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... fire with fire ; Threaten the threatener , and outface the brow Of bragging horror ; so shall inferior eyes , That borrow their behaviours from the great , Grow great by your example , and put on The dauntless spirit of resolution ...
... fire with fire ; Threaten the threatener , and outface the brow Of bragging horror ; so shall inferior eyes , That borrow their behaviours from the great , Grow great by your example , and put on The dauntless spirit of resolution ...
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... fire - flies dance through the myrtle - boughs ? " " Not there not there / my child ! " " Is it / where the feathery palm - trees rise / And the date grows ripe under sunny skies ? Or / midst the green islands of glittering seas / Where ...
... fire - flies dance through the myrtle - boughs ? " " Not there not there / my child ! " " Is it / where the feathery palm - trees rise / And the date grows ripe under sunny skies ? Or / midst the green islands of glittering seas / Where ...
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... fire / with his face towards the door at the bottom of the room / sat a stoutish man of about forty / whose short / stiff / black hair curled closely round a broad high fore- head / and a face to which something besides water and ...
... fire / with his face towards the door at the bottom of the room / sat a stoutish man of about forty / whose short / stiff / black hair curled closely round a broad high fore- head / and a face to which something besides water and ...
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... fire : secret and self - contained / and solitary as an oyster . The cold within him froze his old features / nipped his pointed nose / shrivelled his cheek / stiffened his gait / made his eyes red / his thin lips blue / and spoke out ...
... fire : secret and self - contained / and solitary as an oyster . The cold within him froze his old features / nipped his pointed nose / shrivelled his cheek / stiffened his gait / made his eyes red / his thin lips blue / and spoke out ...
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... fire / What a tale their terror tells Of Despair ! How they clang / and clash / and roar ! What a horror they outpour On the bosom of the palpitating air ! Yet the ear it fully knows / By the twanging / and the clanging / How the danger ...
... fire / What a tale their terror tells Of Despair ! How they clang / and clash / and roar ! What a horror they outpour On the bosom of the palpitating air ! Yet the ear it fully knows / By the twanging / and the clanging / How the danger ...
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Términos y frases comunes
Annabel Lee Balaam beauty bell bless breath bright Buzfuz Cæsar called Canute Charles Mathews Chas child consonant sound cried Curfew dark dead dear death door earth EXERCISES ON RULE eyes face father feel Fezziwig frae Gabriel Grub gallant story gentlemen give goblin grave Hamlet hand happy hath hear heard heart heaven honour Inchcape Inchcape Rock John Anderson Kate King kiss light light sleeper live look lord madam married Miss Willises morning never night o'er Orlando pause Peter Stone Pickwick poet poor pray prayer Pronounce the consonant Pronounce the vowel Puff Queen Rosalind round Sir Charles Sir F sleep smile Sneer soul speak sweet tears tell Teviotdale thee things thou thought trolls for fish umbrella voice vowel sound waves what's wife wild Winkle words young
Pasajes populares
Página 128 - I was a child and she was a child, In this kingdom by the sea, But we loved with a love that was more than love, I and my Annabel Lee; With a love that the winged seraphs of heaven Coveted her and me. And this was the reason that, long ago, In this kingdom by the sea...
Página 308 - Infirm of purpose! Give me the daggers. The sleeping and the dead Are but as pictures; 'tis the eye of childhood That fears a painted devil.
Página 271 - In religion, What damned error, but some sober brow Will bless it, and approve it with a text, Hiding the grossness with fair ornament? There is no vice so simple, but assumes Some mark of virtue on his outward parts...
Página 30 - I met a little cottage girl: she was eight years old/ she said; her hair was thick with many a curl that clustered round her head.
Página 52 - With a bare bodkin ? who would fardels bear, To grunt and sweat under a weary life, But that the dread of something after death, The undiscover'd country from whose bourn No traveller returns, puzzles the will, And makes us rather bear those ills we have Than fly to others that we know not of ? Thus conscience does make cowards of us all ; And thus the native hue of resolution Is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought, And enterprises of great pith and moment With this regard their currents...
Página 38 - John Your locks are like the snaw ; But blessings on your frosty pow, John Anderson my jo. John Anderson my jo, John, We clamb the hill thegither ; And mony a canty day, John, We've had wi...
Página 34 - As a sick girl. Ye gods ! it doth amaze me A man of such a feeble temper should So get the start of the majestic world And bear the palm alone.
Página 43 - Oh, the bells, bells, bells! What a tale their terror tells Of Despair! How they clang, and clash, and roar! What a horror they outpour On the bosom of the palpitating air! Yet the ear it fully knows, By the twanging, And the clanging, How the danger ebbs and flows; Yet the ear distinctly tells, In the jangling, And the wrangling, How the danger sinks and swells, By the sinking or the swelling in the anger of the bells Of the bells Of the bells, bells, bells, bells, Bells, bells, bells In the clamor...
Página 52 - Mine eyes are made the fools o' the other senses, Or else worth all the rest; I see thee still, And on thy blade and dudgeon gouts of blood, Which was not so before. There's no such thing: It is the bloody business which informs Thus to mine eyes. Now o'er the one...
Página 281 - Lenore !"Merely this and nothing more. Back into the chamber turning, All my soul within me burning, Soon again I heard a tapping Something louder than before. " Surely," said I, " surely that is Something at my window lattice : Let me see then what thereat is, And this mystery explore — Let my heart be still a moment And this mystery explore ; — 'Tis the wind and nothing more.