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... feels For the first time her first born's breath ; Come when the blessed seals Which close the pestilence are broke , And crowded cities wail its stroke ; Come in Consumption's ghastly form , The Earthquake's shock , the Ocean's storm ...
... feels For the first time her first born's breath ; Come when the blessed seals Which close the pestilence are broke , And crowded cities wail its stroke ; Come in Consumption's ghastly form , The Earthquake's shock , the Ocean's storm ...
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... feel her heart's blood curdle cold ; Again the rough wind hurried by— It blew off the hat of the one ; and , behold ! Even close to the feet of poor Mary it roll'd ; She fell - and expected to die . 6 66 Plague the hat ! " he exclaims ...
... feel her heart's blood curdle cold ; Again the rough wind hurried by— It blew off the hat of the one ; and , behold ! Even close to the feet of poor Mary it roll'd ; She fell - and expected to die . 6 66 Plague the hat ! " he exclaims ...
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... feel th ' eternal wound . As the good shepherd tends his fleecy care , Seeks freshest pasture and the purest air , Explores the lost , the wand'ring sheep directs , By day o'ersees them , and by night protects ; The tender lambs he ...
... feel th ' eternal wound . As the good shepherd tends his fleecy care , Seeks freshest pasture and the purest air , Explores the lost , the wand'ring sheep directs , By day o'ersees them , and by night protects ; The tender lambs he ...
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... feels the fulness of our heart and eyes When all of Genius which can perish dies . Almighty spirit is eclipsed - a power Hath passed from day to darkness - to whose hour Of light no likeness is bequeathed - no name , Focus at once of ...
... feels the fulness of our heart and eyes When all of Genius which can perish dies . Almighty spirit is eclipsed - a power Hath passed from day to darkness - to whose hour Of light no likeness is bequeathed - no name , Focus at once of ...
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... feeling given Bear hearts electric , -charged with fire from Heaven , Black with the rude collision , inly torn , By clouds surrounded , and on whirlwinds borne , Driven o'er the lowering Atmosphere that nurst Thoughts which have turned ...
... feeling given Bear hearts electric , -charged with fire from Heaven , Black with the rude collision , inly torn , By clouds surrounded , and on whirlwinds borne , Driven o'er the lowering Atmosphere that nurst Thoughts which have turned ...
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The Practical Elocutionist: An Extensive Collection of Recitations, Selected ... Conrad Hume Pinches No preview available - 2017 |
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Page 261 - But yesterday, the word of Caesar might Have stood against the world ; now lies he there, And none so poor to do him reverence.
Page 28 - With a bare bodkin ? who would fardels bear, To grunt and sweat under a weary life ; But that the dread of something after death, — The undiscovered country, from whose bourn No traveller returns, — puzzles the will ; And makes us rather bear those ills we have, Than fly to others that we know not of? Thus conscience does make cowards of us all...
Page 35 - HERON'S SONG. O, young Lochinvar is come out of the west, Through all the wide Border his steed was the best, And save his good broadsword he weapons had none ; He rode all unarmed, and he rode all alone. So faithful in love, and so dauntless in war, There never was knight like the young Lochinvar.
Page 154 - Is this the part of wise men, engaged in a great and arduous struggle for liberty? Are we disposed to be of the number of those, who having eyes, see not, and having ears, hear not, the things which so nearly concern their temporal salvation?
Page 236 - 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 259 - Romans, countrymen, and lovers ! hear me for my cause ; and be silent that you may hear : believe me for mine honour ; and have respect to mine honour, that you may believe : censure me in your wisdom ; and awake your senses, that you may the better judge. If there be any in this assembly, any dear friend of Ctesar's, to him I say, that Brutus' love to Caesar was no less than his.
Page 170 - Rome, thou hast lost the breed of noble bloods ! When went there by an age, since the great flood, But it was famed with more than with one man...
Page 174 - O Cassius, you are yoked with a lamb That carries anger as the flint bears fire ; Who, much enforced, shows a hasty spark, And straight is cold again.
Page 170 - Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow world Like a Colossus, and we petty men "Walk under his huge legs and peep about To find ourselves dishonourable graves.
Page 18 - Ye pine-groves, with your soft and soul-like sounds ! And they too have a voice, yon piles of snow, And in their perilous fall shall thunder, God...