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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... earth's combustion , or have been sepulchered in monster glaciers on its frozen frame , the soul of literature , rising from its printed words , as music soars above the ivory keys and quivering strings of instruments which gave it ...
... earth's combustion , or have been sepulchered in monster glaciers on its frozen frame , the soul of literature , rising from its printed words , as music soars above the ivory keys and quivering strings of instruments which gave it ...
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... earth that some time or other had a place in the composition of a human body . Upon this I began to consider with myself , what innumerable multitudes of people lay confused together under the pavement of that ancient cathe- dral ; how ...
... earth that some time or other had a place in the composition of a human body . Upon this I began to consider with myself , what innumerable multitudes of people lay confused together under the pavement of that ancient cathe- dral ; how ...
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... earth as soon as the life was gone out of it . An instance of such an overflowing of humanity , such an ex- uberant love to mankind , could not have entered into the imagi- nation of a writer , who had not a soul filled with great ideas ...
... earth as soon as the life was gone out of it . An instance of such an overflowing of humanity , such an ex- uberant love to mankind , could not have entered into the imagi- nation of a writer , who had not a soul filled with great ideas ...
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... Earth , mother of us all , And all - viewing cyclic Sun , I cry on you , Behold me , a god , what I endure from gods ! Behold , with throe on throe , How , wasted by this woe , I wrestle down the myriad years of time ! Behold , how fast ...
... Earth , mother of us all , And all - viewing cyclic Sun , I cry on you , Behold me , a god , what I endure from gods ! Behold , with throe on throe , How , wasted by this woe , I wrestle down the myriad years of time ! Behold , how fast ...
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... earth has her bound , To have sight of my pangs or some guerdon obtain . Lo , a god in the anguish , a god in the chain ! The god , Zeus hateth sore And his gods hate again , As many as tread on his glorified floor , Because I loved ...
... earth has her bound , To have sight of my pangs or some guerdon obtain . Lo , a god in the anguish , a god in the chain ! The god , Zeus hateth sore And his gods hate again , As many as tread on his glorified floor , Because I loved ...
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