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... mind not filled with reading , and not exact by writing , he discounts the argument . He who would speak well from the moment , from the utterance of the lip , unaided either by the memory or by the manuscript , must be a man who has ...
... mind not filled with reading , and not exact by writing , he discounts the argument . He who would speak well from the moment , from the utterance of the lip , unaided either by the memory or by the manuscript , must be a man who has ...
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... mind up - he'd be a points- man , too . " He says when he's big like father , he'll work in the box with you . " I frowned , for my heart was heavy , and my wife she saw the look ; Why , bless you , my little Alice could read me like a ...
... mind up - he'd be a points- man , too . " He says when he's big like father , he'll work in the box with you . " I frowned , for my heart was heavy , and my wife she saw the look ; Why , bless you , my little Alice could read me like a ...
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... mind had been on the wander , and I'd neither heard nor seen . With a start I thought of Johnny , and I turned the boy to seek , Then I uttered a groan of anguish , for my lips refused to speak ; There had flashed such a scene of horror ...
... mind had been on the wander , and I'd neither heard nor seen . With a start I thought of Johnny , and I turned the boy to seek , Then I uttered a groan of anguish , for my lips refused to speak ; There had flashed such a scene of horror ...
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... mind now fully conquered by vanity and pride , She , with trembling heart and fingers , on a hassock sat her down , And this little Quaker sinner sewed a tuck into her gown ! Little Patience , art thou ready ? Fifth day meeting time has ...
... mind now fully conquered by vanity and pride , She , with trembling heart and fingers , on a hassock sat her down , And this little Quaker sinner sewed a tuck into her gown ! Little Patience , art thou ready ? Fifth day meeting time has ...
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... mind and lowly . But " tuck - tuck ! " chirped the sparrows , at the little maiden's side ; And , in passing Farmer Watson's , where the barn - door opened wide , Every sound that issued from it , every grunt and every cluck , Was to ...
... mind and lowly . But " tuck - tuck ! " chirped the sparrows , at the little maiden's side ; And , in passing Farmer Watson's , where the barn - door opened wide , Every sound that issued from it , every grunt and every cluck , Was to ...
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ALICE CARY Aristarchus arms Aunt Balaam beautiful Becket bless blue brave breath CHARLES DICKENS child corn Costello courser cried dark David David Copperfield dead dear death Desaix door dream Euphemia eyes face father feet fell fire flowers girl glory gray hair hand hath head hear heard heart heaven Hepton hills Isam John of Salisbury Johnnie Miller King King Tee kiss knew lady land light lips live look Lord Mervane Middlerib morning mother Nestleton never night o'er Orlando pockets poor pray prayer rest Rosalind round seemed side Sir Guy sleep smile Somers soul stand star stood sweet tears tell thee thing THOMAS À BECKET thou thought Trotwood turned Twas Uncle Ben voice wife wild Wildgrave Winkle woman wonder words
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Page 34 - 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 66 - Whom mortals call the moon, Glides glimmering o'er my fleece-like floor, By the midnight breezes strewn ; And wherever the beat of her unseen feet, Which only the angels hear, May have broken the woof of my tent's thin roof, The stars peep behind her and peer ; And I laugh to see them whirl and flee, Like a swarm of golden bees...
Page 67 - I shall see him, but not now: I shall behold him, but not nigh: there shall come a Star out of Jacob; and a Sceptre shall rise out of Israel, and shall smite the corners of Moab, and destroy all the children of Sheth.
Page 66 - I am the daughter of earth and water, And the nursling of the sky ; I pass through the pores of the ocean and shores ; I change, but I cannot die.
Page 36 - Read from some humbler poet, Whose songs gushed from his heart, As showers from the clouds of summer, Or tears from the eyelids start; Who, through long days of labor And nights devoid of ease, Still heard in his soul the music Of wonderful melodies. Such songs have power to quiet The restless pulse of care, And come like the benediction That follows after prayer.
Page 64 - I bring fresh showers for the thirsting flowers, From the seas and the streams; I bear light shade for the leaves when laid In their noonday dreams. From my wings are shaken the dews that waken The sweet buds every one, When rocked to rest on their mother's breast, As she dances about the sun.
Page 185 - There lies the port; the vessel puffs her sail: There gloom the dark broad seas. My mariners, Souls that have toil'd, and wrought, and thought with me— That ever with a frolic welcome took The thunder and the sunshine...
Page 183 - ULYSSES. IT little profits that an idle king, By this still hearth, among these barren crags, Match'd with an aged wife, I mete and dole Unequal laws unto a savage race, That hoard, and sleep, and feed, and know not me. I cannot rest from travel; I will drink Life to the lees: all times I have enjoy'd Greatly, have suffer'd greatly , both with those That loved me, and alone; on shore, and when Thro...