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Page 236
Not knightly valor there avails , nor skill of horse and spear ; For rock on rock comes rumbling down from cliff and cavern drear ; Down , down like driving hail they come , and horse and horsemen die Like cattle whose despair is dumb ...
Not knightly valor there avails , nor skill of horse and spear ; For rock on rock comes rumbling down from cliff and cavern drear ; Down , down like driving hail they come , and horse and horsemen die Like cattle whose despair is dumb ...
Page 348
Tis long to wait , but sure he'll come again ! And I could starve and bless him , but for you , My child ! —his child ! ... tis his knock ! he comes ! -he comes once more ! " ' Tis but the lattice flaps ! thy hope is o'er !
Tis long to wait , but sure he'll come again ! And I could starve and bless him , but for you , My child ! —his child ! ... tis his knock ! he comes ! -he comes once more ! " ' Tis but the lattice flaps ! thy hope is o'er !
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According to the fair play of the world , Let me have audience ; I am sent to speak , My holy lord of Milan , from the king I come to learn how you have dealt for him ; And , as your answer , I do know the scope And warrant limited unto ...
According to the fair play of the world , Let me have audience ; I am sent to speak , My holy lord of Milan , from the king I come to learn how you have dealt for him ; And , as your answer , I do know the scope And warrant limited unto ...
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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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