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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... thou art feasting , " he whisperingly said ; But she has betrayed thee ; the young Grecian maid . " I cursed him , and gave him good guerdon of gold ; And called me a slave that was trusty and bold . My charger ! my charger ! -we mount ...
... thou art feasting , " he whisperingly said ; But she has betrayed thee ; the young Grecian maid . " I cursed him , and gave him good guerdon of gold ; And called me a slave that was trusty and bold . My charger ! my charger ! -we mount ...
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... thou and I will meet him on his way . " Then lightly rose that loyal son , and bounded on his steed , And urged , as if with lance in rest , the charger's foamy speed . And lo ! from far , as on they pressed , there came a glittering ...
... thou and I will meet him on his way . " Then lightly rose that loyal son , and bounded on his steed , And urged , as if with lance in rest , the charger's foamy speed . And lo ! from far , as on they pressed , there came a glittering ...
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... thou on , false king ! and tell me what is this ? The voice , the glance , the heart I sought - give answer , where are they ? -If thou wouldst clear thy perjured soul , send life through this cold clay ; " Into these glassy eyes put ...
... thou on , false king ! and tell me what is this ? The voice , the glance , the heart I sought - give answer , where are they ? -If thou wouldst clear thy perjured soul , send life through this cold clay ; " Into these glassy eyes put ...
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... Thou , God on high , Who answereth for his depravity ! " Where hast thou been ? " - the master's quick enquire , While jealousy is nourishing his ire- " To massa's neighbor , where I may not go , To see the missus dat I do lub so ; 66 ...
... Thou , God on high , Who answereth for his depravity ! " Where hast thou been ? " - the master's quick enquire , While jealousy is nourishing his ire- " To massa's neighbor , where I may not go , To see the missus dat I do lub so ; 66 ...
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... thou - sand strings - sperits of just men made perfeck . " But I'll tell you the kind uv sperits as is ment in the tex , it's fire . That is the kind of sperits as is ment in the tex , my breeth- ring . Now thar's a great many kinds of ...
... thou - sand strings - sperits of just men made perfeck . " But I'll tell you the kind uv sperits as is ment in the tex , it's fire . That is the kind of sperits as is ment in the tex , my breeth- ring . Now thar's a great many kinds of ...
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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.