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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... never known the hurry and terror of war ; or a sob beside a funeral bier . True , Love and Death - there could have been noth- ing more ultimate than they ; but the expression changes ; and these square pillars crumbling slowly in the ...
... never known the hurry and terror of war ; or a sob beside a funeral bier . True , Love and Death - there could have been noth- ing more ultimate than they ; but the expression changes ; and these square pillars crumbling slowly in the ...
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... never rouse them- selves to contradict the man who asserted , with grim disdain of all intense life , that the happiest moment each day , to the happiest person , was the moment when consciousness began to melt into sleep . A woman ...
... never rouse them- selves to contradict the man who asserted , with grim disdain of all intense life , that the happiest moment each day , to the happiest person , was the moment when consciousness began to melt into sleep . A woman ...
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... never rest quiet at home and at school like the children of cobblers , and cop- persmiths , and vinedressers . All my life was beating in me , tumbling , palpitating , bubbling , panting DE LA RAMÉE, LOUISE, an English novelist, ...
... never rest quiet at home and at school like the children of cobblers , and cop- persmiths , and vinedressers . All my life was beating in me , tumbling , palpitating , bubbling , panting DE LA RAMÉE, LOUISE, an English novelist, ...
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... never wished to be disobedient , but somehow , ten minutes after I was out of her sight , I was high above on some tower or belfry with the martens and pigeons circling about my curly head . I was so happy on high there ! —and they ...
... never wished to be disobedient , but somehow , ten minutes after I was out of her sight , I was high above on some tower or belfry with the martens and pigeons circling about my curly head . I was so happy on high there ! —and they ...
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... had power to keep me safe from all dangers of destiny . She wanted to be sure that I should never run the risks of my father's career ; she wanted to see me always before the plate of herb - soup on her table LOUISE DE la ramée.
... had power to keep me safe from all dangers of destiny . She wanted to be sure that I should never run the risks of my father's career ; she wanted to see me always before the plate of herb - soup on her table LOUISE DE la ramée.
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