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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... matter , and the loved private volumes which adorn the home , and can be constantly referred to ! It may be also said that one man's taste can never be a guide in making an anthology . Alas , it is too true that no selection can be ...
... matter , and the loved private volumes which adorn the home , and can be constantly referred to ! It may be also said that one man's taste can never be a guide in making an anthology . Alas , it is too true that no selection can be ...
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... matter . After having thus surveyed this great magazine of mortality , as it were in the lump , I examined it more particularly by the accounts which I found on several of the monuments which are raised in every quarter of that ancient ...
... matter . After having thus surveyed this great magazine of mortality , as it were in the lump , I examined it more particularly by the accounts which I found on several of the monuments which are raised in every quarter of that ancient ...
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... matter ! The Grapes are sour ! " 66 THE WOLF AND THE LAMB As a Wolf was lapping at the head of a running brook , he spied a stray Lamb paddling , at some distance , down the stream . Having made up his mind to seize her , he bethought ...
... matter ! The Grapes are sour ! " 66 THE WOLF AND THE LAMB As a Wolf was lapping at the head of a running brook , he spied a stray Lamb paddling , at some distance , down the stream . Having made up his mind to seize her , he bethought ...
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... matters nothing if one was born in a duck yard , if one has only lain in a swan's egg . It felt quite glad at all the need and misfortune it had suffered , now it realized its happiness in all the splendor that surrounded it . And the ...
... matters nothing if one was born in a duck yard , if one has only lain in a swan's egg . It felt quite glad at all the need and misfortune it had suffered , now it realized its happiness in all the splendor that surrounded it . And the ...
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... matter ; for the loss of either one of them will be to thee the losing of the light of day . For a watch - dog exceeding fierce lies ever before the threshold of that lonely house of Proserpine . Close his mouth with one of thy cakes ...
... matter ; for the loss of either one of them will be to thee the losing of the light of day . For a watch - dog exceeding fierce lies ever before the threshold of that lonely house of Proserpine . Close his mouth with one of thy cakes ...
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