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The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope Volume I.

By: George Gilfillan

...— Let rich Iberia golden fleeces boast, Her purple wool the proud Assyrian coast, Blest Thames’s shores, &c. VER. 61-68 Originally thus in the MS.— Go... ...er, and even thine, O Rome!) No single parts unequally surprise, All comes united to th’ admiring eyes; 250 61 The Poetica... ...h’s care; 21 Seldom at council, never in a war: Jilts ruled the state, and statesmen farces writ; Nay, wits had pensions, and young lords had wit; ... ...c frame, Which from the neighb’ring Hampton takes its name. Here Britain’s statesmen oft the fall foredoom Of foreign tyrants, and of nymphs at home; ... ...imes to come; 380 There kings shall sue, and suppliant states be seen Once more to bend before a British queen. Thy trees, fair Wi... ... What sounds were heard, What scenes appear’d, O’er all the dreary coasts! Dreadful gleams, Dismal screams, Fires that... ... Productive as the sun. SEMICHORUS. Oh source of every social tie, United wish, and mutual joy! What various joys on one attend, As son, as ... ...ocks (the beauteous work of frost) Rise white in air, and glitter o’er the coast; Pale suns, unfelt, at distance roll away, And on the impassive ice t... ...erstood A sovereign Being, but a sovereign good. T rue faith, true policy, united ran, That was but love of God, and this of Man. 24...

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The Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson to His Family and Friends ; Selected and Edited with Notes and Introd. By Sidney Colvin : Volume 1

By: Robert Louis Stevenson

...eave the pavement every step. To the south, however, is as fine a piece of coast scenery as I ever saw. Great black chasms, huge black cliffs, rug- ge... ...eep. MONDAY NIGHT. – The drums and fifes up in the Castle are sounding the guard-call through the dark, and there is a great rattle of carriages witho... ...hich you have heard already. After lunch, my father and I went down to the coast and walked a little way along the shore between Granton and Cramond. ... ...a very favourite walk. The Firth closes gradually together before you, the coast runs in a series of the most beautifully moulded bays, hill after hil... ...n change it. Y our anger I defy. Y our unmanly refer- ence to a well-known statesman I puff from me, sir, like so much vapour. Weg is your name; Weg. ... ...ile Club to this; I sleep with a man from Pennsylvania who has been in the States 110 The Letters of R. L. Stevenson: V ol. 1 Navy, and mess with him... ...ut with the bear flag and under Fremont when Cali- fornia was taken by the States. They are both true fron- tiersmen, and most kind and pleasant. Capt... ...ad it nearly all over again; you have no rivals! Bancroft’s History of the United States, even in a cente- nary edition, is essentially heavy fare; a ... ...long-shore story. As for the two members which you thought at first so ill-united; I confess they seem per- fectly so to me. I have chosen to sacrific...

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The History of the Thirty Years' War in Germany

By: Friedrich Schiller

...tavus Adolphus. — Swedish Army. — Gustavus Adolphus takes his leave of the States at Stockholm. — Invasion by the Swedes. — Their progress in Germany.... ...by their adhesion, it on the other was indispens- able to their interests. States which hitherto scarcely concerned themselves with one another’s exis... ...hrough the Ref- ormation an attractive centre of interest, and began to be united by new political sympathies. And as through its influence new relati... ...een citizen and citizen, and be- tween rulers and subjects, so also entire states were forced by it into new relative positions. Thus, by a strange co... ...f Bohemia to the mouth of the Scheldt, and from the banks of the Po to the coasts of the Baltic, devastated whole countries, destroyed harvests, and r... ...n of the tenth and the twentieth penny, the See of Rome had never lost the United Netherlands. Princes fought in self-defence or for aggrandizement, w... ...y exertions against the ambition of Austria, or the States themselves have united so closely against the common enemy. The power of Austria never stoo... ...cellent harbour, and the short passage from it to the Swedish and Dan- ish coasts, peculiarly fitted it for a naval station in a war with these powers... ...rs’ War thing would be gained. The sea is wide, and we have a long line of coast in Sweden to defend. If the enemy’s fleet should escape us, or our ow...

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Best of Freshman Writing

By: Suzanne Harper

... we were once weak and divided. But when faced with injustice, the country united, fighting against all odds for the sake of peace and prosperity . Lu... ...was unheard of in Shakespeare’s time according to Roland Muschat Frye, who states, “This evil con- sists in Lady Macbeth’s usurping, as a wife, that c... ... first scene in the play depicts her abandoning her humanity, in which she states, “unsex me here” (1.5. 48); yet even upon the Dana Helsel Beaver – E... ... by the thought even before executing the plan. When considering Duncan he states, He’s here in double trust: First, as I am his kinsman and his subje... ...rievances.” ” ” ” ” This is the First Amendment of the Constitution of the United States of America. This is the contract we have with our leaders to ... ...tect from anyone or anything that stands in its way. Recently, events have united the nation in a way that has not been seen in several years. We ofte... ...fore finally ending at the border in Pennsylvania, the most famous of East Coast trails. “The cliffs!” he said keeping his voice to a hushed shout as ... ...had to have a degree to make a respectable living. Richard enlisted in the Coast Guard shortly after completing high school and was a veteran in the K... ... have a degree to make a respectable living. Richard enlisted in the Coast Guard shortly after completing high school and was a veteran in the Korean ...

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Memories and Portraits

By: Robert Louis Stevenson

... should arise with particular congru- ity and force to inhabitants of that United Kingdom, peopled from so many different stocks, babbling so many dif... ...merica, through the greater South Sea Islands, in India, along much of the coast of Africa, and in the ports of China and Japan, is still to be heard,... ... in half a hundred vary- ing stages of transition. You may go all over the States, and – setting aside the actual intrusion and influence of foreigner... ...ohn Bull, but he is tarred with the English stick. For Mr. Grant White the States are the New England States and nothing more. He wonders at the amoun... ...is used over the most of the great Union as a term of reproach. The Yankee States, of which he is so staunch a subject, are but a drop in the bucket. ... ...mmon provocations. A Scotchman may tramp the better part of Europe and the United States, and never again receive so vivid an impression of foreign tr... ...o may some cadet of Royal Ecossais or the Albany Regi- ment, as he mounted guard about French citadels, so may some officer marching his company of th... ...res of the landscape. Sail- ors and shepherds, and the people generally of coast and mountain, talk well of it; and it is often excitingly presented i... ...ree-cocked hats were playing bowls. A friend of mine preferred the Malabar coast in a storm, with a ship beating to windward, and a scowling fellow of...

...have set people thinking on the divisions of races and nations. Such thoughts should arise with particular congruity and force to inhabitants of that United Kingdom, peopled from so many different stocks, babbling so many different dialects, and offering in its extent such singular contrasts, from the busiest over-population to the unkindliest desert, from the Black Countr...

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