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" Gradually the crowd gathered round him. At first he spoke of the tanners, and the smiths, and the drovers, who were plying their trades about him ; and they shouted with laughter as he poured forth his homely jokes. But soon the magic charm of his voice... "
A history of Greece - Page 384
by Frederick Arnold - 1871 - 500 pages
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 88

William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1851 - 604 pages
...their trades about him ; and they shouted with laughter as he poured forth his homely jokes. But soon the magic charm of his voice made itself felt. The...could compare to nothing but the mysterious sensation produced by the clash of drum and cymbal in the worship of the great Mother of the Gods — the head...
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The Wesleyan-Methodist Magazine

Arminianism - 1851 - 658 pages
...their trades about him ; and they shouted with laughter as he poured forth his homely jokes. But soon the magic charm of his voice made itself felt. The...could compare to nothing but the mysterious sensation produced by the clash of drum and cymbal in the worship of the great mother of the gods ; the head...
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The London Quarterly Review, Volume 88

1851 - 354 pages
...their trades about him ; and they shouted with laughter as he poured forth his homely jokes. But soon the magic charm of his voice made itself felt. The...could compare to nothing but the mysterious sensation produced by the clash of drum and cymbal in the worship of the great Mother of the Gods — the head...
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Heads of an Analysis of the History of Greece ...

Dawson William Turner - Greece - 1853 - 122 pages
...their trades about him ; and they shouted with laughter as he poured lorth his homely jokes. But soon the magic charm of his voice made itself felt. The...could compare to nothing but the mysterious sensation produced by the clash of drum and cymbal in the worship of the great mother of the gods — the head...
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New Monthly Magazine, and Universal Register, Volume 132

1864 - 522 pages
...shout with laughter as he pours forth his homely jokes. But soon the magic charm of his voice makes itself felt. " The peculiar sweetness of its tone...awestruck in his presence — there was a solemn thrill in bis words, such as his hearers could compare to nothing but the mysterious sensation produced by the...
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Repetition and reading book, selections by C. Bilton

Charles Bilton - 1866 - 264 pages
...their trades about him ; and they shouted with laughter as he poured forth his homely jokes. But soon the magic charm of his voice made itself felt. The...presence — there was a solemn thrill in his words — the head swam, the heart leaped at the sound — tears rushed from their eyes, and they felt that,...
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Lectures on the History of the Jewish Church: The captivity to the Christian era

Arthur Penrhyn Stanley - Jews - 1876 - 576 pages
...about him ; and they shouted with laughter as he poured forth his homely jokes. But soon the m;igic charm of his voice made itself felt. The peculiar...thickened — the gay youth whom nothing else could time stood transfixed and awestruck in his presence ; there was a solemn thrill in his words, such...
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Lectures on the History of the Jewish Church, Part 3

Arthur Penrhyn Stanley - History, Ancient - 1876 - 600 pages
...their trades about him ; and they shouted with laughter as he poured forth his homely jokes. But soon the magic charm of his voice made itself felt. The...even the thunder of Pericles failed to produce. The 1 See Lectures XIX., XXX., XXXVII.; Plato, Symp., c. 89. laughter ceased — the crowd thickened —...
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Lectures on the History of the Jewish Church, Page 3

Arthur Penrhyn Stanley - Jews - 1877 - 548 pages
...their trades about him ; and they shonted with laughter as he poured forth his homely jokes. Bnt soon the magic charm of his voice made itself felt. The...could compare to nothing but the mysterious sensation produced by the clash of drum and cymbal in the worship of the great Mother of the Gods — the head...
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The Acts and Epistles of St. Paul

Frederic Amadeus Malleson - Bible - 1881 - 648 pages
...their trades about him ; and they shouted with laughter as he poured forth his homely jokes. But soon the magic charm of his voice made itself felt. The...could compare to nothing but the mysterious sensation produced by the clash of the drum and cymbal in the worship of the great mother of the gods ; the head...
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