The reciter's companion; comprising the most popular recitations, comic tales [&c.].1848 |
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... once from the shrew and the rabble , Then ventured to give him some sober advice . But Tom is a person of honour so nice , Too wise to take counsel , too proud to take warning , That he sent to all three a challenge next morning , Three ...
... once from the shrew and the rabble , Then ventured to give him some sober advice . But Tom is a person of honour so nice , Too wise to take counsel , too proud to take warning , That he sent to all three a challenge next morning , Three ...
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... once , how to apply The meaning first , and hang the tale thereby . People full oft are put into a pother , For want of understanding one another ; And strange amusing stories creep about , That come to nothing if you trace them out ...
... once , how to apply The meaning first , and hang the tale thereby . People full oft are put into a pother , For want of understanding one another ; And strange amusing stories creep about , That come to nothing if you trace them out ...
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... Once more their missing friend they found , As they had often done before - in liquor . " See ! " cried his moralizing master , " I always knew the fellow drank hard , " And prophesied some sad disaster ; " His fate 14.
... Once more their missing friend they found , As they had often done before - in liquor . " See ! " cried his moralizing master , " I always knew the fellow drank hard , " And prophesied some sad disaster ; " His fate 14.
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... once again ! I hold to you the hands you first beheld , To show they still are free . Methinks I hear A spirit in your echoes answer me , And bid your tenant welcome to his home Again ! -O sacred forms , how proud you look ! How high ...
... once again ! I hold to you the hands you first beheld , To show they still are free . Methinks I hear A spirit in your echoes answer me , And bid your tenant welcome to his home Again ! -O sacred forms , how proud you look ! How high ...
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... once was gentle , once was good ! But sorrows have broken it , insults have made it hard ! I have been dragged from my native land , from a wife who was every thing to me , to whom I was every thing ! Twenty years have elapsed since ...
... once was gentle , once was good ! But sorrows have broken it , insults have made it hard ! I have been dragged from my native land , from a wife who was every thing to me , to whom I was every thing ! Twenty years have elapsed since ...
Términos y frases comunes
Arrah black crows blood Bolus brow Brutus bull Cæsar call'd Cassius clown countreman cried cursed dear death dere devil dinner doctor door dreadful Duke e'er eyes farmer father fear Fiddle-de-dee fool gentleman George Benson ghost give grave hand haste head hear heard heart Heaven Hodge honour horse Husband Irish stew Jolter jonteel lady Lapstone laugh linguæ littel boy look look'd lord loud Madam Mary master Monsieur morn Mortlake mysen ne'er never night nose Numps o'er once pass'd poor portmanteau pray quoth replied Richard Penlake Romford round Saib Sally sare seem'd shilling Sir Phil sleep smile soon soul soup maigre sprite squire sure swear sweet tale tears tell thee there's thing thou thought TOM LONG tongue Twas twill Vell ween wife wild word wretch Xenophon Zounds
Pasajes populares
Página 148 - When that the poor have cried, Caesar hath wept; Ambition should be made of sterner stuff: Yet Brutus says he was ambitious; And Brutus is an houourable man. You all did see that on the Lupercal I thrice presented him a kingly crown, Which he did thrice refuse: was this ambition? Yet Brutus says he was ambitious; And, sure, he is an honourable man.
Página 150 - My liege, I did deny no prisoners. But, I remember, when the fight was done, When I was dry with rage, and extreme toil, Breathless and faint, leaning upon my sword, Came there a certain lord, neat...
Página 148 - Which he did thrice refuse. Was this ambition ? Yet Brutus says, he was ambitious ; And, sure, he is an honourable man. I speak not to disprove what Brutus spoke, But here I am to speak what I do know. You all did love him once, not without cause ; What cause withholds you then to mourn for him ? 0 judgment, thou art fled to brutish beasts, And men have lost their reason...
Página 237 - When Cheerfulness, a nymph of healthiest hue, Her bow across her shoulder flung, Her buskins gemm'd with morning dew, Blew an inspiring air, that dale and thicket rung, The hunter's call to Faun and Dryad known...
Página 163 - On Linden, when the sun was low, All bloodless lay the untrodden snow, And dark as winter was the flow Of Iser, rolling rapidly.
Página 237 - And though sometimes, each dreary pause between, Dejected Pity at his side, Her soul-subduing voice applied, Yet still he kept his wild unalter'd mien, While each strain'd ball of sight seem'd bursting from his head.
Página 202 - By heaven, I had rather coin my heart, And drop my blood for drachmas, than to wring From the hard hands of peasants their vile trash, By any indirection.
Página 209 - Alas ! the joys that fortune brings Are trifling, and decay; And those who prize the paltry things, More trifling still than they. "And what is friendship but a name, A charm that lulls to sleep; A shade that follows wealth or fame, But leaves the wretch to weep?
Página 206 - tis madness to defer: Next day the fatal precedent will plead ; Thus on, till wisdom is push'd out of life. Procrastination is the thief of time ; Year after year it steals, till all are fled, And to the mercies of a moment leaves The vast concerns of an eternal scene.
Página 238 - Can well recall what then it heard. Where is thy native, simple heart, Devote to Virtue, Fancy, Art ? Arise, as in that elder time, Warm...