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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... voices of antiquity - older than Pharaoh ; and though I am a score of years in ad- vance , I cannot resist the impression they were some- how born before I was . Not the number of the earth's revolutions since you dropped on it measures ...
... voices of antiquity - older than Pharaoh ; and though I am a score of years in ad- vance , I cannot resist the impression they were some- how born before I was . Not the number of the earth's revolutions since you dropped on it measures ...
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... voice allowed to plead ? What are the trophies gained By Power , alone , with all its noise and strife , To that meek wreath , unstained , Won by the charities that gladden life ? Niagara's streams might fail , And human happiness be ...
... voice allowed to plead ? What are the trophies gained By Power , alone , with all its noise and strife , To that meek wreath , unstained , Won by the charities that gladden life ? Niagara's streams might fail , And human happiness be ...
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... voice . " Master , " quoth Harun , " be first boon to stand In thought upon the farthest star man's sight May eager reach when , on the desert's sand , His vision yearns through the abyss of night . " The master bowed assent ...
... voice . " Master , " quoth Harun , " be first boon to stand In thought upon the farthest star man's sight May eager reach when , on the desert's sand , His vision yearns through the abyss of night . " The master bowed assent ...
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... voice is mellow as a drop which falls , Pure liquid music , in a cistern hewn From out the living rock . Around him sit The chief men of the city , they that be Princes and potentates of Ispahan , All listening tireless to the tales he ...
... voice is mellow as a drop which falls , Pure liquid music , in a cistern hewn From out the living rock . Around him sit The chief men of the city , they that be Princes and potentates of Ispahan , All listening tireless to the tales he ...
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... a virgin forest , to the verses which he recited in a well - modulated voice , verses that seemed to Leocadia celestial music . - The Swan of Vilamorta . BEATTIE , JAMES , a Scottish essayist , poet ,. EMILIA PARDO BAZAN.
... a virgin forest , to the verses which he recited in a well - modulated voice , verses that seemed to Leocadia celestial music . - The Swan of Vilamorta . BEATTIE , JAMES , a Scottish essayist , poet ,. EMILIA PARDO BAZAN.
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