The Peerless Speaker: Being a Compilation of the Choicest Recitations, Readings and Dialogues from the Most Celebrated Authors, Including Pathetic, Tragic, Humorous and Oratorical Selections, for Schools and Public and Private Entertainments : Also Instructions for the Cultivation of the Voice, Hints on Elocution, Etc., EtcThompson & Thomas, 1905 - 296 sider |
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Side 34
... morning in Jerusalem . Every house - top has its worshipers . The silver trumpets of the priests sound from the temple whose great pile tow- ers heavenward from the top of Mt. Moriah . From the galleries above the golden gates peal ...
... morning in Jerusalem . Every house - top has its worshipers . The silver trumpets of the priests sound from the temple whose great pile tow- ers heavenward from the top of Mt. Moriah . From the galleries above the golden gates peal ...
Side 37
... morning , noon and night , to call the monks to prayer . And some were good and holy men , but some , we needs must say , In idle pleasures , lust of gold , passed all their lives away . The Abbot cast a longing eye upon his neighbor's ...
... morning , noon and night , to call the monks to prayer . And some were good and holy men , but some , we needs must say , In idle pleasures , lust of gold , passed all their lives away . The Abbot cast a longing eye upon his neighbor's ...
Side 53
... morning the sun shone in on the dead face of little Tommy . He is only one of many . There are hundreds like him in tenement houses , slums and alleys in town and country . Poor little martyrs , whose tears fall almost unheeded ; who ...
... morning the sun shone in on the dead face of little Tommy . He is only one of many . There are hundreds like him in tenement houses , slums and alleys in town and country . Poor little martyrs , whose tears fall almost unheeded ; who ...
Side 56
... last we got to London , and did pretty well for a bit ; Then the business dropped to nothing , and the manager took a fit , -14 Stepped off one Sunday morning , forgetting the treasury call 56 FENNO'S FAVORITES . THE ARMY OF THE POTOMAC.
... last we got to London , and did pretty well for a bit ; Then the business dropped to nothing , and the manager took a fit , -14 Stepped off one Sunday morning , forgetting the treasury call 56 FENNO'S FAVORITES . THE ARMY OF THE POTOMAC.
Side 57
... morning , forgetting the treasury call ; But our luck was in , and we managed right on our feet1 to fall . We got an offer for Melbourne , -got it that very week . Those were the days when thousands went over their fortunes to seek- The ...
... morning , forgetting the treasury call ; But our luck was in , and we managed right on our feet1 to fall . We got an offer for Melbourne , -got it that very week . Those were the days when thousands went over their fortunes to seek- The ...
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asked AUNT JEMIMA beautiful blessed brave breath brother brow cheer child church Count Zinzendorf cried dark dead dear death Demosthenes Destiny's hand door Echo ELIHU BURRITT elocution eyes face father feet fell fire flames flash flowers gazing band girl glory gray grew guns H. S. Taylor hair hand head hear heard heart heaven hide my eyes Jean Valjean King kiss knew lady land laugh Lieutenant Lee lifted light lips live Lobelia looked Lord lovely wave Madame Magloire Mamma morning mother neath never night o'er oratory passed poor pray prayer River Loire roar ROBERT OVERTON rose round seemed ship shout shrieked sight silent Sir Guy smile song soul stood sweet tears tell thought told Tom McGinnis town turned Twas voice wait whispered wife wild woman words
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Side 94 - Other refuge have I none, Hangs my helpless soul on thee ; Leave, ah ! leave me not alone ; Still support and comfort me ! All my trust on thee is stayed, All my help from thee I bring ; Cover my defenceless head With the shadow of thy wing.
Side 203 - He finds his house in ruins, his farm devastated, his slaves free, his stock killed, his barns empty, his trade destroyed, his money worthless; his social system, feudal in its magnificence, swept away; his people without law or legal status, his comrades slain, and the burdens of others heavy on his shoulders. Crushed by defeat, his very traditions...
Side 54 - The longing for ignoble things, The strife for triumph more than truth, The hardening of the heart, that brings Irreverence for the dreams of youth!
Side 235 - If I were to tell you the story of Napoleon, I should take it from the lips of Frenchmen, who find no language rich enough to paint the great captain of the nineteenth century. Were I...
Side 206 - Mid flowers that never shall fade or fall ; Though mine are the gardens of earth and sea, And the stars themselves have flowers for me. One blossom of Heaven outblooms them all...
Side 209 - While the same sunbeam shines upon The guilty and the guiltless one, And hymns of joy proclaim through heaven The triumph of a soul forgiven.
Side 53 - SAINT AUGUSTINE ! well hast thou said, That of our vices we can frame A ladder, if we will but tread Beneath our feet each deed of shame...
Side 205 - ... brave and simple faith. Not for all the glories of New England, from Plymouth Rock all the way, would I exchange the heritage he left me in his soldier's death. To the foot of that shaft I shall send my children's children to reverence him who ennobled their name with his heroic blood.
Side 91 - Jesu, lover of my soul, Let me to Thy bosom fly, While the nearer waters roll, While the tempest still is high! Hide me, O my Saviour, hide, Till the storm of life is past, Safe into the haven guide; O receive my soul at last!
Side 204 - The old South rested everything on slavery and agriculture, unconscious that these could neither give nor maintain healthy growth. The new South presents a perfect democracy, the oligarchs leading in the popular movement — a social system compact and closely knitted, less splendid on the surface, but stronger at the core — a hundred farms for every plantation, fifty homes for every palace — and a diversified industry that meets the complex needs of this complex age.