Readings, Recitations, and ImpersonationsJournal Printing, 1891 - 257 páginas |
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Página xvi
... wind like ice upon their faces , and the loose African sand drifting up in clouds around them ; how they breasted the fence of steel , and the tempest of rage and blows and shouts , and plunged away into the shadows of the desolate ...
... wind like ice upon their faces , and the loose African sand drifting up in clouds around them ; how they breasted the fence of steel , and the tempest of rage and blows and shouts , and plunged away into the shadows of the desolate ...
Página xix
... near the black , deep , yawning stream , twelve feet if an inch , with a high thorn hedge beyond it . One touch of the spur , and Forest King rose at the leap , higher , and higher , and higher in the cold wild winter wind AND READING .
... near the black , deep , yawning stream , twelve feet if an inch , with a high thorn hedge beyond it . One touch of the spur , and Forest King rose at the leap , higher , and higher , and higher in the cold wild winter wind AND READING .
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Ermine Owen. higher , and higher in the cold wild winter wind ; stakes and rails and water and thorn lay beneath him , black and yawing like a grave . One last convulsive impulse of the gathered limbs , one bound in mid - air , and ...
Ermine Owen. higher , and higher in the cold wild winter wind ; stakes and rails and water and thorn lay beneath him , black and yawing like a grave . One last convulsive impulse of the gathered limbs , one bound in mid - air , and ...
Página xxi
... , useless , painted , exotic , that has every wind tempered to V Λ Λ you , and thinks the world only made to bear the fall of your dainty Λ foot ! ( emphatic nee xxii VOICE CULTURE PRINCIPLE XI . Emphasis AND READING . xxi.
... , useless , painted , exotic , that has every wind tempered to V Λ Λ you , and thinks the world only made to bear the fall of your dainty Λ foot ! ( emphatic nee xxii VOICE CULTURE PRINCIPLE XI . Emphasis AND READING . xxi.
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... " Pleasant was the journey homeward , All the traveling winds went with them , All the stars of night watched o'er them , And the rabbit and the squirrel , Scampered from the path before them Peeping , peeping from AND IMPERSONATIONS . 35.
... " Pleasant was the journey homeward , All the traveling winds went with them , All the stars of night watched o'er them , And the rabbit and the squirrel , Scampered from the path before them Peeping , peeping from AND IMPERSONATIONS . 35.
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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.