Choice Readings for Public and Private Entertainment: Arranged for the Exercises of the School, College and Public Reader, with Elocutionary AdviceRobert McLean Cumnock Jansen, McClurg & Company, 1882 - 426 páginas |
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... Falling Ditone . Rising Tritone . Rising Ditone . fig trees join the walls of Troy . " Falling Tritone . Alternation . Triad of the Cadence . The radical pitch is represented by the heads of the.
... Falling Ditone . Rising Tritone . Rising Ditone . fig trees join the walls of Troy . " Falling Tritone . Alternation . Triad of the Cadence . The radical pitch is represented by the heads of the.
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... fall the words from him , " Mother , the angels do so smile , and beckon little Jim , I have no pain , dear mother , now , but O ! I am so dry , Just moisten poor Jim's lips again , and , mother , don't you cry . " With gentle ...
... fall the words from him , " Mother , the angels do so smile , and beckon little Jim , I have no pain , dear mother , now , but O ! I am so dry , Just moisten poor Jim's lips again , and , mother , don't you cry . " With gentle ...
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... fall as well as oaks ; And so Fair Annie blooms no more ! And that's the matter with your folks . " See , this long curl was kept for you ; And this white blossom from her breast ; And here your sister Bessie wrote - A letter , telling ...
... fall as well as oaks ; And so Fair Annie blooms no more ! And that's the matter with your folks . " See , this long curl was kept for you ; And this white blossom from her breast ; And here your sister Bessie wrote - A letter , telling ...
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... fall , It echoes along the vacant hall , Along the ceiling , along the floor , And seems to say , at each chamber - door , " Forever never ! Never - forever ! " - Through days of sorrow and of mirth , Through days of death and days of ...
... fall , It echoes along the vacant hall , Along the ceiling , along the floor , And seems to say , at each chamber - door , " Forever never ! Never - forever ! " - Through days of sorrow and of mirth , Through days of death and days of ...
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... fall , And the day is dark and dreary . My life is cold , and dark , and dreary ; It rains , and the wind is never weary ; My thoughts still cling to the mouldering Past , But the hopes of youth fall thick in the blast , And the days ...
... fall , And the day is dark and dreary . My life is cold , and dark , and dreary ; It rains , and the wind is never weary ; My thoughts still cling to the mouldering Past , But the hopes of youth fall thick in the blast , And the days ...
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Términos y frases comunes
ALFRED TENNYSON angels Annabel Lee arms Bawne beautiful bells breast Bregenz bright Captain carpet-bag Charco CHARLES DICKENS child chronometer watch cloud Connor cried dark dead dear Dora dream eyes face father Fezziwig forever Forever never Frenchman give grave hand head hear heard heart heaven Henry HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW honor Kate Kath king kiss lady Lars Porsena laugh light lips living look Lord mother musical scale never night Nora o'er OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES once Patrick poor pray prayer rain replied river river Lee rose round SAMUEL LOVER Sandalphon Senator shining shout silent sleep smile sorrow soul sound squire star stood sweet tears tell thee there's thing THOMAS HOOD thou thought tone turned voice waves Weller wild wind word young
Pasajes populares
Página 299 - Then out spake brave Horatius, The Captain of the gate : 'To every man upon this earth Death cometh soon or late; And how can man die better Than facing fearful odds, For the ashes of his fathers And the temples of his Gods...
Página 51 - TO him who in the love of nature holds Communion with her visible forms, she speaks A various language; for his gayer hours She has a voice of gladness, and a smile And eloquence of beauty, and she glides Into his darker musings, with a mild And healing sympathy, that steals away Their sharpness, ere he is aware.
Página 232 - Thy waters wasted them while they were free, And many a tyrant since; their shores obey The stranger, slave, or savage; their decay Has dried up realms to deserts: — not so thou, Unchangeable save to thy wild waves' play — Time writes no wrinkle on thine azure brow — Such as creation's dawn beheld, thou rollest now.
Página 350 - ABOU BEN ADHEM (may his tribe increase!) Awoke one night from a deep dream of peace, And saw within the moonlight in his room, Making it rich and like a lily in 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, "What writest thou?" — The vision raised its head, And, with a look made of all sweet accord, Answered, " The names of those who love the Lord.
Página 319 - I long wooed your daughter, my suit you denied; Love swells like the Solway, but ebbs like its tide; And now am I come with this lost love of mine To lead but one measure, drink one cup of wine. There are maidens in Scotland more lovely by far That would gladly be bride to the young Lochinvar.
Página 388 - O hark, O hear! how thin and clear, And thinner, clearer, farther going! O sweet and far from cliff and scar The horns of Elfland faintly blowing! Blow, let us hear the purple glens replying: Blow, bugle; answer, echoes, dying, dying, dying.
Página 361 - I galloped, Dirck galloped, we galloped all three; " Good speed ! " cried the watch as the gate-bolts undrew; "Speed!" echoed the wall to us galloping through; Behind shut the postern, the lights sank to rest, And into the midnight we galloped abreast.
Página 326 - Our toils obscure, and a' that ; The rank is but the guinea's stamp, The man's the gowd for a' that ! What tho' on hamely fare we dine, Wear hoddin gray, and a' that ; Gie fools their silks, and knaves their wine, A man's a man, for a
Página 232 - Roll on, thou deep and dark blue ocean, roll! Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain ; Man marks the earth with ruin — his control Stops with the shore ; upon the watery plain The wrecks are all thy deed...