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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... hand , sowing the seeds of all the hatreds , of all the crime , of all the sorrows of mankind , lighting up the flames of rage and of greed in human souls for an acre of ground , for a roll of gold ! She wished me to be a notary's ...
... hand , sowing the seeds of all the hatreds , of all the crime , of all the sorrows of mankind , lighting up the flames of rage and of greed in human souls for an acre of ground , for a roll of gold ! She wished me to be a notary's ...
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Woe to you , woe ! if those inhuman eyes Can spare no drops to mourn your country's weal ; Shrinking before your selfish miseries ; Against the common sorrow hard as steel ; Tremble ! the hand of death upon you lies ; You may be forced ...
Woe to you , woe ! if those inhuman eyes Can spare no drops to mourn your country's weal ; Shrinking before your selfish miseries ; Against the common sorrow hard as steel ; Tremble ! the hand of death upon you lies ; You may be forced ...
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Our faithless hands but draw the gleaming blade To wound the bosom which its point should aid . The strangers raze our fenced walls ; The castle stoops , the city falls ; Insulting foes their truce forget ; The unsparing war - bolt ...
Our faithless hands but draw the gleaming blade To wound the bosom which its point should aid . The strangers raze our fenced walls ; The castle stoops , the city falls ; Insulting foes their truce forget ; The unsparing war - bolt ...
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Disarmed , divided , conquerors o'er us stand ; Present the olive , but the sword in hand . And thou , O people , flushed with our defeat , To whom the mourning of our land is sweet , Thou witness of the death - blow of our brave !
Disarmed , divided , conquerors o'er us stand ; Present the olive , but the sword in hand . And thou , O people , flushed with our defeat , To whom the mourning of our land is sweet , Thou witness of the death - blow of our brave !
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... who saw that very Philip , with whom our conflict for command and sovereignty was maintained , have his eye torn out , his collar - bone fractured , his hand and his leg mutilated , abandoning to Fortune whatever part of his body ...
... who saw that very Philip , with whom our conflict for command and sovereignty was maintained , have his eye torn out , his collar - bone fractured , his hand and his leg mutilated , abandoning to Fortune whatever part of his body ...
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