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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... of instruments which gave it voice , will still survive . As surely as our consciousness out- lives the body's dissolution , all that is best and highest in our - books will still continue to exist in minds inspired , 6 PREFACE.
... of instruments which gave it voice , will still survive . As surely as our consciousness out- lives the body's dissolution , all that is best and highest in our - books will still continue to exist in minds inspired , 6 PREFACE.
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... minds inspired , memories quickened , and characters ennobled by its influence . The master works of literature are deathless in their psychic power ; - imperishable , while the men and women molded by them tread our globe ; immortal ...
... minds inspired , memories quickened , and characters ennobled by its influence . The master works of literature are deathless in their psychic power ; - imperishable , while the men and women molded by them tread our globe ; immortal ...
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... mind , never ruffled , never morbid , never sharply sarcastic , of genial humor , always charitable and sweet - spirited . Modern society owes a great debt to the press issues conducted by Addi- son and Steele . They lived in a rude age ...
... mind , never ruffled , never morbid , never sharply sarcastic , of genial humor , always charitable and sweet - spirited . Modern society owes a great debt to the press issues conducted by Addi- son and Steele . They lived in a rude age ...
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... mind of several persons mentioned in the battles of heroic poems , who have sounding names given them , for no other reason but that they may be killed , and are celebrated for nothing but being knocked on the head . Γλαυκόν TE ...
... mind of several persons mentioned in the battles of heroic poems , who have sounding names given them , for no other reason but that they may be killed , and are celebrated for nothing but being knocked on the head . Γλαυκόν TE ...
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... have left the repository of our English kings for the contemplation of another day , when I shall find my mind disposed for so serious an amusement . I know that entertainments of this nature are apt to raise dark ADDISON II.
... have left the repository of our English kings for the contemplation of another day , when I shall find my mind disposed for so serious an amusement . I know that entertainments of this nature are apt to raise dark ADDISON II.
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