The Free Speaker: A New Collection of Pieces for Declamation, Original as Well as Selected, Intended as a Companion to "The Hundred Dialogues."The author, 1859 - 326 страници |
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... noble , sublime , godlike action . But it is not from my lips , it is not from any human lips , that that strain of eloquence is this day to flow . The real speaker stands motionless before us . It is itself the orator of this occasion ...
... noble , sublime , godlike action . But it is not from my lips , it is not from any human lips , that that strain of eloquence is this day to flow . The real speaker stands motionless before us . It is itself the orator of this occasion ...
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... noble illustration of what may be accomplished by the fire of real genius , by the force of an indomitable will , by the energy of a constant and courageous soul , uttering itself through the medium of a voice , whose trumpet tones will ...
... noble illustration of what may be accomplished by the fire of real genius , by the force of an indomitable will , by the energy of a constant and courageous soul , uttering itself through the medium of a voice , whose trumpet tones will ...
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... noble tree to harm , Fall blasted from its shoulder - blade ; For , when the Pilgrim tree shall fade , The sun of Freedom , glorious light , Will set in baleful , hopeless night . THE OLD CHURCH . Anonymous . Altered . A TRAIN passed ...
... noble tree to harm , Fall blasted from its shoulder - blade ; For , when the Pilgrim tree shall fade , The sun of Freedom , glorious light , Will set in baleful , hopeless night . THE OLD CHURCH . Anonymous . Altered . A TRAIN passed ...
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... noble spirit , the ornament of his country , the exemplar of cour- age , truth , and virtue , who , like the sun , ever held an un- erring course , John Jay . Filling the important post of minister of foreign affairs under the ...
... noble spirit , the ornament of his country , the exemplar of cour- age , truth , and virtue , who , like the sun , ever held an un- erring course , John Jay . Filling the important post of minister of foreign affairs under the ...
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... reward , not of science or art , not of labor or usefulness , not of labors in the pulpit or in the school - room , where the improvement of society is the The great end and the noble aim , but of military 44 FOWLE'S SPEAKER .
... reward , not of science or art , not of labor or usefulness , not of labors in the pulpit or in the school - room , where the improvement of society is the The great end and the noble aim , but of military 44 FOWLE'S SPEAKER .
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Страница 32 - Determined to keep open a market where MEN should be bought and sold, he has prostituted his negative for suppressing every legislative attempt to prohibit or to restrain this execrable commerce.
Страница 133 - OF all the rides since the birth of time, Told in story or sung in rhyme, — On Apuleius's Golden Ass, Or one-eyed Calendar's horse of brass, Witch astride of a human back, Islam's prophet on Al-Borak, — The strangest ride that ever was sped Was Ireson's, out from Marblehead ! Old Floyd Ireson, for his hard heart, Tarred and feathered and carried in a cart By the women of Marblehead...
Страница 32 - waged cruel war against human nature itself, violating its most sacred rights of life and liberty in the persons of a distant people who never offended him, captivating and carrying them into slavery in another hemisphere, or to incur miserable death in their transportation thither.
Страница 130 - The holy Elders with the gift of myrrh. But now the whole Round Table is dissolved Which was an image of the mighty world; And I, the last, go forth companionless, And the days darken round me, and the years, Among new men, strange faces, other minds.
Страница 43 - Cannon to right of them, Cannon to left of them, Cannon in front of them Volleyed and thundered ; Stormed at with shot and shell, Boldly they rode and well ; Into the jaws of Death, Into the mouth of Hell, Rode the six hundred.
Страница 265 - All are scattered now and fled, Some are married, some are dead ; And when I ask, with throbs of pain, "Ah! when shall they all meet again?
Страница 106 - Ring out false pride in place and blood, The civic slander and the spite ; Ring in the love of truth and right, Ring in the common love of good. Ring out old shapes of foul disease, Ring out the narrowing lust of gold ; Ring out the thousand wars of old, Ring in the thousand years of peace.
Страница 42 - Theirs not to make reply, Theirs not to reason why, Theirs but to do and die.
Страница 225 - To Tubal Cain came many a one, As he wrought by his roaring fire, And each one prayed for a strong steel blade, As the crown of his desire. And he made them weapons sharp and strong, Till they shouted loud for glee, And gave him gifts of pearl and gold, And spoils of the forest free.
Страница 246 - First in war, first in peace, first in the hearts of his countrymen," was originally used in the resolutions presented to Congress on the death of Washington, December, 1799.