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And even when the final flicker of intelligence shall have been extinguished , and all the world's accumulated volumes shall have shriveled into ashes in the earth's combustion , or have been sepulchered in monster glaciers on its ...
And even when the final flicker of intelligence shall have been extinguished , and all the world's accumulated volumes shall have shriveled into ashes in the earth's combustion , or have been sepulchered in monster glaciers on its ...
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Upon my going into the church , I entertained myself with the digging of a grave ; and saw in every shovel - ful of it that was thrown up , the fragment of a bone or skull intermixed with a kind of fresh moldering earth that some time ...
Upon my going into the church , I entertained myself with the digging of a grave ; and saw in every shovel - ful of it that was thrown up , the fragment of a bone or skull intermixed with a kind of fresh moldering earth that some time ...
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For which reason , he gives his sons a positive order not to enshrine it in gold or silver , but to lay it in the earth as soon as the life was gone out of it . An instance of such an overflowing of humanity , such an exuberant love to ...
For which reason , he gives his sons a positive order not to enshrine it in gold or silver , but to lay it in the earth as soon as the life was gone out of it . An instance of such an overflowing of humanity , such an exuberant love to ...
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Prometheus ( alone ) . O holy Ęther , and swift - winged Winds , And River - wells , and laughter innumerous Of yon sea - waves ! Earth , mother of us all , - , And all - viewing cyclic Sun , I cry on ...
Prometheus ( alone ) . O holy Ęther , and swift - winged Winds , And River - wells , and laughter innumerous Of yon sea - waves ! Earth , mother of us all , - , And all - viewing cyclic Sun , I cry on ...
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Ah , ah me ! what a sound , What a fragrance sweeps up from a pinion unseen Of a god , or a mortal , or nature between , Sweeping up to this rock where the earth has her bound , To have sight of my pangs or some guerdon obtain .
Ah , ah me ! what a sound , What a fragrance sweeps up from a pinion unseen Of a god , or a mortal , or nature between , Sweeping up to this rock where the earth has her bound , To have sight of my pangs or some guerdon obtain .
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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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