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... matter ? Here be four of us have taken a thousand pounds this morning . Prince Henry . Where is it , Jack , where is it ? Falstaff . Where is it ? Taken from us , it is . 6. They tell us , sir , that we are Σίν PRACTICAL ELOCUTION .
... matter ? Here be four of us have taken a thousand pounds this morning . Prince Henry . Where is it , Jack , where is it ? Falstaff . Where is it ? Taken from us , it is . 6. They tell us , sir , that we are Σίν PRACTICAL ELOCUTION .
Page xv
... thousand ducats ? 3. Do not tell me of laws ; I am a savage ! I value nò laws . Talk of laws to the Englishman ; there are laws in his country , and yet you see he did not regård them , for they could never allow him to SLIDES , OR ...
... thousand ducats ? 3. Do not tell me of laws ; I am a savage ! I value nò laws . Talk of laws to the Englishman ; there are laws in his country , and yet you see he did not regård them , for they could never allow him to SLIDES , OR ...
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... thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain . 2. Rise , like a cloud of incense , from the earth ! Thou kingly spirit , throned among the hills , Thou dread ambassador from earth to heaven , Great hierarch ! tell thou the silent sky , And ...
... thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain . 2. Rise , like a cloud of incense , from the earth ! Thou kingly spirit , throned among the hills , Thou dread ambassador from earth to heaven , Great hierarch ! tell thou the silent sky , And ...
Page xxxv
... thousands upon thousands of brilliant stars ; and the effect to the eye - to mine , at least - was as if I had had my hand full of diamonds , and suddenly unclosing it and flinging them forth , they were dis- persed as from a cèntre ...
... thousands upon thousands of brilliant stars ; and the effect to the eye - to mine , at least - was as if I had had my hand full of diamonds , and suddenly unclosing it and flinging them forth , they were dis- persed as from a cèntre ...
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... thousand ducats ? " or Shall I bend lòw , and in a bondman's key , With ' bated breath and whispering humbleness , Say this- " Fair Sir , you spit on me on Wednesday last ; You spurned me such a day ; another time You called me dòg ...
... thousand ducats ? " or Shall I bend lòw , and in a bondman's key , With ' bated breath and whispering humbleness , Say this- " Fair Sir , you spit on me on Wednesday last ; You spurned me such a day ; another time You called me dòg ...
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Page 108 - Hear the sledges with the bells Silver bells! What a world of merriment their melody foretells! How they tinkle, tinkle, tinkle, In the icy air of night! While the stars that oversprinkle All the heavens, seem to twinkle With a crystalline delight...
Page 283 - I see before me the Gladiator lie: He leans upon his hand - his manly brow Consents to death, but conquers agony, And his drooped head sinks gradually low And through his side the last drops, ebbing slow From the red gash, fall heavy, one by one, Like the first of a thunder-shower; and now The arena swims around him - he is gone, Ere ceased the inhuman shout which hail'd the wretch who won.
Page 389 - PRAISE ye the LORD. Praise ye the LORD from the heavens : Praise him in the heights. Praise ye him, all his angels : Praise ye him, all his hosts. Praise ye him, sun and moon : Praise him, all ye stars of light.
Page 108 - Hear the mellow wedding bells, Golden bells! What a world of happiness their harmony foretells ! Through the balmy air of night How they ring out their delight! From the molten-golden notes, And all in tune, What a liquid ditty floats To the turtle-dove that listens, while she gloats On the moon...
Page 28 - That orbed maiden with white fire laden, 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 29 - 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. For after the rain when with never a stain, The pavilion of heaven is bare, And the winds and sunbeams with their convex gleams, Build up the blue dome of air, I silently laugh at my own cenotaph, And out of the caverns of rain, Like a child from the womb, like a ghost from the tomb, I arise and unbuild it again.
Page 27 - The sweet buds every one, When rocked to rest on their mother's breast, As she dances about the sun. I wield the flail of the lashing hail, And whiten the green plains under, And then again I dissolve it in rain, And laugh as I pass in thunder. I sift the snow on the mountains below, And their great pines groan aghast, And all the night 'tis my pillow white, While I sleep in the arms of the blast.
Page 353 - Come the three corners of the world in arms, And we shall shock them. Nought shall make us rue, If England to itself do rest but true.
Page 168 - It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the queen of France, then the dauphiness, at Versailles; and surely never lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful vision.
Page 168 - Little did I dream when she added titles of veneration to those of enthusiastic, distant, respectful love, that she should ever be obliged to carry the sharp antidote against disgrace concealed in that bosom; little did I dream that I should have lived to see such disasters fallen upon her in a nation of gallant men, in a nation of men of honour and of cavaliers. I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards to avenge even a look that threatened her with insult.