The American Library of Art, Literature and Song, Volume 6Carson Stewart & Company, 1886 |
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... Gave me the Solace of a Pleasant Child Genoa ( From the French of Jules Gabriel Janin ) God ( From the Original of the Russian Poet Gabriel Romanovich Derzhavin ) Golden Age , The . Golden Fleece , The . Mrs. A. Stuart Menteath . 60 ...
... Gave me the Solace of a Pleasant Child Genoa ( From the French of Jules Gabriel Janin ) God ( From the Original of the Russian Poet Gabriel Romanovich Derzhavin ) Golden Age , The . Golden Fleece , The . Mrs. A. Stuart Menteath . 60 ...
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... gave the oracle is really wise , and that the oracle means this - that human wisdom is worth little or nothing , and that the oracle did not mean me , Socrates , in particular , but used my name as an example ; as if it had said , " He ...
... gave the oracle is really wise , and that the oracle means this - that human wisdom is worth little or nothing , and that the oracle did not mean me , Socrates , in particular , but used my name as an example ; as if it had said , " He ...
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... gave my vote against it ; and when the orators denounced me and were on the point of joining me with the ac- cused , and when you clamored in an im- perious manner , I thought that I ought rather to run any danger than for fear of bonds ...
... gave my vote against it ; and when the orators denounced me and were on the point of joining me with the ac- cused , and when you clamored in an im- perious manner , I thought that I ought rather to run any danger than for fear of bonds ...
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... gave him the poison came near him , and after a time examined his feet and legs , and , squeezing his foot strongly , asked him if he felt any- thing ; and he said he did not . And then ing them himself , he said that when the cold ...
... gave him the poison came near him , and after a time examined his feet and legs , and , squeezing his foot strongly , asked him if he felt any- thing ; and he said he did not . And then ing them himself , he said that when the cold ...
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... gave it to her . She reached her keys from the stand at her elbow , un- locked the case and took from it some " The name which ought to have been his bank - notes . DANIELI . R. East Lynne . CARMYTAGE · Forty pounds 32 LADY ISABEL .
... gave it to her . She reached her keys from the stand at her elbow , un- locked the case and took from it some " The name which ought to have been his bank - notes . DANIELI . R. East Lynne . CARMYTAGE · Forty pounds 32 LADY ISABEL .
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Alfred Tennyson arms Baby Bell battle beauty behold blood blue brave breast breath Brown Charles Cimabue Confucius dead dear death door dream earth Editor eyes Fabiola face fair father fear feel Felicia Hemans Ferdinand Freiligrath fire flowers friends Gargilesse George Giotto give grave hand happy hath head heard heart heaven Henry Henry Coppée honor hope human James Jason John JOHN BOWRING king knew lady light live look Lord ment mind morning mother nature never night o'er once passed rest Robert Robert Herrick Robinson round seemed seneschal Sir Launfal sleep smile song soul spirit stars stood sweet sword Tagrag tears tell thee thine things Thomas Thomas Blacklock Thomas Campbell thou thought tion Titmouse truth turned voice William Winthrop Mackworth Praed wonder words young Zoroaster
Popular passages
Page 444 - And there shall be no more curse: but the throne of God and of the Lamb shall be in it; and his servants shall serve him: and they shall see his face; and his name shall be in their foreheads.
Page 128 - Homer ruled as his demesne ; Yet did I never breathe its pure serene Till I heard Chapman speak out loud and bold : Then felt I like some watcher of the skies When a new planet swims into his ken ; Or like stout Cortez when with eagle eyes He...
Page 113 - There runs not a drop of my blood in the veins of any living creature. This called on me for revenge. I have sought it : I have killed many : I have fully glutted my vengeance : for my country I rejoice at the beams of peace. But do not harbor a thought that mine is the joy of fear.
Page 151 - I have seen him in the watch-fires of a hundred circling camps ; They have builded him an altar in the evening dews and damps ; I can read his righteous sentence by the dim and flaring lamps. His day is marching on. I have read a fiery gospel, writ in burnished rows of steel : " As ye deal with my contemners, so with you my grace shall deal...
Page 129 - O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave? On the shore, dimly seen through the mists of the deep, Where the foe's haughty host in dread silence reposes, What is that which the breeze, o'er the towering steep, As it fitfully blows, half conceals, half discloses?
Page 150 - Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord; He is trampling out the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored; He hath loosed the fateful lightning of his terrible swift sword. His truth is marching on.
Page 129 - O say, can you see, by the dawn's early light, What so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming? Whose broad stripes and bright stars, through the perilous fight, O'er the ramparts we watched, were so gallantly streaming! And the rockets...
Page 409 - Man is his own star; and the soul that can Render an honest and a perfect man, Commands all light, all influence, all fate; Nothing to him falls early or too late. Our acts our angels are, or good or ill, Our fatal shadows that walk by us still.
Page 223 - When a righteous man turneth away from his righteousness, and committeth iniquity, and dieth in them; for his iniquity that he hath done shall he die. Again, when the wicked man turneth away from his wickedness that he hath committed, and doeth that which Is lawful and right, he shall save his soul alive.
Page 131 - Forever float that standard sheet ! Where breathes the foe but falls before us, With Freedom's soil beneath our feet, And Freedom's banner streaming o'er us ? JOSEPH RODMAN DRAKE.