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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... rounded by doubtful friends and timid advisers , without treasury , without allies and yet at once and without hesitation asserting his military genius , defeating his bravest enemies , cowing his disloyal subjects , crushing sedition ...
... rounded by doubtful friends and timid advisers , without treasury , without allies and yet at once and without hesitation asserting his military genius , defeating his bravest enemies , cowing his disloyal subjects , crushing sedition ...
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... round my cradle , their magic spells . On this I ponder , where'er I wander , And thus grow fonder , sweet Cork , of thee ; With thy bells of Shandon That sound so grand on The pleasant waters of the river Lee . I've heard bells chiming ...
... round my cradle , their magic spells . On this I ponder , where'er I wander , And thus grow fonder , sweet Cork , of thee ; With thy bells of Shandon That sound so grand on The pleasant waters of the river Lee . I've heard bells chiming ...
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... Round Table , which enjoyed great popular- ity in the Elizabethan age . Tennyson drew from this material largely in writing his " Idylls of the King . " ( From the " MORTE DARTHUR " ) HOW ARTHUR WAS CHOSEN KING , AND OF WONDERS AND ...
... Round Table , which enjoyed great popular- ity in the Elizabethan age . Tennyson drew from this material largely in writing his " Idylls of the King . " ( From the " MORTE DARTHUR " ) HOW ARTHUR WAS CHOSEN KING , AND OF WONDERS AND ...
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... Round heard Sir Gawaine say so , they arose up the most part and made such avows as Sir Gawaine had made . Anon as King Arthur heard this he was greatly displeased , for he wist well they might not again say their avows . Alas , said ...
... Round heard Sir Gawaine say so , they arose up the most part and made such avows as Sir Gawaine had made . Anon as King Arthur heard this he was greatly displeased , for he wist well they might not again say their avows . Alas , said ...
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... round form , as I have said before ; and as men go upward to one part , they go downward to another . Also you have heard me say that Jerusalem is in the middle of the world ; and that may be proved and shown there by a spear which is ...
... round form , as I have said before ; and as men go upward to one part , they go downward to another . Also you have heard me say that Jerusalem is in the middle of the world ; and that may be proved and shown there by a spear which is ...
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