Pieces to Speak...declamations and Dialogues...with Helpful Notes as to DeliveryBardeen, 1897 - 192 páginas |
Dentro del libro
Resultados 1-5 de 14
Página 22
... dead . In all that has concerned the nation the man ever sympathized , and now the nation mourns for the man . But do we realize that Henry Clay is dead ? Who can realize that never again that majestic form shall rise in the council ...
... dead . In all that has concerned the nation the man ever sympathized , and now the nation mourns for the man . But do we realize that Henry Clay is dead ? Who can realize that never again that majestic form shall rise in the council ...
Página 23
... dead . “ Problematic ” means uncertain . By " storms of anarchy " we are to understand the threatenings of bad men to overthrow the government . This expression and the next one , " Pour the oil of peace on the troubled billows , " are ...
... dead . “ Problematic ” means uncertain . By " storms of anarchy " we are to understand the threatenings of bad men to overthrow the government . This expression and the next one , " Pour the oil of peace on the troubled billows , " are ...
Página 28
... dead in tens and twenties on the rock . Now , red - coat hirelings , shout your battle - cry if you can ! For look ! there in the gate of the fortress , as the smoke clears away , stands the black horse and his rider . That steed falls dead ...
... dead in tens and twenties on the rock . Now , red - coat hirelings , shout your battle - cry if you can ! For look ! there in the gate of the fortress , as the smoke clears away , stands the black horse and his rider . That steed falls dead ...
Página 30
... come our souls shall wed- I have loved thee living , I love thee dead ! " Then silently out from the open door Three horsemen went to return no more . THE contrasts of feeling in this little gem are de- 30 PIECES TO SPEAK.
... come our souls shall wed- I have loved thee living , I love thee dead ! " Then silently out from the open door Three horsemen went to return no more . THE contrasts of feeling in this little gem are de- 30 PIECES TO SPEAK.
Página 31
... dead . Then a " shadow over the horsemen fell , " and they gently step into the next room where the maiden slept . The first speaks quietly but without much emotion , the second with more feeling , and the third with intense passion ...
... dead . Then a " shadow over the horsemen fell , " and they gently step into the next room where the maiden slept . The first speaks quietly but without much emotion , the second with more feeling , and the third with intense passion ...
Términos y frases comunes
Aaron Burr Arbor Day bagpipes Billy bright C. W. BARDEEN CHARLES SUMNER child Cloth dead dear declamation dialogue dot baby earth Eugene Field Exeunt eyes feel fellow Field-mouse flowers Fred George give GRASBY gridiron Hamilton College hand hear heard heart Henry Clay Horatio Gates hornet James John Joseph II kitten last verse laugh leedle little mouse little streams Little white Lily living look LUCY LARCOM manner manual means mother Muricide Nelly never night noble bird o'er Opens dein mout Patrick pause peer Pilly poem Polly Quoth Echo rain Second Girl Sextant sort Speak this piece spoken Squire stanza sweet Syracuse teacher tell thee thing thou thought tone trinks VI.-(Continued voice vrom wave Webster's Dictionary wind words Xerxes Zende Zwei lager
Pasajes populares
Página 42 - I have commanded you, and lo ! I am with you alway, even to the end of the world.
Página 141 - If we were base enough to desire it, it is now too late to retire from the contest. There is no retreat but in submission and slavery! Our chains are forged. Their clanking may be heard on the plains of Boston! The war is inevitable, and let it come! I repeat it, sir, let it come! " It is in vain, sir, to extenuate the matter. Gentlemen may cry peace, peace; but there is no peace.
Página 74 - THE mountain and the squirrel Had a quarrel ; And the former called the latter ' Little Prig '. Bun replied, ' You are doubtless very big ; But all sorts of things and weather Must be taken in together, To make up a year And a sphere. And I think it no disgrace 10 To occupy my place.
Página 192 - HEATEN is not reached at a single bound, But we build the ladder by which we rise From the lowly earth to the vaulted skies, And we mount to its summit round by round. I count this thing to be grandly true ; That a noble deed is a step toward God, Lifting the soul from the common, sod, To a purer air and a broader view.
Página 189 - Lives of great men all remind us We can make our lives sublime, And, departing, leave behind us, Footprints on the sands of time; Footprints, that perhaps another, Sailing o'er life's solemn main, A forlorn and shipwrecked brother, Seeing, shall take heart again.
Página 191 - So live, that when thy summons comes to join The innumerable caravan, which moves To that mysterious realm, where each shall take His chamber in the silent halls of death, Thou go not, like the quarry-slave at night, Scourged to his dungeon, but, sustained and soothed By an unfaltering trust, approach thy grave Like one who wraps the drapery of his couch About him, and lies down to pleasant dreams.
Página 38 - 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.
Página 123 - em slips, Huldy sot pale ez ashes, All kin* o' smily roun' the lips An' teary roun' the lashes. For she was jes' the quiet kind Whose naturs never vary, Like streams that keep a summer mind Snowhid in Jenooary. The blood clost roun...
Página 192 - Helps make the soul immortal. Longing is God's fresh heavenward will With our poor earthward striving ; We quench it that we may be still Content with merely living; But, would we learn that heart's full scope Which we are hourly wronging, Our lives must climb from hope to hope And realize our longing. Ah ! let us hope that to our praise Good God not only reckons The moments when we tread his ways, But when the spirit beckons, — That some slight good is also wrought Beyond self-satisfaction, When...
Página 122 - An' leetle flames danced all about The chiny on the dresser. Agin the chimbley crook-necks hung, An' in amongst 'em rusted The ole queen's-arm thet gran'ther Young Fetched back from Concord busted. The very room, coz she was in, Seemed warm from floor to ceilin', An' she looked full ez rosy agin Ez the apples she was peelin'.