Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern: A-ZCharles Dudley Warner R.S. Peale and J.A. Hill, 1896 |
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Page 10143
... France ( Science and a Future Life ' ) MYTHS AND FOLK - LORE OF THE ARYAN PEOPLES 10522 BY WILLIAM SHARP AND ERNEST RHYS The Kinvad Bridge The Bridge of Dread Hangman's Rope The Legend of Bomere Pool The Lake of the Demons Fairy Gifts ...
... France ( Science and a Future Life ' ) MYTHS AND FOLK - LORE OF THE ARYAN PEOPLES 10522 BY WILLIAM SHARP AND ERNEST RHYS The Kinvad Bridge The Bridge of Dread Hangman's Rope The Legend of Bomere Pool The Lake of the Demons Fairy Gifts ...
Page 10153
... France . He seems to have stayed there five years , acquiring the humanities and getting well schooled in philosophy . He may or may not have been a pupil of Gassendi ; and he may or may not have attempted a translation of the great ...
... France . He seems to have stayed there five years , acquiring the humanities and getting well schooled in philosophy . He may or may not have been a pupil of Gassendi ; and he may or may not have attempted a translation of the great ...
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... France . It is doubtful whether his next piece was absolutely new , or whether it also had been tried during his wanderings outside of the capital . It is not doubtful that this little one - act comedy was made of richer material than ...
... France . It is doubtful whether his next piece was absolutely new , or whether it also had been tried during his wanderings outside of the capital . It is not doubtful that this little one - act comedy was made of richer material than ...
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... France is the most effective of theatrical masterpieces , repaying the best efforts of the best actors , and yet so dramatic in itself that it satisfies a large audience even when done by a scratch company anywhere and any- how . A ...
... France is the most effective of theatrical masterpieces , repaying the best efforts of the best actors , and yet so dramatic in itself that it satisfies a large audience even when done by a scratch company anywhere and any- how . A ...
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... France and Italy 1844-7 , and in 1848 became professor of jurisprudence at Leip- zig . His political activity in those troublous years brought about his dismissal in 1850. From 1852 to 1854 he held the professorship of Roman law at ...
... France and Italy 1844-7 , and in 1848 became professor of jurisprudence at Leip- zig . His political activity in those troublous years brought about his dismissal in 1850. From 1852 to 1854 he held the professorship of Roman law at ...
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Page 10270 - When Day, with farewell beam, delays Among the opening clouds of Even, And we can almost think we gaze Through golden vistas into Heaven — Those hues, that make the Sun's decline So soft, so radiant, LORD ! are Thine.
Page 10268 - 11 not leave thee, thou lone one ! To pine on the stem ; Since the lovely are sleeping, Go, sleep thou with them ; Thus kindly I scatter Thy leaves o'er the bed, Where thy mates of the garden Lie scentless and dead.
Page 10267 - 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 dimm'd 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.
Page 10265 - BELIEVE me, if all those endearing young charms, Which I gaze on so fondly to-day, Were to change by to-morrow, and fleet in my arms, Like fairy-gifts fading away, Thou wouldst still be adored, as this moment thou art, Let thy loveliness fade as it will, And around the dear ruin each wish of my heart Would entwine itself verdantly still.
Page 10263 - OH! the days are gone, when Beauty bright My heart's chain wove ; When my dream of life, from morn till night, Was love, still love. New hope may bloom, And days may come Of milder, calmer beam, But there's nothing half so sweet in life As love's young dream : No, there's nothing half so sweet in life As love's young dream.
Page 10262 - twas a sight — that Heav'n — that Child — A scene, which might have well beguil'd Ev'n haughty EBLIS of a sigh For glories lost and peace gone by ! And how felt he, the wretched Man Reclining there — while memory ran O'er many a year of guilt and strife, Flew o'er the dark flood of his life, Nor found one sunny resting-place, Nor brought him back one branch of grace ! " There was a time," he said in mild, Heart-humbled tones —
Page 10268 - The harp that once through Tara's halls The soul of music shed Now hangs as mute on Tara's walls As if that soul were fled.
Page 10266 - LESBIA hath a beaming eye, But no one knows for whom it beameth ; Right and left its arrows fly, But what they aim at no one dreameth. Sweeter 'tis to gaze upon My Nora's lid that seldom rises ; Few its looks, but every one, Like unexpected light, surprises...
Page 10252 - Nymph of a fair, but erring line ! " Gently he said — "One hope is thine. Tis written in the Book of Fate, The Peri yet may be forgiven Who brings to this Eternal Gate The Gift that is most dear to Heaven ! Go, seek it, and redeem thy sin — Tis sweet to let the Pardon'd in ! " Rapidly as comets run To th...
Page 10253 - Whose rivulets are like rich brides, Lovely, with gold beneath their tides ; Whose sandal groves and bowers of spice Might be a Peri's Paradise ' But crimson now her rivers ran With human blood — the smell of death Came reeking from those spicy bowers, And man, the sacrifice of man, Mingled his taint with every breath Upwafted from the...