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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... leaving one of their number who volunteered to stay all night . The shoemaker soon revived . He sat down on one side of the fire , and the man who watched with him sat on the other . The kettle was soon on the fire , and he watched its ...
... leaving one of their number who volunteered to stay all night . The shoemaker soon revived . He sat down on one side of the fire , and the man who watched with him sat on the other . The kettle was soon on the fire , and he watched its ...
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... leave behind . " But why do I seek to kindle a fire in ice ? Why seek to arouse the vengeance of those who care for no miseries but their own , and are enamoured of their fetters ? I , indeed , can lose no more . Misfortune hath emptied ...
... leave behind . " But why do I seek to kindle a fire in ice ? Why seek to arouse the vengeance of those who care for no miseries but their own , and are enamoured of their fetters ? I , indeed , can lose no more . Misfortune hath emptied ...
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... his anchor he lifted , and murmured , As the tears gathered fast in his eye , " I must leave this fair land of the flowers , Go back o'er the ocean , and die . " Then back by the dreary Tortugas , And back by THE READING - CLUB . 17.
... his anchor he lifted , and murmured , As the tears gathered fast in his eye , " I must leave this fair land of the flowers , Go back o'er the ocean , and die . " Then back by the dreary Tortugas , And back by THE READING - CLUB . 17.
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... leaving Carson City he told the driver , Hank Monk , that he had an engagement to lecture at Placerville , and was very anxious to go through quick . Hank Monk cracked his whip , and started off at an awful pace . The coach bounced up ...
... leaving Carson City he told the driver , Hank Monk , that he had an engagement to lecture at Placerville , and was very anxious to go through quick . Hank Monk cracked his whip , and started off at an awful pace . The coach bounced up ...
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... leaving Carson City he told the driver , Hank Monk , that he had an engagement to lecture at Placerville , and was very anxious to go through quick . Hank Monk cracked his whip , and started off at an awful pace . The coach bounced up ...
... leaving Carson City he told the driver , Hank Monk , that he had an engagement to lecture at Placerville , and was very anxious to go through quick . Hank Monk cracked his whip , and started off at an awful pace . The coach bounced up ...
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The Reading Club and Handy Speaker: Being Selections in Prose and Poetry ... George Melville Baker Sin vista previa disponible - 2018 |
Términos y frases comunes
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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...