The elocutionist, a collection of pieces in prose and verse [by various authors, ed.] by J.S. KnowlesJames Sheridan Knowles 1825 |
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... sigh - I saw the iron enter into his soul . - I burst into tears . - I could not sustain the picture of confinement which my fancy had drawn . Sterne . Reyno and Alpin . Reyno . The wind and rain are over ; calm is the noon of day . The ...
... sigh - I saw the iron enter into his soul . - I burst into tears . - I could not sustain the picture of confinement which my fancy had drawn . Sterne . Reyno and Alpin . Reyno . The wind and rain are over ; calm is the noon of day . The ...
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... sighs and groans succeeded , till Eustace St. Pierre , getting up to a little eminence , thus addressed the assembly ; My friends , we are brought to great straits this day . We must either yield to the terms of our cruel and ensnaring ...
... sighs and groans succeeded , till Eustace St. Pierre , getting up to a little eminence , thus addressed the assembly ; My friends , we are brought to great straits this day . We must either yield to the terms of our cruel and ensnaring ...
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... sigh . There was then a long deep silence , and the father , the mother , and the child , rose from their knees . The eyes of us all were turned towards the white placid face of the figure now stretched in everlasting rest ; and ...
... sigh . There was then a long deep silence , and the father , the mother , and the child , rose from their knees . The eyes of us all were turned towards the white placid face of the figure now stretched in everlasting rest ; and ...
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James Sheridan Knowles. I wish , said my uncle Toby , with a deep sigh , -I wish , Trim , I was asleep . Your honour ... sighing again , the story of the ensign and his wife - and particularly well , that he , as well as she , upon some ...
James Sheridan Knowles. I wish , said my uncle Toby , with a deep sigh , -I wish , Trim , I was asleep . Your honour ... sighing again , the story of the ensign and his wife - and particularly well , that he , as well as she , upon some ...
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... sighing of the midnight storm sends a dismal foreboding into the mother's heart , to whom of all her offspring , I would ask , are her thoughts and her anxieties then wandering ? Is it not to her sailor boy , whom her fancy has placed ...
... sighing of the midnight storm sends a dismal foreboding into the mother's heart , to whom of all her offspring , I would ask , are her thoughts and her anxieties then wandering ? Is it not to her sailor boy , whom her fancy has placed ...
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