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... never be scorched with a fiercer thirst than now ! There , my dear child , put down the cup , and yield your place to this elderly gentleman , who treads so tenderly over the stones , that I suspect he is afraid of breaking them . What ...
... never be scorched with a fiercer thirst than now ! There , my dear child , put down the cup , and yield your place to this elderly gentleman , who treads so tenderly over the stones , that I suspect he is afraid of breaking them . What ...
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... never conceived , till now , what toil the temperance lecturers undergo for my sake . Hereafter , they shall have the business to them- selves . Do , some kind Christian , pump a stroke or two , just to wet my whistle . Thank you , sir ...
... never conceived , till now , what toil the temperance lecturers undergo for my sake . Hereafter , they shall have the business to them- selves . Do , some kind Christian , pump a stroke or two , just to wet my whistle . Thank you , sir ...
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... never permitted the dust and sultry atmosphere , the turbulent and manifold disquietudes of the world around me , to reach that deep calm well of purity , which be called may And whenever I pour soul . my out that soul , it is to cool ...
... never permitted the dust and sultry atmosphere , the turbulent and manifold disquietudes of the world around me , to reach that deep calm well of purity , which be called may And whenever I pour soul . my out that soul , it is to cool ...
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... Never to hope again . Why , how now , Cromwell ? CROM . I have no power to speak , sir . WOL . What , amaz'd At my misfortunes ? Can thy spirit wonder A great man should decline ? Nay , if you weep , I'm fallen indeed . CROM . How does ...
... Never to hope again . Why , how now , Cromwell ? CROM . I have no power to speak , sir . WOL . What , amaz'd At my misfortunes ? Can thy spirit wonder A great man should decline ? Nay , if you weep , I'm fallen indeed . CROM . How does ...
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... never set ! I've told him What and how true thou art ; he will advance thee : Some little memory of me will stir him- I know his noble nature - not to let Thy hopeful service perish too . Good Cromwell , Neglect him not ; make use now ...
... never set ! I've told him What and how true thou art ; he will advance thee : Some little memory of me will stir him- I know his noble nature - not to let Thy hopeful service perish too . Good Cromwell , Neglect him not ; make use now ...
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Page 56 - Where throngs of knights and barons bold, In weeds of peace high triumphs hold. With store of ladies, whose bright eyes Rain influence, and judge the prize Of wit, or arms, while both contend To win her grace, whom all commend.
Page 18 - Let's dry our eyes: and thus far hear me, Cromwell; And, when I am forgotten, as I shall be, And sleep in dull cold marble, where no mention Of me more must be heard of, say, I taught thee...
Page 156 - To them his heart, his love, his griefs were given, But all his serious thoughts had rest in heaven. As some tall cliff that lifts its awful form, Swells from the vale, and midway leaves the storm, Though round its breast the rolling clouds are spread, Eternal sunshine settles on its head.
Page 69 - Julius bleed for justice' sake? What villain touched his body, that did stab, And not for justice? What! shall one of us, That struck the foremost man of all this world, But for supporting robbers, — shall we now Contaminate our fingers with base bribes, And sell the mighty space of our large honors For so much trash as may be grasped thus?
Page 175 - Yet if we could scorn Hate, and pride, and fear; If we were things born Not to shed a tear, I know not how thy joy we ever should come near.
Page 129 - When that the poor have cried, Caesar hath wept: Ambition should be made of sterner stuff: Yet Brutus says he was ambitious; And Brutus is an honorable man. You all did see that on the Lupercal I thrice presented him a kingly crown, Which he did thrice refuse: was this ambition?
Page 69 - All this ? ay, more : Fret, till your proud heart break ; Go, show your slaves how choleric you are, And make your bondmen tremble.
Page 37 - Though justice be thy plea, consider this, That, in the course of justice, none of us Should see salvation: we do pray for mercy; And that same prayer doth teach us all to render The deeds of mercy.
Page 142 - His steps are not upon thy paths, - thy fields Are not a spoil for him, - thou dost arise And shake him from thee; the vile strength he wields For earth's destruction thou dost all despise, Spurning him from thy bosom to the skies, And send'st him, shivering in thy playful spray And howling, to his Gods, where haply lies His petty hope in some near port or bay, And dashest him again to earth: - there let him lay.
Page 97 - Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary, Over many a quaint and. curious volume of forgotten lore — While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping, As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door. " "Tis some visitor," I muttered, "tapping at my chamber door — Only this and nothing more.