Elmo's Model Speaker for Platform, School and Home, Arranged on an Entirely New Plan: Providing Programmes for Twelve Evening Entertainments, Selections Suitable for Juvenile Gatherings, Brief Responses to Encores. Speeches for Weddings, Presentations, Farewells and Welcomes. An Invaluable Book for Clubs, Lyceums and Young People's AssociationsThomas W. Handford Belford, Clarke & Company, 1881 - 410 pagini |
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Pagina 31
... mind- Thrice thirty thousand foes before , And the broad flood behind . " Down with him ! " cried false Sextus , With a smile on his pale face ; " Now yield thee , " cried Lars Porsena , " Now yield thee to our grace ! " LVIII . Round ...
... mind- Thrice thirty thousand foes before , And the broad flood behind . " Down with him ! " cried false Sextus , With a smile on his pale face ; " Now yield thee , " cried Lars Porsena , " Now yield thee to our grace ! " LVIII . Round ...
Pagina 36
... mind made up that I'd try Jesus Christ , and see ef he'd have me . But laws ! they was a big man that night that preached hell . Not that I don't be- lieve they's a hell . They's plenty not a thousand miles away a deserves it ; and I ...
... mind made up that I'd try Jesus Christ , and see ef he'd have me . But laws ! they was a big man that night that preached hell . Not that I don't be- lieve they's a hell . They's plenty not a thousand miles away a deserves it ; and I ...
Pagina 46
... mind to lose her now . The child might have been saved ; but people can't save their children and throw away five pounds , too . It I wonder where little Cherub is ? While you were lending that five pounds the dog ran out of the shop ...
... mind to lose her now . The child might have been saved ; but people can't save their children and throw away five pounds , too . It I wonder where little Cherub is ? While you were lending that five pounds the dog ran out of the shop ...
Pagina 52
... mind to break this over your back ! " " Sir George , " said I , “ villain and Jenkins must never be coupled in the same sentence ; and as for the breaking of this whip , I'll relieve you of the trouble , " and , snatching it from his ...
... mind to break this over your back ! " " Sir George , " said I , “ villain and Jenkins must never be coupled in the same sentence ; and as for the breaking of this whip , I'll relieve you of the trouble , " and , snatching it from his ...
Pagina 59
... mind , As winds from all the compass shift and blow Made war upon each other for an hour , Till pity won . She sent a herald forth , And bade him cry , with sound of trumpet , all The hard condition ; but that she would loose The people ...
... mind , As winds from all the compass shift and blow Made war upon each other for an hour , Till pity won . She sent a herald forth , And bade him cry , with sound of trumpet , all The hard condition ; but that she would loose The people ...
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Pagina 339 - HALF a league, half a league, Half a league onward, All in the valley of Death Rode the six hundred. "Forward the Light Brigade! Charge for the guns!
Pagina 177 - I can read His righteous sentence by the dim and flaring lamps, His day is marching on. I have read a fiery gospel, writ in burnished rows of steel ; ' As ye deal with My contemners, so with you My grace shall deal; Let the Hero, born of woman, crush the serpent with His heel,
Pagina 113 - Here, under leave of Brutus and the rest, — For Brutus is an honorable man ; So are they all, all honorable men, — Come I to speak in Caesar's funeral. He was my friend, faithful and just to me: But Brutus says he was ambitious; And Brutus is an honorable man.
Pagina 103 - or Madam, truly your forgiveness I implore; But the fact is I was napping, and so gently you came rapping, And so faintly you came tapping, tapping at my chamber door, That I scarce was sure I heard you" — here I opened wide the door; — Darkness there, and nothing more. Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there wondering, fearing, Doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before; But the silence was unbroken, and the darkness gave no token, And the only word there spoken...
Pagina 179 - So stately his form, and so lovely her face, That never a hall such a galliard did grace: While her mother did fret, and her father did fume, And the bridegroom stood dangling his bonnet and plume; And the bride-maidens whispered, " Twere better by far To have matched our fair cousin with young Lochinvar.
Pagina 61 - Hear the sledges with the bells, Silver bells ! What a world of merriment their melody foretells ! How they tinkle, tinkle, tinkle, In the icy air of night ! While the stars, that oversprinkle All the heavens, seem to twinkle With a crystalline delight...
Pagina 197 - She'd come again, and with a greedy ear Devour up my discourse: which I observing, Took once a pliant hour; and found good means To draw from her a prayer of earnest heart That I would all my pilgrimage dilate...
Pagina 102 - ONCE upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary, Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore, While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping, As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door. " Tis some visitor," I muttered, " tapping at my chamber door — Only this, and nothing more.
Pagina 178 - Eske river where ford there was none ; But ere he alighted at Netherby gate, The bride had consented, the gallant came late, For a laggard in love and a dastard in war Was to wed the fair Ellen of brave Lochinvar. So boldly he entered the...
Pagina 94 - And glory to our Sovereign Liege, King Henry of Navarre ! Now let there be the merry sound of music and of dance, Through thy corn-fields green, and sunny vines, oh pleasant land of France ! And thou, Rochelle, our own Rochelle, proud city of the waters, Again let rapture light the eyes of all thy mourning daughters. As thou wert constant in our ills, be joyous in our joy, For cold, and stiff, and still are they who wrought thy walls annoy.