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 21John Clark Ridpath Globe Publishing Company, 1898 - Literature |
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... means to the embellishment of the grounds that he had to live in a dilapidated old house , hardly rain - proof . He is known almost wholly by his poem The Schoolmistress , consisting of nearly forty stanzas in the Spenserian meas- ure ...
... means to the embellishment of the grounds that he had to live in a dilapidated old house , hardly rain - proof . He is known almost wholly by his poem The Schoolmistress , consisting of nearly forty stanzas in the Spenserian meas- ure ...
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... mean attire , A matron old , whom we Schoolmistress name , Who boasts unruly brats with birch to tame ; They grieven sore , in piteous durance pent , Awed by the power of this relentless dame , And ofttimes on vagaries idly bent , For ...
... mean attire , A matron old , whom we Schoolmistress name , Who boasts unruly brats with birch to tame ; They grieven sore , in piteous durance pent , Awed by the power of this relentless dame , And ofttimes on vagaries idly bent , For ...
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... mean to profit by his opinion ? Sneer . Very true . Why , then , though I seriously admire the piece upon the whole , yet there is one small objection which , if you'll give me leave , I'll men- tion . Sir Fret . - Sir , you can't ...
... mean to profit by his opinion ? Sneer . Very true . Why , then , though I seriously admire the piece upon the whole , yet there is one small objection which , if you'll give me leave , I'll men- tion . Sir Fret . - Sir , you can't ...
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... mean that the story is tediously spun out ? Mrs. Dan . - O no . I speak only with reference to the usual length of acting pieces . Sir Fret . - Then I am very happy - very happy in- deed ; because the play is a short play , a remarkably ...
... mean that the story is tediously spun out ? Mrs. Dan . - O no . I speak only with reference to the usual length of acting pieces . Sir Fret . - Then I am very happy - very happy in- deed ; because the play is a short play , a remarkably ...
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... means of eternal life . " But since we have not this power of life and death , and since there is One above us Who ... means of obtaining eternal life ; and if eternal life can only be had from the gift of God , religion must be the ...
... means of eternal life . " But since we have not this power of life and death , and since there is One above us Who ... means of obtaining eternal life ; and if eternal life can only be had from the gift of God , religion must be the ...
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