The World's Great Masterpieces: History, Biography, Science, Philosophy, Poetry, the Drama, Travel, Adventure, Fiction, Etc, Volume 10American Literary Society, 1901 - Literature |
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Page 5021
... asked her , How she had presumed to rise in arms against the emperors of Rome ! The answer of Zenobia was a prudent mixture of respect and firmness : " Because I disdained to consider as Roman emperors an Aureolus or a Gal- lienus . You ...
... asked her , How she had presumed to rise in arms against the emperors of Rome ! The answer of Zenobia was a prudent mixture of respect and firmness : " Because I disdained to consider as Roman emperors an Aureolus or a Gal- lienus . You ...
Page 5055
... flies " in air , She acts a palpable lie , She's as little a fairy there As unpoetical I ! I hear you asking , Why — Why in the WILLIAM SCHWENCK GILBERT . 5055 Gentle Alice Brown To the Terrestrial Globe Only a Dancing Girl.
... flies " in air , She acts a palpable lie , She's as little a fairy there As unpoetical I ! I hear you asking , Why — Why in the WILLIAM SCHWENCK GILBERT . 5055 Gentle Alice Brown To the Terrestrial Globe Only a Dancing Girl.
Page 5056
... asking , Why — Why in the world I sing This tawdry , tinseled thing ? No airy fairy she , As she hangs in arsenic green , From a highly impossible tree In a highly impossible scene ( herself not over clean ) . For fays don't suffer , I ...
... asking , Why — Why in the world I sing This tawdry , tinseled thing ? No airy fairy she , As she hangs in arsenic green , From a highly impossible tree In a highly impossible scene ( herself not over clean ) . For fays don't suffer , I ...
Page 5092
... asked of the company . " He looks , " said one , " as if he would not stand a joke . " " Aye , aye , " said another , " he has quite the look of a dis- tinguished Meddle - not - with - me . ' " 6 " And nevertheless , " said I , quite ...
... asked of the company . " He looks , " said one , " as if he would not stand a joke . " " Aye , aye , " said another , " he has quite the look of a dis- tinguished Meddle - not - with - me . ' " 6 " And nevertheless , " said I , quite ...
Page 5093
... asked , " Has not the stranger gentleman asked for a barber ? " " Indeed he has , " replied the waiter , " and with very good reason . The gentleman's valet stopped behind two days ago . The gentleman wants to be rid absolutely of his ...
... asked , " Has not the stranger gentleman asked for a barber ? " " Indeed he has , " replied the waiter , " and with very good reason . The gentleman's valet stopped behind two days ago . The gentleman wants to be rid absolutely of his ...
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