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Page 148
To be cold and breathless ; to feel not and speak not ; this is not the end of existence to the men who have breathed their spirits into the institutions of their country , who have stamped their characters on the pillars of the age ...
To be cold and breathless ; to feel not and speak not ; this is not the end of existence to the men who have breathed their spirits into the institutions of their country , who have stamped their characters on the pillars of the age ...
Page 348
Cold on the hearth the last faint sparks expire ! Shivering she watches by the cradle side , For him who pledged her love - last year a bride ! DR . COATS . " Hark ! ' tis his footstep ! - ' tis past : ' tis gone ; Tick !
Cold on the hearth the last faint sparks expire ! Shivering she watches by the cradle side , For him who pledged her love - last year a bride ! DR . COATS . " Hark ! ' tis his footstep ! - ' tis past : ' tis gone ; Tick !
Page 437
The brazen clang of the tremulous bell ,“ Old — old , weary and old ;The heart grows old ; for the world is cold , ” — Solemnly sighs the far - spent knell . The dark pines mingle in pale starlight , Like the phantom - forms of a ...
The brazen clang of the tremulous bell ,“ Old — old , weary and old ;The heart grows old ; for the world is cold , ” — Solemnly sighs the far - spent knell . The dark pines mingle in pale starlight , Like the phantom - forms of a ...
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| Title | The New York Speaker: A Selection of Pieces Designed for Academic Exercises in Elocution |
| Author | Warren P. Edgarton |
| Edition | revised |
| Publisher | Mason Brothers, 1860 |
| Original from | the New York Public Library |
| Digitized | 30 May 2007 |
| Length | 502 pages |
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