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... still moves the heart , and stirs its holiest emotions . There is in all good writing worthy of the name a touch of human nature that makes kindred of us all . This he has tried to find , as the prospector seeks the vein of gold .
... still moves the heart , and stirs its holiest emotions . There is in all good writing worthy of the name a touch of human nature that makes kindred of us all . This he has tried to find , as the prospector seeks the vein of gold .
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For which reason , he gives his sons a positive order not to enshrine it in gold or silver , but to lay it in the earth as soon as the life was gone out of it . An instance of such an overflowing of humanity , such an exuberant love to ...
For which reason , he gives his sons a positive order not to enshrine it in gold or silver , but to lay it in the earth as soon as the life was gone out of it . An instance of such an overflowing of humanity , such an exuberant love to ...
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Author of “ The Ballad of Babie Bell and Other Poems , ” “ Cloth of Gold , ” “ Flower and Thorn , ” “ The Story of a Bad Boy , " " Marjorie Daw , " " Prudence Palfrey , " " The Queen of Sheba , " “ The Stillwater Tragedy , ” “ An Old ...
Author of “ The Ballad of Babie Bell and Other Poems , ” “ Cloth of Gold , ” “ Flower and Thorn , ” “ The Story of a Bad Boy , " " Marjorie Daw , " " Prudence Palfrey , " " The Queen of Sheba , " “ The Stillwater Tragedy , ” “ An Old ...
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Then she passed on , her face as immobile as before in its setting of wavy gold hair . “ Entre or et roux Dieu fit ses longs cheveux . " One night Émile and Anglice were missing . They had flown — but whither , nobody knew , and nobody ...
Then she passed on , her face as immobile as before in its setting of wavy gold hair . “ Entre or et roux Dieu fit ses longs cheveux . " One night Émile and Anglice were missing . They had flown — but whither , nobody knew , and nobody ...
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They looked down scowling on the humble thatched roof . The city was edging up , trying to crowd him off his land . But he clung to it like lichen and refused to sell . Speculators piled gold on his doorsteps ...
They looked down scowling on the humble thatched roof . The city was edging up , trying to crowd him off his land . But he clung to it like lichen and refused to sell . Speculators piled gold on his doorsteps ...
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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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