The International Library of Famous Literature: Selections from the World's Great Writers, Ancient, Mediaeval, and Modern, with Biographical and Explanatory Notes and with Introductions, 8. köideMerrill and Baker, 1898 - 9822 pages |
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alguazil asked beauty began Boguslav brought called castle Castlewood Christian COUNTESS OF BUTE cried dear death Dick Dick Turpin earth Esmond eyes face fair fear fell fire garden gave gentleman Gil Blas give hand happy hath head heard heart heaven honor hope horse hour island janizaries John JOHN BUNYAN JOSEPH ADDISON Kharlamp king king of Sweden knew lady live looked Lord Strutt Lorna Doone madam Manon master MATTHEW PRIOR mind mother nature never night o'er observed passed passion Peg Woffington pleasure poor Prince reason replied round savages Saxon seemed shore side sight Sir Roger Soaper soul Spain stood sword tell thee things thou thought tion told took town trees Triplet turned Turpin voice walk whole wild Woffington word YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY young
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Page 3504 - Call upon me in the day of trouble, and I will deliver thee, and thou shaft glorify me.
Page 3499 - How fleet is a glance of the mind! Compared with the speed of its flight, The tempest itself lags behind, And the swift-winged arrows of light. When I think of my own native land, In a moment I seem to be there; But alas!
Page 3693 - An heir of glory ! a frail child of dust ! Helpless immortal ! insect infinite ! A worm ! a god ! — I tremble at myself, And in myself am lost...
Page 3816 - When Music, heavenly maid, was young, While yet in early Greece she sung, The Passions oft, to hear her shell, Thronged around her magic cell...
Page 3487 - FAR in a wild, unknown to public view, From youth to age a reverend hermit grew ; The moss his bed, the cave his humble cell, His food the fruits, his drink the crystal well : Remote from man, with God he pass'd the days, Prayer all his business, all his pleasure praise.
Page 3450 - KNOW then thyself, presume not God to scan; The proper study of mankind is man. Placed on this isthmus of a middle state, A being darkly wise, and rudely great : With too much knowledge for the sceptic side, With too much weakness for the stoic's pride, He hangs between; in doubt to act, or rest; In doubt to deem himself a god, or beast; In doubt his mind or body to prefer...
Page 3463 - I had ever heard. They put me in mind of those heavenly airs that are played to the departed souls of good men upon their first arrival...
Page 3688 - ... of the quorum. The whole parish followed the corpse with heavy hearts and in their mourning suits; the men in frieze, and the women in riding-hoods. Captain Sentry, my master's nephew, has taken possession of the Hall-house, and the whole estate. When my old master saw him, a little before his death, he shook him by the hand, and wished him joy of the estate. which was falling to him, desiring him only to make...
Page 3428 - In happy climes, where from the genial sun And virgin earth such scenes ensue, The force of Art by Nature seems outdone, And fancied beauties by the true : In happy climes, the seat of innocence...
Page 3464 - I observed some with scimitars in their hands, and others with urinals, who ran to and fro upon the bridge, thrusting several persons on trapdoors which did not seem to lie in their way, and which they might have escaped had they not been thus forced upon them. ' The genius seeing me indulge myself in this melancholy prospect, told me I had dwelt long enough upon it : " Take thine eyes off the bridge," said he, " and tell me if thou yet seest anything thou dost not comprehend." Upon looking up,