The reciter's companion; comprising the most popular recitations, comic tales [&c.].1848 |
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... door , with vhite - vashed lustre , you have it , sir , and hang it out , to gull the people . BRIS . And therefore do I prize it . I vould cobble for ' em , and they shall pay me for it ; but vhen a covey , vith his cheek , chaffs at ...
... door , with vhite - vashed lustre , you have it , sir , and hang it out , to gull the people . BRIS . And therefore do I prize it . I vould cobble for ' em , and they shall pay me for it ; but vhen a covey , vith his cheek , chaffs at ...
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... door , like a sack ; While the landlady touching the chink , Cried , " Sir , should you travel this country again , I heartily hope that the sweetest of men Will stop at the widow's to drink . ” C THE ORPHAN BOY . ( MRS . OPIE . ) 37 A ...
... door , like a sack ; While the landlady touching the chink , Cried , " Sir , should you travel this country again , I heartily hope that the sweetest of men Will stop at the widow's to drink . ” C THE ORPHAN BOY . ( MRS . OPIE . ) 37 A ...
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... gates are closed , " You know my orders - I shall lose " My place if I undo the door . " " And I. " young Hopeful interposed " Shall be expell'd if you refuse , " So prithee " -Ben began to snore . 38 " I'm wet , " cried Harry , " to 50.
... gates are closed , " You know my orders - I shall lose " My place if I undo the door . " " And I. " young Hopeful interposed " Shall be expell'd if you refuse , " So prithee " -Ben began to snore . 38 " I'm wet , " cried Harry , " to 50.
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... door , and found it fast ! With sundry oaths , and growls and groans , He rang once - twice - thrice ; and then , Mingled with giggling , heard the tones Of Harry mimicking old Ben , " Who's there ? ' tis really a disgrace " To ring so ...
... door , and found it fast ! With sundry oaths , and growls and groans , He rang once - twice - thrice ; and then , Mingled with giggling , heard the tones Of Harry mimicking old Ben , " Who's there ? ' tis really a disgrace " To ring so ...
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... door , She stretch'd her limbs , with far more ease than grace , Where many a time she'd stretch'd those limbs be- fore . Next morn , with pail and stool came milkmaid Dolly , Who soon uproused her old acquaintance Colly ; She pressed ...
... door , She stretch'd her limbs , with far more ease than grace , Where many a time she'd stretch'd those limbs be- fore . Next morn , with pail and stool came milkmaid Dolly , Who soon uproused her old acquaintance Colly ; She pressed ...
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Popular passages
Page 148 - 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 houourable man. You all did see that on the Lupercal I thrice presented him a kingly crown, Which he did thrice refuse: was this ambition? Yet Brutus says he was ambitious; And, sure, he is an honourable man.
Page 150 - My liege, I did deny no prisoners. But, I remember, when the fight was done, When I was dry with rage, and extreme toil, Breathless and faint, leaning upon my sword, Came there a certain lord, neat...
Page 148 - Which he did thrice refuse. Was this ambition ? Yet Brutus says, he was ambitious ; And, sure, he is an honourable man. I speak not to disprove what Brutus spoke, But here I am to speak what I do know. You all did love him once, not without cause ; What cause withholds you then to mourn for him ? 0 judgment, thou art fled to brutish beasts, And men have lost their reason...
Page 237 - When Cheerfulness, a nymph of healthiest hue, Her bow across her shoulder flung, Her buskins gemm'd with morning dew, Blew an inspiring air, that dale and thicket rung, The hunter's call to Faun and Dryad known...
Page 163 - On Linden, when the sun was low, All bloodless lay the untrodden snow, And dark as winter was the flow Of Iser, rolling rapidly.
Page 237 - And though sometimes, each dreary pause between, Dejected Pity at his side, Her soul-subduing voice applied, Yet still he kept his wild unalter'd mien, While each strain'd ball of sight seem'd bursting from his head.
Page 202 - By heaven, I had rather coin my heart, And drop my blood for drachmas, than to wring From the hard hands of peasants their vile trash, By any indirection.
Page 209 - Alas ! the joys that fortune brings Are trifling, and decay; And those who prize the paltry things, More trifling still than they. "And what is friendship but a name, A charm that lulls to sleep; A shade that follows wealth or fame, But leaves the wretch to weep?
Page 206 - tis madness to defer: Next day the fatal precedent will plead ; Thus on, till wisdom is push'd out of life. Procrastination is the thief of time ; Year after year it steals, till all are fled, And to the mercies of a moment leaves The vast concerns of an eternal scene.
Page 238 - Can well recall what then it heard. Where is thy native, simple heart, Devote to Virtue, Fancy, Art ? Arise, as in that elder time, Warm...