Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Volumen24Charles Dudley Warner, Hamilton Wright Mabie, Mrs. Lucia Isabella (Gilbert) Runkle, George Henry Warner J. A. Hill, 1902 |
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... ( History of Our Own Times ' ) A Modern English Statesman ( same ) GEORGE MACDONALD 9440 1824- 9455 The Flood ( Sir Gibbie ' ) The Hay - Loft ( ' At the Back of the North Wind ' ) JEAN MACÉ vi LIVED PAGE 1815- 9473 The Necklace of.
... ( History of Our Own Times ' ) A Modern English Statesman ( same ) GEORGE MACDONALD 9440 1824- 9455 The Flood ( Sir Gibbie ' ) The Hay - Loft ( ' At the Back of the North Wind ' ) JEAN MACÉ vi LIVED PAGE 1815- 9473 The Necklace of.
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... Gibbie ' : - " But whatever the demand of the age , I insist that that which ought to be presented to its beholding is the common good , uncommonly developed : and that not because of its rarity , but because it is truer to humanity ...
... Gibbie ' : - " But whatever the demand of the age , I insist that that which ought to be presented to its beholding is the common good , uncommonly developed : and that not because of its rarity , but because it is truer to humanity ...
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... Gibbie had never been kissed , " he writes ; " and how is any child to thrive without kisses ? » His stories for children , ' At the Back of the North Wind ' and ' The Princess and Curdie , ' are full of beauty in their fine sympathy ...
... Gibbie had never been kissed , " he writes ; " and how is any child to thrive without kisses ? » His stories for children , ' At the Back of the North Wind ' and ' The Princess and Curdie , ' are full of beauty in their fine sympathy ...
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... Gibbie to do ! He must go again to the foot of the mountain , and see if there was anybody to help . They might even be in trouble at the Mains : who could tell ! Gibbie sped down the hill through a worse rain than ever . The morning ...
... Gibbie to do ! He must go again to the foot of the mountain , and see if there was anybody to help . They might even be in trouble at the Mains : who could tell ! Gibbie sped down the hill through a worse rain than ever . The morning ...
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... Gibbie heard her as he came down the hill , and ran at full speed towards the cottage . About a hundred yards from the house , the current bore Angus straight into a large elder - tree . He got into the middle . of it , and there ...
... Gibbie heard her as he came down the hill , and ran at full speed towards the cottage . About a hundred yards from the house , the current bore Angus straight into a large elder - tree . He got into the middle . of it , and there ...
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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 9772 - 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 9401 - ... zeal, but which were in fact the necessary effects of it. The intensity of their feelings on one subject made them tranquil on every other. One overpowering sentiment had subjected to itself pity and hatred, ambition and fear. Death had lost its terrors and pleasure its charms. They had their smiles and their tears, their raptures and their sorrows, but not for the things of this world.
Página 9409 - 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 9762 - He discovereth deep things out of darkness And bringeth out to light the shadow of death.
Página 9771 - 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 9433 - Back darted Spurius Lartius; Herminius darted back: And, as they passed, beneath their feet They felt the timbers crack. But when they turned their faces, And on the farther shore Saw brave Horatius stand alone, They would have crossed once more.
Página 9422 - 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 9435 - Curse on him!" 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 9421 - ... court, indicated also habitual self-possession and self-respect, a high and intellectual forehead, a brow pensive, but not gloomy, a mouth of inflexible decision, a face pale and worn, but serene, on which was written, as legibly as under the picture in the council-chamber at Calcutta, Mens cequa in arduis; such was the aspect with which the great Proconsul presented himself to his judges.