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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... eyes , and blunts thy mortal sight , I will remove . WHEN I was at Grand Cairo , I picked up several oriental manuscripts , which I have still by me . Among others I met with one entitled , The Visions of Mirza , which I have read over ...
... eyes , and blunts thy mortal sight , I will remove . WHEN I was at Grand Cairo , I picked up several oriental manuscripts , which I have still by me . Among others I met with one entitled , The Visions of Mirza , which I have read over ...
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... eyes toward the summit of a rock that was not far from me , where I discovered one in the habit of a shepherd , with a musical instrument in his hand . As I looked upon him he applied it to his lips , and began to play upon it . The ...
... eyes toward the summit of a rock that was not far from me , where I discovered one in the habit of a shepherd , with a musical instrument in his hand . As I looked upon him he applied it to his lips , and began to play upon it . The ...
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... eyes and danced before them ; but often when they thought themselves within the reach of them , their footing failed and down they sunk . In this confusion of objects , I observed some with scymitars in their hands , who ran to and fro ...
... eyes and danced before them ; but often when they thought themselves within the reach of them , their footing failed and down they sunk . In this confusion of objects , I observed some with scymitars in their hands , who ran to and fro ...
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... eyes and lips and South- ern music to tell it with . When Père Antoine was a very young man , he had a friend whom he loved as he loved his life . Emile Jardin returned his passion , and the two , on account of their friendship , became ...
... eyes and lips and South- ern music to tell it with . When Père Antoine was a very young man , he had a friend whom he loved as he loved his life . Emile Jardin returned his passion , and the two , on account of their friendship , became ...
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... eyes and a voice like the soft notes of a.vesper hymn , had come in between them and their ascetic dreams of heaven . The ties that had bound the young men together snapped silently one by one . At last each read in the pale face of the ...
... eyes and a voice like the soft notes of a.vesper hymn , had come in between them and their ascetic dreams of heaven . The ties that had bound the young men together snapped silently one by one . At last each read in the pale face of the ...
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