The Peerless Speaker: Being a Compilation of the Choicest Recitations, Readings and Dialogues from the Most Celebrated Authors, Including Pathetic, Tragic, Humorous and Oratorical Selections, for Schools and Public and Private Entertainments : Also Instructions for the Cultivation of the Voice, Hints on Elocution, Etc., EtcThompson & Thomas, 1905 - 296 páginas |
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... cried ; eat ; 66 we have no more to To - morrow we must starve ourselves , or beg upon the street ! " He saw her child upon the floor . With wild and hollow eyes He gazed in pity and despair - then started with surprise , As on a ...
... cried ; eat ; 66 we have no more to To - morrow we must starve ourselves , or beg upon the street ! " He saw her child upon the floor . With wild and hollow eyes He gazed in pity and despair - then started with surprise , As on a ...
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... cried . a noble heart- " He hath Chivalrous , manly , brave and true . Well hath he done his part . Let no one harm him , for his wrongs the world cannot repair . Blot from the list of noble names the house of De Bon- naire ! " Then ...
... cried . a noble heart- " He hath Chivalrous , manly , brave and true . Well hath he done his part . Let no one harm him , for his wrongs the world cannot repair . Blot from the list of noble names the house of De Bon- naire ! " Then ...
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... cried Franz , the little fellow who sat by Carl , " you forget that it is to be the most beautiful violin in Germany , and to be given to us by the Empress herself . And the two hundred thalers - just think of that ! " and Franz's dark ...
... cried Franz , the little fellow who sat by Carl , " you forget that it is to be the most beautiful violin in Germany , and to be given to us by the Empress herself . And the two hundred thalers - just think of that ! " and Franz's dark ...
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... cried : " It is Franz ! I know it , for no one but he could write anything so beautiful . But it shall be mine , for it is the piece that will gain the prize ! Ah , Franz , I play before you , and what I play shall be " He stopped , and ...
... cried : " It is Franz ! I know it , for no one but he could write anything so beautiful . But it shall be mine , for it is the piece that will gain the prize ! Ah , Franz , I play before you , and what I play shall be " He stopped , and ...
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... cried out piteously , with tears streaming down his face : 66 Oh , Raoul ! Raoul ! how could you , could you do it - my own little piece that I loved so much ? Oh , mother ! mother ! " - and , burying his head in his arms , he sobbed in ...
... cried out piteously , with tears streaming down his face : 66 Oh , Raoul ! Raoul ! how could you , could you do it - my own little piece that I loved so much ? Oh , mother ! mother ! " - and , burying his head in his arms , he sobbed in ...
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Términos y frases comunes
asked AUNT JEMIMA beautiful blessed brave breath brother brow cheer child church Count Zinzendorf cried dark dead dear death Demosthenes Destiny's hand door Echo ELIHU BURRITT elocution eyes face father feet fell fire flames flash flowers gazing band girl glory gray grew guns H. S. Taylor hair hand head hear heard heart heaven hide my eyes Jean Valjean King kiss knew lady land laugh Lieutenant Lee lifted light lips live Lobelia looked Lord lovely wave Madame Magloire Mamma morning mother neath never night o'er oratory passed poor pray prayer River Loire roar ROBERT OVERTON rose round seemed ship shout shrieked sight silent Sir Guy smile song soul stood sweet tears tell thought told Tom McGinnis town turned Twas voice wait whispered wife wild woman words
Pasajes populares
Página 94 - Other refuge have I none, Hangs my helpless soul on thee ; Leave, ah ! leave me not alone ; Still support and comfort me ! All my trust on thee is stayed, All my help from thee I bring ; Cover my defenceless head With the shadow of thy wing.
Página 203 - He finds his house in ruins, his farm devastated, his slaves free, his stock killed, his barns empty, his trade destroyed, his money worthless; his social system, feudal in its magnificence, swept away; his people without law or legal status, his comrades slain, and the burdens of others heavy on his shoulders. Crushed by defeat, his very traditions...
Página 54 - The longing for ignoble things, The strife for triumph more than truth, The hardening of the heart, that brings Irreverence for the dreams of youth!
Página 235 - If I were to tell you the story of Napoleon, I should take it from the lips of Frenchmen, who find no language rich enough to paint the great captain of the nineteenth century. Were I...
Página 206 - Mid flowers that never shall fade or fall ; Though mine are the gardens of earth and sea, And the stars themselves have flowers for me. One blossom of Heaven outblooms them all...
Página 209 - While the same sunbeam shines upon The guilty and the guiltless one, And hymns of joy proclaim through heaven The triumph of a soul forgiven.
Página 53 - SAINT AUGUSTINE ! well hast thou said, That of our vices we can frame A ladder, if we will but tread Beneath our feet each deed of shame...
Página 205 - ... brave and simple faith. Not for all the glories of New England, from Plymouth Rock all the way, would I exchange the heritage he left me in his soldier's death. To the foot of that shaft I shall send my children's children to reverence him who ennobled their name with his heroic blood.
Página 91 - Jesu, lover of my soul, Let me to Thy bosom fly, While the nearer waters roll, While the tempest still is high! Hide me, O my Saviour, hide, Till the storm of life is past, Safe into the haven guide; O receive my soul at last!
Página 204 - The old South rested everything on slavery and agriculture, unconscious that these could neither give nor maintain healthy growth. The new South presents a perfect democracy, the oligarchs leading in the popular movement — a social system compact and closely knitted, less splendid on the surface, but stronger at the core — a hundred farms for every plantation, fifty homes for every palace — and a diversified industry that meets the complex needs of this complex age.