The Onward reciter ed. by W. Darrah, Volume 5William Darrah 1876 |
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... Hand ..C . Mackay Great God Gin , The .Alsager Hay Hill Hand to Take , A .. Charles Mackay Hint , A .... ..Anon . Holy Chivalry W. M. Punshon How dearly God must love us .. .S . W. Partridge Humorous Epitaph . George Canniug " I'm Four ...
... Hand ..C . Mackay Great God Gin , The .Alsager Hay Hill Hand to Take , A .. Charles Mackay Hint , A .... ..Anon . Holy Chivalry W. M. Punshon How dearly God must love us .. .S . W. Partridge Humorous Epitaph . George Canniug " I'm Four ...
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... hand ....... F . H. Bowman .. 15 Within and Without .... Witty Retort , The .. Worn Wedding - Ring , The World We Know Not , The Wreck , The Yard Dogs .Bryan Waller Procter ..Anon . 95 170 Word to the " Moderate " Drinker , A .... Rev ...
... hand ....... F . H. Bowman .. 15 Within and Without .... Witty Retort , The .. Worn Wedding - Ring , The World We Know Not , The Wreck , The Yard Dogs .Bryan Waller Procter ..Anon . 95 170 Word to the " Moderate " Drinker , A .... Rev ...
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... hand , His counsels to fulfil . " So you may lay you down to sleep , And I will quench the light ; God will be with me while I keep My dark watch through the night . When underneath His wing they lie , His children need not fear ; For ...
... hand , His counsels to fulfil . " So you may lay you down to sleep , And I will quench the light ; God will be with me while I keep My dark watch through the night . When underneath His wing they lie , His children need not fear ; For ...
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... hand , For the serfs of the mine and the sea and the land , For the child and the woman , as well as the man , And all of us help them the best that we can . But - hear me one minute for humbler than these , The victims of thraldom whom ...
... hand , For the serfs of the mine and the sea and the land , For the child and the woman , as well as the man , And all of us help them the best that we can . But - hear me one minute for humbler than these , The victims of thraldom whom ...
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... hand in hand through life , and lie down , not reluctantly , at its protracted close . To them , the past will be no turmoil of mad dreams , nor the future an eternity of such moments as follow the delirium of the drunkard . Their dead ...
... hand in hand through life , and lie down , not reluctantly , at its protracted close . To them , the past will be no turmoil of mad dreams , nor the future an eternity of such moments as follow the delirium of the drunkard . Their dead ...
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Page 43 - God bless me but the Elephant Is very like a wall !" The Second, feeling of the tusk Cried, "Ho ! what have we here So very round and smooth and sharp? To me 'tis mighty clear This wonder of an Elephant Is very like a spear...
Page 43 - And so these men of Indostan Disputed loud and long, Each in his own opinion Exceeding stiff and strong, Though each was partly in the right, And all were in the wrong!
Page 12 - Welcome, most rubicund sir ! You and I have been great strangers, hitherto, nor, to confess the truth, will my nose be anxious for a closer intimacy, till the fumes of your breath be a little less potent.
Page 13 - Well, well, sir, — no harm done, I hope ! Go draw the cork, tip the decanter ; but, when your great toe shall set you a-roaring, it will be no affair of mine. If gentlemen love the pleasant titillation of the gout, it is all one to the Town Pump.
Page 13 - In the moral warfare, which you are to wage — and, indeed, in the whole conduct of your lives — you cannot choose a better example than myself, who have never permitted the dust and sultry atmosphere, the turbulence and manifold disquietudes of the world around me, to reach that deep, calm well of purity, which may be called my soul. And whenever I pour out that soul, it is to cool earth's fever, or cleanse its stains.
Page 141 - Give back my twentieth spring! 1 'd rather laugh a bright-haired boy Than reign a gray-beard king! Off with the wrinkled spoils of age! Away with learning's crown! Tear out life's wisdom-written page, And dash its trophies down! One moment let my life-blood stream From boyhood's fount of flame! Give me one giddy, reeling dream Of life all love and fame!
Page 141 - If I but touch thy silvered hair, Thy hasty wish hath sped. "But is there nothing in thy track To bid thee fondly stay. While the swift seasons hurry back To find the wished-for day?
Page 42 - IT was six men of Indostan To learning much inclined, Who went to see the elephant (Though all of them were blind), That each by observation Might satisfy his mind.
Page 11 - NOON, by the North clock ! Noon, by the east ! High noon, too, by these hot sunbeams which fall, scarcely aslope, upon my head, and almost make the water bubble and smoke in the trough under my nose. Truly, we public characters have a tough time of it ! And, among all the town officers, chosen at March meeting, where is he that sustains, for a single year, the burden of such manifold duties as are imposed, in perpetuity, upon the Town Pump ? The title of "town treasurer...
Page 49 - but the dinner is swallowed, And digested, I trust ; for 'tis now nine and more : So being relieved from that duty, I followed Inclination, which led me, you see, to your door. And now will your Ladyship so condescend As just to inform me if you intend Your beauty and graces and presence to lend (All...