The Universal Anthology: A Collection of the Best Literature, Ancient, Mediaeval and Modern, with Biographical and Explanatory Notes, Volume 14Richard Garnett, Léon Vallée, Alois Brandl Clarke Company, limited, 1899 - Anthologies |
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... door in a little vil- lage called Cantalice . Three desperate fellows , at the instiga- tion of Giacomo de ' Cenci and Monsignore Querro , surprised him there . But Marzio fell into the hands of justice , and his evidence caused the ...
... door in a little vil- lage called Cantalice . Three desperate fellows , at the instiga- tion of Giacomo de ' Cenci and Monsignore Querro , surprised him there . But Marzio fell into the hands of justice , and his evidence caused the ...
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... door Stands ready to smite once , and smite no more . " Return , Alpheus ; the dread voice is past That shrunk thy streams ; return , Sicilian Muse . And call the vales , and bid them hither cast Their bells and flowerets of a thousand ...
... door Stands ready to smite once , and smite no more . " Return , Alpheus ; the dread voice is past That shrunk thy streams ; return , Sicilian Muse . And call the vales , and bid them hither cast Their bells and flowerets of a thousand ...
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... doors that lead to death , do thank my God that we can die but once . ' Tis not only the mischief of diseases , and the villainy of poisons , that make an end of us ; we vainly accuse the fury of guns , and the new inventions of death ...
... doors that lead to death , do thank my God that we can die but once . ' Tis not only the mischief of diseases , and the villainy of poisons , that make an end of us ; we vainly accuse the fury of guns , and the new inventions of death ...
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... doors which cannot be shut . And in conclusion it reflects to the disrepute of our min- isters also , of whose labors we should hope better , and of the proficiency which their flock reaps by them , than that after all this light of the ...
... doors which cannot be shut . And in conclusion it reflects to the disrepute of our min- isters also , of whose labors we should hope better , and of the proficiency which their flock reaps by them , than that after all this light of the ...
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... door ; But if thou let thy heart fly out , I'll never love thee more . Let not their oaths , like volleys shot , Make any breach at all ; Nor smoothness of their language plot Which way to scale 74 MY DEAR AND ONLY LOVE .
... door ; But if thou let thy heart fly out , I'll never love thee more . Let not their oaths , like volleys shot , Make any breach at all ; Nor smoothness of their language plot Which way to scale 74 MY DEAR AND ONLY LOVE .
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Anne of Austria answered Antigenes Aramis arms asked atamans Athos Baisemeaux Blaisois called captain Cathos Cilicia Cossacks court cried Cromwell Cyprian D'Artagnan dark dear death discourse door doth dream enemies England English evil eyes fear felucca fire Fouquet Gascon give Grimaud Groslow hand hath head hear heard heart heaven hell hetman Hmelnitski horse King koshevoi learned liberty licensing light live Long Parliament look Lord Madame Madame de Chevreuse Madelon Marquis Marsé Mascarille master Melite mind Mordaunt Musqueton never night Orgon Parliament pass passion person port wine Porthos prince Queen reason replied seemed Segismund servants sleep soldiers soul Spain Spaniard speak spirit sword Tartuffe Tatarchuk tell terrible thee things thou thought true truth Tugai Bey twas unto voice walk wherein wish words Zagloba
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Page 364 - Is this the region, this the soil, the clime," Said then the lost Archangel, " this the seat That we must change for Heaven? — this mournful gloom For that celestial light ? Be...
Page 37 - WHY so pale and wan, fond lover? Prithee, why so pale? Will, when looking well can't move her, Looking ill prevail? Prithee, why so pale?
Page 56 - I know they are as lively, and as vigorously productive, as those fabulous dragon's teeth: and being sown up and down, may chance to spring up armed men. 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 327 - The wrong, than others the right way ; Compound for sins they are inclined to, By damning those they have no mind to : Still so perverse and opposite, As if they worshipped God for spite.
Page 365 - 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 56 - For Books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are ; nay they do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them.
Page 327 - 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 56 - He that can apprehend and consider vice with all her baits and seeming pleasures, and yet abstain, and yet distinguish, and yet prefer that which is truly better, he is the true warfaring Christian.
Page 275 - Time which antiquates antiquities, and hath an art to make dust of all things, hath yet spared these minor monuments. In vain we hope to be known by open and visible conservatories, when to be unknown was the means of their continuation, and obscurity their protection.
Page 197 - Tell me not, Sweet, I am unkind That from the nunnery Of thy chaste breast and quiet mind, To war and arms I fly. True, a new mistress now I chase, The first foe in the field; And with a stronger faith embrace A sword, a horse, a shield. Yet this inconstancy is such As you too shall adore; I could not love thee, dear, so much, Loved I not honour more.