Werner's Readings and Recitations, Issue 11E.S. Werner, 1893 - Readers |
Common terms and phrases
Alfred Tennyson ancient Wainamoinen Annie Annikki Arcite Argive arms Baradas battle beat birds breath bride Bring buy my love-knots cried cuirassiers daughter dear death Don Quixote Doña Urraca earth EDMUND SPENSER Enoch eyes fair father friends Gaveston give Gog and Magog Greeks GREG ground hand hath head heard heart Heaven Hector hither honor horse ILMA Ilmarinen Kalevala King lady live look lord Louhi magic vessel Maid of Beauty maiden marriage Mary Kyle Dallas Menelaus mighty MOLIÈRE mother never night Northland o'er Palamon pray Priam QUEEN RICH Richelieu Sancho shee ship of magic sighed silver sing sire sister slain snow-sledge soon spake spear stood sweet sword tell thee Theseus thine thou art Thou hast tree Trojans Twas Ukko unto Urraca Vronsky WAIN Wainamoinen warriors wife wild words Youkahainen youth Zamora
Popular passages
Page 3 - Blessed is the man that trusteth in the Lord, and whose hope the Lord is. For he shall be as a tree planted by the -waters, and that spreadeth out her roots by the river, and shall not see when heat cometh, but her leaf shall be green; and shall not be careful in the year of drought, neither shall cease from yielding fruit.
Page 1 - And they were both naked, the man and his wife, and were not ashamed. Chapter 3 1. Now the serpent was more subtle than any beast of the field which the Lord God had made. And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden?
Page 69 - From harmony, from heavenly harmony This universal frame began ; When Nature underneath a heap Of jarring atoms lay, And could not heave her head, The tuneful voice was heard from high, Arise, ye more than dead.
Page 4 - Instead of the thorn shall come up the fir tree, And instead of the brier shall come up the myrtle tree: And it shall be to the Lord for a name, For an everlasting sign that shall not be cut off.
Page 2 - And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her ; and he did eat...
Page 51 - A lovely Ladie rode him faire beside, Upon a lowly Asse more white than snow, Yet she much whiter ; but the same did hide Under a vele, that wimpled was full low...
Page 76 - Tis because resentment ties All the terrors of our tongues. Rome shall perish, — write that word In the blood that she has spilt ; Perish hopeless and abhorred, Deep in ruin as in guilt.
Page 1 - And the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and he slept ; and He took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh instead thereof. And the rib, which the Lord God had taken from man, made He a woman, and brought her unto the man.
Page 75 - The little engine on his fingers' ends; This just behind Belinda's neck he spread, As o'er the fragrant steams she bends her head. Swift to the lock a thousand sprites repair...
Page 74 - Favours to none, to all she smiles extends ; Oft she rejects but never once offends. Bright as the sun, her eyes the gazers strike, And, like the sun, they shine on all alike.