The Model Speaker: Consisting of Exercises in Prose and Poetry : for the Use of Schools, Academies, and CollegesEldredge & Bro., 1871 - 395 páginas |
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... sweet blue sky will soon peep through , When the ominous clouds are rifted ! There was never a night without a day , Or an evening without a morning ; And the darkest hour , as the proverb goes , Is the hour before the dawning . There ...
... sweet blue sky will soon peep through , When the ominous clouds are rifted ! There was never a night without a day , Or an evening without a morning ; And the darkest hour , as the proverb goes , Is the hour before the dawning . There ...
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... sweet dream of peace , And saw , within the moonlight in his room , Making it rich , and like a lily bloom , An angel , writing in a book of gold . · Exceeding peace had made Ben Adhem bold , And to the Presence in the room he said ...
... sweet dream of peace , And saw , within the moonlight in his room , Making it rich , and like a lily bloom , An angel , writing in a book of gold . · Exceeding peace had made Ben Adhem bold , And to the Presence in the room he said ...
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... sweet cuckoo - flowers ; And the wild marsh - marigold shines like fire in swamps and hollows gray ; And I'm to be Queen of the May , mother , I'm to be Queen of the May . The night - winds come and go , mother , upon the meadow - grass ...
... sweet cuckoo - flowers ; And the wild marsh - marigold shines like fire in swamps and hollows gray ; And I'm to be Queen of the May , mother , I'm to be Queen of the May . The night - winds come and go , mother , upon the meadow - grass ...
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... sweets that are Blown from the violet's purple bosom , The scent of lilacs from afar , Touch'd with the sweet shrub's spicy blossom , Walk'd Esther ; and the rustic ranks Stood on each side , like flowery banks , To let her pass - a ...
... sweets that are Blown from the violet's purple bosom , The scent of lilacs from afar , Touch'd with the sweet shrub's spicy blossom , Walk'd Esther ; and the rustic ranks Stood on each side , like flowery banks , To let her pass - a ...
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... sweet notes rung , As if a silver bell were swung ' Mid bells of iron and of bronze . - At times , perchance — oh , happy chance ! — Their lifting eyes together met , Like violet to violet , Casting a dewy greeting glance . For once be ...
... sweet notes rung , As if a silver bell were swung ' Mid bells of iron and of bronze . - At times , perchance — oh , happy chance ! — Their lifting eyes together met , Like violet to violet , Casting a dewy greeting glance . For once be ...
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Términos y frases comunes
angels arms battle beautiful beneath Bingen blessed blood bosom brave breast breath bright brow Brutus Cæsar Catiline cheek child cloud cold cried dare dark dead dear death deep dream dying earth eyes face falchion father fear forever friends gentlemen glory grave hand Hark hast hath head hear heard heart heaven helmet of Navarre Henry of Navarre Hiawatha holy honor hope hour hurrah labor land Lars Porsena liberty light lips living look Lord mighty Minnehaha mother neath never Never forever Nevermore night o'er pale peace Pickwick praise pray prayer Quoth the raven Rhine roar round Shamus shore shout silent sleep smile snow sorrow soul spirit stand stars stood STUART HOLLAND sweet sword tears tell tempest thee There's thou thought thunder voice wave weep wild word young
Pasajes populares
Página 22 - 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!
Página 44 - thing of evil - prophet still, if bird or devil! By that Heaven that bends above us - by that God we both adore Tell this soul with sorrow laden if, within the distant Aidenn, It shall clasp a sainted maiden whom the angels name Lenore Clasp a rare and radiant maiden whom the angels name Lenore.
Página 152 - He hath brought many captives home to Rome, Whose ransoms did the general coffers fill: Did this in Caesar seem ambitious? When that the poor have cried, Caesar hath wept; Ambition should be made of sterner stuff: Yet Brutus says he was ambitious; And Brutus is an honourable man.
Página 310 - Farewell, a long farewell, to all my greatness ! This is the state of man ; to-day he puts forth The tender leaves of hope, to-morrow blossoms, And bears his blushing honors thick upon him ; The third day, comes a frost, a killing frost ; And — when he thinks, good easy man, full surely His greatness is a ripening, — nips his root, And then he falls, as I do.
Página 311 - Let's dry our eyes ; and thus far hear me, Cromwell ; And, — when I am forgotten, as I shall be, And sleep in dull cold marble, where no mention Of me more must be heard of, — say, I taught thee...
Página 41 - Ah, distinctly I remember it was in the bleak December, And each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor. Eagerly I wished the morrow; vainly I had sought to borrow From my books surcease of sorrow — sorrow for the lost Lenore, For the rare and radiant maiden whom the angels name Lenore, Nameless here for evermore.
Página 237 - When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child ; but when I became a man, I put away childish things: For now we see through a glass, darkly ; but then face to face : now I know in part ; but then shall I know even as also I am known. And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three ; but the greatest of these is charity.
Página 199 - Romans, countrymen, and lovers ! hear me for my cause, and be silent that you may hear : believe me for mine honor, and have respect to mine honor, that you may believe : censure me in your -wisdom, and awake your senses, that you may the better judge. If there be any in this assembly, any dear friend of Caesar's, to him I say, that Brutus' love to Caesar was no less than his.
Página 339 - ... read the same Bible and pray to the same God, and each invokes his aid against the other. It may seem strange that any men should dare to ask a just God's assistance in wringing their bread from the sweat of other men's faces, but let us judge not, that we be not judged. The prayers of both could not be answered.
Página 326 - Tarry a little ; there is something else. This bond doth give thee here no jot of blood ; The words expressly are ' a pound of flesh : ' Take then thy bond, take thou thy pound of flesh ; But, in the cutting it, if thou dost shed One drop of Christian blood, thy lands and goods Are, by the laws of Venice, confiscate Unto the state of Venice.