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Samuel Niles Sweet. 128. Education essential , both in time of War and Peace , 129. Lord Ullin's Daughter , .. Gen. F. Marion . 289 Thomas Campbell . 291 130. Reading aloud , .. 131. Thanatopsis , .. 132. The Gambler's Wife , .. 133 ...
Samuel Niles Sweet. 128. Education essential , both in time of War and Peace , 129. Lord Ullin's Daughter , .. Gen. F. Marion . 289 Thomas Campbell . 291 130. Reading aloud , .. 131. Thanatopsis , .. 132. The Gambler's Wife , .. 133 ...
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... peace , Than on the torture of the mind to lie In restless ecstasy [ agony ] - " Macbeth means , that his hands are so deeply stained with blood , that should he wash them in the vast ocean , it would change its aspect from green to ...
... peace , Than on the torture of the mind to lie In restless ecstasy [ agony ] - " Macbeth means , that his hands are so deeply stained with blood , that should he wash them in the vast ocean , it would change its aspect from green to ...
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... . TO HIS TROOPS , BEFORE THE GATES OF HARFLEUR . - Shakspeare . 1. Once more unto the breach , dear friends , once more ; Or close the wall up with our English dead ! In peace , there's nothing so becomes a man , 80 SELECT PIECES ...
... . TO HIS TROOPS , BEFORE THE GATES OF HARFLEUR . - Shakspeare . 1. Once more unto the breach , dear friends , once more ; Or close the wall up with our English dead ! In peace , there's nothing so becomes a man , 80 SELECT PIECES ...
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Samuel Niles Sweet. In peace , there's nothing so becomes a man , As modest stillness and humility ; But when the blast of war blows in our ears , Then imitate the action of a tiger ; Stiffen the sinews , summon up the blood , Disguise ...
Samuel Niles Sweet. In peace , there's nothing so becomes a man , As modest stillness and humility ; But when the blast of war blows in our ears , Then imitate the action of a tiger ; Stiffen the sinews , summon up the blood , Disguise ...
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... peaceful , as if he slept under fretted marble , or the grassy sod , silently wept on by the dews of evening , and soothed by the vespers of the softened breeze . Let us fancy to our- selves a choir of the fairest and most exquisite ...
... peaceful , as if he slept under fretted marble , or the grassy sod , silently wept on by the dews of evening , and soothed by the vespers of the softened breeze . Let us fancy to our- selves a choir of the fairest and most exquisite ...
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Page 109 - 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. For I have neither wit, nor words, nor worth, Action, nor utterance, nor the power of speech, To stir men's blood: I only speak right on...
Page 108 - tis his will. Let but the commons hear this testament, — Which, pardon me, I do not mean to read, — And they would go and kiss dead Caesar's wounds, And dip their napkins in his sacred blood; Yea, beg a hair of him for memory, And, dying, mention it within their wills, the Bequeathing it, as a rich legacy, Unto their issue.
Page 103 - Join voices, all ye living Souls : Ye Birds, That singing up to Heaven-gate ascend, Bear on your wings and in your notes his praise. Ye that in waters glide, and ye that walk The earth, and stately tread, or lowly creep ; Witness if I be silent, morn or even, To hill, or valley, fountain, or fresh shade, Made vocal by my song, and taught his praise. Hail, universal Lord, be bounteous still To give us only good ; and if the night Have gather'd aught of evil, or conceal'd, Disperse it, as now light...
Page 77 - There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the lonely shore, There is society, where none intrudes, By the deep Sea, and music in its roar: I love not Man the less, but Nature more, From these our interviews, in which I steal From all I may be, or have been before, To mingle with the Universe, and feel What I can ne'er express, yet cannot all conceal.
Page 103 - Whether to deck with clouds the uncolour'd sky, Or wet the thirsty earth with falling showers, Rising or falling still advance his praise. His praise, ye Winds, that from four quarters blow, Breathe soft or loud ; and, wave your tops, ye Pines, With every plant, in sign of worship wave.
Page 307 - Thou shalt lie down With patriarchs of the infant world — with kings, The powerful of the earth — the wise, the good, Fair forms, and hoary seers of ages past, All in one mighty sepulchre.
Page 108 - If you have tears, prepare to shed them now. You all do know this mantle: I remember The first time ever Caesar put it on; 'Twas on a summer's evening, in his tent; That day he overcame the Nervii : — Look ! In this place ran Cassius...
Page 145 - Liberty first and Union afterwards'; but everywhere, spread all over in characters of living light, blazing on all its ample folds, as they float over the sea and over the land, and in every wind under the whole heavens, that other sentiment, dear to every true American heart, Liberty and Union, now and forever, one and inseparable...
Page 122 - Cromwell, I did not think to shed a tear In all my miseries ; but thou hast forced me, Out of thy honest truth, to play the woman. Let's dry our eyes : and thus far hear me, Cromwell ; And, — when I am forgotten, as I shall be ; And sleep in dull cold marble, where no mention Of me more must be heard of, — say, I taught thee...
Page 150 - Parliament is not a congress of ambassadors from different and hostile interests ; which interests each must maintain, as an agent and advocate, against other agents and advocates ; but parliament is a deliberative assembly of one nation, with one interest, that of the whole ; where, not local purposes, not local prejudices ought to guide, but the general good, resulting from the general reason of the whole.