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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And you cannot tell , unless you had been born to do it , as I was , how good it is to climb , and climb , and climb , and see the green earth grow pale beneath you , and the people dwindle till they are small as dust , and the houses ...
And you cannot tell , unless you had been born to do it , as I was , how good it is to climb , and climb , and climb , and see the green earth grow pale beneath you , and the people dwindle till they are small as dust , and the houses ...
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The poet appeared before the President with the following verses : “ Oye who seize the thunders of Olympus , Of law eternal overthrow the altars , Ye cowards , of the earth the base oppressors , DELILLE, or DE LILLE, JACQUES, a French .
The poet appeared before the President with the following verses : “ Oye who seize the thunders of Olympus , Of law eternal overthrow the altars , Ye cowards , of the earth the base oppressors , DELILLE, or DE LILLE, JACQUES, a French .
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Ye cowards , of the earth the base oppressors , Tremble ! ye are immortal ! O ye who suffer , victims of oppression , O'er whom God watches with an eye paternal , To stranger shores the pilgrims of a moment . Rejoice ! ye are immortal !
Ye cowards , of the earth the base oppressors , Tremble ! ye are immortal ! O ye who suffer , victims of oppression , O'er whom God watches with an eye paternal , To stranger shores the pilgrims of a moment . Rejoice ! ye are immortal !
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Earth vainly nourishes the countless host Of beasts , of nations scattered o'er her breast . The earth is jealous of thy wide domain ; The elephants her lofty forests range , And in thy dark abysses glides the whale .
Earth vainly nourishes the countless host Of beasts , of nations scattered o'er her breast . The earth is jealous of thy wide domain ; The elephants her lofty forests range , And in thy dark abysses glides the whale .
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... were my accuser instead of this wordmonger , this hack of the courts , this pestilent scribe , I don't much think they would have spoken , nor should we have heard them delivering themselves like ranting stageplayers— “ O Earth !
... were my accuser instead of this wordmonger , this hack of the courts , this pestilent scribe , I don't much think they would have spoken , nor should we have heard them delivering themselves like ranting stageplayers— “ O Earth !
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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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