The practical elocutionistPiper, Stephenson and Spence, 1854 - 444 pages |
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... Peace , peace , I cannot go . Hath the world aught for me to fear , When death is on thy brow ? “ The world ! what means it ? -mine is here — " I will not leave thee now . I have been with thee in thine hour " Of glory and of bliss ...
... Peace , peace , I cannot go . Hath the world aught for me to fear , When death is on thy brow ? “ The world ! what means it ? -mine is here — " I will not leave thee now . I have been with thee in thine hour " Of glory and of bliss ...
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... peace to your land : When the Prussian , all raging with vengeance and hate , Would have doom'd your fair city to Babylon's fate ! Would have sullied your glories , your trophies o'erthrown , In humanity's cause he stood bravely alone ...
... peace to your land : When the Prussian , all raging with vengeance and hate , Would have doom'd your fair city to Babylon's fate ! Would have sullied your glories , your trophies o'erthrown , In humanity's cause he stood bravely alone ...
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... peace here , or come ye in war ? " Or to dance at our bridal , young " " Lord Lochinvar ? ” " I long wooed your daughter , my suit you denied : Love swells like the Solway , but ebbs like its tide ! " And now am I come , with this lost ...
... peace here , or come ye in war ? " Or to dance at our bridal , young " " Lord Lochinvar ? ” " I long wooed your daughter , my suit you denied : Love swells like the Solway , but ebbs like its tide ! " And now am I come , with this lost ...
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... Peace o'er the world her olive wand extend , And white - robed Innocence from heaven descend . Swift fly the years , and rise th ' expected morn ! Oh spring to light , auspicious babe , be born ! See , nature hastes her earliest wreaths ...
... Peace o'er the world her olive wand extend , And white - robed Innocence from heaven descend . Swift fly the years , and rise th ' expected morn ! Oh spring to light , auspicious babe , be born ! See , nature hastes her earliest wreaths ...
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... peaceful thought the field of death survey'd , To fainting squadrons sent the timely aid , Inspired repulsed battalions to engage , And taught the doubtful battle where to rage . So when an angel , by divine command , With rising ...
... peaceful thought the field of death survey'd , To fainting squadrons sent the timely aid , Inspired repulsed battalions to engage , And taught the doubtful battle where to rage . So when an angel , by divine command , With rising ...
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Page 261 - But yesterday, the word of Caesar might Have stood against the world ; now lies he there, And none so poor to do him reverence.
Page 28 - 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...
Page 35 - HERON'S SONG. O, young Lochinvar is come out of the west, Through all the wide Border his steed was the best, And save his good broadsword he weapons had none ; He rode all unarmed, and he rode all alone. So faithful in love, and so dauntless in war, There never was knight like the young Lochinvar.
Page 154 - 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?
Page 236 - I remember, when the fight was done, When I was dry with rage and extreme toil, Breathless and faint, leaning upon my sword, Came there a certain lord, neat...
Page 259 - Romans, countrymen, and lovers ! hear me for my cause ; and be silent that you may hear : believe me for mine honour ; and have respect to mine honour, that you may believe : censure me in your wisdom ; and awake your senses, that you may the better judge. If there be any in this assembly, any dear friend of Ctesar's, to him I say, that Brutus' love to Caesar was no less than his.
Page 170 - Rome, thou hast lost the breed of noble bloods ! When went there by an age, since the great flood, But it was famed with more than with one man...
Page 174 - O Cassius, you are yoked with a lamb That carries anger as the flint bears fire ; Who, much enforced, shows a hasty spark, And straight is cold again.
Page 170 - 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.
Page 18 - Ye pine-groves, with your soft and soul-like sounds ! And they too have a voice, yon piles of snow, And in their perilous fall shall thunder, God...