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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... feel highly honored by your Majesty's pro- posal , but you see our daughter is a tender young thing , and we fear that in the vehemence of your affection you might possibly do her some injury . Might I venture to suggest that your Maj ...
... feel highly honored by your Majesty's pro- posal , but you see our daughter is a tender young thing , and we fear that in the vehemence of your affection you might possibly do her some injury . Might I venture to suggest that your Maj ...
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... feel myself returning into a more elementary form . I behold my own unclothing ; I forget , still more than I am forgotten ; I pass gently into the grave while still living , and I feel , as it were , the indescribable peace of ...
... feel myself returning into a more elementary form . I behold my own unclothing ; I forget , still more than I am forgotten ; I pass gently into the grave while still living , and I feel , as it were , the indescribable peace of ...
Page 70
... feels oneself cut off from nature , outside her communion as it were . She is strength and joy and eternal health . “ Room for the living , " she cries to us ; " do not come to darken my blue sky with your miseries ; each has his turn ...
... feels oneself cut off from nature , outside her communion as it were . She is strength and joy and eternal health . “ Room for the living , " she cries to us ; " do not come to darken my blue sky with your miseries ; each has his turn ...
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... feel cold to think of this . The poor little Duckling certainly had not a good time . One evening - the sun was just setting in his beauty there came a whole flock of great handsome birds out of the bushes ; they were dazzlingly white ...
... feel cold to think of this . The poor little Duckling certainly had not a good time . One evening - the sun was just setting in his beauty there came a whole flock of great handsome birds out of the bushes ; they were dazzlingly white ...
Page 87
... feeling that it , too , would be remembered . " There was that handsome young man - it is certainly a long while ago - he had a letter on pink paper with a gilt edge . It was so prettily written , as if by a lady's hand . Twice he read ...
... feeling that it , too , would be remembered . " There was that handsome young man - it is certainly a long while ago - he had a letter on pink paper with a gilt edge . It was so prettily written , as if by a lady's hand . Twice he read ...
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