Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern: A-ZCharles Dudley Warner, Hamilton Wright Mabie, Lucia Isabella Gilbert Runkle, George Henry Warner, Edward Cornelius Towne R.S. Peale and J.A. Hill, 1897 - Anthologies |
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Page 5463
... Followed the King of England in Beauvoisinois Of the Battle of Blanche - Taque Of the Order of the Englishmen at Cressy The Order of the Frenchmen at Cressy , and How They Beheld the Demeanor of the Englishmen Of the Battle of Cressy ...
... Followed the King of England in Beauvoisinois Of the Battle of Blanche - Taque Of the Order of the Englishmen at Cressy The Order of the Frenchmen at Cressy , and How They Beheld the Demeanor of the Englishmen Of the Battle of Cressy ...
Page 5476
... followed the whole current of Roman tradition , from Eneas and Romulus down to the writer's own day . And this work was , at the same time , the first large experiment in writing Homeric hexameters in the Latin speech ! So true is it ...
... followed the whole current of Roman tradition , from Eneas and Romulus down to the writer's own day . And this work was , at the same time , the first large experiment in writing Homeric hexameters in the Latin speech ! So true is it ...
Page 5484
... followed an original comedy , The Suitors ' ; in '34 a tragedy , ' Revenge ' ; and in '35 a translation of Victor Hugo's ' Angelo . ' His æsthetic introductions to his translations attracted the attention of the Hungarian Academy , and ...
... followed an original comedy , The Suitors ' ; in '34 a tragedy , ' Revenge ' ; and in '35 a translation of Victor Hugo's ' Angelo . ' His æsthetic introductions to his translations attracted the attention of the Hungarian Academy , and ...
Page 5485
... followed by deep disappointment and degradation . Gustave considers himself partly responsible for her misery , and makes an attempt to forget his sorrow in a life of pleasure and dissipation ; but his moral abasement brings him despair ...
... followed by deep disappointment and degradation . Gustave considers himself partly responsible for her misery , and makes an attempt to forget his sorrow in a life of pleasure and dissipation ; but his moral abasement brings him despair ...
Page 5499
... followed by that of Long , which was however the work of that author's old age , was somewhat stiff and cramped in style , and not nearly so readable as his Marcus Aurelius Antoninus . In the sixth century an EPICTETUS.
... followed by that of Long , which was however the work of that author's old age , was somewhat stiff and cramped in style , and not nearly so readable as his Marcus Aurelius Antoninus . In the sixth century an EPICTETUS.
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Page 5766 - How charming is divine philosophy ! Not harsh, and crabbed, as dull fools suppose, But musical as is Apollo's lute, And a perpetual feast of nectar'd sweets, Where no crude surfeit reigns.
Page 5930 - Hatter, makes and sells hats for ready money,' with a figure of a hat subjoined ; but he thought he would submit it to his friends for their amendments. The first he showed it to thought the word ' Hatter ' tautologous, because followed by the words ' makes hats,
Page 5948 - The small progress we have made after four or five weeks' close attendance and continual reasonings with each other, — our different sentiments on almost every question, several of the last producing as many noes as ayes, — is, methinks, a melancholy proof of the imperfection of the human understanding. We, indeed, seem to feel our own want of political wisdom since we have been running about in search of it. We have gone back to ancient history for models of government, and examined the different...
Page 5957 - I cross'd these columns with thirteen red lines, marking the beginning of each line with the first letter of one of the virtues, on which line, and in its proper column...
Page 5936 - My elder brothers were all put apprentices to different trades. I was put to the grammar school at eight years of age, my father intending to devote me, as the tithe of his sons, to the service of the Church.
Page 5946 - Pride breakfasted with Plenty, dined with Poverty, and supped with Infamy.' And after all, of what use is this pride of appearance for which so much is risked, so much is suffered? It cannot promote health nor ease pain ; it makes no increase of merit in the person ; it creates envy ; it hastens misfortune.
Page 5958 - Father of light and life ! thou Good Supreme ! O teach me what is good ! teach me Thyself ! Save me from folly, vanity, and vice, From every low pursuit! and feed my soul With knowledge, conscious peace, and virtue pure; Sacred, substantial, never-fading bliss...
Page 5944 - I stopped my horse lately, where a great number of people were collected at an auction of merchants' goods. The hour of the sale not being come, they were conversing on the badness of the times ; and one of the company called to a plain, clean old man, with white locks, " Pray, Father Abraham, what think you of the times ? Will not these heavy taxes quite ruin the country ? How shall we ever be able to pay them ? What would you advise us to do ? " Father Abraham stood up and replied, " If you would...
Page 5873 - ... heart grown cauld to me When we came in by Glasgow town We were a comely sight to see ; My Love was clad in the black velvet, And I myself in cramasie. But had I wist, before I kist...
Page 5598 - God grant mine eyes may never behold the like, who now saw above 10,000 houses all in one flame! The noise and cracking and thunder of the impetuous flames, the shrieking of women and children, the hurry of people, the fall of towers, houses, and churches, was like a hideous storm; and the air all about so hot and inflamed, that at the last one was not able to approach it...