The International Library of Famous Literature: Selections from the World's Great Writers, Ancient, Mediaeval, and Modern, with Biographical and Explanatory Notes and Critical Essays by Many Eminent Writers, Volume 2Richard Garnett |
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Page 478
... looks ; no , it is not enough to say he writes interestingly ; that is too tame a word even for such play as the " Doll's House " ; he does more than interest ; he sets the blood to flowing - scaldingly ! I might speak of a half - score ...
... looks ; no , it is not enough to say he writes interestingly ; that is too tame a word even for such play as the " Doll's House " ; he does more than interest ; he sets the blood to flowing - scaldingly ! I might speak of a half - score ...
Page 482
... look upon it as a great piece of good luck to have so rare an opportunity of distinguishing yourself . You must know , my good Perseus , I think of getting married to the beautiful Prin- cess Hippodamia , and it is customary on these ...
... look upon it as a great piece of good luck to have so rare an opportunity of distinguishing yourself . You must know , my good Perseus , I think of getting married to the beautiful Prin- cess Hippodamia , and it is customary on these ...
Page 485
... look as he could . " I am not so very sad , " said he ; " only thoughtful about an adventure that I have undertaken . " " Oho ! " answered the stranger . " Well , tell me all about it , and possibly I may be of service to you . I have ...
... look as he could . " I am not so very sad , " said he ; " only thoughtful about an adventure that I have undertaken . " " Oho ! " answered the stranger . " Well , tell me all about it , and possibly I may be of service to you . I have ...
Page 486
... looks . " " Your sister ? " repeated Perseus . " Yes , my sister , " said the stranger . " She is very wise , I promise you ; and as for myself , I generally have all my wits about me , such as they are . If you show yourself bold and ...
... looks . " " Your sister ? " repeated Perseus . " Yes , my sister , " said the stranger . " She is very wise , I promise you ; and as for myself , I generally have all my wits about me , such as they are . If you show yourself bold and ...
Page 490
... brightly , and seemed to look up into his face with a knowing air , and an expression as if it would have winked had it been provided with a pair of From a statue by Benvenuto Cellini eyelids for that purpose 490 THE GORGON'S HEAD .
... brightly , and seemed to look up into his face with a knowing air , and an expression as if it would have winked had it been provided with a pair of From a statue by Benvenuto Cellini eyelids for that purpose 490 THE GORGON'S HEAD .
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Page 779 - I see before me the Gladiator lie : He leans upon his hand — his manly brow Consents to death, but conquers agony, And his drooped head sinks gradually low — And through his side the last drops, ebbing slow From the red gash, fall heavy, one by one, Like the first of a thunder-shower ; and now The arena swims aronnd him — he is gone, Ere ceased the inhuman shout which hailed the wretch who won.
Page 779 - and that was far away. He recked not of the life he lost nor prize, But where his rude hut by the Danube lay, There were his young barbarians all at play, There was their Daci.an mother, — he, their sire, Butchered to make a Roman holiday! — All this rushed with his blood. — Shall he expire And unavenged? — Arise, ye Goths, and glut your ire!
Page 764 - TWAS at the royal feast for Persia won By Philip's warlike son: Aloft in awful state The godlike hero sate On his imperial throne...
Page 809 - The orphans of the heart must turn to thee, Lone mother of dead empires ! and control In their shut breasts their petty misery. What are our woes and sufferance? Come and see The cypress, hear the owl, and plod your way O'er steps of broken thrones and temples, Ye ! Whose agonies are evils of a day — A world is at our feet as fragile as our clay. The Niobe of nations ! there she stands, Childless and crownless, in her voiceless woe ; An empty urn within her withered hands, Whose holy dust was scattered...
Page 765 - His glowing cheeks, his ardent eyes; And while he Heaven and Earth defied Changed his hand and check'd his pride. He chose a mournful Muse Soft pity to infuse: He sung Darius great and good, By too severe a fate Fallen, fallen, fallen, fallen, Fallen from his high estate, And weltering in his blood...
Page 872 - Romans, countrymen, and lovers! hear me for my cause; and be silent that you may hear: believe me for mine honour; and have respect to mine honour, that you may believe: censure me in your wisdom; and awake your senses that you may the better judge. If there be any in this assembly, any dear friend of Caesar's, to him I say, that Brutus' love to Ca;sar was no less than his.
Page 556 - A king sate on the rocky brow Which looks o'er sea-born Salamis; And ships by thousands lay below, And men in nations - all were his ! He counted them at break of day, And when the sun set where were they?
Page 852 - Why should that name be sounded more than yours ? Write them together, yours is as fair a name ; Sound them, it doth become the mouth as well ; Weigh them, it is as heavy ; conjure with them, Brutus will start a spirit as soon as Caesar.
Page 765 - With flying fingers touched the lyre : The trembling notes ascend the sky, And heavenly joys inspire. The song began from Jove, Who left his blissful seats above ; Such is the power of mighty Love ! A dragon's fiery form belied the god : Sublime on radiant spheres he rode, When he to fair Olympia...
Page 853 - Rome, thou hast lost the breed of noble bloods ! When went there by an age, since the great flood, But it was fam'd with more than with one man?