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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... fair amount of culture , and desire more , to own , —and hence to read with pleasure and advan- tage at any moment when they wish to do so , a goodly portion of the best that men have ever thought and written . It is not meant to be a ...
... fair amount of culture , and desire more , to own , —and hence to read with pleasure and advan- tage at any moment when they wish to do so , a goodly portion of the best that men have ever thought and written . It is not meant to be a ...
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... fair trader . VISION OF MIRZA Omnem , quae nunc obducta tuenti Mortales hebetat visus tibi , et humida circum Caligat , nubem eripiam . VIRG . EN . ii . 604 . The cloud , which , intercepting the clear light , Hangs o'er thy eyes , and ...
... fair trader . VISION OF MIRZA Omnem , quae nunc obducta tuenti Mortales hebetat visus tibi , et humida circum Caligat , nubem eripiam . VIRG . EN . ii . 604 . The cloud , which , intercepting the clear light , Hangs o'er thy eyes , and ...
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... fair open lakes . They mounted so high , so high ! and the ugly little Duckling felt quite strangely as it watched them . It turned round and round in the water like a wheel , stretched out its neck towards them , and uttered such a ...
... fair open lakes . They mounted so high , so high ! and the ugly little Duckling felt quite strangely as it watched them . It turned round and round in the water like a wheel , stretched out its neck towards them , and uttered such a ...
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... 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 to be placed in the middle of the nose- gay . The candlestick had ...
... 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 to be placed in the middle of the nose- gay . The candlestick had ...
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... fair . But the beauty of the two elder , though pleasant to behold , yet passed not the measure of human praise , while such was the loveliness of the youngest that men's speech was too poor to commend it worthily and could express it ...
... fair . But the beauty of the two elder , though pleasant to behold , yet passed not the measure of human praise , while such was the loveliness of the youngest that men's speech was too poor to commend it worthily and could express it ...
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