Wiley's Elocution and Oratory: Giving a Thorough Treatise on the Art of Reading and Speaking. Containing Numerous and Choice Selections of Didactic, Humorous, and Dramatic Styles, from the Most Celebrated Authors ...Clark & Maynard, 1869 - 444 páginas |
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... moved to smile at any thing . Such men as he , be never at heart's ease , While they behold a greater than themselves , And therefore , are they very dangerous . 12. " REMORSE . " [ Expulsive Orotund , Middle and Low Key . ] Oh ! I have ...
... moved to smile at any thing . Such men as he , be never at heart's ease , While they behold a greater than themselves , And therefore , are they very dangerous . 12. " REMORSE . " [ Expulsive Orotund , Middle and Low Key . ] Oh ! I have ...
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... moved , when all the sway of earth Shakes , like a thing unfirm ? O Cicero ! I have seen tempests , when the scolding winds Have riv'd the knotty oaks ; and I have seen The ambitious ocean swell , and rage , and foam , To be exalted ...
... moved , when all the sway of earth Shakes , like a thing unfirm ? O Cicero ! I have seen tempests , when the scolding winds Have riv'd the knotty oaks ; and I have seen The ambitious ocean swell , and rage , and foam , To be exalted ...
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... moved to Pomfret , in Connecticut , in the year 1739 , the country was new and much infested with wolves . Great havoc was made among the sheep by a she - wolf which , with her annual whelps , had for several years continued in that ...
... moved to Pomfret , in Connecticut , in the year 1739 , the country was new and much infested with wolves . Great havoc was made among the sheep by a she - wolf which , with her annual whelps , had for several years continued in that ...
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... moved by humanity , began their administration with an act of clemency and justice . They inspected the registers of the Bastile , and set many prisoners at liberty . Among those , there was an old man who had groaned in confinement for ...
... moved by humanity , began their administration with an act of clemency and justice . They inspected the registers of the Bastile , and set many prisoners at liberty . Among those , there was an old man who had groaned in confinement for ...
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... moved ; but , notwithstanding his habitual in- flexibility , I cannot help thinking that , when he heard his Roman Catholic countrymen ( for we are his countrymen ) designated by a phrase as offensive as the abundant vocab- ulary of his ...
... moved ; but , notwithstanding his habitual in- flexibility , I cannot help thinking that , when he heard his Roman Catholic countrymen ( for we are his countrymen ) designated by a phrase as offensive as the abundant vocab- ulary of his ...
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Página 106 - And saw within the moonlight in his room, Making it rich, and like a lily in bloom, An angel writing in a book of gold. Exceeding peace had made Ben Adhem bold, And to the presence in the room he said, "What writest thou?" The vision raised its head, And with a look made of all sweet accord, Answered, "The names of those who love the Lord." "And is mine one?" said Abou. "Nay, not so,
Página 93 - ... When my eyes shall be turned to behold for the last time the sun in heaven, may I not see him shining on the broken and dishonored fragments of a once glorious Union ; on States dissevered, discordant, belligerent; on a land rent with civil feuds, or drenched, it may be, in fraternal blood ! Let their last feeble and lingering glance, rather, behold the gorgeous ensign of the Republic, now known and honored throughout the earth, still full high advanced, its arms and trophies streaming in their...
Página 156 - As a sick girl. Ye gods, it doth amaze me A man of such a feeble temper should So get the start of the majestic world And bear the palm alone. Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow world Like a Colossus, and we petty men Walk under his huge legs and peep about To find ourselves dishonourable graves.
Página 55 - If a Jew wrong a Christian, what is his humility ? revenge : If a Christian wrong a Jew, what should his sufferance be by Christian example ? why, revenge. The villainy, you teach me, I will execute; and it shall go hard, but I will better the instruction.
Página 172 - But he lay like a warrior taking his rest With his martial cloak around him. Few and short were the prayers...
Página 198 - tis a consummation Devoutly to be wish'd. To die, to sleep; To sleep: perchance to dream: ay, there's the rub: For in that sleep of death what dreams may come When we have shuffled off this mortal coil...
Página 301 - One-eighth of the whole population were colored slaves, not distributed generally over the Union but localized in the southern part of it. These slaves constituted a peculiar and powerful interest. All knew that this interest was somehow the cause of the war.
Página 301 - Both parties deprecated war, but one of them would make war rather than let the nation survive, and the other would accept war rather than let it perish. And the war came.
Página 284 - Then this ebony bird beguiling my sad fancy into smiling By the grave and stern decorum of the countenance it wore,— " Though thy crest be shorn and shaven, thou," I said, " art sure no craven, Ghastly grim and ancient Raven wandering from the Nightly shore: Tell me what thy lordly name is on the Night's Plutonian shore !" Quoth the Raven,
Página 285 - This I sat engaged in guessing, but no syllable expressing To the fowl whose fiery eyes now burned into my bosom's core; This and more I sat divining, with my head at ease reclining On the cushion's velvet lining that the lamp-light gloated o'er, But whose velvet violet lining, with the lamp-light gloating o'er, She shall press, ah, nevermore! Then, methought, the air grew denser, perfumed from an unseen censer Swung by seraphim whose footfalls tinkled on the tufted floor. "Wretch!