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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... sought to seize the salient points of interest in every land and city visited , and to describe them , or at least allude to them , suggestively . Opening the - portals leading to the famous shrines of nature , art 4 PREFACE.
... sought to seize the salient points of interest in every land and city visited , and to describe them , or at least allude to them , suggestively . Opening the - portals leading to the famous shrines of nature , art 4 PREFACE.
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... land and sea . sessors . Out of the fields of literature he has sought to gather many fadeless flowers , not to dissect them scientifically , but to weave them into garlands , and diffuse their perfume . In the con- struction of this ...
... land and sea . sessors . Out of the fields of literature he has sought to gather many fadeless flowers , not to dissect them scientifically , but to weave them into garlands , and diffuse their perfume . In the con- struction of this ...
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... gave into the Ploce , but that in his humble opinion he shined most in the Antanaclasis . I must not here omit , that a famous university of this land was formerly very much infested with puns ; but whether or ADDISON 13.
... gave into the Ploce , but that in his humble opinion he shined most in the Antanaclasis . I must not here omit , that a famous university of this land was formerly very much infested with puns ; but whether or ADDISON 13.
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... with fruits and flowers , and interwoven with a thousand little shining seas that ran among them . I could see persons dressed in glorious habits with gar- lands upon their heads , passing among the trees , ADDISON 21.
... with fruits and flowers , and interwoven with a thousand little shining seas that ran among them . I could see persons dressed in glorious habits with gar- lands upon their heads , passing among the trees , ADDISON 21.
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A Thousand Hours of Entertainment with the World's Great Writers John Lawson Stoddard. lands upon their heads , passing among the trees , lying down by the sides of fountains , or resting on beds of flowers ; and could hear a confused ...
A Thousand Hours of Entertainment with the World's Great Writers John Lawson Stoddard. lands upon their heads , passing among the trees , lying down by the sides of fountains , or resting on beds of flowers ; and could hear a confused ...
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