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 13John Clark Ridpath Globe Publishing Company, 1898 - Literature |
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... Grecian philosophy ; and when , in its infancy , it burst upon the world , it swept away both . It bore down Synagogue and Academy ; it floated Gamaliel and Plato , resolved them into itself ; and , preserving what truth was in each ...
... Grecian philosophy ; and when , in its infancy , it burst upon the world , it swept away both . It bore down Synagogue and Academy ; it floated Gamaliel and Plato , resolved them into itself ; and , preserving what truth was in each ...
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... Grecian literature . Amidst all the changes and improvements in language , it prevented the ancient from becoming antiquated , and secured it a place among the later modes of expres- sion . This was a gain for the language and for the ...
... Grecian literature . Amidst all the changes and improvements in language , it prevented the ancient from becoming antiquated , and secured it a place among the later modes of expres- sion . This was a gain for the language and for the ...
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... Grecian law- givers ( and it always did , though in different degrees ) , of what importance in their eyes must that poet have been , whose poems , above all others , were recited by the class of rhapsodists , that lent a glory to the ...
... Grecian law- givers ( and it always did , though in different degrees ) , of what importance in their eyes must that poet have been , whose poems , above all others , were recited by the class of rhapsodists , that lent a glory to the ...
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... Grecian sculptor had carved it from the per- fume of a white rose , in such breathlike delicacy , such beatific nobility , that I could believe he had dreamed it of a spring night . But those eyes ! -ah , no Greek could ever have ...
... Grecian sculptor had carved it from the per- fume of a white rose , in such breathlike delicacy , such beatific nobility , that I could believe he had dreamed it of a spring night . But those eyes ! -ah , no Greek could ever have ...
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... Grecian streams . But the most loved are they Of whom Fame speaks not with her clarion voice In regal halls . The shades o'erhang their way ; The vale , with its deep fountains , is their choice ; And gentle hearts rejoice Around their ...
... Grecian streams . But the most loved are they Of whom Fame speaks not with her clarion voice In regal halls . The shades o'erhang their way ; The vale , with its deep fountains , is their choice ; And gentle hearts rejoice Around their ...
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