The Orator: A Monthly Magazine of Speeches, Plays, Dialogues, Recitations, and Scenes; Tragic, Pathetic, Comic, and Descriptive, Volume 1T. S. Hawks., 1857 |
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... dark wave . Since then , I kiss never the maid's eye of light ! Since then , I know never the soft joys of night ! Like a madman I gaze on this raven - black shawl ! Remorse , fear , and anguish - this heart knows them all . THE true ...
... dark wave . Since then , I kiss never the maid's eye of light ! Since then , I know never the soft joys of night ! Like a madman I gaze on this raven - black shawl ! Remorse , fear , and anguish - this heart knows them all . THE true ...
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... dark chandeliers are glittering bright ; And hung were the tapestry windows and all , With dark folded crape , like a funeral pall . " But why is that niche in the wall cut anew ? These implements hither ? My work , it is true ! " He ...
... dark chandeliers are glittering bright ; And hung were the tapestry windows and all , With dark folded crape , like a funeral pall . " But why is that niche in the wall cut anew ? These implements hither ? My work , it is true ! " He ...
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... dark Redan , in silent scoff , Lay grim and threatening , under ; And the tawny mound of the Malakoff No longer belched its thunder . There was a pause . A guardsman said : 66 We storm the forts to - morrow ; Sing while we may , another ...
... dark Redan , in silent scoff , Lay grim and threatening , under ; And the tawny mound of the Malakoff No longer belched its thunder . There was a pause . A guardsman said : 66 We storm the forts to - morrow ; Sing while we may , another ...
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... dark eye flashed - his proud breast heaved - his cheeks ' hue came and went ― He reached that gray - haired chieftain's side , and there dismounting bent- - A lowly knee to earth he bent ; his father's hand he took What was there in its ...
... dark eye flashed - his proud breast heaved - his cheeks ' hue came and went ― He reached that gray - haired chieftain's side , and there dismounting bent- - A lowly knee to earth he bent ; his father's hand he took What was there in its ...
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... dark ; Limping Vulcan het an iron bar , And furiously made at the God of War . Mars , with his weapons , laid about ; But Vulcan's temples had the gout ; For his broad horns did so hang in his sight , He could not see to aim his blows ...
... dark ; Limping Vulcan het an iron bar , And furiously made at the God of War . Mars , with his weapons , laid about ; But Vulcan's temples had the gout ; For his broad horns did so hang in his sight , He could not see to aim his blows ...
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Page 83 - I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and unbreathed, that never sallies out and sees her adversary, but slinks out of the race, where that immortal garland is to be run for not without dust and heat.
Page 155 - tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, Or to take arms against a sea of troubles, And by opposing end them ? To die: to sleep...
Page 159 - Mine eyes are made the fools o' the other senses, Or else worth all the rest ; I see thee still, And on thy blade and dudgeon gouts of blood, Which was not so before. There's no such thing : It is the bloody business which informs Thus to mine eyes.
Page 153 - O, now you weep, and I perceive you feel The dint of pity; these are gracious drops. Kind souls, what! weep you when you but behold Our Caesar's vesture wounded ? Look you here, Here is himself, marr'd, as you see, with traitors.
Page 158 - My story being done, She gave me for my pains a world of sighs : She swore, — in faith, 'twas strange, 'twas passing strange ; 'Twas pitiful, 'twas wondrous pitiful...
Page 204 - gainst self-slaughter! O God! O God! How weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable Seem to me all the uses of this world! Fie on't! ah, fie! 'tis an unweeded garden, That grows to seed; things rank and gross in nature, Possess it merely.
Page 159 - Pale Hecate's offerings : and wither'd murder, Alarum'd by his sentinel, the wolf, Whose howl's his watch, thus with his stealthy pace, With Tarquin's ravishing strides, towards his design Moves like a ghost. Thou sure and firm-set earth, Hear not my steps, which way they walk, for fear Thy very stones prate of my where-about, And take the present horror from the time, Which now suits with it.
Page 152 - 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 honorable man. You all did see that on the Lupercal I thrice presented him a kingly crown Which he did thrice refuse: was this ambition?
Page 151 - 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 74 - River where ford there was none; But, ere he alighted at Nethe'rby gate, The bride had consented, the gallant came late: For. a laggard in love and a dastard in war Was to wed the fair Ellen of brave Lochinvar.