Readings, Recitations, and ImpersonationsJournal Printing, 1891 - 257 páginas |
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... shall not forget . God send us peace ! and where for aye the loved and lost recline Let fall , O South , your leaves of palm , -O North , your sprigs of pine . The Final Stress , as the character indicates is abrupt AND READING . xxiii.
... shall not forget . God send us peace ! and where for aye the loved and lost recline Let fall , O South , your leaves of palm , -O North , your sprigs of pine . The Final Stress , as the character indicates is abrupt AND READING . xxiii.
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... leave this festive grove , I am requested to announce that a poem will be read by one of the fair young ladies of our town , which is dedicated to the God- dess of Liberty . " Sophrony Gowdey then came for rard an ' recited the follerin ...
... leave this festive grove , I am requested to announce that a poem will be read by one of the fair young ladies of our town , which is dedicated to the God- dess of Liberty . " Sophrony Gowdey then came for rard an ' recited the follerin ...
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... Leaving business , art and tillage , Forth to scenes of strife and pillage Trod our armies ' fateful feet . Four long years of fiercest fighting , Only demons ' eyes delighting , And a bloody record writing , Left us starved and sick ...
... Leaving business , art and tillage , Forth to scenes of strife and pillage Trod our armies ' fateful feet . Four long years of fiercest fighting , Only demons ' eyes delighting , And a bloody record writing , Left us starved and sick ...
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... leaves are falling ? They hear but the cheery voice of love To his sweetheart gently calling ; And close as he bound the yellow sheaves In the gleaming Autumn weather , Sly Cupid binds their tender hearts With love's gold bands together ...
... leaves are falling ? They hear but the cheery voice of love To his sweetheart gently calling ; And close as he bound the yellow sheaves In the gleaming Autumn weather , Sly Cupid binds their tender hearts With love's gold bands together ...
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... leaving Mr. Moll to wash the dishes and attend to other domestic duties . But Mr. Moll made no complaint . " Poor Becky ! Poor Becky ! it's a sight harder on her than it is on me . " " " I shall never get up again , Pliny , I'm done fer ...
... leaving Mr. Moll to wash the dishes and attend to other domestic duties . But Mr. Moll made no complaint . " Poor Becky ! Poor Becky ! it's a sight harder on her than it is on me . " " " I shall never get up again , Pliny , I'm done fer ...
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ain't angels banner beautiful Becky Ben-Hur bless blood brave breast breath brow Cæsar cheek child Cola di Rienzi cold cried crown dark dead dear death Dolly Dora dream dress Duke earth eyes face fair father feet flowers Forceythe Willson gate girl Glaucus glory hand happy hath head hear heard heart heaven heerd Hiawatha Imph-m Jonesville kiss laugh Laughing Water look Lord mamma Messala Minnehaha Moll morning mother never night Nokomis Nydia o'er once peace Pliny poor rest Rienzi rose round Sallust sestertii shout silenced song silent sleep smile song soul South stars stood sweet tears tell thee There's thing thou thought Tom Lyle Twas Twickenham voice W. E. Aytoun waves weep whisper wife wigwam wild woman word Zarah
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Página xv - Cromwell, I did not think to shed a tear In all my miseries; but thou hast forced me, Out of thy honest truth, to play the woman. Let's dry our eyes: and thus far hear me, Cromwell; And, when I am forgotten, as I shall be, And sleep in dull cold marble...
Página 173 - Thou sure and firm-set earth, Hear not my steps, which way they walk, for fear Thy very stones prate of my where-about, And take the present horror from the time, Which now suits with it.
Página 213 - Had you rather Caesar were living, and die all slaves, than that Caesar were dead, to live all free men? As Caesar loved me, I weep for him; as he was fortunate, I rejoice at it; as he was valiant, I honour him: but, as he was ambitious, I slew him: there is tears for his love; joy for his fortune; honour for his valour; and death for his ambition.
Página 212 - Caesar less, but that I loved Rome more. Had you rather Caesar were living, and die all slaves, than that Caesar were dead, to live all freemen?
Página 213 - Roman? If any, speak; for him have I offended. Who is here so vile, that will not love his country ? If any, speak ; for him have I offended. I pause for a reply.
Página 215 - Where low-browed baseness wafts perfume to pride. No ! Men, high-minded men, With powers as far above dull brutes endued, In forest, brake or den, As beasts excel cold rocks and brambles rude ; Men who their duties know, But know their rights, and, knowing, dare maintain, Prevent the long-aimed blow, And crush the tyrant while they rend the chain, — These constitute a State ; And sovereign law, that State's collected will, O'er thrones and globes elate Sits empress, crowning good, repressing ill.
Página xv - Love thyself last; cherish those hearts that hate thee; Corruption wins not more than honesty. Still in thy right hand carry gentle peace To silence envious tongues. Be just, and fear not; Let all the ends thou aim'st at be thy country's, Thy God's, and truth's; then, if thou fall'st, O Cromwell, Thou fall'st a blessed martyr!
Página xviii - Why shrinks the soul Back on herself and startles at destruction? "Tis the divinity that stirs within us; "Tis Heaven itself that points out an hereafter, And intimates eternity to man.
Página 195 - Thus the Puritan was made up of two different men, the one all self-abasement, penitence, gratitude, passion, the other proud, calm, inflexible, sagacious. He prostrated himself in the dust before his Maker : but he set his foot on the neck of his king.
Página 212 - ... 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 Caesar's, to him I say, that Brutus' love to Caesar was no less than his.