Best Things from Best Authors, Volume 4Jacob W. Shoemaker Penn Publishing Company, 1908 |
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... dead into the sea ! ' The sea was peopled with the dead , With wide eyes staring fearfully . " From weltering wave to wave they tossed— Two hundred corpses stiff and stark At last were in the distance lost , A banquet for the wandering ...
... dead into the sea ! ' The sea was peopled with the dead , With wide eyes staring fearfully . " From weltering wave to wave they tossed— Two hundred corpses stiff and stark At last were in the distance lost , A banquet for the wandering ...
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... dead That to its cruel deeps were cast ! " And coiling , curling , crawling on , The phantom troop pressed nigh and nigher , And every dusky body shone Outlined in phosphorescent fire . " They gained the ship , they climbed the shrouds ...
... dead That to its cruel deeps were cast ! " And coiling , curling , crawling on , The phantom troop pressed nigh and nigher , And every dusky body shone Outlined in phosphorescent fire . " They gained the ship , they climbed the shrouds ...
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... dead , And there was a baby - girl , that had never looked on the light : Happiest she of us all , for she past from ... dead fossil skull that is left in the rocks of an earth that is dead ? Have I crazed myself over their horrible ...
... dead , And there was a baby - girl , that had never looked on the light : Happiest she of us all , for she past from ... dead fossil skull that is left in the rocks of an earth that is dead ? Have I crazed myself over their horrible ...
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... dead brute mother who never has heard us groan ! Hell ? if the souls of men were immortal , as men have been told , The lecher would cleave to his lusts , and the miser would yearn for his gold , And so there were Hell forever ? but ...
... dead brute mother who never has heard us groan ! Hell ? if the souls of men were immortal , as men have been told , The lecher would cleave to his lusts , and the miser would yearn for his gold , And so there were Hell forever ? but ...
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... dead quiet - whew ! it would take three ships to carry the money . I've looked into the thing- calculated all the chances for and all the chances against , and though I shake my head and hesitate and keep on thinking , apparently , I've ...
... dead quiet - whew ! it would take three ships to carry the money . I've looked into the thing- calculated all the chances for and all the chances against , and though I shake my head and hesitate and keep on thinking , apparently , I've ...
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Page 110 - No mention shall be made of coral, or of pearls: for the price of wisdom is above rubies.
Page 110 - When he made a decree for the rain, and a way for the lightning of the thunder ; Then did he see it, and declare it ; he prepared it, yea, and searched it out.
Page 100 - But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth. This wisdom descendeth not from above, but is earthly, sensual, devilish. For where envying and strife is, there is confusion and every evil work.
Page 99 - And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity : so is the tongue among our members, that it defileth the whole body, and setteth on fire the course of nature; and it is set on fire of hell.
Page 99 - Therewith bless we God, even the Father ; and therewith curse we men, which are made after the similitude of God. Out of the same mouth proceedeth blessing and cursing. My brethren, these things ought not so to be. Doth a fountain send forth at the same place sweet water and bitter?
Page 124 - Hear the sledges with the bells Silver bells! What a world of merriment their melody foretells! How they tinkle, tinkle, tinkle, In the icy air of night! While the stars that oversprinkle All the heavens, seem to twinkle With a crystalline delight...
Page 80 - Man knoweth not the price thereof; Neither is it found in the land of the living. The depth saith, It is not in me : And the sea saith, It is not with me. It cannot be gotten for gold, Neither shall silver be weighed for the price thereof.
Page 87 - Sir, I know the uncertainty of human affairs, but I see, I see clearly through this day's business. You and I, indeed, may rue it. We may not live to the time when this declaration shall be made good. We may die; die colonists ; die slaves ; die, it may be, ignominiously, and on the scaffold. Be it so. Be it so. If it be the pleasure of Heaven that my country shall require the poor offering of my life, the victim shall be ready at the appointed hour of sacrifice, come when that hour may. But while...
Page 87 - Publish it from the pulpit; religion will approve it, and the love of religious liberty will cling round it, resolved to stand with it, or fall with it, Send it to the public halls; proclaim it there; let them hear it who heard the first roar of the enemy's cannon; let them see it who saw their brothers and their sons fall on the field of Bunker Hill, and in the streets of Lexington and Concord, and the very walls will cry out in its support "Sir, I know the uncertainty of human affairs, but I see,...
Page 55 - And from her eyes and cheeks the light and bloom of the morning. Then there escaped from her lips a cry of such terrible anguish, That the dying heard it, and started up from their pillows.