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Because I stole The secret fount of fire , whose bubbles went Over the ferule's brim , and manward sent Art's mighty means and perfect rudiment , That sin I expiate in this agony , Hung here in fetters , ' neath the blanching sky .
Because I stole The secret fount of fire , whose bubbles went Over the ferule's brim , and manward sent Art's mighty means and perfect rudiment , That sin I expiate in this agony , Hung here in fetters , ' neath the blanching sky .
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A subsequent visit to the region of extinct volcanoes in Auvergne , in the south of France , convinced him that the aqueous theory was at least partially wrong , and that fire had been an active agent in the rock formations of past ...
A subsequent visit to the region of extinct volcanoes in Auvergne , in the south of France , convinced him that the aqueous theory was at least partially wrong , and that fire had been an active agent in the rock formations of past ...
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Once , however , as she came suddenly upon the two men and overheard words that seemed to burn like fire on the lip of the speaker , her eyes grew luminous for an instant . Then she passed on , her face as immobile as before in its ...
Once , however , as she came suddenly upon the two men and overheard words that seemed to burn like fire on the lip of the speaker , her eyes grew luminous for an instant . Then she passed on , her face as immobile as before in its ...
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The Tin Soldier stood there quite illuminated , and felt a heat that was terrible ; but whether this heat proceeded from the real fire or from love he did not know . The colors had quite gone off from him ; but whether that had happened ...
The Tin Soldier stood there quite illuminated , and felt a heat that was terrible ; but whether this heat proceeded from the real fire or from love he did not know . The colors had quite gone off from him ; but whether that had happened ...
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The woman screamed , and struck at it with the fire tongs ; the children tumbled over one another , in their efforts to catch the Duckling ; and they laughed and screamed finely ! Happily the door stood open , and the poor creature was ...
The woman screamed , and struck at it with the fire tongs ; the children tumbled over one another , in their efforts to catch the Duckling ; and they laughed and screamed finely ! Happily the door stood open , and the poor creature was ...
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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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