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 31
... fraud , contempt , abuse and wrong , Within doors or without , still as a fool In power of others , never in my own ; Scarce half I seem to live , dead more than half . O dark , dark , dark , amid the blaze JOHN MILTON 31.
... fraud , contempt , abuse and wrong , Within doors or without , still as a fool In power of others , never in my own ; Scarce half I seem to live , dead more than half . O dark , dark , dark , amid the blaze JOHN MILTON 31.
Pagina 34
... seems to have been entirely wanting in early German rhymes . The Nibelungenlied , not yet written , but carried in the memory of numerous bards , brings together mythical heroes and real personages separated by centuries of time . The ...
... seems to have been entirely wanting in early German rhymes . The Nibelungenlied , not yet written , but carried in the memory of numerous bards , brings together mythical heroes and real personages separated by centuries of time . The ...
Pagina 37
... seems to provide conditions of the most perfect freedom . His Unter der Linden an der Heide , with its musical refrain Tandaradei , is a masterpiece of art , exquisite in its simplicity , with the apparent spontaneity of a bird's song ...
... seems to provide conditions of the most perfect freedom . His Unter der Linden an der Heide , with its musical refrain Tandaradei , is a masterpiece of art , exquisite in its simplicity , with the apparent spontaneity of a bird's song ...
Pagina 39
... seems an almost heaven , So bounteous to my eyes that vision bright is given . But when a lady chaste and fair ... seems to have been amply rewarded , for we read that the women all longed for him , each grudging his favors shown to ...
... seems an almost heaven , So bounteous to my eyes that vision bright is given . But when a lady chaste and fair ... seems to have been amply rewarded , for we read that the women all longed for him , each grudging his favors shown to ...
Pagina 41
... seems Since by my fair I sate , Yet thus to have been a stranger long Was not my choice , but fate . Since then I have not seen the flowers , Nor heard the birds ' sweet song ; My joys have all too briefly passed , My griefs been all ...
... seems Since by my fair I sate , Yet thus to have been a stranger long Was not my choice , but fate . Since then I have not seen the flowers , Nor heard the birds ' sweet song ; My joys have all too briefly passed , My griefs been all ...
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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...