The Model Speaker: Consisting of Exercises in Prose and Poetry. For the Use of Schools, Academies, and CollegesEldredge & Brother, 1872 - 382 páginas |
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... dare , As quick , as far , as they . An hour pass'd on : the Turk awoke ; That bright dream was his last ; He woke to hear his sentries shriek : " To arms they come ! the Greek ! the Greek ! " He woke , to die ' midst flame and smoke ...
... dare , As quick , as far , as they . An hour pass'd on : the Turk awoke ; That bright dream was his last ; He woke to hear his sentries shriek : " To arms they come ! the Greek ! the Greek ! " He woke , to die ' midst flame and smoke ...
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... dares ? " — this was the patriot's cry , As striding from the desk he came " Come out with me , in Freedom's name , For her to live , for her to die ? " A hundred hands flung up reply , A hundred voices answer'd , " “ I ! ” OLD ...
... dares ? " — this was the patriot's cry , As striding from the desk he came " Come out with me , in Freedom's name , For her to live , for her to die ? " A hundred hands flung up reply , A hundred voices answer'd , " “ I ! ” OLD ...
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... dare call for justice , Be answered by the lash ! Yet this is Rome , That sat on her seven hills , and , from her throne Of beauty , ruled the world ! Yet we are Romans ! Why , in that elder day , to be a Roman Was greater than a king ...
... dare call for justice , Be answered by the lash ! Yet this is Rome , That sat on her seven hills , and , from her throne Of beauty , ruled the world ! Yet we are Romans ! Why , in that elder day , to be a Roman Was greater than a king ...
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... dare face me on the bloody sands , let them come on . And yet I was not always thus a hired butcher , a savage chief of still more savage men . My ancestors came from old Sparta , and settled among the vine - clad rocks and citron ...
... dare face me on the bloody sands , let them come on . And yet I was not always thus a hired butcher , a savage chief of still more savage men . My ancestors came from old Sparta , and settled among the vine - clad rocks and citron ...
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... dare not vindicate my character , what a farce is your justice ! If I stand at this bar , and dare not vin- dicate my character , how dare you calumniate it ? Does the sentence of death , which your unhallowed policy inflicts upon my ...
... dare not vindicate my character , what a farce is your justice ! If I stand at this bar , and dare not vin- dicate my character , how dare you calumniate it ? Does the sentence of death , which your unhallowed policy inflicts upon my ...
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arms battle beautiful beneath Bingen blessed blood bosom brave breast breath bright brow Brutus Cæsar cheek child Cicero cloud cold cried dare dark dead dear death deep dream dying earth eyes face father forever Forever never friends galloped gentlemen glorious glory grave hand hast hath head hear heard heart heaven helmet of Navarre Henry of Navarre holy honor hope hour Hurrah king land Lars Porsena liberty lictors light lips living look lord mighty Minnehaha mother neath never Never forever Nevermore night noble o'er pale patriotism praise prayer Quoth the raven roar Roman Rome round Shamus shore shout silent sleep smile snow sorrow soul South Carolina Spartacus spirit stand stars stood STUART HOLLAND sweet sword tears tell tempest thee thou thought thunder voice waves weary weep wild word young
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Página 267 - And spit upon my Jewish gaberdine, And all for use of that which is mine own. Well then, it now appears you need my help : Go to, then ; you come to me, and you say " Shylock, we would have moneys...
Página 237 - When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child ; but when I became a man, I put away childish things. For now we see through a glass darkly ; but then face to face : now I know in part ; but then shall I know even as also I am known.
Página 154 - With a bare bodkin ? who would fardels bear, To grunt and sweat under a weary life ; But that the dread of something after death, — The undiscovered country, from whose bourn No traveller returns, — puzzles the will ; And makes us rather bear those ills we have, Than fly to others that we know not of? Thus conscience does make cowards of us all...
Página 23 - 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.
Página 358 - Oh, the bells, bells, bells! What a tale their terror tells Of Despair! How they clang, and clash, and roar! What a horror they outpour On the bosom of the palpitating air! Yet the ear it fully knows, By the twanging And the clanging, How the danger ebbs and flows; Yet the ear distinctly tells, In the jangling And the wrangling, How the danger sinks and swells, — By the sinking or the swelling in the anger of the bells, Of the bells, Of the bells, bells, bells, bells, Bells, bells, bells — In...
Página 122 - We are apt to shut our eyes against a painful truth, and listen to the song of that siren till she transforms us into beasts. Is this the part of wise men, engaged in a great and arduous struggle for liberty? Are we disposed to be of the number of those who, having eyes, see not, and having ears, hear not, the things which so nearly concern their temporal salvation? For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the whole truth; to know the worst, and to provide for it....
Página 311 - Let's dry our eyes ; and thus far hear me, Cromwell, And when I am forgotten, as I shall be, And sleep in dull cold marble, where no mention Of me more must be heard of, say I taught thee ; Say, Wolsey, that once trod the ways of glory, And sounded all the depths and shoals of honor...
Página 125 - ... 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 original lustre : not a stripe erased or polluted, nor a single star obscured : bearing for its motto, no such miserable interrogatory as, What is all this worth...
Página 309 - All the world's a stage, And all the men and women merely players : They have their exits and their entrances ; And one man in his time plays many parts, His acts being seven ages. At first the infant, Mewling and puking in the nurse's arms.
Página 324 - On forfeit of my hands, my head, my heart: If this will not suffice, it must appear That malice bears down truth. And I beseech you, Wrest once the law to your authority: To do a great right, do a little wrong, And curb this cruel devil of his will.