The Exhibition Speaker: Containing Farces, Dialogues, and Tableaux, with Exercises for Declamation in Prose and VerseSheldon & Company, 1855 - 268 páginas |
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... TILDEN FOUNDATIONS R 1940 L Entered according to act of Congress , in the year 1855 , BY D. M. DEWEY , a the Clerk's Office of the District Court for the Northern District of New York . 47 PREFACE . THERE have been , during the last ...
... TILDEN FOUNDATIONS R 1940 L Entered according to act of Congress , in the year 1855 , BY D. M. DEWEY , a the Clerk's Office of the District Court for the Northern District of New York . 47 PREFACE . THERE have been , during the last ...
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... enter from R. H. Fee . Take care , there , take care ! Mind you don't break the dishes or spill the gravy : this is the most particular din- ner I ever had to provide in all my life . Wai . We shall be careful , sir . ( Waiters exeunt ...
... enter from R. H. Fee . Take care , there , take care ! Mind you don't break the dishes or spill the gravy : this is the most particular din- ner I ever had to provide in all my life . Wai . We shall be careful , sir . ( Waiters exeunt ...
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... Enter DORIC , L. H. Doric . ( L. ) Well , Robert , how proceeds the dinner ? Fee . ( R. ) Charmingly , your honor . Doric . That is right . Here comes my scn - in - law . Enter MEASURETON , L. H. Meas . ( L. ) My dear father - in - law ...
... Enter DORIC , L. H. Doric . ( L. ) Well , Robert , how proceeds the dinner ? Fee . ( R. ) Charmingly , your honor . Doric . That is right . Here comes my scn - in - law . Enter MEASURETON , L. H. Meas . ( L. ) My dear father - in - law ...
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... Enter DORIC , from R. H. What a fine figure to work upon ; yes , yes , we'll dine together . Dor . There , there , not yet ready ! I'm sure the guests must be quite impatient . ( Looking off L. ) It's astonishing what an effect my ...
... Enter DORIC , from R. H. What a fine figure to work upon ; yes , yes , we'll dine together . Dor . There , there , not yet ready ! I'm sure the guests must be quite impatient . ( Looking off L. ) It's astonishing what an effect my ...
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... Enter MEASURETON , L. Dor . ( c . ) Come , come , son - in - law , we shall have a host of friends . Here's the surveyor general , Mr. Wideacre , will do us the honor of sitting at our tabie . " Mea . Nonsense , father - in - law ; A ...
... Enter MEASURETON , L. Dor . ( c . ) Come , come , son - in - law , we shall have a host of friends . Here's the surveyor general , Mr. Wideacre , will do us the honor of sitting at our tabie . " Mea . Nonsense , father - in - law ; A ...
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Página 192 - 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 original...
Página 136 - ... twere, the mirror up to nature; to show virtue her own feature, scorn her own image, and the very age and body of the time his form and pressure.
Página 136 - O, it offends me to the soul, to hear a robustious periwig-pated fellow tear a passion to tatters, to very rags, to split the ears of the groundlings; who, for the most part, are capable of nothing but inexplicable dumb shows, and noise: I would have such a fellow whipped for o'erdoing Termagant; it out-herods Herod: Pray you, avoid it.
Página 191 - That Union we reached only by the discipline of our virtues in the severe school of adversity. It had its origin in the necessities of disordered finance, prostrate commerce, and ruined credit. Under its benign influences, these great interests immediately awoke as from the dead, and sprang forth with newness of life.
Página 192 - Liberty first and Union afterwards ; but everywhere, spread all over in characters of living light, blazing on all its ample folds, as they float over the sea and over the land, and in every wind under the whole heavens, that other sentiment, dear to every true American heart, Liberty and Union, Now and Forever, One and Inseparable.
Página 191 - I have not allowed myself, sir, to look beyond the Union to see what might lie hidden in the dark recess behind. I have not coolly weighed the chances of preserving liberty when the bonds that unite us together shall be broken asunder. I have not. accustomed myself to hang over the precipice of disunion to see whether, with my short sight, I can fathom the depth of the abyss below...
Página 137 - Hath seal'd thee for herself: for thou hast been As one, in suffering all, that suffers nothing ; A man, that Fortune's buffets and rewards...
Página 136 - ... accent of Christians nor the gait of Christian, pagan, nor man, have so strutted and bellowed that I have thought some of Nature's journeymen had made men and not made them well, they imitated humanity so abominably.
Página 133 - But that I am forbid To tell the secrets of my prison-house, I could a tale unfold whose lightest word Would harrow up thy soul, freeze thy young blood, : Make thy two eyes, like stars, start from their spheres, Thy knotted and combined locks to part And each particular hair to stand on end, Like quills upon the fretful porcupine : But this eternal blazon must not be To ears of flesh and blood.
Página 134 - Ay, that incestuous, that adulterate beast, With witchcraft of his wit, with traitorous gifts, — O wicked wit and gifts, that have the power So to seduce! — won to his shameful lust The will of my most seeming-virtuous queen: 0 Hamlet, what a falling-off was there!