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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Page 11
... means are not understood once in a twelvemonth . In the poetical quarter I found there were poets who had no monuments , and monuments which had no poets . I observed , indeed , that the present war had filled the church with many of ...
... means are not understood once in a twelvemonth . In the poetical quarter I found there were poets who had no monuments , and monuments which had no poets . I observed , indeed , that the present war had filled the church with many of ...
Page 12
... means I can improve myself with those objects which others consider with terror . When I look upon the tombs of the great , every emotion of envy dies in me ; when I read the epitaphs of the beautiful , every in- ordinate desire goes ...
... means I can improve myself with those objects which others consider with terror . When I look upon the tombs of the great , every emotion of envy dies in me ; when I read the epitaphs of the beautiful , every in- ordinate desire goes ...
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... means become beneficial to mankind . 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 ...
... means become beneficial to mankind . 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 ...
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... means gain the reputation of a wit . The ill - natured man , though but of equal parts , gives himself a larger field to expatiate in ; he ex- poses those failings in human nature which the other would cast a veil over , laughs at vices ...
... means gain the reputation of a wit . The ill - natured man , though but of equal parts , gives himself a larger field to expatiate in ; he ex- poses those failings in human nature which the other would cast a veil over , laughs at vices ...
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... mean , ' said I , ' those great flights of birds that are perpetually hovering about the bridge , and settling upon it from time to time ? I see vul- tures , harpies , ravens , cormorants , and among many other feath- ered creatures ...
... mean , ' said I , ' those great flights of birds that are perpetually hovering about the bridge , and settling upon it from time to time ? I see vul- tures , harpies , ravens , cormorants , and among many other feath- ered creatures ...
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