Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern: A-ZCharles Dudley Warner R.S. Peale and J.A. Hill, 1896 - Literature |
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Page 9782
... asked " where , being a recluse , he could have obtained such a profound knowledge of the voluptuous life ? " He replied , " In my own heart . ” He was not only born in the land of love and song , he was born an orator . It is related ...
... asked " where , being a recluse , he could have obtained such a profound knowledge of the voluptuous life ? " He replied , " In my own heart . ” He was not only born in the land of love and song , he was born an orator . It is related ...
Page 9783
... asked by a distinguished brother of his own order how he ranked the new orator , is said to have replied in the words of the Forerunner concerning the just appearing Messiah : " He must increase , but I must decrease . " The celebrated ...
... asked by a distinguished brother of his own order how he ranked the new orator , is said to have replied in the words of the Forerunner concerning the just appearing Messiah : " He must increase , but I must decrease . " The celebrated ...
Page 9811
... asking herself , " Now let me see , -what was it happened to me that month ? " She had checked certain memorable days in the course of her life , hence now and then she was able to recall the episodes of an entire month , bringing them ...
... asking herself , " Now let me see , -what was it happened to me that month ? " She had checked certain memorable days in the course of her life , hence now and then she was able to recall the episodes of an entire month , bringing them ...
Page 9816
... asked himself every day whether he should marry her or no . Every time he saw her , he felt decided to make her his wife ; but when he was alone , he thought that meanwhile there was time to reflect . She was now not as rich as he was ...
... asked himself every day whether he should marry her or no . Every time he saw her , he felt decided to make her his wife ; but when he was alone , he thought that meanwhile there was time to reflect . She was now not as rich as he was ...
Page 9824
... asked : - " Is Maître Hauchecorne , of Bréauté , here ? " Maître Hauchecorne , seated at the other end of the table , answered : — " Here I am . " And the corporal resumed : - " Maître Hauchecorne , will you have the kindness to come ...
... asked : - " Is Maître Hauchecorne , of Bréauté , here ? " Maître Hauchecorne , seated at the other end of the table , answered : — " Here I am . " And the corporal resumed : - " Maître Hauchecorne , will you have the kindness to come ...
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Page 10028 - Or fill the fixed mind with all your toys! Dwell in some idle brain, And fancies fond with gaudy shapes possess, As thick and numberless As the gay motes that people the sun-beams, Or likest hovering dreams, The fickle pensioners of Morpheus
Page 10016 - Lycidas ? For neither were ye playing on the steep, Where your old bards, the famous Druids, lie, Nor on the shaggy top of Mona high, Nor yet where Deva spreads her wizard stream : Ah me ! I fondly dream, Had ye been there...
Page 10025 - Hence, loathed Melancholy, Of Cerberus and blackest Midnight born, In Stygian cave forlorn 'Mongst horrid shapes, and shrieks, and sights unholy, Find out some uncouth cell, Where brooding darkness spreads his jealous wings, And the night-raven sings; There under ebon shades and low-browed rocks, As ragged as thy locks, In dark Cimmerian desert ever dwell.
Page 9828 - And he came down with them, and stood in the plain, and the company of his disciples, and a great multitude of people out of all Judea and Jerusalem, and from the seacoast of Tyre and Sidon, which came to hear him, and to be healed of their diseases; 18 And they that were vexed with unclean spirits: and they were healed.
Page 9836 - Judge not, and ye shall not be judged : condemn not, and ye shall not be condemned : forgive, and ye shall be forgiven : give, and it shall be given unto you : good measure, pressed down, and shaken together, and running over, shall men give into your bosom. For with the same measure that ye mete withal it shall be measured to you again.
Page 10016 - And, as he passes, turn And bid fair peace be to my sable shroud ! For we were nursed upon the self-same hill, Fed the same flock, by fountain, shade, and rill...
Page 10011 - CYRIACK, this three years' day these eyes, though clear, To outward view, of blemish or of spot, Bereft of light, their seeing have forgot ; Nor to their idle orbs doth sight appear Of sun, or moon, or star, throughout the year, Or man, or woman.
Page 10032 - Thee, chauntress, oft the woods among I woo, to hear thy even-song ; And, missing thee, I walk unseen On the dry smooth-shaven green, To behold the wandering moon, Riding near her highest noon, Like one that had been led astray Through the Heaven's wide pathless way, 70 And oft, as if her head she bowed, Stooping through a fleecy cloud.
Page 10039 - Harmonious numbers; as the wakeful bird Sings darkling, and in shadiest covert hid Tunes her nocturnal note. Thus with the year Seasons return, but not to me returns Day...
Page 9832 - But I say unto you which hear, Love your enemies, do good to them which hate you. Bless them that curse you, and pray for them which despitefully use you. And unto him that smiteth thee on the one cheek offer also the other; and him that taketh away thy cloak forbid not to take thy coat also.