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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... speaking thus , he led me far above ; And there , beneath a canopy of love , Crosses of divers shape and size were seen , Larger and smaller than my own had been . And one there was most beauteous to behold , - THE READING - CLUB . 11.
... speaking thus , he led me far above ; And there , beneath a canopy of love , Crosses of divers shape and size were seen , Larger and smaller than my own had been . And one there was most beauteous to behold , - THE READING - CLUB . 11.
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... seen , Till again on his wondering vision Rose clustering islands of green . Still onward he sped till the breezes Were laden with odors ; and lo ! A country embedded with flowers , A country with rivers aglow , More bright than the ...
... seen , Till again on his wondering vision Rose clustering islands of green . Still onward he sped till the breezes Were laden with odors ; and lo ! A country embedded with flowers , A country with rivers aglow , More bright than the ...
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... seen , While wandering far on lone and desert strands , A weary traveller in benighted lands , Would often picture to his little flock The terrors of the gibbet and the block , How martyrs suffered in the ancient times , And what men ...
... seen , While wandering far on lone and desert strands , A weary traveller in benighted lands , Would often picture to his little flock The terrors of the gibbet and the block , How martyrs suffered in the ancient times , And what men ...
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... seen a fan so very angry , that it would have been dangerous for the absent lover who provoked it to have come within the wind of it ; and at other times so very languishing , that I have been glad , for the lady's sake , the lover was ...
... seen a fan so very angry , that it would have been dangerous for the absent lover who provoked it to have come within the wind of it ; and at other times so very languishing , that I have been glad , for the lady's sake , the lover was ...
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... seen people before who read news- papers . ' Yes ; but there are several things in the paper I can't understand . " - " Then don't read ' em . " - " What do they mean by the strike , John ? What is a strike , anyhow ? 66 66 66 66 " " 99 ...
... seen people before who read news- papers . ' Yes ; but there are several things in the paper I can't understand . " - " Then don't read ' em . " - " What do they mean by the strike , John ? What is a strike , anyhow ? 66 66 66 66 " " 99 ...
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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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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...