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, 9. köide

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John Clark Ridpath
Globe publishing Company, 1898

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Page 1861 - heroes the rights of mankind shall defend, And triumph pursue them, and glory attend. A world is thy realm : for a world be thy laws, Enlarged as thine empire, and just as thy cause ; On Freedom's broad basis, that empire shall rise, Extend with the main, and dissolve with the skies. in.
Page 1868 - So we mistake the future's face, Eyed through hope's deluding glass ; As yon summits soft and fair, Clad in colors of the air, Which to those who journey near, Barren, brown, and rough appear ; Still we tread the same coarse way, The present's still a cloudy day. . . . Now,
Page 1860 - Rest is not quitting the busy career; Rest is the fitting of self to its sphere. "Tis the brook's motion, clear without strife, Fleeing to ocean after its life. Deeper devotion nowhere hath knelt; Fuller emotion heart never felt.
Page 1868 - i A step, methinks, may pass the stream, So little distant dangers seem ; So we mistake the future's face, Eyed through hope's deluding glass ; As yon summits soft and fair, Clad in colors of the air, Which to those who journey near, Barren, brown, and rough appear ; Still we tread the same coarse way, The present's still a cloudy day.

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