The Stoddard Library: A Thousand Hours of Entertainment with the World's Great Writers, Volume 1G.L. Shuman & Company, 1911 - Anthologies |
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... died at Holland House , June 17 , 1719. A scholar of the Charterhouse , London , and at King's College , Oxford . He was the author of the tragedy " Cato , " " Travels in Italy , " and of many famous contributions to the Spectator and ...
... died at Holland House , June 17 , 1719. A scholar of the Charterhouse , London , and at King's College , Oxford . He was the author of the tragedy " Cato , " " Travels in Italy , " and of many famous contributions to the Spectator and ...
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... died upon another ; the whole history of his life being comprehended in those two circumstances that are common to all mankind . I could not but look upon these registers of existence , whether of brass or marble , as a kind of satire ...
... died upon another ; the whole history of his life being comprehended in those two circumstances that are common to all mankind . I could not but look upon these registers of existence , whether of brass or marble , as a kind of satire ...
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... died yesterday , and some six hundred years ago , I consider that great day when we shall all of us be contemporaries and make our appearance together . PUNNING Non equidem hoc studeo bullatis ut mihi nugis Pagina turgescat , dare ...
... died yesterday , and some six hundred years ago , I consider that great day when we shall all of us be contemporaries and make our appearance together . PUNNING Non equidem hoc studeo bullatis ut mihi nugis Pagina turgescat , dare ...
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... died in Sicily , B.C. 456. Author of seventy tragedies , of which seven survive . His " Prometheus Bound " is the best known . At Marathon and Salamis he was a distinguished soldier . The imperishable character of his poetic work has ...
... died in Sicily , B.C. 456. Author of seventy tragedies , of which seven survive . His " Prometheus Bound " is the best known . At Marathon and Salamis he was a distinguished soldier . The imperishable character of his poetic work has ...
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... Dying at Cam- bridge , Massachusetts , December 14 , 1873 , his grave is shadowed by pines sent from Switzerland , and is marked by a boulder from the Aar glacier . ( By permission of Houghton Mifflin Company , Boston , the publishers ...
... Dying at Cam- bridge , Massachusetts , December 14 , 1873 , his grave is shadowed by pines sent from Switzerland , and is marked by a boulder from the Aar glacier . ( By permission of Houghton Mifflin Company , Boston , the publishers ...
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