Masterpieces of the World's Best Literature, Volumen1Jeannette Leonard Gilder O.T. Harris, 1910 |
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... fire , whose bubbles went Over the ferrule's brim , and manward sent Art's mighty means and perfect rudiment , That sin I expiate in this agony , Hung here in fetters , ' neath the blanching sky . Ah , ah me ! what a sound , What a ...
... fire , whose bubbles went Over the ferrule's brim , and manward sent Art's mighty means and perfect rudiment , That sin I expiate in this agony , Hung here in fetters , ' neath the blanching sky . Ah , ah me ! what a sound , What a ...
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... fire , Through the trampled ashes of the city of my sire , From my slaughtered kinsmen , fallen throne , in- sulted shrine , Slave - like to be butchered , the daughter of a royal line ! ESOP Esor , famed for his fables , flourished ...
... fire , Through the trampled ashes of the city of my sire , From my slaughtered kinsmen , fallen throne , in- sulted shrine , Slave - like to be butchered , the daughter of a royal line ! ESOP Esor , famed for his fables , flourished ...
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... fire burned so brightly , and warmed so nicely , that the little creature stretched out her feet to warm them likewise , when lo ! the flame expired , the stove vanished , and left nothing but the little half - burned match in her hand ...
... fire burned so brightly , and warmed so nicely , that the little creature stretched out her feet to warm them likewise , when lo ! the flame expired , the stove vanished , and left nothing but the little half - burned match in her hand ...
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... fire . " Somebody is now dying , " thought the little girl— for her old grandmother , the only person who had ever loved her , and who was now dead , had told her that , when a star falls , it is a sign that a soul is going up to heaven ...
... fire . " Somebody is now dying , " thought the little girl— for her old grandmother , the only person who had ever loved her , and who was now dead , had told her that , when a star falls , it is a sign that a soul is going up to heaven ...
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... fire , and as soon as it boiled , went and poured enough into every jar to stifle and destroy the robber within . When this action , worthy of the courage of Mor- giana , was executed without any noise , as she had projected , she ...
... fire , and as soon as it boiled , went and poured enough into every jar to stifle and destroy the robber within . When this action , worthy of the courage of Mor- giana , was executed without any noise , as she had projected , she ...
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Página 147 - Tho' they may gang a kennin wrang, To step aside is human : One point must still be greatly dark, The moving Why they do it ; And just as lamely can ye mark, How far perhaps they rue it. Who made the heart, 'tis He alone Decidedly can try us, He knows each chord its various tone, Each spring its various bias : Then at the balance let's be mute, We never can adjust it ; What's done we partly may compute, But know not what's resisted.
Página 149 - Had we never loved sae kindly, Had we never loved sae blindly, Never met, or never parted, We had ne'er been broken-hearted.
Página 20 - Change, the whole parish politics being generally discussed in that place either after sermon or before the bell rings. My friend Sir Roger, being a good churchman, has beautified the inside of his church with several texts of his own choosing.
Página 196 - A single life doth well with churchmen: for charity will hardly water the ground, where it must first fill a pool.
Página 150 - We'll tak a cup o' kindness yet, For auld lang syne. We twa hae run about the braes, And pu'd the gowans fine ; But we've wander'd mony a weary foot Sin auld lang syne. For auld, &c. We twa hae paidl't i' the burn, From mornin sun till dine ; But seas between us braid hae roar'd Sin auld lang syne. For auld, &c. And here's a hand, my trusty fiere, And gie's a hand o' thine ; And we'll tak a right guid willie-waught, For auld lang syne.
Página 196 - It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other. He that dies in an earnest pursuit, is like one that is wounded in hot blood; who, for the time, scarce feels the hurt; and therefore a mind f1xed and bent upon somewhat that is good, doth avert the dolours of death; but, above all, believe it, the sweetest canticle is 'Nunc dimittis,' when a man hath obtained worthy ends and expectations.
Página 136 - MERMAN COME, dear children, let us away ; Down and away below ! Now my brothers call from the bay, Now the great winds shoreward blow, Now the salt tides seaward flow ; Now the wild white horses play, Champ and chafe and toss in the spray. Children dear, let us away ! This way, this way ! Call her once before you go — Call once yet ! In a voice that she will know : "Margaret! Margaret!
Página 20 - ... subjects, hear their duties explained to them, and join together in adoration of the Supreme Being. Sunday clears away the rust of the whole week, not only as it refreshes in their minds the notions of religion, but as it puts both the sexes upon appearing in their most agreeable forms, and exerting all such qualities as are apt to give them a figure in the eye of the village.
Página 196 - HE that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune ; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief.
Página 137 - Margaret ! Margaret ! Come dear children, come away down. Call no more. One last look at the white-walled town, And the little grey church on the windy shore, Then come down. She will not come though you call all day. Come away, come away. Children dear, was it yesterday...