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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... it attracted bats and owls and the whole host of nightbirds , which flapped their husky wings against the gazer's eyes , and sometimes were mistaken for fowls of angelic feather . Such delusions always NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE.
... it attracted bats and owls and the whole host of nightbirds , which flapped their husky wings against the gazer's eyes , and sometimes were mistaken for fowls of angelic feather . Such delusions always NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE.
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... eyes , " we shall find some difficulty in adopting the Paradisaical system for at least a month to come . Look at that snow - drift sweeping past the window ! Are there any figs ripe , do you think ? Have the pine- apples been gathered ...
... eyes , " we shall find some difficulty in adopting the Paradisaical system for at least a month to come . Look at that snow - drift sweeping past the window ! Are there any figs ripe , do you think ? Have the pine- apples been gathered ...
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... eyes . There he was , with his pen still between his fingers , and a vast , immeasurable tract of written space ... eye skirts along the edge of the desolate Forum ( where Roman washerwomen hang out their linen to the sun ) , passing ...
... eyes . There he was , with his pen still between his fingers , and a vast , immeasurable tract of written space ... eye skirts along the edge of the desolate Forum ( where Roman washerwomen hang out their linen to the sun ) , passing ...
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... eyes were somewhat startled . " Donatello , my dear friend , " said Kenyon , in Italian , " pray gratify us all by ... eye . " There is one point , however , or , rather , two points , in respect to which our friend Donatello's abundant ...
... eyes were somewhat startled . " Donatello , my dear friend , " said Kenyon , in Italian , " pray gratify us all by ... eye . " There is one point , however , or , rather , two points , in respect to which our friend Donatello's abundant ...
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... eye , and to the frailty of the human heart . The being here represented is endowed with no principle of virtue , and would be incapable of comprehending such but he would be true and honest by dint of his simplicity . We should expect ...
... eye , and to the frailty of the human heart . The being here represented is endowed with no principle of virtue , and would be incapable of comprehending such but he would be true and honest by dint of his simplicity . We should expect ...
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