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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... pleasure and advan- tage at any moment when they wish to do so , a goodly portion of the best that men have ever thought and written . It is not meant to be a substitute for all the literary treasures found within our public libraries ...
... pleasure and advan- tage at any moment when they wish to do so , a goodly portion of the best that men have ever thought and written . It is not meant to be a substitute for all the literary treasures found within our public libraries ...
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... pleasure as in her most gay and delightful ones . By this 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 ...
... pleasure as in her most gay and delightful ones . By this 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 ...
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... pleasure . I intend to give it to the public when I have no other entertainment for them ; and shall begin with the first vision , which I have translated word for word as follows : - " On the fifth day of the moon , which , according ...
... pleasure . I intend to give it to the public when I have no other entertainment for them ; and shall begin with the first vision , which I have translated word for word as follows : - " On the fifth day of the moon , which , according ...
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... pleasures of that happy place . My heart melted away in secret raptures . " I had been often told that the rock before me was the haunt of a Genius ; and that several had been entertained with music who had passed by it , but never ...
... pleasures of that happy place . My heart melted away in secret raptures . " I had been often told that the rock before me was the haunt of a Genius ; and that several had been entertained with music who had passed by it , but never ...
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... pleasures of different kinds and degrees , suitable to the relishes and perfections of those who are settled in them ... pleasure on these happy islands . At length I said , ' Show me now , I beseech thee , the secrets that lie hid under ...
... pleasures of different kinds and degrees , suitable to the relishes and perfections of those who are settled in them ... pleasure on these happy islands . At length I said , ' Show me now , I beseech thee , the secrets that lie hid under ...
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