The Elocutionist's Annual ...: Comprising New and Popular Readings, Recitations, Declamations, Dialogues, Tableaux, Etc., EtcJacob W. Shoemaker National School of Elocution and Oratory, 1882 |
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... feels a worthier pride than when he has conquered the obstacles to his progress . But no one of noble mould desires to be looked upon as having occupied a menial position , as having been repressed by a feeling of inferi- ority , or as ...
... feels a worthier pride than when he has conquered the obstacles to his progress . But no one of noble mould desires to be looked upon as having occupied a menial position , as having been repressed by a feeling of inferi- ority , or as ...
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... feeling of contentment in every section of the Union , and a generous belief that the benefits and burdens of government would be com- mon to all . Himself a conspicuous illustration of what ability and ambition may do under republican ...
... feeling of contentment in every section of the Union , and a generous belief that the benefits and burdens of government would be com- mon to all . Himself a conspicuous illustration of what ability and ambition may do under republican ...
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... feel that night ? You are curious . How should I tell ? Does it matter so much what I felt ? You rescued me- yet was it well That you came unwished for , uncalled , between me and the deep and my doom ? Three days since , three more ...
... feel that night ? You are curious . How should I tell ? Does it matter so much what I felt ? You rescued me- yet was it well That you came unwished for , uncalled , between me and the deep and my doom ? Three days since , three more ...
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... feel the good health in a frozen body , nor any real improvement on the rheumatism ; but the Colonel began his speculation and Washington forgot the cold , for the Colonel's tongue was a magician's wand , that turned a hovel into a ...
... feel the good health in a frozen body , nor any real improvement on the rheumatism ; but the Colonel began his speculation and Washington forgot the cold , for the Colonel's tongue was a magician's wand , that turned a hovel into a ...
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... feel like a fighting - cock next day . " Fifteen or twenty minutes later the Colonel's tongue was still chattering away - he had pilcd several future fortunes out of several incipient " operations " which he had blundered into within ...
... feel like a fighting - cock next day . " Fifteen or twenty minutes later the Colonel's tongue was still chattering away - he had pilcd several future fortunes out of several incipient " operations " which he had blundered into within ...
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Popular passages
Page 59 - All was ended now, the hope, and the fear, and the sorrow, All the aching of heart, the restless unsatisfied longing, All the dull, deep pain, and constant anguish of patience ! And, as she pressed once more the lifeless head to her bosom, Meekly she bowed her own, and murmured, '
Page 118 - Then a beam of fun outbroke On the bearded mouth that spoke, As the honest heart laughed through Those frank eyes of Breton blue: "Since I needs must say my say, Since on board the duty's done, And from Malo Roads to Croisic Point, what is it but a run?
Page 58 - Angel of Death might see the sign, and pass over. Motionless, senseless, dying, he lay, and his spirit exhausted Seemed to be sinking down through infinite depths in the darkness — Darkness of slumber and death, forever sinking and sinking.
Page 67 - VENERABLE MEN ! you have come down to us from a former generation. Heaven has bounteously lengthened out your lives, that you might behold this joyous day. You are now where you stood fifty years ago, this very hour, with your brothers and your neighbors, shoulder to shoulder, in the strife for your country. Behold how altered ! The same heavens are indeed over your heads ; the same ocean rolls at your feet ; but all else how changed ! You hear now no roar of hostile cannon, you see no mixed volumes...
Page 57 - Vacant their places were, or filled already by strangers. Suddenly, as if arrested by fear or a feeling of wonder, Still she stood, with her colorless lips apart, while a shudder Ran through her frame, and, forgotten, the flowerets dropped from her fingers, And from her eyes and cheeks the light and bloom of the morning. Then there escaped from her lips a cry of such terribls anguish, That the dying heard it, and started up from their pillows.
Page 52 - In that delightful land which is washed by the Delaware's waters, Guarding in sylvan shades the name of Penn the apostle, Stands on the banks of its beautiful stream the city he founded. There all the air is balm, and the peach is the emblem of beauty...
Page 114 - Why, what hope or chance have ships like these to pass ?" laughed they : " Rocks to starboard, rocks to port, all the passage scarred and scored, Shall the Formidable...
Page 118 - In memory of the man but for whom had gone to wrack All that France saved from the fight whence England bore the bell. Go to Paris : rank on rank Search the heroes flung pell-mell On the Louvre, face and flank! You shall look long enough ere you come to Herve Riel. So, for better and for worse, Herve...
Page 81 - There is a path which no fowl knoweth, And which the vulture's eye hath not seen : The lion's whelps have not trodden it, Nor the fierce lion passed by it.
Page 18 - ... agony because silently borne. With clear sight and calm courage he looked into his open grave. What blight and ruin met his anguished eyes! Whose lips may tell what brilliant, broken plans, what baffled, high ambitions, what sundering of strong, warm manhood's friendships, what bitter rending of sweet household tics!