The modern elocutionist, compiled and ed. by J.A. JenningsJohn Andrew Jennings 1878 |
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... feet - for the place where I stood , I thought , was holy ground . This state of mind could not last long ; and I returned , with languid feelings , to my inn . I ordered my dinner— green peas and a sweetbread - it had been a favourite ...
... feet - for the place where I stood , I thought , was holy ground . This state of mind could not last long ; and I returned , with languid feelings , to my inn . I ordered my dinner— green peas and a sweetbread - it had been a favourite ...
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... feet from where they stand , up those perpendicular bulwarks of limestone to the key of that vast arch , which appears to them only of the size of a man's hand . The silence of death is rendered more impressive by the little stream that ...
... feet from where they stand , up those perpendicular bulwarks of limestone to the key of that vast arch , which appears to them only of the size of a man's hand . The silence of death is rendered more impressive by the little stream that ...
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... feet , and retain his slender hold a moment . His companions instantly perceived this new and fearful dilemma , and await his fall with emotions that " freeze their young blood . " He is too high to ask for his father and mother , his ...
... feet , and retain his slender hold a moment . His companions instantly perceived this new and fearful dilemma , and await his fall with emotions that " freeze their young blood . " He is too high to ask for his father and mother , his ...
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... feet . An involuntary groan of despair runs like a death - knell through the channel below , and all is still as the grave . At the height of nearly three hundred feet , the devoted boy lifts his hopeless heart and closing eyes to ...
... feet . An involuntary groan of despair runs like a death - knell through the channel below , and all is still as the grave . At the height of nearly three hundred feet , the devoted boy lifts his hopeless heart and closing eyes to ...
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... feet went bare upon the ground . They told me afterwards that the stones had cut and bruised them . She never told me that . No , no , God bless her ! and , I have remembered since , she walked behind me , sir , that I might not see how ...
... feet went bare upon the ground . They told me afterwards that the stones had cut and bruised them . She never told me that . No , no , God bless her ! and , I have remembered since , she walked behind me , sir , that I might not see how ...
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Common terms and phrases
Annabel Lee arms Baby Bell beautiful snow Bessie Betsey Bingen bless brave breast breath BRET HARTE bright brow CHARLES DICKENS cheek child cried dark darling dead dear death deep door dream earth EDGAR ALLAN POE eyes face fair father fear feet fell flowers grave Gregsbury hair hand happy head hear heard heart heaven Helon kind permission kissed knew lady Lars Porsena laugh light lips live look Lord M'INTOSH Malaprop Mayton morning mother never nevermore night o'er pale poor pray prayer Quoth the Raven rose round SAMUEL K seem'd sleep smile soft soul speak stood sweet T. B. ALDRICH tears tell tender thee there's thing THOMAS HOOD thou thought to-day told Twas voice weep wind wonder word young
Popular passages
Page 220 - THE BELLS. 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...
Page 95 - thing of evil— prophet still, if bird or devil! By that Heaven that bends above us, by that God we both adore, Tell this soul with sorrow laden if, within the distant Aidenn, It shall clasp a sainted maiden whom the angels name Lenore: Clasp a rare and radiant maiden whom the angels name Lenore!
Page 451 - I go, and it is done; the bell invites me. Hear it not, Duncan, for it is a knell That summons thee to heaven, or to hell.
Page 91 - 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.
Page 283 - I REMEMBER, I remember, The house where I was born, The little window where the sun Came peeping in at morn ; He never came a wink too soon, Nor brought too long a day, But now, I often wish the night Had borne my breath away!
Page 430 - God ! that one might read the book of fate, And see the revolution of the times Make mountains level, and the continent,— Weary of solid firmness, — melt itself Into the sea ! and, other times, to see The beachy girdle of the ocean Too wide for Neptune's hips...
Page 125 - Tis now become a history little known, That once we called the pastoral house our own. Short-lived possession ! but the record fair, That memory keeps of all thy kindness there, Still outlives many a storm, that has effaced A thousand other themes less deeply traced.
Page 160 - IT was many and many a year ago, In a kingdom by the sea That a maiden there lived whom you may know By the name of ANNABEL LEE ; And this maiden she lived with no other thought Than to love and be loved by me.
Page 348 - Brown rats, black rats, gray rats, tawny rats, Grave old plodders, gay young friskers, 'Fathers, mothers, uncles, cousins, Cocking tails and pricking whiskers, Families by tens and dozens, Brothers, sisters, husbands, wives — Followed the Piper for their lives.
Page 78 - Between the dark and the daylight, when the night is beginning to lower, Comes a pause in the day's occupations, that is known as the Children's Hour.