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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... hear , he now repents him of . He's old and testy · - age's common fault - And , were not this enough to lame swift justice , There's an old law in Arragon , my liege , That in our courts father and son shall not Be heard in evidence ...
... hear , he now repents him of . He's old and testy · - age's common fault - And , were not this enough to lame swift justice , There's an old law in Arragon , my liege , That in our courts father and son shall not Be heard in evidence ...
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... Hear this , for example : " How beautiful to die of broken - heart , on Paper ! Quite another thing in practice ; every window of your Feeling , even of your Intellect , as it were , begrimed and mud - bespattered , so that no pure ray ...
... Hear this , for example : " How beautiful to die of broken - heart , on Paper ! Quite another thing in practice ; every window of your Feeling , even of your Intellect , as it were , begrimed and mud - bespattered , so that no pure ray ...
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... hear . I paused in my wild wanderings ; and sat me down to wait , and consider ; for it was as if the hour of change drew nigh . I seemed to surrender , to renounce utterly , and say : Fly , then , false shadows of Hope ; I will chase ...
... hear . I paused in my wild wanderings ; and sat me down to wait , and consider ; for it was as if the hour of change drew nigh . I seemed to surrender , to renounce utterly , and say : Fly , then , false shadows of Hope ; I will chase ...
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... hear , was no longer a maddening discord , but a melting one ; like inarticulate cries , and sobbings of a dumb creature , which in the ear of Heaven are prayers . The poor Earth , with her poor joys , was now my needy Mother , not my ...
... hear , was no longer a maddening discord , but a melting one ; like inarticulate cries , and sobbings of a dumb creature , which in the ear of Heaven are prayers . The poor Earth , with her poor joys , was now my needy Mother , not my ...
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... hear them , dare not believe them ; they return , with justified rage , the whew of lead still singing in their ears . What to do ? The firemen are here , squirting with their fire - pumps on the In- valides cannon , to wet the touch ...
... hear them , dare not believe them ; they return , with justified rage , the whew of lead still singing in their ears . What to do ? The firemen are here , squirting with their fire - pumps on the In- valides cannon , to wet the touch ...
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