Wilson's Book of Recitations and Dialogues: With Instructions in Elocution and Declamation : Designed as a Reading Book for Classes : and as an Assistant to Teachers and Students in Preparing Exhibitions |
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... humbled in the dust before them - then , with tranquil and submissive hearts they turned away , and left the child with God . Oh ! it is hard to take to heart the lesson that such deaths will teach , but let no man reject it ,
... humbled in the dust before them - then , with tranquil and submissive hearts they turned away , and left the child with God . Oh ! it is hard to take to heart the lesson that such deaths will teach , but let no man reject it ,
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... turning With a swift dizziness , and my heart grows sick , And these hot temple - throbs come fast and thick , And I am freezing - burning- Dying ! O God ! if I might only live ! My vial- -Ha ! it thrills me ! -I revive . O , but for ...
... turning With a swift dizziness , and my heart grows sick , And these hot temple - throbs come fast and thick , And I am freezing - burning- Dying ! O God ! if I might only live ! My vial- -Ha ! it thrills me ! -I revive . O , but for ...
Page 105
... turned into ashes ! DIMES AND DOLLARS . HENRY MILLS . " DIMES and dollars ! dollars and dimes ! " Thus an old miser rang the chimes , As he sat by the side of an open box , With ironed angles and massive locks : And he heaped the ...
... turned into ashes ! DIMES AND DOLLARS . HENRY MILLS . " DIMES and dollars ! dollars and dimes ! " Thus an old miser rang the chimes , As he sat by the side of an open box , With ironed angles and massive locks : And he heaped the ...
Page 124
... turned towards the bridal pair . Marion's principles were well known . Henry had been a convivialist , but of late his friends noticed the change in his manners , the difference in his habits — and to - night they watched him to see ...
... turned towards the bridal pair . Marion's principles were well known . Henry had been a convivialist , but of late his friends noticed the change in his manners , the difference in his habits — and to - night they watched him to see ...
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... turned to the company , saying : - “ Let no friend , hereafter , who loves me tempt me to peril my soul for wine . Not firmer the everlasting hills than my resolve , God helping me , never to touch or taste that terri- ble poison . And ...
... turned to the company , saying : - “ Let no friend , hereafter , who loves me tempt me to peril my soul for wine . Not firmer the everlasting hills than my resolve , God helping me , never to touch or taste that terri- ble poison . And ...
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Page 137 - Presently my soul grew stronger; hesitating then no longer, " Sir," said I, "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.
Page 49 - All that tread The globe are but a handful to the tribes That slumber in its bosom...
Page 139 - Be that word our sign of parting, bird or fiend ! " I shrieked, upstarting. " Get thee back into the tempest and the Night's Plutonian shore ! Leave no black plume as a token of that lie thy soul hath spoken ! Leave my loneliness unbroken ! — quit the bust above my door ! Take thy beak from out my heart, and take thy form from off my door ! " Quoth the Raven,
Page 50 - So live, that, when thy summons comes to join The innumerable caravan, which moves To that mysterious realm, where each shall take His chamber in the silent halls of death, Thou go not, like the quarry-slave at night, Scourged to his dungeon, but sustained and soothed By an unfaltering trust, approach thy grave, Like one who wraps the drapery of his couch About him, and lies down to pleasant dreams.
Page 48 - To him who in the love of Nature holds Communion with her visible forms, she speaks A various language ; for his gayer hours She has a voice of gladness, and a smile And eloquence of beauty, and she glides Into his darker musings, with a mild And healing sympathy, that steals away Their sharpness, ere he is aware.
Page 136 - 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 180 - Who take the ruffian billows by the top, Curling their monstrous heads, and hanging them With deafning clamours in the slippery clouds, That, with the hurly," death itself awakes ? Can'st thou, O partial sleep ! give thy repose To the wet sea-boy in an hour so rude ; And in the calmest and most stillest night, With all appliances and means to boot, Deny it to a king? Then, happy low, lie down ! Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.
Page 108 - THERE is a land, of every land the pride, Beloved by Heaven o'er all the world beside...
Page 19 - We are met on a great battlefield of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field as a final restingplace of those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this. But in a larger sense we cannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate, we cannot hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it far above our power to add or detract.
Page 49 - The hills Rock-ribbed and ancient as the sun,— the vales Stretching in pensive quietness between; The venerable woods— rivers that move In majesty, and the complaining brooks That make the meadows green; and, poured round all, Old Ocean's gray and melancholy waste,— Are but the solemn decorations all Of the great tomb of man.