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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... dark river rolled towards the sea in spite of him , Paul never sought to know . One night he had been thinking of his mother and her pic- ture in the drawing room down stairs . The train of thought suggested to him to inquire if he had ...
... dark river rolled towards the sea in spite of him , Paul never sought to know . One night he had been thinking of his mother and her pic- ture in the drawing room down stairs . The train of thought suggested to him to inquire if he had ...
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... dark summer dawns The earliest pipe of half - awakened birds To dying ears , when unto dying eyes The casement slowly grows a glimmering square ; So sad , so strange , the days that are no more . Dear as remembered kisses after death ...
... dark summer dawns The earliest pipe of half - awakened birds To dying ears , when unto dying eyes The casement slowly grows a glimmering square ; So sad , so strange , the days that are no more . Dear as remembered kisses after death ...
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... dark and stormy , the wind was howling wild , As a patient mother sat beside the death - bed of her child : A little worn - out creature , his once bright eyes grown dim : It was a collier's wife and child - they called him little Jim ...
... dark and stormy , the wind was howling wild , As a patient mother sat beside the death - bed of her child : A little worn - out creature , his once bright eyes grown dim : It was a collier's wife and child - they called him little Jim ...
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... dark arch , Or the black flowing river ; Mad from life's history , Glad to death's mystery , Swift to be hurled- -Anywhere , anywhere Out of the world ! In she plunged boldly , - No matter how coldly The rough river ran— Over the brink ...
... dark arch , Or the black flowing river ; Mad from life's history , Glad to death's mystery , Swift to be hurled- -Anywhere , anywhere Out of the world ! In she plunged boldly , - No matter how coldly The rough river ran— Over the brink ...
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... us a song ! " the soldiers cried , The outer trenches guarding , When the heated guns of the camps allied Grew weary of bombarding . 3 The dark Redan , in silent scoff , Lay , THE SONG OF THE CAMP . 3333 The Song of the Camp.
... us a song ! " the soldiers cried , The outer trenches guarding , When the heated guns of the camps allied Grew weary of bombarding . 3 The dark Redan , in silent scoff , Lay , THE SONG OF THE CAMP . 3333 The Song of the Camp.
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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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ALFRED TENNYSON angels Annabel Lee arms Bawne beautiful bells breast Bregenz bright Captain carpet-bag Charco CHARLES DICKENS child chronometer watch cloud Connor cried dark dead dear Dora dream eyes face father Fezziwig forever Forever never Frenchman give grave hand head hear heard heart heaven Henry HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW honor Kate Kath king kiss lady Lars Porsena laugh light lips living look Lord mother musical scale never night Nora o'er OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES once Patrick poor pray prayer rain replied river river Lee rose round SAMUEL LOVER Sandalphon Senator shining shout silent sleep smile sorrow soul sound squire star stood sweet tears tell thee there's thing THOMAS HOOD thou thought tone turned voice waves Weller wild wind word young
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