The Council FireHiawatha Sportsman's Club., 1906 |
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... speech in Parliament was not a failure . He was listened to with marked and uncommon attention . He spoke in answer to charges of bribery and corruption in securing his election , and carried his point triumphantly . His first important ...
... speech in Parliament was not a failure . He was listened to with marked and uncommon attention . He spoke in answer to charges of bribery and corruption in securing his election , and carried his point triumphantly . His first important ...
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... speech , " de- livered on Februray 7 , 1787 , was the supreme triumph of Sheridan's oratory . For five hours and a half he held the crowded House of Commons in breathless attention . Con- temporary testimony is unanimous in the most ...
... speech , " de- livered on Februray 7 , 1787 , was the supreme triumph of Sheridan's oratory . For five hours and a half he held the crowded House of Commons in breathless attention . Con- temporary testimony is unanimous in the most ...
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... speeches of 1787 and 1788 Sheridan's star rose to the zenith . Viewed from the standpoint of permanent literary worth , Sheridan's orations to - day seem somewhat thin and rhetorical in contrast with Burke's . But oratory is ...
... speeches of 1787 and 1788 Sheridan's star rose to the zenith . Viewed from the standpoint of permanent literary worth , Sheridan's orations to - day seem somewhat thin and rhetorical in contrast with Burke's . But oratory is ...
Стр. xxix
... speeches often fail ; but Lord Lytton's lines on Sheridan , in the Second Part of St. Stephens , strike a true note : If eloquence can find its surest test In the degree to which it thrill the breast , And not the enduring thought ...
... speeches often fail ; but Lord Lytton's lines on Sheridan , in the Second Part of St. Stephens , strike a true note : If eloquence can find its surest test In the degree to which it thrill the breast , And not the enduring thought ...
Стр. xxxi
... speech to the Peruvians in the second act , long a favorite school 1 I have in my possession a play published in Dublin , in 1798 , whose title runs : " The Stranger : a Comedy . Freely translated from Kotze- bue's German comedy of ...
... speech to the Peruvians in the second act , long a favorite school 1 I have in my possession a play published in Dublin , in 1798 , whose title runs : " The Stranger : a Comedy . Freely translated from Kotze- bue's German comedy of ...
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Стр. 284 - See, what a grace was seated on this brow; Hyperion's curls; the front of Jove himself; An eye like Mars, to threaten and command; A station like the herald Mercury, New-lighted on a heaven-kissing hill; A combination, and a form, indeed, Where every god did seem to set his seal, To give the world assurance of a man : This was your husband.
Стр. 297 - O, now, for ever Farewell the tranquil mind ! farewell content ! Farewell the plumed troop, and the big wars, That make ambition virtue ! O, farewell ! Farewell the neighing steed, and the shrill trump, The spirit-stirring drum, th...
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Стр. 132 - tis out of pure good humour ; and I take it for granted, they deal exactly in the same manner with me.
Стр. 302 - Good my lord, will you see the players well bestowed ? Do you hear, let them be well used, for they are the abstract and brief chronicles of the time : after your death you were better have a bad epitaph than their ill report while you live.
Стр. xciv - t; I have use for it. Go, leave me. — (Exit Emilia). I will in Cassio's lodging lose this napkin, And let him find it. Trifles, light as air, Are to the jealous confirmations strong As proofs of Holy Writ.
Стр. 310 - I know I have but the body of a weak and feeble woman, but I have the heart of a King, and of a King of England too...
Стр. 37 - Why — what difference does that make ? Odds life, sir ! if you have the estate, you must take it with the live stock on it, as it stands.
Стр. 129 - Authority! No, to be sure. If you wanted authority over me, you should have adopted me, and" not married me; I am sure you were old enough.
Стр. 38 - Jack ; — I have heard you for some time with patience — I have been cool — quite cool ; but take care — you know I am compliance itself — when I am not thwarted ; — no one more easily led — when I have my own way ; — but don't put me in a frenzy.