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. köideJohn Clark Ridpath Globe publishing Company, 1898 |
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... died at Lyons , December 11 , 1844 . He was the son of a merchant , and was educated at the Napoleon Lyceum at Paris . He early showed a marked taste for poetry . Andrieux , to whom some of his pieces were shown , at first en- deavored ...
... died at Lyons , December 11 , 1844 . He was the son of a merchant , and was educated at the Napoleon Lyceum at Paris . He early showed a marked taste for poetry . Andrieux , to whom some of his pieces were shown , at first en- deavored ...
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... died after a few days ' illness . WATERLOO . They breathe no longer let their ashes rest ! Clamor unjust and calumny They stooped not to confute ; but flung their breast Against the legions of your enemy , And thus avenged themselves ...
... died after a few days ' illness . WATERLOO . They breathe no longer let their ashes rest ! Clamor unjust and calumny They stooped not to confute ; but flung their breast Against the legions of your enemy , And thus avenged themselves ...
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... dying in their fame ; Though kings return , desired through lengthening years , What old man's cheek is tinged not with her shame ? What veteran , who their fortune's treason hears , Feels not the quickening spark of his old youthful ...
... dying in their fame ; Though kings return , desired through lengthening years , What old man's cheek is tinged not with her shame ? What veteran , who their fortune's treason hears , Feels not the quickening spark of his old youthful ...
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... died in Paris , May 1 , 1813. He was educated in Paris , and became Professor of the Humanities at the College of Amiens . In 1769 he published a translation of the Georgics of Virgil , with which Voltaire was so well pleased that he ...
... died in Paris , May 1 , 1813. He was educated in Paris , and became Professor of the Humanities at the College of Amiens . In 1769 he published a translation of the Georgics of Virgil , with which Voltaire was so well pleased that he ...
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... died at Halifax , Nova Scotia , January 28 , 1880 . In 1860 he went to Acadia College as Professor of the Classical Languages , and retained this position until 1865 , when he became Professor of History and Rhetoric in Dalhousie ...
... died at Halifax , Nova Scotia , January 28 , 1880 . In 1860 he went to Acadia College as Professor of the Classical Languages , and retained this position until 1865 , when he became Professor of History and Rhetoric in Dalhousie ...
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