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... red nostril's play , He seemed to the whole great army to say , " I have brought you Sheridan all the way From Winchester , down to save the day . " Hurrah ! hurrah for Sheridan ! Hurrah ! hurrah for 32 ONE HUNDRED CHOICE SELECTIONS .
... red nostril's play , He seemed to the whole great army to say , " I have brought you Sheridan all the way From Winchester , down to save the day . " Hurrah ! hurrah for Sheridan ! Hurrah ! hurrah for 32 ONE HUNDRED CHOICE SELECTIONS .
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... seemed as if the earth was lighted up , that the nations might behold the scene . As that mighty sea of fire gathered and heaved and rolled up- ward , and yet higher , till its flames licked the stars , and fired the whole heavens , it ...
... seemed as if the earth was lighted up , that the nations might behold the scene . As that mighty sea of fire gathered and heaved and rolled up- ward , and yet higher , till its flames licked the stars , and fired the whole heavens , it ...
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... seemed to see Within the same warm chamber a glorious Christmas tree . The branches were all laden with things that children prize , Bright gifts for boy and maiden - she saw them with her eyes . And she almost seemed to touch them ...
... seemed to see Within the same warm chamber a glorious Christmas tree . The branches were all laden with things that children prize , Bright gifts for boy and maiden - she saw them with her eyes . And she almost seemed to touch them ...
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... uninterrupted silence . With his moccasins of magic , At each stride a mile he measured ; Yet the way seemed long before him , And his heart outrun his footsteps ; And he journeyed 148 ONE HUNDRED CHOICE SELECTIONS .
... uninterrupted silence . With his moccasins of magic , At each stride a mile he measured ; Yet the way seemed long before him , And his heart outrun his footsteps ; And he journeyed 148 ONE HUNDRED CHOICE SELECTIONS .
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... Seemed more lovely , as she stood there , Neither willing nor reluctant , As she went to Hiawatha , Softly took the seat beside him , While she said , and blushed to say it , " I will follow you , my husband ! " 16 This was Hiawatha's ...
... Seemed more lovely , as she stood there , Neither willing nor reluctant , As she went to Hiawatha , Softly took the seat beside him , While she said , and blushed to say it , " I will follow you , my husband ! " 16 This was Hiawatha's ...
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Page 101 - Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears; •> I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him. The evil, that men do, lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones; \ So let it be with Caesar.
Page 108 - O, it offends me to the soul, to hear a robustious periwig-pated fellow tear a passion to tatters, to very rags, to split the ears of the groundlings...
Page 145 - twas but the wind, Or the car rattling o'er the stony street; On with the dance! let joy be unconfined; No sleep till morn, when Youth and Pleasure meet To chase the glowing Hours with flying feet...
Page 134 - O love, they die in yon rich sky, They faint on hill or field or river; Our echoes roll from soul to soul, And grow for ever and for ever. Blow, bugle, blow, set the wild echoes flying, And answer, echoes, answer, dying, dying, dying.
Page 34 - If we shall suppose that American slavery is one of those offenses which, in the providence of God, must needs come, but which, having continued through His appointed time, He now wills to remove, and that He gives to both North and South this terrible war as the woe due to those by whom the offense came, shall we discern therein any departure from those divine attributes which the believers in a living God always ascribe to Him?
Page 100 - Brutus' love to Caesar was no less than his. If then that friend demand why Brutus rose against Caesar, this is my answer, — Not that I loved Caesar less, but that I loved Rome more. Had you rather Caesar were living, and die all slaves, than that Caesar were dead, to live all...
Page 134 - The splendor falls on castle walls And snowy summits old in story: The long light shakes across the lakes, And the wild cataract leaps in glory. Blow, bugle, blow, set the wild echoes flying, Blow, bugle ; answer, echoes, dying, dying, dying. O hark, O hear ! how thin and clear, And thinner, clearer, farther going ! O sweet and far from cliff and scar The horns of Elfland faintly blowing ! Blow, let us hear the purple glens replying: Blow, bugle ; answer, echoes, dying, dying, dying.
Page 108 - I pronounced it to you, trippingly on the tongue : but if you mouth it, as many of your players do, I had as lief the town-crier spoke my lines. Nor do not saw the air too much with your hand, thus ; but use all gently ; for in the very torrent, tempest, and, as I may say, whirlwind of your passion, you must acquire and beget a temperance that may give it smoothness.
Page 72 - But the Raven still beguiling all my sad soul into smiling, Straight I wheeled a cushioned seat in front of bird and bust and door; Then, upon the velvet sinking, I betook myself to linking Fancy unto fancy, thinking what this ominous bird of yore, What this grim, ungainly, ghastly, gaunt, and ominous bird of yore Meant in croaking "Nevermore.
Page 142 - NAY, then, farewell, I have touch'd the highest point of all my greatness ; And, from that full meridian of my glory, I haste now to my setting: I shall fall Like a bright exhalation in the evening, And no man see me more.