The reciter's companion; comprising the most popular recitations, comic tales [&c.].1848 |
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... side lay Samba sleeping . Saib . This from you , Hassan ? Did love ever find a place in your flinty bosom ? Has . Did it ! -oh , Said , my heart once was gentle , once was good ! But sorrows have broken it , insults have made it hard ...
... side lay Samba sleeping . Saib . This from you , Hassan ? Did love ever find a place in your flinty bosom ? Has . Did it ! -oh , Said , my heart once was gentle , once was good ! But sorrows have broken it , insults have made it hard ...
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... side ? " With you ! " the helpless husband cried , " Young as I am ? " Tis monstrous hard ! " Besides , in truth , I'm not prepar'd ; " My thoughts on other matters go : " This is my wedding - night , you know . " What more he urged I ...
... side ? " With you ! " the helpless husband cried , " Young as I am ? " Tis monstrous hard ! " Besides , in truth , I'm not prepar'd ; " My thoughts on other matters go : " This is my wedding - night , you know . " What more he urged I ...
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... side . Some tufted molehill through the livelong day She calls her throne - there weeps her life away ; And oft the gaily passing stranger stays His well - timed step , and takes a silent gaze , Till sympathetic drops unbidden start ...
... side . Some tufted molehill through the livelong day She calls her throne - there weeps her life away ; And oft the gaily passing stranger stays His well - timed step , and takes a silent gaze , Till sympathetic drops unbidden start ...
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... sides were ready to crack , When she saw his queer nose , and hump on his back ; ( A hump isn't handsome , no doubt ) ; And though , ' tis confess'd , that the prejudice goes Very strongly in favour of wearing a nose , A nose shouldn't ...
... sides were ready to crack , When she saw his queer nose , and hump on his back ; ( A hump isn't handsome , no doubt ) ; And though , ' tis confess'd , that the prejudice goes Very strongly in favour of wearing a nose , A nose shouldn't ...
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Reciter. The knight then went as usual every day , Along the river side to take a stroll . But spouse within , who'd watch'd all this proceeding , Resolved herself to hear the minstrels play ; So call'd them back , and with another ...
Reciter. The knight then went as usual every day , Along the river side to take a stroll . But spouse within , who'd watch'd all this proceeding , Resolved herself to hear the minstrels play ; So call'd them back , and with another ...
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Página 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.
Página 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...
Página 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...
Página 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...
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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?
Página 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.
Página 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...