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... remember old Ebenezer ; and I believe it was Jonas who , when another youth , after giving him much offence and seeing him unresisting would fain fight him , replied : " Nay , I will not fight thee , friend ; but if thou dost with that ...
... remember old Ebenezer ; and I believe it was Jonas who , when another youth , after giving him much offence and seeing him unresisting would fain fight him , replied : " Nay , I will not fight thee , friend ; but if thou dost with that ...
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... remember with any vividness is a drive in the country , near New York , in the course of which the carriage passed a lady on horse- back who had stopped to address herself with some vivacity to certain men at work by the road . Just as ...
... remember with any vividness is a drive in the country , near New York , in the course of which the carriage passed a lady on horse- back who had stopped to address herself with some vivacity to certain men at work by the road . Just as ...
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... remember even from such a distance of time every detail of the picture and every tone of her voice . The two readings - one was of " King Lear , " the other of " A Midsummer Night's Dream " -took place in certain Assembly Rooms in St ...
... remember even from such a distance of time every detail of the picture and every tone of her voice . The two readings - one was of " King Lear , " the other of " A Midsummer Night's Dream " -took place in certain Assembly Rooms in St ...
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... remember a declaration of hers that it was the play she loved best to read , better even than those that yielded poetry more various . It was gallant and martial and intensely English , and she was cer- tainly on such evenings the ...
... remember a declaration of hers that it was the play she loved best to read , better even than those that yielded poetry more various . It was gallant and martial and intensely English , and she was cer- tainly on such evenings the ...
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... remembers himself to have been , for some reason , " surprisingly disappointed . " It all seems very ancient history . On one of the evenings of " Macbeth , " he was making his way , by invitation , to Douglas Jerrold's box - Douglas ...
... remembers himself to have been , for some reason , " surprisingly disappointed . " It all seems very ancient history . On one of the evenings of " Macbeth , " he was making his way , by invitation , to Douglas Jerrold's box - Douglas ...
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Page 623 - O love, they die in yon rich sky, They faint on hill or field or river: Our echoes roll from soul to soul, And grow for ever and for ever. Blow, bugle, blow, set the wild echoes flying, And answer, echoes, answer, dying, dying, dying.
Page 295 - Both read the same Bible and pray to the same God, and each invokes his aid against the other. It may seem strange that any men should dare to ask a just God's assistance in wringing their bread from the sweat of other men's faces ; but let us judge not, that we be not judged.
Page 585 - customed hill, Along the heath, and near his favorite tree : Another came, nor yet beside the rill, Nor up the lawn, nor at the wood, was he; "The next, with dirges due, in sad array, Slow through the church-way path we saw him borne, — Approach and read (for thou canst read) the lay Graved on the stone beneath yon aged thorn.
Page 583 - Th' applause of list'ning senates to command. The threats of pain and ruin to despise, To scatter plenty o'er a smiling land, And read their history in a nation's eyes.
Page 341 - Is this a dagger which I see before me, The handle toward my hand ? Come, let me clutch thee: I have thee not, and yet I see thee still. Art thou not, fatal vision, sensible To feeling as to sight ? or art thou but A dagger of the mind, a false creation, Proceeding from the heat -oppressed brain?
Page 622 - The splendor falls on castle walls And snowy summits old in story: The long light shakes across the lakes, And the wild cataract leaps in glory. Blow, bugle, blow, set the wild echoes flying, Blow, bugle ; answer, echoes, dying, dying, dying.
Page 584 - Muse, The place of fame and elegy supply: And many a holy text around she strews That teach the rustic moralist to die. For who, to dumb forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing anxious being e'er resigned, Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day, Nor cast one longing ling'ring look behind?
Page 295 - Fondly do we hope, fervently do we pray, that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away. Yet, if God wills that it continue until all the wealth piled by the...
Page 582 - Await alike th' inevitable hour: The paths of glory lead but to the grave. Nor you, ye proud, impute to these the fault, If Memory o'er their tomb no trophies raise. Where, through the long-drawn aisle and fretted vault, The pealing anthem swells the note of praise. Can storied urn or animated bust Back to its mansion call the fleeting breath ? Can Honor's voice provoke the silent dust, Or Flattery soothe the dull, cold ear of Death...
Page 56 - On nearer approach he was still more surprised at the singularity of the stranger's appearance. He was a short, square-built old fellow, with thick bushy hair, and a grizzled beard.