The International Library of Famous Literature: Selections from the World's Great Writers, Ancient, Mediaeval, and Modern, with Biographical and Explanatory Notes and with Introductions, Volumen 13Merrill and Baker, 1898 - 9822 páginas |
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Página 5850
... course , rushes along the ship from end to end like an arrow , circles about , springs aside , evades , rears , breaks , kills , exterminates . It is a battering - ram which as- saults a wall at its own caprice . Moreover , the ...
... course , rushes along the ship from end to end like an arrow , circles about , springs aside , evades , rears , breaks , kills , exterminates . It is a battering - ram which as- saults a wall at its own caprice . Moreover , the ...
Página 5852
... course ; now it looked black in the light , now it cast weird reflections through the gloom . It kept on its work of destruction . It had already shat- tered four other pieces , and dug two crevices in the side , for- tunately above the ...
... course ; now it looked black in the light , now it cast weird reflections through the gloom . It kept on its work of destruction . It had already shat- tered four other pieces , and dug two crevices in the side , for- tunately above the ...
Página 5871
... course of war , you may have thought , was only to destroy them . And truly , I who tell you this of the use of war , should have been the last of men to tell you so , had I trusted my own experience only . Hear why : I have given a ...
... course of war , you may have thought , was only to destroy them . And truly , I who tell you this of the use of war , should have been the last of men to tell you so , had I trusted my own experience only . Hear why : I have given a ...
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... course of action , ever voluntarily became a soldier . Occupy him early , and wisely , in agriculture or busi- ness , in science or in literature , and he will never think of war otherwise than as a calamity . But leave him idle ; and ...
... course of action , ever voluntarily became a soldier . Occupy him early , and wisely , in agriculture or busi- ness , in science or in literature , and he will never think of war otherwise than as a calamity . But leave him idle ; and ...
Página 5879
... course he will try to add to his territory ; and to add illimitably . But does he add to his power ? Do you call it power in a child , if he is allowed to play with the wheels and bands of some vast engine , pleased with their murmur ...
... course he will try to add to his territory ; and to add illimitably . But does he add to his power ? Do you call it power in a child , if he is allowed to play with the wheels and bands of some vast engine , pleased with their murmur ...
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Pasajes populares
Página 5884 - Life's night begins: let him never come back to us! There would be doubt, hesitation and pain, Forced praise on our part — the glimmer of twilight, Never glad confident morning again!
Página 6165 - A weary waste expanding to the skies : Where'er I roam, whatever realms to see, My heart untravell'd fondly turns to thee ; Still to my brother turns, with ceaseless pain, And drags at each remove a lengthening chain.
Página 5897 - Heaven is not reached at a single bound ; But we build the ladder by which we rise From the lowly earth to the vaulted skies, And we mount to its summit round by round.
Página 6169 - No product here the barren hills afford, But man and steel, the soldier and his sword : No vernal blooms their torpid rocks array, But winter lingering chills the lap of May : No zephyr fondly sues the mountain's breast, But meteors glare, and stormy glooms invest.
Página 6231 - They rowed her in across the rolling foam, The cruel crawling foam, The cruel hungry foam, To her grave beside the sea : But still the boatmen hear her call the cattle home Across the sands of Dee.
Página 5945 - All the world's a stage, And all the men and women merely players. They have their exits and their entrances, And one man in his time plays many parts, His acts being seven ages. At first the infant, Mewling and puking in the nurse's arms.
Página 6010 - During the years of scarcity at the end of the last and beginning of the present century...
Página 5892 - The wind bloweth where it listeth, and thou hearest the sound thereof, but canst not tell whence it cometh, or whither it goeth, so is every one that is born of the spirit.
Página 6013 - Ye distant spires ! ye antique towers ! That crown the watery glade -Where grateful Science still adores Her Henry's holy shade...
Página 6014 - Ambition this shall tempt to rise, Then whirl the wretch from high, To bitter Scorn a sacrifice, And grinning Infamy. The stings of Falsehood those shall try, And hard Unkindness...