The Ridpath Library of Universal Literature: A Biographical and Bibliographical Summary of the World's Most Eminent Authors, Including the Choicest Extracts and Masterpieces from Their Writings, Volume 17Avil Printing Company, 1903 |
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Pagina 11
... fair side all unguarded , lady ? Lady . They were but twain , and promised quick re- turn . Comus . Perhaps forestalling night prevented them . Lady . How easy my misfortune is to hit . Comus . - Imports their loss besides the present's ...
... fair side all unguarded , lady ? Lady . They were but twain , and promised quick re- turn . Comus . Perhaps forestalling night prevented them . Lady . How easy my misfortune is to hit . Comus . - Imports their loss besides the present's ...
Pagina 13
... fair Of Hesperus , and his daughters three , That sing about the golden tree . Along the crispèd shades and bowers Revels the spruce and jocund Spring ; The Graces and the rosy - bosomed Hours Thither all their bounties bring ; There ...
... fair Of Hesperus , and his daughters three , That sing about the golden tree . Along the crispèd shades and bowers Revels the spruce and jocund Spring ; The Graces and the rosy - bosomed Hours Thither all their bounties bring ; There ...
Pagina 14
... fair unspotted side Two blissful twins are to be born- Youth and Joy - so Jove hath sworn . But now my task is sweetly done , I can fly , or I can run , Quickly to the green earth's end Where the bowed welkin slow doth bend , And from ...
... fair unspotted side Two blissful twins are to be born- Youth and Joy - so Jove hath sworn . But now my task is sweetly done , I can fly , or I can run , Quickly to the green earth's end Where the bowed welkin slow doth bend , And from ...
Pagina 16
... fair guerdon when we hope to find , And think to burst out into sudden blaze , Comes the blind Fury with the abhorrèd shears , And slits the thin - spun life . " But not the praise , " Phoebus replied , and touched my trembling ears ...
... fair guerdon when we hope to find , And think to burst out into sudden blaze , Comes the blind Fury with the abhorrèd shears , And slits the thin - spun life . " But not the praise , " Phoebus replied , and touched my trembling ears ...
Pagina 32
... fair night's rest , going to bed at nine , and rising in the summer at four , in the winter at five . Should he not be disposed to rise at that hour , someone commonly read to him . After ris- ing he listened to the reading of a chapter ...
... fair night's rest , going to bed at nine , and rising in the summer at four , in the winter at five . Should he not be disposed to rise at that hour , someone commonly read to him . After ris- ing he listened to the reading of a chapter ...
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The Ridpath Library of Universal Literature: A Biographical and ... John Clark Ridpath Volledige weergave - 1906 |
The Ridpath Library of Universal Literature: A Biographical and ... John Clark Ridpath Volledige weergave - 1899 |
The Ridpath Library of Universal Literature: A Biographical and ..., Volume 17 John Clark Ridpath Volledige weergave - 1906 |
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Pagina 22 - ... the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them. I know they are as lively, and as vigorously productive, as those fabulous Dragon's teeth; and being sown up and down, may chance to spring up armed men.
Pagina 128 - In the wars of the European powers, in matters relating to themselves, we have never taken any part, nor does it comport with our policy so to do.
Pagina 184 - Oft in the stilly night Ere slumber's chain has bound me, Fond memory brings the light Of other days around me: The smiles, the tears Of boyhood's years, The words of love then spoken; The eyes that shone, Now dimmed and gone, The cheerful hearts now broken! Thus in the stilly night Ere slumber's chain has bound me, Sad memory brings the light Of other days around me.
Pagina 24 - WHEN I consider how my light is spent, Ere half my days, in this dark world and wide, And that one talent which is death to hide Lodged with me useless, though my soul more bent To serve therewith my Maker, and present My true account, lest he returning chide, ' Doth God exact day-labor, light denied ?
Pagina 16 - Enow of such, as for their bellies' sake Creep and intrude and climb into the fold! Of other care they little reckoning make Than how to scramble at the shearers' feast, And shove away the worthy bidden guest.
Pagina 16 - Alas! what boots it with incessant care To tend the homely, slighted, shepherd's trade, And strictly meditate the thankless Muse? Were it not better done, as others use, To sport with Amaryllis in the shade, Or with the tangles of Neaera's hair?
Pagina 22 - For books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are; nay they do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them.
Pagina 183 - This world is all a fleeting show For man's illusion given ; The smiles of joy, the tears of woe, Deceitful shine, deceitful flow, — There's nothing true but Heaven...
Pagina 22 - ... seasoned life of man preserved and stored up in books ; since we see a kind of homicide may be thus committed, sometimes a martyrdom, and, if it extend to the whole impression, a kind of massacre, whereof the execution ends not in the slaying of an elemental life, but strikes at that ethereal and fifth essence, the breath of reason itself, slays an immortality rather than a life.
Pagina 172 - Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse; The stockings were hung by the chimney with care, In hopes that St. Nicholas soon would be there. The children were nestled all snug in their beds, While visions of sugar-plums danced in their heads...