The Speaker's Garland and Literary Bouquet: Combining 100 Choice Selections ; Nos. 1 - Embracing New and Standard Productions of Oratory, Sentiment, Eloquence, Pathos, Wit and Humor, Volumen2P. Garrett & Company, 1884 |
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... heart . I cannot weep , for my brain is dry- Nor plead , for I know not how ; But my aim is sure , and the shaft may fly , - And the bubbling life - blood flow ! " Yet leave me , while dim life remains , To list his parting sigh ; To ...
... heart . I cannot weep , for my brain is dry- Nor plead , for I know not how ; But my aim is sure , and the shaft may fly , - And the bubbling life - blood flow ! " Yet leave me , while dim life remains , To list his parting sigh ; To ...
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... heart Responded firmly , still Unawed , though face to face with death , " With God's good help I will ! " The flames approach with giant strides , They scorch his hands and brow ; One arm disabled seeks his side , Ah , he is conquered ...
... heart Responded firmly , still Unawed , though face to face with death , " With God's good help I will ! " The flames approach with giant strides , They scorch his hands and brow ; One arm disabled seeks his side , Ah , he is conquered ...
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... hearts but this " He fed them with a faithful and true heart , and ruled them prudently with all his power . " The Shepherd of the People ! that old name that the best rulers ever craved . What ruler ever won it like this dead President ...
... hearts but this " He fed them with a faithful and true heart , and ruled them prudently with all his power . " The Shepherd of the People ! that old name that the best rulers ever craved . What ruler ever won it like this dead President ...
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... heart upon a match . Now therefore look to Dora ; she is well To look to ; thrifty too beyond her age . She is my brother's daughter : he and I Had once hard words , and parted , and he died In foreign lands ; but for his sake I bred ...
... heart upon a match . Now therefore look to Dora ; she is well To look to ; thrifty too beyond her age . She is my brother's daughter : he and I Had once hard words , and parted , and he died In foreign lands ; but for his sake I bred ...
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... heart is glad Of the full harvest , he may see the boy , And bless him for the sake of him that's gone . " And Dora took the child and went her way Across the wheat , and sat upon a mound That was unsown , where many poppies grew . Far ...
... heart is glad Of the full harvest , he may see the boy , And bless him for the sake of him that's gone . " And Dora took the child and went her way Across the wheat , and sat upon a mound That was unsown , where many poppies grew . Far ...
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Términos y frases comunes
Annabel Lee arms balance wheel Beagle beautiful beneath bless breast breath captain's gig Carthage Char-co-o-al child cold cried dark Deacon Jones dead dear death Deborah Lee door Dora dream earth eyes face fair father fear feel feet fell flowers frog give glory gone grave hand head hear heard heart heaven helmet of Navarre Henry of Navarre hope hour kiss knew lady land laugh light lips live look Lord morning mother neath never night NUMBER o'er once pass poor portmanteau pray prayer R. H. BARHAM raspberry pie round Santa Claus shine sigh sing sleep smile sorrow soul spirit stand stood sweet tears tell thee There's thing thou thought to-day told turned Twas Twill voice weary wife wild word young
Pasajes populares
Página 81 - Let not Ambition mock their useful toil, Their homely joys, and destiny obscure ; Nor Grandeur hear with a disdainful smile, The short and simple annals of the poor.
Página 157 - We thought, as we hollowed his narrow bed, And smoothed down his lonely pillow, That the foe and the stranger would tread o'er his head; And we far away on the billow!
Página 155 - Old Kaspar took it from the boy, Who stood expectant by; And then the old man shook his head, And with a natural sigh, ' 'Tis some poor fellow's skull,' said he, 'Who fell in the great victory.
Página 84 - Heaven ('twas all he wished) a friend. No farther seek his merits to disclose, Or draw his frailties from their dread abode — (There they alike in trembling hope repose), The bosom of his Father and his God.
Página 82 - Forbade to wade through slaughter to a throne, And shut the gates of mercy on mankind, The struggling pangs of conscious truth to hide. To quench the blushes of ingenuous shame, Or heap the shrine of Luxury and Pride With incense kindled at the Muse's flame.
Página 83 - One morn I missed him on the customed hill, Along the heath and near his favourite tree ; Another came ; nor yet beside the rill, Nor up the lawn, nor at the wood was he ; The next with dirges due in sad array Slow through the church-way path we saw him borne. Approach and read (for thou canst read) the lay, Graved on the stone beneath yon aged thorn.
Página 156 - They say it was a shocking sight After the field was won; For many thousand bodies here Lay rotting in the sun; But things like that, you know, must be After a famous victory. "Great praise the Duke of Marlbro' won, And our good Prince Eugene." "Why 'twas a very wicked thing!" Said little Wilhelmine. "Nay, nay, my little girl," quoth he, "It was a famous victory.
Página 125 - But we loved with a love that was more than love — I and my Annabel Lee ; With a love that the winged seraphs of heaven Coveted her and me.
Página 81 - For them no more the blazing hearth shall burn, Or busy housewife ply her evening care; No children run to lisp their sire's return, Or climb his knees the envied kiss to share.
Página 83 - Oft have we seen him at the peep of dawn Brushing with hasty steps the dews away To meet the sun upon the upland lawn.