The American Union Speaker: Containing Standard and Recent Selections in Prose and Poetry, for Recitation and Declamation, in Schools, Academies and Colleges : with Introductory Remarks on Elocution, and Explanatory Notes |
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... tears , devoured its millions upon millions , and closed the long catalogue of guilt , by founding and defending to the last , the most powerful , selfish , and insatiable of military despotisms ? The sword , indeed , delivered Greece ...
... tears , devoured its millions upon millions , and closed the long catalogue of guilt , by founding and defending to the last , the most powerful , selfish , and insatiable of military despotisms ? The sword , indeed , delivered Greece ...
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... tears " would not stain an angel's cheek , " then let us cling to the Union of these States with a patriot's love , with a scholar's enthusiasm , with a Chris- tian's hope . In her heavenly character , as a holocaust self - sacrificed ...
... tears " would not stain an angel's cheek , " then let us cling to the Union of these States with a patriot's love , with a scholar's enthusiasm , with a Chris- tian's hope . In her heavenly character , as a holocaust self - sacrificed ...
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... tears , his voice choked , and he seemed struggling to the utmost simply to gain that mastery over himself which might save him from an unmanly burst of feeling . I will not attempt to give you the few broken words of tenderness in ...
... tears , his voice choked , and he seemed struggling to the utmost simply to gain that mastery over himself which might save him from an unmanly burst of feeling . I will not attempt to give you the few broken words of tenderness in ...
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... tears , such as those with which we turn to the walk of Socrates beneath the plane - tree , now sere , the summer hour of Cicero , the prison into which philosophy descended to console the spirit of Boethius , —that room through whose ...
... tears , such as those with which we turn to the walk of Socrates beneath the plane - tree , now sere , the summer hour of Cicero , the prison into which philosophy descended to console the spirit of Boethius , —that room through whose ...
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... tears , such as we all yield to those whose immortal wisdom , whose divine verse , whose eloquence of heaven , whose scenes of many - colored life , have held up the show of things to the insatiate desires of the mind , have taught us ...
... tears , such as we all yield to those whose immortal wisdom , whose divine verse , whose eloquence of heaven , whose scenes of many - colored life , have held up the show of things to the insatiate desires of the mind , have taught us ...
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Aaron Burr ambition American arms battle battle of Rocroi behold bells Bingen blessings blood bosom brave breath Cæsar cause character common Constitution dare death declamation Demosthenes duty earth elocution eloquence enemy England eternal falchion fathers fear feel freedom genius gentlemen give glorious glory hand happy hath hear heard heart Heaven honor hope house of Bourbon human immortal Ireland justice king labor land liberty light live look Lord Brougham Lords ment mind nation never Nevermore noble o'er ocean ourselves PARTITION OF POLAND passion patriotism pause peace principles R. B. Sheridan religion rise Rome sacred sentiments shore slave slavery soul sound South Carolina speak speech spirit stand Star-Spangled Banner sword tell thee thou thought throne tion toil Union utterance virtue voice Warren Hastings Washington wave Webster whole words
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Page 341 - Ingratitude, more strong than traitors' arms, Quite vanquished him : then burst his mighty heart ; And, in his mantle muffling up his face, Even at the base of Pompey's statue, Which all the while ran blood, great Caesar fell.
Page 218 - As home his footsteps he hath turned, From wandering on a foreign strand ? If such there breathe, go mark him well ; For him no minstrel raptures swell ; High though his titles, proud his name, Boundless his wealth as wish can claim ; Despite those titles, power, and pelf, The wretch concentered all in self, Living, shall forfeit fair renown, And, doubly dying, shall go down To the vile dust from whence he sprung, Unwept, unhonored, and unsung.
Page 179 - Be not too tame, neither, but let your own discretion be your tutor; suit the action to the word, the word to the action; with this special observance, that you o'erstep not the modesty of nature; for anything so overdone is from the purpose of playing, whose end, both at the first and now, was and is to hold, as '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.
Page 219 - Eske River where ford there was none: But ere he alighted at Netherby gate The bride had consented, the gallant came late: For a laggard in love, and a dastard in war Was to wed the fair Ellen of brave Lochinvar. So boldly he...
Page 178 - Who is here so base, that would be a bondman ? If any, speak ; for him have I offended. Who is here so rude, that would not be a Roman ? If any, speak ; for him have I offended. Who is here so vile, that will not love his country ? If any, speak ; for him have I offended. I pause for a reply.
Page 348 - The letter, as I live, with all the business I writ to his holiness. Nay, then, farewell ! I have touch'd the highest point of all my greatness ; And, from that full meridian of my glory, I haste now to my setting : I shall fall Like a bright exhalation in the evening, And no man see me more.
Page 209 - O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave? On the shore, dimly seen through the mists of the deep, Where the foe's haughty host in dread silence reposes, What is that which the breeze, o'er the towering steep, As it fitfully blows, now conceals, now discloses?
Page 347 - tis not to me she speaks: Two of the fairest stars in all the heaven, Having some business, do entreat her eyes To twinkle in their spheres, till they return. What if her eyes were there, they in her head; The brightness of her cheek would shame those stars, As daylight doth a lamp; her eye in heaven Would through the airy region stream so bright, That birds would sing, and think it were not night. See, how she leans her cheek upon her hand! O, that I were a glove upon that hand, That I might touch...
Page 292 - When thou art gone, the solemn brood of care Plod on, and each one, as before, will chase His favorite phantom; yet all these shall leave Their mirth and their employments, and shall come And make their bed with thee. As the long train Of ages...
Page 335 - There was a sound of revelry by night. And Belgium's capital had gathered then Her beauty and her chivalry ; and bright The lamps shone o'er fair women and brave men : A thousand hearts beat happily ; and when Music arose with its voluptuous swell, Soft eyes looked love to eyes which spake again ; And all went merry as a marriage-bell, But hush ! hark ! a deep sound strikes like a rising knell.