The Stoddard Library: A Thousand Hours of Entertainment with the World's Great Writers, Volume 1G.L. Shuman & Company, 1911 - Anthologies |
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Page 61
... truths half so sage As he wrote down for men . And had he not high honor , — The hillside for a pall , To lie in state while angels wait With stars for tapers tall , And the dark rock - pines like tossing plumes , Over his bier to wave ...
... truths half so sage As he wrote down for men . And had he not high honor , — The hillside for a pall , To lie in state while angels wait With stars for tapers tall , And the dark rock - pines like tossing plumes , Over his bier to wave ...
Page 105
... truth it is . It was even thus she bore herself . Already she looks aloft and breathes divinity ; who , but a woman , has pure voices for her handmaidens , and can command the winds . " " Think , " answered the other , " how APULEIUS 105.
... truth it is . It was even thus she bore herself . Already she looks aloft and breathes divinity ; who , but a woman , has pure voices for her handmaidens , and can command the winds . " " Think , " answered the other , " how APULEIUS 105.
Page 107
... truth . For in very deed never have I seen the face of my husband , nor know I at all what manner of man he is . Always he frights me diligently from the sight of him , threatening some great evil should I too curiously look upon his ...
... truth . For in very deed never have I seen the face of my husband , nor know I at all what manner of man he is . Always he frights me diligently from the sight of him , threatening some great evil should I too curiously look upon his ...
Page 110
... truth a delicate youth : win him by the deli- cacy of thy service . ” So the shepherd - god spoke , and Psyche , answering nothing , but with a reverence to his serviceable deity , went on her way . And while she , in her search after ...
... truth a delicate youth : win him by the deli- cacy of thy service . ” So the shepherd - god spoke , and Psyche , answering nothing , but with a reverence to his serviceable deity , went on her way . And while she , in her search after ...
Page 145
... what his mother said , he replied , " By Allah , thou hast spoken truth . It seemeth that I was only asleep , and dreamt that they made me Caliph , and assigned me servants 1.- 10 ARABIAN NIGHTS 145 replied, "I hear and obey;" and ...
... what his mother said , he replied , " By Allah , thou hast spoken truth . It seemeth that I was only asleep , and dreamt that they made me Caliph , and assigned me servants 1.- 10 ARABIAN NIGHTS 145 replied, "I hear and obey;" and ...
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