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Primer of English Verse: Chiefly in Its Æsthetic & Organic Character - Page 24
by Hiram Corson - 1892 - 232 pages
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The Cambridge Book of Poetry and Song

Charlotte Fiske Bates - 1832 - 1022 pages
...lessons of her forceful art, Each (for Madness ruled the hour) Would prove his own expressive power. First Fear his hand, Its skill to try, Amid the chords...recoiled, he knew not why. E'en at the sound himself hail made. Next Anger rushed ; his eyes on fire, In lightnings owned his secret stings; In one rude...
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Principles of Elocution: Containing Numerous Rules, Observations, and ...

Thomas Ewing - 1832 - 428 pages
...lessons of her forceful art, Each (for madness ruled the hour) Would prove his own expressive power. First, Fear, his hand, its skill to try, Amid the...bewildered laid : And back recoiled, he knew not why, Even at the sound himself had made. Next, Anger rushed, his eyes on fire ; In lightnings owned his...
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The Academical Reader: Comprising Selections from the Most Admired Authors ...

John J. Harrod - 1832 - 338 pages
...not why, Even at the sound himself had made. Next Anger rush'd, his eyes on fire: In lightnings own'd his secret stings, In one rude clash he struck the...lyre — And swept, with hurried hand, the strings. 4. With woful measures, wan Despair, Low sullen sounds his grief beguiled; A solemn, strange, and mingled...
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The American Manual, Or New English Reader: Consisting of Exercises in ...

Moses Severance - 1832 - 312 pages
...E'en at the sound himself had made. 3. Next Anger rush'd ;— his eyes on fire, In lightnings own'd his secret stings ; — In one rude clash he struck...the lyre, And swept with hurried hand the strings. 4. With woful measures wan Despair, In sullen sounds his grief beguil'd — 5. But thou, O Hope ! with...
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Poetic gems: partly original; but chiefly selected from the best authors: by ...

Samuel BLACKBURN - 1833 - 254 pages
...not why, Ev'n at the sound himself had made. Next Anger rush'd, his eyes on fire, In lightnings own'd his secret stings ; In one rude clash he struck the...lyre, And swept with hurried hand the strings. With woeful measures, wan Despair — Low sullen sounds his grief beguil'd ; A solemn, strange, and mingled...
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The American Manual: Or New English Reader: Consisting of Exercises in ...

Moses Severance - 1833 - 304 pages
...Anger rush'd ; — his eyes on fire, . •••' In lightnings own'd his secret Rtings; — • ,' ; In one rude clash he struck the lyre, .. , • And swept with hurried hand the strings. > t • 4. With woful measures wan Despair, In sullen Rounds his grief beguil'd — A solemn, strange,...
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Curiosities of Literature, Volume 3

Isaac Disraeli - 1834 - 394 pages
...it as a hint to the Ode to Fear, and in his " Passions" to have very finely copied an idea here : " First Fear, his hand, its skill to try, Amid the chords bewildered laid, And back recoitd, he knew not why, E'en at the sound himself had made." Ode to the Passions. The stanza in Beattie's...
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Progressive Exercises in Rhetorical Reading: Particularly Designed to ...

Richard Green Parker - 1835 - 158 pages
...fallen like a water-spout, and deluged the land with blood. [Read the following in the high key.] 551. Next Anger rushed; — his eyes on fire, in lightnings...owned his secret stings ; in one rude clash he struck his lyre, and swept with hurried hands the strings. [Read the following in the lota key.] 552. With...
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Curiosities of Literature

Isaac Disraeli, Jsaac D'Jsraeli - 1835 - 524 pages
...Passions1 to have very finely copied an idea here : • First Fear, his hand, its skill to try, Amid tbe chords bewildered laid, And back recoiled, he knew not why, E'en at the sound himself had made.' Ode to the Passions. The st«nia in Beanie's ( Minstrel/ first book, in which his * visionary boy,'...
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The American First Class Book, Or, Exercises in Reading and Recitation ...

John Pierpont - 1835 - 496 pages
...lessons of her forceful art, Each, for madness ruled the hour, Would prove his own expressive power. Amid the chords bewildered laid ; And back recoiled, he knew not why, First Fear, his hand, its skill to try, E'en at the sound himself had made. In lightnings owned his...
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