Pieces to Speak...declamations and Dialogues...with Helpful Notes as to DeliveryBardeen, 1897 - 192 páginas |
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... follow him , he led the way to victory . The battle here described was one of the most important and decisive in the Revolutionary war . Begin quietly ; the description of the clear October day should be given in a graceful , airy style ...
... follow him , he led the way to victory . The battle here described was one of the most important and decisive in the Revolutionary war . Begin quietly ; the description of the clear October day should be given in a graceful , airy style ...
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[ T ] ROOM AT THE TOP . GEORGE BRANSON . Do you follow the plow as a matter of choice ? Do you sow ? Do you reap ? Do you mow ? When the harvest - time comes , does it make you rejoice ? Are you blest with rewards as you go ? Do you ...
[ T ] ROOM AT THE TOP . GEORGE BRANSON . Do you follow the plow as a matter of choice ? Do you sow ? Do you reap ? Do you mow ? When the harvest - time comes , does it make you rejoice ? Are you blest with rewards as you go ? Do you ...
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... follow the plow as a matter of choice ? Do you sow , do you reap , do you mow ? " And , indeed , in a few of the lines this is correct ; but in the fourth line , for instance , it would be ridiculous . The danger is greater in this than ...
... follow the plow as a matter of choice ? Do you sow , do you reap , do you mow ? " And , indeed , in a few of the lines this is correct ; but in the fourth line , for instance , it would be ridiculous . The danger is greater in this than ...
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... and for the story of the giant Christopher . In the last verse , " Be mine " means " Let it be my business . " The last verse should be spoken with much earnest- ness and strength . [ T ] THE FAIRY QUEEN . COME follow , SECOND SECTION 87.
... and for the story of the giant Christopher . In the last verse , " Be mine " means " Let it be my business . " The last verse should be spoken with much earnest- ness and strength . [ T ] THE FAIRY QUEEN . COME follow , SECOND SECTION 87.
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[ T ] THE FAIRY QUEEN . COME follow , follow me , You fairy elves that be- Which circle on the green , Come follow Mab your queen . Hand in hand let's dance around , For this place is fairy - ground . When mortals are at rest , And ...
[ T ] THE FAIRY QUEEN . COME follow , follow me , You fairy elves that be- Which circle on the green , Come follow Mab your queen . Hand in hand let's dance around , For this place is fairy - ground . When mortals are at rest , And ...
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'.