The Speaker's Garland: Comprising 100 Choice Selections ...Penn Publishing Company, 1885 - Readers |
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... voice of the big man who was leaning on his cane , still looking at me , " it is as bad to lie about a thing as it is to steal . I saw you pick some- thing up , and to me it had the appearance of money . ” He struck his cane on the ...
... voice of the big man who was leaning on his cane , still looking at me , " it is as bad to lie about a thing as it is to steal . I saw you pick some- thing up , and to me it had the appearance of money . ” He struck his cane on the ...
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... voice Just now , I think he must be very near- Coming , I trust , to break the veil , which time Has worn so thin that I can see beyond , And watch his footsteps . So , raise up my head . How dark it NUMBER TWENTY - ONE . 51.
... voice Just now , I think he must be very near- Coming , I trust , to break the veil , which time Has worn so thin that I can see beyond , And watch his footsteps . So , raise up my head . How dark it NUMBER TWENTY - ONE . 51.
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... voice were the voice of an angel . The tones vibrated through nerve and pulse and heart , and made one shiver with the pathos of his feeling ; never was heard melody in a hu- man voice like that - so plaintive , so soulful , so tender ...
... voice were the voice of an angel . The tones vibrated through nerve and pulse and heart , and made one shiver with the pathos of his feeling ; never was heard melody in a hu- man voice like that - so plaintive , so soulful , so tender ...
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... voice so grand Ever yet had soared responsive to the master's magic hand . Ay , so rarely was it builded that whenever groom or bride Who in God's sight were well - pleasing in the church stood side by side , Without touch or breath the ...
... voice so grand Ever yet had soared responsive to the master's magic hand . Ay , so rarely was it builded that whenever groom or bride Who in God's sight were well - pleasing in the church stood side by side , Without touch or breath the ...
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... voice answered that he might answer himself . Then the angel threw up his glorious hands toward the heaven of heavens , saying , " End is there none to the universe of God ! Lo , also there is no beginning ! " IRISH COQUETRY . Says ...
... voice answered that he might answer himself . Then the angel threw up his glorious hands toward the heaven of heavens , saying , " End is there none to the universe of God ! Lo , also there is no beginning ! " IRISH COQUETRY . Says ...
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Popular passages
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...