Knowles' Elocutionist: A First-class Rhetorical Reader and Recitation Book, Containing the Only Essential Principles of Elocution, Directions for Managing the Voice, Etc., Simplified and Expanded on a Novel Plan, with Numerous Pieces for Reading and Declamation, Designed for the Use of Schools and Colleges |
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... eternal years of God are hers ; But Error , wounded , writhes with pain , And dies among his worshippers . Yea , though thou die upon the dust , When those who helped thee flee in fear , Die full of hope and manly trust , Like those who ...
... eternal years of God are hers ; But Error , wounded , writhes with pain , And dies among his worshippers . Yea , though thou die upon the dust , When those who helped thee flee in fear , Die full of hope and manly trust , Like those who ...
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... eternal abhorrence of such enormous and preposter- ous principles . LESSON IX . Reply to the Duke of Grafton . - LORD THURLOW . [ The duke had ( in the House of Lords ) reproached Lord Thurlow with his plebeian extraction , and his ...
... eternal abhorrence of such enormous and preposter- ous principles . LESSON IX . Reply to the Duke of Grafton . - LORD THURLOW . [ The duke had ( in the House of Lords ) reproached Lord Thurlow with his plebeian extraction , and his ...
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... eternal anthems to thine ear ; the golden sun lights thy path ; the wide hea- vens stretch themselves above thee , and worlds rise upon worlds , and systems beyond systems , to infinity ; and dost thou stand in the centre of all this ...
... eternal anthems to thine ear ; the golden sun lights thy path ; the wide hea- vens stretch themselves above thee , and worlds rise upon worlds , and systems beyond systems , to infinity ; and dost thou stand in the centre of all this ...
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... eternal , and announced to the peo- ple , amid the thunder of artillery , that , no matter how aggrieved , their only allowable attitude was that of suppli- cation ; which , when it told the French reformer of 1793 , that his defeat was ...
... eternal , and announced to the peo- ple , amid the thunder of artillery , that , no matter how aggrieved , their only allowable attitude was that of suppli- cation ; which , when it told the French reformer of 1793 , that his defeat was ...
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... eternal rest ! LESSON LII . The Destruction of Sennacherib . - Byron . THE Assyrian came down like the wolf on the fold , And his cohorts were gleaming in purple and gold ; And the sheen of their spears was like stars on the sea , When ...
... eternal rest ! LESSON LII . The Destruction of Sennacherib . - Byron . THE Assyrian came down like the wolf on the fold , And his cohorts were gleaming in purple and gold ; And the sheen of their spears was like stars on the sea , When ...
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Page 251 - tis his will : Let but the Commons hear this testament, (Which, pardon me, I do not mean to read,) And they would go and kiss dead Caesar's wounds, And dip their napkins...
Page 148 - And there lay the steed with his nostril all wide, But through it there roll'd not the breath of his pride : And the foam of his gasping lay white on the turf, And cold as the spray of the rock-beating surf. And there lay the rider distorted and pale, With the dew on his brow, and the rust on his mail ; And the tents were all silent, the banners alone, The lances unlifted, the trumpet unblown.
Page 125 - The applause of listening senates to command, The threats of pain and ruin to despise, To scatter plenty o'er a smiling land, And read their history in a nation's eyes...
Page 244 - Equal and exact justice to all men, of whatever state or persuasion, religious or political: peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none: the support of the State governments in all their rights, as the most competent administrations for our domestic concerns, and the surest bulwarks against anti-republican tendencies...
Page 243 - If there be any among us who would wish to dissolve this Union or to change its republican form, let them stand undisturbed as monuments of the safety with which error of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it.
Page 72 - Ask yourselves how this gracious reception of our petition comports with those warlike preparations which cover our waters and darken our land. Are fleets and armies necessary to a work of love and reconciliation? Have we shown ourselves so unwilling to be reconciled that force must be called in to win back our love ? Let us not deceive ourselves, sir.
Page 250 - Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears; •> I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him. The evil, that men do, lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones; \ So let it be with Caesar.
Page 148 - Arve and Arveiron at thy base Rave ceaselessly ; but thou, most awful form, Risest from forth thy silent sea of pines, How silently ! Around thee and above Deep is the air and dark, substantial, black, An ebon mass : methinks thou piercest it, As with a wedge ! But when I look again, It is thine own calm home, thy crystal shrine, Thy habitation from eternity ! 0 dread and silent mount ! I gazed upon thee, Till thou, still present to the bodily sense, Didst vanish from my thought : entranced in prayer,...
Page 109 - And God set them in the firmament of heaven to give light upon the earth, And to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness: and God saw that it was good. And the evening and the morning were the fourth day.
Page 249 - As Caesar loved me, I weep for him; as he was fortunate, I rejoice at it; as he was valiant, I honour him; but, as he was ambitious, I slew him.