The Elocutionist's Annual ...: Comprising New and Popular Readings, Recitations, Declamations, Dialogues, Tableaux, Etc., Etc, Issue 1National School of Elocution and Oratory, 1889 - Readers |
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... hand ; Ring out the darkness of the land ; Ring in the Christ that is to be . - TENNYSON . HAMLET'S INSTRUCTION TO THE PLAYERS . PEAK the speech , I pray you , as I pronounced it to SPEAK you , trippingly on the tongue ; but if you ...
... hand ; Ring out the darkness of the land ; Ring in the Christ that is to be . - TENNYSON . HAMLET'S INSTRUCTION TO THE PLAYERS . PEAK the speech , I pray you , as I pronounced it to SPEAK you , trippingly on the tongue ; but if you ...
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... hand to . Old Marley was as dead as a door - nail . Mind ! I don't mean to say that I know , of my own knowledge , what there is particularly dead about a door- nail . I might have been inclined , myself , to regard a coffin - nail as ...
... hand to . Old Marley was as dead as a door - nail . Mind ! I don't mean to say that I know , of my own knowledge , what there is particularly dead about a door- nail . I might have been inclined , myself , to regard a coffin - nail as ...
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... hand , And drew me near and spoke : " The Highlanders ! O dinna ye hear The slogan far awa ? The McGregor's ? Ah ! I ken it weel ; It is the grandest of them a ' . " God bless the bonny Highlanders ; We're saved ! we're saved ! " she ...
... hand , And drew me near and spoke : " The Highlanders ! O dinna ye hear The slogan far awa ? The McGregor's ? Ah ! I ken it weel ; It is the grandest of them a ' . " God bless the bonny Highlanders ; We're saved ! we're saved ! " she ...
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... hands , And the women sobbed in a crowd ; And every one knelt down where we stood , And we all thanked God aloud . That happy day , when we welcomed them in , Our men put Jessie first ; And the General took her hand ; and cheers From ...
... hands , And the women sobbed in a crowd ; And every one knelt down where we stood , And we all thanked God aloud . That happy day , when we welcomed them in , Our men put Jessie first ; And the General took her hand ; and cheers From ...
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... hand , and shook the accumulating drops from nose and chin ; " but the waterproof I have on has lasted me some thirty - eight years , and I don't think it will wet through to - day . " " Well ! " I exclaimed , " there is no use of ...
... hand , and shook the accumulating drops from nose and chin ; " but the waterproof I have on has lasted me some thirty - eight years , and I don't think it will wet through to - day . " " Well ! " I exclaimed , " there is no use of ...
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Page 148 - 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," he said: Into the valley of Death Rode the six hundred.
Page 10 - ... twere, the mirror up to nature; to show virtue her own feature, scorn her own image, and the very age and body of the time his form and pressure. Now, this overdone, or come tardy off, though it make the unskillful laugh, cannot but make the judicious grieve, the censure of which one must in your allowance o'erweigh a whole theatre of others.
Page 149 - Came thro' the jaws of Death Back from the mouth of Hell, All that was left of them, Left of six hundred.
Page 96 - Thou, too, sail on. O Ship of State ! Sail on, O UNION, strong and great ! Humanity, with all its fears, With all the hopes of future years, Is hanging breathless on thy fate...
Page 100 - And the stately ships go on To their haven under the hill ; But O for the touch of a vanish'd hand, And the sound of a voice that is still ! Break, break, break, At the foot of thy crags, O Sea ! But the tender grace of a day that is dead Will never come back to me.
Page 139 - BY the flow of the inland river, Whence the fleets of iron have fled, Where the blades of the grave-grass quiver Asleep are the ranks of the dead; — Under the sod and the dew, Waiting the judgment day; — Under the one, the Blue; Under the other, the Gray.
Page 156 - Doom'd for a certain term to walk the night, And for the day confined to fast in fires, Till the foul crimes done in my days of nature Are burnt and purged away.
Page 148 - I have but one request to ask at my departure from this world: it is - the charity of its silence. Let no man write my epitaph; for as no man who knows my motives dare now vindicate them, let not prejudice or ignorance asperse them. Let them and me rest in obscurity and peace, and my tomb remain uninscribed, and my memory in oblivion, until other times and other men can do justice to my character. When my country takes her place among the nations of the earth, then, and not till then, let my epitaph...
Page 105 - THE day is cold, and dark, and dreary ; It rains, and the wind is never weary ; The vine still clings to the mouldering wall, But at every gust the dead leaves fall, And the day is dark and dreary.
Page 64 - She was dead. No sleep so beautiful and calm, so free from trace of pain, so fair to look upon. She seemed a creature fresh from the hand of God, and waiting for the breath of life; not one who had lived and suffered death.