The Stoddard Library: A Thousand Hours of Entertainment with the World's Great Writers, Volume 9G.L. Shuman & Company, 1911 - Literature |
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... appear- ance of this lad of twenty , hurried to the throne by his father's death , in the midst of turmoil within and foes without , sur- rounded by doubtful friends and timid advisers , without treasury , without allies and yet at once ...
... appear- ance of this lad of twenty , hurried to the throne by his father's death , in the midst of turmoil within and foes without , sur- rounded by doubtful friends and timid advisers , without treasury , without allies and yet at once ...
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... appears that for a long time back the relations of king and nobles had been in Macedonia much as they were in the Middle Ages in Europe . There were large landed proprietors , and many of them had sovereign rights in their own provinces ...
... appears that for a long time back the relations of king and nobles had been in Macedonia much as they were in the Middle Ages in Europe . There were large landed proprietors , and many of them had sovereign rights in their own provinces ...
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... appears twice or thrice in the year ; and she doth no harm to any man unless he do her harm . She was thus changed and transformed from a fair damsel into the likeness of a dragon by a goddess named Diana ; and they say that she shall ...
... appears twice or thrice in the year ; and she doth no harm to any man unless he do her harm . She was thus changed and transformed from a fair damsel into the likeness of a dragon by a goddess named Diana ; and they say that she shall ...
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... appears the victim ; when in reality it was he who did the wrong . Thus frequently goes the world . . . or rather , we should say , thus it went in the seventeenth century . The besieged , finding that the enemy gave no signs of aban ...
... appears the victim ; when in reality it was he who did the wrong . Thus frequently goes the world . . . or rather , we should say , thus it went in the seventeenth century . The besieged , finding that the enemy gave no signs of aban ...
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... appear'd to hapless Semele ; More lovely than the monarch of the sky In wanton Arethusa's azured arms ; And none but thou shalt be my paramour ! Enter the OLD MAN . Old Man . Accursèd Faustus , miserable man , That from thy soul exclud ...
... appear'd to hapless Semele ; More lovely than the monarch of the sky In wanton Arethusa's azured arms ; And none but thou shalt be my paramour ! Enter the OLD MAN . Old Man . Accursèd Faustus , miserable man , That from thy soul exclud ...
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