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, 8. köideAvil Printing Company, 1899 |
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... looks in vain . These people would surely never rouse them- selves to contradict the man who asserted , with grim disdain of all intense life , that the happiest moment each day , to the happiest person , was the moment when ...
... looks in vain . These people would surely never rouse them- selves to contradict the man who asserted , with grim disdain of all intense life , that the happiest moment each day , to the happiest person , was the moment when ...
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... look up to the jackdaws circling round the towers , or the old river running away to Rome . For all the waters cried to me to leap , and all the birds to fly . And you cannot tell , unless you had been born to do it , as I was , how ...
... look up to the jackdaws circling round the towers , or the old river running away to Rome . For all the waters cried to me to leap , and all the birds to fly . And you cannot tell , unless you had been born to do it , as I was , how ...
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... farmer , the rogue and the swindler , the rough and his victim , each speaking of himself or his op- ponent as he wished nis " fellow citizens " to look upon them . Among the most characteristic of these pleas DEMOSTHENES 29.
... farmer , the rogue and the swindler , the rough and his victim , each speaking of himself or his op- ponent as he wished nis " fellow citizens " to look upon them . Among the most characteristic of these pleas DEMOSTHENES 29.
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... look forward , and to warn others of their approach : all this I have done . Then to confine within the narrowest bounds all delays and backwardness and ignorance and contentiousness- faults which are inherent and unavoidable in all ...
... look forward , and to warn others of their approach : all this I have done . Then to confine within the narrowest bounds all delays and backwardness and ignorance and contentiousness- faults which are inherent and unavoidable in all ...
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... look up from a book or work to say casually , " Papa , your hair is on fire ; " of which a calm " Is it , my love ? and a hand rubbing out the blaze was all the notice taken . This idyllic way of life was brought to a close in the most ...
... look up from a book or work to say casually , " Papa , your hair is on fire ; " of which a calm " Is it , my love ? and a hand rubbing out the blaze was all the notice taken . This idyllic way of life was brought to a close in the most ...
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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...