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 10137
... Political Science , PRINCETON UNIVERSITY , Princeton , N. J. BRANDER MATTHEWS , A. M. , LL . B. , Professor of Literature , COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY , New York City . JAMES B. ANGELL , LL . D. , President of the UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN , Ann ...
... Political Science , PRINCETON UNIVERSITY , Princeton , N. J. BRANDER MATTHEWS , A. M. , LL . B. , Professor of Literature , COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY , New York City . JAMES B. ANGELL , LL . D. , President of the UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN , Ann ...
Page 10205
... political sympathies , his open affiliations in the national legislature , have been with the extreme radical wing of that great " Liberal " movement which made the new German empire possible . Thoroughly believing that democratic ...
... political sympathies , his open affiliations in the national legislature , have been with the extreme radical wing of that great " Liberal " movement which made the new German empire possible . Thoroughly believing that democratic ...
Page 10210
... political position. Caesar was thoroughly a realist and a man of sense; and whatever he undertook and achieved was penetrated and guided by the cool sobriety which constitutes the most marked peculiarity of his genius. To this he owed ...
... political position. Caesar was thoroughly a realist and a man of sense; and whatever he undertook and achieved was penetrated and guided by the cool sobriety which constitutes the most marked peculiarity of his genius. To this he owed ...
Page 10207
... political history of the early empire has never yet appeared ; but the imperial government of Roman provinces is treated in exhaustive volumes , already published , and destined to become an integral part of the completed work . This ...
... political history of the early empire has never yet appeared ; but the imperial government of Roman provinces is treated in exhaustive volumes , already published , and destined to become an integral part of the completed work . This ...
Page 10208
... political activity in those troublous years brought about his dismissal in 1850. From 1852 to 1854 he held the professorship of Roman law at Zurich ; 1854-8 at Breslau ; and finally in 1858 entered upon the professorship of ancient ...
... political activity in those troublous years brought about his dismissal in 1850. From 1852 to 1854 he held the professorship of Roman law at Zurich ; 1854-8 at Breslau ; and finally in 1858 entered upon the professorship of ancient ...
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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...