The Speaker's Garland and Literary Bouquet: Combining 100 Choice Selections, Nos. 1, 2, 3 and 4. Four Vol. in One. Embracing Rare Poetical Gems, Fine Specimens Oratory ...P. Garrett & Company, 1876 |
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... 'd be our very death . I'm glad the clouds have got so thick - the night is pesky dark ; Now here's the bag - What is it Jim ? I thought you whispered The clouds are scatterin ' - There's the moon ! ONE HUNDRED CHOICE SELECTIONS .
... 'd be our very death . I'm glad the clouds have got so thick - the night is pesky dark ; Now here's the bag - What is it Jim ? I thought you whispered The clouds are scatterin ' - There's the moon ! ONE HUNDRED CHOICE SELECTIONS .
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... thought so long To count her in among our folks . All may be well , still I can't help thinking , I might have kept this trouble off By being gentle , kind and true ; But may be not ! she's safe up there , And when His hand deals other ...
... thought so long To count her in among our folks . All may be well , still I can't help thinking , I might have kept this trouble off By being gentle , kind and true ; But may be not ! she's safe up there , And when His hand deals other ...
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... thought himself out of sight , went through the strangest pantomime , laughing , putting his mouth into the drollest shape , and then swinging him- self back and forth in the limited space as if he were " walking down Broadway " a full ...
... thought himself out of sight , went through the strangest pantomime , laughing , putting his mouth into the drollest shape , and then swinging him- self back and forth in the limited space as if he were " walking down Broadway " a full ...
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... thought I'd let that be . It's too good luck , this is .-- to last , you know ; And , stranger , if it wasn't kind of rash , I'd bet my bottom dollar that we smash Before - but pshaw ! excuse me , I'll go slow . You see , when we were ...
... thought I'd let that be . It's too good luck , this is .-- to last , you know ; And , stranger , if it wasn't kind of rash , I'd bet my bottom dollar that we smash Before - but pshaw ! excuse me , I'll go slow . You see , when we were ...
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... thought , says , " Well , I'll risk two- and - a - half that she don't , anyway . " This - yer Smiley had a mare , -the boys called her the fifteen - minute nag , but that was only in fun , you know , because , of course , she was ...
... thought , says , " Well , I'll risk two- and - a - half that she don't , anyway . " This - yer Smiley had a mare , -the boys called her the fifteen - minute nag , but that was only in fun , you know , because , of course , she was ...
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عبارات ومصطلحات مألوفة
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مقاطع مشهورة
الصفحة 83 - Let not Ambition mock their useful toil, Their homely joys, and destiny obscure; Nor Grandeur hear with a disdainful smile The short and simple annals of the poor.
الصفحة 161 - And smoothed down his lonely pillow, That the foe and the stranger would tread o'er his head; And we far away on the billow!
الصفحة 154 - What news? what news? your tidings tell; Tell me you must and shall— Say why bare-headed you are come, Or why you come at all?" Now Gilpin had a pleasant wit, And loved a timely joke; And thus unto the calender In merry guise he spoke: "I came because your horse would come; And, if I well forebode, My hat and wig will soon be here— They are upon the road.
الصفحة 57 - Why should that name be sounded more than yours ? Write them together, yours is as fair a name ; Sound them, it doth become the mouth as well ; Weigh them, it is as heavy ; conjure with them, Brutus will start a spirit as soon as Caesar.
الصفحة 155 - And thus unto the youth she said, That drove them to the Bell, " This shall be yours, when you bring back My husband safe and well." The youth did ride, and soon did meet John coming back amain — Whom in a trice he tried to stop, By catching at his rein; But not performing what he meant, And gladly would have done, The frighted steed he frighted more, And made him faster run. Away went Gilpin, and away Went post-boy at his heels, The post-boy's horse right glad to miss The lumb'ring of the wheels.
الصفحة 160 - They say it was a shocking sight after the field was won; for many thousand bodies here lay rotting in the sun; but things like that, you know, must be after a famous victory. Great praise the Duke of Marlbro...
الصفحة 123 - It blesseth him that gives, and him that takes. 'Tis mightiest in the mightiest: it becomes The throned monarch better than his crown; His sceptre shows the force of temporal power, The attribute to awe and majesty, Wherein doth sit the dread and fear of kings; But mercy is above this sceptred sway, It is enthroned in the hearts of kings, It is an attribute to God himself; And earthly power doth then show likest God's When mercy seasons justice.
الصفحة 155 - My head is twice as big as yours, They therefore needs must fit. "But let me scrape the dirt away That hangs upon your face; And stop and eat, for well you may Be in a hungry case." Said John, "It is my wedding-day, And all the world would stare, If wife should dine at Edmonton, And I should dine at Ware.
الصفحة 154 - Until he came unto the Wash Of Edmonton so gay ; And there he threw the Wash about, On both sides of the way, Just like unto a trundling mop, Or a wild goose at play. At Edmonton his loving wife From the balcony spied Her tender husband, wondering much To see how he did ride. " Stop, stop, John Gilpin ! Here's the house!" They all at once did cry ; "The dinner waits and we are tired.
الصفحة 161 - By the struggling moonbeam's misty light, And the lantern dimly burning. No useless coffin enclosed his breast, Nor in sheet nor in shroud we wound him ; But he lay like a warrior taking his rest, With his martial cloak around him.