The Masterpieces and the History of Literature: Analysis, Criticism, Character and Incident, 6. köideJulian Hawthorne Hamilton Book Company, 1902 |
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... Lost Child • DUTCH LITERATURE . ERASMUS The Sham Knight . The French Inn . · 1 he Well - Preserved Old Man . JOHANNES SECUNDUS . Cupid and Neara One Little Kiss Neara's Kisses . HUGO GROTIUS . Justice in War . To Holland • DUTCH BALLADS ...
... Lost Child • DUTCH LITERATURE . ERASMUS The Sham Knight . The French Inn . · 1 he Well - Preserved Old Man . JOHANNES SECUNDUS . Cupid and Neara One Little Kiss Neara's Kisses . HUGO GROTIUS . Justice in War . To Holland • DUTCH BALLADS ...
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... Lost Love · ENGLISH LITERATURE - PERIOD V. PART I. THOMAS FULLER . The Good Schoolmaster SIR THOMAS BROWNE Immortality . • ANDREW MARVELL . · The Emigrants in Bermudas Holland . ABRAHAM COWLEY . The Vision of Oliver Cromwell . A Lover's ...
... Lost Love · ENGLISH LITERATURE - PERIOD V. PART I. THOMAS FULLER . The Good Schoolmaster SIR THOMAS BROWNE Immortality . • ANDREW MARVELL . · The Emigrants in Bermudas Holland . ABRAHAM COWLEY . The Vision of Oliver Cromwell . A Lover's ...
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... lost his child - the first , the only child that had ever called him by the tender name of father ! I say not this to insult his misfortunes ; I mean but to display his real character : for he who hates his children , he who is a bad ...
... lost his child - the first , the only child that had ever called him by the tender name of father ! I say not this to insult his misfortunes ; I mean but to display his real character : for he who hates his children , he who is a bad ...
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... lost their lives in fighting bravely for their country , the people had maintained to this their age of maturity : that now , having now furnished them with complete suits of armor , they dismiss them ( with prayers for their prosperity ) ...
... lost their lives in fighting bravely for their country , the people had maintained to this their age of maturity : that now , having now furnished them with complete suits of armor , they dismiss them ( with prayers for their prosperity ) ...
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... lost so much of your own ! I wonder you do not look back to that conduct of yours which has brought your affairs into this state of ruin , and ask yourselves how they can ever mend , while such conduct remains unchanged . It was much ...
... lost so much of your own ! I wonder you do not look back to that conduct of yours which has brought your affairs into this state of ruin , and ask yourselves how they can ever mend , while such conduct remains unchanged . It was much ...
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Page 318 - Now strike the golden lyre again : A louder yet, and yet a louder strain. Break his bands of sleep asunder, And rouse him, like a rattling peal of thunder. Hark, hark, the horrid sound Has raised up his head : As awaked from the dead, And amazed, he stares around. Revenge ! revenge...
Page 314 - In the first rank of these did Zimri stand ;* A man so various, that he seemed to be Not one, but all mankind's epitome : Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong, Was everything by starts, and nothing long...
Page 289 - Twas Presbyterian true blue, For he was of that stubborn crew Of Errant Saints, whom all men grant To be the true Church Militant...
Page 284 - Go, lovely rose! Tell her that wastes her time and me, That now she knows, When I resemble her to thee, How sweet and fair she seems to be.
Page 364 - Pride, our error lies; All quit their sphere, and rush into the skies. Pride still is aiming at the blest abodes, Men would be Angels, Angels would be Gods. Aspiring to be Gods, if Angels fell, Aspiring to be Angels, Men rebel: And who but wishes to invert the laws Of Order, sins against th
Page 315 - TWAS at the royal feast for Persia won By Philip's warlike son: Aloft in awful state The godlike hero sate On his imperial throne...
Page 316 - In flower of youth and beauty's pride. Happy, happy, happy pair! None but the brave, None but the brave, None but the brave deserves the fair...
Page 362 - And screams of horror rend th' affrighted skies. Not louder shrieks to pitying heaven are cast When husbands, or when lap-dogs, breathe their last; Or when rich China vessels, fallen from high, In glittering dust and painted fragments lie! " Let wreaths of triumph now my temples twine...
Page 332 - But being ill-used by the above-mentioned widow, he was very serious for a year and a half ; and though, his temper being naturally jovial, he at last got over it, he grew careless of himself, and never dressed afterwards. He continues to wear a coat and doublet of the same cut that were in fashion at the time of his repulse...
Page 316 - The praise of Bacchus then the sweet musician sung: Of Bacchus ever fair and ever young : The jolly god in triumph comes; Sound the trumpets, beat the drums; Flush'd with a purple grace, He shows his honest face; Now give the hautboys breath: he comes! he comes! Bacchus, ever fair and young, Drinking joys did first ordain ; Bacchus...