Speak the speech ... trippingly on the tongue; but if you mouth it ... I had as lief the town crier had spoke my lines. Nor do not... saw the air too much with your hand, thus, but use all gently; for in the very torrent, tempest, and as I may say the whirlwind of your passion, you must acquire and beget a temperance that may give it smoothness.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounced it to you--trippingly on the tongue; but if you mouth it, as many of your players do..., I had as lief the town-crier spoke my lines. Nor do not saw the air too much with your hand, thus, but use all gently; for in the very torrent, tempest, and as I may say, the whirlwind of your passion, you must acquire and beget a temperance that may give it smoothness.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
They say that in his prime, Ere the pruning-knife of Time... Cut him down, Not a better man was found By the Crier on his round Through the town.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
O little town of Bethlehem, How still we see thee lie!... Above thy deep and dreamless sleep The silent stars go by; Yet in thy dark streets shineth The Everlasting Light; The hopes and fears of all the years Are met in thee tonight.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
This perpetual round of constrained civilities to persons quite indifferent to us, is the most provoking and tiresome thing in the... world, but it is unavoidable in a country town, where everybody is known.... 'Tis a most shocking and unworthy way of spending our precious irrecoverable time, to those who know not its value.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
From time immemorial the men of the town have been famous seamen, and have divided their energies between fishing and hating the E...nglish.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
anyone lived in a pretty how town (with up so floating many bells down)... spring summer autumn winter he sang his didn't he danced his did.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The worst feature in the history of those years, is, that no man spake for the Indian. When the Dutch, or the French, or the Engli...sh royalist disagreed with the Colony, there was always found a Dutch or French, or tory party,--an earnest minority,--to keep things from extremity. But the Indian seemed to inspire such a feeling as the wild beast inspires in the people near his den. It is the misfortune of Concord to have permitted a disgraceful outrage upon the friendly Indians settled within its limits, in February, 1676, which ended in their forcible expulsion from town.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »