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, Volume 9Avil Printing Company, 1903 - Literature |
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... La Araucana , which is regarded as the best of the Spanish epics . A portion of it was actually composed in the field while the events which he narrates were going on . The entire poem is in three parts , containing in all thirty ...
... La Araucana , which is regarded as the best of the Spanish epics . A portion of it was actually composed in the field while the events which he narrates were going on . The entire poem is in three parts , containing in all thirty ...
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... La Araucana was brought out at Madrid in 1851 . AN ARAUCANIAN HERO . Without more argument , his gallant steed He spurred , and o'er the border led the way ; His troops , their limbs by one strong effort freed From terror's chill ...
... La Araucana was brought out at Madrid in 1851 . AN ARAUCANIAN HERO . Without more argument , his gallant steed He spurred , and o'er the border led the way ; His troops , their limbs by one strong effort freed From terror's chill ...
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... La Araucana , Canto III . A STORM AT SEA . Now bursts with sudden violence the gale , Earth sudden rocks convulsively and fast ; Labors our ship , caught under press of sail , And menaces to break her solid mast . The pilot , when he ...
... La Araucana , Canto III . A STORM AT SEA . Now bursts with sudden violence the gale , Earth sudden rocks convulsively and fast ; Labors our ship , caught under press of sail , And menaces to break her solid mast . The pilot , when he ...
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... La Araucana , Canto XV . ERCKMANN - CHATRIAN , the joint name of two French ALONSO ERCILLA Y ZUNIGA 271.
... La Araucana , Canto XV . ERCKMANN - CHATRIAN , the joint name of two French ALONSO ERCILLA Y ZUNIGA 271.
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Page 18 - My doctrine shall drop as the rain, my speech shall distil as the dew, as the small rain upon the tender herb, and as the showers upon the grass : Because I will publish the name of the Lord: ascribe ye greatness unto our God.
Page 210 - Out of an unseen quarry, evermore Furnished with tile, the fierce artificer Curves his white bastions with projected roof; Round every windward stake, or tree, or door Speeding, the myriad-handed, his wild work So fanciful, so savage ; naught cares he For number or proportion.
Page 142 - Behold, I will make thee a new sharp threshing instrument having teeth : thou shalt thresh the mountains, and beat them small, and shalt make the hills as chaff.
Page 18 - And the remnant of Jacob shall be in the midst of many people as a dew from the LORD, as the showers upon the grass, that tarrieth not for man, nor waiteth for the sons of men.
Page 201 - If the red slayer think he slays, Or if the slain think he is slain, They know not well the subtle ways I keep, and pass, and turn again. Far or forgot to me is near; Shadow and sunlight are the same; The vanished gods to me appear; And one to me are shame and fame.
Page 335 - This is life to come, Which martyred men have made more glorious For us who strive to follow. May I reach That purest heaven, be to other souls The cup of strength in some great agony, Enkindle generous ardor, feed pure love, Beget the smiles that have no cruelty, Be the sweet presence of a good diffused, And in diffusion ever more intense. So shall I join the choir invisible Whose music is the gladness of the world.
Page 54 - Wide and wider spreads the vale, As circles on a smooth canal : The mountains round, unhappy fate! Sooner or later, of all height, Withdraw their summits from the skies, And lessen as the others rise : Still...
Page 190 - A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. He may as well concern himself with his shadow on the wall.
Page 38 - Rest is not quitting The busy career; Rest is the fitting Of self to its sphere. Tis the brook's motion, Clear without strife, Fleeing to ocean After its life. Deeper devotion Nowhere hath knelt; Fuller emotion Heart never felt. Tis loving and serving The Highest and Best! Tis onwards! unswerving, And that is true rest.
Page 55 - Ethiop's arm. See on the mountain's southern side, Where the prospect opens wide, Where the evening gilds the tide, How close and small the hedges lie, What streaks of meadows cross the eye! A step methinks may pass the stream, So little distant dangers seem; So we mistake the future's face Eyed through Hope's deluding glass...