The Lamp: A Review and Record of Current Literature, Volume 29Charles Scribner's Sons, 1904 |
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... famous sto- ries are protected by copy- right , and can be had ONLY in this edition , authorized by the author . Each story is about Sher- lock Holmes . The books Contents VOL . I Introduction by James MacArthur . The Sign of the Four ...
... famous sto- ries are protected by copy- right , and can be had ONLY in this edition , authorized by the author . Each story is about Sher- lock Holmes . The books Contents VOL . I Introduction by James MacArthur . The Sign of the Four ...
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... famous stage driver in his day . The reputation he established is well sustained by the drivers of to- day . Mr. Palmer , cool , genial , smiling , in his velveteen coat and broad som- brero , is a worthy successor of Foss . He. I 2 THE ...
... famous stage driver in his day . The reputation he established is well sustained by the drivers of to- day . Mr. Palmer , cool , genial , smiling , in his velveteen coat and broad som- brero , is a worthy successor of Foss . He. I 2 THE ...
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... famous tem- ple , to be sure , has been wiped out , but the very ground is hallowed by the foot- steps of the great Apostle to the Gentiles . Then , too , Ephesus was for centuries the intellectual and moral capital of the re- gion ...
... famous tem- ple , to be sure , has been wiped out , but the very ground is hallowed by the foot- steps of the great Apostle to the Gentiles . Then , too , Ephesus was for centuries the intellectual and moral capital of the re- gion ...
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... famous British archæologist once said to me , " When I was in Ephesus , I had Wood's dragoman , and he offered to shoot Wood for five shillings ; and I have always been sorry that I didn't accept his offer . " Wood's trouble came from ...
... famous British archæologist once said to me , " When I was in Ephesus , I had Wood's dragoman , and he offered to shoot Wood for five shillings ; and I have always been sorry that I didn't accept his offer . " Wood's trouble came from ...
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... famous Mauso- leum , which means that he was near at hand , this statement of Pliny also is probably correct . Work on the new temple was begun immediately after the destruction of the old one ; but Alexander the Great came to maturity ...
... famous Mauso- leum , which means that he was near at hand , this statement of Pliny also is probably correct . Work on the new temple was begun immediately after the destruction of the old one ; but Alexander the Great came to maturity ...
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Page 205 - JENNY kissed me when we met, Jumping from the chair she sat in; Time, you thief, who love to get Sweets into your list, put that in! Say I'm weary, say I'm sad, Say that health and wealth have missed me, Say I'm growing old, but add, Jenny kissed me.
Page 98 - Come lovely and soothing death, Undulate round the world, serenely arriving, arriving, In the day, in the night, to all, to each, Sooner or later delicate death. Prais'd be the fathomless universe, For life and joy, and for objects and knowledge curious, And for love, sweet love — but praise! praise! praise! For the sure-enwinding arms of cool-enfolding death.
Page 414 - Take heed of an unactive vain spirit ! Recreate yourself with Sir Walter Raleigh's History : it's a Body of History ; and will add much more to your understanding than fragments of Story.
Page 22 - An old looking-glass. Somebody finds out the secret of making all the images that have been reflected in it pass back again across its surface.
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Page 253 - OLD CLOCKS AND WATCHES AND THEIR MAKERS. Being an Historical and Descriptive Account of the different Styles of Clocks and Watches of the Past in England and Abroad, to which is added a List of 10,000 Makers.
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