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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... ruin back to him Whose plighted faith in early youth Promised eternal love and truth : 7. But who , foresworn , hath yielded up This promise to the deadly cup , And led down from love and light , From all that made her pathway bright ...
... ruin back to him Whose plighted faith in early youth Promised eternal love and truth : 7. But who , foresworn , hath yielded up This promise to the deadly cup , And led down from love and light , From all that made her pathway bright ...
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... ruin the whole soul . 3. Be careful of your words , as well as of your thoughts . If you can control the tongue , that no improper words be pronounced by it , you will soon be able to control the mind and save it from corruption . You ...
... ruin the whole soul . 3. Be careful of your words , as well as of your thoughts . If you can control the tongue , that no improper words be pronounced by it , you will soon be able to control the mind and save it from corruption . You ...
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... aspire to , That sweet aspect of princes and his ruin , More pangs and fears than wars or women have ; And when he falls , he falls like Lucifer , Never to hope again . 1 . 2 . 3 . 4 . 5 . AND ORATORY . 85 Wolsey's Fall Shakspeare.
... aspire to , That sweet aspect of princes and his ruin , More pangs and fears than wars or women have ; And when he falls , he falls like Lucifer , Never to hope again . 1 . 2 . 3 . 4 . 5 . AND ORATORY . 85 Wolsey's Fall Shakspeare.
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... ruined heart . " A thousand curses on his head Who gave me first the poisoned bowl , Who taught me first this bane to drink— Drink - death and ruin to my soul . My soul ! oh cruel , horrid thought ! Full well I know thy certain fate ...
... ruined heart . " A thousand curses on his head Who gave me first the poisoned bowl , Who taught me first this bane to drink— Drink - death and ruin to my soul . My soul ! oh cruel , horrid thought ! Full well I know thy certain fate ...
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... ruined credit . Under its benign influences , these great interests immediately awoke as from the dead , and sprang forth with newness of life . Every year of its duration has teemed with fresh proof of its utility and its blessings ...
... ruined credit . Under its benign influences , these great interests immediately awoke as from the dead , and sprang forth with newness of life . Every year of its duration has teemed with fresh proof of its utility and its blessings ...
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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!