The Speaker: A Quarterly Magazine of Successful Readings, Volume 5Pearson Brothers, 1910 - Recitations |
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... missed an opportunity to display it . An opportunity was afforded on the occasion of a chris- tening . There was a considerable audience , made up of relatives , friends and neighbors of the parents . preacher began by saying : The " We ...
... missed an opportunity to display it . An opportunity was afforded on the occasion of a chris- tening . There was a considerable audience , made up of relatives , friends and neighbors of the parents . preacher began by saying : The " We ...
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... Miss Alice Westmore . A cousin , Richard Travis , has a passionate desire to win Alice for himself . His designs are checked by his overseer , who is called " the Bishop of Cottontown , " on account of his benevolent interest in the ...
... Miss Alice Westmore . A cousin , Richard Travis , has a passionate desire to win Alice for himself . His designs are checked by his overseer , who is called " the Bishop of Cottontown , " on account of his benevolent interest in the ...
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... Miss Alice . What a chance to straighten everything out , right every wrong - to act for Justice , Justice long be- trayed - for God . For God ? And had not , perhaps , God given him this opportunity for this very purpose ? Was not God ...
... Miss Alice . What a chance to straighten everything out , right every wrong - to act for Justice , Justice long be- trayed - for God . For God ? And had not , perhaps , God given him this opportunity for this very purpose ? Was not God ...
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... miss all hope of the chief blessedness Of life ; of nuptial comforts ; joys of offspring ; The ornaments of youth and props of age : Choose , then - but worthily . I know thy wish- MARY . Oh , Edward , Edward ! [ Pauses . EXETER . Speak ...
... miss all hope of the chief blessedness Of life ; of nuptial comforts ; joys of offspring ; The ornaments of youth and props of age : Choose , then - but worthily . I know thy wish- MARY . Oh , Edward , Edward ! [ Pauses . EXETER . Speak ...
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... Miss Eglantine ? EG . ( rising quickly ) . Isn't it a caller , Boniface ? BON . It's only a letter , miss . EG . ( impatiently ) . A letter ! That's all the inter- course my father has ! Everything by correspondence ! ( She sits down ...
... Miss Eglantine ? EG . ( rising quickly ) . Isn't it a caller , Boniface ? BON . It's only a letter , miss . EG . ( impatiently ) . A letter ! That's all the inter- course my father has ! Everything by correspondence ! ( She sits down ...
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Page 416 - NOW, my co-mates, and brothers in exile, Hath not old custom made this life more sweet Than that of painted pomp ? Are not these woods More free from peril than the envious court ? Here feel we but the penalty of Adam, The seasons...
Page 401 - Is this the region, this the soil, the clime,' Said then the lost Archangel, 'this the seat That we must change for Heaven, this mournful gloom For that celestial light? Be...
Page 210 - In speech - (which I have not) - to make your will Quite clear to such an one, and say, 'Just this Or that in you disgusts me; here you miss, Or there exceed the mark...
Page 443 - I'll not look for wine. The thirst that from the soul doth rise Doth ask a drink divine; But might I of Jove's nectar sup, I would not change for thine. I sent thee late a rosy wreath, Not so much honoring thee As giving it a hope, that there It could not withered be. But thou thereon didst only breathe, And sent'st it back to me; Since when it grows, and smells, I swear, Not of itself, but thee.
Page 416 - No matter where ; — of comfort no man speak : Let's talk of graves, of worms, and epitaphs ; Make dust our paper, and with rainy eyes Write sorrow on the bosom of the earth.
Page 226 - Neither a borrower nor a lender be ; For loan oft loses both itself and friend, And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry. This above all : to thine own self be true, And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man.
Page 425 - Rolled neck and croup over, lay dead as a stone ; And there was my Roland to bear the whole weight Of the news which alone could save Aix from her fate, With his nostrils like pits full of blood to the brim, And with circles of red for his eye-sockets
Page 418 - Must kings neglect that private men enjoy! And what have kings that privates have not too, Save ceremony— save general ceremony?
Page 98 - Wi' mony a vow and lock'd embrace Our parting was fu' tender ; And pledging aft to meet again, We tore oursels asunder ; But, Oh ! fell Death's untimely frost, That nipt my flower sae early ! Now green's the sod, and cauld's the clay, That wraps my Highland Mary...
Page 224 - Observe me, Sir Anthony — I would by no means wish a daughter of mine to be a progeny of learning; I dont think so much learning becomes a young woman ; for instance — I would never let her meddle with Greek, or Hebrew, or algebra, or simony, or fluxions, or paradoxes, or such inflammatory branches of learning...