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 |
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... present at the execution of his kinsfolk , after which he was to be imprisoned for a year , and then sent to the galleys for life . Their property was confiscated to the Camera Apos- tolica . These punishments were carried out . But ...
... present at the execution of his kinsfolk , after which he was to be imprisoned for a year , and then sent to the galleys for life . Their property was confiscated to the Camera Apos- tolica . These punishments were carried out . But ...
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... present to you the gentleman that in January sav'd your house of Bocconnoc from burning at the hands of the rebels - whom God confound this day ! " He lifted his hat . " Amen , " said I , as his lordship bowed , exceedingly sulky . But ...
... present to you the gentleman that in January sav'd your house of Bocconnoc from burning at the hands of the rebels - whom God confound this day ! " He lifted his hat . " Amen , " said I , as his lordship bowed , exceedingly sulky . But ...
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... present licensers to be pardoned for so thinking , who doubtless took this office up looking on it through their obedience to the Parliament , whose command perhaps made all things seem easy and unlaborious to them ; but that this short ...
... present licensers to be pardoned for so thinking , who doubtless took this office up looking on it through their obedience to the Parliament , whose command perhaps made all things seem easy and unlaborious to them ; but that this short ...
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... presents the god unshorn . See how Aurora throws her fair Fresh - quilted colors through the air : Get up , sweet slug - a - bed , and see The dew bespangling herb and tree . Each flower has wept , and bowed toward the east , Above an ...
... presents the god unshorn . See how Aurora throws her fair Fresh - quilted colors through the air : Get up , sweet slug - a - bed , and see The dew bespangling herb and tree . Each flower has wept , and bowed toward the east , Above an ...
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... present of him . " " You , gentlemen of the delegation , salute the koshevoi , " said Hmelnitski , " for he is a just man , and go to inform the Brotherhood that if there is a traitor , he is not the man ; he first stationed a guard ...
... present of him . " " You , gentlemen of the delegation , salute the koshevoi , " said Hmelnitski , " for he is a just man , and go to inform the Brotherhood that if there is a traitor , he is not the man ; he first stationed a guard ...
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Page 29 - Bitter constraint and sad occasion dear Compels me to disturb your season due : For Lycidas is dead, dead ere his prime, Young Lycidas, and hath not left his peer. Who would not sing for Lycidas ? he knew Himself to sing, and build the lofty rhyme. He must not float upon his watery bier Unwept, and welter to the parching wind, Without the meed of some melodious tear.
Page 390 - 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 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 392 - 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 359 - 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 287 - 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 391 - What matter where, if I be still the same And what I should be, all but less than he Whom thunder hath made greater...
Page 271 - CYRIACK, this three years day these eyes, though clear, To outward view, of blemish or of spot, Bereft of light, their seeing have forgot ; Nor to their idle orbs doth sight appear Of sun, or moon, or star, throughout the year, Or man, or woman. Yet I argue not Against Heaven's hand or will, nor bate a jot Of heart or hope ; but still bear up and steer Right onward.
Page 36 - Her feet beneath her petticoat Like little mice stole in and out, As if they feared the light: But, oh ! she dances such a way— No sun upon an Easter day Is half so fine a sight.