The International Library of Famous Literature: Selections from the World's Great Writers, Ancient, Mediaeval, and Modern, with Biographical and Explanatory Notes and Critical Essays by Many Eminent Writers, Volume 8Richard Garnett Standard, 1899 - 9822 pages |
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Adrianople alguazil asked beauty began Bess better Boguslav brought called castle Castlewood Christian COUNTESS OF BUTE cried dear death Dick Dick Turpin door Esmond eyes face fair fear fell fire garden gave gentleman Gil Blas give hand hath head hear heard heart heaven highwayman honor hope horse hour hundred island janizaries Kharlamp king of Sweden knew lady live look Lordship Lorna Doone Lucullus madam Manon master MATTHEW PRIOR mind nature never night o'er observed once pasha passed passion Peg Woffington pistols pleasure Poland poor prince prisoners reason replied round savage Saxon seemed shore shouted side Sir Roger Soaper soul Spain Sublime Porte sword tell thee things thou thought tion told took town Triplet turned Turpin walk whole wild Woffington word young
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Page 3514 - Call upon me in the day of trouble, and I will deliver thee, and thou shaft glorify me.
Page 3836 - When Music, heavenly maid, was young, While yet in early Greece she sung, The Passions oft, to hear her shell, Thronged around her magic cell...
Page 3836 - tis said, when all were fired, Filled with fury, rapt, inspired, From the supporting myrtles round They snatched her instruments of sound; And, as they oft had heard apart Sweet lessons of her forceful art, Each (for madness ruled the hour) Would prove his own expressive power.
Page 3462 - KNOW then thyself, presume not God to scan; The proper study of mankind is man. Placed on this isthmus of a middle state, A being darkly wise, and rudely great : With too much knowledge for the sceptic side, With too much weakness for the stoic's pride, He hangs between; in doubt to act, or rest; In doubt to deem himself a god, or beast; In doubt his mind or body to prefer...
Page 3837 - And with a withering look The war-denouncing trumpet took And blew a blast so loud and dread, Were ne'er prophetic sounds so full of woe!
Page 3473 - I had ever heard. They put me in mind of those heavenly airs that are played to the departed souls of good men upon their first arrival...
Page 3706 - ... of the quorum. The whole parish followed the corpse with heavy hearts and in their mourning suits; the men in frieze, and the women in riding-hoods. Captain Sentry, my master's nephew, has taken possession of the Hall-house, and the whole estate. When my old master saw him, a little before his death, he shook him by the hand, and wished him joy of the estate. which was falling to him, desiring him only to make...
Page 3438 - In happy climes, where from the genial sun And virgin earth such scenes ensue, The force of Art by Nature seems outdone, And fancied beauties by the true : In happy climes, the seat of innocence...
Page 3442 - For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north: I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High.
Page 3474 - I observed some with scimitars in their hands, and others with urinals, who ran to and fro upon the bridge, thrusting several persons on trapdoors which did not seem to lie in their way, and which they might have escaped had they not been thus forced upon them. ' The genius seeing me indulge myself in this melancholy prospect, told me I had dwelt long enough upon it : "Take thine eyes off the bridge," said he, " and tell me if thou yet seest anything thou dost not comprehend." Upon looking up,