The Book of Eloquence: A Collection of Extracts in Prose and Verse, from the Most Famous Orators and Poets; Intended as Exercises for Declamation in Colleges and SchoolsCrandall & Moseley, 1853 - 452 páginas |
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... Passing Away " . 92. Shakspeare Ode .. 93. The Ivy and the Vine .. 94. The Destruction of the Universe . 95. Mazeppa . 96. Universality of Poetry . 97. Greece .. 98. Fame . .BRYANT . 425 ..COXE . 427 .PERCIVAL . 428 ... NEAL . 429 ...
... Passing Away " . 92. Shakspeare Ode .. 93. The Ivy and the Vine .. 94. The Destruction of the Universe . 95. Mazeppa . 96. Universality of Poetry . 97. Greece .. 98. Fame . .BRYANT . 425 ..COXE . 427 .PERCIVAL . 428 ... NEAL . 429 ...
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... pass from men's minds . Over this age the night will , indeed , gather more and more as time rolls away ; but in that night two forms will appear , Wash- ington and Napoleon , the one a lurid meteor , the other a benign , serene , and ...
... pass from men's minds . Over this age the night will , indeed , gather more and more as time rolls away ; but in that night two forms will appear , Wash- ington and Napoleon , the one a lurid meteor , the other a benign , serene , and ...
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... pass away as a summer cloud . No measure of unalienable wrong , no measure of unconquerable disagree- ment , will be pressed upon us here . The fatal element of all our discord will be taken from amongst us . Let gentlemen be entreated ...
... pass away as a summer cloud . No measure of unalienable wrong , no measure of unconquerable disagree- ment , will be pressed upon us here . The fatal element of all our discord will be taken from amongst us . Let gentlemen be entreated ...
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... pass mournfully by us , and they return no more . Two centuries ago , the smoke of their wigwams and the fires of their councils rose in every valley , from Hudson's Bay to the farthest Florida , from the ocean to the Mississippi and ...
... pass mournfully by us , and they return no more . Two centuries ago , the smoke of their wigwams and the fires of their councils rose in every valley , from Hudson's Bay to the farthest Florida , from the ocean to the Mississippi and ...
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... passes speech . There is something in their looks , not of vengeance or submission ; but of hard necessity , which stifles both ; which chokes all utterance ; which has no aim or method . It is courage absorbed in despair . They linger ...
... passes speech . There is something in their looks , not of vengeance or submission ; but of hard necessity , which stifles both ; which chokes all utterance ; which has no aim or method . It is courage absorbed in despair . They linger ...
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Página 345 - I bring fresh showers for the thirsting flowers, From the seas and the streams; I bear light shade for the leaves when laid In their noonday dreams. From my wings are shaken the dews that waken The sweet buds every one, When rocked to rest on their mother's breast, As she dances about the sun.
Página 342 - I see before me the Gladiator lie : He leans upon his hand — his manly brow Consents to death, but conquers agony, And his droop'd head sinks gradually low — And through his side the last drops, ebbing slow From the red gash, fall heavy, one by one, Like the first of a thunder-shower; and now The arena swims around him — he is gone, Ere ceased the inhuman shout which hail'd the wretch who won.
Página 398 - Shylock, we would have moneys :' you say so ; You, that did void your rheum upon my beard And foot me as you spurn a stranger cur Over your threshold : moneys is your suit. What should I say to you ? Should I not say, ' Hath a dog money ? is it possible A cur can lend three thousand ducats?
Página 340 - tis done, then 'twere well It were done quickly. If the assassination Could trammel up the consequence, and catch With his surcease success; that but this blow Might be the be-all and the end-all here, But here, upon this bank and shoal of time, We'd jump the life to come.
Página 397 - Signior Antonio, many a time and oft In the Rialto you have rated* me About my moneys and my usances :* Still have I borne it with a patient shrug; For sufferance is the badge of all our tribe. You call me misbeliever, cut-throat, dog, And spit upon my Jewish gaberdine, And all for use of that which is mine own.
Página 360 - When that the poor have cried, Caesar hath wept; Ambition should be made of sterner stuff: Yet Brutus says he was ambitious; And Brutus is an honourable man. You all did see that on the Lupercal I thrice presented him a kingly crown, Which he did thrice refuse: was this ambition?
Página 350 - Like leviathans afloat, Lay their bulwarks on the brine; While the sign of battle flew On the lofty British line : It was ten of April morn by the chime As they drifted on their path, There was silence deep as death; And the boldest held his breath, For a time. But the might of England flushed To anticipate the scene ; And her van the fleeter rushed O'er the deadly space between. ''Hearts of oak...
Página 339 - O gentle sleep, Nature's soft nurse, how have I frighted thee, That thou no more wilt weigh my eyelids down, And steep my senses in forgetfulness...
Página 69 - 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...
Página 124 - Mr. President, I shall enter on no encomium upon Massachusetts; she needs none. There she is. Behold her, and judge for yourselves. There is her history; the world knows it by heart The past, at least, is secure. There is Boston, and Concord, and Lexington, and Bunker Hill; and there they will remain forever.