The Reading Club and Handy Speaker: Being Selections in Prose and Poetry, Serious, Humorous, Pathetic, Patriotic, and Dramatic, for Readings and Recitations, Temas6-12Lee and Shepard, 1879 |
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... feet . An hour the varying battle surged , and neither side had won , Though each had fought a valorous fight , and many great deeds done ; Then high above the din that rose where charged the strug- gling throng , Rang out Count ...
... feet . An hour the varying battle surged , and neither side had won , Though each had fought a valorous fight , and many great deeds done ; Then high above the din that rose where charged the strug- gling throng , Rang out Count ...
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... feet and hushed voices , as of those who bore a bur- den . With blanched face the old man tried to speak , but he could not . A fearful thought came upon him . They are coming nearer . They are stopping and crowd- ing together , and ...
... feet and hushed voices , as of those who bore a bur- den . With blanched face the old man tried to speak , but he could not . A fearful thought came upon him . They are coming nearer . They are stopping and crowd- ing together , and ...
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... feet . Gay Kitty was guarded and kept like a nun : She'd greet you demurely , the whole world might see . She wore a prim shaker , and dressed like a Quaker , And ' neath all disguises was - Kitty McRea ! There came to the town a ...
... feet . Gay Kitty was guarded and kept like a nun : She'd greet you demurely , the whole world might see . She wore a prim shaker , and dressed like a Quaker , And ' neath all disguises was - Kitty McRea ! There came to the town a ...
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... feet , Again I turned , my earthly cross to meet ; With forward footsteps , turning not aside , For fear some hidden evil might betide . - And there , in the prepared , appointed way , Listening to hear , and ready to obey , A cross I ...
... feet , Again I turned , my earthly cross to meet ; With forward footsteps , turning not aside , For fear some hidden evil might betide . - And there , in the prepared , appointed way , Listening to hear , and ready to obey , A cross I ...
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... feet are on slippery rocks , while raging billows roll beneath . " Mercy on me ! What do you mean ? " - " I mean , my dear madam , that whenever a woman begins to pry about among three strikes , fair balls , base hits , daisy cutters ...
... feet are on slippery rocks , while raging billows roll beneath . " Mercy on me ! What do you mean ? " - " I mean , my dear madam , that whenever a woman begins to pry about among three strikes , fair balls , base hits , daisy cutters ...
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The Reading Club and Handy Speaker: Being Selections in Prose and Poetry ... George Melville Baker Sin vista previa disponible - 2018 |
The Reading Club and Handy Speaker: Being Selections in Prose and Poetry ... George Melville Baker Sin vista previa disponible - 2018 |
The Reading Club and Handy Speaker: Being Selections in Prose and Poetry ... George Melville Baker Sin vista previa disponible - 2018 |
Términos y frases comunes
ain't alkeholl arms Ave Maria beautiful bless brave breath brother Brown called Carcassonne cheek child Chinaman colonel cried dark dead dear death door DORA dream eyes face fair father feet feller fire Gelert girl gone gray hair hand head hear heard heart Heathen Chinee heaven heerd IRWIN RUSSELL Jackdaw KATY kiss Lady Lanty laugh lips live look Lord Maup morning mother neath never nigger night o'er Old Mother Hubbard papa PHOEBE CARY Pier poor Rich rose round saar shout shump side Silver Stars sleep smile soul stood story sure sweet tell thee There's thing thou thought to-day told Tom Potter turned twas Tyrrel voice walk wife wild woman word yees young
Pasajes populares
Página 44 - The muffled drum's sad roll has beat The soldier's last tattoo ; No more on life's parade shall meet That brave and fallen few. On Fame's eternal camping ground Their silent tents are spread, And Glory guards with solemn round The bivouac of the dead.
Página 68 - I have but one request to ask at my departure from this world — it is the charity of its silence! Let no man write my epitaph: for as no man who knows my motives dare now vindicate them, let not prejudice or ignorance asperse them.
Página 90 - Good-bye to Flattery's fawning face; To Grandeur with his wise grimace; To upstart Wealth's averted eye; To supple Office, low and high; To crowded halls, to court and street; To frozen hearts and hasting feet; To those who go, and those who come; Good-bye, proud world ! I'm going home.
Página 68 - You are old," said the youth, "as I mentioned before, And have grown most uncommonly fat ; Yet you turned a back-somersault in at the door — Pray, what is the reason of that?"
Página 69 - In my youth,' said his father, 'I took to the law, And argued each case with my wife; And the muscular strength, which it gave to my jaw, Has lasted the rest of my life.' You are old,' said the youth, 'one would hardly suppose That your eye was as steady as ever; Yet you balanced an eel on the end of your nose — What made you so awfully clever?' 'I have answered three questions, and that is enough,' Said his father; 'don't give yourself airs!
Página 3 - Lodore, with its rush and its roar, As many a time they had seen it before. So I told them in rhyme, for of rhymes I had store ; And 'twas in my vocation for their recreation That so I should sing; because I was laureate to them and the king.
Página 11 - Pause not to dream of the future before us ; Pause not to weep the wild cares that come o'er us : Hark how Creation's deep, musical chorus, Unintermitting, goes up into Heaven ! Never the ocean-wave falters in flowing ; Never the little seed stops in its growing ; More and more richly the rose-heart keeps glowing, Till from its nourishing stem it is riven. " Labor is Worship ! " the robin is singing ; " Labor is Worship !
Página 8 - The room was hushed ; in silence rose The King, and sought his gardens cool, And walked apart, and murmured low,
Página 66 - Now I lay me down to sleep, I pray the Lord my soul to keep ; If I should die before I wake, I pray the Lord my soul to take ; And this I ask for Jesus
Página 37 - His pinions drooped — he could hardly stand — His head was as bald as the palm of your hand ; His eye so dim, So wasted each limb, That, heedless of grammar, they all cried, "THAT'S HIM!— That's the scamp that has done this scandalous thing ! That's the thief that has got my Lord Cardinal's Ring...