Pieces to Speak...declamations and Dialogues...with Helpful Notes as to DeliveryBardeen, 1897 - 192 páginas |
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... hearts that they have no necessity of learning a " piece to speak . " The most that you can hope to do at present is to make your hearers understand what you say , and feel as you feel . In order to make it possible for any one to ...
... hearts that they have no necessity of learning a " piece to speak . " The most that you can hope to do at present is to make your hearers understand what you say , and feel as you feel . In order to make it possible for any one to ...
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... heart , lest it get cold , Hold it . If you've any grief to meet , At the loving Father's feet , Meet it . If you're given light to see What a child of God should be , Whether life be bright or drear , There's a message sweet and clear ...
... heart , lest it get cold , Hold it . If you've any grief to meet , At the loving Father's feet , Meet it . If you're given light to see What a child of God should be , Whether life be bright or drear , There's a message sweet and clear ...
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... heart is with thee . With the eye of a spirit I look on that shore , Where pilgrim and prophet have lingered before ; With the glide of a spirit I traverse the sod Made bright by the steps of the angels of God . Blue sea of the hills ...
... heart is with thee . With the eye of a spirit I look on that shore , Where pilgrim and prophet have lingered before ; With the glide of a spirit I traverse the sod Made bright by the steps of the angels of God . Blue sea of the hills ...
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... hearts . Within the first year of that declared independence , and while its maintenance was yet problematic - while ... heart are stilled -that the mighty sweep of that graceful arm will be felt no more , and the magic of that eloquent ...
... hearts . Within the first year of that declared independence , and while its maintenance was yet problematic - while ... heart are stilled -that the mighty sweep of that graceful arm will be felt no more , and the magic of that eloquent ...
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... hearts through life have throbbed in unison with our own ! Oh , when 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 ...
... hearts through life have throbbed in unison with our own ! Oh , when 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 ...
Términos y frases comunes
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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'.