The reciter's companion; comprising the most popular recitations, comic tales [&c.].1848 |
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... loud , or indignation reign'd ; Whims wild and simple led her from her home , The heath , the common , or the fields to roam ; Terror and joy alternate ruled her hours ; Now blithe she sung , and gather'd useless flow'rs ; Now pluck'd a ...
... loud , or indignation reign'd ; Whims wild and simple led her from her home , The heath , the common , or the fields to roam ; Terror and joy alternate ruled her hours ; Now blithe she sung , and gather'd useless flow'rs ; Now pluck'd a ...
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... loud , My mother , shuddering , closed her ears ! " Rejoice ! rejoice ! " still cried the crowd ; My mother answer'd with her tears . " Why are you crying thus , " said I , " While others laugh and shout for joy ? " She kiss'd me , and ...
... loud , My mother , shuddering , closed her ears ! " Rejoice ! rejoice ! " still cried the crowd ; My mother answer'd with her tears . " Why are you crying thus , " said I , " While others laugh and shout for joy ? " She kiss'd me , and ...
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... loud - I've lock'd the gate ; " I know my duty - ' tis too late- You wouldn't have me lose my place . " " Psha ! Mr. Dashington , remember " This is the middle of November : " I'm stripped ; ' tis raining cats and dogs . " " Hush ! hush ...
... loud - I've lock'd the gate ; " I know my duty - ' tis too late- You wouldn't have me lose my place . " " Psha ! Mr. Dashington , remember " This is the middle of November : " I'm stripped ; ' tis raining cats and dogs . " " Hush ! hush ...
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... loud the thunders roll ; With louder fury howl'd the raging blast ; But I'd a fiercer tempest in my soul , One that will rage till life itself be past . Alone I left this dreary scene of woe- My wife , my child , still present to my ...
... loud the thunders roll ; With louder fury howl'd the raging blast ; But I'd a fiercer tempest in my soul , One that will rage till life itself be past . Alone I left this dreary scene of woe- My wife , my child , still present to my ...
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... loud through the air ; " There was fury and wrath on his tongue , " He was deaf to the voice of despair . " Accursed be the merciless band , " That his love could from Maratan tear ; " And blasted this impotent hand , " That's severed ...
... loud through the air ; " There was fury and wrath on his tongue , " He was deaf to the voice of despair . " Accursed be the merciless band , " That his love could from Maratan tear ; " And blasted this impotent hand , " That's severed ...
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Page 148 - 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 houourable man. You all did see that on the Lupercal I thrice presented him a kingly crown, Which he did thrice refuse: was this ambition? Yet Brutus says he was ambitious; And, sure, he is an honourable man.
Page 150 - 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 148 - Which he did thrice refuse. Was this ambition ? Yet Brutus says, he was ambitious ; And, sure, he is an honourable man. I speak not to disprove what Brutus spoke, But here I am to speak what I do know. You all did love him once, not without cause ; What cause withholds you then to mourn for him ? 0 judgment, thou art fled to brutish beasts, And men have lost their reason...
Page 237 - When Cheerfulness, a nymph of healthiest hue, Her bow across her shoulder flung, Her buskins gemm'd with morning dew, Blew an inspiring air, that dale and thicket rung, The hunter's call to Faun and Dryad known...
Page 163 - On Linden, when the sun was low, All bloodless lay the untrodden snow, And dark as winter was the flow Of Iser, rolling rapidly.
Page 237 - And though sometimes, each dreary pause between, Dejected Pity at his side, Her soul-subduing voice applied, Yet still he kept his wild unalter'd mien, While each strain'd ball of sight seem'd bursting from his head.
Page 202 - By heaven, I had rather coin my heart, And drop my blood for drachmas, than to wring From the hard hands of peasants their vile trash, By any indirection.
Page 209 - Alas ! the joys that fortune brings Are trifling, and decay; And those who prize the paltry things, More trifling still than they. "And what is friendship but a name, A charm that lulls to sleep; A shade that follows wealth or fame, But leaves the wretch to weep?
Page 206 - tis madness to defer: Next day the fatal precedent will plead ; Thus on, till wisdom is push'd out of life. Procrastination is the thief of time ; Year after year it steals, till all are fled, And to the mercies of a moment leaves The vast concerns of an eternal scene.
Page 238 - Can well recall what then it heard. Where is thy native, simple heart, Devote to Virtue, Fancy, Art ? Arise, as in that elder time, Warm...