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Page 183
Depart ! and come not near The busy mart , the crowded city , more ; Nor set thy foot a human threshold o'er . And stay thou not to hear Voices that call thee in the way ; and fly From all who in the wilderness pass by .
Depart ! and come not near The busy mart , the crowded city , more ; Nor set thy foot a human threshold o'er . And stay thou not to hear Voices that call thee in the way ; and fly From all who in the wilderness pass by .
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No peril by flood or by field was permitted to extinguish a life consecrated to the hopes of humanity , and to the ... A more perfectly fitted and furnished character has never appeared on the theater of human action , than when ...
No peril by flood or by field was permitted to extinguish a life consecrated to the hopes of humanity , and to the ... A more perfectly fitted and furnished character has never appeared on the theater of human action , than when ...
Page 440
Oh , human love ! whose yearning heart , Through all things vainly true , So stamps upon thy mortal part Its passionate adieu ,Surely thou hast another lot ; There is some home for thee , Where thou shalt rest , remembering not The ...
Oh , human love ! whose yearning heart , Through all things vainly true , So stamps upon thy mortal part Its passionate adieu ,Surely thou hast another lot ; There is some home for thee , Where thou shalt rest , remembering not The ...
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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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