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
... rest , And give the bard an honored place , With costly marble drest , In the great minster transept Where lights like glories fall , And the organ rings , and the sweet choir sings Along the emblazoned wall . This was the truest ...
... rest , And give the bard an honored place , With costly marble drest , In the great minster transept Where lights like glories fall , And the organ rings , and the sweet choir sings Along the emblazoned wall . This was the truest ...
Page 74
... rest ; but one of them had been cast last of all , and there had not been enough tin to finish him ; but he stood as firmly upon his one leg as the others on their two ; and it was just this Soldier who became remarkable . On the table ...
... rest ; but one of them had been cast last of all , and there had not been enough tin to finish him ; but he stood as firmly upon his one leg as the others on their two ; and it was just this Soldier who became remarkable . On the table ...
Page 98
... rest saw Weary of war Grendel there lying Of life deprived , as him before injured The combat at Heorot . His body sprang far , When he after death suffered the blow , The strong sword - stroke , that struck off his head . Soon that ...
... rest saw Weary of war Grendel there lying Of life deprived , as him before injured The combat at Heorot . His body sprang far , When he after death suffered the blow , The strong sword - stroke , that struck off his head . Soon that ...
Page 104
... rest weeping . And after a while came the bridegroom again , and lay down beside her , and embracing her as she wept , complained : “ Was this thy promise , my Psyche ? What have I to hope from thee ? Even in the arms of thy husband ...
... rest weeping . And after a while came the bridegroom again , and lay down beside her , and embracing her as she wept , complained : “ Was this thy promise , my Psyche ? What have I to hope from thee ? Even in the arms of thy husband ...
Page 108
... rest . Smooth he was , and , touched with light , worthy of Venus his mother . At the foot of the couch lay his bow and arrows , the instruments of his power , propitious to men . And Psyche , gazing hungrily upon all that , drew an ...
... rest . Smooth he was , and , touched with light , worthy of Venus his mother . At the foot of the couch lay his bow and arrows , the instruments of his power , propitious to men . And Psyche , gazing hungrily upon all that , drew an ...
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