on the door on the other side did the same it seemed that someone needed to enter the room but thought better of it. Gregor went and waited immediately by the door, resolved either to bring the timo...	C	en
It was all very well to say 'Drink me, but the wise little Alice was not going to do that in a hurry. 'No, I'll look first, she said, 'and see whether it's marked 'poison' or not for she had read several nice little histories about children who had got burnt, and eaten up by wild beasts and other unpleasant things, all...	C	en
Yet across the gulf of space, minds that are to our minds as ours are to those of the beasts that perish, intellects vast and cool and unsympathetic, regarded this earth with envious eyes, and slowly and surely drew their plans against us. And early in the twentieth century came the great disillusionment. The planet Ma...	B	en
She was then no longer either deferential or patronizing no longer either a rebel or a slave. The kingdom of music is not the kingdom of this world it will accept those whom breeding and intellect and culture have alike rejected. The commonplace person begins to play, and shoots into the empyrean without effort, whilst...	C	en
Emerson's reply. 'But what are you doing here? Are you doing the church? Are you through with the church? 'No, cried Lucy, remembering her grievance. 'I came here with Miss Lavish, who was to explain everything and just by the doorit is too bad!she simply ran away, and after waiting quite a time, I had to come in by my...	C	en
Darling, that you are now a mother, in just such a tone as Mr. Darling himself may have used on the real occasion. Wendy had danced with joy, just as the real Mrs. Darling must have done. Then John was born, with the extra pomp that he conceived due to the birth of a male, and Michael came from his bath to ask to be bo...	B	en
My caress provoked a long, guttural gnarl. 'You'd better let the dog alone, growled Mr. Heathcliff in unison, checking fiercer demonstrations with a punch of his foot. 'She's not accustomed to be spoilednot kept for a pet. Then, striding to a side door, he shouted again, 'Joseph! Joseph mumbled indistinctly in the dept...	C	en
He was married twice, and had three sons, the eldest, Dmitri, by his first wife, and two, Ivan and Alexey, by his second. Fyodor Pavlovitch's first wife, Adelada Ivanovna, belonged to a fairly rich and distinguished noble family, also landowners in our district, the Misovs. How it came to pass that an heiress, who was ...	C	en
I will sit still in your arms. See, mamma! We are both on Prince. How large he is! Get up, Prince! You are not too fat to trot as far as the barn. LESSON XXI. of that toss fall well Fan'ny ball wall was pret'ty(prit-) done what a a [Illustration: Two girls standing in meadow play with a ball.] O Fanny, what a pretty ba...	A	en
It is not a question of caviare to the general, or, if it is, the fault rests with him who makes so. The method by which Cervantes won the ear of the Spanish people ought, mutatis mutandis, to be equally effective with the great majority of English readers. At any rate, even if there are readers to whom it is a matter ...	B	en
Curran, ten guineas. McCann, one guinea. Fred Ryan, two shillings. Temple, two lunches. Russell, one guinea, Cousins, ten shillings, Bob Reynolds, half a guinea, Koehler, three guineas, Mrs MacKernan, five weeks' board. The lump I have is useless. For the moment, no, Stephen answered. Mr Deasy laughed with rich delight...	C	en
She asked where he lived. 'Second to the right, said Peter, 'and then straight on till morning. 'What a funny address! Peter had a sinking. For the first time he felt that perhaps it was a funny address. 'No, it isn't, he said. 'I mean, Wendy said nicely, remembering that she was hostess, 'is that what they put on the ...	A	en
Dog on hind legs, seated on chair, with hat on head.] Ellen, do look at Fido! He sits up in a chair, with my hat on. He looks like a little boy; but it is only Fido. Now see him shake hands. Give me your paw, Fido. How do you do, sir? Will you take dinner with us. Fido? Speak! Fido says, "Bowwow," which means, "Thank y...	A	en
And the priests and the priestesses said unto him Let not the waves of the sea separate us now, and the years you have spent in our midst become a memory. You have walked among us a spirit, and your shadow has been a light upon our faces. Much have we loved you. But speechless was our love, and with veils has it been v...	A	en
'Poor girl? I fail to understand the point of that remark. I think myself a very fortunate girl, I assure you. I'm thoroughly happy, and having a splendid time. Pray don't waste time mourning over me. There's enough sorrow in the world, isn't there, without trying to invent it. Goodbye. Thank you both so much for all y...	C	en
I got up and turned around in my tracks three times and crossed my breast every time and then I tied up a little lock of my hair with a thread to keep witches away. But I hadn't no confidence. You do that when you've lost a horseshoe that you've found, instead of nailing it up over the door, but I hadn't ever heard any...	B	en
And not unlike the mist have I been. In the stillness of the night I have walked in your streets, and my spirit has entered your houses, And your heartbeats were in my heart, and your breath was upon my face, and I knew you all. Ay, I knew your joy and your pain, and in your sleep your dreams were my dreams. And oftent...	B	en
(The Germans invented gunpowderall credit to them! but they again made things squarethey invented printing.) But we, who are neither Jesuits, nor democrats, nor even sufficiently Germans, we GOOD EUROPEANS, and free, VERY free spiritswe have it still, all the distress of spirit and all the tension of its bow! And perha...	B	en
I was sure that they were selling something bonds or insurance or automobiles. They were at least agonizingly aware of the easy money in the vicinity and convinced that it was theirs for a few words in the right key. As soon as I arrived I made an attempt to find my host, but the two or three people of whom I asked his...	C	en
If you would indeed behold the spirit of death, open your heart wide unto the body of life. For life and death are one, even as the river and the sea are one. In the depth of your hopes and desires lies your silent knowledge of the beyond And like seeds dreaming beneath the snow your heart dreams of spring. Trust the d...	B	en
Before the castle gate all was as the fox had said so the son went in and found the chamber where the golden bird hung in a wooden cage, and below stood the golden cage, and the three golden apples that had been lost were lying close by it. Then thought he to himself, 'It will be a very droll thing to bring away such a...	B	en
Any one who at the present day discusses the questions that have arisen round the 'Iliad since Wolf's time, without keeping it well before his reader's mind that the 'Odyssey was demonstrably written from one single neighbourhood, and hence (even though nothing else pointed to this conclusion) presumably by one person ...	C	en
He met the fox, who gave him the good advice but when he came to the two inns, his eldest brother was standing at the window where the merrymaking was, and called to him to come in and he could not withstand the temptation, but went in, and forgot the golden bird and his country in the same manner. Time passed on again...	C	en
This passage is not given in the abridged Story of the 'Odyssey at the beginning of the book, but in the Translation it occurs in these words 'Thus he chided with his heart, and checked it into endurance, but he tossed about as one who turns a paunch full of blood and fat in front of a hot fire, doing it first on one s...	C	en
But this short conversation made the other members of the family aware that Gregor, against their expectations was still at home, and soon his father came knocking at one of the side doors, gently, but with his fist. 'Gregor, Gregor, he called, 'what's wrong? And after a short while he called again with a warning deepn...	C	en
She went a little farther, and she met some water. So she said-- [Illustration: "FIRE, FIRE, BURN STICK."] "Water, water, quench fire; Fire won't burn stick; Stick won't beat dog; Dog won't bite pig; Piggy won't get over the stile; And I shan't get home to-night." But the water would not. She went a little farther, and...	A	en
Ormsby in his Preface has criticized the fanciful nature of Dor's illustrations others feel these woodcuts and steel engravings well match Quixote's dreams. D.W. It was with considerable reluctance that I abandoned in favour of the present undertaking what had long been a favourite project that of a new edition of Shel...	C	en
For the law that delivered you into my hand shall deliver me into a mightier hand. Your blood and my blood is naught but the sap that feeds the tree of heaven. And when you crush an apple with your teeth, say to it in your heart, 'Your seeds shall live in my body, And the buds of your tomorrow shall blossom in my heart...	B	en
They are all advocates who do not wish to be regarded as such, generally astute defenders, also, of their prejudices, which they dub 'truths,'and VERY far from having the conscience which bravely admits this to itself, very far from having the good taste of the courage which goes so far as to let this be understood, pe...	C	en
It was so quiet all around too, even though there must have been somebody in the flat. 'What a quiet life it is the family lead, said Gregor to himself, and, gazing into the darkness, felt a great pride that he was able to provide a life like that in such a nice home for his sister and parents. But what now, if all thi...	C	en
On the other hand, it is closer and more literal, the style is the same, the very same translations, or mistranslations, occur in it, and it is extremely unlikely that a new translator would, by suppressing his name, have allowed Shelton to carry off the credit. In John Phillips, Milton's nephew, produced a 'Don Quixot...	B	en
Above the chimney were sundry villainous old guns, and a couple of horsepistols and, by way of ornament, three gaudily painted canisters disposed along its ledge. The floor was of smooth, white stone the chairs, highbacked, primitive structures, painted green one or two heavy black ones lurking in the shade. In an arch...	C	en
Before Machiavelli had got The Prince off his hands he commenced his 'Discourse on the First Decade of Titus Livius, which should be read concurrently with The Prince. These and several minor works occupied him until the year , when he accepted a small commission to look after the affairs of some Florentine merchants a...	B	en
'They've been living over that garage for eleven years. And Tom's the first sweetie she ever had. The bottle of whiskya second onewas now in constant demand by all present, excepting Catherine, who 'felt just as good on nothing at all. Tom rang for the janitor and sent him for some celebrated sandwiches, which were a c...	C	en
I found, however, that the translation would be thus hopelessly scholasticised, and abandoned my intention. I would nevertheless urge on those who have the management of our University presses, that they would render a great service to students if they would publish a Greek text of the 'Odyssey with the Iliadic passage...	B	en
When the church came to itself,for he was so sudden and strong that he made it go head over heels before me, and I saw the steeple under my feet,when the church came to itself, I say, I was seated on a high tombstone, trembling while he ate the bread ravenously. 'You young dog, said the man, licking his lips, 'what fat...	B	en
Now, this was not something that she would be able to do by herself she did not dare to ask for help from her father the sixteen year old maid had carried on bravely since the cook had left but she certainly would not have helped in this, she had even asked to be allowed to keep the kitchen locked at all times and neve...	C	en
But you who are born of the mountains and the forests and the seas can find their prayer in your heart, And if you but listen in the stillness of the night you shall hear them saying in silence, 'Our God, who art our winged self, it is thy will in us that willeth. It is thy desire in us that desireth. It is thy urge in...	B	en

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Balanced Bilingual Literary Complexity Dataset (EN + ZH)

Description

This dataset contains paragraph-level literary segments labeled with CEFR-style difficulty levels (A/B/C).

Languages:

English (CommonLit-based scoring)
Chinese (heuristic labeling)

Data Fields

text: paragraph
difficulty: A/B/C
language: en/zh
open_source_books: original source

Labeling Method

English: CommonLit readability model,syntactic complexity, the proportion of rare vocabulary and stylistic modification
Chinese: heuristic rules (lexical hierarchy and syntactic structure difficulty) Sourcecode avaliable under file/src directory.

Dataset Statistics

English Subset

The English dataset contains approximately 1,026 literary segments with an imbalanced CEFR-style distribution:

A: 242 samples
B: 354 samples
C: 430 samples

Train/test split:

en_train.jsonl: 820 samples
en_test.jsonl: 206 samples

Chinese Subset

The Chinese dataset contains 600 literary segments with a balanced CEFR-style distribution:

A: 200 samples
B: 200 samples
C: 200 samples

Train/test split:

zh_train.jsonl: 480 samples
zh_test.jsonl: 120 samples

Source Literature

The dataset contains sampled literary excerpts from 39 English Literature books and 16 Chinese literature books rather than complete books.

English Sources

This dataset incorporates subsets from literature by ACOSharma https://huggingface.co/datasets/ACOSharma/literature and works from Gutenburg Project to balance the distribution of labels. Example source works include:

Ulysses
Wuthering Heights
Treasure Island
The War of the Worlds
Metamorphosis
A Room with a View
McGuffey_First_Reader
Mother_Goose_Rhymes
The_Tale_of_Peter_Rabbit

Chinese Sources

Example source works include:

红楼梦
西游记
水浒传
三国演义
官场现形记
呐喊
背影
史记
狂人日记
朝花夕拾
骆驼祥子
寄小读者

Only short segmented excerpts are included for research and educational purposes. The dataset does not contain complete original works.

Combined Dataset

The final multilingual dataset combines English and Chinese literary excerpts for CEFR-style readability classification and multilingual text difficulty modeling.

Use Cases

Text classification
Readability estimation
Multilingual NLP

Limitations

Chinese labels are heuristic
Literary bias

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