Elmo's Model Speaker for Platform, School and Home, Arranged on an Entirely New Plan: Providing Programmes for Twelve Evening Entertainments, Selections Suitable for Juvenile Gatherings, Brief Responses to Encores. Speeches for Weddings, Presentations, Farewells and Welcomes. An Invaluable Book for Clubs, Lyceums and Young People's AssociationsThomas W. Handford Belford, Clarke & Company, 1881 - 410 Seiten |
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... MOTHER AND POET . Elizabeth B. Browning JIMMY BUTLER AND THE OWL . Anonymous . • PROGRAMME NO . 6 . UGLY SAM . Anonymous BATTLE HYMN OF THE REPUBLIC . Julia Ward Howe LOCHINVAR . Sir Walter Scott . MAUD MÜLLER . J. G. Whittier · BUCK ...
... MOTHER AND POET . Elizabeth B. Browning JIMMY BUTLER AND THE OWL . Anonymous . • PROGRAMME NO . 6 . UGLY SAM . Anonymous BATTLE HYMN OF THE REPUBLIC . Julia Ward Howe LOCHINVAR . Sir Walter Scott . MAUD MÜLLER . J. G. Whittier · BUCK ...
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... MOTHER'S PICTURE . William Cowper SORROWFUL TALE OF A HIRED GIRL . Anonymous INTERMISSION . THE MAY QUEEN . Alfred Tennyson . PECK'S BAD BOY . He Becomes a Druggist . G. W. Peck . A RAILROAD CAR SCENE . Anonymous AURELIA'S UNFORTUNATE ...
... MOTHER'S PICTURE . William Cowper SORROWFUL TALE OF A HIRED GIRL . Anonymous INTERMISSION . THE MAY QUEEN . Alfred Tennyson . PECK'S BAD BOY . He Becomes a Druggist . G. W. Peck . A RAILROAD CAR SCENE . Anonymous AURELIA'S UNFORTUNATE ...
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... mothers , sobbing over babes That clung to them and smiled And sick men borne in litters High on the necks of slaves , And troops of sunburned husbandmen With reaping - hooks and staves , XV . And droves of mules and asses Laden with ...
... mothers , sobbing over babes That clung to them and smiled And sick men borne in litters High on the necks of slaves , And troops of sunburned husbandmen With reaping - hooks and staves , XV . And droves of mules and asses Laden with ...
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... mother Who dandled him to rest , And for the wife who nurses His baby at her breast , And for the holy maidens Who feed the eternal flame To save them from false Sextus That wrought the deed of shame ? XXIX . " Hew down the bridge , sir ...
... mother Who dandled him to rest , And for the wife who nurses His baby at her breast , And for the holy maidens Who feed the eternal flame To save them from false Sextus That wrought the deed of shame ? XXIX . " Hew down the bridge , sir ...
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... mothers brought Their children , clamoring , " If we pay , we starve ! " She sought her lord , and found him , where he strode About the hall , among his dogs , alone , His beard a foot before him , and his hair A yard behind . She told ...
... mothers brought Their children , clamoring , " If we pay , we starve ! " She sought her lord , and found him , where he strode About the hall , among his dogs , alone , His beard a foot before him , and his hair A yard behind . She told ...
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
ain't answer arms asked bear bells better bless child cold comes cried dark dead dear death don't door Dora drop eyes face father feel felt flowers gave gentlemen give gone hand happy hard head hear heard heart heaven hold keep kind king kiss knew lady land laughed leave light living look Lord Mary mean mind Miss morning mother mule never night o'er once passed poor Queen rest round seemed seen side sleep smile soon soul sound speak stand stood stop sure sweet talk tears tell thee things thou thought told took true turned voice watch wife wish woman young
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 339 - HALF a league, half a league, Half a league onward, All in the valley of Death Rode the six hundred. "Forward the Light Brigade! Charge for the guns!
Seite 177 - I can read His righteous sentence by the dim and flaring lamps, His day is marching on. I have read a fiery gospel, writ in burnished rows of steel ; ' As ye deal with My contemners, so with you My grace shall deal; Let the Hero, born of woman, crush the serpent with His heel,
Seite 113 - Here, under leave of Brutus and the rest, — For Brutus is an honorable man ; So are they all, all honorable men, — Come I to speak in Caesar's funeral. He was my friend, faithful and just to me: But Brutus says he was ambitious; And Brutus is an honorable man.
Seite 103 - or Madam, truly your forgiveness I implore; But the fact is I was napping, and so gently you came rapping, And so faintly you came tapping, tapping at my chamber door, That I scarce was sure I heard you" — here I opened wide the door; — Darkness there, and nothing more. Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there wondering, fearing, Doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before; But the silence was unbroken, and the darkness gave no token, And the only word there spoken...
Seite 179 - So stately his form, and so lovely her face, That never a hall such a galliard did grace: While her mother did fret, and her father did fume, And the bridegroom stood dangling his bonnet and plume; And the bride-maidens whispered, " Twere better by far To have matched our fair cousin with young Lochinvar.
Seite 61 - 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...
Seite 197 - She'd come again, and with a greedy ear Devour up my discourse: which I observing, Took once a pliant hour; and found good means To draw from her a prayer of earnest heart That I would all my pilgrimage dilate...
Seite 102 - 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.
Seite 178 - Eske river where ford there was none ; But ere he alighted at Netherby gate, The bride had consented, the gallant came late, For a laggard in love and a dastard in war Was to wed the fair Ellen of brave Lochinvar. So boldly he entered the...
Seite 94 - And glory to our Sovereign Liege, King Henry of Navarre ! Now let there be the merry sound of music and of dance, Through thy corn-fields green, and sunny vines, oh pleasant land of France ! And thou, Rochelle, our own Rochelle, proud city of the waters, Again let rapture light the eyes of all thy mourning daughters. As thou wert constant in our ills, be joyous in our joy, For cold, and stiff, and still are they who wrought thy walls annoy.