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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... mother and her ancestors . - Ac- " And this is the reward a grateful country gives her soldiery ! Cursed be the day my mother bore me ! cursed my sire's untimely joy ! Accursed the twilight hour , when ' mid Etruscan groves I wooed and ...
... mother and her ancestors . - Ac- " And this is the reward a grateful country gives her soldiery ! Cursed be the day my mother bore me ! cursed my sire's untimely joy ! Accursed the twilight hour , when ' mid Etruscan groves I wooed and ...
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... mother's love , have been denied me . I will refuse the part at once . ( Sits at table . ) Poor Mr. Fletcher ! I have a little regard for him , after all , and he for me , else flowers ? for they must have come from him . why these A ...
... mother's love , have been denied me . I will refuse the part at once . ( Sits at table . ) Poor Mr. Fletcher ! I have a little regard for him , after all , and he for me , else flowers ? for they must have come from him . why these A ...
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... mother , " sobbed a poor child , as the city undertaker screwed down the top . can't get out of the way , boy ! Why don't somebody take the brat away ? " - " Only let me see her one minute , " cried the hapless orphan , clutching the ...
... mother , " sobbed a poor child , as the city undertaker screwed down the top . can't get out of the way , boy ! Why don't somebody take the brat away ? " - " Only let me see her one minute , " cried the hapless orphan , clutching the ...
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... was a little child . I had two little sisters , And a brother that made three ; And dear mother being sickly , Their care it fell on me . ' " " - Query : How came that little brother to make three THE READING - CLUB . 69.
... was a little child . I had two little sisters , And a brother that made three ; And dear mother being sickly , Their care it fell on me . ' " " - Query : How came that little brother to make three THE READING - CLUB . 69.
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... mother , how I love her ! Though her hair is growing grey . " But enough ! Such pungent , childlike affection , in spite of the " signs of righteousness " and the " crown of glory , " is worthy a sweet singer . Her parents were too poor ...
... mother , how I love her ! Though her hair is growing grey . " But enough ! Such pungent , childlike affection , in spite of the " signs of righteousness " and the " crown of glory , " is worthy a sweet singer . Her parents were too poor ...
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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...