Library of the World's Best Literature: Ancient and ModernCharles Dudley Warner International Society, 1897 |
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... night on the plain . It was only in fine weather that the whole breadth of the road was available for wheeled vehicles . Often the mud lay deep on the right and the left ; and only a narrow track of firm ground rose above the quagmire ...
... night on the plain . It was only in fine weather that the whole breadth of the road was available for wheeled vehicles . Often the mud lay deep on the right and the left ; and only a narrow track of firm ground rose above the quagmire ...
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... nights long , little more than thirty . The Chester coach , the York coach , and the Exeter coach gen- erally reached London in four days during the fine season , but at Christmas not till the sixth day . The passengers , six in number ...
... nights long , little more than thirty . The Chester coach , the York coach , and the Exeter coach gen- erally reached London in four days during the fine season , but at Christmas not till the sixth day . The passengers , six in number ...
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... night . Such a mode of conveyance seems to have been considered as a rare luxury , confined to princes and ministers . THE HIGHWAYMAN From the History of England ' HATEVER might be the way in which a journey was per- W formed , the ...
... night . Such a mode of conveyance seems to have been considered as a rare luxury , confined to princes and ministers . THE HIGHWAYMAN From the History of England ' HATEVER might be the way in which a journey was per- W formed , the ...
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... nights and days . For aged folks on crutches , And women great with child , And mothers sobbing over babes That clung ... night and day , For every hour some horseman came With tidings of dismay . To eastward and to westward Have spread ...
... nights and days . For aged folks on crutches , And women great with child , And mothers sobbing over babes That clung ... night and day , For every hour some horseman came With tidings of dismay . To eastward and to westward Have spread ...
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... night ; And they made a molten image , And set it up on high , And there it stands unto this day To witness if I lie ... nights of winter , When the cold north winds blow , And the long howling of the wolves Is heard amidst the snow ...
... night ; And they made a molten image , And set it up on high , And there it stands unto this day To witness if I lie ... nights of winter , When the cold north winds blow , And the long howling of the wolves Is heard amidst the snow ...
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Página 9600 - And the Lord commanded us to do all these statutes, to fear the Lord our God, for our good always, that he might preserve us alive, as it is at this day.
Página 9770 - When we have run our passion's heat, Love hither makes his best retreat. The Gods, that mortal beauty chase, Still in a tree did end their race; Apollo hunted Daphne so, Only that she might laurel grow; And Pan did after Syrinx speed, Not as a nymph, but for a reed.
Página 9760 - He discovereth deep things out of darkness, and bringeth out to light the shadow of death.
Página 9411 - And she may still exist in undiminished vigour when some traveller from New Zealand shall, in the midst of a vast solitude, take his stand on a broken arch of London Bridge to sketch the ruins of St. Paul's.
Página 9769 - How vainly men themselves amaze. To win the palm, the oak, or bays: And their incessant labors see Crowned from some single herb, or tree, Whose short and narrow-verged shade Does prudently their toils upbraid; While all the flowers and trees do close, To weave the garlands of repose.
Página 9424 - LARS PORSENA of Clusium By the Nine Gods he swore That the great house of Tarquin Should suffer wrong no more. By the Nine Gods he swore it, And named a trysting day, And bade his messengers ride forth, East and west and south and north, To summon his array.
Página 9439 - And Appenzel's stout infantry, and Egmont's Flemish spears. There rode the brood of false Lorraine, the curses of our land! And dark Mayenne was in the midst, a truncheon in his hand! And as we looked on them, we thought of Seine's...
Página 9722 - Unto some brutish beast. All beasts are happy, For when they die Their souls are soon dissolved in elements, But mine must live still to be plagued in hell.
Página 9437 - quoth false Sextus, " Will not the villain drown? But for this stay, ere close of day We should have sacked the town !" " Heaven help him ! " quoth Lars Porsena, "And bring him safe to shore; For such a gallant feat of arms Was never seen before.
Página 9721 - Perpetual day; or let this hour be but A year, a month, a week, a natural day, That Faustus may repent and save his soul!