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 من الصفحات |
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... blood enough upon your penal code , that more must be poured forth to ascend to hea- ven and testify against you ? How will you carry this bill into effect ? Can you commit a whole country to their own prison ? Will you erect a gibbet ...
... blood enough upon your penal code , that more must be poured forth to ascend to hea- ven and testify against you ? How will you carry this bill into effect ? Can you commit a whole country to their own prison ? Will you erect a gibbet ...
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... blood . But suppose it passed , — suppose one of these men , as I have seen them , meagre with famine , sullen with despair , careless of a life , which your lordships are perhaps about to value at something less than the price of a ...
... blood . But suppose it passed , — suppose one of these men , as I have seen them , meagre with famine , sullen with despair , careless of a life , which your lordships are perhaps about to value at something less than the price of a ...
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... blood of her sons and her daughters has streamed like water ; the smoke of the scaffold and the stake , where they wore the crown of martyrdom in the cause of Jesus , has ascended in thick volumes to the skies . The tribes of ...
... blood of her sons and her daughters has streamed like water ; the smoke of the scaffold and the stake , where they wore the crown of martyrdom in the cause of Jesus , has ascended in thick volumes to the skies . The tribes of ...
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... blood left the youthful mother's cheek ; Back on the linden - stem she leaned her form ; And her lip trembled , as it strove to speak , Like a frail harp - string , shaken by the storm . ' Twas but a moment , and the faintness passed ...
... blood left the youthful mother's cheek ; Back on the linden - stem she leaned her form ; And her lip trembled , as it strove to speak , Like a frail harp - string , shaken by the storm . ' Twas but a moment , and the faintness passed ...
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... blood ; ) Oh , let it never perish in your hands ! But piously transmit it to your children . Do thou , Great Liberty , inspire our souls , And make our lives in thy possession happy , Or our deaths glorious in thy just defence . SPEECH ...
... blood ; ) Oh , let it never perish in your hands ! But piously transmit it to your children . Do thou , Great Liberty , inspire our souls , And make our lives in thy possession happy , Or our deaths glorious in thy just defence . SPEECH ...
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Absalom America Arminius arms battle behold blessings blood brave breath brow Capt cause character Cherusci curse danger dare dark dead death dreadful DUKE OF BURGUNDY earth enemy England EXTRACT father fear feel flame forever France freedom friends gamboge genius gentlemen give glorious glory grave Greece hallowed ground hand hath hear heart heaven Helon holy honour hope human Hyder Ali Iliad Ireland king land laws liberty light live look lord Lullus ment mighty mind mountains nations nature never night noble o'er once passed passion patriot peace Philotas pride principles privy counsellor proud Puff retina Rome round ruin scammony silence Sir F slavery slaves Sneer soul sound speak SPEECH spirit stand stood storm strength sword thee things thou thought throne tion tyrant virtue vitreous humor voice waves wind ye ministers
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الصفحة 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.
الصفحة 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...
الصفحة 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.
الصفحة 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.
الصفحة 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.
الصفحة 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.
الصفحة 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.
الصفحة 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...
الصفحة 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.
الصفحة 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...