The reciter's companion; comprising the most popular recitations, comic tales [&c.].1848 |
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... sprite , For scarce a human form the urchin bore : His growth had been so miserably stinted , That three - foot - five was all our knight could claim ; Humpback'd to boot ; besides all this , he squinted , And walk'd , or rather limp'd ...
... sprite , For scarce a human form the urchin bore : His growth had been so miserably stinted , That three - foot - five was all our knight could claim ; Humpback'd to boot ; besides all this , he squinted , And walk'd , or rather limp'd ...
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... sprite , Then cried , Ah ! now be spaking ! And aise me from my sad affright , And tell me if I'm waking ? " Arrah , my dear ! " the shade replied , " I cannot spake you now ! " But I'm thy father's ghost , who died , " Beheaded - G - d ...
... sprite , Then cried , Ah ! now be spaking ! And aise me from my sad affright , And tell me if I'm waking ? " Arrah , my dear ! " the shade replied , " I cannot spake you now ! " But I'm thy father's ghost , who died , " Beheaded - G - d ...
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... she talks ! My ship's , & c . Her white robe , like her bosom swells Full round , expanding wide ; Beats there a heart no rapture tells To eye my beauteous bride ? My ship's , & c . THE SCULLION SPRITE ; OR , THE GARRET GOBLIN . 54.
... she talks ! My ship's , & c . Her white robe , like her bosom swells Full round , expanding wide ; Beats there a heart no rapture tells To eye my beauteous bride ? My ship's , & c . THE SCULLION SPRITE ; OR , THE GARRET GOBLIN . 54.
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Reciter. THE SCULLION SPRITE ; OR , THE GARRET GOBLIN . Ah ! who can see , and seeing not admire , Whene'er she sets the pot upon the fire ! Her hands outshine the fire , and redder things ; Her eyes are blacker than the pot she brings ...
Reciter. THE SCULLION SPRITE ; OR , THE GARRET GOBLIN . Ah ! who can see , and seeing not admire , Whene'er she sets the pot upon the fire ! Her hands outshine the fire , and redder things ; Her eyes are blacker than the pot she brings ...
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... Sprite to flee , She heard the same again . Now terror seized her quaking frame ; For , where the path was bare , The trotting Ghost kept on the same : She mutter'd many a pray'r . Yet once again , amidst her fright , She tried what ...
... Sprite to flee , She heard the same again . Now terror seized her quaking frame ; For , where the path was bare , The trotting Ghost kept on the same : She mutter'd many a pray'r . Yet once again , amidst her fright , She tried what ...
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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...