Identifier: crownedmasterpie04brew (find matches)
Title: Crowned masterpieces of literature that have advanced civilization, as preserved and presented by the world's best essays, from the earliest period to the present time
Year: 1908 (1900s)
Authors: Brewer, David J. (David Josiah), 1837-1910 Allen, Edward Archibald, 1843-1922 Schuyler, William, 1855-1914
Subjects: Essays English literature -- Translations from foreign literature
Publisher: St. Louis : Ferd. P. Kaiser, pub. co.
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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^m^^^-^Wi^^^^^^m:^^^^^Si^^ MARIA EDGEWORTH 1527 more celebrated bull than Paddy Blakes. When Paddy heard anEnglish gentleman speaking of the fine echo at the lake of Kil-larney, which repeats the sound forty times, he very promptlyobserved: ^* Faith, thats nothing at all to the echo in my fathersgarden, in the county of Galway: if you say to it, *■ How do youdo, Paddy Blake ? it will answer, » Now this echo of Paddy Blake, which has long been the ad-miration of the world, is not a prodigy unique in its kind; it canbe matched by one recorded in the immortal works of the greatLord Verulam. ** I remember well,^ says this father of philosophy, **that whenI went to the echo at Port Charenton^ there was an old Parisianthat took it to be the work of spirits, and of good spirits; ^for,*said he, *call Satan, and the echo will not deliver back the devilsname, but will say Va-t-en. * ** The Parisian echo is surely superior to the Hibernian! PaddyBlakes si

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