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... thou- sands of people , young and old , " found their voice , " and with it an opportunity to do their bit in helping to win the war . These people , with widely varying de- grees of effectiveness , gave their services and enjoyed the ...
... thou- sands of people , young and old , " found their voice , " and with it an opportunity to do their bit in helping to win the war . These people , with widely varying de- grees of effectiveness , gave their services and enjoyed the ...
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... thou despise the earth where cares abound ? Or while the wings aspire , are heart and eye Both with thy nest upon the dewy ground ? Thy nest which thou canst drop into at will , Those quivering wings composed , that music still ! To the ...
... thou despise the earth where cares abound ? Or while the wings aspire , are heart and eye Both with thy nest upon the dewy ground ? Thy nest which thou canst drop into at will , Those quivering wings composed , that music still ! To the ...
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... thou art pouring forth thy soul abroad In such an ecstasy ! Still wouldst thou sing , and I have ears in vain - To thy high requiem become a sod . Thou wast not born for death , immortal bird ! No hungry generations tread thee down ...
... thou art pouring forth thy soul abroad In such an ecstasy ! Still wouldst thou sing , and I have ears in vain - To thy high requiem become a sod . Thou wast not born for death , immortal bird ! No hungry generations tread thee down ...
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... thou dost keep Steady thy laden head across a brook ; Or by a cider - press , with patient look , Thou watchest the last oozing hours by hours . Where are the songs of Spring ? Ay , where are they ? Think not of them , thou hast thy ...
... thou dost keep Steady thy laden head across a brook ; Or by a cider - press , with patient look , Thou watchest the last oozing hours by hours . Where are the songs of Spring ? Ay , where are they ? Think not of them , thou hast thy ...
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... thou soul of my soul ! I shall clasp thee again , And with God be the rest ! ( BROWNING : Prospice ) JOHN BULL There is no species of humor in which the English more excel than that which consists in caricaturing and giving ludicrous ...
... thou soul of my soul ! I shall clasp thee again , And with God be the rest ! ( BROWNING : Prospice ) JOHN BULL There is no species of humor in which the English more excel than that which consists in caricaturing and giving ludicrous ...
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Page 102 - Far-called, our navies melt away; On dune and headland sinks the fire: Lo, all our pomp of yesterday Is one with Nineveh and Tyre ! Judge of the Nations, spare us yet, Lest we forget - lest we forget...
Page 156 - We thought as we hollowed his narrow bed And smoothed down his lonely pillow, That the foe and the stranger would tread o'er his head, And we...
Page 267 - I cannot tell what you and other men Think of this life, but, for my single self, I had as lief not be as live to be In awe of such a thing as I myself.
Page 267 - The torrent roar'd, and we did buffet it With lusty sinews, throwing it aside And stemming it with hearts of controversy ; But ere we could arrive the point proposed, Caesar cried ' Help me, Cassius, or I sink...
Page 189 - Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more, Or close the wall up with our English dead ! In peace there's nothing so becomes a man As modest stillness and humility ; But when the blast of war blows in our ears, Then imitate the action of the tiger...
Page 133 - Be not too tame neither, but let your own discretion be your tutor: suit the action to the word, the word to the action; with this special observance, that you o'erstep not the modesty of nature: for anything so overdone is from the purpose of playing, whose end, both at the first and now, was and is, to hold, as 'twere, the mirror up to nature; to show virtue her own feature, scorn her own image, and the very age and body of the time his form and pressure.
Page 24 - Tempered to the oaten flute ; Rough Satyrs danced, and Fauns with cloven heel From the glad sound would not be absent long ; And old Damoetas loved to hear our song.
Page 133 - O, it offends me to the soul to hear a robustious periwigpated fellow tear a passion to tatters, to very rags, to split the ears of the groundlings...
Page 155 - Not a drum was heard, not a funeral note, As his corse to the rampart we hurried ; Not a soldier discharged his farewell shot O'er the grave where our hero we buried.
Page 259 - For I dipt into the future, far as human eye could see, Saw the Vision of the world, and all the wonder that would be...