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Página 240 - Of the stern agony, and shroud, and pall, And breathless darkness, and the narrow house, Make thee to shudder, and grow sick at heart — Go forth, under the open sky, and list To nature's teachings, while from all around — Earth and her waters, and the depths of air — Comes a still voice...
Página 316 - Like little wanton boys that swim on bladders, This many summers in a sea of glory; But far beyond my depth : my high-blown pride At length broke under me ; and now has left me, Weary, and old with service, to the mercy Of a rude stream, that must for ever hide me.
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Página 241 - Or lose thyself in the continuous woods Where rolls the Oregon, and hears no sound Save his own dashings, — yet the dead are there: And millions in those solitudes, since first The flight of years began, have laid them down In their last sleep, — the dead reign there alone.
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| Título | A System of Elocution: With Special Reference to Gesture, to the Treatment of Stammering, and Defective Articulation ... |
| Autor | Andrew Comstock |
| Editor | The author, 1841 |
| Procedencia del original | Biblioteca Pública de Nueva York |
| Digitalizado | 25 Mayo 2007 |
| Largo | 364 páginas |
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