The reciter's companion; comprising the most popular recitations, comic tales [&c.].1848 |
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... haste no mortal spares , Uncall'd , unheeded , unawares , Brought on his eightieth year . And now , one night , in musing mood , As all alone he sat , Th ' unwelcome messenger of fate Once more before him stood . Half kill'd with anger ...
... haste no mortal spares , Uncall'd , unheeded , unawares , Brought on his eightieth year . And now , one night , in musing mood , As all alone he sat , Th ' unwelcome messenger of fate Once more before him stood . Half kill'd with anger ...
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... overwhelmed me quite . " I had a piece of rich sweet pudding on my fork , when Miss Louisa Friendly begged to trouble me for a pigeon that stood near me . In my haste , scarcely knowing what I did , I whipped the pudding into 35.
... overwhelmed me quite . " I had a piece of rich sweet pudding on my fork , when Miss Louisa Friendly begged to trouble me for a pigeon that stood near me . In my haste , scarcely knowing what I did , I whipped the pudding into 35.
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... haste in which I retire . A TRAVELLER STOPPED AT A WIDOW'S GATE . A traveller stopped at a widow's gate ; She kept an inn , and he wanted to bait : But the landlady slighted her guest ; For , when Nature was making an ugly race , She ...
... haste in which I retire . A TRAVELLER STOPPED AT A WIDOW'S GATE . A traveller stopped at a widow's gate ; She kept an inn , and he wanted to bait : But the landlady slighted her guest ; For , when Nature was making an ugly race , She ...
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... haste thee , " she ories , " Here the reign of oppression is o'er " The tyrant is robb'd of his prize , " And Adela sorrows no more . " Now sinking amidst the dim ray , " Her form seems to fade on my view , " Oh ! stay thee , my Adela ...
... haste thee , " she ories , " Here the reign of oppression is o'er " The tyrant is robb'd of his prize , " And Adela sorrows no more . " Now sinking amidst the dim ray , " Her form seems to fade on my view , " Oh ! stay thee , my Adela ...
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... haste , and free me from this dungeon's gloom ! Let not the hand of comfortless Despair , Sink my grey hairs with sorrow to the tomb ! Unused Compassion's tribute to demand , With clamorous din wake Charity's dull ear , Wring the slow ...
... haste , and free me from this dungeon's gloom ! Let not the hand of comfortless Despair , Sink my grey hairs with sorrow to the tomb ! Unused Compassion's tribute to demand , With clamorous din wake Charity's dull ear , Wring the slow ...
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Arrah black crows blood Bolus brow Brutus bull Cæsar call'd Cassius clown countreman cried cursed dear death dere devil dinner doctor door dreadful Duke e'er eyes farmer father fear Fiddle-de-dee fool gentleman George Benson ghost give grave hand haste head hear heard heart Heaven Hodge honour horse Husband Irish stew Jolter jonteel lady Lapstone laugh linguæ littel boy look look'd lord loud Madam Mary master Monsieur morn Mortlake mysen ne'er never night nose Numps o'er once pass'd poor portmanteau pray quoth replied Richard Penlake Romford round Saib Sally sare seem'd shilling Sir Phil sleep smile soon soul soup maigre sprite squire sure swear sweet tale tears tell thee there's thing thou thought TOM LONG tongue Twas twill Vell ween wife wild word wretch Xenophon Zounds
Popular passages
Page 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.
Page 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...
Page 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...
Page 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...
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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?
Page 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.
Page 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...