Old Pictures of Life, Volume 2Stone and Kimball, 1894 |
From inside the book
Results 1-5 of 15
Page 10
... greatest oration spoke about four hours without using a single line of poetry or a single phrase from the storehouse of fancy . In the speeches of Demosthenes , no flower bloomed , no bird fluttered with ΙΟ OLD PICTURES OF LIFE .
... greatest oration spoke about four hours without using a single line of poetry or a single phrase from the storehouse of fancy . In the speeches of Demosthenes , no flower bloomed , no bird fluttered with ΙΟ OLD PICTURES OF LIFE .
Page 11
David Swing. Demosthenes , no flower bloomed , no bird fluttered with bright wings , no nightingale sang . One would as soon expect a lily to bloom in Euclid's Geometry as to rise up in an oration of that old master . Each sentence was a ...
David Swing. Demosthenes , no flower bloomed , no bird fluttered with bright wings , no nightingale sang . One would as soon expect a lily to bloom in Euclid's Geometry as to rise up in an oration of that old master . Each sentence was a ...
Page 100
... birds of bright plumage and sweet song . So wild and untouched by man was the landscape that often when Linda , by wav- ing her parasol , was scaring the buffaloes from the front porch she could hear the American nightingale singing in ...
... birds of bright plumage and sweet song . So wild and untouched by man was the landscape that often when Linda , by wav- ing her parasol , was scaring the buffaloes from the front porch she could hear the American nightingale singing in ...
Page 106
... birds , the glitter of dew drops , the perfume of blossoms , the presence of the greatest intellect of France , and the flood of romantic life that flowed in the young girl's heart , combined to make the soul regret that the name of ...
... birds , the glitter of dew drops , the perfume of blossoms , the presence of the greatest intellect of France , and the flood of romantic life that flowed in the young girl's heart , combined to make the soul regret that the name of ...
Page 110
... birds were working their way to the Ohio and had begun to chatter on the line stretched by Mason and Dixon . What became of those clouds of parrots ? Their story is short but sad . Coming to the Ohio and seeing the advancing line of ...
... birds were working their way to the Ohio and had begun to chatter on the line stretched by Mason and Dixon . What became of those clouds of parrots ? Their story is short but sad . Coming to the Ohio and seeing the advancing line of ...
Common terms and phrases
Anakreon animal asks Atala Bacon barge Beatrice beautiful became become bird blossoms brute world Cæsar called Capulet century charming Chateaubriand Christian Cicero classic color Dante death Demosthenes despot earth excess father feel flowers friendship genius girl gold Goths gray squirrel Greek happiness heart heaven Homer hundred injured intellectual Julius Cæsar land language Latin lawyer Linda literature lived Lord Bacon Louis lover Macedon Madame Recamier man's mental millions mind moral mountain nation nature night nightingale novel orator pagan palace passed path Petrarch Plotinus poem poet poetry reach religion rich river Roman Rome Romeo and Juliet saint scenes scholar sentiment Shakespeare sing song soul story sweet Tacitus taught theology things thou thought thousand tion TRUE LOVE STORY truth Verona vice vine Virgil wild woman wonderful woods words write young