The Elocutionist's Annual ...: Comprising New and Popular Readings, Recitations, Declamations, Dialogues, Tableaux, Etc., EtcJacob W. Shoemaker National School of Elocution and Oratory, 1881 |
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... dear ties Suddenly broken , dreams of happiness Dissolved in air , and happy days , too brief , That sorrowfully ended ; and I think How painfully the poor heart must have beat In bosoms without number , as the blow Was struck that slew ...
... dear ties Suddenly broken , dreams of happiness Dissolved in air , and happy days , too brief , That sorrowfully ended ; and I think How painfully the poor heart must have beat In bosoms without number , as the blow Was struck that slew ...
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... dear friends , when it shall be That this low breath is gone from me , And round my bier ye come to weep , Let One , most loving of you all , Say , " Not a tear must o'er her fall ; He giveth His beloved , sleep . " MRS . BROWNING ...
... dear friends , when it shall be That this low breath is gone from me , And round my bier ye come to weep , Let One , most loving of you all , Say , " Not a tear must o'er her fall ; He giveth His beloved , sleep . " MRS . BROWNING ...
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... dear Archie read to me , Those that pleased my girlish fancy , There was always sure to be One sweet maiden with a lover Who was never , never true ; And when they were widely parted , Then she died , poor broken - hearted , And did ...
... dear Archie read to me , Those that pleased my girlish fancy , There was always sure to be One sweet maiden with a lover Who was never , never true ; And when they were widely parted , Then she died , poor broken - hearted , And did ...
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... dear , If he warbles to a third A love ditty , Why , the darling little innocents Take it all to heart . Alack - a - day ! Ah ! she was a pretty maiden , A little too fond - hearted , Eyes a little too love - laden , But really , when ...
... dear , If he warbles to a third A love ditty , Why , the darling little innocents Take it all to heart . Alack - a - day ! Ah ! she was a pretty maiden , A little too fond - hearted , Eyes a little too love - laden , But really , when ...
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... Dear Archie Dean ! But there were Kittie Carrol and Charlie Green . And when Archie came to me , As I was sure he would , And with softest tone and glance , Do you think I dropped my eyes , With a glad surprise ? No , no , indeed ! That ...
... Dear Archie Dean ! But there were Kittie Carrol and Charlie Green . And when Archie came to me , As I was sure he would , And with softest tone and glance , Do you think I dropped my eyes , With a glad surprise ? No , no , indeed ! That ...
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Page 16 - It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us...
Page 124 - Wha will be a traitor knave? Wha can fill a coward's grave? Wha sae base as be a slave? Let him turn and flee! Wha for Scotland's King and law Freedom's sword will strongly draw, Freeman stand, or freeman fa'?
Page 108 - I CHATTER over stony ways, In little sharps and trebles, I bubble into eddying bays, I babble on the pebbles. With many a curve my banks I fret By many a field and fallow, And many a fairy foreland set With willow-weed and mallow. I chatter, chatter, as I flow To join the brimming river, For men may come and men may go, But I go on for ever.
Page 108 - I wind about, and in and out, With here a blossom sailing, And here and there a lusty trout, And here and there a grayling. And here and there a foamy flake Upon me, as I travel With many a silvery waterbreak Above the golden gravel.
Page 68 - O, better that her shattered hulk Should sink beneath the wave; Her thunders shook the mighty deep. And there should be her grave; Nail to the mast her holy flag, Set every threadbare sail, And give her to the god of storms, The lightning and the gale!
Page 120 - The last, the sole, the dearest link Between me and the eternal brink, Which bound me to my failing race, Was broken in this fatal place.
Page 42 - The Puritans were men whose minds had derived a peculiar character from the daily contemplation of superior beings and eternal interests. Not content with acknowledging, in general terms, an overruling Providence, they habitually ascribed every event to the will of the Great Being, for whose power nothing was too vast, for whose inspection nothing was too minute.
Page 77 - Behold, I shew you a mystery ; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed, in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump ; for the trumpet shall sound ; and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed. For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality. So when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written, Death is...
Page 119 - He faded, and so calm and meek, So softly worn, so sweetly weak, So tearless, yet so tender, — kind, And grieved for those he left behind ; With all the while a cheek whose bloom...
Page 76 - If after the manner of men I have fought with beasts at Ephesus, what advantageth it me, if the dead rise not? Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die.