 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - American periodicals - 1862 - 604 pages
...round word. Or that the brief and plain must needs be weak, To whom can this be true who once has heard The cry for help, the tongue that all men speak, When...or a strange wild note, Sung by some fay or fiend I There is a strength Which dies if stretched too far or spun too fine, Which has more hight than breadth,... | |
 | American periodicals - 1862 - 670 pages
...needs be weak. To whom can this be true who once has heard The cry for help, the tongue that all mea speak, When want or woe or fear is in the throat,...gasped out is like a shriek Pressed from the sore heurt, or a strange wild note, Sung by some fay or fiend ? There is a strength Which dies if stretched... | |
 | George Perkins Marsh - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1862 - 600 pages
...word, Or that the brief and plain must needs be weak. To whom can this be true, who once has heard The cry for help, the tongue that all men speak When...some fay or fiend ! There is a strength Which dies if stretched too far or spun too fine, Which has more height than breadth, more depth than length. Let... | |
 | George Perkins Marsh - English language - 1866 - 602 pages
...word, Or that the brief and plain must needs be weak. To whom can this be true, who once has heard The cry for help, the tongue that all men speak When...heart, or a strange wild note Sung by some fay or fiend 1 There is a strength Which dies if stretched too far or spun too fine, Which has more height than... | |
 | Education - 1868 - 604 pages
...round word, Or that the brief and plain must needs be weak. To whom can this be true who once has heard The cry for help, the tongue that all men speak, When...strange wild note, Sung by some fay or fiend ? There is strength Which dies if stretched too far or spun too fine. Which has more hight than breadth, more... | |
 | Erastus Otis Haven - English language - 1869 - 422 pages
...round word, Or that the brief and plain must needs be weak. To whom can this be true who once has heard The cry for help, the tongue that all men speak, When...some fay or fiend? There is a strength Which dies, if stretched too far or spun too fine, Which has more weight than breadth, more depth than length. Let... | |
 | Erastus Otis Haven - English language - 1870 - 396 pages
...round word, Or that the brief and plain must needs be weak. To whom can this be true who on e has heard The cry for help, the tongue that all men speak, When...sore heart, or a strange, wild note, Sung by some fny or fiend ? There is a strength Which dies, if stretched too far or span too fine, Which has more... | |
 | Education - 1872 - 420 pages
...word, Or that the brief and plain must needs be weak ; To whom can this be true who once has heard The cry for help, the tongue that all men speak, When...note Sung by some fay or fiend ! There is a strength \\ hich dies if stretched too far or spun too 6ne, Which has more height than breadth, more depth than... | |
 | Charles Carroll Bombaugh - Literary curiosa - 1874 - 876 pages
...weak. To whom can this be true who once has heard The cry for help, the tongue that all men spook, When want or woe or fear is in the throat, So that...some fay or fiend ? There is a strength Which dies if stretched too far or spun too fine, Which has more height than breadth, more depth than length. Let... | |
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Think not that strength lies in the big round word, Or that the brief and plain must needs be weak. To whom can this be true who once has heard The cry for help, the tongue that all men speak, When want or woe or fear is in the throat, So that each word... 
