The Speaker's Garland, Volume 2Penn Publishing Company, 1892 |
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... 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 fortune play thee false To - 7.
... 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 fortune play thee false To - 7.
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... sure ? I hope it ain't old Todd ; " Look up , " d'ye say ? " we're surely seen ; we cannot hide from God ? " Jim ! Jim ! my boy , I guess you're right ; here , take the empty bags ; " Tis drink that's brought your dad to this , and ...
... sure ? I hope it ain't old Todd ; " Look up , " d'ye say ? " we're surely seen ; we cannot hide from God ? " Jim ! Jim ! my boy , I guess you're right ; here , take the empty bags ; " Tis drink that's brought your dad to this , and ...
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... sure , and the shaft may fly , And the bubbling life - blood flow ! " Yet leave me , while dim life remains , To list his parting sigh ; To kiss away those gory stains , To close his beamless eye ! Ye will not ! no - he triumphs still ...
... sure , and the shaft may fly , And the bubbling life - blood flow ! " Yet leave me , while dim life remains , To list his parting sigh ; To kiss away those gory stains , To close his beamless eye ! Ye will not ! no - he triumphs still ...
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... sure , In an invention I was working sly . All I could make went into that concern ; And people called me crazy for it , too , And said I'd better stick to what I knew ; But folks will talk , and have to live and learn . In all this ...
... sure , In an invention I was working sly . All I could make went into that concern ; And people called me crazy for it , too , And said I'd better stick to what I knew ; But folks will talk , and have to live and learn . In all this ...
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... sure You've had a good mother some time- Your wounds , were they hard to cure ? Andersonville ? God help you ! Hunted by dogs , did you say ? Hospital ! crazy seven years , sir ? I wonder you're living to - day . I'm thankful my Joe was ...
... sure You've had a good mother some time- Your wounds , were they hard to cure ? Andersonville ? God help you ! Hunted by dogs , did you say ? Hospital ! crazy seven years , sir ? I wonder you're living to - day . I'm thankful my Joe was ...
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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...