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The poets of the first half of the reign. The novelist-poets - Page 77
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The Poets and Poetry of England, in the Nineteenth Century

Rufus Wilmot Griswold - Authors, English - 1845 - 558 pages
...suspect — (So tight he kept his lips compress'd, Scarce any blood came through,) You look'd twice e'er you saw his breast Was all but shot in two. " Well," cried he, " Emperor, by God's grace We've got you Ratisbon ! The marshal's in the market-place, And you'll be there anon To see your flag-bird...
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The Poets and Poetry of England: In the Nineteenth Century

Rufus Wilmot Griswold - Authors, English - 1846 - 540 pages
...suspect — (So tight he kept his lips compress'd, Scarce any blood came through,) You look'd twice e'er you saw his breast Was all but shot in two. " Well," cried he, " Emperor, by God's grace We've got you Ratisbon ! The marshal's in the market-place, And you'll be there anon To see your flag-bird...
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Friendship's Forget-me-not

American poetry - 1849 - 274 pages
...smiling joy, And held himself erect By just his horse's mane, a boy : You hardly could suspect — (So tight he kept his lips compressed Scarce any blood...two. " Well," cried he, " Emperor, by God's grace We've got you Ratisbon ! The Marshal's in the market-place, And you'll be there anon To see your flag-bird...
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The Living Authors of England

Thomas Powell - Authors, English - 1849 - 328 pages
...By just his horse's mane, a boy— You hardly could suspect, (So tight he kept his lips compress'd Scarce any blood came through,) You looked twice ere...two. ' Well,' cried he, ' Emperor, by God's grace We've got you Ratisbon ! The marshal's in the market-place, And you'll be there anon, To see your flag-bird...
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Poems: A blot in the 'scutcheon

Robert Browning - 1850 - 436 pages
...: You hardly could suspect — (So tight he kept his lips compressed, Scarce any blood came thro') You looked twice ere you saw his breast Was all but...! " The Marshal 's in the market-place, " And you 'll be there anon " To see your flag-bird flap his vans " Where I, to heart's desire, " Perched him...
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Pictures of the Living Authors of Britain

Thomas Powell - Authors, English - 1851 - 216 pages
...By just his horse's mane, a boy— You hardly could suspect, (So tight he kept his lips compress'd Scarce any blood came through,) You looked twice ere...two. • Well,' cried he, • Emperor, by God's grace We've got you Ratisbon ! The marshal's in the market-place, And you'll be there anon, To see your flag-bird...
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The Boy's Birth-day Book: Tales

1859 - 450 pages
...smiling joy, And held himself erect By just his horse's mane, a boy : You hardly could suspect, — So tight he kept his lips compressed, Scarce any blood...two. "Well," cried he, " Emperor ! by God's grace We've got you Ratisbon ! The marshal's in the market-place, And you'll be there anon To see your flag-bird...
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Selections from the Poetical Works of Robert Browning

Robert Browning - 1863 - 430 pages
...smiling joy, And held himself erect By just his horse's mane, a boy : You hardly could suspect — (So tight he kept his lips compressed, Scarce any...twice ere you saw his breast Was all but shot in two. rv. •' Well," cried he, " Emperor, by God's grace We've got you Ratisbon ! The Marshal's in the market-place,...
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The Patriotic Speaker: Consisting of Specimens of Modern Eloquence, Together ...

Robert Raikes Raymond - Recitations - 1864 - 530 pages
...smiling joy, And held himself erect Just by his horse's mane, a boy ; You hardly could suspect — (So tight he kept his lips compressed, Scarce any blood came through) — You looked twice e'er you saw his breast Was all but shot in two. " Well," cried he, " Emperor, by God's grace We've...
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Poems, Volume 2

Robert Browning - 1864 - 436 pages
...By just his horse's mane, a boy: (So tight he kept his lips compressed, Scarce any blood came thro') You looked twice ere you saw his breast Was all but shot in two. IV. " Well," cried he, " Emperor, by God's grace " We've got you Katisbon ! " The Marshal's in the...
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