The Orator: A Monthly Magazine of Speeches, Plays, Dialogues, Recitations, and Scenes; Tragic, Pathetic, Comic, and Descriptive, Volume 1T. S. Hawks., 1857 |
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... looks , words , and acts , the purity and power of the principles that prompt them . In such a circle , love weaves and winds her golden chain . In such a family , you find no discord and alienation . There , the greatest happiness of ...
... looks , words , and acts , the purity and power of the principles that prompt them . In such a circle , love weaves and winds her golden chain . In such a family , you find no discord and alienation . There , the greatest happiness of ...
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... looks like a prophet and speaks like an oracle . And thus it speaks : " The day I commemorate , is the rod with which the hand of the Lord has opened the well of Liberty . Its waters will flow ; every new drop of martyr - blood will ...
... looks like a prophet and speaks like an oracle . And thus it speaks : " The day I commemorate , is the rod with which the hand of the Lord has opened the well of Liberty . Its waters will flow ; every new drop of martyr - blood will ...
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... look ; they have no gushing wound crying for revenge to the Almighty God ; the smile of eternal bliss is playing around their lips , and though dwellers of Heaven , they like to revisit the place where their blood was spilt . It was not ...
... look ; they have no gushing wound crying for revenge to the Almighty God ; the smile of eternal bliss is playing around their lips , and though dwellers of Heaven , they like to revisit the place where their blood was spilt . It was not ...
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... look upon . Our little lad , you may suppose , Had never seen so many shows . He stands , with open mouth and eyes ... looks so sweetly with its eyes ? O shall I catch it ? is it tame ? What is it , father ? what's its name ? " Poor ...
... look upon . Our little lad , you may suppose , Had never seen so many shows . He stands , with open mouth and eyes ... looks so sweetly with its eyes ? O shall I catch it ? is it tame ? What is it , father ? what's its name ? " Poor ...
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... look round among his own as- sociates let him look at himself . " mself . THE following poem can not fail to kindle an undivided interest , when delivered with the oratorical skill which the subject com- mands , and which will be ...
... look round among his own as- sociates let him look at himself . " mself . THE following poem can not fail to kindle an undivided interest , when delivered with the oratorical skill which the subject com- mands , and which will be ...
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Page 83 - I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and unbreathed, that never sallies out and sees her adversary, but slinks out of the race, where that immortal garland is to be run for not without dust and heat.
Page 155 - tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, Or to take arms against a sea of troubles, And by opposing end them ? To die: to sleep...
Page 159 - Mine eyes are made the fools o' the other senses, Or else worth all the rest ; I see thee still, And on thy blade and dudgeon gouts of blood, Which was not so before. There's no such thing : It is the bloody business which informs Thus to mine eyes.
Page 153 - O, now you weep, and I perceive you feel The dint of pity; these are gracious drops. Kind souls, what! weep you when you but behold Our Caesar's vesture wounded ? Look you here, Here is himself, marr'd, as you see, with traitors.
Page 158 - My story being done, She gave me for my pains a world of sighs : She swore, — in faith, 'twas strange, 'twas passing strange ; 'Twas pitiful, 'twas wondrous pitiful...
Page 204 - gainst self-slaughter! O God! O God! How weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable Seem to me all the uses of this world! Fie on't! ah, fie! 'tis an unweeded garden, That grows to seed; things rank and gross in nature, Possess it merely.
Page 159 - Pale Hecate's offerings : and wither'd murder, Alarum'd by his sentinel, the wolf, Whose howl's his watch, thus with his stealthy pace, With Tarquin's ravishing strides, towards his design Moves like a ghost. Thou sure and firm-set earth, Hear not my steps, which way they walk, for fear Thy very stones prate of my where-about, And take the present horror from the time, Which now suits with it.
Page 152 - 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 honorable man. You all did see that on the Lupercal I thrice presented him a kingly crown Which he did thrice refuse: was this ambition?
Page 151 - Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears ; I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him. The evil that men do lives after them ; The good is oft interred with their bones ; So let it be with Caesar.
Page 74 - River where ford there was none; But, ere he alighted at Nethe'rby gate, The bride had consented, the gallant came late: For. a laggard in love and a dastard in war Was to wed the fair Ellen of brave Lochinvar.