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, Volumen8Avil Printing Company, 1899 |
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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 clerk ...
... 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 clerk ...
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... your selfish miseries ; Against the common sorrow hard as steel ; Tremble ! the hand of death upon you lies ; You may be forced yourselves to feel . But no - what son of France has spared his 18 JEAN FRANÇOIS CASIMIR DELAVIGNE.
... your selfish miseries ; Against the common sorrow hard as steel ; Tremble ! the hand of death upon you lies ; You may be forced yourselves to feel . But no - what son of France has spared his 18 JEAN FRANÇOIS CASIMIR DELAVIGNE.
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... 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 ! Dream not that France is vanquished to a slave ; Gall not with pride the avengers yet to ...
... 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 ! Dream not that France is vanquished to a slave ; Gall not with pride the avengers yet to ...
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... - mand 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 she chose to take , so that the 40 DEMOSTHENES.
... - mand 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 she chose to take , so that the 40 DEMOSTHENES.
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... hand , and congratulating such as I thought would tell it elsewhere , but hearing with alarm any success of our own armies , moaning and bent to the earth , like those impious men who rail at this country , as if they could do so ...
... hand , and congratulating such as I thought would tell it elsewhere , but hearing with alarm any success of our own armies , moaning and bent to the earth , like those impious men who rail at this country , as if they could do so ...
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Página 390 - Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God. That which is born of the flesh is flesh ; and that which is born of the Spirit is Spirit. Marvel not that I said unto thee, Ye must be born again.
Página 287 - Our two souls, therefore, which are one, Though I must go, endure not yet A breach, but an expansion, Like gold to airy thinness beat. If they be two, they are two so As stiff twin compasses are two: Thy soul, the fixed foot, makes no show To move, but doth if th
Página 352 - When Freedom from her mountain height Unfurled her standard to the air, She tore the azure robe of night, And set the stars of glory there! She mingled with its gorgeous dyes The milky baldric of the skies, And striped its pure celestial white With streakings of the morning light; Then, from his mansion in the sun, She called her eagle-bearer down, And gave into his mighty hand The symbol of her chosen land ! Majestic monarch of the cloud!
Página 226 - If any one attempts to haul down the American flag, shoot him on the spot.
Página 415 - 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; But, in the course of one revolving moon, Was chymist, fiddler, statesman, and buffoon; Then all for women, painting, rhyming, drinking, Besides ten thousand freaks that died in thinking.
Página 416 - In thy felonious heart though venom lies, It does but touch thy Irish pen, and dies. Thy genius calls thee not to purchase fame In keen iambics, but mild anagram. Leave writing plays, and choose for thy command Some peaceful province in acrostic land. There thou may'st wings display and altars raise, And torture one poor word ten thousand ways. Or, if thou wouldst thy different talents suit, Set thy own songs, and sing them to thy lute.
Página 307 - To all you ladies now at land We men at sea indite, But first would have you understand How hard it is to write: The Muses now, and Neptune too, We must implore to write to you, — With a fa, la, la, la, la!
Página 413 - Of these the false Achitophel was first, A name to all succeeding ages curst: For close designs and crooked counsels fit, Sagacious, bold, and turbulent of wit; Restless, unfixed in principles and place, In power unpleased, impatient of disgrace ; A fiery soul, which working out its way, Fretted the pigmy body to decay, And o'er-informed the tenement of clay.
Página 425 - And, wondering, on their faces fell To worship that celestial sound. Less than a god they thought there could not dwell Within the hollow of that shell, That spoke so sweetly, and so well.
Página 286 - DEATH be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for, thou art not so, For, those, whom thou think'st, thou dost overthrow, Die not, poor death, nor yet canst thou kill me. From rest and sleep, which but thy...