Library of the World's Best Literature: Ancient and ModernCharles Dudley Warner International Society, 1897 |
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... soon deep in literature and politics , for the pursuit of which his tastes , his habits , and his parts pre - eminently fitted him . His nephew and biographer has gathered a mass of anecdotes and reminiscences , which go far to show ...
... soon deep in literature and politics , for the pursuit of which his tastes , his habits , and his parts pre - eminently fitted him . His nephew and biographer has gathered a mass of anecdotes and reminiscences , which go far to show ...
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... soon became what the journalists of our time have been called , a Fourth Estate of the realm . The court had long seen with un- easiness the growth of this new power in the State . An attempt had been made , during Danby's ...
... soon became what the journalists of our time have been called , a Fourth Estate of the realm . The court had long seen with un- easiness the growth of this new power in the State . An attempt had been made , during Danby's ...
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... soon convinced him that he had better go somewhere else . Nor indeed would he have had far to go . For in gen- eral , the coffee - rooms reeked with tobacco like a guard - room ; and strangers sometimes expressed their surprise that so ...
... soon convinced him that he had better go somewhere else . Nor indeed would he have had far to go . For in gen- eral , the coffee - rooms reeked with tobacco like a guard - room ; and strangers sometimes expressed their surprise that so ...
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... Soon after the Restoration this griev- ance attracted the notice of Parliament ; and an act , the first of our many turnpike acts , was passed , imposing a small toll on travelers and goods , for the purpose of keeping some parts of ...
... Soon after the Restoration this griev- ance attracted the notice of Parliament ; and an act , the first of our many turnpike acts , was passed , imposing a small toll on travelers and goods , for the purpose of keeping some parts of ...
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... soon a diligence was set up which in one day carried passen- gers from Cambridge to the capital . At the close of the reign of Charles the Second , flying carriages ran thrice a week from London to the chief towns . But no stage - coach ...
... soon a diligence was set up which in one day carried passen- gers from Cambridge to the capital . At the close of the reign of Charles the Second , flying carriages ran thrice a week from London to the chief towns . But no stage - coach ...
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Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern: A-Z Charles Dudley Warner Vista completa - 1896 |
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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!