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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... o'er ; The wounded on their slow cars dying , The route disordered , waving , flying ; Tortured with struggles vain , the throng Sway , shock , and drag their shattered mass along , And leave behind their long array Wrecks , corses ...
... o'er ; The wounded on their slow cars dying , The route disordered , waving , flying ; Tortured with struggles vain , the throng Sway , shock , and drag their shattered mass along , And leave behind their long array Wrecks , corses ...
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... o'er Castilia's mountain - barrier passed ; The North beheld them o'er the rampart run , Which frosts of ages round her Russia cast : All sank subdued before them , and the date Of combats owed this guerdon to their glory , Seldom to ...
... o'er Castilia's mountain - barrier passed ; The North beheld them o'er the rampart run , Which frosts of ages round her Russia cast : All sank subdued before them , and the date Of combats owed this guerdon to their glory , Seldom to ...
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... o'er us stand ; Present the olive , but the sword in hand . And thou , O people , flushed with our defeat , To whom the mourning of our land is sweet , Thou witness of the death - blow of our brave ! Dream not that France is vanquished ...
... o'er us stand ; Present the olive , but the sword in hand . And thou , O people , flushed with our defeat , To whom the mourning of our land is sweet , Thou witness of the death - blow of our brave ! Dream not that France is vanquished ...
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... O'er whom God watches with an eye paternal , To stranger shores the pilgrims of a moment . Rejoice ! ye are immortal ! " " That is well , " said Robespierre to the poet , who expected punishment ; " the time , however , has not come for ...
... O'er whom God watches with an eye paternal , To stranger shores the pilgrims of a moment . Rejoice ! ye are immortal ! " " That is well , " said Robespierre to the poet , who expected punishment ; " the time , however , has not come for ...
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... o'er her breast . The earth is jealous of thy wide domain ; The elephants her lofty forests range , And in thy dark abysses glides the whale . Above us , from thy waves rise other seas God from this ocean makes the sea of air And who ...
... o'er her breast . The earth is jealous of thy wide domain ; The elephants her lofty forests range , And in thy dark abysses glides the whale . Above us , from thy waves rise other seas God from this ocean makes the sea of air And who ...
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