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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... young poet competed for a prize of- fered by the French Academy . His poem Charles XII . à Narva received honorable mention , and a poem presented the next year , Sur la Découverte de la Vaccine , obtained a secondary prize . The humil ...
... young poet competed for a prize of- fered by the French Academy . His poem Charles XII . à Narva received honorable mention , and a poem presented the next year , Sur la Découverte de la Vaccine , obtained a secondary prize . The humil ...
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... young daughter . By his will , the widow was to marry one of his nephews , and another nephew was to marry the daughter when she grew up . These nephews , and another per- son , were made administrators of the estate and guardians of ...
... young daughter . By his will , the widow was to marry one of his nephews , and another nephew was to marry the daughter when she grew up . These nephews , and another per- son , were made administrators of the estate and guardians of ...
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... young Athenian , had been set upon and violently maltreated by a disreputable gang , to whom he had somehow become obnoxious . He brought suit against one Conon , a ringleader of the gang , and employed Demosthenes as his counsel . A ...
... young Athenian , had been set upon and violently maltreated by a disreputable gang , to whom he had somehow become obnoxious . He brought suit against one Conon , a ringleader of the gang , and employed Demosthenes as his counsel . A ...
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... young son Alexander . Demosthenes was one of the Athenian commanders , and fled back to Athens with the remnant of the forces . He met at home with a reception which was hardly to have been expected . He was chosen to deliver the ...
... young son Alexander . Demosthenes was one of the Athenian commanders , and fled back to Athens with the remnant of the forces . He met at home with a reception which was hardly to have been expected . He was chosen to deliver the ...
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... young confederacy , torn by the jealousies of its stronger and weaker colo- nies , was the necessity of a central power strong enough to deal with foreign nations and to protect commerce between the States . At this period Alexander ...
... young confederacy , torn by the jealousies of its stronger and weaker colo- nies , was the necessity of a central power strong enough to deal with foreign nations and to protect commerce between the States . At this period Alexander ...
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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
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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.
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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...