Selections in Prose, Poetry, and Dialogues for Declamation and Recitation: Suited to the Capacities of Youth, and Intended for the Exhibition-day Requirements of Common Schools and AcademiesIvison, Blakeman, Taylor, and Company, 1876 - 181 pages |
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... slow . They had made half their distance when the ten young gentlemen were all madly in love with the beautiful young lady . They had all proposed to her , and bloodshed among the rivals seemed imminent , pending the young lady's ...
... slow . They had made half their distance when the ten young gentlemen were all madly in love with the beautiful young lady . They had all proposed to her , and bloodshed among the rivals seemed imminent , pending the young lady's ...
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... slowly gathers round him those who are to further their execution ; he quietly , though firmly , ad- vances in his humble path , laboring steadily but calmly till he has opened to the light all the recesses of igno- rance , and torn up ...
... slowly gathers round him those who are to further their execution ; he quietly , though firmly , ad- vances in his humble path , laboring steadily but calmly till he has opened to the light all the recesses of igno- rance , and torn up ...
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... slow , unsteady step . The white man is upon their heels , for terror or dispatch ; but they heed him not . They turn to take a last look at their deserted villages . a last glance upon the graves of their fathers . no tears ; they ...
... slow , unsteady step . The white man is upon their heels , for terror or dispatch ; but they heed him not . They turn to take a last look at their deserted villages . a last glance upon the graves of their fathers . no tears ; they ...
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... slow dawn , softly streaking the night , Illumes the blue vault with its faint crimson light . 86 Columbus ! ' t is day , and the darkness is o'er . " Day ! and what dost thou see ? " " Sky and ocean . No more ! " The second day's past ...
... slow dawn , softly streaking the night , Illumes the blue vault with its faint crimson light . 86 Columbus ! ' t is day , and the darkness is o'er . " Day ! and what dost thou see ? " " Sky and ocean . No more ! " The second day's past ...
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... slowly pass along ; Though they may forget the singer , They will not forget the song . If you have not gold or silver Ever ready to command , If you cannot toward the needy Reach an ever - open hand , You can visit the afflicted , O'er ...
... slowly pass along ; Though they may forget the singer , They will not forget the song . If you have not gold or silver Ever ready to command , If you cannot toward the needy Reach an ever - open hand , You can visit the afflicted , O'er ...
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Page 2 - Never, never more, shall we behold that generous loyalty to rank and sex, that proud submission, that dignified obedience, that subordination of the heart, which kept alive, even in servitude itself, the spirit of an exalted freedom. The unbought grace of life, the cheap defence of nations, the nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprise is gone...
Page 81 - Alas! they had been friends in youth; But whispering tongues can poison truth; And constancy lives in realms above; And life is thorny; and youth is vain; And to be wroth with one we love Doth work like madness in the brain.
Page 85 - GOD, the life and light Of all this wondrous world we see ; Its glow by day, its smile by night, Are but reflections caught from Thee. Where'er we turn...
Page 2 - It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the Queen of France, then the Dauphiness, at Versailles; and surely never lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful vision.
Page 69 - They sailed away for a year and a day, To the land where the Bong-tree grows, And there in a wood a Piggy-wig stood, With a ring at the end of his nose, His nose, His nose, With a ring at the end of his nose. 'Dear Pig, are you willing to sell for one shilling Your ring?' Said the Piggy, 'I will.' So they took it away, and were married next day By the Turkey who lives on the hill. They dined on mince, and slices of quince, Which they ate with a runcible spoon; And hand in hand, on the edge of the...
Page 98 - Who God doth late and early pray More of his grace than gifts to lend ; And entertains the harmless day With a...
Page 97 - Whose soul is still prepared for death, Untied unto the worldly care Of public fame, or private breath ; Who envies none that chance doth raise, Or vice ; who never understood How deepest wounds are given by praise, Nor rules of state, but rules of good...
Page 71 - For e'en though vanquished, he could argue still ; While words of learned length and thundering sound Amazed the gazing rustics ranged around. And still they gazed, and still the wonder grew, That one small head could carry all he knew.
Page 101 - THE more we live, more brief appear Our life's succeeding stages : A day to childhood seems a year, And years like passing ages. The gladsome current of our youth, Ere passion yet disorders, Steals lingering like a river smooth Along its grassy borders. But as the care-worn cheek grows wan, And sorrow's shafts fly thicker, Ye Stars, that measure life to man, Why seem your courses quicker ? When joys have lost their bloom and breath And life itself is vapid, Why, as we reach the Falls of Death, Feel...
Page 103 - So live, that when thy summons comes to join The innumerable caravan that moves To the pale realms of shade, where each shall take His chamber in the silent halls of death, Thou go not, like the quarry-slave at night, Scourged to his dungeon, but, sustained and soothed By an unfaltering trust, approach thy grave Like one who wraps the drapery of his couch About him, and lies down to pleasant dreams.