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 10
... soon will seize , and you must quickly go To storied ghosts , and Pluto's house below . --- CREECH . WHEN I am in a serious humor , I very often walk by myself in Westminster Abbey ; where the gloominess of the place , and the use to ...
... soon will seize , and you must quickly go To storied ghosts , and Pluto's house below . --- CREECH . WHEN I am in a serious humor , I very often walk by myself in Westminster Abbey ; where the gloominess of the place , and the use to ...
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... soon as it was once detected , it immediately van- ished and disappeared . At the same time there is no question , but as it has sunk in one age and rose in another , it will again recover itself in some distant period of time , as ...
... soon as it was once detected , it immediately van- ished and disappeared . At the same time there is no question , but as it has sunk in one age and rose in another , it will again recover itself in some distant period of time , as ...
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... soon as the life was gone out of it . An instance of such an overflowing of humanity , such an ex- uberant love to mankind , could not have entered into the imagi- nation of a writer , who had not a soul filled with great ideas , and a ...
... soon as the life was gone out of it . An instance of such an overflowing of humanity , such an ex- uberant love to mankind , could not have entered into the imagi- nation of a writer , who had not a soul filled with great ideas , and a ...
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... soon found it too hot to walk with his cloak on . Kindness effects more than Severity . BELLING THE CAT LONG ago , the Mice held a general council to consider what measures they could take to outwit their common enemy , the Cat . Some ...
... soon found it too hot to walk with his cloak on . Kindness effects more than Severity . BELLING THE CAT LONG ago , the Mice held a general council to consider what measures they could take to outwit their common enemy , the Cat . Some ...
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... soon stopped and , to show his contempt for the Tortoise , lay down to have a nap . The Tor- toise plodded on and plodded on , and when the Hare awoke from his nap , he saw the Tortoise just near the winning - post and could not run up ...
... soon stopped and , to show his contempt for the Tortoise , lay down to have a nap . The Tor- toise plodded on and plodded on , and when the Hare awoke from his nap , he saw the Tortoise just near the winning - post and could not run up ...
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