The Speaker's Garland: Comprising 100 Choice Selections ...Penn Publishing Company, 1885 - Readers |
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... knew by the gleam of his eloquent eye His heart was instructing his lips to reply . " Who is to judge when the soul takes its flight ? Who is to judge ' twixt the wrong and the right ? Which of us mortals shall dare to say , That our ...
... knew by the gleam of his eloquent eye His heart was instructing his lips to reply . " Who is to judge when the soul takes its flight ? Who is to judge ' twixt the wrong and the right ? Which of us mortals shall dare to say , That our ...
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... knew ' twas gone ! " It was a ghost ! " said Jimmy , in a whisper . " I knew somethin ' was a - goin ' to happen , ' cause I felt so queer like . " They come a crowdin ' up to find why I'd stopped the train , an ' I swear I never felt ...
... knew ' twas gone ! " It was a ghost ! " said Jimmy , in a whisper . " I knew somethin ' was a - goin ' to happen , ' cause I felt so queer like . " They come a crowdin ' up to find why I'd stopped the train , an ' I swear I never felt ...
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... knew it . So that's my ghost story , an ' it's a true one , sir . KENTUCKY PHILOSOPHY . - HARRISON ROBERTSON . You Wi'yam , cum ' ere , suh , dis instunce . Wu ' dat you got under dat box ? I do ' want no foolin ' - you hear me ? Wut ...
... knew it . So that's my ghost story , an ' it's a true one , sir . KENTUCKY PHILOSOPHY . - HARRISON ROBERTSON . You Wi'yam , cum ' ere , suh , dis instunce . Wu ' dat you got under dat box ? I do ' want no foolin ' - you hear me ? Wut ...
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... knew how to spend . It was thus I arrived at that crisis in life When one's driven to think about taking a wife ; And men who have nothing can scarcely believe How you long for an heir when you've something to leave . I thought of a ...
... knew how to spend . It was thus I arrived at that crisis in life When one's driven to think about taking a wife ; And men who have nothing can scarcely believe How you long for an heir when you've something to leave . I thought of a ...
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... knew his name ; For ten weary years he dwelt there , nursing still his wrath and shame . Then his haughty heart grew softer , and he thought by night and day Of the bride he had deserted , till he hardly dared to pray , - Thought of her ...
... knew his name ; For ten weary years he dwelt there , nursing still his wrath and shame . Then his haughty heart grew softer , and he thought by night and day Of the bride he had deserted , till he hardly dared to pray , - Thought of her ...
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Page 216 - MAY I join the choir invisible Of those immortal dead who live again In minds made better by their presence : live In pulses stirred to generosity, In deeds of daring rectitude, in scorn For miserable aims that end with self. In thoughts sublime that pierce the night like stars, And with their mild persistence urge man's search To vaster issues.
Page 131 - God! who art never out of hearing, O may he never more be warm!" The cold, cold moon above her head, Thus on her knees did Goody pray;' Young Harry heard what she had said: And icy cold he turned away.
Page 11 - I live for those who love me, For those who know me true ; For the Heaven that smiles above me, And awaits my spirit too ; For the cause that lacks assistance, For the wrong that needs resistance, For the future in the distance, And the good that I can do.
Page 24 - ... hopelessness. Gently, silently, the love of a great people bore the pale sufferer to the longed-for healing of the sea, to live or to die, as God should will, within sight of its heaving billows, within sound of its manifold voices.
Page 145 - Waft— waft, ye winds, his story, And you, ye waters, roll, Till, like a sea of glory, It spreads from pole to pole ; Till o'er our...