Library of the World's Best Literature: A-ZCharles Dudley Warner, Hamilton Wright Mabie, Lucia Isabella Gilbert Runkle, George H. Warner, Edward Cornelius Towne R. S. Peale and J. A. Hill, 1897 |
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Page 10218
... poet may have been one cause for the departure of Lady Mary from London to the sylvan life abroad , of which she writes in such fine detail to her daughter , Lady Bute . Through her letters she held her power at home during many years ...
... poet may have been one cause for the departure of Lady Mary from London to the sylvan life abroad , of which she writes in such fine detail to her daughter , Lady Bute . Through her letters she held her power at home during many years ...
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... poets in the empire . Thus the verses may be looked upon as a sample of their finest poetry ; and I don't doubt you'll be of my mind , that it is most wonder- fully resembling the Song of Solomon , which was also addressed to a royal ...
... poets in the empire . Thus the verses may be looked upon as a sample of their finest poetry ; and I don't doubt you'll be of my mind , that it is most wonder- fully resembling the Song of Solomon , which was also addressed to a royal ...
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... poetic and picturesque , it is always familiar . But praise is checked by remembrance of Montaigne's saying that he cared so much more for the meaning than the words , that when he heard any one dwelling on the language of the Essays he ...
... poetic and picturesque , it is always familiar . But praise is checked by remembrance of Montaigne's saying that he cared so much more for the meaning than the words , that when he heard any one dwelling on the language of the Essays he ...
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... poet , or a lawyer . If the world find fault fault that they do not • • . that I speak too much of myself , I find so much as think of themselves . I have this , at least , according to discipline , that never any man treated of a ...
... poet , or a lawyer . If the world find fault fault that they do not • • . that I speak too much of myself , I find so much as think of themselves . I have this , at least , according to discipline , that never any man treated of a ...
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... poet , yet , in large and steady demand at the libraries , his works outrank those of Byron , Scott , and all other popular poets . Whether this be a tribute to his sentimentality or his music , there can be no doubt that Moore , who ...
... poet , yet , in large and steady demand at the libraries , his works outrank those of Byron , Scott , and all other popular poets . Whether this be a tribute to his sentimentality or his music , there can be no doubt that Moore , who ...
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Page 10754 - THE EARTH is the Lord's, and the fullness thereof; the world, and they that dwell therein. For he hath founded it upon the seas, and established it upon the floods.
Page 10555 - And he showed me a pure river of water of life, clear as crystal, proceeding out of the throne of GOD and of the Lamb. In the midst of the street of it, and on either side of the river, was there the tree of life, which bare twelve manner of fruits, and yielded her fruit every month : and the leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations.
Page 10543 - And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye ' Or how wilt thou (Say to thy brother, Let me pull out the mote out of thine eye : and, behold, a beam is in thine own eye? Thou hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of thine own eye; and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother's eye.
Page 10749 - Surely the isles shall wait for me, And the ships of Tarshish first, To bring thy sons from far, Their silver and their gold with them, Unto the name of the Lord thy God, And to the Holy One of Israel, because he hath glorified thee.
Page 10763 - Rise up, my love, my fair one, and come away. For, lo, the winter is past, The rain is over and gone ; The flowers appear on the earth ; The time of the singing of birds is come, And the voice of the turtle is heard in our land ; The fig tree putteth forth her green figs, And the vines with the tender grape give a good smell. Arise, my love, my fair one, and come away.
Page 10548 - This is my commandment, that ye love one another, as I have loved you. Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends. Ye are my friends, if ye do whatsoever I command you.
Page 10549 - If I had not done among them the works which none other man did, they had not had sin: but now have they both seen and hated both me and my Father. But this cometh to pass, that the word might be fulfilled that is written in their law, They hated me without a cause.
Page 10552 - There are also celestial bodies, and bodies terrestrial: but the glory of the celestial is one, and the glory of the terrestrial is another.
Page 10738 - Lord God of Abraham, Isaac, and of Israel, let it be known this day that thou art God in Israel, and that I am thy servant, and that I have done all these things at thy word. Hear me, O Lord, hear me, that this people may know that thou art the Lord God, and that thou hast turned their heart back again.
Page 10554 - And I saw a great white throne, and him that sat on it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away; and there was found no place for them. And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God; and the books were opened: and another book was opened, which is the book of life: and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works.