The Intermediate Standard Speaker: Containing Pieces for Declamation in Schools, Colleges, Etc. Introductory, Or Supplementary, to The Standard SpeakerC. Desilver, 1858 - 432 pages |
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... fire alive and glowing . A man can never be obliged to submit to any power , unless he can be satisfied who is the person who has a right to exercise it . RULE VI . - Pause before that when it is used as a conjunction . EXAMPLES . The ...
... fire alive and glowing . A man can never be obliged to submit to any power , unless he can be satisfied who is the person who has a right to exercise it . RULE VI . - Pause before that when it is used as a conjunction . EXAMPLES . The ...
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... fire that quickens the marble into life - Italy , the brave , the beautiful , and the gifted - Italy is in arms ! Prostrate for centuries amid the dust of heroes , wasting silently away , she has started from her swoon ; for the vestal ...
... fire that quickens the marble into life - Italy , the brave , the beautiful , and the gifted - Italy is in arms ! Prostrate for centuries amid the dust of heroes , wasting silently away , she has started from her swoon ; for the vestal ...
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... fire of heaven issued from the trib'une's tongue ! - And you - you , who are eight millions strong - you , who have no avalanche to dread - you , who might cull a plenteous harvest from your soil , and with the sickle strike away the ...
... fire of heaven issued from the trib'une's tongue ! - And you - you , who are eight millions strong - you , who have no avalanche to dread - you , who might cull a plenteous harvest from your soil , and with the sickle strike away the ...
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... fire which gathers in the soul of the people . The question so long debated — debated years ago on fields of blood debated latterly in a venal senate amid the jeers and yells of faction the question as to who shall be the owners of this ...
... fire which gathers in the soul of the people . The question so long debated — debated years ago on fields of blood debated latterly in a venal senate amid the jeers and yells of faction the question as to who shall be the owners of this ...
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... fire because he was exposed to it himself ; and like him , wherever he rode along the lines mounted on a white charger , a conspicuous mark for balls , men would stand and be shot down , but they would not give way . Of Taylor on that ...
... fire because he was exposed to it himself ; and like him , wherever he rode along the lines mounted on a white charger , a conspicuous mark for balls , men would stand and be shot down , but they would not give way . Of Taylor on that ...
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Page 70 - ... it is of infinite moment, that you should properly estimate the immense value of your national Union to your collective and individual happiness...
Page 374 - Approach, thou craven crouching slave : Say, is not this Thermopylae ? These waters blue that round you lave. Oh servile offspring of the free, Pronounce what sea, what shore is this : The gulf, the rock of Salamis ! These scenes, their story not unknown, Arise, and make again your own ; Snatch from the ashes of your sires The embers of their former fires ; And he who in the strife expires Will add to theirs a name of fear That Tyranny shall quake to hear...
Page 265 - Now, my co-mates and brothers in exile, Hath not old custom made this life more sweet Than that of painted pomp? Are not these woods More free from peril than the envious court? Here feel we but the penalty of Adam, — The seasons' difference : as the icy fang And churlish chiding of the winter's wind, Which when it bites and blows upon my body, Even till I shrink with cold, I smile and say, This is no flattery : these are counsellors That feelingly persuade me what I am.
Page 268 - Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounced it to you, trippingly on the tongue ; but if you mouth it, as many of our players do, I had as lief the town-crier spoke my lines. Nor do not saw the air too much with your hand, thus ; but use all gently ; for in the very torrent, tempest, and (as I may say) whirlwind of your passion, you must acquire and beget a temperance, that may give it smoothness.
Page 330 - twas a pleasing fear, For I was as it were a child of thee, And trusted to thy billows far and near, And laid my hand upon thy mane— as I do here.
Page 334 - You have the Pyrrhic dance as yet : Where is the Pyrrhic phalanx gone? Of two such lessons, why forget The nobler and the manlier one?
Page 272 - Why shrinks the soul Back on herself, and startles at destruction ? 'Tis the divinity that stirs within us; 'Tis Heaven itself that points out an hereafter, And intimates eternity to man.
Page 377 - And there was mounting in hot haste: the steed. The mustering squadron, and the clattering car. Went pouring forward with impetuous speed, And swiftly forming in the ranks of war...
Page 111 - Come as the winds come, when Forests are rended ; Come as the waves come, when Navies are stranded : Faster come, faster come, Faster and faster, Chief, vassal, page and groom, Tenant and master. Fast they come, fast they come ; See how they gather ! Wide waves the eagle plume, Blended with heather. Cast your plaids, draw your blades, Forward each man set ! Pibroch of Donuil Dhu, Knell for the onset ! NORA'S VOW.
Page 290 - He spoke not a word but went straight to his work, And filled all the stockings; then turned with a jerk, And laying his finger aside of his nose, And giving a nod, up the chimney he rose.