Wiley's Elocution and Oratory: Giving a Thorough Treatise on the Art of Reading and Speaking. Containing Numerous and Choice Selections of Didactic, Humorous, and Dramatic Styles, from the Most Celebrated Authors ... |
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... dread , and inward horror , Of falling into nought ? Why shrinks the soul Back on herself , and startles at destruction ? ' Tis the Divinity that stirs within us : " T is Heaven itself that points out an hereafter , And intimates ...
... dread , and inward horror , Of falling into nought ? Why shrinks the soul Back on herself , and startles at destruction ? ' Tis the Divinity that stirs within us : " T is Heaven itself that points out an hereafter , And intimates ...
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... dread immensity ! Thy voice is like the thunder , and thy sleep Is as a giant's slumber , loud and deep . I love to wander on thy pebbled beach , Marking the sunlight at the evening hour , And hearken to the thoughts thy waters teach ...
... dread immensity ! Thy voice is like the thunder , and thy sleep Is as a giant's slumber , loud and deep . I love to wander on thy pebbled beach , Marking the sunlight at the evening hour , And hearken to the thoughts thy waters teach ...
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... dread and fear of kings ; But mercy - is above this sceptered sway , It is enthroned - in the hearts of kings , It is an attribute to God himself : And earthly power - doth then show likest God's , When mercy - seasons justice . 25 ...
... dread and fear of kings ; But mercy - is above this sceptered sway , It is enthroned - in the hearts of kings , It is an attribute to God himself : And earthly power - doth then show likest God's , When mercy - seasons justice . 25 ...
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... dread existence shows ; - Blind to thyself , ah , see Him , fool , in these ! XXXI . - STORY OF LOGAN , A MINGO CHIEF . 1. In the spring of the year 1774 , a robbery and mur- der were committed on an inhabitant of the frontiers of ...
... dread existence shows ; - Blind to thyself , ah , see Him , fool , in these ! XXXI . - STORY OF LOGAN , A MINGO CHIEF . 1. In the spring of the year 1774 , a robbery and mur- der were committed on an inhabitant of the frontiers of ...
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... dread eternity ! How surely mine ! And can eternity belong to me , Poor pensioner on the bounties of an hour ? How poor , how rich , how abject , how august , How complicate , how wonderful , is man ! How passing wonder He who made him ...
... dread eternity ! How surely mine ! And can eternity belong to me , Poor pensioner on the bounties of an hour ? How poor , how rich , how abject , how august , How complicate , how wonderful , is man ! How passing wonder He who made him ...
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Page 106 - And saw within the moonlight in his room, Making it rich, and like a lily in bloom, An angel writing in a book of gold. Exceeding peace had made Ben Adhem bold, And to the presence in the room he said, "What writest thou?" The vision raised its head, And with a look made of all sweet accord, Answered, "The names of those who love the Lord." "And is mine one?" said Abou. "Nay, not so,
Page 93 - ... When my eyes shall be turned to behold for the last time the sun in heaven, may I not see him shining on the broken and dishonored fragments of a once glorious Union ; on States dissevered, discordant, belligerent; on a land rent with civil feuds, or drenched, it may be, in fraternal blood ! Let their last feeble and lingering glance, rather, behold the gorgeous ensign of the Republic, now known and honored throughout the earth, still full high advanced, its arms and trophies streaming in their...
Page 156 - As a sick girl. Ye gods, it doth amaze me A man of such a feeble temper should So get the start of the majestic world And bear the palm alone. 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 55 - If a Jew wrong a Christian, what is his humility ? revenge : If a Christian wrong a Jew, what should his sufferance be by Christian example ? why, revenge. The villainy, you teach me, I will execute; and it shall go hard, but I will better the instruction.
Page 172 - But he lay like a warrior taking his rest With his martial cloak around him. Few and short were the prayers...
Page 198 - tis a consummation Devoutly to be wish'd. To die, to sleep; To sleep: perchance to dream: ay, there's the rub: For in that sleep of death what dreams may come When we have shuffled off this mortal coil...
Page 301 - One-eighth of the whole population were colored slaves, not distributed generally over the Union but localized in the southern part of it. These slaves constituted a peculiar and powerful interest. All knew that this interest was somehow the cause of the war.
Page 301 - Both parties deprecated war, but one of them would make war rather than let the nation survive, and the other would accept war rather than let it perish. And the war came.
Page 284 - 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 285 - This I sat engaged in guessing, but no syllable expressing To the fowl whose fiery eyes now burned into my bosom's core; This and more I sat divining, with my head at ease reclining On the cushion's velvet lining that the lamp-light gloated o'er, But whose velvet violet lining, with the lamp-light gloating o'er, She shall press, ah, nevermore! Then, methought, the air grew denser, perfumed from an unseen censer Swung by seraphim whose footfalls tinkled on the tufted floor. "Wretch!