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Even should Lady Belamour's arbitrary caprice bear you off without another meeting, remember that you have given me many more happy hours than I ever supposed to be in store for me, and have opened doors which shall not be closed again." "You will get some one to recite to you?" entreated Aurelia, her voice most unsteady.

All I want to tell you is that if I do not recite as well as usual, you mustn’t scold me a bit; will you?" "Oh, certainly not," said Mr. Wilmot, and then he added in a tone so low that no one heard but Julia, "I could not scold you, dear Julia." Thus flattered, the young lady took her seat and for a time seemed very intensely occupied with her lessons.

Do thou tell me, therefore, of any wonderful incident which thou mayst have seen or heard of or felt. Thus questioned, Narada, that foremost of speakers, O king, then commented to recite unto the chief of the celestials the extensive history that follows. Listen now to me as I recite that story which Narada told before Indra.

There were eight four-line stanzas in the first end of the poem the end about the rose, the horticultural end, as you may say, if that is not too large a name for such a little poem and eight in the astronomical end sixteen stanzas altogether, and I could have made it a hundred and fifty if I had wanted to, I was so inspired and so all swelled up with beautiful thoughts and fancies; but that would have been too many to sing or recite before a company that way, whereas sixteen was just right, and could be done over again if desired.

Strange to say, the pictures of his best time are masterpieces in their way, and have been sold at large prices. He was wonderfully precocious, and as a child of five years would recite odes, and declaim passages from Milton and Shakespeare. Even at this early period he made chalk or pencil portraits, and at nine he finally decided to become a painter from having seen a picture by Rubens.

Our case is just that of the Trojans, who entertained the tragic actor only to find him reciting their own calamities. Well, recite away, our tragedian, with these pests of ours for dramatis personæ. Diogenes. I too, Philosophy, give him my meed of praise; I withdraw my charges, and count him a worthy friend. Philosophy.

Each day she read a lecture on the practical duties of Christianity, and induced all to recite aloud the morning and night prayers. Her courage and strength never failed during the inconveniences of a stormy sea-voyage, which was remarkable, as she had never been to sea before.

With the coming of September the holidays ended, and the question of schools once more was earnestly discussed in the Lloyd household. "I have quite made up my mind not to send Bert back to Mr. Garrison," said Mr. Lloyd. "He seems to be learning little or nothing there. The fact of the matter is, what he does learn, he learns at home, and Mr. Garrison simply hears him recite his lessons."

Said he to her, "I purpose to recite a Kasidah, an ode, in his praise, that he may redouble in affection for me." "Thou art right in thine intent," she answered, "so gather thy wits together and weigh thy words, and I shall surely see my husband favoured with his highest favour."

In a low, even tone, but without attempt at dramatic effect, Halliday began to recite: "Out of the night that covers me, Black as the pit from pole to pole, I thank whatever gods there be For my unconquerable soul! "In the fell clutch of circumstance, I have not winced nor cried aloud. Under the bludgeonings of chance, My head is bloody, but unbowed.