The Academical Speaker: A Selection of Extracts in Prose and Verse, from Ancient and Modern Authors : Adapted for Exercises in ElocutionRichardson, Lord, and Holbrook, 1831 - 344 էջ |
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... noble lords opposite , I think a lit- tle investigation , some previous inquiry , would induce even them to change their purpose . That most favourite state measure , so marvellously efficacious in many and recent in- stances ...
... noble lords opposite , I think a lit- tle investigation , some previous inquiry , would induce even them to change their purpose . That most favourite state measure , so marvellously efficacious in many and recent in- stances ...
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... noble and honourable peerage of Scot- land , whose valiant predecessors led armies against their en- emies , upon their own proper charges and expenses , now divested of their followers and vassalages , and put upon such an equal foot ...
... noble and honourable peerage of Scot- land , whose valiant predecessors led armies against their en- emies , upon their own proper charges and expenses , now divested of their followers and vassalages , and put upon such an equal foot ...
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... noble predecessors ' valour and constancy rouse up our drooping spirits ? Are our noble predecessors ' souls got so far into the English cabbage - stalks and cauliflowers , that we should show the least inclination that way ? Are our ...
... noble predecessors ' valour and constancy rouse up our drooping spirits ? Are our noble predecessors ' souls got so far into the English cabbage - stalks and cauliflowers , that we should show the least inclination that way ? Are our ...
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... noble and patriotic views , for which he asks nothing , receives nothing , and ex- pects nothing but the gratitude of his countrymen . Now , Sir , I put the question to this honourable House to decide , upon the oath which they have ...
... noble and patriotic views , for which he asks nothing , receives nothing , and ex- pects nothing but the gratitude of his countrymen . Now , Sir , I put the question to this honourable House to decide , upon the oath which they have ...
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... noble steed the rein ! Earth's closing gulf entombed the twain ! Grant that the deed , if ever done , Was chivalrous and bold ; A loftier and a nobler one Our history can unfold ; Nor shall our heroine , meekly calm , To Rome's proud ...
... noble steed the rein ! Earth's closing gulf entombed the twain ! Grant that the deed , if ever done , Was chivalrous and bold ; A loftier and a nobler one Our history can unfold ; Nor shall our heroine , meekly calm , To Rome's proud ...
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The Academical Speaker: A Selection of Extracts in Prose and Verse, from ... Benjamin Dudley Emerson Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - 1831 |
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Էջ 278 - What sought they thus afar? Bright jewels of the mine? The wealth of seas, the spoils of war? — They sought a faith's pure shrine. Ay, call it holy ground, — The soil where first they trod! They have left unstained what there they found — Freedom to worship God ! Felicia Hemans.
Էջ 90 - Strike ! till the last armed foe expires ! Strike ! for your altars and your fires ! Strike ! for the green graves of your sires ; God, and your native land...
Էջ 321 - They tell us, sir, that we are weak— -unable to cope with so formidable an adversary. But when shall we be stronger? Will it be the next week or the next year? Will it be when we are totally disarmed, and when a British guard shall be stationed in every house ? Shall we gather strength by irresolution and inaction.
Էջ 322 - Besides, sir, we have no election. If we were base enough to desire it, it is now too late to retire from the contest. There is no retreat, but in submission .and slavery ! Our chains are forged. Their clanking may be heard on the plains of Boston ! The war is inevitable — and let it come ! ! I repeat it, sir, let it come ! ! ! "It is in vain, sir, to extenuate the matter. Gentlemen may cry peace, peace — but there is no peace.
Էջ 187 - ... paid a license of a hundred pounds for the privilege of putting him to death. His whole property is then immediately taxed from two to ten per cent. Besides the probate, large fees are demanded for burying him in the chancel. His virtues are handed down to posterity on taxed marble; and he is then gathered to his fathers, — to be taxed no more.
Էջ 92 - How beautiful this night ! The balmiest sigh Which vernal Zephyrs breathe in Evening's ear Were discord to the speaking quietude That wraps this moveless scene. Heaven's ebon vault, Studded with stars unutterably bright, Through which the moon's unclouded grandeur rolls, Seems like a canopy which Love has spread To curtain her sleeping world.
Էջ 148 - Sink or swim, live or die, survive or perish, I give my hand and my heart to this vote. It is true, indeed, that in the beginning we aimed not at independence. But there's a divinity which shapes our ends. The injustice of England has driven us to arms; and, blinded to her own interest for our good, she has obstinately persisted, till independence is now within our grasp.
Էջ 79 - THE stately homes of England, How beautiful they stand, Amidst their tall ancestral trees, O'er all the pleasant land ! The deer across their greensward bound, Through shade and sunny gleam ; And the swan glides past them with the sound Of some rejoicing stream. The merry homes of England ! Around their hearths by night, What gladsome looks of household love Meet in the ruddy light ! There woman's voice flows forth in song, Or childhood's tale is told, Or lips move tunefully along Some glorious page...
Էջ 186 - ... restores him to health, — on the ermine which decorates the judge, and the rope which hangs the criminal, — on the poor man's salt, and the rich man's spice, — on the brass nails of the coffin, and the ribbons of the bride, — at bed or board, couchant or levant, — we must pay.
Էջ 302 - Closed her bright eye, and curbed her high career : Hope, for a season, bade the world farewell, And Freedom shrieked as Kosciusko fell ! The sun went down, nor ceased the carnage there ! Tumultuous murder shook the midnight air ; On Prague's proud arch...