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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... with a face full of lazy good - nature . Indeed , he and his beast have the same placid way of taking life . The mule does not mark his abusive entreaties to proceed , any more than the boy notices or objects when his gray friend ...
... with a face full of lazy good - nature . Indeed , he and his beast have the same placid way of taking life . The mule does not mark his abusive entreaties to proceed , any more than the boy notices or objects when his gray friend ...
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I used to cry about it with hot and stinging tears , that stung my face like lashes , lying with my head hidden on my arms in the grass by the old Tiber water . For I was not twelve years old , and to be shut up in Orte always , growing ...
I used to cry about it with hot and stinging tears , that stung my face like lashes , lying with my head hidden on my arms in the grass by the old Tiber water . For I was not twelve years old , and to be shut up in Orte always , growing ...
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But you do not understand this , you poor toilers in cities , who pace the streets and watch the faces of the rich . And I , to whom this life of the upper air was joy , was ecstasy , I was doomed to be a notary's clerk ; I - called ...
But you do not understand this , you poor toilers in cities , who pace the streets and watch the faces of the rich . And I , to whom this life of the upper air was joy , was ecstasy , I was doomed to be a notary's clerk ; I - called ...
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When the sky is yellow as brass , and the air sickly with the fever - mist , and the faces 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 ...
When the sky is yellow as brass , and the air sickly with the fever - mist , and the faces 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 ...
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good cause or the bad ; darkness and lights ; tempest and human faces ; and at last , with the sense that all was lost , female forms and features that were worth all the world to me ; and but a moment allowed — and clasped hands ...
good cause or the bad ; darkness and lights ; tempest and human faces ; and at last , with the sense that all was lost , female forms and features that were worth all the world to me ; and but a moment allowed — and clasped hands ...
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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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