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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... soul . Hence in the sphere of letters to discriminate and to select is of the first importance . The recog- nition of this process is not new . Selections from the world's best writings are as old as literature itself . The sacred books ...
... soul . Hence in the sphere of letters to discriminate and to select is of the first importance . The recog- nition of this process is not new . Selections from the world's best writings are as old as literature itself . The sacred books ...
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... soul of literature , rising from its printed words , as music soars above the ivory keys and quivering strings of instruments which gave it voice , will still survive . As surely as our consciousness out- lives the body's dissolution ...
... soul of literature , rising from its printed words , as music soars above the ivory keys and quivering strings of instruments which gave it voice , will still survive . As surely as our consciousness out- lives the body's dissolution ...
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... soul returned to him who made it , his body should in- corporate with the great mother of all things , and by that means become beneficial to mankind . For which reason , he gives his sons a positive order not to enshrine it in gold or ...
... soul returned to him who made it , his body should in- corporate with the great mother of all things , and by that means become beneficial to mankind . For which reason , he gives his sons a positive order not to enshrine it in gold or ...
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... souls of good men upon their first arrival in Paradise , to wear out the impres- sions of their last agonies , and qualify them for the pleasures of that happy place . My heart melted away in secret raptures . " I had been often told ...
... souls of good men upon their first arrival in Paradise , to wear out the impres- sions of their last agonies , and qualify them for the pleasures of that happy place . My heart melted away in secret raptures . " I had been often told ...
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... have foreknown Clearly all things that should be ; nothing done Comes sudden to my soul ; and I must bear What is ordained with patience , being aware Necessity doth front the universe With an invincible gesture . ÆSCHYLUS 23 ÆSCHYLUS ...
... have foreknown Clearly all things that should be ; nothing done Comes sudden to my soul ; and I must bear What is ordained with patience , being aware Necessity doth front the universe With an invincible gesture . ÆSCHYLUS 23 ÆSCHYLUS ...
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