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" And crowded cities wail its stroke ; Come in consumption's ghastly form, The earthquake shock, the ocean storm ; — Come when the heart beats high and warm, With banquet-song, and dance, and wine, And thou art terrible : the tear, The groan, the knell,... "
The Rhetorical Reader - Page 123
by Ebenezer Porter - 1856 - 504 pages
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The New-York Review, and Atheneum Magazine, Volume 1

William Cullen Bryant, Robert Charles Sands, Henry J. Anderson - American periodicals - 1825 - 506 pages
...tear, The groan, the knell, the pall, the bier, And all we know, or dream, or fear Of agony, are thine. But to the hero, when his sword Has won the battle...tones are heard The thanks of millions yet to be. Come, when his task of Fame is wrought — Come, with her laurel-leaf, blood-bought — Come in her...
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Janus; or, The Edinburgh literary almanach, Issue 2

Janus - 1826 - 568 pages
...tear, The groan, the knell, the pall, the bier, And all we know, or dream, or fear Of agony, are thine. But to the hero, when his sword Has won the battle...tones are heard The thanks of millions yet to be. Come, when his task of Fame is wrought ; Come, with her laurel-leaf, blood bought ; Come in her crowning...
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The United States Review and Literary Gazette, Volume 2

American periodicals - 1827 - 496 pages
...The groan, the knell, the pall, the bier, And all we know, or dream, or fear Of agony, are thine. " But to the hero, when his sword Has won the battle...tones are heard The thanks of millions yet to be. Come when his task of Fame is wrought— Come with her laurel-leaf, blood-bought— Come in her crowning...
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The United States Review and Literary Gazette, Volume 2

American periodicals - 1827 - 500 pages
...The groan, the knell, the pall, the bier, And all we know, or dream, or fear Of agony, are thine. " But to the hero, when his sword Has won the battle...tones are heard The thanks of millions yet to be. Come when his task of Fame is wrought — Come with her laurel-leaf, blood-bought — Come in her crowning...
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Alnwick Castle, with Other Poems, Issue 2

Fitz-Greene Halleck - Alnwick Castle - 1827 - 76 pages
...The groan, the knell, the pall, the bier ; And all we know, or dream, or fear Of agony, are thine. But to the hero, when his sword Has won the battle...tones are heard The thanks of millions yet to be. Come, when his task of fame is wrought — Come, with her laurel-leaf, blood-bought — Come in her...
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Analysis of the Principles of Rhetorical Delivery as Applied in Reading and ...

Ebenezer Porter - Elocution - 1828 - 414 pages
...at every vein. His few surviving comrades saw His smile, when rang their proud hurrah, And the red field was won ; Then saw in death his eyelids close...millions yet to be. Bozzaris ! with the storied brave * Plaintive. Greece nurtured in her glory's time, Rest thee — there is no prouder grave, Even in...
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Analysis of the Principles of Rhetorical Delivery as Applied in Reading and ...

Ebenezer Porter - Elocution - 1828 - 452 pages
...red field was won ; Then saw in death his eyelids close Calmly, as to a night's repose, Like Bowers at set of sun. >» 4 *Come to the bridal chamber,...millions yet to be. Bozzaris ! with the storied brave * Plaintive. Greece nurtured in her glory's time, Rest thee — there is no prouder grave, Even in...
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Exercises in Reading and Recitation

Jonathan Barber - 1828 - 264 pages
...tear, The groan, the knell, the pall, the bier, And all we know, or dream, or fear Of agony, are thine. But to the hero, when his sword Has won the battle...storied brave Greece nurtured in her glory's time, Rest thee — there is no prouder grave, Even in her own proud clime. We tell thy doom without a sigh; For...
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An Illustration of the Principles of Elocution ...

William Brittainham Lacey - Elocution - 1828 - 308 pages
...tear, The groan, the knell, the pall, the bier, And all we know, or dream, or fear Of agony, are thine. But to the hero, when his sword Has won the battle...storied brave Greece nurtured in her glory's time, Best thee — there is no prouder grave, Even in her own proud clime. We tell thy doom without a sigh...
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Specimens of American Poetry: With Critical and Biographical ..., Volume 3

Samuel Kettell - American poetry - 1829 - 432 pages
...tear,' The groan, the knell, the pall, the bier; And all we know, or dream, or fear Of agony, are thine. But to the hero, when his sword Has won the battle...tones are heard The thanks of millions yet to be. Come, when his task of fame is wrought— Come, with her laurel-leaf, blood-bought— Come in her crowning...
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