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" The brows of men, by the despairing light, Wore an unearthly aspect, as, by fits, The flashes fell upon them. Some lay down, And hid their eyes, and wept; and some did rest Their chins upon their clenched hands, and smiled; And others hurried to and fro,... "
Elocution: Or, Mental and Vocal Philosophy - Page 258
by C. P. Bronson - 1845 - 323 pages
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The Book of Oratory: A New Collection of Extracts in Prose, Poetry and ...

Readers - 1856 - 518 pages
...this their desolation ; and all hearts Were chilled into a selfish prayer for light. Some lay down, And others hurried to and fro, and fed Their funeral...howled. The wild birds shrieked, And, terrified, did flutter on the ground, And flap their useless wings : the wildest brutes Came tame, and tremulous ;...
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The Ladies' Pulpit Offering

William Cecil Duncan - Baptists - 1856 - 360 pages
...blackening in the moonless air." Morn will come, and go; and come, and bring no day. Man will look up ' ' with mad disquietude on the dull sky, the pall...of a past world ; and then again with curses cast him down upon the dust, and gnash his teeth, and howl." Rivers, lakes, and oceans, all shall stagnate...
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McGuffey's New Sixth Eclectic Reader: Exercises in Rhetorical Reading, with ...

William Holmes McGuffey - Readers - 1857 - 456 pages
...And hid their eyes, and wept; and some did rest Their chins upon their clinched hands, and smil'd; And others hurried to and fro, and fed Their funeral piles with +fuel, and look'd up With mad '''disquietude on the dull sky, The + pall of a past world; and then again, With...
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The book of recitations [ed.] by C.W. Smith

Charles William Smith (professor of elocution.) - 1857 - 338 pages
...dull sky, Che pall of a past world ; and then again Vith curses cast them down upon the dust, ^.nd gnashed their teeth and howled : the wild birds shrieked, And, terrified, did flutter on the ground, And flap their useless wings ; the wildest brutes Came tame and tremulous ;...
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The Science and Art of Elocution and Oratory: Containing Specimens of the ...

Worthy Putnam - Elocution - 1858 - 420 pages
...And hid their eyes, and wept ; and some did rest Their chins upon their clenched hands, and smiled ; And others hurried to and fro, and fed Their funeral...again, With curses, cast them down upon the dust, And gnashod their tooth, and howled. The wild birds shrieked, And torritiod, did flutter on the ground,...
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Osgood's Progressive Fifth Reader: Embracing a System of Instruction in the ...

Lucius Osgood - Elocution - 1858 - 494 pages
...aspect, as by fits 4. And others hurried to and fro, and fed Their funeral-piles with fuel, and look'd up With mad disquietude on the dull sky, The pall...again, With curses, cast them down upon the dust, And gnash' d their teeth and howl'd. The wild birdi shriek'd, And, terrified, did flutter on the ground...
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Poems

George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1859 - 614 pages
...And hid their eyes and wept ; and some did rest Their chins upon their clenched hands, and smiled ; And others hurried to and fro, and fed Their funeral piles with fuel, and look'd up With mad disquietude on the dull sky, 2 B The pall of a past world ; and then again With...
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The New York Speaker: A Selection of Pieces Designed for Academic Exercises ...

Warren P. Edgarton - Recitations - 1860 - 530 pages
...did rest Their chins upon their clenched hands, and smiled ; And others hurried to and fro, and ted Their funeral piles with fuel, and looked up With...howled. The wild birds shrieked, And, terrified, did flutter on the ground, And flap their useless wings : the wildest birds Came tame and tremulous ; and...
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The New Speaker. With an Essay on Elocution

John Connery - Elocution - 1861 - 416 pages
...And hid their eyes and wept ; and some did rest Their chins upon their clenched hands, and smiled ', And others hurried to and fro, and fed Their funeral...howled ; the wild birds shrieked, And, terrified, did flutter on the ground, And flap their useless wings ; the wildest brutes Came tame and tremulous ;...
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The poetical works of lord Byron, with illustr. by K. Halswelle

George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1861 - 734 pages
...And hid their eyes and wept ; and some did rest Their chins upon their cleuched hands, and smiled ; And others hurried to and fro, and fed Their funeral piles with fuel, and look'd up With mad disquietude on the dull sky, The pall of a past world ; and then again With curses...
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