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 16
... once saw Cleopatra ; whether it leaps high in air trying to reach the gold cross on St. Peter's , or pours its triple cascade over the Pauline granite , or spouts out of a great barrel in a wall in old Trastevere , or throws up into the ...
... once saw Cleopatra ; whether it leaps high in air trying to reach the gold cross on St. Peter's , or pours its triple cascade over the Pauline granite , or spouts out of a great barrel in a wall in old Trastevere , or throws up into the ...
Page 57
... once philo- sophic and practical , and with unrivalled lucidity could instruct the dullest mind on the bearing of the action of the present on the destiny of the future , so impressed upon his contemporaries the necessity of a central ...
... once philo- sophic and practical , and with unrivalled lucidity could instruct the dullest mind on the bearing of the action of the present on the destiny of the future , so impressed upon his contemporaries the necessity of a central ...
Page 60
... once the family home and estate ; the church and the school- house growing simultaneously with the settlements ; citizenship of the great Republic , which could only come through the admission of the Territory as a State into the grand ...
... once the family home and estate ; the church and the school- house growing simultaneously with the settlements ; citizenship of the great Republic , which could only come through the admission of the Territory as a State into the grand ...
Page 81
... once heard issuing from their lips . And it gladdens me beyond measure that all day long I hear from their little drawing - room inter- mitting sounds of gayety and laughter , the most natural and spontaneous . Three sisters more ...
... once heard issuing from their lips . And it gladdens me beyond measure that all day long I hear from their little drawing - room inter- mitting sounds of gayety and laughter , the most natural and spontaneous . Three sisters more ...
Page 84
... once he threw up his arms and exclaimed , as if in sur- prised recognition , " Sister ! Sister ! Sister ! " That sister was the one best - loved of all , who had died seventy years before at the age of ten . That apparent recognition ...
... once he threw up his arms and exclaimed , as if in sur- prised recognition , " Sister ! Sister ! Sister ! " That sister was the one best - loved of all , who had died seventy years before at the age of ten . That apparent recognition ...
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