The International Library of Famous Literature: Selections from the World's Great Writers, Ancient, Mediaeval, and Modern, with Biographical and Explanatory Notes and with Introductions, Volumen14Merrill and Baker, 1898 - 9822 páginas |
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... Death of Nelson Lochiel's Warning The Trial of Eugene Aram Eugene Aram's Dream Our Parish Murderer The Old Clock on the Stairs Confessions of an English Opium - Eater . 46X 389 The Gate of the Hundred Sorrows Rudyard Kipling Confessions of.
... Death of Nelson Lochiel's Warning The Trial of Eugene Aram Eugene Aram's Dream Our Parish Murderer The Old Clock on the Stairs Confessions of an English Opium - Eater . 46X 389 The Gate of the Hundred Sorrows Rudyard Kipling Confessions of.
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... English the other day without quotation marks , thinking whether any scarabæus criticus would add this to his globe and roll in glory with it into the newspapers , which he didn't do it , in the charming pleonasm of the London language ...
... English the other day without quotation marks , thinking whether any scarabæus criticus would add this to his globe and roll in glory with it into the newspapers , which he didn't do it , in the charming pleonasm of the London language ...
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... an odd trick of one of my old tutors . He read so much of that language , that his English half turned into it . He got caught in town , one hot summer , in pretty close quarters , and 6356 THE AUTOCRAT OF THE BREAKFAST TABLE .
... an odd trick of one of my old tutors . He read so much of that language , that his English half turned into it . He got caught in town , one hot summer , in pretty close quarters , and 6356 THE AUTOCRAT OF THE BREAKFAST TABLE .
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... English novelist ; born in Warwickshire , England , November 22 , 1819. After the death of her father ( 1849 ) she settled in London , where she became assistant editor of the Westminster Review ( 1851 ) . In 1854 she formed a union ...
... English novelist ; born in Warwickshire , England , November 22 , 1819. After the death of her father ( 1849 ) she settled in London , where she became assistant editor of the Westminster Review ( 1851 ) . In 1854 she formed a union ...
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... English novelist ; born in Dorsetshire , June 2 , 1840 . At first an architect , and winning a medal from the Royal Institute , he relin- quished it for literature at about thirty , and in 1871 published his first novel , " Desperate ...
... English novelist ; born in Dorsetshire , June 2 , 1840 . At first an architect , and winning a medal from the Royal Institute , he relin- quished it for literature at about thirty , and in 1871 published his first novel , " Desperate ...
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Página 6724 - From that chamber, clothed in white, The bride came forth on' her wedding night ; There, in that silent room below, The dead lay in his shroud of snow ; And in the hush that followed the prayer, Was heard the old clock on the stair, — ' ' Forever — never ! Never — forever...
Página 6616 - And if thou said'st I am not peer To any lord in Scotland here, Lowland or Highland, far or near, Lord Angus, thou hast lied!
Página 6669 - Lo !. the death-shot of foemen outspeeding, he rode Companionless, bearing destruction abroad ; But down let him stoop from his havoc on high ! Ah ! home let him speed — for the spoiler is nigh. Why flames the far summit? Why shoot to the blast, Those embers, like stars from the firmament cast ? 'Tis the fire-shower of ruin, all dreadfully driven From his eyrie, that beacons the darkness of heaven. Oh, crested Lochiel ! the peerless in might, Whose banners arise on the battlements...
Página 6812 - Returning where my walk begun, Avoiding only, as I trod, My brothers' graves without a sod; For if I thought with heedless tread My step profaned their lowly bed, My breath came gaspingly and thick, And my crush'd heart fell blind and sick.
Página 6553 - ... man about always betting on anything that turned up you ever see, if he could get anybody to bet on the other side; and if he couldn't he'd change sides. Any way that suited the other man would suit him — any way just so's he got a bet, he was satisfied. But still he was lucky, uncommon lucky; he most always come out winner. He was always ready and laying for a chance; there couldn't be no solit'ry thing mentioned but that feller'd offer to bet on it, and take ary side you please, as I was...
Página 6810 - A light broke in upon my brain,— It was the carol of a bird ; It ceased, and then it came again, The sweetest song ear ever heard, And mine was thankful till my eyes...
Página 6806 - With tears for naught but others' ills; And then they flowed like mountain rills, Unless he could assuage the woe Which he abhorred to view below. v The other was as pure of mind, But formed to combat with his kind; Strong in his frame, and of a mood Which 'gainst the world in war had stood, And perished in the foremost rank With joy; but not in chains to pine.
Página 6807 - A double dungeon wall and wave Have made — and like a living grave. Below the surface of the lake The dark vault lies wherein we lay, We heard it ripple night and day; Sounding o'er our heads it knock'd; And I have felt the winter's spray Wash through the bars when winds were high...
Página 6626 - O, woman ! in our hours of ease, Uncertain, coy, and hard to please, And variable as the shade By the light quivering aspen made ; When pain and anguish wring the brow A ministering angel thou...
Página 6473 - Kneel undisturbed, fair saint ! Pour out your praise or plaint Meekly and duly ; I will not enter there, To sully your pure prayer With thoughts unruly. But suffer me to pace Round the forbidden place, Lingering a minute Like outcast spirits who wait And see through Heaven's gate Angels within it.