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, 8. köideJohn Clark Ridpath Globe Publishing Company, 1899 |
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... Death - there could have been noth- ing more ultimate than they ; but the expression changes ; and these square pillars crumbling slowly in the white , hot sunshine , have seen quick and nervous lives and cruel deaths . The iron gates ...
... Death - there could have been noth- ing more ultimate than they ; but the expression changes ; and these square pillars crumbling slowly in the white , hot sunshine , have seen quick and nervous lives and cruel deaths . The iron gates ...
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... your selfish miseries ; Against the common sorrow hard as steel ; Tremble ! the hand of death upon you lies ; You may be forced yourselves to feel . But no - what son of France has spared his 18 JEAN FRANÇOIS CASIMIR DELAVIGNE.
... your selfish miseries ; Against the common sorrow hard as steel ; Tremble ! the hand of death upon you lies ; You may be forced yourselves to feel . But no - what son of France has spared his 18 JEAN FRANÇOIS CASIMIR DELAVIGNE.
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... death - bolts crushed and torn- Those quivering limbs with dust defiled , And bloody corses upon corses piled ; Veil from mine eyes that monument Of nation against nation spent In struggling rage that pants for breath , Spare us the ...
... death - bolts crushed and torn- Those quivering limbs with dust defiled , And bloody corses upon corses piled ; Veil from mine eyes that monument Of nation against nation spent In struggling rage that pants for breath , Spare us the ...
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... death , those eyes are terrible ; Feats of the past their deep - scarred brows engrave : For these are they who bore Italia's sun , Who o'er Castilia's mountain - barrier passed ; The North beheld them o'er the rampart run , Which ...
... death , those eyes are terrible ; Feats of the past their deep - scarred brows engrave : For these are they who bore Italia's sun , Who o'er Castilia's mountain - barrier passed ; The North beheld them o'er the rampart run , Which ...
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... death - blow of our brave ! Dream not that France is vanquished to a slave ; Gall not with pride the avengers yet to come : Heaven may remit the chastening of our doom ; A new Germanicus may yet demand Those eagles wrested from our ...
... death - blow of our brave ! Dream not that France is vanquished to a slave ; Gall not with pride the avengers yet to come : Heaven may remit the chastening of our doom ; A new Germanicus may yet demand Those eagles wrested from our ...
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