Three-minute Declamations for College Men: Selected and Ed. by Harry Cassell Davis ... and John C. Bridgman ...Harry Cassell Davis, John Cloyse Bridgman Hinds & Noble, 1899 - 366 страници |
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... eyes his last letters to his mother and sister , and asked him what he had to say . " All I have to say , " was his reply , " is , I regret I have but one life to lose for my country . " His death was concealed for months , because ...
... eyes his last letters to his mother and sister , and asked him what he had to say . " All I have to say , " was his reply , " is , I regret I have but one life to lose for my country . " His death was concealed for months , because ...
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... eyes : " Go , weigh thy anchor , sail away ! This task I lay on thee , To seek and bring to port the best contained in land or sea . " The skipper spread his glistening sails , but sore per- plexed was he STAVOREN . 5 To know what was ...
... eyes : " Go , weigh thy anchor , sail away ! This task I lay on thee , To seek and bring to port the best contained in land or sea . " The skipper spread his glistening sails , but sore per- plexed was he STAVOREN . 5 To know what was ...
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... eyes , a noble soul ; He paused , but found he had no coin to dole . His guardian angel warned him not to lose This chance of pearl to do another good ; So , as he waited , sorry to refuse The asked - for penny , there aside he stood ...
... eyes , a noble soul ; He paused , but found he had no coin to dole . His guardian angel warned him not to lose This chance of pearl to do another good ; So , as he waited , sorry to refuse The asked - for penny , there aside he stood ...
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... eyes were gazing on the scene out of the crowded lattices . * * Glorious as the spectacle was , perhaps , however , it passed unheeded . Those eyes were watching all for another object , which now drew near . In an open space behind the ...
... eyes were gazing on the scene out of the crowded lattices . * * Glorious as the spectacle was , perhaps , however , it passed unheeded . Those eyes were watching all for another object , which now drew near . In an open space behind the ...
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... eye , Look on the spectre of this ghastly deed . Who spills man's blood , his shall by man be shed ! ' Tis Heaven's first law ; to that law we had come , — None other left us . Who , then , caused the strife That crimsoned Naseby's ...
... eye , Look on the spectre of this ghastly deed . Who spills man's blood , his shall by man be shed ! ' Tis Heaven's first law ; to that law we had come , — None other left us . Who , then , caused the strife That crimsoned Naseby's ...
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Страница 250 - Never, never more, shall we behold that generous loyalty to rank and sex, that proud submission, that dignified obedience, that subordination of the heart, which kept alive, even in servitude itself, the spirit of an exalted freedom.
Страница 282 - Stern Lawgiver! yet thou dost wear The Godhead's most benignant grace; Nor know we anything so fair As is the smile upon thy face: Flowers laugh before thee on their beds And fragrance in thy footing treads; Thou dost preserve the stars from wrong; And the most ancient heavens, through Thee, are fresh and strong.
Страница 80 - twas but the wind, Or the car rattling o'er the stony street; On with the dance! let joy be unconfined; No sleep till morn, when Youth and Pleasure meet To chase the glowing Hours with flying feet.— But hark!
Страница 81 - And Ardennes waves above them her green leaves, Dewy with nature's tear-drops as they pass, Grieving, if aught inanimate e'er grieves, Over the unreturning brave, - alas! Ere evening to be trodden like the grass...
Страница 132 - WHEN Music, heavenly maid, was young, While yet in early Greece she sung, The Passions oft, to hear her shell, Thronged around her magic cell...
Страница 73 - Forward, the Light Brigade ! Charge for the guns ! " he said : Into the valley of Death Rode the six hundred. " Forward, the Light Brigade...
Страница 206 - AT midnight, in his guarded tent, The Turk was dreaming of the hour When Greece, her knee in suppliance bent, Should tremble at his power ; In dreams, through camp and court, he bore The trophies of a conqueror ; In dreams his song of triumph heard. Then wore his monarch's signet ring, Then pressed that monarch's throne — a King ; As wild his thoughts, and gay of wing, As Eden's garden bird.
Страница 74 - Cannon to right of them, Cannon to left of them, Cannon in front of them Volley'd and thunder'd; Storm'd at with shot and shell, Boldly they rode and well, Into the jaws of Death, Into the mouth of hell Rode the six hundred. Flash'd all their sabres bare, Flash'd as they turn'd in air Sabring the gunners there, Charging an army, while All the world wonder'd. Plunged in the battery-smoke Right thro' the line they broke; Cossack and Russian Reel'd from the sabre-stroke Shatter'd and sunder'd.
Страница 111 - Bartholomew," was passed from man to man; But out spake gentle Henry, "No Frenchman is my foe: Down, down with every foreigner, but let your brethren go