The Science and Art of Elocution and Oratory: Containing Specimens of the Eloquence of the Pulpit, the Bar, the Stage, the Legislative Hall, and the Battlefield |
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... seemed in the air to float . " The secret of that lady's success was , that she had cultivated her literary taste , and her voice and expressión , by a long and persevering practice of the art of Elocution , under the instruc- tion of a ...
... seemed in the air to float . " The secret of that lady's success was , that she had cultivated her literary taste , and her voice and expressión , by a long and persevering practice of the art of Elocution , under the instruc- tion of a ...
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... seemed to call forth a flush of triumphant pride and cherishing tenderness , as if he doted on his lovely burden for its very helplessness . Never did a couple set forward on the flowery path of early and well - suited marriage with a ...
... seemed to call forth a flush of triumphant pride and cherishing tenderness , as if he doted on his lovely burden for its very helplessness . Never did a couple set forward on the flowery path of early and well - suited marriage with a ...
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... seemed rather to be a relief to her mind , for she threw her arms around my neck , and asked if this was all that had lately made me unhappy . But , poor girl ! " added he , " she cannot realize the change we must undergo . She has no ...
... seemed rather to be a relief to her mind , for she threw her arms around my neck , and asked if this was all that had lately made me unhappy . But , poor girl ! " added he , " she cannot realize the change we must undergo . She has no ...
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... seemed . 8. " The vulture flapped his sail - like wings , though heavily he flew , A mote upon the sun's bright face , he seemed unto my view ; But once I thought I saw him stoop , as if he would alight , — ' Twas only a delusive ...
... seemed . 8. " The vulture flapped his sail - like wings , though heavily he flew , A mote upon the sun's bright face , he seemed unto my view ; But once I thought I saw him stoop , as if he would alight , — ' Twas only a delusive ...
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... seemed To float , float upward from some world afar- A meek and childlike voice , faint , but how sweet . That blended with the spirits ' rushing strain , Even as a fountain's music , with the roll Of the reverberate thunder . Loving ...
... seemed To float , float upward from some world afar- A meek and childlike voice , faint , but how sweet . That blended with the spirits ' rushing strain , Even as a fountain's music , with the roll Of the reverberate thunder . Loving ...
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Page 192 - There runs not a drop of my blood in the veins of any living creature. This called on me for revenge. I have sought it: I have killed many: I have fully glutted my vengeance: for my country I rejoice at the beams of peace. But do not harbour a thought that mine is the joy of fear.
Page 149 - 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.
Page 148 - Sir, we are not weak, if we make a proper use of those means which the God of nature hath placed in our power. Three millions of people, armed in the holy cause of liberty, and in such a country as that which we possess, are invincible by any force which our enemy can send against us.
Page 132 - She has a voice of gladness, and a smile And eloquence of beauty; and she glides Into his darker musings with a mild And healing sympathy, that steals away Their sharpness ere he is aware. When thoughts Of the last bitter hour come like a blight Over thy spirit, and sad images Of the stern agony, and shroud, and pall, And breathless darkness, and the narrow house...
Page 226 - Caesar carelessly but nod on him. He had a fever when he was in Spain ; And, when the fit was on him, I did mark How he did shake...
Page 134 - So live, that when thy summons comes to join The innumerable caravan that moves To the pale realms of shade, where each shall take His chamber in the silent halls of death, Thou go not, like the quarry-slave at night, Scourged to his dungeon, but, sustained and soothed By an unfaltering trust, approach thy grave Like one who wraps the drapery of his couch About him, and lies down to pleasant dreams.
Page 97 - Here will I hold. If there's a power above us (And that there is, all Nature cries aloud Through all her works), he must delight in virtue ; And that which he delights in must be happy.
Page 45 - I ask gentlemen, sir, What means this martial array, if its purpose be not to force us to submission? Can gentlemen assign any other possible motive for it? Has Great Britain any enemy, in this quarter of the world, to call for all this accumulation of navies and armies?
Page 134 - Will share thy destiny. The gay will laugh When thou art gone, the solemn brood of care Plod on, and each one as before will chase His...
Page 191 - I appeal to any white man to say, if ever he entered Logan's cabin hungry, and he gave him not meat, if ever he came cold and naked, and he clothed him not.