The World's Great Masterpieces: History, Biography, Science, Philosophy, Poetry, the Drama, Travel, Adventure, Fiction, Etc, Volume 14American Literary Society, 1901 - Anthologies |
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Achaian Afanasy Ivanovitch Alice Altmayer Angelica Annesley arms asked Aurelian beauty began better called Captain Captain Cleggs captain's gig character child Church cried daughters dear death Diavolo EDWARD GIBBON Ellis English euphuism eyes face Faerie Queen father Faust feel fortune Frosch gave gaze gentleman Gervase girl give Goethe Greek hand happy head heart Homer horse Ivan'itch King knew labor lady land Little Russia live look Lord Macaulay maid Marlow Mephistopheles mind Miss Hardcastle never o'er Odenathus OLIVER GOLDSMITH Palmyra passed passion Petrarch Philomène play pleasure poems poet poor Pulkheria Ivanovna Queen replied Roman Rome round seemed Serlo Siebel slavery smile soon soul stood tell thee things thou thought tion took turn wife Wilhelm wonder words young youth Zenobia
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Page 5176 - There, in his noisy mansion, skill'd to rule, The village master taught his little school ; A man severe he was, and stern to view, I knew him well, and every truant knew ; Well had the boding tremblers learn'd to trace The day's disasters in his morning face...
Page 5286 - THE EPITAPH Here rests his head upon the lap of earth A youth to fortune and to fame unknown: Fair science frowned not on his humble birth, And melancholy marked him for her own.
Page 5046 - And pretty nigh all o' the crew was drowned (There was seventy-seven o' soul), And only ten of the Nancy's men Said 'Here!' to the muster-roll. "There was me, and the cook, and the captain bold, And the mate of the Nancy brig, And the bo'sun tight, and a midshipmite, . And the crew of the captain's gig.
Page 5284 - The dark unfathomed caves of ocean bear: Full many a flower is born to blush unseen, And waste its sweetness on the desert air. Some village Hampden that with dauntless breast The little tyrant of his fields withstood, Some mute inglorious Milton here may rest, Some Cromwell guiltless of his country's blood. Th...
Page 5172 - How often have I blest the coming day, When toil remitting lent its turn to play, And all the village train, from labour free, Led up their sports beneath the spreading tree, While many a pastime circled in the shade, The young contending as the old surveyed; And many a gambol frolicked o'er the ground, And sleights of art and feats of strength went round.
Page 5174 - O blest retirement, friend to life's decline, Retreats from care that never must be mine, How blest is he who crowns, in shades like these, A youth of labor with an age of ease...
Page 5286 - Heaven ('twas all he wished) a friend. No farther seek his merits to disclose, Or draw his frailties from their dread abode (There they alike in trembling hope repose), The bosom of his Father and his God.
Page 5288 - Alas, regardless of their doom, The little victims play ! No sense have they of ills to come, Nor care beyond to-day. Yet see how all around...
Page 5176 - To them his heart, his love, his griefs were given, But all his serious thoughts had rest in heaven...
Page 5291 - Mighty victor, mighty lord ! Low on his funeral couch he lies ! No pitying heart, no eye, afford A tear to grace his obsequies.