The United States Speaker: A Copious Selection of Exercises in Elocution; Consisting of Prose, Poetry and Dialogue: Drawn Chiefly from the Most Approved Writers of Great Britain and America ... |
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... Scene Second . Brooke . 404 Haynes . 407 Cumberland . 410 Croly . 413 Moore , 416 Knowles . 419 Shakspeare . 422 Franklin . 426 Walker . 429 Kemble . 433 Shee . 437 Anonymous . 442 Coleridge . 447 Knowles . 452 Hemans . 457 450 + 4 ...
... Scene Second . Brooke . 404 Haynes . 407 Cumberland . 410 Croly . 413 Moore , 416 Knowles . 419 Shakspeare . 422 Franklin . 426 Walker . 429 Kemble . 433 Shee . 437 Anonymous . 442 Coleridge . 447 Knowles . 452 Hemans . 457 450 + 4 ...
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... scene , be appropriately opened , how could its intense interest be adequately sustained , but by the introduction of just such a character as our Washington ? In Washington had attained his manhood when that spark of liberty was struck ...
... scene , be appropriately opened , how could its intense interest be adequately sustained , but by the introduction of just such a character as our Washington ? In Washington had attained his manhood when that spark of liberty was struck ...
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... scenes are never to be witnessed by American eyes . The souls of your ancestors still live in the bosoms of their descendants ; and rather than submit this fair land of their inheritance to ravage and dishonor , from hoary age to ...
... scenes are never to be witnessed by American eyes . The souls of your ancestors still live in the bosoms of their descendants ; and rather than submit this fair land of their inheritance to ravage and dishonor , from hoary age to ...
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... scenes of liberty and peace . The clamors of war will cease under the whole heaven . The tree of liberty will shoot its top up to the sun . Its boughs will hang over the ends of the whole world , and wearied nations will lie down and ...
... scenes of liberty and peace . The clamors of war will cease under the whole heaven . The tree of liberty will shoot its top up to the sun . Its boughs will hang over the ends of the whole world , and wearied nations will lie down and ...
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... scenes into which the advocates for disunion would conduct you . Hearken not to the unnatural voice which tells you that the people of America , knit together as they are by so many cords of affection , can no longer live together as ...
... scenes into which the advocates for disunion would conduct you . Hearken not to the unnatural voice which tells you that the people of America , knit together as they are by so many cords of affection , can no longer live together as ...
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