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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... whole sublime expanse of the great Alpine world . Another wish of the compiler of this work has been to offer some selections , less distinguished for their intel- lectual brilliancy than for a tender sentiment , which , often after ...
... whole sublime expanse of the great Alpine world . Another wish of the compiler of this work has been to offer some selections , less distinguished for their intel- lectual brilliancy than for a tender sentiment , which , often after ...
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... the building , and the condition of the people who lie in it , are apt to fill the mind with a kind of melancholy , or rather thoughtfulness , that is not disagreeable . I yesterday passed a whole afternoon in the 9 JOSEPH ADDISON ...
... the building , and the condition of the people who lie in it , are apt to fill the mind with a kind of melancholy , or rather thoughtfulness , that is not disagreeable . I yesterday passed a whole afternoon in the 9 JOSEPH ADDISON ...
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... whole afternoon in the churchyard , the cloisters , and the church , amusing myself with the tombstones and inscriptions that I met with in those several regions of the dead . Most of them recorded nothing else of the buried person ...
... whole afternoon in the churchyard , the cloisters , and the church , amusing myself with the tombstones and inscriptions that I met with in those several regions of the dead . Most of them recorded nothing else of the buried person ...
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... whole species , we are falling foul upon one another . Half the misery of human life might be extinguished , would men alleviate the general curse they lie under , by mutual offices of compassion , benevolence , and humanity . There is ...
... whole species , we are falling foul upon one another . Half the misery of human life might be extinguished , would men alleviate the general curse they lie under , by mutual offices of compassion , benevolence , and humanity . There is ...
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... whole face of the ocean appears spotted as far as thou canst see , are more in number than the sands on the seashore ; there are myriads of islands behind those which thou here discoverest , reaching further than thine eye , or even ...
... whole face of the ocean appears spotted as far as thou canst see , are more in number than the sands on the seashore ; there are myriads of islands behind those which thou here discoverest , reaching further than thine eye , or even ...
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