One-act Plays for Stage and Study, Third Series: Twenty-one Contemporary Plays, Never Before Published in Book Form

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S. French, 1927 - Всего страниц: 417
 

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Стр. 93 - And I saw another angel ascending from the east, having the seal of the living God : and he cried with a loud voice to the four angels, to whom it was given to hurt the earth and the sea, saying, Hurt not the earth, neither the sea, nor the trees, till we have sealed the servants of our God in their foreheads.
Стр. 95 - And when the day of Pentecost was fully come, they were all with one accord in one place. And suddenly there came a sound from heaven as of a rushing mighty wind, and it filled all the house where they were sitting. And there appeared unto them cloven tongues like as of fire, and it sat upon each of them. And they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance.
Стр. 149 - HARK! from the tombs a doleful sound! My ears attend the cry; " Ye living men, come view the ground, Where you must shortly lie. 2 " Princes, this clay must be your bed, In spite of all your towers; The tall, the wise, the reverend head Must lie as low as ours.
Стр. 194 - And when I passed by thee, and saw thee polluted in thine own blood, I said unto thee when thou wast in thy blood, Live : yea, I said unto thee when thou wast in thy blood, Live.
Стр. 47 - Thy gardens and thy gallant walks Continually are green ; There grow such sweet and pleasant flowers As nowhere else are seen. Quite through the streets, with silver sound, The flood of Life doth flow ; Upon whose banks on every side The wood of Life doth grow.
Стр. 403 - He healed her bosom with a kiss; She gave him all her passion's hoard; And sobbed and murmured ever, "This Is life's great meaning, dear, my lord. "I care not for my broken vow; Though God should come in thunder soon, I am sister to the mountains now, And sister to the sun and moon.
Стр. 47 - There lust and lucre cannot dwell, There envy bears no sway; There is no hunger, heat, nor cold, But pleasure every way.
Стр. 85 - IN THE rural sections of the South the people begin to think about the Lord when late July and August come. Crops are laid by — corn hilled and cotton plowed for the last time, even tobacco-curing held in abeyance — and every little church from Bethel to Shiloh is rocked for a week by the fighting paradox of God and the Devil. Then it is that the way of the transgressor grows hard. Little children are herded terrified into the fold, the drunkard denies his dram, the profane man softens his speech,...
Стр. 388 - The pastoral plays, already popular in England in spite of the English weather, have now been published in America in a volume entitled "Open Air Plays." Published plays: The Price of Coal...
Стр. 103 - He brung a message to me like the messages of old to the prophets. I was in that room there; he come in through that door [Gesturing to the left and the right.] and stood with a flood of glory around him. He spoke to me in a loud voice and said he'd choosed one of the fairest daughters of men to be an aid to me on my way. [LANIE looks at him with shining face.] And no sooner had he said she was fair than I knowed it was Sister Lanie, for they's none fairer than her, like a pearl, like a dewdrop on...

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