The Speaker's Garland, Volume 2Penn Publishing Company, 1892 |
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... never dreads to meet Danger and death , they're sure to fly . To coward ranks the bullet speeds ; While on their breasts who never quail , Gleams , guardian of chivalric deeds , Bright courage , like a coat of mail . Press on ! if ...
... never dreads to meet Danger and death , they're sure to fly . To coward ranks the bullet speeds ; While on their breasts who never quail , Gleams , guardian of chivalric deeds , Bright courage , like a coat of mail . Press on ! if ...
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... never saved ; Till out of the awful burning , A flash of lightning went , And across to brave St. Louis The prayer for succor was sent . God bless thee , O true St. Louis ! So worthy thy royal name ; Back , back on the wing of the ...
... never saved ; Till out of the awful burning , A flash of lightning went , And across to brave St. Louis The prayer for succor was sent . God bless thee , O true St. Louis ! So worthy thy royal name ; Back , back on the wing of the ...
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... never done nothing for three months but set in his back yard and learn that frog to jump . And you bet he did learn him , too . He'd give him a little punch behind , and the next minute you'd see that frog whirl- ing in the air like a ...
... never done nothing for three months but set in his back yard and learn that frog to jump . And you bet he did learn him , too . He'd give him a little punch behind , and the next minute you'd see that frog whirl- ing in the air like a ...
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... never see me more . " Then answered Mary , " This shall never be , That thou shouldst take my trouble on thyself ; And , now I think , he shall not have the boy , For he will teach him hardness , and to slight His mother ; therefore ...
... never see me more . " Then answered Mary , " This shall never be , That thou shouldst take my trouble on thyself ; And , now I think , he shall not have the boy , For he will teach him hardness , and to slight His mother ; therefore ...
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... never were so many fires as there are now . I shall never close my eyes all night ; but what's that to you , so people can call you liberal , Mr. Caudle ? Your wife and children may all be burnt alive in their beds , as all of us to a ...
... never were so many fires as there are now . I shall never close my eyes all night ; but what's that to you , so people can call you liberal , Mr. Caudle ? Your wife and children may all be burnt alive in their beds , as all of us to a ...
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Popular passages
Page 122 - But we loved with a love that was more than love, I and my Annabel Lee; With a love that the winged seraphs of heaven Coveted her and me.
Page 70 - Few and short were the prayers we said, And we spoke not a word of sorrow; But we steadfastly gazed on the face that was dead, And we bitterly thought of the morrow.
Page 123 - Tis mightiest in the mightiest: it becomes The throned monarch better than his crown; His sceptre shows the force of temporal power, The attribute to awe and majesty, Wherein doth sit the dread and fear of kings; But mercy is above this sceptred sway; It is enthroned in the hearts of kings, It is an attribute to God himself; And earthly power doth then show likest God's When mercy seasons justice.
Page 122 - The angels, not half so happy in heaven, Went envying her and me ; Yes ! — that was the reason (as all men know, In this kingdom by the sea) That the wind came out of the cloud by night, Chilling and killing my Annabel Lee.
Page 70 - IT was a summer evening, Old Kaspar's work was done, And he before his cottage door Was sitting in the sun, And by him sported on the green His little grandchild Wilhelmine.
Page 105 - All the world's a stage, And all the men and women merely players. They have their exits and their entrances, And one man in his time plays many parts, His acts being seven ages. At first the infant, Mewling and puking in the nurse's arms.
Page 78 - My liege, I did deny no prisoners. But, I remember, when the fight was done, When I was dry with rage, and extreme toil, Breathless and faint, leaning upon my sword, Came there a certain lord, neat...
Page 180 - Rome, thou hast lost the breed of noble bloods ! When went there by an age, since the great flood, But it was famed with more than with one man...