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... turn'd From wandering on a foreign strand ! If such there breathe , go , mark him well ; For him no Minstrel raptures swell ; High tho his titles , proud his name , Boundless his wealth as wish can claim ; Despite those titles , power ...
... turn'd From wandering on a foreign strand ! If such there breathe , go , mark him well ; For him no Minstrel raptures swell ; High tho his titles , proud his name , Boundless his wealth as wish can claim ; Despite those titles , power ...
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... turn . A little more patience , a little more effort , and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success . There is no failure except in no longer try- ing . There is no defeat except from within , no really insurmount- able ...
... turn . A little more patience , a little more effort , and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success . There is no failure except in no longer try- ing . There is no defeat except from within , no really insurmount- able ...
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... turn awry , And lose the name of action . " Hamlet . " SHAKESPEARE . 2. Sunset and evening star , and one clear call ... turns again home . Twilight and evening bell , and after that the dark ! And may there be no sadness of farewell ...
... turn awry , And lose the name of action . " Hamlet . " SHAKESPEARE . 2. Sunset and evening star , and one clear call ... turns again home . Twilight and evening bell , and after that the dark ! And may there be no sadness of farewell ...
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... turn us away , Or win us in gentle airs to play , Then lift up your hearts to him who binds , Or frees , as he wills , the obedient Winds ! " The Winds . " H. F. GOULD . 3. Pindarus . Fly further off , my lord , MODULATION 65.
... turn us away , Or win us in gentle airs to play , Then lift up your hearts to him who binds , Or frees , as he wills , the obedient Winds ! " The Winds . " H. F. GOULD . 3. Pindarus . Fly further off , my lord , MODULATION 65.
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... turn ! Pull hard ! quick ! quick ! quick ! pull for your lives ! Pull till the blood starts from your nostrils , and the veins stand like whip- chords on your brow ! Set the mast in its socket ! hoist the sail ! Ah ! ah ! it is too late ...
... turn ! Pull hard ! quick ! quick ! quick ! pull for your lives ! Pull till the blood starts from your nostrils , and the veins stand like whip- chords on your brow ! Set the mast in its socket ! hoist the sail ! Ah ! ah ! it is too late ...
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Page 59 - The sound must seem an echo to the sense. Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows ; But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse, rough verse should like the torrent roar...
Page 336 - What villain touch' d his body, that did stab, And not for justice? What! shall one of us, That struck the foremost man of all this world But for supporting robbers, — shall we now Contaminate our fingers with base bribes, And sell the mighty space of our large...
Page 130 - GROW old along with me! The best is yet to be, The last of life, for which the first was made: Our times are in his hand Who saith, "A whole I planned, Youth shows but half; trust God: see all, nor be afraid!
Page 144 - Almighty's form Glasses itself in tempests; in all time, Calm or convulsed — in breeze or gale or storm, Icing the pole, or in the torrid clime Dark heaving, boundless, endless, and sublime — The image of eternity — the throne Of the Invisible ; even from out thy slime The monsters of the deep are made ; each zone Obeys thee ; thou goest forth, dread fathomless alone.
Page 99 - TAKE HEED THAT YE DO NOT your alms before men, to be seen of them: otherwise ye have no reward of your Father which is in heaven. Therefore when thou doest thine alms, do not sound a trumpet before thee, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may have glory of men. Verily I say unto you, They have their reward.
Page 25 - Be that word our sign of parting, bird or fiend!" I shrieked, upstarting "Get thee back into the tempest and the Night's Plutonian shore ! Leave no black plume as a token of that lie thy soul hath spoken ! Leave my loneliness unbroken! quit the bust above my door! Take thy beak from out my heart, and take thy form from off my door!
Page 332 - If you have tears, prepare to shed them now. You all do know this mantle : I remember The first time ever Caesar put it on ; 'Twas on a summer's evening, in his tent, That day he overcame the Nervii : Look, in this place ran Cassius...
Page 5 - Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounced it to you, trippingly on the tongue : but if you mouth it, as many of your players do, I had as lief the town-crier spoke my lines.
Page 140 - Julius bleed for justice' sake ? What villain touch'd his body, that did stab, And not for justice ? What, shall one of us, That struck the foremost man of all this world But for supporting robbers, shall we now Contaminate our fingers with base bribes, And sell the mighty space of our large honours For so much trash as may be grasped thus?
Page 56 - For the moon never beams without bringing me dreams Of the beautiful ANNABEL LEE ; And the stars never rise, but I feel the bright eyes Of the beautiful ANNABEL LEE.