Best Things from Best Authors, Volume 4Jacob W. Shoemaker Penn Publishing Company, 1908 |
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Page 41
... stands O'erlooking the volcanic lands . Here Ischia smiles O'er liquid miles ; And yonder , bluest of the isles , Calm Capri waits , Her sapphire gates Beguiling to her bright estates . I heed not , if My rippling skiff Float swift or ...
... stands O'erlooking the volcanic lands . Here Ischia smiles O'er liquid miles ; And yonder , bluest of the isles , Calm Capri waits , Her sapphire gates Beguiling to her bright estates . I heed not , if My rippling skiff Float swift or ...
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... by death was spared . Her heart grew cold to see the eyes Of all dilate when slow surprise ; " Kilvany , thou hast lost thy head ; Nothing can help a child that's dead . " There stands not by the Ganges side A house 44 BEST SELECTIONS.
... by death was spared . Her heart grew cold to see the eyes Of all dilate when slow surprise ; " Kilvany , thou hast lost thy head ; Nothing can help a child that's dead . " There stands not by the Ganges side A house 44 BEST SELECTIONS.
Page 45
... stands no house where none hath died . " And Buddha answered in a tone , Soft as a flute at twilight blown , But grand as heaven , and strong as death , To him who hears with ears of faith ; " Child , thou art answered ! Murmur not ...
... stands no house where none hath died . " And Buddha answered in a tone , Soft as a flute at twilight blown , But grand as heaven , and strong as death , To him who hears with ears of faith ; " Child , thou art answered ! Murmur not ...
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... Stands on the banks of its beautiful stream the city he founded , There all the air is balm , and the peach is the emblem of beauty , And the streets still re - echo the names of the trees of the forest , As if they fain would appease ...
... Stands on the banks of its beautiful stream the city he founded , There all the air is balm , and the peach is the emblem of beauty , And the streets still re - echo the names of the trees of the forest , As if they fain would appease ...
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... stand just finished , " I've got a job for you . It must be something hifalutin ' , and the bill ain't limited . ” 1 Now this was just what our man of colors wanted . He was ambitious , though poor , and very glad to paint something ...
... stand just finished , " I've got a job for you . It must be something hifalutin ' , and the bill ain't limited . ” 1 Now this was just what our man of colors wanted . He was ambitious , though poor , and very glad to paint something ...
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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.