The Stoddard Library: A Thousand Hours of Entertainment with the World's Great Writers, Volume 1G.L. Shuman & Company, 1911 - Anthologies |
From inside the book
Results 1-5 of 47
Page 12
... hundred years ago , I consider that great day when we shall all of us be contemporaries and make our appearance together . PUNNING Non equidem hoc studeo bullatis ut mihi nugis Pagina turgescat , dare pondus idonea fumo . ' Tis not ...
... hundred years ago , I consider that great day when we shall all of us be contemporaries and make our appearance together . PUNNING Non equidem hoc studeo bullatis ut mihi nugis Pagina turgescat , dare pondus idonea fumo . ' Tis not ...
Page 20
... hundred . As I was counting the arches , the genius told me that this bridge consisted at first of a thousand arches ; but that a great flood swept away the rest , and left the bridge in the ruinous condition I now beheld it . ' But ...
... hundred . As I was counting the arches , the genius told me that this bridge consisted at first of a thousand arches ; but that a great flood swept away the rest , and left the bridge in the ruinous condition I now beheld it . ' But ...
Page 26
... hundred and fifty years after his death , Deme- trius , one of the founders of the Alexandrine library , made a collection of such fables as had become attributed to Æsop . THE FOX AND THE GRAPES A Fox , just at the time of the vintage ...
... hundred and fifty years after his death , Deme- trius , one of the founders of the Alexandrine library , made a collection of such fables as had become attributed to Æsop . THE FOX AND THE GRAPES A Fox , just at the time of the vintage ...
Page 35
... hundred years before Christ , had not enlarged it much . He was , to be sure , a voyager on the Mediterranean , and had an idea of the extent of Italy . Acquaintance with Phoenician merchants also had enlarged his knowledge of the world ...
... hundred years before Christ , had not enlarged it much . He was , to be sure , a voyager on the Mediterranean , and had an idea of the extent of Italy . Acquaintance with Phoenician merchants also had enlarged his knowledge of the world ...
Page 43
... hundred feet and more in depth , without marked separation of the successive beds . This is accounted for by the frequent alternations of subsidence and upheaval ; the conti- nents having tilted sometimes in one direction , sometimes in ...
... hundred feet and more in depth , without marked separation of the successive beds . This is accounted for by the frequent alternations of subsidence and upheaval ; the conti- nents having tilted sometimes in one direction , sometimes in ...
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
Abon-Hassan Adélaïde Æsop Aldegonde Ali Baba Auld Lichts beautiful Bennet Bingley Born Caliph called captain Cassim Clyde's water cried culture of Germany Darcy dead dear death door doth Duckling earth Elizabeth envy eyes face Fair Annie Faithful father feel fire gave genius German Giafar girl give Goethe hand happy hast hath head heard heart Heine Hippolyte honor King lady Zobeide Lamp land light lived looked Lord Lothair LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN marriage mind Morgiana morning mother mountain nature never night Nouzatalfuad painter passed Philistine pieces of gold pleasure Prince Psyche replied riches robbers Robin Robin Hood rose round Rouville Schinner slave soon soul spirit stood sweet tell thee thine things thou thought Tin Soldier took truth walk wife woman words young