The Elocutionist's Annual ...: Comprising New and Popular Readings, Recitations, Declamations, Dialogues, Tableaux, Etc., EtcJacob W. Shoemaker National School of Elocution and Oratory, 1883 - Readers |
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... souls , though trodden down like mud . Our feasting was not glad that night , our music was not gay ; On my mother's graceful head I marked a thread of gray , My father , frowning at the fare , seemed every dish to weigh . I sat beside ...
... souls , though trodden down like mud . Our feasting was not glad that night , our music was not gay ; On my mother's graceful head I marked a thread of gray , My father , frowning at the fare , seemed every dish to weigh . I sat beside ...
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... soul , and with all his strength ; and therefore they loved him as truly and as fervently as he loved England . · It had been part of Nelson's prayer that the British fleet might be distinguished by humanity in the victory which he ...
... soul , and with all his strength ; and therefore they loved him as truly and as fervently as he loved England . · It had been part of Nelson's prayer that the British fleet might be distinguished by humanity in the victory which he ...
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... CHRISTMAS . ' TWAS the night after Christmas , when all through the house Every soul was a - bed and as still as a mouse ; The stockings ( so lately St. Nicholas ' care ) 30 THE ELOCUTIONIST'S ANNual . The Night After Christmas.
... CHRISTMAS . ' TWAS the night after Christmas , when all through the house Every soul was a - bed and as still as a mouse ; The stockings ( so lately St. Nicholas ' care ) 30 THE ELOCUTIONIST'S ANNual . The Night After Christmas.
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... souls ' digestions ? They appointed me committee - man to go and ask the questions . I found him in his garden , trim an ' buoyant as a feather ; He pressed my hand , exclaiming , " This is quite Italian weather ; How it ' minds me of ...
... souls ' digestions ? They appointed me committee - man to go and ask the questions . I found him in his garden , trim an ' buoyant as a feather ; He pressed my hand , exclaiming , " This is quite Italian weather ; How it ' minds me of ...
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... soul would go . Master had been a wildish man , and led a roughish life ; Did n't he shoot the Bowton squire , who dared write to , his wife ? He beat the Rads at Hindon town , I heard in twenty- nine , When every pail in market place ...
... soul would go . Master had been a wildish man , and led a roughish life ; Did n't he shoot the Bowton squire , who dared write to , his wife ? He beat the Rads at Hindon town , I heard in twenty- nine , When every pail in market place ...
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Page 170 - That he should weep for her? What would he do, Had he the motive and the cue for passion That I have? He would drown the stage with tears, And cleave the general ear with horrid speech; Make mad the guilty, and appal the free; Confound the ignorant, and amaze, indeed, The very faculties of eyes and ears.
Page 70 - Ye Ice-falls! ye that from the mountain's brow Adown enormous ravines slope amain Torrents, methinks, that heard a mighty voice, And stopped at once amid their maddest plunge! Motionless torrents! silent cataracts! Who made you glorious as the Gates of Heaven Beneath the keen full moon? Who bade the sun Clothe you with rainbows? Who, with living flowers Of loveliest blue, spread garlands at your feet? GOD! let the torrents, like a shout of nations, Answer! and let the ice-plains echo, GOD!
Page 133 - Whereupon, O King Agrippa, I was not disobedient unto the heavenly vision: but showed first unto them of Damascus, and at Jerusalem, and throughout all the coasts of Judea, and then to the Gentiles, that they should repent and turn to God, and do works meet for repentance.
Page 134 - And as he thus spake for himself, Festus said with a loud voice, Paul, thou art beside thyself; much learning doth make thee mad. 25 But he said, I am not mad, most noble Festus, but speak forth the words of truth and soberness.
Page 29 - Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse ; The stockings were hung by the chimney with care, In hopes that St. Nicholas soon would be there...
Page 29 - As dry leaves that before the wild hurricane fly, When they meet with an obstacle, mount to the sky, So up to the house-top the coursers they flew, With the sleigh full of toys, — and St.
Page 97 - They fought— like brave men, long and well; They piled that ground with Moslem slain: They conquered— but Bozzaris fell, Bleeding at every vein. His few surviving comrades saw His smile when rang their proud hurrah, And the red field was won; Then saw in death his eyelids close Calmly, as to a night's repose. Like flowers at set of sun.
Page 87 - He goes on Sunday to the church, And sits among his boys: He hears the parson pray and preach, He hears his daughter's voice, Singing in the village choir, And it makes his heart rejoice.
Page 96 - AT midnight, in his guarded tent, The Turk was dreaming of the hour When Greece, her knee in suppliance bent, Should tremble at his power ; In dreams, through camp and court, he bore The trophies of a conqueror ; In dreams his song of triumph heard.
Page 178 - Glenullin ! whose bride shall await, Like a love-lighted watch-fire, all night at the gate. A steed comes at morning : no rider is there ; But its bridle is red with the sign of despair.