Library of the World's Best Literature: Ancient and ModernCharles Dudley Warner International Society, 1897 - Literature |
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Page 9394
... hundreds ; that numerous inns , at which mounted travelers had been in the habit of stopping , would be deserted , and would no longer pay any rent ; that the new car- riages were too hot in summer and too cold in winter ; that the ...
... hundreds ; that numerous inns , at which mounted travelers had been in the habit of stopping , would be deserted , and would no longer pay any rent ; that the new car- riages were too hot in summer and too cold in winter ; that the ...
Page 9395
... hundred years earlier by the greatest of poets as the scene of the depredations of Falstaff . The public authorities seem to have been often at a loss how to deal with the plunderers . At one time it was announced in the Gazette that ...
... hundred years earlier by the greatest of poets as the scene of the depredations of Falstaff . The public authorities seem to have been often at a loss how to deal with the plunderers . At one time it was announced in the Gazette that ...
Page 9396
... hundred pounds ; how he took only one hundred , and suffered the fair owner to ransom the rest by dan- cing a coranto with him on the heath ; how his vivacious gallantry stole away the hearts of all women ; how his 9396 THOMAS BABINGTON ...
... hundred pounds ; how he took only one hundred , and suffered the fair owner to ransom the rest by dan- cing a coranto with him on the heath ; how his vivacious gallantry stole away the hearts of all women ; how his 9396 THOMAS BABINGTON ...
Page 9403
... hundred and forty galleys . He held , what no other prince in modern times has held , the dominion both of the land and of the sea . During the greater part of his reign , he was supreme on both elements . His soldiers marched up to the ...
... hundred and forty galleys . He held , what no other prince in modern times has held , the dominion both of the land and of the sea . During the greater part of his reign , he was supreme on both elements . His soldiers marched up to the ...
Page 9407
... hundred thousand pounds ; and the negotiation was broken off only because he insisted on being paid beforehand . To do him justice , his temper was good ; his manners agreeable ; his natural talents above mediocrity . But he was sensual ...
... hundred thousand pounds ; and the negotiation was broken off only because he insisted on being paid beforehand . To do him justice , his temper was good ; his manners agreeable ; his natural talents above mediocrity . But he was sensual ...
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Page 9600 - And the Lord commanded us to do all these statutes, to fear the Lord our God, for our good always, that he might preserve us alive, as it is at this day.
Page 9770 - When we have run our passion's heat, Love hither makes his best retreat. The Gods, that mortal beauty chase, Still in a tree did end their race; Apollo hunted Daphne so, Only that she might laurel grow; And Pan did after Syrinx speed, Not as a nymph, but for a reed.
Page 9760 - He discovereth deep things out of darkness, and bringeth out to light the shadow of death.
Page 9411 - And she may still exist in undiminished vigour when some traveller from New Zealand shall, in the midst of a vast solitude, take his stand on a broken arch of London Bridge to sketch the ruins of St. Paul's.
Page 9769 - How vainly men themselves amaze. To win the palm, the oak, or bays: And their incessant labors see Crowned from some single herb, or tree, Whose short and narrow-verged shade Does prudently their toils upbraid; While all the flowers and trees do close, To weave the garlands of repose.
Page 9424 - LARS PORSENA of Clusium By the Nine Gods he swore That the great house of Tarquin Should suffer wrong no more. By the Nine Gods he swore it, And named a trysting day, And bade his messengers ride forth, East and west and south and north, To summon his array.
Page 9439 - And Appenzel's stout infantry, and Egmont's Flemish spears. There rode the brood of false Lorraine, the curses of our land! And dark Mayenne was in the midst, a truncheon in his hand! And as we looked on them, we thought of Seine's...
Page 9722 - Unto some brutish beast. All beasts are happy, For when they die Their souls are soon dissolved in elements, But mine must live still to be plagued in hell.
Page 9437 - quoth false Sextus, " Will not the villain drown? But for this stay, ere close of day We should have sacked the town !" " Heaven help him ! " quoth Lars Porsena, "And bring him safe to shore; For such a gallant feat of arms Was never seen before.
Page 9721 - Perpetual day; or let this hour be but A year, a month, a week, a natural day, That Faustus may repent and save his soul!