Choice Readings for Public and Private Entertainment: Arranged for the Exercises of the School, College and Public Reader, with Elocutionary AdviceRobert McLean Cumnock |
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... Rose of Summer .. Death of Poor Jo .... The Volunteer's Wife . Our Folks .... The Landlady's Daughter ( Tr . ) .. Auld Robin Gray ..... John Anderson , my Jo ..... ALFRED TENNYSON ..... .CAROLINE E. NORTON .. 13 .CHARLES DICKENS .. 15 ...
... Rose of Summer .. Death of Poor Jo .... The Volunteer's Wife . Our Folks .... The Landlady's Daughter ( Tr . ) .. Auld Robin Gray ..... John Anderson , my Jo ..... ALFRED TENNYSON ..... .CAROLINE E. NORTON .. 13 .CHARLES DICKENS .. 15 ...
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... rose , and , coming to the bedside , said : " My own boy ! Don't you know me ? " Paul looked it in the face . Before he could reach out both his hands to take it between them and draw it towards him , the figure turned away quickly from ...
... rose , and , coming to the bedside , said : " My own boy ! Don't you know me ? " Paul looked it in the face . Before he could reach out both his hands to take it between them and draw it towards him , the figure turned away quickly from ...
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... roses are straying . And the name of that Isle is the Long Ago , And we bury our treasures there ; There are brows of beauty and bosoms of snow ; There are heaps of dust - but we loved them so ! There are trinkets and tresses of hair ...
... roses are straying . And the name of that Isle is the Long Ago , And we bury our treasures there ; There are brows of beauty and bosoms of snow ; There are heaps of dust - but we loved them so ! There are trinkets and tresses of hair ...
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... rose up slowly , and calmly she looked down On the red sand of the battle - field , with bloody corses strewn ; Yes , calmly on that dreadful scene her pale light seemed to shine , As it shone on distant Bingen , —fair Bingen on the ...
... rose up slowly , and calmly she looked down On the red sand of the battle - field , with bloody corses strewn ; Yes , calmly on that dreadful scene her pale light seemed to shine , As it shone on distant Bingen , —fair Bingen on the ...
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... rose , Fu ' sweet upon its thorny tree ; And my fause luver stole my rose , But ah ! he left the thorn wi ' me . ROBERT BURNS . A DEATH - BED . HER suffering ended with the day ; Yet lived she at its close , And breathed the long , long ...
... rose , Fu ' sweet upon its thorny tree ; And my fause luver stole my rose , But ah ! he left the thorn wi ' me . ROBERT BURNS . A DEATH - BED . HER suffering ended with the day ; Yet lived she at its close , And breathed the long , long ...
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ALFRED TENNYSON angels Annabel Lee arms beautiful bells blood blow brave breast breath Bregenz BRET HARTE brow captain CHARLES DICKENS child cloud Connor cried dark dead dear death deep Dora eyes face father fear Fezziwig Fontenoy give glottis grave hair hand head hear heard heart heaven helmet of Navarre Henry Henry of Navarre HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW honor King kiss lady Lars Porsena laugh light lips living look Lord loud mother never night o'er once Orotund pale pass poor prayer roar rose round SAMUEL LOVER Sandalphon seemed Senator shout silent sleep smile soul sound squire stand star stood sweet tears tell thee there's thing THOMAS HOOD thou thought tone TOUSSAINT L'OUVERTURE turned voice wave Weller Whig wild wind word young