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... spirit of the author . After that commit it to memory . Make the language , word for word , and the sentiment throughout wholly your own . III . Repeat the piece aloud , frequently , giving the proper sound of every letter , syllable ...
... spirit of the author . After that commit it to memory . Make the language , word for word , and the sentiment throughout wholly your own . III . Repeat the piece aloud , frequently , giving the proper sound of every letter , syllable ...
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... spirit of any piece will be best understood by a careful study of the circumstances under which it was originally produced . PROSE SELECTIONS . } THE AMERICAN POPULAR SPEAKER . PROSE X PRACTICAL INSTRUCTIONS . Against Catiline ...
... spirit of any piece will be best understood by a careful study of the circumstances under which it was originally produced . PROSE SELECTIONS . } THE AMERICAN POPULAR SPEAKER . PROSE X PRACTICAL INSTRUCTIONS . Against Catiline ...
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... spirits of our father - land , they who guided the councils of England in her career of prosperity and glory , whose eloquence was the admiration of their contemporaries , as it will be of posterity , were deeply imbued with classical ...
... spirits of our father - land , they who guided the councils of England in her career of prosperity and glory , whose eloquence was the admiration of their contemporaries , as it will be of posterity , were deeply imbued with classical ...
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... spirit I which it contains . The material part of language is learnt instinctively , and practice makes us feel and seize its delicacies and shades . The understanding , then , which sees rightly and conceives clearly , and the heart ...
... spirit I which it contains . The material part of language is learnt instinctively , and practice makes us feel and seize its delicacies and shades . The understanding , then , which sees rightly and conceives clearly , and the heart ...
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... spirits of which we read , it overcomes him , and leads him whithersoever it will . He feels it beating at his heart , rising to his throat , and demanding disclosure . He thinks the whole world sees it in his face , reads it in his ...
... spirits of which we read , it overcomes him , and leads him whithersoever it will . He feels it beating at his heart , rising to his throat , and demanding disclosure . He thinks the whole world sees it in his face , reads it in his ...
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The American Popular Speaker: Designed for the Use of Schools, Lyceums ... Josiah Rhinehart Sypher No preview available - 2015 |
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American arms beautiful snow behold bells beneath bill of rights Bingen bless blood brave breath Brutus built by blood Cæsar Catiline Christian constitution crime dare darkness dead death Demosthenes dread dream dying earth eloquence Elsie England father feel freedom friends genius glorious glory graptolites grave Greece hand happy hath hear heard heart heaven helmet of Navarre Henry of Navarre holy honor hope human immortal intemperance justice land liberty light live Lochinvar look Lord maddening bowl mighty mind moral morning nation native fastnesses never Nevermore night noble o'er oppression patriotism proud Quoth the Raven religion Ring Rome Senate sentiment Shamus soul speak spirit stand stars sword tears tell thee things thou thought thousand tion truth unto virtue voice wave word young
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Page 263 - All the world's a stage, And all the men and women merely players : They have their exits and their entrances ; And one man in his time plays many parts, His acts being seven ages. At first the infant, Mewling and puking in the nurse's arms.
Page 287 - 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.
Page 263 - And Ardennes waves above them her green leaves, Dewy with nature's tear-drops as they pass, Grieving, if aught inanimate e'er grieves, Over the unreturning brave, - alas! Ere evening to be trodden like the grass...
Page 245 - Then this ebony bird beguiling my sad fancy into smiling, By the grave and stern decorum of the countenance it wore, "Though thy crest be shorn and shaven, thou," I said, "art sure no craven, Ghastly grim and ancient raven wandering from the Nightly shore, Tell me what thy lordly name is on the Night's Plutonian shore ! " Quoth the raven,
Page 262 - twas but the wind, Or the car rattling o'er the stony street; On with the dance! let joy be unconfined; No sleep till morn, when Youth and Pleasure meet To chase the glowing Hours with flying feet But hark!
Page 179 - In the world's broad field of battle, In the bivouac of Life, Be not like dumb, driven cattle! Be a hero in the strife!
Page 246 - Nevermore." "Prophet!" said I, "thing of evil! prophet still, if bird or devil! Whether Tempter sent, or whether tempest tossed thee here ashore, Desolate, yet all undaunted, on this desert land enchanted — On this home by Horror haunted — tell me truly, I implore: Is there — is there balm in Gilead? — tell me — tell me, I implore!
Page 182 - 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. The noble Brutus Hath told you Caesar was ambitious : If it were so, it was a grievous fault ; And grievously hath Caesar answered it.
Page 183 - Nervii. Look, in this place ran Cassius' dagger through; See what a rent the envious Casca made; Through this the well-beloved Brutus...
Page 76 - 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 Caesar's, to him I say, that Brutus' love to Caesar was no less than his.