The reciter's companion; comprising the most popular recitations, comic tales [&c.].1848 |
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... ween , The gender must be Epicene ; An old offender it appears , Who's lived above a thousand years ; For Polyphemus had his odd eye Knock'd out by him -- I mean Nobody . HUMAN LIFE . Man's uncertain life Is like a rain - drop hanging ...
... ween , The gender must be Epicene ; An old offender it appears , Who's lived above a thousand years ; For Polyphemus had his odd eye Knock'd out by him -- I mean Nobody . HUMAN LIFE . Man's uncertain life Is like a rain - drop hanging ...
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... ween , When the shroud was unclosed , and no lady was seen ; When a voice from the kinsmen spoke louder in scorn , - ' Twas the youth who had loved the fair Ellen of Lorn " I dreamt of my lady , I dreamt of her grief , " I dreamt that ...
... ween , When the shroud was unclosed , and no lady was seen ; When a voice from the kinsmen spoke louder in scorn , - ' Twas the youth who had loved the fair Ellen of Lorn " I dreamt of my lady , I dreamt of her grief , " I dreamt that ...
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... ween , Who , with their Dad , all in their best , On Sundays oft were seen- Pacing to church , a healthy line ! In order , two and two ; - But here the Muse begins to sing Of Mrs. Jenkins too . She was a fair and comely dame As ever ...
... ween , Who , with their Dad , all in their best , On Sundays oft were seen- Pacing to church , a healthy line ! In order , two and two ; - But here the Muse begins to sing Of Mrs. Jenkins too . She was a fair and comely dame As ever ...
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... ween , ) To whom belong'd that most enchanting place . The tar , who knew as much of French as Greek , Eyed him at first with something like disdain ; Then , as he shifted round his quid to speak , With growling voice cried , " Ik kan ...
... ween , ) To whom belong'd that most enchanting place . The tar , who knew as much of French as Greek , Eyed him at first with something like disdain ; Then , as he shifted round his quid to speak , With growling voice cried , " Ik kan ...
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... ween , Is hatching there ; or , tell me , why , Soft on his tiptoes , does he hie Back o'er the room again ? All ghastly pale he makes his face , With whiting from the wall ; Then does , with many a sooty trace , His nose , and face ...
... ween , Is hatching there ; or , tell me , why , Soft on his tiptoes , does he hie Back o'er the room again ? All ghastly pale he makes his face , With whiting from the wall ; Then does , with many a sooty trace , His nose , and face ...
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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...