Three-minute Declamations for College Men: Selected and Ed. by Harry Cassell Davis ... and John C. Bridgman ...Harry Cassell Davis, John Cloyse Bridgman |
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... a hand bear our banner in battle and not be forever consecrated to honor and virtue ? But doubly consecrated were those who received into their own hearts the fatal shafts , aimed 141 16 ANCESTRAL IDEALS . at the life of their country.
... a hand bear our banner in battle and not be forever consecrated to honor and virtue ? But doubly consecrated were those who received into their own hearts the fatal shafts , aimed 141 16 ANCESTRAL IDEALS . at the life of their country.
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... forever . " If I say this to the dwellers upon the slope of the mountain , and if there comes hereafter a catastrophe which makes the world to shudder , am I responsible for that catastrophe ? I did not build the mountain , or fill it ...
... forever . " If I say this to the dwellers upon the slope of the mountain , and if there comes hereafter a catastrophe which makes the world to shudder , am I responsible for that catastrophe ? I did not build the mountain , or fill it ...
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... forever sags down with a despairing expression of forsaken- ness and misery , a furtive and evil eye , and a long , sharp face , with slightly lifted lip and exposed teeth , THE COYOTE . 25 The He has a general slinking.
... forever sags down with a despairing expression of forsaken- ness and misery , a furtive and evil eye , and a long , sharp face , with slightly lifted lip and exposed teeth , THE COYOTE . 25 The He has a general slinking.
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... Forever the Sepoy's trail . 29 Through the streets swept the colors of England , Born proudly aloft on the air ; While the " throne land of Rama " re - echoed The Christian's thanksgiving and prayer . And blithest of all were the pipers ...
... Forever the Sepoy's trail . 29 Through the streets swept the colors of England , Born proudly aloft on the air ; While the " throne land of Rama " re - echoed The Christian's thanksgiving and prayer . And blithest of all were the pipers ...
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... forever , - Joe , my boy , wot ails your eyes ? Thought they look'd a little sing❜ler , O no ! don't you have no fear ; Heaven was made fur such as you is , Joe , wot makes you look so queer ? Here , wake up ! O , don't look that way ...
... forever , - Joe , my boy , wot ails your eyes ? Thought they look'd a little sing❜ler , O no ! don't you have no fear ; Heaven was made fur such as you is , Joe , wot makes you look so queer ? Here , wake up ! O , don't look that way ...
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ABRAHAM LINCOLN American arms army Author battle BATTLE OF IVRY beautiful blood brave breath BURGHERS OF CALAIS Cæsar cannon cheer civilization courage cried dead death earth Edward Bulwer Lytton EDWARD JOHN PHELPS EDWARD ROWLAND SILL England eyes face fathers fell Finnigin flag Flannigin forever France freedom GEORGE LIPPARD George William Curtis glory hand heard heart heaven Henry heroes Hervé Riel hills honor human immortal John JOHN WYCLIFFE justice King land liberty light lives look Lord Lucknow Lygian Massachusetts mighty mountain nation never night noble o'er Orator patriotism peace PILGRIM Poet prayer Republic shore shout slaves soldier song soul South speak spirit stars Statesman STAVOREN stood sweet sword tears thee thou thought tion to-day TOUSSAINT L'OUVERTURE victory virtue voice Washington waves wild William word York
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Page 249 - 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 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.
Page 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.
Page 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!
Page 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...
Page 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...
Page 73 - Forward, the Light Brigade ! Charge for the guns ! " he said : Into the valley of Death Rode the six hundred. " Forward, the Light Brigade...
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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