Heroes and Heroines of Fiction: Modern Prose and Poetry, Volumen1J. B. Lippincott Company, 1914 - 391 páginas |
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... killed by the King of Spain . Devot- ing his life to revenge he begins by accepting the advances of the lascivi- ous queen , proceeds to slay the king , his son , and then the queen herself , and is finally slain by the King's other son ...
... killed by the King of Spain . Devot- ing his life to revenge he begins by accepting the advances of the lascivi- ous queen , proceeds to slay the king , his son , and then the queen herself , and is finally slain by the King's other son ...
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... killed one of the workmen , pulled down the wall , and when the sheriff of the city arrived they carried off his gold chain , which soon went to the melting pot . Two years later a Captain Wynter was brought to the gallows for leading ...
... killed one of the workmen , pulled down the wall , and when the sheriff of the city arrived they carried off his gold chain , which soon went to the melting pot . Two years later a Captain Wynter was brought to the gallows for leading ...
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... kill her , saying that she had resisted him , and was thus to save her honor . ' This is all very well . It has since been shown , however , that he had borrowed the situation from Emile Souvestre . We are further told that as the ...
... kill her , saying that she had resisted him , and was thus to save her honor . ' This is all very well . It has since been shown , however , that he had borrowed the situation from Emile Souvestre . We are further told that as the ...
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... kill him ( 1592 ) . The crime happened in 1551. It is fully described in Holinshed's Chronicle , which is here closely followed . The first four acts are taken up with suc- cessive attempts upon the life of the unsuspecting Arden , who ...
... kill him ( 1592 ) . The crime happened in 1551. It is fully described in Holinshed's Chronicle , which is here closely followed . The first four acts are taken up with suc- cessive attempts upon the life of the unsuspecting Arden , who ...
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... kill himself when a demon promises to turn him into any shape that pleases him , provided he will surrender his soul after twenty - four years of earthly experience . Arnold consents ; the shades of the heroes of the past are summoned ...
... kill himself when a demon promises to turn him into any shape that pleases him , provided he will surrender his soul after twenty - four years of earthly experience . Arnold consents ; the shades of the heroes of the past are summoned ...
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Heroes and Heroines of Fiction: Modern Prose and Poetry, Volumen1 William S. Walsh Vista completa - 1914 |
Heroes and Heroines of Fiction: Modern Prose and Poetry, Volumen1 William S. Walsh Vista completa - 1914 |
Heroes and Heroines of Fiction: Modern Prose and Poetry, Volumen1 William S. Walsh Vista completa - 1914 |
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Página 206 - Oh, better that her shattered hulk Should sink beneath the wave; Her thunders shook the mighty deep, And there should be her grave; Nail to the mast her holy flag, Set every threadbare sail, And give her to the god of storms, The lightning and the gale!
Página 14 - IN Xanadu did Kubla Khan A stately pleasure-dome decree : Where Alph, the sacred river, ran Through caverns measureless to man Down to a sunless sea. So twice five miles of fertile ground With walls and towers were girdled round : And there were gardens bright with sinuous rills Where blossomed many an incense-bearing tree ; And here were forests ancient as the hills, Enfolding sunny spots...
Página 174 - Now, what I want is, Facts. Teach these boys and girls nothing but Facts. Facts alone are wanted in life. Plant nothing else, and root out everything else. You can only form the minds of reasoning animals upon Facts : nothing else will ever be of any service to them. This is the principle on which I bring up my own children, and this is the principle on which I bring up these children. Stick to Facts, sir...
Página 33 - For it's Tommy this, an' Tommy that, an' "Chuck him out, the brute!' But it's "Saviour of 'is country" when the guns begin to shoot; An' it's Tommy this, an' Tommy that, an' anything you please; An' Tommy ain'ta bloomin' fool — you bet that Tommy sees!
Página 368 - From that chamber and from that mansion I fled aghast. The storm was still abroad in all its wrath as I found myself crossing the old causeway. Suddenly there shot along the path a wild light, and I turned to see whence a gleam so unusual could have issued; for the vast house and its shadows were alone...
Página 108 - The cognomen of Crane was not inapplicable to his person. He was tall, but exceedingly lank, with narrow shoulders, long arms and legs, hands that dangled a mile out of his sleeves, feet that might have served for shovels, and his whole frame most loosely hung together.
Página 174 - ... the History of Little Goody Two Shoes, otherwise Mrs. Margery Two Shoes ; with the means by which she acquired learning and wisdom, and, in consequence thereof, her estate ; set forth at large for the benefit of those " Who, from a state of rags and care, And having shoes but half a pair, Their fortune and their fame should fix, And gallop in a coach and six.
Página 331 - The cold within him froze his old features, nipped his pointed nose, shrivelled his cheek, stiffened his gait; made his eyes red, his thin lips blue; and spoke out shrewdly in his grating voice. A frosty rime was on his head, and on his eyebrows, and his wiry chin. He carried his own low temperature always about with him; he iced his office in the dogdays; and didn't thaw it one degree at Christmas.
Página 85 - Built in the eclipse, and rigged with curses dark, That sunk so low that sacred head of thine. Next Camus, reverend sire, went footing slow, His mantle hairy, and his bonnet sedge Inwrought with figures dim, and on the edge Like to that sanguine flower inscribed with woe: "Ah! who hath reft," quoth he, "my dearest pledge!
Página 276 - twould a saint provoke," (Were the last words that poor Narcissa spoke ;} " No, let a charming chintz and Brussels lace Wrap my cold limbs, and shade my lifeless face : One would not, sure, be frightful when one's dead — And — Betty — give this cheek a little red.