Choice Readings for Public and Private Entertainment: Arranged for the Exercises of the School, College and Public Reader, with Elocutionary AdviceRobert McLean Cumnock Jansen, McClurg & Company, 1882 - 426 psl. |
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... There ! at the bottom of the bed . " " There's nothing there , except papa ! " The figure lifted up its head and rose , and , coming to the bedside , said : " My own boy ! Don't you know me ? " Paul looked it in the face . Before he ...
... There ! at the bottom of the bed . " " There's nothing there , except papa ! " The figure lifted up its head and rose , and , coming to the bedside , said : " My own boy ! Don't you know me ? " Paul looked it in the face . Before he ...
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... There was no gray mist before them , as there had been sometimes in the night . He knew them every one , and called them by their names . " And who is this ? Is this my old nurse ? " asked the child , regarding , with a radiant smile ...
... There was no gray mist before them , as there had been sometimes in the night . He knew them every one , and called them by their names . " And who is this ? Is this my old nurse ? " asked the child , regarding , with a radiant smile ...
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... there ; There are brows of beauty and bosoms of snow ; There are heaps of dust - but we loved them so ! There are trinkets and tresses of hair ; i There are fragments of song that nobody sings , And a part of an infant's prayer ; There's ...
... there ; There are brows of beauty and bosoms of snow ; There are heaps of dust - but we loved them so ! There are trinkets and tresses of hair ; i There are fragments of song that nobody sings , And a part of an infant's prayer ; There's ...
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... There was lack of woman's nursing , there was dearth of woman's tears ; But a comrade stood beside him , while his life - blood ebbed away , And bent , with pitying glances , to hear what he might say . The dying soldier faltered , as ...
... There was lack of woman's nursing , there was dearth of woman's tears ; But a comrade stood beside him , while his life - blood ebbed away , And bent , with pitying glances , to hear what he might say . The dying soldier faltered , as ...
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... There's another , not a sister ; in the happy days gone by You'd have known her by the merriment that sparkled in her eye ; Too innocent for coquetry , -too fond for idle scorning , - O friend ! I fear the lightest heart makes sometimes ...
... There's another , not a sister ; in the happy days gone by You'd have known her by the merriment that sparkled in her eye ; Too innocent for coquetry , -too fond for idle scorning , - O friend ! I fear the lightest heart makes sometimes ...
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Choice Readings for Public and Private Entertainment Arranged for the ... Robert McLean Cumnock Visos knygos peržiūra - 1878 |
Choice Readings for Public and Private Entertainment Arranged for the ... Robert McLean Cumnock Visos knygos peržiūra - 1882 |
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299 psl. - Then out spake brave Horatius, The Captain of the gate : 'To every man upon this earth Death cometh soon or late; And how can man die better Than facing fearful odds, For the ashes of his fathers And the temples of his Gods...
51 psl. - TO him who in the love of nature holds Communion with her visible forms, she speaks A various language; for his gayer hours She has a voice of gladness, and a smile And eloquence of beauty, and she glides Into his darker musings, with a mild And healing sympathy, that steals away Their sharpness, ere he is aware.
232 psl. - Thy waters wasted them while they were free, And many a tyrant since; their shores obey The stranger, slave, or savage; their decay Has dried up realms to deserts: not so thou, Unchangeable save to thy wild waves' play Time writes no wrinkle on thine azure brow Such as creation's dawn beheld, thou rollest now.
350 psl. - ABOU BEN ADHEM (may his tribe increase!) Awoke one night from a deep dream of peace, And saw within the moonlight in his room, Making it rich and like a lily in bloom, An angel writing in a book of gold; Exceeding peace had made Ben Adhem bold, And to the presence in the room he said, "What writest thou?" The vision raised its head, And, with a look made of all sweet accord, Answered, " The names of those who love the Lord.
319 psl. - I long wooed your daughter, my suit you denied; Love swells like the Solway, but ebbs like its tide; And now am I come with this lost love of mine To lead but one measure, drink one cup of wine. There are maidens in Scotland more lovely by far That would gladly be bride to the young Lochinvar.
388 psl. - O hark, O hear! how thin and clear, And thinner, clearer, farther going! O sweet and far from cliff and scar The horns of Elfland faintly blowing! Blow, let us hear the purple glens replying: Blow, bugle; answer, echoes, dying, dying, dying.
361 psl. - I galloped, Dirck galloped, we galloped all three; " Good speed ! " cried the watch as the gate-bolts undrew; "Speed!" echoed the wall to us galloping through; Behind shut the postern, the lights sank to rest, And into the midnight we galloped abreast.
326 psl. - Our toils obscure, and a' that ; The rank is but the guinea's stamp, The man's the gowd for a' that ! What tho' on hamely fare we dine, Wear hoddin gray, and a' that ; Gie fools their silks, and knaves their wine, A man's a man, for a
232 psl. - Roll on, thou deep and dark blue ocean, roll! Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain ; Man marks the earth with ruin his control Stops with the shore ; upon the watery plain The wrecks are all thy deed...