The Stoddard Library: A Thousand Hours of Entertainment with the World's Great Writers, Volume 7G.L. Shuman & Company, 1911 - Literature |
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... hear you have a daughter called Gotami , we ask you to give her to the Prince Siddârtha in marriage . " At the same time , the father of Nanda sent a similar message on behalf of his son , and so also Devadatta , having heard that ...
... hear you have a daughter called Gotami , we ask you to give her to the Prince Siddârtha in marriage . " At the same time , the father of Nanda sent a similar message on behalf of his son , and so also Devadatta , having heard that ...
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... hear of their gratuitous liberation , but at length , when the ambassadors begged him to reflect on their former prosperity , and to pity their present misfortunes , he laid the matter before Attila , and obtained a reluctant consent to ...
... hear of their gratuitous liberation , but at length , when the ambassadors begged him to reflect on their former prosperity , and to pity their present misfortunes , he laid the matter before Attila , and obtained a reluctant consent to ...
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... hear a voice that sings : Build thee more stately mansions , O my soul ! As the swift seasons roll ! Leave thy low - vaulted past ! Let each new temple , nobler than the last , Shut thee from heaven with a dome more vast , Till thou at ...
... hear a voice that sings : Build thee more stately mansions , O my soul ! As the swift seasons roll ! Leave thy low - vaulted past ! Let each new temple , nobler than the last , Shut thee from heaven with a dome more vast , Till thou at ...
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... hear Have been carved for many a year On the tomb . My grandmamma has said , Poor old lady , she is dead Long ago , - That he had a Roman nose , And his cheek was like a rose In the snow . But now his nose is thin , And it rests upon ...
... hear Have been carved for many a year On the tomb . My grandmamma has said , Poor old lady , she is dead Long ago , - That he had a Roman nose , And his cheek was like a rose In the snow . But now his nose is thin , And it rests upon ...
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... hear flash phraseology , it is commonly the dishwater from the washings of English dandyism , schoolboy or full grown , wrung out of a three - volume novel which had sopped it up , or decanted from the pictured urn of Mr. Verdant Green ...
... hear flash phraseology , it is commonly the dishwater from the washings of English dandyism , schoolboy or full grown , wrung out of a three - volume novel which had sopped it up , or decanted from the pictured urn of Mr. Verdant Green ...
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Achilles Agelaus Amyas answered arms Attila barricade began blessed boys Brother Azarias called cried Cyclops dead dear death Devadatta Diggs door earth Enjolras Eurycleia Eurymachus eyes face father fear fell fire Flashman gave Gavroche give hall hand happy hath head hear heard heart heaven Helmer Hilary Javert Jean Valjean Josephus Jotapata king Kôtsuké no Suké Krogstad Kuranosuké Linden live lobster look Lord Melanthius mind Miss Phyllis morning never night Nineve Nora Odysseus Onégesh prince Quasimodo Raguel Rip Van Winkle Romans Rônins round ship side soul spake stone stood sweet sword Takumi no Kami Telemachus tell thee thine things thou art thought Tobias took Torvald turn unto Vespasian voice wall water-babies wife wine Winkle wise wooers words young Zeus