The Reading Club and Handy Speaker: Being Serious, Humorous, Pathetic, Patriotic, and Dramatic Selections in Prose and Poetry, for Readings and RecitationsLee and Shepard, 1875 |
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... heart by impressing her with the unalterable conviction that the kitchen - chimney was on fire , -a calamity which always presented itself in the most glowing colors to the old lady's mind when anybody about her evinced the small- est ...
... heart by impressing her with the unalterable conviction that the kitchen - chimney was on fire , -a calamity which always presented itself in the most glowing colors to the old lady's mind when anybody about her evinced the small- est ...
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... heart . Sweet picture ! type of saintly confidence ! That brings afresh the tale of olden time , When the disciples of the Master's choice Went anxiously inquiring of their Lord The secret way that to the kingdom led ; " And in their ...
... heart . Sweet picture ! type of saintly confidence ! That brings afresh the tale of olden time , When the disciples of the Master's choice Went anxiously inquiring of their Lord The secret way that to the kingdom led ; " And in their ...
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... heart would break . Capt . Leigh found a brother officer who was expecting to go home on a furlough , and who readily agreed to take charge of the boy in whom his friend was so deeply inter- ested . But that night came news that made ...
... heart would break . Capt . Leigh found a brother officer who was expecting to go home on a furlough , and who readily agreed to take charge of the boy in whom his friend was so deeply inter- ested . But that night came news that made ...
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... hearts Of poor Kanaka girls ! " " Wherever I have been , " he said , - " I kept my ship in sight , The little anchor on the left , The great one on the right . ' 99 " I heard last night that you were in : I walked the wharves to - day ...
... hearts Of poor Kanaka girls ! " " Wherever I have been , " he said , - " I kept my ship in sight , The little anchor on the left , The great one on the right . ' 99 " I heard last night that you were in : I walked the wharves to - day ...
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... hearts of flint , From stubborn Turks and Tartars , never trained To offices of tender courtesy . We all expect a gentle answer , Jew . Shy . ( R. ) I have possessed your grace of what I purpose ; And by our holy sabbath have I sworn To ...
... hearts of flint , From stubborn Turks and Tartars , never trained To offices of tender courtesy . We all expect a gentle answer , Jew . Shy . ( R. ) I have possessed your grace of what I purpose ; And by our holy sabbath have I sworn To ...
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Términos y frases comunes
ain't Alma River Aroostook war baby banjo baron beautiful beneath Bob Sawyer bobolink boots boss breast breath Capt cold Coleraine cousin dear death doth dreadful dream Duke everlasting song eyes face gentleman girl give hand hath head heart heaven Heigho home to-day kiss lady laughed lips look Mass Cap'n massa master militia Modus morning nay thee ne'er Nearer to thee never night nose o'er Ovid paregoric peen out fishing Pickwick poys pray prayer Quaker QUEEN MAB red drums ride Roundheads Sam Weller shadow shouted shugar in their'n Shylock skates smile Snyder soul sweet tell Thar's the likker thee and nay there's thine thing thou hast thought Tobe told Twas voice Wardle Weller what's the matter wife Winkle yea thee young
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Página 36 - Nay, take my life and all ; pardon not that : You take my house, when you do take the prop That doth sustain my house ; you take my life, When you do take the means whereby I live.
Página 95 - Nearer, my God, to Thee, Nearer to Thee! E'en though it be a cross That raiseth me; Still all my song shall be. Nearer, my God, to Thee, Nearer to Thee!
Página 35 - Tarry a little ; there is something else. This bond doth give thee here no jot of blood ; The words expressly are ' a pound of flesh : ' Take then thy bond, take thou thy pound of flesh ; But, in the cutting it, if thou dost shed One drop of Christian blood, thy lands and goods Are, by the laws of Venice, confiscate Unto the state of Venice.
Página 32 - Though justice be thy plea, consider this, That in the course of justice none of us Should see salvation : we do pray for mercy, And that same prayer doth teach us all to render The deeds of mercy.
Página 82 - If there be one among you who can say that ever, in public fight or private brawl, my actions did belie my tongue, let him stand forth and say it.
Página 35 - Shed thou no blood ; nor cut thou less nor more But just a pound of flesh : if thou cut'st more Or less than a just pound, be it but so much As makes it light or heavy in the substance, Or the division of the twentieth part Of one poor scruple, nay, if the scale do turn But in the estimation of a hair, Thou diest and all thy goods are confiscate.
Página 78 - O, then, I see Queen Mab hath been with you. She is the fairies' midwife, and she comes In shape no bigger than an agate-stone On the fore-finger of an alderman, Drawn with a team of little atomies Athwart men's noses as they lie asleep ; Her waggon-spokes made of long spinners...
Página 9 - Stop, Sam, stop!" said Mr Winkle, trembling violently, and clutching hold of Sam's arms with the grasp of a drowning man. 'How slippery it is, Sam!' 'Not an uncommon thing upon ice, sir," replied Mr Weller. 'Hold up, sir!' This last observation of Mr Weller's bore reference to a demonstration Mr Winkle made at the instant, of a frantic desire to throw his feet in the air, and dash the back of his head on the ice. 'These - these - are very awkward skates; ain't they, Sam?' inquired Mr Winkle, staggering....
Página 29 - Some men there are, love not a gaping pig ; Some, that are mad, if they behold a cat ; And others, when the bag-pipe sings i...
Página 93 - There is no death! The stars go down To rise upon some fairer shore, And bright in Heaven's jeweled crown They shine for evermore.