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, Volumen15John Clark Ridpath Globe publishing Company, 1898 |
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... thought ; And those who once , with unresisted sway , Gave armies , empire , everything , away , For two poor claims have long renounced the whole , And only ask the Circus and the Dole . " " But are there more to suffer ? " . JUVENAL.
... thought ; And those who once , with unresisted sway , Gave armies , empire , everything , away , For two poor claims have long renounced the whole , And only ask the Circus and the Dole . " " But are there more to suffer ? " . JUVENAL.
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... once the bold , The aspiring chief whom Afric could not hold . Afric , outstretched from where the Atlantic roars To Nilus ; from the Line to Libya's shores . Spain conquered , o'er the Pyrenees he bounds . Nature opposed her ...
... once the bold , The aspiring chief whom Afric could not hold . Afric , outstretched from where the Atlantic roars To Nilus ; from the Line to Libya's shores . Spain conquered , o'er the Pyrenees he bounds . Nature opposed her ...
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... once have counted rare ; When the good Curius thought it no disgrace O'er a few sticks a little pot to place , With herbs by his small garden - plot supplied- Food which the squalid wretch would now deride , Who digs in fetters , and ...
... once have counted rare ; When the good Curius thought it no disgrace O'er a few sticks a little pot to place , With herbs by his small garden - plot supplied- Food which the squalid wretch would now deride , Who digs in fetters , and ...
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... once attracted the attention of scholars . Max Müller says of it : " From the mouths of the aged an epic poem has been collected equalling the Iliad in length and completeness ; nay , if we can forget for a moment all that we in our ...
... once attracted the attention of scholars . Max Müller says of it : " From the mouths of the aged an epic poem has been collected equalling the Iliad in length and completeness ; nay , if we can forget for a moment all that we in our ...
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... once chiefs ; And as we show beyond that Heaven and Earth , In form and shape compact and beautiful , In will , in action free , companionship , And thousand other signs of purer life ; So on our heels a fresh perfection treads , A ...
... once chiefs ; And as we show beyond that Heaven and Earth , In form and shape compact and beautiful , In will , in action free , companionship , And thousand other signs of purer life ; So on our heels a fresh perfection treads , A ...
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Página 1718 - Who hath not seen thee oft amid thy store ? Sometimes, whoever seeks abroad may find Thee sitting careless on a granary floor, Thy hair soft-lifted by the winnowing wind ; Or on a half-reap'd furrow sound asleep, Drowsed with the fume of poppies, while thy hook Spares the next swath and all its twined flowers...
Página 1717 - The weariness, the fever, and the fret, Here, where men sit and hear each other groan; Where palsy shakes a few sad, last gray hairs, Where youth grows pale, and spectre-thin, and dies; Where but to think is to be full of sorrow And leaden-eyed despairs, Where Beauty cannot keep her lustrous eyes, Or new Love pine at them beyond to-morrow.
Página 1733 - Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there ; Oh, say, does that star-spangled banner yet wave O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave"? On that shore dimly seen through the mists of the deep, Where the foe's haughty host in dread silence reposes, What is that which the breeze, o'er the towering steep, As it fitfully blows, now conceals, now discloses!
Página 1816 - I have seen A curious child, who dwelt upon a tract Of inland ground, applying to his ear The convolutions of a smooth-lipped shell ; To which, in silence hushed, his very soul Listened intensely ; and his countenance soon Brightened with joy ; for from within were heard Murmurings, whereby the monitor expressed Mysterious union with its native sea.
Página 1715 - Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard Are sweeter; therefore, ye soft pipes, play on; Not to the sensual ear, but, more endear'd, Pipe to the spirit ditties of no tone...
Página 1734 - Their blood has washed out their foul footsteps' pollution. No refuge could save the hireling and slave From the terror of flight or the gloom of the grave ; And the star-spangled banner in triumph doth wave O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave.
Página 1715 - Homer ruled as his demesne ; Yet did I never breathe its pure serene Till I heard Chapman speak out loud and bold : Then felt I like some watcher of the skies When a new planet swims into his ken ; Or like stout Cortez when with eagle eyes He stared at the Pacific — and all his men Look'd at each other with a wild surmise — Silent, upon a peak in Darien.