European Mosaic

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Little, Brown, 1864 - 339 ページ

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241 ページ - Fame is no plant that grows on mortal soil, Nor in the glistering foil Set off to the world, nor in broad rumor lies, But lives and spreads aloft by those pure eyes And perfect witness of all-judging Jove. As he pronounces lastly on each deed, Of so much fame in heaven expect thy meed.
20 ページ - Nothing is here for tears, nothing to wail Or knock the breast; no weakness, no contempt, Dispraise, or blame : nothing but well and fair, And what may quiet us in a death so noble.
187 ページ - This grave contains all that was mortal of a young English poet, who on his death-bed, in the bitterness of his heart at the malicious power of his enemies, desired these words to be engraven on his tombstone : ' Here lies one whose name was writ
246 ページ - oft converse with heavenly habitants Began to cast a beam on the outward shape, The unpolluted temple of the mind, And turned it by degrees to the soul's essence, Till all was made immortal.
131 ページ - While stands the Coliseum, Rome shall stand; When falls the Coliseum, Rome shall fall, And when Rome falls, the world.
22 ページ - thou the hill, the bridge that hangs on cloud * The mules in mist grope o'er the torrent loud, In caves lie coiled the dragon's ancient brood, The crag leaps down and over it the flood : Know'st thou it then t
18 ページ - we cannot be so easily discharged; descents of ancestry long continued; laws and exploits not plainly seeming to be borrowed or devised, which on the common belief have wrought no small impression; defended by many, denied utterly by few.
223 ページ - honor. The golden eagle, which glittered in the front of the legion, was the object of their fondest devotion ; nor was it esteemed less impious than it was ignominious to abandon that sacred ensign in the hour of danger. The
223 ページ - exercises comprehended whatever could add strength to the body, activity to the limbs, or grace to the motions. The soldiers were diligently instructed to march, to run, to leap, to swim, to carry heavy burdens, to handle
96 ページ - And almost life itself, if it be true That light is in the soul, The all in every part.

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