The International Library of Famous Literature: Selections from the World's Great Writers, Ancient, Mediaeval, and Modern, with Biographical and Explanatory Notes and with Introductions, 15. kötetMerrill and Baker, 1898 - 9822 oldal |
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6824. oldal
... feeling historian who writes the history of his native land . If it fall to his lot to be the sad recorder of calamity or crime , the mournful page is watered with his tears— nor can he recall WASHINGTON IRVING the most prosperous and ...
... feeling historian who writes the history of his native land . If it fall to his lot to be the sad recorder of calamity or crime , the mournful page is watered with his tears— nor can he recall WASHINGTON IRVING the most prosperous and ...
6829. oldal
... feeling the least curiosity to know whether the sun revolved round it , or it round the sun ; and he had watched , for at least half a century , the smoke curling from his pipe to the ceiling , without once troubling his head with any ...
... feeling the least curiosity to know whether the sun revolved round it , or it round the sun ; and he had watched , for at least half a century , the smoke curling from his pipe to the ceiling , without once troubling his head with any ...
6855. oldal
... Feeling is deep and still ; and the word that floats on the surface Is as the tossing buoy , that betrays where the anchor is hidden . Therefore trust to thy heart , and to what the world calls illusions . Gabriel truly is near thee ...
... Feeling is deep and still ; and the word that floats on the surface Is as the tossing buoy , that betrays where the anchor is hidden . Therefore trust to thy heart , and to what the world calls illusions . Gabriel truly is near thee ...
6859. oldal
... feeling of wonder , Still she stood , with her colorless lips apart , while a shudder Ran through her frame , and , forgotten , the flowerets dropped from her fingers , And from her eyes and cheeks the light and bloom of the morning ...
... feeling of wonder , Still she stood , with her colorless lips apart , while a shudder Ran through her frame , and , forgotten , the flowerets dropped from her fingers , And from her eyes and cheeks the light and bloom of the morning ...
6881. oldal
... feel them , did not show any squeamish terrors about the dangers of the bottle , which she saw were amongst the severest and most cer- tain which her son would have to face . She knew her boy must take his part in the world , and ...
... feel them , did not show any squeamish terrors about the dangers of the bottle , which she saw were amongst the severest and most cer- tain which her son would have to face . She knew her boy must take his part in the world , and ...
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6954. oldal - It is important, likewise, that the habits of thinking in a free country should inspire caution in those intrusted with its administration to confine themselves within their respective constitutional spheres, avoiding in the exercise of the powers of one department to encroach upon another. The spirit of encroachment tends to consolidate the powers of all the departments in one and thus to create, whatever the form of government, a real despotism.
7300. oldal - O CAPTAIN! my Captain! our fearful trip is done, The ship has weather'd every rack, the prize we sought is won, The port is near, the bells I hear, the people all exulting, While follow eyes the steady keel, the vessel grim and daring; But O heart! heart! heart! O the bleeding drops of red, Where on the deck my Captain lies, Fallen cold and dead.
7304. oldal - In the beauty of the lilies Christ was born across the sea, With a glory in his bosom that transfigures you and me : As he died to make men holy, let us...
6935. oldal - If I were an American as I am an Englishman, while a foreign troop was landed in my country, I never would lay down my arms — never, never, never!
6952. oldal - However combinations or associations of the above description may now and then answer popular ends, they are likely, in the course of time and things, to become potent engines by which cunning, ambitious, and unprincipled men will be enabled to subvert the power of the people and to usurp for themselves the reins of government, destroying afterwards the very engines which have lifted them to unjust dominion.
7284. oldal - At this second appearing to take the oath of the presidential office, there is less occasion for an extended address than there was at the first. Then a statement, somewhat in detail, of a course to be pursued, seemed fitting and proper. Now, at the expiration of four years, during which public declarations have been constantly called forth on every point and phase of the great contest which still absorbs the attention and engrosses the energies of the nation, little that is new could be presented.
7304. oldal - 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.
6918. oldal - I saw him once before, As he passed by the door, And again The pavement stones resound, As he totters o'er the ground With his cane. They say that in his prime, Ere the pruning-knife of Time Cut him down, Not a better man was found By the crier on his round Through the town. But now he walks the streets, And he looks at all he meets Sad and wan, And he shakes his feeble head, That it seems as if he said, "They are gone.
7304. oldal - 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; 10 Let the Hero, born of woman, crush the serpent with his heel, Since God is marching on.
6918. oldal - But now his nose is thin, And it rests upon his chin Like a staff, And a crook is in his back, And a melancholy crack In his laugh.