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 |
Vanuit het boek
Resultaten 1-5 van 48
Pagina 11
... less than if I should my brothers lose . Comus . - Were they of manly prime or youthful bloom ? Lady . As smooth as Hebe's their unrazored lips . Comus tells the lady that he has not long be- fore seen such a pair of youths , and can ...
... less than if I should my brothers lose . Comus . - Were they of manly prime or youthful bloom ? Lady . As smooth as Hebe's their unrazored lips . Comus tells the lady that he has not long be- fore seen such a pair of youths , and can ...
Pagina 25
... less securely upon his shoulders than did that of John Milton . He had been an accomplice , before and after the fact , in the execution of Charles I .; in his Eikonoclastes he had fallen tooth and nail upon Gauden's Eikon Basilike ...
... less securely upon his shoulders than did that of John Milton . He had been an accomplice , before and after the fact , in the execution of Charles I .; in his Eikonoclastes he had fallen tooth and nail upon Gauden's Eikon Basilike ...
Pagina 28
... less on either side tempestuous fell His arrows from the fourfold - visaged Four , Distinct with eyes ; and from the living wheels Distinct alike with multitudes of eyes . One spirit in them ruled , and every eye Glared lightning , and ...
... less on either side tempestuous fell His arrows from the fourfold - visaged Four , Distinct with eyes ; and from the living wheels Distinct alike with multitudes of eyes . One spirit in them ruled , and every eye Glared lightning , and ...
Pagina 46
... as he does more or less in all the rest of his tales . The diverting episodes in Robinson Crusoe all help the verisimilitude of the story . - Daniel Defoe . MISTRAL , FRÉDÉRIC , a French poet , born at 46 WILLIAM MINTO.
... as he does more or less in all the rest of his tales . The diverting episodes in Robinson Crusoe all help the verisimilitude of the story . - Daniel Defoe . MISTRAL , FRÉDÉRIC , a French poet , born at 46 WILLIAM MINTO.
Pagina 48
... less forlorn ! For then if any lad , my Vincen even , Had asked my hand , mayhap it had been given . " So on her pallet the sweet maid lay sobbing , Fire in her heart and every vein a - throbbing , And all the happy time remembering- Oh ...
... less forlorn ! For then if any lad , my Vincen even , Had asked my hand , mayhap it had been given . " So on her pallet the sweet maid lay sobbing , Fire in her heart and every vein a - throbbing , And all the happy time remembering- Oh ...
Overige edities - Alles bekijken
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 |
Veelvoorkomende woorden en zinsdelen
American appeared Awashonks battle beauty became BLOOD COUNCIL born breath brother Cæsar called Carcassonne Casa Wappy Church Comus Corineus dark dear death delight died Dutch Republic earth edition England English Enipeus eyes fair father feel Fin-de-siècle fire flowers French hand happy hath heart heaven Henry History hope island John Khamseh King lady land language light live London look Lycidas MAX MÜLLER Milton mind Minnesingers Molière Nabucco nature never Nibelungenlied night o'er Paradise Paradise Lost peace pleasure poems poet political published Ramayana rise Robinson Crusoe Roman round sing smile song soon soul spirit stars story sweet Tartuffe tears tell Tessaro thee things thou thought tion translation turn University voice W. D. HOWELLS Walter Map waters wife wind words writer young Zeluco
Populaire passages
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...