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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Page 11
... hear of that , of turning me into a clerk in the notary's office . A monk ! a clerk ! when all the trees cried out to me to climb , and all the birds called to me to fly ! I used to cry about it with hot and stinging tears , that stung ...
... hear of that , of turning me into a clerk in the notary's office . A monk ! a clerk ! when all the trees cried out to me to climb , and all the birds called to me to fly ! I used to cry about it with hot and stinging tears , that stung ...
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... hear them say that Rome is sad , with all that mirth and music of its water laughing through all its streets , till the steepest and stoniest ways are mur- murous with it as any brook - fed forest - depths . Here water is Protean ...
... hear them say that Rome is sad , with all that mirth and music of its water laughing through all its streets , till the steepest and stoniest ways are mur- murous with it as any brook - fed forest - depths . Here water is Protean ...
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... hears , Feels not the quickening spark of his old youthful flame ? Great Heaven ! what lessons mark that one day's page ! What ghastly figures that might crowd an age ! How shall the historic Muse record the day , Nor , starting , cast ...
... hears , Feels not the quickening spark of his old youthful flame ? Great Heaven ! what lessons mark that one day's page ! What ghastly figures that might crowd an age ! How shall the historic Muse record the day , Nor , starting , cast ...
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... hear . It proves Conon's malice , and that he was the ringleader in the affair : He crowed , mimicking fighting - cocks when they have won a battle ; and his companions bade him clap his elbows against his sides , like wings . I was ...
... hear . It proves Conon's malice , and that he was the ringleader in the affair : He crowed , mimicking fighting - cocks when they have won a battle ; and his companions bade him clap his elbows against his sides , like wings . I was ...
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... hear my honest and plain reply . If you know me to be such as he has de- scribed and I have never lived anywhere but among you - then let me not be suffered to utter one word , be the merits of my administration ever so perfect , but ...
... hear my honest and plain reply . If you know me to be such as he has de- scribed and I have never lived anywhere but among you - then let me not be suffered to utter one word , be the merits of my administration ever so perfect , but ...
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