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 13
... winds , with musky wing , About the cedarn alleys fling Nard and cassia's balmy smells ; Iris there , with humid bow , Waters the odorous banks that blow Flowers of more mingled hue Than her purfled scarf can show , And drenches with ...
... winds , with musky wing , About the cedarn alleys fling Nard and cassia's balmy smells ; Iris there , with humid bow , Waters the odorous banks that blow Flowers of more mingled hue Than her purfled scarf can show , And drenches with ...
Pagina 15
... wind , Without the meed of some melodious tear . For we were nursed upon the self - same hill , Fed the same flock ... winds her sultry horn , Battening our flocks with the fresh dews of night , Oft till the star , that rose at evening ...
... wind , Without the meed of some melodious tear . For we were nursed upon the self - same hill , Fed the same flock ... winds her sultry horn , Battening our flocks with the fresh dews of night , Oft till the star , that rose at evening ...
Pagina 17
... wind and the rank mist they draw , Rot inwardly , and foul contagion spread ; Besides what the grim wolf with privy paw Daily devours apace , and nothing said . But that two - handed engine at the door Stands ready to smite once and ...
... wind and the rank mist they draw , Rot inwardly , and foul contagion spread ; Besides what the grim wolf with privy paw Daily devours apace , and nothing said . But that two - handed engine at the door Stands ready to smite once and ...
Pagina 49
... wind of night she wended . It was the hour when constellations keep Their friendly watch o'er followers of the deep . The eye of St. John's eagle flashed afar As it alighted on a burning star , One of the three where the evangelist Hath ...
... wind of night she wended . It was the hour when constellations keep Their friendly watch o'er followers of the deep . The eye of St. John's eagle flashed afar As it alighted on a burning star , One of the three where the evangelist Hath ...
Pagina 62
... wind and trending eagerly downward ; the swift , petulant dash into the little pools of the highway , making fairy bubbles that break as soon as they form ; the land smoking with an excess of moisture ; and the pelted leaves all wincing ...
... wind and trending eagerly downward ; the swift , petulant dash into the little pools of the highway , making fairy bubbles that break as soon as they form ; the land smoking with an excess of moisture ; and the pelted leaves all wincing ...
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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...