The reciter's companion; comprising the most popular recitations, comic tales [&c.].1848 |
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Pagina 11
... night of boots and leather breeches , Of hunting caps , and leaping rails and ditches ; Rose the next morn an hour before the lark , Dragg'd his old uncle , fasting , to the park ; Bridle in hand , each vale he scours across , To find ...
... night of boots and leather breeches , Of hunting caps , and leaping rails and ditches ; Rose the next morn an hour before the lark , Dragg'd his old uncle , fasting , to the park ; Bridle in hand , each vale he scours across , To find ...
Pagina 16
... night , when midway o'er the lake , The stars went out , and down the mountain gorge The wind came roaring . I have sat , and eyed The thunder breaking from his cloud , and smiled To see him shake his lightnings o'er my head , And think ...
... night , when midway o'er the lake , The stars went out , and down the mountain gorge The wind came roaring . I have sat , and eyed The thunder breaking from his cloud , and smiled To see him shake his lightnings o'er my head , And think ...
Pagina 24
... night , you know . " What more he urged I have not heard , His reasons could not well be stronger ; So Death the poor delinquent spared , And left to live a little longer . Yet calling up a serious look- His hour - glass trembled while ...
... night , you know . " What more he urged I have not heard , His reasons could not well be stronger ; So Death the poor delinquent spared , And left to live a little longer . Yet calling up a serious look- His hour - glass trembled while ...
Pagina 25
... night , in musing mood , As all alone he sat , Th ' unwelcome messenger of fate Once more before him stood . Half ... nights and mornings ; " And for that loss of time and ease , " I can recover damages . " " I know , " cried Death ...
... night , in musing mood , As all alone he sat , Th ' unwelcome messenger of fate Once more before him stood . Half ... nights and mornings ; " And for that loss of time and ease , " I can recover damages . " " I know , " cried Death ...
Pagina 27
... night - shade and wolf's - bane creep thickly beneath , Where the gloom is intense as the shadow of death ; Where the raven by day , with his ill - omen'd croak , Breaks the silence around , from the storm - stricken oak ; Where the ...
... night - shade and wolf's - bane creep thickly beneath , Where the gloom is intense as the shadow of death ; Where the raven by day , with his ill - omen'd croak , Breaks the silence around , from the storm - stricken oak ; Where the ...
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Pagina 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.
Pagina 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...
Pagina 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...
Pagina 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...
Pagina 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.
Pagina 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.
Pagina 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.
Pagina 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?
Pagina 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.
Pagina 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...