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This work , in fact , is specially designed to make it possible for those who have a fair amount of culture , and desire more , to own , -- and hence to read with pleasure and advantage at any moment when they wish to do so , - a goodly ...
This work , in fact , is specially designed to make it possible for those who have a fair amount of culture , and desire more , to own , -- and hence to read with pleasure and advantage at any moment when they wish to do so , - a goodly ...
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When I look upon the tombs of the great , every emotion of envy dies in me ; when I read the epitaphs of the beautiful , every inordinate desire goes out ; when I meet with the grief of parents upon a tombstone , my heart melts with ...
When I look upon the tombs of the great , every emotion of envy dies in me ; when I read the epitaphs of the beautiful , every inordinate desire goes out ; when I meet with the grief of parents upon a tombstone , my heart melts with ...
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Not a god Resisted such desire except myself . I dared it ! I drew mortals back to light , From meditated ruin deep as hell ! For which wrong , I am bent down in these pangs Dreadful to suffer , mournful to behold , And I , who pitied ...
Not a god Resisted such desire except myself . I dared it ! I drew mortals back to light , From meditated ruin deep as hell ! For which wrong , I am bent down in these pangs Dreadful to suffer , mournful to behold , And I , who pitied ...
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Do you think she has any desire to swim , and to let the water close above her head ? ” “ You don't understand me , " said the Duckling . “ We don't understand you ? Then pray who is to understand you ? You surely don't pretend to be ...
Do you think she has any desire to swim , and to let the water close above her head ? ” “ You don't understand me , " said the Duckling . “ We don't understand you ? Then pray who is to understand you ? You surely don't pretend to be ...
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It was put in the furnace , and turned into an iron candlestick , as fair a candlestick as you would desire one on which wax lights were to be burned . It had received the form of an angel holding a great nosegay ; and the wax light was ...
It was put in the furnace , and turned into an iron candlestick , as fair a candlestick as you would desire one on which wax lights were to be burned . It had received the form of an angel holding a great nosegay ; and the wax light was ...
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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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