The Ridpath Library of Universal Literature ...: A Biographical and Bibliographical Summary of the World's Most Eminent Authors, Including the Choicest Extracts and Masterpieces from Their Writings, Comprising the Best Features of Many Celebrated Compilations, Notably the Guernsey Collection, the De Puy Collection, the Ridpath Collection, All Carefully Rev. and Arranged by a Corps of the Most Capable Scholars, Volume 4John Clark Ridpath Globe Publishing Company, 1899 - Literature |
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Page 10
... look upon mine eyes . " Mine eyes are flaming firebrands , My arm a magic wand , O let the flames consume me ! O break in twain my wand ! " " No , ere I can condemn thee , Must thou to me disclose , Why in these flaming firebrands My ...
... look upon mine eyes . " Mine eyes are flaming firebrands , My arm a magic wand , O let the flames consume me ! O break in twain my wand ! " " No , ere I can condemn thee , Must thou to me disclose , Why in these flaming firebrands My ...
Page 11
... look to send ; " The deep Rhine's flowing billows I fain once more would see ; Then go unto the convent , God's virgin bride to be . ” The craggy rock soars lofty , Its side is steep and rude , Yet up the height she climbeth , Till on ...
... look to send ; " The deep Rhine's flowing billows I fain once more would see ; Then go unto the convent , God's virgin bride to be . ” The craggy rock soars lofty , Its side is steep and rude , Yet up the height she climbeth , Till on ...
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... look and great beauty - a real family treasure -- covered her bos- And there she stood , with white glacée gloves ; — in one hand an ornamented fan , with which she set the air in motion ; with the other , which was bare , all be ...
... look and great beauty - a real family treasure -- covered her bos- And there she stood , with white glacée gloves ; — in one hand an ornamented fan , with which she set the air in motion ; with the other , which was bare , all be ...
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... look ; the roof resolved to clouds high and dim ; the gleam was such as the moon imparts to vapors she is about to sever . I watched with the strongest anticipation ; as though some word of doom were to be written on her disk . She ...
... look ; the roof resolved to clouds high and dim ; the gleam was such as the moon imparts to vapors she is about to sever . I watched with the strongest anticipation ; as though some word of doom were to be written on her disk . She ...
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... look as long as you will , there is but one object in the room , and that the most sinister , to which Mat- thew's face seems to bear an affinity , and of which , ever and anon , it reminds you strangely - the eruption of Vesuvius ...
... look as long as you will , there is but one object in the room , and that the most sinister , to which Mat- thew's face seems to bear an affinity , and of which , ever and anon , it reminds you strangely - the eruption of Vesuvius ...
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