The Stoddard Library: A Thousand Hours of Entertainment with the World's Great Writers, Volume 3G.L. Shuman & Company, 1911 - Literature |
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... fire and snored . At length , when the night had worn on towards midnight , an unsteady step came to the door , and Stephen reeled into the house drunk . The old woman awoke and laughed . Rachel grew faint and sank to a seat . Stephen ...
... fire and snored . At length , when the night had worn on towards midnight , an unsteady step came to the door , and Stephen reeled into the house drunk . The old woman awoke and laughed . Rachel grew faint and sank to a seat . Stephen ...
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... fire , all night at the gate . A steed comes at morning : no rider is there ; But its bridle is red with the sign of despair . Weep , Albin ! to death and captivity led ! Oh weep ! but thy tears cannot number the dead , For a merciless ...
... fire , all night at the gate . A steed comes at morning : no rider is there ; But its bridle is red with the sign of despair . Weep , Albin ! to death and captivity led ! Oh weep ! but thy tears cannot number the dead , For a merciless ...
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... fire is around thee , to blast and to burn ; Return to thy dwelling ! all lonely return ! For the blackness of ashes shall mark where it stood , And a wild mother scream o'er her famishing brood . LOCHIEL False Wizard , avaunt ! I have ...
... fire is around thee , to blast and to burn ; Return to thy dwelling ! all lonely return ! For the blackness of ashes shall mark where it stood , And a wild mother scream o'er her famishing brood . LOCHIEL False Wizard , avaunt ! I have ...
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... fires of funeral light Died away . VII Now joy , old England , raise ! For the tidings of thy might , By the festal cities ' blaze , Whilst the wine - cup shines in light ; And yet amidst that joy and uproar , Let us think of them that ...
... fires of funeral light Died away . VII Now joy , old England , raise ! For the tidings of thy might , By the festal cities ' blaze , Whilst the wine - cup shines in light ; And yet amidst that joy and uproar , Let us think of them that ...
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... fire of his youthful emotion , He sang the bold anthem of Erin go bragh . Sad is my fate ! said the heart - broken stranger ; The wild deer and wolf to a covert can flee , But I have no refuge from famine and danger , A home and a ...
... fire of his youthful emotion , He sang the bold anthem of Erin go bragh . Sad is my fate ! said the heart - broken stranger ; The wild deer and wolf to a covert can flee , But I have no refuge from famine and danger , A home and a ...
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