The American Orator, Or, Elegant Extracts in Prose and Poetry: Comprehending a Diversity of Oratorical Specimens, of the Eloquence of Popular Assemblies, of the Bar, of the Pulpit, &c. : Principally Intended for the Use of Schools and Academies : to which are Prefixed a Dissertation on Oratorical Delivery and the Outlines of Gesture |
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... First march the heavy mules securely slow ; O'er hills , o'er dales , o'er crags , o'er rocks they go .. Slow and Difficult Motion . A needless Alexandrine ends the song ; That , like a wounded snake , drags its slow length along .
... First march the heavy mules securely slow ; O'er hills , o'er dales , o'er crags , o'er rocks they go .. Slow and Difficult Motion . A needless Alexandrine ends the song ; That , like a wounded snake , drags its slow length along .
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... threaten'd ( not in vain ) with " sleep ; " Then , at the last and only couplet fraught With some unmeaning thing they call a thought , A needless Alexandrine ends the song , That like a wounded snake , drags its slow length along .
... threaten'd ( not in vain ) with " sleep ; " Then , at the last and only couplet fraught With some unmeaning thing they call a thought , A needless Alexandrine ends the song , That like a wounded snake , drags its slow length along .
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Page 353 - The unity of government which constitutes you one people is also now dear to you. It is justly so ; for it is a main pillar in the edifice of your real independence, the support of your tranquillity at home, your peace abroad ; of your safety ; of your prosperity ; of that very liberty which you so highly prize.
Page 355 - ... the Atlantic side of the Union, directed by an indissoluble community of interest as one nation. Any other tenure by which the West can hold this essential advantage, whether derived from its own separate strength or from an apostate and unnatural connection with any foreign power, must be intrinsically precarious.
Page 356 - However combinations or associations of the above description may now and then answer popular ends, they are likely, in the course of time and things, to become potent engines by which cunning, ambitious, and unprincipled men will be enabled to subvert the power of the people and to usurp for themselves the reins of government, destroying afterwards the very engines which have lifted them to unjust dominion.
Page 363 - Now came still evening on, and twilight gray Had in her sober livery all things clad ; Silence accompanied ; for beast and bird, They to their grassy couch, these to their nests Were slunk, all but the wakeful nightingale ; She all night long her amorous descant sung...
Page 352 - ... the propitious smiles of Heaven can never be expected on a nation that disregards the eternal rules of order and right which Heaven itself has ordained...
Page 355 - The East, in a like intercourse with the West, already finds, and in the progressive improvement of interior communications by land and water will more and more find, a valuable vent for the commodities which it brings from abroad or manufactures at home.
Page 209 - It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the queen of France, then the dauphiness, at Versailles; and surely never lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful vision.
Page 287 - And when he came to himself, he said, How many hired servants of my father's have bread enough and to spare, and I perish with hunger ! I will arise and go to my father, and will say unto him, Father, I have sinned against heaven, and before thee, and am no more worthy to be called thy son : make me as one of thy hired servants.
Page 118 - And let those that play your clowns, speak no more than is set down for them : for there be of them, that will themselves laugh, to set on some quantity of barren spectators to laugh too ; though, in the mean time, some necessary question of the play be then to be considered: that's villainous; and . shows a most pitiful ambition in the fool that uses it.
Page 118 - ... twere the mirror up to nature ; to show virtue her own feature, scorn her own image, and the very age and body of the time his form and pressure. Now this overdone, or come tardy off, though it make the unskilful laugh, cannot but make the judicious grieve ; the censure of the which one must in your allowance o'erweigh a whole theatre of others.
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| Pealkiri | The American Orator, Or, Elegant Extracts in Prose and Poetry: Comprehending a Diversity of Oratorical Specimens, of the Eloquence of Popular Assemblies, of the Bar, of the Pulpit, &c. : Principally Intended for the Use of Schools and Academies : to which are Prefixed a Dissertation on ... |
| Autor | Increase Cooke |
| Compiled by | Increase Cooke |
| Publisher | Sidney's Press, for Increase Cooke and Company, 1811 |
| Original from | the New York Public Library |
| Digitized | 30 mai 2007 |
| Length | 408 pages |
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