The Model Speaker: Consisting of Exercises in Prose and Poetry. For the Use of Schools, Academies, and Colleges |
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... thousands stood , There had the glad earth drunk their blood , On old Platĉa's day ; And now there breathed that haunted air The sons of sires who conquer'd there , With arm to strike , and soul to dare , As quick , as far , as they ...
... thousands stood , There had the glad earth drunk their blood , On old Platĉa's day ; And now there breathed that haunted air The sons of sires who conquer'd there , With arm to strike , and soul to dare , As quick , as far , as they ...
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... thousand voices rose a shout which rent the air ! The pardon'd soldier understood the tones of jubilee , And , bounding from his fetters , bless'd the hand that made him free ! ' Twas spring . Within a verdant vale , where Warwick's ...
... thousand voices rose a shout which rent the air ! The pardon'd soldier understood the tones of jubilee , And , bounding from his fetters , bless'd the hand that made him free ! ' Twas spring . Within a verdant vale , where Warwick's ...
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... thousands of feet , Till it blends with the filth in the horrible street . - How strange it should be that this beautiful snow Should fall on a sinner with nowhere to go ! How strange it would be , when the night comes again , If the ...
... thousands of feet , Till it blends with the filth in the horrible street . - How strange it should be that this beautiful snow Should fall on a sinner with nowhere to go ! How strange it would be , when the night comes again , If the ...
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... with his stifling breath ; The falling timbers menace him with death ; The sinking floors his hurried step betray ; And ruin crashes round his desperate way . Hot smoke obscures - ten thousand cinders rise- Yet still 72 THE MODEL SPEAKER .
... with his stifling breath ; The falling timbers menace him with death ; The sinking floors his hurried step betray ; And ruin crashes round his desperate way . Hot smoke obscures - ten thousand cinders rise- Yet still 72 THE MODEL SPEAKER .
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... thousand cinders rise- Yet still he staggers forward with his prize . He leaps from burning stair to stair . On ! on ! Courage ! One effort more , and all is won ! ― The stair is passed- the blazing hall is braved ! Still on ! yet on ...
... thousand cinders rise- Yet still he staggers forward with his prize . He leaps from burning stair to stair . On ! on ! Courage ! One effort more , and all is won ! ― The stair is passed- the blazing hall is braved ! Still on ! yet on ...
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Page 259 - Near yonder copse, where once the garden smiled, And still where many a garden flower grows wild ; There, where a few torn shrubs the place disclose, The village preacher's modest mansion rose. A man he was to all the country dear, And passing rich with forty pounds a year; Remote from towns he ran his godly race, Nor e'er had changed, nor wished to change, his place.
Page xvii - WHEN Freedom from her mountain height Unfurled her standard to the air, She tore the azure robe of night, And set the stars of glory there. She mingled with its gorgeous dyes The milky baldric of the skies, And striped its pure celestial white With streakings of the morning light; Then from his mansion in the sun She called her eagle bearer down, And gave into his mighty hand The symbol of her chosen land.
Page 160 - Be not too tame, neither, but let your own discretion be your tutor; suit the action to the word, the word to the action; with this special observance, that you o'erstep not the modesty of nature; for anything so overdone is from the purpose of playing, whose end, both at the first and now, was and is to hold, as '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.
Page 355 - Hear the sledges with the bells Silver bells! What a world of merriment their melody foretells! How they tinkle, tinkle, tinkle, In the icy air of night! While the stars that oversprinkle All the heavens, seem to twinkle With a crystalline delight...
Page 154 - Cameron's gathering" rose! The war-note of Lochiel, which Albyn's hills Have heard, and heard, too, have her Saxon foes: — How in the noon of night that pibroch thrills, Savage and shrill! But with the breath which fills Their mountain-pipe, so fill the mountaineers With the fierce native daring which instils The stirring memory of a thousand years, And Evan's, Donald's fame rings in each clansman's ears!
Page 308 - And then he falls as I do. I have ventur'd, Like little wanton boys that swim on bladders, This many summers in a sea of glory, But far beyond my depth ; my high-blown pride, At length broke under me, and now has left me, Weary and old with service, to the mercy Of a rude stream that must for ever hide me.
Page 152 - 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 ; And thus the native hue of resolution Is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought ; And enterprises of great pith and moment, With this regard their currents turn awry, And lose the name of action.
Page 153 - There was a sound of revelry by night, And Belgium's capital had gathered then Her Beauty and her Chivalry, and bright The lamps shone o'er fair women and brave men ; A thousand hearts beat happily ; and when Music arose with its voluptuous swell, Soft eyes looked love to eyes which spake again, And all went merry as a marriage bell...
Page 150 - 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 honourable 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 240 - What sought they thus afar? Bright jewels of the mine? The wealth of seas, the spoils of war? — They sought a faith's pure shrine. Ay, call it holy ground, — The soil where first they trod! They have left unstained what there they found — Freedom to worship God ! Felicia Hemans.