The Rival Collection of Prose and Poetry, for the Use of Schools, Colleges and Public ReadersJ. W. Schermerhorn & Company, 1872 - Всего страниц: 504 |
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... lives , and the fate of their wives , their children , and their country , hang on the decision of the hour . Then , words have lost their power , rhetoric is vain , and all elaborate oratory contemptible . Even genius itself then feels ...
... lives , and the fate of their wives , their children , and their country , hang on the decision of the hour . Then , words have lost their power , rhetoric is vain , and all elaborate oratory contemptible . Even genius itself then feels ...
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... live , The fewer men , the greater share of honor . I pray thee do not wish for one man more . By Jove , I am not covetous of gold ; Nor care I who doth feed upon my cost ; It yearns me not if men my garments wear ; - Such outward ...
... live , The fewer men , the greater share of honor . I pray thee do not wish for one man more . By Jove , I am not covetous of gold ; Nor care I who doth feed upon my cost ; It yearns me not if men my garments wear ; - Such outward ...
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... live to deplore ! " Where is my cabin - door , fast by the wild wood ? - Sisters and sire , did ye weep for its fall ? Where is the mother that looked on my childhood ? And where is the bosom - friend , dearer than all ? 62 ABSALOM . Ah ...
... live to deplore ! " Where is my cabin - door , fast by the wild wood ? - Sisters and sire , did ye weep for its fall ? Where is the mother that looked on my childhood ? And where is the bosom - friend , dearer than all ? 62 ABSALOM . Ah ...
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... live and die on the scene of history , looking up to Heaven . Our great men live and die looking at the spectator ; or , at most , at posterity . Open the history of America , the history of England , and the history of France ...
... live and die on the scene of history , looking up to Heaven . Our great men live and die looking at the spectator ; or , at most , at posterity . Open the history of America , the history of England , and the history of France ...
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... live long in his new habitation . " He gave the two blacksmiths a sumptuous regale ; He spared not provisions , his wine , nor his ale e ; So much was he pleased with the thought that each guest Would take from him noise , and restore ...
... live long in his new habitation . " He gave the two blacksmiths a sumptuous regale ; He spared not provisions , his wine , nor his ale e ; So much was he pleased with the thought that each guest Would take from him noise , and restore ...
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Стр. 275 - Theirs not to make reply, Theirs not to reason why, Theirs but to do and die. Into the valley of Death Rode the six hundred.
Стр. 16 - Flag of the free heart's hope and home, By angel hands to valor given ! Thy stars have lit the welkin dome, And all thy hues were born in heaven. Forever float that standard sheet ! Where breathes the foe but falls before us, With Freedom's soil beneath our feet, And Freedom's banner streaming o'er us ! JOSEPH RODMAN DRAKE.
Стр. 397 - 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...
Стр. 298 - To die — to sleep. To sleep — perchance to dream: ay, there's the rub! For in that sleep of death what dreams may come When we have shuffled off this mortal coil, Must give us pause. There's the respect That makes calamity of so long life. For who would bear the whips and scorns of time...
Стр. 430 - It is too full o' the milk of human kindness To catch the nearest way : thou wouldst be great ; Art not without ambition, but without The illness should attend it: what thou wouldst highly, That wouldst thou holily ; wouldst not play false, And yet wouldst wrongly win: thou'dst have, great Glamis, That which cries ' Thus thou must do, if thou have it; And that which rather thou dost fear to do Than wishest should be undone.
Стр. 121 - Since once I sat upon a promontory, And heard a mermaid on a dolphin's back Uttering such dulcet and harmonious breath, That the rude sea grew civil at her song, And certain stars shot madly from their spheres, To hear the sea-maid's music.
Стр. 392 - ... accent of Christians nor the gait of Christian, pagan, nor man, have so strutted and bellowed that I have thought some of nature's journeymen had made men, and not made them well, they imitated humanity so abominably.
Стр. 422 - The splendor falls on castle walls And snowy summits old in story: The long light shakes across the lakes, And the wild cataract leaps in glory, Blow, bugle, blow, set the wild echoes flying, Blow, bugle; answer, echoes, dying, dying, dying.
Стр. 30 - The Assyrian came down like the wolf on the fold, And his cohorts were gleaming in purple and gold; And the sheen of their spears was like stars on the sea, When the blue wave rolls nightly on deep Galilee. Like the leaves of the forest when summer is green, That host with their banners at sunset were seen: Like the leaves of the forest when autumn hath blown, That host on the morrow lay withered and strown.
Стр. 412 - ... the vile strength he wields for earth's destruction thou dost all despise, spurning him from thy bosom to the skies: and send'st him, shivering, in thy playful spray, and howling, to his Gods, where haply lies his petty hope in some near port or bay; then dashest him again to earth — there let him lay!