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
... stopped , a fire dies out ; but how to con- trol this enormous brute of bronze ? In what way can one attack it ? You can make a mastiff hear reason , astound a bull , fasci- nate a boa , frighten a tiger , soften a lion ; but there is ...
... stopped , a fire dies out ; but how to con- trol this enormous brute of bronze ? In what way can one attack it ? You can make a mastiff hear reason , astound a bull , fasci- nate a boa , frighten a tiger , soften a lion ; but there is ...
Página 5851
... stopped at the head of the stairs , and re- mained mute , pale , hesitating , looking down on the deck . Some one pushed them aside with his elbow and descended . It was their passenger , the peasant , the man of whom they had been ...
... stopped at the head of the stairs , and re- mained mute , pale , hesitating , looking down on the deck . Some one pushed them aside with his elbow and descended . It was their passenger , the peasant , the man of whom they had been ...
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... stopped . It staggered . The man , using the bar as a lever , rocked it to and fro . The heavy mass turned over with a clang like a falling bell , and the gunner , dripping with sweat , rushed forward headlong and passed the slipping ...
... stopped . It staggered . The man , using the bar as a lever , rocked it to and fro . The heavy mass turned over with a clang like a falling bell , and the gunner , dripping with sweat , rushed forward headlong and passed the slipping ...
Página 5857
... stopping the leaks and putting back into position the guns which had escaped the disaster , the old passenger had gone on deck . He stood with his back against the mainmast . He had paid no attention to a proceeding which had taken ...
... stopping the leaks and putting back into position the guns which had escaped the disaster , the old passenger had gone on deck . He stood with his back against the mainmast . He had paid no attention to a proceeding which had taken ...
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... stopped him . He thought he heard the light footfall of a woman upon the gravel walk . He turned his head and saw nothing ; but his gaze was arrested by the extraordinary brightness of the sea . All of a sudden he beheld a sight so ...
... stopped him . He thought he heard the light footfall of a woman upon the gravel walk . He turned his head and saw nothing ; but his gaze was arrested by the extraordinary brightness of the sea . All of a sudden he beheld a sight so ...
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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...