The National Fifth Reader: Containing a Complete and Practical Treatise on Elocution ...: With Biographical Sketches, and Copious Notes: Adapted to the Use of Students in Literature, Book 5A.S. Barnes & Company, 1871 - 581 pages |
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Page 399
... death his eyelids close , Calmly as to a night's repose , Like flowers at set of sun . 5. Come to the bridal chamber , Death ! Come to the mother , when she feels , For the first time , her first - born's breath ; Come when the blessed ...
... death his eyelids close , Calmly as to a night's repose , Like flowers at set of sun . 5. Come to the bridal chamber , Death ! Come to the mother , when she feels , For the first time , her first - born's breath ; Come when the blessed ...
Page 406
... DEATH OF THE OLD TRAPPER . PART FIRST . HE trapper was placed on a rude seat , which had been THE studied care , to support his frame in an upright the and easy attitude . The first glance of the eye told his former friends that the old ...
... DEATH OF THE OLD TRAPPER . PART FIRST . HE trapper was placed on a rude seat , which had been THE studied care , to support his frame in an upright the and easy attitude . The first glance of the eye told his former friends that the old ...
Page 570
... death , that ' tis not in the power Of gods or men to save thee from the ax . Titus . The ax ! O Heaven ! must I , then , fall so basely ? What ! shall I perish by the common hangman ? Brutus . If thou deny me this , thou givest me ...
... death , that ' tis not in the power Of gods or men to save thee from the ax . Titus . The ax ! O Heaven ! must I , then , fall so basely ? What ! shall I perish by the common hangman ? Brutus . If thou deny me this , thou givest me ...
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