Common School Readings: Containing New Selections in Prose and Poetry for Declamation, Recitation, and Elocutionary Readings in Common SchoolsH.H. Bancroft, 1867 - 230 páginas |
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... talk to him of Freedom , the lip of the poet quivers with inspira- tion ; his heart glows , and the numbers break out as the stream dashes from the mountain top to seek the valley below - bright , clear , sparkling , FREE . And are you ...
... talk to him of Freedom , the lip of the poet quivers with inspira- tion ; his heart glows , and the numbers break out as the stream dashes from the mountain top to seek the valley below - bright , clear , sparkling , FREE . And are you ...
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... talk to us of peace , dare take that blessed word on your foul lips , remembering what you have done ? Do you dare talk of peace before the guilt of breaking peace is punished ? Dare talk of peace simply that the ruffian desolators may ...
... talk to us of peace , dare take that blessed word on your foul lips , remembering what you have done ? Do you dare talk of peace before the guilt of breaking peace is punished ? Dare talk of peace simply that the ruffian desolators may ...
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... talk about a constable To turn them out of town ; Then close your sentence with an oath , And shut the window down ! And if you are a slender man , Not big enough for that , Or , if you cannot make a speech , Because you are a flat , Go ...
... talk about a constable To turn them out of town ; Then close your sentence with an oath , And shut the window down ! And if you are a slender man , Not big enough for that , Or , if you cannot make a speech , Because you are a flat , Go ...
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... Talking very small ; Gentlemen in tights , With a loose - ish mien ; Gentlemen in gray , Looking rather green ; Gentlemen quite old , Asking for the news ; Gentlemen in black , In a fit of blues ; Gentlemen in claret , Sober as a vicar ...
... Talking very small ; Gentlemen in tights , With a loose - ish mien ; Gentlemen in gray , Looking rather green ; Gentlemen quite old , Asking for the news ; Gentlemen in black , In a fit of blues ; Gentlemen in claret , Sober as a vicar ...
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... talking , Noises of the cars Are so very shocking ! Market woman , careful Of the precious casket , Knowing eggs are eggs , Tightly holds her basket ; Feeling that a smash , If it came , would surely Send her eggs to pot , Rather ...
... talking , Noises of the cars Are so very shocking ! Market woman , careful Of the precious casket , Knowing eggs are eggs , Tightly holds her basket ; Feeling that a smash , If it came , would surely Send her eggs to pot , Rather ...
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Términos y frases comunes
American arms Babie Bell banner BARBARA FRIETCHIE Bardeen's battle battle of Hastings beat beautiful snow bells bless blood brave breath Caudle common school cousin Sally Dilliard dead dear DOUGLAS JERROLD duty dying earth elocution eyes fathers feeling fight fire flag forever Freedom glory glow hand hear heart heaven hill honor human John Burns Katie Katie Lee labor land Lay him low liberty light lips live look Martha Mason martial music MAUD MULLER mighty moral morning mountain nation never night Northend's o'er ocean Palmerston patriotic Paul Revere peace pray rat-tat-too rebel Ring roar rolling round shore slavery sleep Smike smile song soul Squeers stars stood sweet tell thee there's thet thou thousand thunder to-day toil Union voice waves WEBSTER Weller wild Worman's young
Pasajes populares
Página 90 - One-eighth of the whole population were colored slaves, not distributed generally over the Union but localized in the southern part of it. These slaves constituted a peculiar and powerful interest. All knew that this interest was somehow the cause of the war.
Página 129 - Come, read to me some poem, Some simple and heartfelt lay, That shall soothe this restless feeling, And banish the thoughts of day. Not from the grand old masters, Not from the bards sublime, Whose distant footsteps echo Through the corridors of Time.
Página 90 - The progress of our arms, upon which all else chiefly depends, is as well known to the public as to myself, and it is, I trust, reasonably satisfactory and encouraging to all. With high hope for the future, no prediction in regard to it is ventured. On the occasion corresponding to this four years ago all thoughts were anxiously directed to an impending civil war. All dreaded it, all sought to avert it.
Página 101 - Leaves have their time to fall, And flowers to wither at the north wind's breath, And stars to set — but all — Thou hast all seasons for thine own, O Death ! THE LOST PLEIAD.
Página 191 - Thy waters wasted them while they were free, And many a tyrant since ; their shores obey The stranger, slave, or savage ; their decay Has dried up realms to deserts ; — not so thou, Unchangeable save to thy wild waves' play, Time writes no wrinkle on thine azure brow, Such as creation's dawn beheld, thou rollest now.
Página 184 - And Ardennes waves above them her green leaves, Dewy with nature's tear-drops, as they pass, Grieving, if aught inanimate e'er grieves, Over the unreturning brave,— alas! Ere evening to be trodden like the grass Which now beneath them, but above shall grow In its next verdure, when this fiery mass Of living valor, rolling on the foe, And burning with high hope, shall moulder cold and low.
Página 183 - There was a sound of revelry by night, And Belgium's capital had gathered then Her Beauty and her Chivalry, and bright The lamps shone o'er fair women and brave men ; A thousand hearts beat happily ; and when Music arose with its voluptuous swell, Soft eyes looked love to eyes which spake again, And all went merry as a marriage bell...
Página 29 - Who touches a hair of yon gray head Dies like a dog! March on!" he said. All day long through Frederick street Sounded the tread of marching feet: All day long that free flag tost Over the heads of the rebel host.
Página 105 - But he thought of his sisters proud and cold, And his mother vain of her rank and gold. So, closing his heart, the Judge rode on, And Maud was left in the field alone. But the lawyers smiled that afternoon, When he hummed in court an old love-tune; And the young girl mused beside the well, Till the rain on the unraked clover fell.
Página 33 - But in a larger sense we cannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate, we cannot hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it far above our power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember, what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here.