Pieces to Speak...declamations and Dialogues...with Helpful Notes as to DeliveryBardeen, 1897 - 192 páginas |
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... at the price of chains and slavery ? Forbid it , Almighty God ! I know not what course others may take ; but as for me , give me liberty , or give me death ! THIS is part of a speech which has become very 12 PIECES TO SPEAK.
... at the price of chains and slavery ? Forbid it , Almighty God ! I know not what course others may take ; but as for me , give me liberty , or give me death ! THIS is part of a speech which has become very 12 PIECES TO SPEAK.
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... death ! How many have lived for it , and how many have died for it ! Wherever that flag has gone , it has been a herald of a better day — it has been the pledge of freedom , of justice , of order , of civilization , and of Chris ...
... death ! How many have lived for it , and how many have died for it ! Wherever that flag has gone , it has been a herald of a better day — it has been the pledge of freedom , of justice , of order , of civilization , and of Chris ...
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... death shall still this heart , I would not ask for aught more sacred to hallow my dust than the tear of an old friend . May my funeral dirge be chanted by the old friends I love so fondly , who have not yet passed away to the spirit's ...
... death shall still this heart , I would not ask for aught more sacred to hallow my dust than the tear of an old friend . May my funeral dirge be chanted by the old friends I love so fondly , who have not yet passed away to the spirit's ...
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... death is too certain . The officers can not persuade the men to advance . The Americans have lost the field . Even Morgan , that iron man among iron men , leans on his rifle and despairs of the field . But look yonder ! In this moment ...
... death is too certain . The officers can not persuade the men to advance . The Americans have lost the field . Even Morgan , that iron man among iron men , leans on his rifle and despairs of the field . But look yonder ! In this moment ...
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... death - chill lay On thee , sweet child , " and one turned away ; " I would have loved thee , " the second said , " Hadst thou learned to love me , and lived to wed . " " I loved thee always , I love thee now , " The third one cried as ...
... death - chill lay On thee , sweet child , " and one turned away ; " I would have loved thee , " the second said , " Hadst thou learned to love me , and lived to wed . " " I loved thee always , I love thee now , " The third one cried as ...
Términos y frases comunes
Aaron Burr Arbor Day bagpipes Billy 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 IX.-(Continued 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 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'.