The Ridpath Library of Universal Literature ...: A Biographical and Bibliographical Summary of the World's Most Eminent Authors, Including the Choicest Extracts and Masterpieces from Their Writings, Comprising the Best Features of Many Celebrated Compilations, Notably the Guernsey Collection, the De Puy Collection, the Ridpath Collection, All Carefully Rev. and Arranged by a Corps of the Most Capable Scholars, Volume 8John Clark Ridpath Globe publishing Company, 1898 - Literature |
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... face full of lazy good - nature . Indeed , he and his beast have the same placid way of taking life . The mule does not mark his abusive entreaties to pro- ceed , any more than the boy notices or objects when his gray friend comes to a ...
... face full of lazy good - nature . Indeed , he and his beast have the same placid way of taking life . The mule does not mark his abusive entreaties to pro- ceed , any more than the boy notices or objects when his gray friend comes to a ...
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... face like lashes , lying with my head hidden on my arms in the grass by the old Tiber water . For I was not twelve years old , and to be shut up in Orte always , growing gray and wrinkled , as the notary had done over the wicked ...
... face like lashes , lying with my head hidden on my arms in the grass by the old Tiber water . For I was not twelve years old , and to be shut up in Orte always , growing gray and wrinkled , as the notary had done over the wicked ...
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... face beside you that was carved on the pinnacle here a thousand years and more ago , and has hardly been seen of man ... faces of the rich . And I , to whom this life of the upper air was joy , was ecstasy , I was doomed to be a ...
... face beside you that was carved on the pinnacle here a thousand years and more ago , and has hardly been seen of man ... faces of the rich . And I , to whom this life of the upper air was joy , was ecstasy , I was doomed to be a ...
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... faces of men are all livid and seared , and all the beasts lie faint with the drought , it is the song of the water that keeps our life in us , sounding all through the daylight and the darkness across the desert of brick and stone ...
... faces of men are all livid and seared , and all the beasts lie faint with the drought , it is the song of the water that keeps our life in us , sounding all through the daylight and the darkness across the desert of brick and stone ...
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... faces ; and at last , with the sense that all was lost , female forms and features that were worth all the world to me ; and but a moment allowed - and clasped hands , with heart - breaking parting ; and then everlasting farewells ; and ...
... faces ; and at last , with the sense that all was lost , female forms and features that were worth all the world to me ; and but a moment allowed - and clasped hands , with heart - breaking parting ; and then everlasting farewells ; and ...
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