One Hundred Choice Selections: Number 1-[40]. A Repository of Readings, Recitations, and Plays Comprising Eloquence and Sentiment ; Pathos and Humor, Dialect and Impersonations, EtcPhineas Garrett Penn publishing Company, 1914 |
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... the face of nature and wrought a revolution in the habits of mankind . We stand to - day at the dawn of an ex- traordinary age . Freed from the chains of ancient thought 122 ONE HUNDRED CHOICE SELECTIONS Henry Armitt Brown.
... the face of nature and wrought a revolution in the habits of mankind . We stand to - day at the dawn of an ex- traordinary age . Freed from the chains of ancient thought 122 ONE HUNDRED CHOICE SELECTIONS Henry Armitt Brown.
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... ears hum ; What is this light that surrounds me and seems to set fire to my brain ? What whistle's that , yelling so shrill ? Ah ! I know now ; it's the train . We often stand facing some danger , and seen to NUMBER SIXTEEN . 35 George ...
... ears hum ; What is this light that surrounds me and seems to set fire to my brain ? What whistle's that , yelling so shrill ? Ah ! I know now ; it's the train . We often stand facing some danger , and seen to NUMBER SIXTEEN . 35 George ...
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... stand facing some danger , and seen to take root to the place ; So I stood with this demon before me , its heated breath scorching my face ; Its headlight made day of the darkness , and glared like the eyes of some witch , -- The train ...
... stand facing some danger , and seen to take root to the place ; So I stood with this demon before me , its heated breath scorching my face ; Its headlight made day of the darkness , and glared like the eyes of some witch , -- The train ...
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... standing take heed lest you fallı THE LAST BANQUET . - EDWARD RENAUD . The incident narrated in this poem is based on fact , a tragedy of the kind being reported to have occurred , during the French Revolution in 1793 , in the north of ...
... standing take heed lest you fallı THE LAST BANQUET . - EDWARD RENAUD . The incident narrated in this poem is based on fact , a tragedy of the kind being reported to have occurred , during the French Revolution in 1793 , in the north of ...
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... Stand twenty casks of powder , set with a lighted fuse ! " Frozen with sudden horror , they saw , like a fleecy mist , As he quaffed the purple vintage , the ruffles at his wrist . Turned to the smiling picture , clear as a silver bell ...
... Stand twenty casks of powder , set with a lighted fuse ! " Frozen with sudden horror , they saw , like a fleecy mist , As he quaffed the purple vintage , the ruffles at his wrist . Turned to the smiling picture , clear as a silver bell ...
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Page 80 - Pray for my soul. More things are wrought by prayer Than this world dreams of. Wherefore, let thy voice Rise like a fountain for me night and day. For what are men better than sheep or goats That nourish a blind life within the brain, If, knowing God, they lift not hands of prayer Both for themselves and those who call them friend t For so the whole round earth is every way Bound by gold chains about the feet of God.
Page 105 - Look no more, said he, on man in the first stage of his existence, in his setting out for eternity ; but cast thine eye on that thick mist into which the tide bears the several generations of mortals that fall into it.
Page 151 - Gave a lustre of midday to objects below; When what to my wondering eyes should appear, But a miniature sleigh and eight tiny reindeer, With a little old driver, so lively and quick I knew in a moment it must be St. Nick.
Page 151 - But a miniature sleigh and eight tiny reindeer, With a little old driver, so lively and quick, I knew in a moment it must be St. Nick ! More rapid than eagles his coursers they came, And he whistled and shouted and called them by name. " Now, Dasher ! now, Dancer ! now, Prancer and Vixen ! On, Comet ! on, Cupid ! on, Donder and Blitzen ! — To the top of the porch, to the top of the wall, Now, dash away, dash away, dash away all.!
Page 103 - He then led me to the highest pinnacle of the rock, and placing me on the top of it, Cast thy eyes eastward, said he, and tell me what thou seest. I see, said I, a huge valley, and a prodigious tide of water rolling through it. The valley that thou seest, said he, is the vale of misery, and the tide of water that thou seest is part of the great tide of eternity.
Page 103 - What is the reason, said I, that the tide I see rises out of a thick mist at one end, and again loses itself in a thick mist at the other? What thou seest, said he, is that portion of eternity which is called time, measured out by the sun, and reaching from the beginning of the world to its consummation. Examine now, said he, this sea that is thus bounded with darkness at both ends, and tell me what thou discoverest in it. I see a bridge, said I, standing in the midst of the tide.
Page 101 - Bob-o'-link, bob-o'-link, Spink, spank, spink; Snug and safe is that nest of ours, Hidden among the summer flowers. Chee, chee, chee.
Page 192 - Tender-handed stroke a nettle, And it stings you for your pains ; Grasp it like a man of mettle, And it soft as silk remains.
Page 171 - IT was the calm and silent night ! Seven hundred years and fifty-three Had Rome been growing up to might, And now was queen of land and sea. No sound was heard of clashing wars — Peace brooded o'er the hushed domain ; Apollo, Pallas, Jove, and Mars Held undisturbed their ancient reign. In the solemn midnight, Centuries ago.
Page 106 - The Genius making me no answer, I turned about to address myself to him a second time, but I found that he had left me ; I then turned again to the vision which I had been so long contemplating; but instead of the rolling tide, the arched bridge, and the happy islands, I saw nothing but the long hollow valley of Bagdat, with oxen, sheep, and camels grazing upon the sides of it.