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I yesterday passed a whole afternoon in the churchyard , the cloisters , and the church , amusing myself with the tombstones and inscriptions that I met with in those several regions of the dead . Most of them recorded nothing else of ...
I yesterday passed a whole afternoon in the churchyard , the cloisters , and the church , amusing myself with the tombstones and inscriptions that I met with in those several regions of the dead . Most of them recorded nothing else of ...
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were covered with such extravagant epitaphs , that if it were possible for the dead person to be acquainted with them , he would blush at the praises which his friends have bestowed upon him . There are others so excessively modest ...
were covered with such extravagant epitaphs , that if it were possible for the dead person to be acquainted with them , he would blush at the praises which his friends have bestowed upon him . There are others so excessively modest ...
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... must be penetrated before the miners reached the rich veins of Kupferschiefer ( copper slate ) , and below this came what was termed the Todtliegende ( dead weight ) , so called because it contained no serviceable materials for the ...
... must be penetrated before the miners reached the rich veins of Kupferschiefer ( copper slate ) , and below this came what was termed the Todtliegende ( dead weight ) , so called because it contained no serviceable materials for the ...
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... and in the public libraries they are constantly " worn out . ” THOREAU'S FLUTE We , sighing , said , “ Our Pan is dead ; His pipe hangs mute beside the river ; — Around it wistful sunbeams quiver , But Music's airy voice 58 ALCOTT.
... and in the public libraries they are constantly " worn out . ” THOREAU'S FLUTE We , sighing , said , “ Our Pan is dead ; His pipe hangs mute beside the river ; — Around it wistful sunbeams quiver , But Music's airy voice 58 ALCOTT.
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66 A TURKISH LEGEND A CERTAIN Pasha , dead these thousand years , Once from his harem fled in sudden tears , And had this sentence on the city's gate Deeply engraven , Only God is great . So those four words above the city's noise Hung ...
66 A TURKISH LEGEND A CERTAIN Pasha , dead these thousand years , Once from his harem fled in sudden tears , And had this sentence on the city's gate Deeply engraven , Only God is great . So those four words above the city's noise Hung ...
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| Title | The Stoddard Library: A Thousand Hours of Entertainment with the World's Greatest Writers Volume 1 of The Stoddard Library: A Thousand Hours of Entertainment with the World's Great Writers, John Lawson Stoddard |
| Author | John Lawson Stoddard |
| Compiled by | John Lawson Stoddard |
| Publisher | G.L. Shuman & Company, 1911 |
| Original from | University of Chicago |
| Digitized | 7 May 2015 |
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