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 7Richard Garnett |
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Page 2960
... drawn on by a very natural resentment to avenge my mother . You would have done what I did . " Mordaunt wanted now only two or three fathoms to reach - the boat for the approach of death seemed to 2960 THE FATE OF MORDAUNT .
... drawn on by a very natural resentment to avenge my mother . You would have done what I did . " Mordaunt wanted now only two or three fathoms to reach - the boat for the approach of death seemed to 2960 THE FATE OF MORDAUNT .
Page 2961
... mother ! Surely , if I am culpable , and if I ask for pardon , I ought to be forgiven . " - Then as if his strength failed him- he seemed unable to sustain himself above the water , and a wave passed over his head , which drowned his ...
... mother ! Surely , if I am culpable , and if I ask for pardon , I ought to be forgiven . " - Then as if his strength failed him- he seemed unable to sustain himself above the water , and a wave passed over his head , which drowned his ...
Page 2962
... mother , " cried Mordaunt , with eyes on fire with a look of hate impossible to paint . " I can only offer thee one victim , but it shall , at any rate , be the one thou wouldst thy- self have chosen ! " And whilst D'Artagnan uttered a ...
... mother , " cried Mordaunt , with eyes on fire with a look of hate impossible to paint . " I can only offer thee one victim , but it shall , at any rate , be the one thou wouldst thy- self have chosen ! " And whilst D'Artagnan uttered a ...
Page 2974
... mother's crimi- nal abandonment , stood in my way ; and this handkerchief , embroidered with the arms of France , would in right and justice belong to me alone , if , as M. d'Herblay observes , I had been left my royal cradle . Philippe ...
... mother's crimi- nal abandonment , stood in my way ; and this handkerchief , embroidered with the arms of France , would in right and justice belong to me alone , if , as M. d'Herblay observes , I had been left my royal cradle . Philippe ...
Page 2980
... mother was about to stand in the presence of her sacrificed son . Philippe was not willing , if he had a weakness , to render the man a witness of it before whom he was bound thenceforth to display so much strength . Philippe opened his ...
... mother was about to stand in the presence of her sacrificed son . Philippe was not willing , if he had a weakness , to render the man a witness of it before whom he was bound thenceforth to display so much strength . Philippe opened his ...
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Anne of Austria Aramis arms army asked atamans Athaliah Athos beautiful began Bertel Blaisois Busigny captain Cathos Chimène Church Cossacks court cried Cyprian D'Artagnan dark dear death Demon door dress Duke enemy English exclaimed eyes father fear fell fire Fouquet friends gentlemen give Grimaud Groslow hand hath head hear heard heart heaven hetman Hmelnitski honor horse Jehosheba Joash Justina king king's koshevoi Larsson leave Lemminkainen letter light live look Lord Louis Louis XIV Madame Madame de Chevreuse Madame de Maintenon Madelon Mascarille master MOLIÈRE Monsieur Mordaunt morning mother muskets Musqueton never night once Orgon Paris passions Philippe Porthos prince Princesse prisoner queen replied Athos seemed soul speak sword Tartuffe Tatarchuk tell thee things thou thought told took truth Tugai Bey Vatel voice wish words Zagloba
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Page 3276 - And yet, on the other hand, unless wariness be used, as good almost kill a man as kill a good book. Who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image; but he who destroys a good book, kills reason itself, kills the image of God, as it were, in the eye.
Page 2921 - STRONG Son of God, immortal Love, Whom we, that have not seen thy face, By faith, and faith alone, embrace, Believing where we cannot prove; Thine are these orbs of light and shade; Thou madest Life in man and brute ; Thou madest Death; and lo, thy foot Is on the skull which thou hast made.
Page 3228 - High on a throne of royal state, which far Outshone the wealth of Ormus and of Ind, Or where the gorgeous East with richest hand Showers on her kings Barbaric pearl and gold...
Page 3345 - Twas Presbyterian true blue, For he was of that stubborn crew Of Errant Saints, whom all men grant To be the true Church Militant...
Page 2920 - Behold my hands and my feet, that it is I myself: handle me, and see; for a spirit hath not flesh and bones, as ye see me have.
Page 3361 - We have short time to stay, as you, We have as short a Spring; As quick a growth to meet decay As you, or any thing. We die, As your hours do, and dry Away, Like to the Summer's rain; Or as the pearls of morning's dew, Ne'er to be found again.
Page 2905 - It is come, I know not how, to be taken for granted by many persons, that Christianity is not so much as a subject of inquiry, but that it is now at length discovered to be fictitious. And accordingly they treat it as if, in the present age, this were an agreed point among all people of discernment, and nothing remained but to set it up as a principal subject of mirth and ridicule, as it were by way of reprisals for its having so long interrupted the pleasures of the world.
Page 3379 - He sought the storms ; but, for a calm unfit, Would steer too nigh the sands to boast his wit. Great wits are sure to madness near allied, And thin partitions do their bounds divide...
Page 3360 - The sooner will his race be run, And nearer he's to setting. That age is best which is the first, When youth and blood are warmer : But being spent the worse and worst Times still succeed the former.
Page 3324 - Take the helm, lead the line, save the squadron!" cried its chief. Captains, give the sailor place! He is Admiral, in brief. Still the north-wind, by God's grace! See the noble fellow's face As the big ship, with a bound, Clears the entry like a hound, Keeps the passage as its inch of way were the wide sea's profound!