The Ridpath Library of Universal Literature ...: A Biographical and Bibliographical Summary of the World's Most Eminent Authors, Including the Choicest Extracts and Masterpieces from Their Writings, Comprising the Best Features of Many Celebrated Compilations, Notably the Guernsey Collection, the De Puy Collection, the Ridpath Collection, All Carefully Rev. and Arranged by a Corps of the Most Capable Scholars, 3. köideJohn Clark Ridpath Globe publishing Company, 1898 |
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... turn slave to the booksellers . They are Turks and Tartars when they have poor authors at their beck . Hitherto you have been at arm's length from them : come not within their grasp . Oh ! you know not - may you never know -the miseries ...
... turn slave to the booksellers . They are Turks and Tartars when they have poor authors at their beck . Hitherto you have been at arm's length from them : come not within their grasp . Oh ! you know not - may you never know -the miseries ...
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... the charities that gladden life ? Niagara's streams might fail , And human happiness be undisturbed ; But Egypt would turn pale , Were her still Nile's o'erflowing bounty curbed . BASSO , ANDREA DEL , an Italian poet , who. BERNARD BARTON.
... the charities that gladden life ? Niagara's streams might fail , And human happiness be undisturbed ; But Egypt would turn pale , Were her still Nile's o'erflowing bounty curbed . BASSO , ANDREA DEL , an Italian poet , who. BERNARD BARTON.
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... turn , The poet with an endless love must yearn— Endless as matter , silent and alone . A sphinx unguessed , enthroned in azure skies , White as the swan , my heart is cold as snow ; No hated motion breaks my lines ' pure flow , Nor ...
... turn , The poet with an endless love must yearn— Endless as matter , silent and alone . A sphinx unguessed , enthroned in azure skies , White as the swan , my heart is cold as snow ; No hated motion breaks my lines ' pure flow , Nor ...
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... turn out good for nothing but to string rhymes together ? It was no crime to do this , but - when there was not a pile of law - papers to go through , and stratagems to think of , to circumvent the opposing party . Since the lawyer had ...
... turn out good for nothing but to string rhymes together ? It was no crime to do this , but - when there was not a pile of law - papers to go through , and stratagems to think of , to circumvent the opposing party . Since the lawyer had ...
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... turn she gives to the passage in her version , seems to think , and Pope , in order , perhaps , to make out his couplet , insinuates , that the gladness of the shepherd is owing to his sense of the utility of these luminaries . And this ...
... turn she gives to the passage in her version , seems to think , and Pope , in order , perhaps , to make out his couplet , insinuates , that the gladness of the shepherd is owing to his sense of the utility of these luminaries . And this ...
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