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The Plays of Shakespeare: A Thematic Guide
by Victor L. Cahn - 2001 - 361 pages
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Progressive Exercises in Rhetorical Reading: Particularly Designed to ...

Richard Green Parker - Elocution - 1835 - 158 pages
...often did beguile her of her tears, When I did speak of some distressful stroke That my youth suffered. My story being done, She gave me for my pains a world...made her such a man. She thank'd me : And bade me, if I had a friend that lov'd her, I should but teach him how to tell my story, And that would woo her....
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Salmagundi: Second series

James Kirke Paulding - 1835 - 570 pages
...heads Do grow beneath their shoulders," &c. &c. " All this to hear would Desdemona seriously incline ; She swore in faith 'twas strange, 'twas passing strange, 'Twas pitiful, 'twas wondrous pitiful," &c. &c. Finally, to cut off a long story which the blackmoor tells to the senators, " She loved him...
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My Life, Volume 2

William Hamilton Maxwell - 1835 - 220 pages
...interested him most. But Emily, with pale cheeks and " lips apart," heard me in silent wonder — and My story being done, She gave me for my pains a world of sighs. "What course is to be pursued, gentlemen ?" said Mr. Harrison. "Alas! that the child of him I loved...
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My life, by the author of 'Stories of Waterloo'.

William Hamilton Maxwell - 1835 - 970 pages
...interested him most. But Emily, with pale cheeks and " lips apart," heard me in silent wonder — and, My story being done, She gave me for my pains a world of sighs. " What course is to be pursued, gentlemen ?" said Mr. Harrison. " Alas ! that the child of him I loved...
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Paulding's Works: Salmagundi; or, The whim-whams and opinions of Launcelot ...

James Kirke Paulding - 1835 - 568 pages
...head* Do grow beneath their shoulders," &c. &c. " All this to hear would Desdemona seriously incline ; She swore in faith 'twas strange, 'twas passing strange, ' 'Twas pitiful, 'twas wondrous pitiful," &c. &c. Finally, to cut off a long story which the blackmoor tells to the senators, " She loved him...
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Salmagundi: Second Series, Volume 1

James Kirke Paulding - 1835 - 618 pages
...heads Do grow beneath their shoulders," &c. &c. " All this to hear would Desdemona seriously incline ; She swore in faith 'twas strange, 'twas passing strange, Twas pitiful, 'twas wondrous pitiful," &c. &c. Finally, to cut off a long story which the blackmoor tells to the senators, • " She loved...
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The United States Speaker: A Copious Selection of Exercises in Elocution ...

John Epy Lovell - Elocution - 1836 - 534 pages
...often did beguile her of her tears, When I did speak of some distressful stroke That my youth suffered. My story being done, She gave me for my pains, a world...strange; 'Twas pitiful, 'twas" wondrous pitiful ;" She wished she had not heard it ; — yet she wished That heaven had made her such a man ;•. — she...
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The Elocutionist: Consisting of Declamations and Readings in Prose and ...

Jonathan Barber - Oratory - 1836 - 404 pages
...often did beguile her of her tears, When I did speak of some distressful stroke That my youth suffered. My story being done, She gave me for my pains a world...strange; 'Twas pitiful, 'twas wondrous pitiful:" She wished she had not heard it;—yet she wished That heav'n had made hersucA a man ;—she thanked me:...
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King Lear. Romeo and Juliet. Hamlet. Othello

William Shakespeare - 1836 - 534 pages
...did beguile her of her tears, When I did speak of some distressful stroke, That my youth suffered. My story being done, She gave me for my pains a world of sighs : She swore 2 — In faith, 'twas strange, 'twas passing strange ; 'Twas pitiful, 'twas wondrous pitiful; She wished...
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The National Preceptor: Or, Selections in Prose and Poetry; Consisting of ...

Jesse Olney - Readers - 1838 - 346 pages
...gave me for my pains a worm of sighs. She swore in faith, 'twas strange, 'twas passing strange ; Twa» pitiful ; 'twas wond'rous pitiful ; She wish'd she...yet she wish'd That heaven had made her such a man. 6. She thank' d me, And bade me, if I had a friend that lov'd her, I should but teach him how to tell...
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