Standard Recitations: For the Use of Catholic Colleges, Schools and Literary Societies1899 - 313 páginas |
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... wild waters shriek o'er each plunge of thy prow On the world's dreary ocean thus shatter'd and tost ; — Then , lone one , shine on ! " If I lose thee , I'm lost ! " ' T XIV . THE GRASP OF THE DEAD . MRS . MACLEAN . WAS the battle ...
... wild waters shriek o'er each plunge of thy prow On the world's dreary ocean thus shatter'd and tost ; — Then , lone one , shine on ! " If I lose thee , I'm lost ! " ' T XIV . THE GRASP OF THE DEAD . MRS . MACLEAN . WAS the battle ...
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... wilds , and day by day Regales his inmate with the parted prey . Nor he disdains the dole , though unprepared , Spread on the ground , and with a lion shared . But thus to live - still lost - sequester'd still— Scarce seem'd his lord's ...
... wilds , and day by day Regales his inmate with the parted prey . Nor he disdains the dole , though unprepared , Spread on the ground , and with a lion shared . But thus to live - still lost - sequester'd still— Scarce seem'd his lord's ...
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... Wild winds and mad waves drive the vessel a wreck ; The masts fly in splinters ; the shrouds are on fire . Like mountains the billows tremendously swell , In vain the lost wretch calls on mercy to save ; Unseen hands of spirits are ...
... Wild winds and mad waves drive the vessel a wreck ; The masts fly in splinters ; the shrouds are on fire . Like mountains the billows tremendously swell , In vain the lost wretch calls on mercy to save ; Unseen hands of spirits are ...
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... wild , They caught the flag on high , And streamed above the gallant child , Like banners in the sky . There came a burst of thunder sound- The boy - oh ! where was he ? Ask of the winds that far around With fragments strewed the sea ...
... wild , They caught the flag on high , And streamed above the gallant child , Like banners in the sky . There came a burst of thunder sound- The boy - oh ! where was he ? Ask of the winds that far around With fragments strewed the sea ...
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... wild sea ; " Be still ! ' ' And the wind ceased , -it ceased ! That word. INDER a spreading chestnut tree The village smithy stands ; The smith a mighty man is he With large and sinewy hands , And the muscles of his brawny arms Are ...
... wild sea ; " Be still ! ' ' And the wind ceased , -it ceased ! That word. INDER a spreading chestnut tree The village smithy stands ; The smith a mighty man is he With large and sinewy hands , And the muscles of his brawny arms Are ...
Términos y frases comunes
Æsop Annabel Lee arms banner beautiful bells beneath Bingen BLACK CROWS bless blood brave breath bright bright eye brow Brutus Cæsar cheek child cold cried dark dead dear death deep dread dream dying earth eyes face falchion father fear fell flash gazed Gelert gleam glory Go-Bang grave hand haste hath head hear heard heart heaven hour king Kris Kringle land Lars Porsena laugh light lips live look Lord loud morning mother ne'er never Nevermore night o'er once pale poor prayer proud Quoth the Raven river Lee round shout sigh silent sleep smile snow soul sound Star-Spangled Banner stars steed stood stream sweet sword tears tell tempest thee There's thine thou thought Twas Vespasian voice wave weep wild wind word young zounds
Pasajes populares
Página 129 - 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...
Página 41 - We buried him darkly at dead of night, The sods with our bayonets turning; By the struggling moonbeam's misty light And the lantern dimly burning. No useless coffin enclosed his breast, Not in sheet nor in shroud we wound him ; But he lay like a warrior taking his rest With his martial cloak around him.
Página 179 - twas but the wind, Or the car rattling o'er the stony street; On with the dance; let joy be unconfined ! No sleep till morn, when youth and pleasure meet To chase the glowing hours with flying feet...
Página 46 - Amidst the storm they sang, And the stars heard, and the sea ; And the sounding aisles of the dim woods rang To the anthem of the free...
Página 179 - 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 157 - Now came still evening on, and twilight gray Had in her sober livery all things clad ; Silence accompanied ; for beast and bird, They to their grassy couch, these to their nests, Were slunk, all but the wakeful nightingale ; She all night long her amorous descant sung ; Silence was pleased : now...
Página 127 - And heard, with voice as trumpet loud, Bozzaris cheer his band : " Strike till the last armed foe expires ; Strike for your altars and your fires ; Strike for the green graves of your sires — God, and your native land...
Página 129 - Hear the loud alarum bells, Brazen bells! What a tale of terror, now, their turbulency tells! In the startled ear of night How they scream out their affright! Too much horrified to speak, They can only shriek, shriek, Out of tune, In a clamorous appealing to the mercy of the fire...
Página 77 - It was my guide, my light, my all, It bade my dark forebodings cease; And through the storm and danger's thrall, It led me to the port of peace.
Página 241 - ... 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 unskilful laugh, cannot but make the judicious grieve; the censure of the which one must in your allowance o'erweigh a whole theatre of others.