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... leaves , gathered in a spot she had been used to favor . When I die , put near me something that has loved the LIGHT , and had the SKY above it always . ' Those were her words . " 2 . " But Bozzaris FELL , Bleeding at every vein . 6 3 ...
... leaves , gathered in a spot she had been used to favor . When I die , put near me something that has loved the LIGHT , and had the SKY above it always . ' Those were her words . " 2 . " But Bozzaris FELL , Bleeding at every vein . 6 3 ...
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... leaves || opening || as I pass . || " From the streams and founts I have loosed the chain , They are sweeping on to the silvery main , They are flashing down from the mountain brows , They are flinging spray o'er the forest - boughs ...
... leaves || opening || as I pass . || " From the streams and founts I have loosed the chain , They are sweeping on to the silvery main , They are flashing down from the mountain brows , They are flinging spray o'er the forest - boughs ...
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... leaves his native shore , and the first to gladden him who revisits it , may be something which shall remind him of the liberty and glory of his coun- try . Let it rise till it meet the sun in his coming ; let the earliest light of ...
... leaves his native shore , and the first to gladden him who revisits it , may be something which shall remind him of the liberty and glory of his coun- try . Let it rise till it meet the sun in his coming ; let the earliest light of ...
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... leaves , And lets his illumined being o'errun With the deluge of summer it receives . " A striking example of both qualities may be taken from the dialogue between " Old Shylock " and " Portia . " The tones of Shylock's voice , to ...
... leaves , And lets his illumined being o'errun With the deluge of summer it receives . " A striking example of both qualities may be taken from the dialogue between " Old Shylock " and " Portia . " The tones of Shylock's voice , to ...
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... leaf upon the tree . " " " ' Grave ' pieces should have low pitch , ' ' slow time , ' with long quantity and pauses , ' full volume ' soft force ' and ' short slides ' . - also smooth stress ' and ' pure quality ' when the ideas are ...
... leaf upon the tree . " " " ' Grave ' pieces should have low pitch , ' ' slow time , ' with long quantity and pauses , ' full volume ' soft force ' and ' short slides ' . - also smooth stress ' and ' pure quality ' when the ideas are ...
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Page lix - And this man Is now become a god, and Cassius is A wretched creature and must bend his body If Caesar carelessly but nod on him. He had a fever when he was in Spain, And when the fit was on him, I did mark How he did shake; 'tis true, this god did shake; His coward lips did from their...
Page 374 - ONCE upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary, Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore, While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping, As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door. " Tis some visitor," I muttered, "tapping at my chamber door — Only this and nothing more.
Page 360 - And I have loved thee, Ocean ! and my joy Of youthful sports was on thy breast to be Borne, like thy bubbles, onward : from a boy I wantoned with thy breakers — they to me Were a delight : and if the freshening sea Made them a terror — 'twas a pleasing fear, For I was as it were a child of thee, And trusted to thy billows far and near, And laid my hand upon thy mane — as I do here.
Page xxii - We have petitioned, we have remonstrated, we have supplicated, we have prostrated ourselves before the throne, and have implored its interposition to arrest the tyrannical hands of the Ministry and Parliament. Our petitions have been slighted; our remonstrances have produced additional violence and insult; our supplications have been disregarded, and we have been spurned with contempt from the foot of the throne.
Page 238 - Thou, too, sail on, O Ship of State! Sail on, O UNION, strong and great! Humanity with all its fears, With all the hopes of future years, Is hanging breathless on thy fate! We know what Master laid thy keel, What Workmen wrought thy ribs of steel, Who made each mast, and sail, and rope, What anvils rang, what hammers beat, In what a forge, and what a heat Were shaped the anchors of thy hope!
Page 415 - And will, no doubt, with reasons answer you. I come not friends, to steal away your hearts ; I am no orator, as Brutus is ; But as you know me all, a plain blunt man, That love my friend ; and that they know full well That gave me public leave to speak of him.
Page xliv - There was a sound of revelry by night, And Belgium's capital had gathered then Her Beauty and her Chivalry, and bright The lamps shone o'er fair women and brave men ; A thousand hearts beat happily ; and when Music arose with its voluptuous swell, Soft eyes looked love to eyes which spake again, And all went merry as a marriage bell...
Page 414 - But yesterday the word of Caesar might Have stood against the world : now lies he there, And none so poor to do him reverence. O masters ! if I were disposed to stir Your hearts and minds to mutiny and rage, 1 should do Brutus wrong, and Cassius wrong, Who, you all know, are...
Page lxiii - How sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank ! Here will we sit and let the sounds of music Creep in our ears; soft stillness and the night Become the touches of sweet harmony. Sit, Jessica. Look how the floor of heaven Is thick inlaid with patines of bright gold.
Page 155 - On its annual return they will shed tears, copious, gushing tears, not of subjection and slavery, not of agony and distress, but of exultation, of gratitude, and of joy. Sir, before God^ I believe the hour is come. My judgment approves this measure, and my whole heart is in it. All that I have, and all that I am, and all that I hope, in this life, I am now ready here to stake upon it ; and I leave off, as I begun, that live or die, survive or perish, I am for the Declaration.