Elmo's Model Speaker for Platform, School and Home, Arranged on an Entirely New Plan: Providing Programmes for Twelve Evening Entertainments, Selections Suitable for Juvenile Gatherings, Brief Responses to Encores. Speeches for Weddings, Presentations, Farewells and Welcomes. An Invaluable Book for Clubs, Lyceums and Young People's AssociationsThomas W. Handford Belford, Clarke & Company, 1881 - 410 oldal |
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43. oldal
... lady in Threadneedle street , London city . I wouldn't tell you so if I hadn't the paper to show , or you mightn't believe it even of me . what else is it ? It's a man - trap and a handcuff , the parish stocks and a leg - lock , all in ...
... lady in Threadneedle street , London city . I wouldn't tell you so if I hadn't the paper to show , or you mightn't believe it even of me . what else is it ? It's a man - trap and a handcuff , the parish stocks and a leg - lock , all in ...
44. oldal
... ladies and gentlefolks all , I'll let you into a secret , though you won't believe it . Thirteen years of temper in a palace would try the worst of you , but thirteen year of temper in a cart would try the best of you . You are kept so ...
... ladies and gentlefolks all , I'll let you into a secret , though you won't believe it . Thirteen years of temper in a palace would try the worst of you , but thirteen year of temper in a cart would try the best of you . You are kept so ...
49. oldal
... lady fair , as the cabman would say , reconsider your decision and consent to become Mrs. Jenkins . ' " " " I won't , " she said , " I never will ; and let me tell you that you are acting in a very ungentlemanly way to press me thus ...
... lady fair , as the cabman would say , reconsider your decision and consent to become Mrs. Jenkins . ' " " " I won't , " she said , " I never will ; and let me tell you that you are acting in a very ungentlemanly way to press me thus ...
50. oldal
... lady in such a way . Do you know that you are risking your own life as well as mine by your madness ? " I explained that I adored her so much that to die in her company would be perfect bliss , so that I begged she would not consider my ...
... lady in such a way . Do you know that you are risking your own life as well as mine by your madness ? " I explained that I adored her so much that to die in her company would be perfect bliss , so that I begged she would not consider my ...
57. oldal
... lady was — well , it was dreadful . She mixed a decoction composed of molasses , catnip , peppermint , aqua- fortis , turpentine , kerosene and various other drugs , and instructed me to take a wineglassful of it every fifteen minutes ...
... lady was — well , it was dreadful . She mixed a decoction composed of molasses , catnip , peppermint , aqua- fortis , turpentine , kerosene and various other drugs , and instructed me to take a wineglassful of it every fifteen minutes ...
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339. oldal - 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!
177. oldal - I can read His righteous sentence by the dim and flaring lamps, His day is marching on. I have read a fiery gospel, writ in burnished rows of steel ; ' As ye deal with My contemners, so with you My grace shall deal; Let the Hero, born of woman, crush the serpent with His heel,
113. oldal - Here, under leave of Brutus and the rest, — For Brutus is an honorable man ; So are they all, all honorable men, — Come I to speak in Caesar's funeral. He was my friend, faithful and just to me: But Brutus says he was ambitious; And Brutus is an honorable man.
103. oldal - 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; — Darkness there, and nothing more. Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there wondering, fearing, Doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before; But the silence was unbroken, and the darkness gave no token, And the only word there spoken...
179. oldal - So stately his form, and so lovely her face, That never a hall such a galliard did grace: While her mother did fret, and her father did fume, And the bridegroom stood dangling his bonnet and plume; And the bride-maidens whispered, " Twere better by far To have matched our fair cousin with young Lochinvar.
61. oldal - 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...
197. oldal - She'd come again, and with a greedy ear Devour up my discourse: which I observing, Took once a pliant hour; and found good means To draw from her a prayer of earnest heart That I would all my pilgrimage dilate...
102. oldal - 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.
178. oldal - Eske river where ford there was none ; But ere he alighted at Netherby gate, The bride had consented, the gallant came late, For a laggard in love and a dastard in war Was to wed the fair Ellen of brave Lochinvar. So boldly he entered the...
94. oldal - And glory to our Sovereign Liege, King Henry of Navarre ! Now let there be the merry sound of music and of dance, Through thy corn-fields green, and sunny vines, oh pleasant land of France ! And thou, Rochelle, our own Rochelle, proud city of the waters, Again let rapture light the eyes of all thy mourning daughters. As thou wert constant in our ills, be joyous in our joy, For cold, and stiff, and still are they who wrought thy walls annoy.