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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6853. oldal
... Thou art too fair to be left to braid Saint Catherine's tresses . " Then would Evangeline answer , serenely but sadly , " I cannot ! Whither my heart has gone , there follows my hand , and not else- where . For when the heart goes ...
... Thou art too fair to be left to braid Saint Catherine's tresses . " Then would Evangeline answer , serenely but sadly , " I cannot ! Whither my heart has gone , there follows my hand , and not else- where . For when the heart goes ...
6857. oldal
... Thou of the Quakers , For it recalled the past , the old Acadian country , Where all men were equal , and all were brothers and sisters . So , when the fruitless search , the disappointed endeavor , Ended , to recommençe no more upon ...
... Thou of the Quakers , For it recalled the past , the old Acadian country , Where all men were equal , and all were brothers and sisters . So , when the fruitless search , the disappointed endeavor , Ended , to recommençe no more upon ...
6874. oldal
... thou retire alone . nor couldst thou wish Couch more magnificent . Thou shalt lie down With patriarchs of the infant world — with kings , The powerful of the earth - the wise , the good , Fair forms , and hoary seers of ages past , All ...
... thou retire alone . nor couldst thou wish Couch more magnificent . Thou shalt lie down With patriarchs of the infant world — with kings , The powerful of the earth - the wise , the good , Fair forms , and hoary seers of ages past , All ...
6875. oldal
... thou rest- and what if thou withdraw Unheeded by the living — and no friend Take note of thy departure ? All that breathe Will share thy destiny . The gay will laugh . When thou art gone , the solemn brood of care Plod on , and each one ...
... thou rest- and what if thou withdraw Unheeded by the living — and no friend Take note of thy departure ? All that breathe Will share thy destiny . The gay will laugh . When thou art gone , the solemn brood of care Plod on , and each one ...
6897. oldal
... quite enough for the present ; but he valued her twenty guineas as much as if they had been twenty thou- sand . He would never forget her love and kindness ; no , by all that was sacred he would not ! His mother WASHINGTON . 6897.
... quite enough for the present ; but he valued her twenty guineas as much as if they had been twenty thou- sand . He would never forget her love and kindness ; no , by all that was sacred he would not ! His mother WASHINGTON . 6897.
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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.