The Elocutionist's Annual ...: Comprising New and Popular Readings, Recitations, Declamations, Dialogues, Tableaux, Etc., Etc, Ausgabe 1National School of Elocution and Oratory, 1889 |
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... once in all his life inquired the way to such and such a place , of Scrooge . Even the blind - men's dogs appeared to know him ; and when they saw him coming on , would tug their owners into door- ways and up courts ; and then would wag ...
... once in all his life inquired the way to such and such a place , of Scrooge . Even the blind - men's dogs appeared to know him ; and when they saw him coming on , would tug their owners into door- ways and up courts ; and then would wag ...
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... once more . Then Jessie said , " The slogan's dune , But can ye no hear them , noo ? The Campbells are comin ! It's nae a dream , Our succors hae broken through ! " We heard the roar and the rattle afar , But the pipers we could not ...
... once more . Then Jessie said , " The slogan's dune , But can ye no hear them , noo ? The Campbells are comin ! It's nae a dream , Our succors hae broken through ! " We heard the roar and the rattle afar , But the pipers we could not ...
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... once . Better load light , and I'll come back after what's left , " was the answer . " I tell you , " he continued , " the swamp is full of water , and soft as muck . " " John , " said I , " that baggage is going over at one load , sink ...
... once . Better load light , and I'll come back after what's left , " was the answer . " I tell you , " he continued , " the swamp is full of water , and soft as muck . " " John , " said I , " that baggage is going over at one load , sink ...
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... once more the perpendicular . Fishing the frying - pan from the mud , and lashing the gridiron to my belt , I made another start . It was hard work . The most unnatural adjustment of weight upon my back made it difficult to ascertain ...
... once more the perpendicular . Fishing the frying - pan from the mud , and lashing the gridiron to my belt , I made another start . It was hard work . The most unnatural adjustment of weight upon my back made it difficult to ascertain ...
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... once . It pressed me forward . I recovered myself , and the abomi- nable oars carried me as far the other way . The mocca- sins of wet leather began to slip along the roots . They began to slip very often and at bad times . I found it ...
... once . It pressed me forward . I recovered myself , and the abomi- nable oars carried me as far the other way . The mocca- sins of wet leather began to slip along the roots . They began to slip very often and at bad times . I found it ...
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anoder Auld Lang Syne beautiful bell Betsy birds blow blue caroling songs cat-tails cats Charco CHARLES DICKENS cheek child Christmas Cling cold dark dead dear Death Dialogue Dick Gray Dora eyes father flowers folks GEORGE BANCROFT Good-night grave hand Hark ye head hear heart Heaven hill hould isle Jean Jean Anderson jintleman Jist tell Johnny Sands judgment day Katie Lee Katydid King kiss Lincoln look Lord mamma Mary Miss Mills mother mule never night o'er Orator Puff Palmerston papa Paper binding Paul poor prayer Ring river rock rose Saint Ambrose Santa Claus Land Scrooge sing sleep Song soul sweet Tableau tears thee there's thet thing thou thought to-night Tony Lee tree Twas voice Waiting the judgment wild Willie Gray wind word young
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Seite 148 - 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," he said: Into the valley of Death Rode the six hundred.
Seite 10 - ... twere, the mirror up to nature; to show virtue her own feature, scorn her own image, and the very age and body of the time his form and pressure. Now, this overdone, or come tardy off, though it make the unskillful laugh, cannot but make the judicious grieve, the censure of which one must in your allowance o'erweigh a whole theatre of others.
Seite 149 - Came thro' the jaws of Death Back from the mouth of Hell, All that was left of them, Left of six hundred.
Seite 96 - Thou, too, sail on. O Ship of State ! Sail on, O UNION, strong and great ! Humanity, with all its fears, With all the hopes of future years, Is hanging breathless on thy fate...
Seite 100 - And the stately ships go on To their haven under the hill ; But O for the touch of a vanish'd hand, And the sound of a voice that is still ! Break, break, break, At the foot of thy crags, O Sea ! But the tender grace of a day that is dead Will never come back to me.
Seite 139 - BY the flow of the inland river, Whence the fleets of iron have fled, Where the blades of the grave-grass quiver Asleep are the ranks of the dead; — Under the sod and the dew, Waiting the judgment day; — Under the one, the Blue; Under the other, the Gray.
Seite 156 - Doom'd for a certain term to walk the night, And for the day confined to fast in fires, Till the foul crimes done in my days of nature Are burnt and purged away.
Seite 148 - I have but one request to ask at my departure from this world: it is - the charity of its silence. Let no man write my epitaph; for as no man who knows my motives dare now vindicate them, let not prejudice or ignorance asperse them. Let them and me rest in obscurity and peace, and my tomb remain uninscribed, and my memory in oblivion, until other times and other men can do justice to my character. When my country takes her place among the nations of the earth, then, and not till then, let my epitaph...
Seite 105 - THE day is cold, and dark, and dreary ; It rains, and the wind is never weary ; The vine still clings to the mouldering wall, But at every gust the dead leaves fall, And the day is dark and dreary.
Seite 64 - She was dead. No sleep so beautiful and calm, so free from trace of pain, so fair to look upon. She seemed a creature fresh from the hand of God, and waiting for the breath of life; not one who had lived and suffered death.