Readings and Recitations: A New and Choice Collection of Articles in Prose and Verse ..., Volume 2National temperance society and publication house, 1878 |
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Readings and Recitations: A New and Choice Collection of Articles ..., Volume 4 Lizzie Penney (ed) Volledige weergave - 1882 |
Readings and Recitations: A New and Choice Collection of Articles ..., Volume 1 Lizzie Penney (ed) Volledige weergave - 1878 |
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battle blace bless Blue Hen boys brother built by blood cast your ballot clouds conquer crime of crimes dear death delirium tremens drinking moderately drunk drunkard drunkenness eyes face father fight flag Fourth of July gits give glass God's grain-field hand heart heaven honor husband intemperance intoxicating JOSH BILLINGS lager-beer laughed lips that touch liquor must never Lodge look Mary Malone mother of Jesus nation Neal Dow never can tell never touch night Norah o'er PAUL DENTON pizness pledge poison poor Poverty Row pray prayer Red Ribbon reform ruin Rum Fiend shout shud side silver silver plumes smile Somebody's Mother soul stand Strike temperance band thee thing thou to-day total abstinence touch liquor truth Twas vimmins vineyard vote whisky wife wine woman young Youthville
Populaire passages
Pagina 63 - Just as I am, without one plea, But that thy blood was shed for me, And that thou bidst me come to thee, O Lamb of God, I come, I come!
Pagina 85 - Came the boys like a flock of sheep, Hailing the snow piled white and deep, Past the woman so old and gray, Hastened the children on their way, Nor offered a helping hand to her, So meek, so timid, afraid to stir Lest the carriage wheels or the horses' feet Should crowd her down on the slippery street.
Pagina 92 - You needn't laugh, sir ; they were not then Such a burning libel on God's creatures : I was one of your handsome men ! If you had seen her, so fair and young, Whose head was happy on this breast ! If you could have heard the songs I sung When the wine went round, you wouldn't...
Pagina 83 - God is our guide! from field, from wave, From plough, from anvil, and from loom, We come, our country's rights to save, And speak a tyrant faction's doom. And hark ! we raise from sea to sea The sacred watchword, Liberty ! VOL.
Pagina 92 - ... should part — Better the soberest, prosiest life Than a blasted home and a broken heart. I have seen her ! Once I was weak and spent On the dusty road ; a carriage stopped ; But little she dreamed, as on she went, Who kissed the coin that her fingers dropped...
Pagina 91 - Take your rifle ! (Some dogs have arms, you see !) Now hold your Cap while the gentlemen give a trifle, To aid a poor old patriot soldier ! March ! Halt ! Now show how tne rebel shakes When he stands up to hear his sentence.
Pagina 39 - The battle is not to the strong, nor the race to the swift, any more in worldly happiness than in other things.
Pagina 90 - s been frozen,) Plenty of catgut for my fiddle, (This out-door business is bad for strings,) Then a few nice buckwheats hot from the griddle, And Roger and I set up for kings ! No, thank ye, sir, — I never drink ; Roger and I are exceedingly moral, — Aren't we, Roger? — see him wink! — Well, something hot, then, — we won't quarrel. He 's thirsty, too, — see him nod his head...
Pagina 65 - Stormed at with shot and shell, While horse and hero fell, They that had fought so well Came through the jaws of Death Back from the mouth of Hell, All that was left of them, Left of six hundred.
Pagina 93 - I'm better now ; that glass was warming. — You rascal ! limber your lazy feet ! We must be fiddling and performing For supper and bed, or starve in the street. — Not a very gay life to lead, you think? But soon we shall go where lodgings are free, And the sleepers need neither victuals nor drink: — The sooner, the better for Roger and me...