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, 8. köide |
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... of men are all livid and seared , and all the beasts lie faint with the drought , it is the song of the water that keeps our life in us , sounding all through the daylight and the darkness across the desert of brick and stone .
... of men are all livid and seared , and all the beasts lie faint with the drought , it is the song of the water that keeps our life in us , sounding all through the daylight and the darkness across the desert of brick and stone .
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The earth is jealous of thy wide domain ; The elephants her lofty forests range , And in thy dark abysses glides the whale . Above us , from thy waves rise other seas God from this ocean makes the sea of air And who besides fills up ...
The earth is jealous of thy wide domain ; The elephants her lofty forests range , And in thy dark abysses glides the whale . Above us , from thy waves rise other seas God from this ocean makes the sea of air And who besides fills up ...
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The cavern was as dark as possible , and extended apparently for an endless distance . After walking a distance of about two miles , according to the Senator's calculation , they came to the centre of interest .
The cavern was as dark as possible , and extended apparently for an endless distance . After walking a distance of about two miles , according to the Senator's calculation , they came to the centre of interest .
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His light those mists and clouds dissolved Which our dark nation long involved ; But he , descending to the shades , Darkness again the age invades ; Next ( like Aurora ) Spenser rose , Whose purple blush the day foreshows ; The other ...
His light those mists and clouds dissolved Which our dark nation long involved ; But he , descending to the shades , Darkness again the age invades ; Next ( like Aurora ) Spenser rose , Whose purple blush the day foreshows ; The other ...
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“ The author , " he said , " was the first man who shot light into what had hitherto been a dark chaos of materials . ” He wrote , or dictated to his wife gentle thoughts which grew out of his reading ; and in time the manuscript for a ...
“ The author , " he said , " was the first man who shot light into what had hitherto been a dark chaos of materials . ” He wrote , or dictated to his wife gentle thoughts which grew out of his reading ; and in time the manuscript for a ...
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| Pealkiri | 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 ..., 8. köide 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, John Clark Ridpath |
| Editor | John Clark Ridpath |
| Publisher | Globe publishing Company, 1898 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 26 aug. 2005 |
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