The Ridpath Library of Universal Literature: A Biographical and Bibliographical Summary of the World's Most Eminent Authors, Including the Choicest Selections and Masterpieces from Their Writings ...Fifth avenue library society, 1899 |
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18. oldal
... I lost the power to exercise them . I could return a rational answer even to a difficult ques- tion ; but a question was necessary , or I never spoke at all . This state of mind was accompanied , as 18 WILLIAM COWPER.
... I lost the power to exercise them . I could return a rational answer even to a difficult ques- tion ; but a question was necessary , or I never spoke at all . This state of mind was accompanied , as 18 WILLIAM COWPER.
76. oldal
... tion , to the circulating library public , it is like en- tering a new world to come suddenly across a book by John Oliver Hobbes . " " And what , " re- marks a recent writer , " was said of the book then under review may be said of ...
... tion , to the circulating library public , it is like en- tering a new world to come suddenly across a book by John Oliver Hobbes . " " And what , " re- marks a recent writer , " was said of the book then under review may be said of ...
85. oldal
... tion . . . . To the training received by these writers the drama that rose among us after the middle of the sixteenth century may be considered to owe not only its form , but in part also its spirit , which had a learned and classical ...
... tion . . . . To the training received by these writers the drama that rose among us after the middle of the sixteenth century may be considered to owe not only its form , but in part also its spirit , which had a learned and classical ...
95. oldal
... tion . They speedily forgot many things . The past held no pictures of error and disappointment . They were very happy , and their hearts welled with grateful affec- tion for the colonel and the youthful lieutenant . - The Red Badge of ...
... tion . They speedily forgot many things . The past held no pictures of error and disappointment . They were very happy , and their hearts welled with grateful affec- tion for the colonel and the youthful lieutenant . - The Red Badge of ...
96. oldal
... published separately and at various periods during his lifetime . The first collectd edition of them appeared in 1858 ; a second edi- tion appeared in 1872 , prepared by the Rev. A. ( 96 ) CRASHAW, RICHARD, an English poet, born ...
... published separately and at various periods during his lifetime . The first collectd edition of them appeared in 1858 ; a second edi- tion appeared in 1872 , prepared by the Rev. A. ( 96 ) CRASHAW, RICHARD, an English poet, born ...
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31. oldal - Shortening his journey between morn and noon, And hurrying him, impatient of his stay, Down to the rosy west ; but kindly still Compensating his loss with added hours Of social converse and instructive ease, And...
225. oldal - And he said to Jeroboam, Take thee ten pieces: for thus saith the LORD, the God of Israel, Behold, I will rend the kingdom out of the hand of Solomon, and will give ten tribes to thee...
20. oldal - Ye fearful saints, fresh courage take, The clouds ye so much dread Are big with mercy, and shall break In blessings on your head...
24. oldal - Yon cottager, who weaves at her own door, Pillow and bobbins all her little store: Content though mean, and cheerful if not gay, Shuffling her threads about the livelong day, Just earns a scanty pittance, and at night Lies down secure, her heart and pocket light...
226. oldal - Now I beseech you, brethren, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye all speak the same thing, and that there be no divisions among you ; but that ye be perfectly joined together in the same mind, and in the same judgment.
26. oldal - He loved the world that hated him : the tear That dropp'd upon his Bible was sincere ; Assail'd by scandal and the tongue of strife, His only answer was a blameless life ; And he that forged, and he that threw the dart, Had each a brother's interest in his heart.
29. oldal - OH for a lodge in some vast wilderness, Some boundless contiguity of shade, Where rumour of oppression and deceit, Of unsuccessful or successful war, Might never reach me more.
40. oldal - Where spices breathe, and brighter seasons smile, There sits quiescent on the floods that show Her beauteous form reflected clear below, While airs impregnated with incense play Around her, fanning light her streamers gay ; So thou, with sails how swift ! hast reached the shore, " Where tempests never beat nor billows roar,"* And thy loved consort on the dangerous tide Of life long since has anchored by thy side.
49. oldal - We are living, we are dwelling, In a grand and awful time, In an age on ages telling, To be living is sublime.
34. oldal - BETWEEN Nose and Eyes a strange contest arose, The spectacles set them unhappily wrong ; The point in dispute was, as all the world knows, To which the said spectacles ought to belong.