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... , when they should be big enough . Adventurous young men , who desired 15 to do a braver thing than any of their fellows , set out in quest of this fruit . Many of them returned no more ; none of them brought back the apples 11.
... , when they should be big enough . Adventurous young men , who desired 15 to do a braver thing than any of their fellows , set out in quest of this fruit . Many of them returned no more ; none of them brought back the apples 11.
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... brought back the apples . No wonder that they found it impossible to gather them ! It is said that there was a dragon beneath the tree , with a hundred terrible heads , fifty of which 5 were always on the watch , while the other fifty ...
... brought back the apples . No wonder that they found it impossible to gather them ! It is said that there was a dragon beneath the tree , with a hundred terrible heads , fifty of which 5 were always on the watch , while the other fifty ...
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... brought him mid - leg deep ; and ten miles at the second , when the water came just above his knees ; and ten miles more at the third , by which he was 20 immersed nearly to his waist . This was the greatest depth of the sea . Hercules ...
... brought him mid - leg deep ; and ten miles at the second , when the water came just above his knees ; and ten miles more at the third , by which he was 20 immersed nearly to his waist . This was the greatest depth of the sea . Hercules ...
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... brought from Sidon , when he sailed upon the broad sea , bringing home with him high - born Helen . The fairest robe of 25 all did the Queen take . Bright as a star it was , and it lay the undermost of all . And when she and the aged ...
... brought from Sidon , when he sailed upon the broad sea , bringing home with him high - born Helen . The fairest robe of 25 all did the Queen take . Bright as a star it was , and it lay the undermost of all . And when she and the aged ...
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... brought it back And gave it to the hands of Peleus ' son , While Hector said to his illustrious foe : " Godlike Achilles , thou hast missed thy mark , Nor hast thou learned my doom from Jupiter , As thou pretendest . Thou art glib of ...
... brought it back And gave it to the hands of Peleus ' son , While Hector said to his illustrious foe : " Godlike Achilles , thou hast missed thy mark , Nor hast thou learned my doom from Jupiter , As thou pretendest . Thou art glib of ...
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Page 327 - At half past nine by the meet'n'-house clock,— Just the hour of the Earthquake shock! —What do you think the parson found, When he got up and stared around? The poor old chaise in a heap or mound, As if it had been to the mill and ground! You see, of course, if you're not a dunce, How it went to pieces all at once,— All at once, and nothing first,— Just as bubbles do when they burst.
Page 270 - I have not allowed myself, Sir, to look beyond the Union, to see what might lie hidden in the dark recess behind. I have not coolly weighed the chances of preserving liberty when the bonds that unite us together shall be broken asunder. I have not accustomed myself to hang over the precipice of disunion, to see whether, with my short sight, I can fathom the depth of the abyss below...
Page 312 - May have broken the woof of my tent's thin roof The stars peep behind her and peer ; And I laugh to see them whirl and flee, Like a swarm of golden bees...
Page 262 - April's breeze unfurled, Here once the embattled farmers stood And fired the shot heard round the world. The foe long since in silence slept; Alike the conqueror silent sleeps; And Time the ruined bridge has swept Down the dark stream which seaward creeps. On this green bank, by this soft stream, We set to-day a votive stone; That memory may their deed redeem, When, like our sires, our sons are gone. Spirit, that made those heroes dare To die, and leave their children free, Bid Time and Nature gently...
Page 271 - Liberty first, and Union afterwards, — but everywhere, spread all over in characters of living light, blazing on all its ample folds, as they float over the sea and over the land, and in every wind under the whole heavens, that other sentiment, dear to every true American heart, — Liberty and Union, now and forever, one and inseparable.
Page 311 - I BRING fresh showers for the thirsting flowers, From the seas and the streams; I bear light shade for the leaves when laid In their noonday dreams. From my wings are shaken the dews that waken The sweet buds every one, When rocked to rest on their mother's breast, As she dances about the sun. I wield the flail of the lashing hail, And whiten the green plains under, And then again I dissolve it in rain, And laugh as I pass in thunder.
Page 102 - And his master saw that the LORD was with him, and that the LORD made all that he did to prosper in his hand.
Page 127 - THE Assyrian came down like the wolf on the fold, And his cohorts were gleaming in purple and gold; And the sheen of their spears was like stars on the sea, When the blue wave rolls nightly on deep Galilee.
Page 100 - Come now therefore, and let us slay him, and cast him into some pit, and we will say, Some evil beast hath devoured him : and we shall see what will become of his dreams.
Page 75 - Alas, the lofty city ! and alas, The trebly hundred triumphs ! and the day When Brutus made the dagger's edge surpass The conqueror's sword in bearing fame away ! Alas for Tully's voice, and Virgil's lay, And Livy's pictured page ! But these shall be Her resurrection ; all beside— decay. Alas, for Earth, for never shall we see That brightness in her eye she bore when Rome was free ! LXXXIII.