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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... Fire ! fire ! fire ! " And " Fire ! fire ! fire ! " caught by the second crier , Resounding through the streets and avenues , ' Till every watch the warning cry renews . The signal - bell sends out its fierce alarm , And hundreds answer ...
... Fire ! fire ! fire ! " And " Fire ! fire ! fire ! " caught by the second crier , Resounding through the streets and avenues , ' Till every watch the warning cry renews . The signal - bell sends out its fierce alarm , And hundreds answer ...
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... fire of hell Rained on the Russian quarters , With scream of shot , and burst of shell , And bellowing of the mortars . And Irish Nora's eyes are dim For a singer , dumb and gory : And English Mary mourns for him Who sang of " Annie ...
... fire of hell Rained on the Russian quarters , With scream of shot , and burst of shell , And bellowing of the mortars . And Irish Nora's eyes are dim For a singer , dumb and gory : And English Mary mourns for him Who sang of " Annie ...
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... chase to follow . The man in the moon drinks claret , - Eats powdered beef , turnip , and carrot , But a cup of old Malaga sack Would fire the bush at his back . A SOUTHERN SCENE . Attention , friends ! A portraiture OLD TOM OF BEDLAM .
... chase to follow . The man in the moon drinks claret , - Eats powdered beef , turnip , and carrot , But a cup of old Malaga sack Would fire the bush at his back . A SOUTHERN SCENE . Attention , friends ! A portraiture OLD TOM OF BEDLAM .
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... fire ; Her jovial tongue - the string in woman's lyre- Ne'er reproduced its wonted tuneful lays ; Her head downcast like one , in other days , To meditation bound ; her mind , may be , Was calculating southern liberty . EXTRACT . THE ...
... fire ; Her jovial tongue - the string in woman's lyre- Ne'er reproduced its wonted tuneful lays ; Her head downcast like one , in other days , To meditation bound ; her mind , may be , Was calculating southern liberty . EXTRACT . THE ...
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... " Go not eastward , go not westward , For a stranger , whom we know not ! Like a fire upon the hearth - stone , Is a neighbor's homely daughter , 66 Like the starlight or the moonlight Is the handsomest HIAWATHA'S WOOING . 37.
... " Go not eastward , go not westward , For a stranger , whom we know not ! Like a fire upon the hearth - stone , Is a neighbor's homely daughter , 66 Like the starlight or the moonlight Is the handsomest HIAWATHA'S WOOING . 37.
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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.