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. köideJohn Clark Ridpath Globe publishing Company, 1898 |
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Page 1855
... live . But gallantly The giant wears the scarf , and flowers are hung In crimson clusters all the boughs among , Whereon all day are gathered bird and bee ; And oft at night the garden overflows With one sweet song that seems to have no ...
... live . But gallantly The giant wears the scarf , and flowers are hung In crimson clusters all the boughs among , Whereon all day are gathered bird and bee ; And oft at night the garden overflows With one sweet song that seems to have no ...
Page 1865
... live in the sphere of memory only , how- ever happy that sphere might seem to be . The very ardor of his mind in its search for truth quickened him to hope , and made it easy for him to believe that new movements of mental activity in ...
... live in the sphere of memory only , how- ever happy that sphere might seem to be . The very ardor of his mind in its search for truth quickened him to hope , and made it easy for him to believe that new movements of mental activity in ...
Page 1867
... live , this is my stay ; I seek no more than may suffice ; I press to bear no haughty sway ; Look , what I lack my mind supplies ; Lo ! thus I triumph like a king , Content with that my mind doth bring . Some have too much , yet still ...
... live , this is my stay ; I seek no more than may suffice ; I press to bear no haughty sway ; Look , what I lack my mind supplies ; Lo ! thus I triumph like a king , Content with that my mind doth bring . Some have too much , yet still ...
Page 1879
... lives of the survivors . So he took care to give a worthy in- terment to his dead , above all to have the body em- balmed so as to endure long ; and had fixed times to bring fresh offerings for the dead of flesh and fowl , with drink ...
... lives of the survivors . So he took care to give a worthy in- terment to his dead , above all to have the body em- balmed so as to endure long ; and had fixed times to bring fresh offerings for the dead of flesh and fowl , with drink ...
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... Lives as he ought to do , lives as he ought to do , and dies an honest fellow . Sir Patrick died that night : just as ... live and die more beloved in the country by rich and poor . His funeral was such a one as was never known before or ...
... Lives as he ought to do , lives as he ought to do , and dies an honest fellow . Sir Patrick died that night : just as ... live and die more beloved in the country by rich and poor . His funeral was such a one as was never known before or ...
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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.