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" In the silence of the night, How we shiver with affright At the melancholy menace of their tone! For every sound that floats From the rust within their throats Is a groan. "
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Common School Readings: Containing New Selections in Prose and Poetry for ...

John Swett - 1868 - 246 pages
...the clamor and the clangor of the bells ! Hear the tolling of the bells, iron bells! In the silence of the night, how we shiver with affright At the melancholy...menace of their tone ! For every sound that floats from the rust within their throats Is a groan. And the people—ah, the people; they that dwell up in the...
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Comstock's Elocution, Enlarged: A System of Vocal Gymnastics Designed for ...

Andrew Comstock, Philip Lawrence - 1808 - 596 pages
...tolling of the bells — Iron bells ! What a world of solemn thought their monody compels! In the silence of the night, How we shiver with affright At the melancholy...menace of their tone ! For every sound that floats From the rust within their throats Is a groan. And the people — ah, the people — They that dwell up...
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The Book of Elegant Extracts

Book - 1868 - 168 pages
...of the bells — Iron bells ! What a world of solemn thought their monody compels ! In the silence of the night, How we shiver with affright At the melancholy...menace of their tone ! For every sound that floats From the rust within their throats Is a groan. And the people — ah, the people — They that dwell up...
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The American Union Speaker: Containing Standard and Recent Selections in ...

John Dudley Philbrick - 1868 - 636 pages
...bells — In the clamor and the clangor of the bells ! Hear the tolling of the bells — Iron bells ! At the melancholy menace of their tone ! For every sound that floats From the rust within their throats, Is a groan. And the people — ah, the people — They that dwell up...
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Wiley's Elocution and Oratory: Giving a Thorough Treatise on the Art of ...

Charles A. Wiley - 1869 - 456 pages
...tolling of the bells, iron bells ! What a world of solemn thought their monody compels ! In the silence of the night, how we shiver with affright At the melancholy...menace of their tone ! For every sound that floats from the rust within their throats Is a groan. And the people — ah, the people — they that dwell up...
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A Manual of Elocution Founded Upon the Philosophy of the Human Voice

M. S. Mitchell - 1869 - 416 pages
...of the bells — Iron bells ! What a world of solemn thought, their monody compels! In the silence of the night, How we shiver with affright At the melancholy...menace of their tone! For every sound that floats From the rust within their throats Is a groan. And the people — ah, the people — They that dwell up...
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The public school speaker and reader, ed. by J.E. Carpenter

Joseph Edwards Carpenter - 1869 - 596 pages
...tolling of the bells — Iron bells! What a world of solemn thought their monody compels ! In the silence of the night, How we shiver with affright At the melancholy...menace of their tone ! For every sound that floats From the rust within their throats Is a groan. And the people — ah, the people — They that dwell up...
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The illustrated public school speaker and reader based on grammatical ...

Alexander Kennedy Isbister - 1870 - 420 pages
...tolling of the bells !—Iron bells ! What a world of solemn thought their monody compels! In the silence of the night, How we shiver with affright At the melancholy...of their tone ! For every sound that floats, From the rust within their throats, Is a groan. And the people—ah! the people— They that dwell up in...
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The American Popular Speaker: Designed for the Use of Schools, Lyceums ...

Josiah Rhinehart Sypher - 1870 - 396 pages
...and the clangor of the hells ! What a world of solemn thought their monody compels! In the silence of the night, How we shiver with affright At the melancholy...menace of their tone ! For every sound that floats From the rust within their throats Is a groan. And the people — ah, the people — They that dwell up...
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Lessons on elocution and good reading for girls

Alexander Kennedy Isbister - 1870 - 104 pages
...of the bells ! — Iron bells ! What a world of solemn thought their monody compels ! In the silence of the night, How we shiver with affright At the melancholy...of their tone ! For every sound that floats, From the rust within their throats, Is a groan. And the people — ah ! the people — They that dwell up...
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