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This work , in fact , is specially designed to make it possible for those who have a fair amount of culture , and desire more , to own , -- and hence to read with pleasure and advantage at any moment when they wish to do so , - a goodly ...
This work , in fact , is specially designed to make it possible for those who have a fair amount of culture , and desire more , to own , -- and hence to read with pleasure and advantage at any moment when they wish to do so , - a goodly ...
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... but for my own part , though I am always serious , I do not know what it is to be melancholy ; and can therefore take a view of nature , in her deep and solemn scenes , with the same pleasure as in her most gay and delightful ones .
... but for my own part , though I am always serious , I do not know what it is to be melancholy ; and can therefore take a view of nature , in her deep and solemn scenes , with the same pleasure as in her most gay and delightful ones .
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Among others I met with one entitled , The Visions of Mirza , which I have read over with great 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 ...
Among others I met with one entitled , The Visions of Mirza , which I have read over with great 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 ...
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They put me in mind of those heavenly airs that are played to the departed souls of good men upon their first arrival in Paradise , to wear out the impressions of their last agonies , and qualify them for the pleasures of that happy ...
They put me in mind of those heavenly airs that are played to the departed souls of good men upon their first arrival in Paradise , to wear out the impressions of their last agonies , and qualify them for the pleasures of that happy ...
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I gazed with inexpressible pleasure on these happy islands . At length I said , ' Show me now , I beseech thee , the secrets that lie hid under those dark clouds which cover the ocean on the other side of the rock of adamant .
I gazed with inexpressible pleasure on these happy islands . At length I said , ' Show me now , I beseech thee , the secrets that lie hid under those dark clouds which cover the ocean on the other side of the rock of adamant .
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| Title | The Stoddard Library: A Thousand Hours of Entertainment with the World's Greatest Writers Volume 1 of The Stoddard Library: A Thousand Hours of Entertainment with the World's Great Writers, John Lawson Stoddard |
| Author | John Lawson Stoddard |
| Compiled by | John Lawson Stoddard |
| Publisher | G.L. Shuman & Company, 1911 |
| Original from | University of Chicago |
| Digitized | 7 May 2015 |
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