 | Andrew Comstock, Philip Lawrence - Elocution - 1808 - 596 pages
...have bis gold !' " Two sudden blows with ragged stick, And one with a heavy stone, One hurried gash with a hasty knife, — And then the deed was done...a manhood in his look, That murder could not kill I "And, lo ! the universal air Seem'd lit with ghastly flame : — Ten thousand thousand dreadful eyes... | |
 | M. S. Mitchell - Elocution - 1871 - 422 pages
...QUALITIES OF TONE. 141 " Two sudden blows with ragged stick, And one with a heavy stone, One hurried gash with a hasty knife, — And then the deed was done...And yet I fear'd him all the more, For lying there BO still: There was a manhood in his look,. That murder could not kill ! " And, lo ! the universal... | |
 | Thomas Hood - 1871 - 486 pages
...— And then the deed was done : There was nothing lying at my foot But lifeless flesh and bone I " Nothing but lifeless flesh and bone, That could not...a manhood in his look, That murder could not kill I " And, lo I the universal air Peem'd lit with ghastly flame ; — Ten thousand thousand dreadful... | |
 | Children's poetry - 1871 - 378 pages
...One hurried gash with a hasty knife, And then the deed was done : There was nothing lying at my feet, But lifeless flesh and bone ! ' Nothing but lifeless...lying there so still: There was a manhood in his look 1 And lo ! the universal air Seem'd lit with ghastly flame— Ten thousand, thousand dreadful eyes... | |
 | Thomas Hood - Authors, English - 1871 - 508 pages
...have his gold ! " Two sudden blows with a ragged stick, And oue with a heavy stone, One hurried gash with a hasty knife, — And then the deed was done...nothing lying at my foot But lifeless flesh and bone I " Nothing but lifeless flesh and bone, That could not do me ill ; And yet I fear'd him all the more,... | |
 | Thomas Hood - 1871 - 466 pages
...have his gold ! " Two sudden blows witli a ragged stick, And one with a heavy stone, One hurried gash with a hasty knife, — And then the deed was done...nothing lying at my foot But lifeless flesh and bone 1 "Nothing but lifeless flesh and bone, That could not do me ill ; And yet I fear'd him all the more,... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1871 - 968 pages
...have his gold ! "Two sudden blows with a ragged stick, And one with a heavy stone, One hurried gash s darkly round the bellied sail, And frighted waves rush wildly back Before the br feet But lifeless flesh and bone ! " Nothing but lifeless flesh and bone, That could not do me ill... | |
 | Charles Hartley - 1872 - 372 pages
...have his gold ! " Two sudden blows with a ragged stick, And one with a heavy stone, One hurried gash with a hasty knife, And then the deed was done : There...flesh and bone, That could not do me ill ; And yet I feared him all the more, For lying there so still : There was a manhood in his look, That murder could... | |
 | Henry Llewellyn Williams - Recitations - 1872 - 218 pages
...have his gold ! Two sudden blows with a ragged stick, And one with a heavy stone, One hurried gash with a hasty knife — And then the deed was done...Nothing but lifeless flesh and bone, That could not dp me ill ; And yet I feared him all the more, For lying there so still : There was a manhood in his... | |
 | American periodicals - 1872 - 866 pages
...stone; One hurried gash with a hasty knife, And then the deed wus done : There was nothing lying nt my foot But lifeless flesh and bone ! Nothing but...flesh and bone, That could not do me ill : And yet I feared him all the more For lying there so still : There was a manhood in his look That murder could... | |
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One that had never done me wrong, A feeble man and old: I led him to a lonely field; The moon shone clear and cold: Now here, said I, this man shall die, And I will have his gold! 
