The Ridpath Library of Universal Literature: A Biographical and Bibliographical Summary of the World's Most Eminent Authors, Including the Choicest Selections and Masterpieces from Their Writings ...Fifth avenue library society, 1899 |
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... less distance . After walking a distance of about two miles , according to the Senator's calculation , they came to the centre of interest . It was a hole in the wall of the tunnel . The Americans were given to understand that they must ...
... less distance . After walking a distance of about two miles , according to the Senator's calculation , they came to the centre of interest . It was a hole in the wall of the tunnel . The Americans were given to understand that they must ...
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... less importance . Matters came to a crisis in 338 B.C. , when the combined forces of Athens and Thebes were routed at Charoneia by Philip and his young son Alexander . Demosthenes was one of the Athenian commanders , and fled back to ...
... less importance . Matters came to a crisis in 338 B.C. , when the combined forces of Athens and Thebes were routed at Charoneia by Philip and his young son Alexander . Demosthenes was one of the Athenian commanders , and fled back to ...
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... less than 500 voted for ¯schines . According to Athenian law a prosecutor who failed to gain the votes of one - fifth of the jury was himself liable to punishment for malicious prosecution . Eschines fled from Athens , and took refuge ...
... less than 500 voted for ¯schines . According to Athenian law a prosecutor who failed to gain the votes of one - fifth of the jury was himself liable to punishment for malicious prosecution . Eschines fled from Athens , and took refuge ...
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... less guilty wealth to explore , Search not his bottom , but survey his shore , O'er which he kindly spreads his spacious wing , And hatches plenty for th ' ensuing spring , And then destroys it with too fond a stay , Like mothers which ...
... less guilty wealth to explore , Search not his bottom , but survey his shore , O'er which he kindly spreads his spacious wing , And hatches plenty for th ' ensuing spring , And then destroys it with too fond a stay , Like mothers which ...
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... less interesting to your affections . Let the mountains . be real mountains , between 3,000 and 4,000 feet high , and the cottage a real cottage , not ( as a witty author has it ) " a cottage with a double coach - house ; " let it be ...
... less interesting to your affections . Let the mountains . be real mountains , between 3,000 and 4,000 feet high , and the cottage a real cottage , not ( as a witty author has it ) " a cottage with a double coach - house ; " let it be ...
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Page 390 - Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God. That which is born of the flesh is flesh ; and that which is born of the Spirit is Spirit. Marvel not that I said unto thee, Ye must be born again.
Page 287 - Our two souls, therefore, which are one, Though I must go, endure not yet A breach, but an expansion, Like gold to airy thinness beat. If they be two, they are two so As stiff twin compasses are two: Thy soul, the fixed foot, makes no show To move, but doth if th
Page 352 - When Freedom from her mountain height Unfurled her standard to the air, She tore the azure robe of night, And set the stars of glory there! She mingled with its gorgeous dyes The milky baldric of the skies, And striped its pure celestial white With streakings of the morning light; Then, from his mansion in the sun, She called her eagle-bearer down, And gave into his mighty hand The symbol of her chosen land ! Majestic monarch of the cloud!
Page 226 - If any one attempts to haul down the American flag, shoot him on the spot.
Page 415 - A man so various that he seemed to be Not one, but all mankind's epitome: Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong, Was everything by starts, and nothing long; But, in the course of one revolving moon, Was chymist, fiddler, statesman, and buffoon; Then all for women, painting, rhyming, drinking, Besides ten thousand freaks that died in thinking.
Page 416 - In thy felonious heart though venom lies, It does but touch thy Irish pen, and dies. Thy genius calls thee not to purchase fame In keen iambics, but mild anagram. Leave writing plays, and choose for thy command Some peaceful province in acrostic land. There thou may'st wings display and altars raise, And torture one poor word ten thousand ways. Or, if thou wouldst thy different talents suit, Set thy own songs, and sing them to thy lute.
Page 307 - To all you ladies now at land We men at sea indite, But first would have you understand How hard it is to write: The Muses now, and Neptune too, We must implore to write to you, — With a fa, la, la, la, la!
Page 413 - Of these the false Achitophel was first, A name to all succeeding ages curst: For close designs and crooked counsels fit, Sagacious, bold, and turbulent of wit; Restless, unfixed in principles and place, In power unpleased, impatient of disgrace ; A fiery soul, which working out its way, Fretted the pigmy body to decay, And o'er-informed the tenement of clay.
Page 425 - And, wondering, on their faces fell To worship that celestial sound. Less than a god they thought there could not dwell Within the hollow of that shell, That spoke so sweetly, and so well.
Page 286 - DEATH be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for, thou art not so, For, those, whom thou think'st, thou dost overthrow, Die not, poor death, nor yet canst thou kill me. From rest and sleep, which but thy...