The modern elocutionist, compiled and ed. by J.A. JenningsJohn Andrew Jennings 1878 |
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... arms over his chest - one of the most unfavourable postures for vocal utterance into which the human body can be thrown ; while another , having tried a variety of ways of suiting the action to the word , frankly admits his failure by ...
... arms over his chest - one of the most unfavourable postures for vocal utterance into which the human body can be thrown ; while another , having tried a variety of ways of suiting the action to the word , frankly admits his failure by ...
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... arms incumbent on the grave - stone , in a kind of mental prayer for I could not speak . Having performed these duties , I arose with quieter feel- ings , and felt leisure to attend to indifferent objects . Still I continued in the ...
... arms incumbent on the grave - stone , in a kind of mental prayer for I could not speak . Having performed these duties , I arose with quieter feel- ings , and felt leisure to attend to indifferent objects . Still I continued in the ...
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... arm into the noose . Darkness comes over him , and with the words " God ! " and " mother ! " whispered on his lips ... arms before the tearful , breathless multitude -- such shouting , and such leaping and weeping for joy never greeted ...
... arm into the noose . Darkness comes over him , and with the words " God ! " and " mother ! " whispered on his lips ... arms before the tearful , breathless multitude -- such shouting , and such leaping and weeping for joy never greeted ...
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... arm with the other , drew her hastily towards him , and fervently kissed her cheek . There was a pause . He sunk back upon his pillow , and looked long and earnestly in his mother's face . " William , William ! " murmured the mother ...
... arm with the other , drew her hastily towards him , and fervently kissed her cheek . There was a pause . He sunk back upon his pillow , and looked long and earnestly in his mother's face . " William , William ! " murmured the mother ...
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... arm in his , and had the small hand tight folded to his breast for warmth . It was the hand she had stretched out to him with her last smile - the hand that had led him on through all their wanderings . Ever and anon he pressed it to ...
... arm in his , and had the small hand tight folded to his breast for warmth . It was the hand she had stretched out to him with her last smile - the hand that had led him on through all their wanderings . Ever and anon he pressed it to ...
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Términos y frases comunes
Annabel Lee arms Baby Bell beautiful snow Bessie Betsey Bingen bless brave breast breath BRET HARTE bright brow CHARLES DICKENS cheek child cried dark darling dead dear death deep door dream earth EDGAR ALLAN POE eyes face fair father fear feet fell flowers grave Gregsbury hair hand happy head hear heard heart heaven Helon kind permission kissed knew lady Lars Porsena laugh light lips live look Lord M'INTOSH Malaprop Mayton morning mother never nevermore night o'er pale poor pray prayer Quoth the Raven rose round SAMUEL K seem'd sleep smile soft soul speak stood sweet T. B. ALDRICH tears tell tender thee there's thing THOMAS HOOD thou thought to-day told Twas voice weep wind wonder word young
Pasajes populares
Página 220 - THE BELLS. 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 95 - 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 451 - I go, and it is done; the bell invites me. Hear it not, Duncan, for it is a knell That summons thee to heaven, or to hell.
Página 91 - Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary, Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore — While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping, As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door; "'Tis some visitor," I muttered, "tapping at my chamber door — Only this, and nothing more.
Página 283 - I REMEMBER, I remember, The house where I was born, The little window where the sun Came peeping in at morn ; He never came a wink too soon, Nor brought too long a day, But now, I often wish the night Had borne my breath away!
Página 430 - God ! that one might read the book of fate, And see the revolution of the times Make mountains level, and the continent,— Weary of solid firmness, — melt itself Into the sea ! and, other times, to see The beachy girdle of the ocean Too wide for Neptune's hips...
Página 125 - Tis now become a history little known, That once we called the pastoral house our own. Short-lived possession ! but the record fair, That memory keeps of all thy kindness there, Still outlives many a storm, that has effaced A thousand other themes less deeply traced.
Página 160 - IT was many and many a year ago, In a kingdom by the sea That a maiden there lived whom you may know By the name of ANNABEL LEE ; And this maiden she lived with no other thought Than to love and be loved by me.
Página 348 - Brown rats, black rats, gray rats, tawny rats, Grave old plodders, gay young friskers, 'Fathers, mothers, uncles, cousins, Cocking tails and pricking whiskers, Families by tens and dozens, Brothers, sisters, husbands, wives — Followed the Piper for their lives.
Página 78 - Between the dark and the daylight, when the night is beginning to lower, Comes a pause in the day's occupations, that is known as the Children's Hour.