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Lessons in Elocution: Or, A Selection of Pieces, in Prose and Verse, for the ... - Page 373
by William Scott - 1829 - 407 pages
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The rhetorical reader, consisting of choice specimens of oratorical ...

John Hall Hindmarsh - 1845 - 464 pages
...bodkin " the emphatic rising slide, because T think it is capable of expressing the most contempt. Were thicker than itse'lf/ with brother's blo'od ;...fo'rce, To be foresta'lled/ ere" we come to fall', O'r/ par' doned/ being dow'n ? — The'n I'll look u'p ; My fauMt is pa'st. — But, O', wh'at-form-of-prayer...
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The general reciter; a unique selection of the most admired and popular ...

General reciter - 1845 - 348 pages
...guilt defeats my strong intent ; And, like a man to double business bound, I stand in pause where I shall first begin, And both neglect. What, if this...brother's blood, Is there not rain enough in the sweet heav'ns To wash it white us snow ? Whereto serves mercy, But to confront the visage of offence ? And...
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The School Reader: Fourth Book. Containing Instructions in the Elementary ...

Charles Walton Sanders - Readers - 1845 - 312 pages
...neglect. 2. What if this cursed hand Were thicker than itself with brother's blood? Is there not lain enough in the sweet heavens To wash it white as snow...Whereto serves mercy, But to confront the visage of offense ? And what's in prayer, but this two-fold force, To be forestalled, ere we come to fall, Or...
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The Patrician, Volume 4

John Burke, Bernard Burke - Genealogy - 1847 - 636 pages
...guilt defeats my strong intent ; And, like a man to double business bound, 1 stand in pause where I shall first begin, And both neglect. What if this...mercy, But to confront the visage of offence ? And what 's in prayer, but this two-fold force, — To be forestalled, ere we come to fall, Or pardon'd,...
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School Reader: 4th book

Charles Walton Sanders - 1842 - 316 pages
...What if this cursed hand Were thicker than itself with brother's blood ? [s there not rain enough it the sweet heavens To wash it white as snow ? Whereto serves mercy, But to confront the visage of offense ? / And what's in prayer, but this two-fold force, To be forestalled, ere we come to fall,...
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Shakespeare's Plays: With His Life, Volume 3

William Shakespeare - 1847 - 872 pages
...as will : My stronger guilt defeats my strong intent ; And, like a man to double business bound, 1 e old Anchises bear, so, from the waves of Tiber Did...on him. He had a fever when he was in Spain, V ml, pardori'd, being down ? Then, I'll look up : My fault is past. But, O! what form of prayer Can serve...
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King Lear. Romeo and Juliet. Hamlet. Othello

William Shakespeare - 1848 - 536 pages
...guilt defeats my strong intent ; And, like a man to double business bound, I stand in pause where I shall first begin, And both neglect. What if this...force,— To be forestalled, ere we come to fall, Or pardoned, being down ? Then I'll look up; My fault is past. But, O, what form of prayer Can serve my...
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Shakspeare's Hamlet: An Attempt to Find the Key to a Great Moral Problem, by ...

Sir Edward Strachey - 1848 - 116 pages
...and that one very purpose for which prayer is appointed, is to obtain that mercy for past guilt : — What if this cursed hand Were thicker than itself...serves mercy, But to confront the visage of offence 1 And what 's in prayer, but this two-fold force, — To be forestalled, ere we come to fall, Or pardon'd,...
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The reciter's companion; comprising the most popular recitations, comic ...

Reciter - 1848 - 262 pages
...guilt defeats my strong intent ; And, like a man to double business bound, I stand in pause where I shall first begin, And both neglect. What, if this...brother's blood, Is there not rain enough in the sweet heav'ns To wash it white as snow ? Whereto serves mercy, But to confront the visage of offence ? And...
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The reciter's companion; comprising the most popular recitations, comic ...

Reciter - 1848 - 262 pages
...guilt defeats my strong intent ; And, like a man to double business bound, I stand in pause where I shall first begin. And both neglect. What, if this...brother's blood, Is there not rain enough in the sweet heav'ns To wash it white as snow ? Whereto serves mer But to confront the visage of offence ? And what's...
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