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 страница |
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... hold Piled by the hands of giants For godlike kings of old ; From sea - girt Populonia , Whose sentinels descry Sardinia's snowy mountain - tops Fringing the southern sky ; V. From the proud mart of Pisa , Queen of the western waves ...
... hold Piled by the hands of giants For godlike kings of old ; From sea - girt Populonia , Whose sentinels descry Sardinia's snowy mountain - tops Fringing the southern sky ; V. From the proud mart of Pisa , Queen of the western waves ...
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... hold By reedy Thrasymene . XXIV . Fast by the royal standard , O'erlooking all the war Lars Porsena of Clusium Sat in his ivory car , By the right wheel rode Mamilius Prince of the Latian name , And by the left false Sextus , That ...
... hold By reedy Thrasymene . XXIV . Fast by the royal standard , O'erlooking all the war Lars Porsena of Clusium Sat in his ivory car , By the right wheel rode Mamilius Prince of the Latian name , And by the left false Sextus , That ...
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... hold the foe in play- In yon straight path a thousand May well be stopped by three . Now who will stand on either hand , And keep the bridge with me ? " XXX . Then out spake Spurius Lartius A Ramnian proud was he : " Lo , I will stand ...
... hold the foe in play- In yon straight path a thousand May well be stopped by three . Now who will stand on either hand , And keep the bridge with me ? " XXX . Then out spake Spurius Lartius A Ramnian proud was he : " Lo , I will stand ...
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... hold in fee . The rich man's son inherits cares : The bank may break , the factory burn ; Some breath may burst his bubble shares ; And soft , white hands would hardly earn A living that would suit his turn ; A heritage , it seems to me ...
... hold in fee . The rich man's son inherits cares : The bank may break , the factory burn ; Some breath may burst his bubble shares ; And soft , white hands would hardly earn A living that would suit his turn ; A heritage , it seems to me ...
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... hold in fee . What does the poor man's son inherit ? Stout muscles and a sinewy heart ; A hardy frame , a hardier spirit ; King of two hands , he does his part In every useful toil and art ; A heritage , it seems to me , A king might ...
... hold in fee . What does the poor man's son inherit ? Stout muscles and a sinewy heart ; A hardy frame , a hardier spirit ; King of two hands , he does his part In every useful toil and art ; A heritage , it seems to me , A king might ...
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agin ain't ALFRED TENNYSON arms asked bells bless Cæsar captain's gig Caudle Charco CHARLES DICKENS Chigley child chunes cried Cutty-sark dance dead dear Doady door Dora eyes face father feel flowers friends gentlemen Gilpin girl give goat goin hair hand happy head hear heard heart heaven John Gilpin Josiah Allen Julius Cæsar king kissed lady Lars Porsena laugh limburg cheese locust look Lord Madame Roland MARK TWAIN morning mother mule never night nose O'Brine o'er once Pickwick pipe poor Queen roar round Samian wine seemed Shannon shore sleep Smike smile soul speak Squeers stood stop sweet tears tell thee thing thou thought told took turned Twas voice W. S. GILBERT watch widow machree wife WILLIAM COWPER woman word young
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