Werner's Readings and Recitations, Issue 16E.S. Werner, 1896 - Readers |
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Page 102
... clothes until they made A covering that might frost defy . Then they crept out all silently And in the snow , beneath that freezing sky , Some hand in hand , -all clustered near the door- They laid them down and slept - to wake no more ...
... clothes until they made A covering that might frost defy . Then they crept out all silently And in the snow , beneath that freezing sky , Some hand in hand , -all clustered near the door- They laid them down and slept - to wake no more ...
Page 136
... some weeks ago that I must get a new organ - boy another year ; he says this one comes to the church through back alleys , and that his clothes are not decent to be seen in church on Sunday . Next 136 WERNER'S READINGS.
... some weeks ago that I must get a new organ - boy another year ; he says this one comes to the church through back alleys , and that his clothes are not decent to be seen in church on Sunday . Next 136 WERNER'S READINGS.
Page 137
... clothes than to dismiss him ? ” " No. Charity is charity , and business is business . Every- thing must be first class here . We can't have ragamuffins creeping into the church to do church work . Now , then , let us practice the anthem ...
... clothes than to dismiss him ? ” " No. Charity is charity , and business is business . Every- thing must be first class here . We can't have ragamuffins creeping into the church to do church work . Now , then , let us practice the anthem ...
Page 153
... clothes , and of going through a door before everyone except a member of council , a lieutenant - governor or a viceroy , he is worth marrying . At least , that is what ladies say . There was a commissioner in Simla in those days who ...
... clothes , and of going through a door before everyone except a member of council , a lieutenant - governor or a viceroy , he is worth marrying . At least , that is what ladies say . There was a commissioner in Simla in those days who ...
Page 165
... clothes , my black - silk trousers were not stout enough to save me from the painful effects of this sudden fomentation , and for some minutes my legs and thighs seemed stewed in a boiling caldron . Recollecting how Sir Thomas had ...
... clothes , my black - silk trousers were not stout enough to save me from the painful effects of this sudden fomentation , and for some minutes my legs and thighs seemed stewed in a boiling caldron . Recollecting how Sir Thomas had ...
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Page 83 - Just for a handful of silver he left us, Just for a riband to stick in his coat Found the one gift of which fortune bereft us, Lost all the others she lets us devote; They, with the gold to give, doled him out silver, So much was theirs who so little allowed: How all our copper had gone for his service!
Page 84 - ... his presence ; Songs may inspirit us, — not from his lyre ; Deeds will be done, — while he boasts his quiescence, Still bidding crouch whom the rest bade aspire : Blot out his name, then, record one lost soul more, One task more declined, one more footpath untrod, One more devils'-triumph and sorrow for angels, One wrong more to man, one more insult to God...
Page 47 - As he approached the stream his heart began to thump. He summoned up, however, all his resolution, gave his horse half a score of kicks in the ribs, and attempted to dash briskly across the bridge ; but, instead of starting forward, the perverse old animal made a lateral movement, and ran broadside against the fence.
Page 20 - But let us speak no more of this! I find My father; let me feel that I have found! Come, sit beside me on this sand, and take My head betwixt thy hands, and kiss my cheeks, And wash them with thy tears, and say: My son!
Page 47 - Gunpowder, who dashed forward, snuffling and snorting, but came to a stand just by the bridge, with a suddenness that had nearly sent his rider sprawling over his head. Just at this moment a plashy tramp by the side of the bridge caught the sensitive ear of Ichabod. In the dark shadow of the grove, on the margin of the brook, he beheld something huge, misshapen, black, and towering.
Page 15 - And pledge each other in red wine, like friends, And thou shalt talk to me of Rustum's deeds. There are enough foes in the Persian host, Whom I may meet, and strike, and feel no pang; Champions enough Afrasiab has, whom thou May'st fight; fight them, when they confront thy spear: But oh, let there be peace 'twixt thee and me...
Page 48 - His heart began to sink within him; he endeavored to resume his psalm tune, but his parched tongue clove to the roof of his mouth and he could not utter a stave. There was something in the moody and dogged silence of this pertinacious companion that was mysterious and appalling. It was soon fearfully accounted for. On mounting a rising ground, which brought the figure of his fellow-traveler in relief against the sky, gigantic in height and muffled in a cloak, Ichabod was horrorstruck on perceiving...
Page 83 - We shall march prospering,— not thro' his presence; Songs may inspirit us,— not from his lyre; Deeds will be done,— while he boasts his quiescence, Still bidding crouch whom the rest bade aspire...
Page 11 - There go ! — Thou wilt not ? Yet my heart forebodes Danger or death awaits thee on this field. Fain would I know thee safe and well, though lost To us; fain therefore send thee hence, in peace To seek thy father, not seek single fights In vain ; — but who can keep the lion's cub From ravening, and who govern Rustum's son? Go, I will grant thee what thy heart desires.
Page 37 - Kendal green, when it was so dark thou could'st not see thy hand ? come tell us your reason ; What sayest thou to this ? Poins. Come, your reason Jack, your reason. Fal. What, upon compulsion? No; were I at the strappado, or all the racks in the world, I would not tell you on compulsion. Give you a reason on compulsion ! if reasons were as plenty as blackberries, I would give no man a reason upon compulsion, I. P.