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Scene before the Siege of Corinth
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Scene after the Siege of Corinth
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The Arabs Farewell to his Horse
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The Lament of the Irish Emigrant
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Lord William
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Cœur de Lion at the Bier of his Father
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The War of the League
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The Last Days of Herculaneum
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The Bridal of Malahide
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Virginiaa Lay of Ancient Rome
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Mary Queen of Scots
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The Gamblers Wite
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The Sack of Baltimore
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The Christians Hope
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To a Seagull
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The Star of Heaven
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The Voice and Pen
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EMPHASIS
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Gougaune Barra
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Sir Turlough or the Churchyard Bride
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The Forging of the Anchor
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To the Nightingale
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Boadicea
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The Song of the Shirt
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Page
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Song of Old Time
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MISCELLANEOUS READINGS IN POETRY Printed in the prosaic form with marginal directions Page 1 A Plea for Mercy
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Speech of Marullus to the Roman Mob
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Hamlets Soliloquy on Death 5 Speech of Satan to his Legions 6 The Last MinstrelPatriotism 7 A Churchyard Scene 8 Apology for the Pig 9 Childe H...
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Young
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Smollett
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Rogers
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Beauty and Expression
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The Slaves Remonstrance 17 Alexanders Feast 18 The Bard 19 The Last Man 20 The Passions Moore 110 Knowles 111 Dryden
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Gray Campbell
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Satans Address to the Sun
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On the Being of a God
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A Snowstorm The Miseries of Life
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The Dying Christian to his Soul 25 The Flight of Imagination 27 The Jackdaw 28 Universal Adoration 29 Jephthas Daughter to her Father 30 The Tr...
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H Kirke White
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Byron 125 Mrs Hemans
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J Montgomery
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Bryant
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Coleridge
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Wordsworth
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Byron
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Mangan
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Macaulay
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Shelley
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Hymn of the Moravian Nuns Longfellow
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The Bridge of Sighs Hood
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The Death of Arthur Tennyson
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Retreat of the French Army from Moscow
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Rogers
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The Leper 61 The Cloud 62 The ArabMaids Song 45 On Man 46 War 47 The Parish Poorhouse 48 The Mariners Hymn 49 To Mary in Heaven 50 I...
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R Montgomery
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Crabbe
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Mrs Southey 153 Burns
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Moore
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Goldsmith
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Cowper
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A Bell
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Willis
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Motherwell
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Shelley
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Moore
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Furlong
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G Griffin
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D F M Carthy
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S Ferguson
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Callanan
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W Carleton
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S Ferguson Keats
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My Grave T Davis
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MISCELLANEOUS READINGS IN PROSE 1 The Operations of Nature Sir H Davy
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The Planetary and Terrestrial Worlds Addison
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On the Approach of Evening Hervey 190 4 Sorrow for the Dead
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Ossians Address to the Sun
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Eulogium on Marie Antoinette Queen of France 25 Character of Napoleon Bonaparte 27 Character of Pitt Lord Chatham Croly Macpherson Burke B...
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Dante and Milton
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Connexion of Science and Religion 31 The Advantages of Education Grattan Humboldt Macaulay Wiseman 229
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Doyle
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READINGS IN PULPIT ELOQUENCE 1 The Practice of Patience 2 The Inefficiency of Human Works 3 Without God in the World 4 Consolations ...
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Robert Hall
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Finlayson
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Massillon
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Bossuet
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Blair
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Alison
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Horne
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A Thomson
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Sterne
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Logan Jeremy Taylor Whately Kirwan Watson OKeefe
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Sherlock
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W Archer Butler
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Mr Pitt Lord Chatham in Reply to Mr Horace Walpole
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Lord Chatham Mr Pitt on the American War
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Lord Mansfield on Privilege of Parliament 4 Mr Grattan on the National Grievances 5 Lord Erskine in favour of Mr Hardy 6 Sir James Mackintosh o...
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Mr Sheils Reply to Lord Lyndhurst
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Sauls Address 2 The Dying Chief
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The Burial of Sir John Moore 4 The Destruction of Sennacherib 5 The Battle of Hohenlinden 6 Lord Ullins Daughter 7 The Soldiers Funeral 8 Casab...
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Campbell Campbell
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Mrs Hemans
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Anonymous
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Mrs Maclean
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H Kirke White 308 Campbell
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The Felon 31 The Sailor 32 The Orphan Boy Lewis 322 Rogers
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Mrs Opie
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Beth Gelert 34 A Ship Sinking 35 Gertrude Von Der Wart 36 William and Margaret 37 The Idiot Boy W L Spencer
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Wilson
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Mrs Hemans
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Mallet
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38 Christian Warfare 39 An Epicedium 40 The Dying Gladiator 41 The Convict Ship Charlotte Elizabeth
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A A Watts
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The Murdered Traveller 43 Belshazzar Byron Hervey Bryant Croly
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Halleck Page
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Moore
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G Lewis
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Cowper
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Hood
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Leigh Hunt 372 Eliza Cook
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The King of the Wind 77 De Bruce Eliza Cook 373 Allan Cunningham
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The Ruined Cottage Mrs Maclean
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The Prisoner of Chillon 80 Battle of Flodden Field and Death of Marmion 81 Mary the Maid of the Inn Byron
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Scott
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Southey
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The Paupers Deathbed 83 Ode to Eloquence 85 The Massacre of Glencoe 87 Celadon and Amelia Mrs Southey 379 Carey
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Ginevra 86 OConnors Child 88 The Legend of Lochbuy 89 Jugurthas Prison Thoughts 90 Marriage of Kennedy and Matilda 91 The Palm Tree 92 T...
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Campbell
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Thomson
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Thomas Nimmo
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Wolfe
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Hogg
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Mrs Hemans
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Milton 388
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Longfellow 392 Byron
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Milnes
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DRAMATIC EXTRACTS SPEECHES AND SOLILOQUIES 1 Brutus on the Death of Cæsar 2 Mark Antony on the Death of Cæsar
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Richmond encouraging his Soldiers
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Henry V to his Soldiers at Harfleur Shakspeare Shakspeare
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Cato on the Immortality of the Soul
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Shakspeare
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Shakspeare
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Ion contemplating the Death of King Adrastus
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Henry IV Northumberland and Hotspur
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Wolsey and Cromwell
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Sir Edward Mortimer and Wilford
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COMIC EXTRACTS FOR RECITATION
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Planche
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Mackenzie
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Populaire passages

Pagina 225 - It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the queen of France, then the dauphiness, at Versailles, and surely never lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful vision.
Pagina 310 - Through all the wide Border his steed was the best ; And save his good broad-sword he weapon had none, He rode all unarmed, and he rode all alone. So faithful in love, and so dauntless in war, There never was knight like the young Lochinvar.
Pagina 130 - To them I may have owed another gift, Of aspect more sublime ; that blessed mood In which the burthen of the mystery, In which the heavy and the weary weight Of all this unintelligible world, Is lightened...
Pagina 156 - Wept o'er his wounds or tales of sorrow done, Shouldered his crutch, and showed how fields were won. Pleased with his guests, the good man learned to glow, And quite forgot their vices in their woe ; Careless their merits or their faults to scan, His pity gave ere charity began.
Pagina 286 - They tell us, sir, that we are weak; unable to cope with so formidable an adversary. But when shall we be stronger? Will it be the next week or the next year?
Pagina 391 - The floating Clouds their state shall lend To her; for her the willow bend; Nor shall she fail to see Even in the motions of the Storm Grace that shall mould the Maiden's form By silent sympathy.
Pagina 359 - twas but the wind, Or the car rattling o'er the stony street: On with the dance! let joy be unconfined: No sleep till morn when youth and pleasure meet, To chase the glowing hours with flying feet.
Pagina 286 - We have held the subject up in every light of which it is capable; but it has been all in vain. •Shall we resort to entreaty and humble supplication?
Pagina 170 - ... flowers, From the seas and the streams; I bear light shade for the leaves when laid In their noonday dreams. From my wings are shaken the dews that waken The sweet buds every one, When rocked to rest on their mother's breast, As she dances about the sun. I wield the flail of the lashing hail, And whiten the green plains under, And then again I dissolve it in rain. And laugh as I pass in thunder.
Pagina 127 - Yet not to thine eternal resting-place Shalt thou retire alone, nor couldst thou wish Couch more magnificent. Thou shalt lie down With patriarchs of the infant world — with kings, The powerful of the earth — the wise, the good, Fair forms, and hoary seers of ages past, All in one mighty sepulchre.

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