The American Orator's Own Book: Or, The Art of Extemporaneous Public Speaking, Including a Course of Discipline for Obtaining the Faculties of Discrimination, Arrangement and Oral Discussion; with a Debate, as an Exercise in Argumentative Declamation; and Numerous Selections for Practice |
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... King of England .. ..N . Biddle 270 .Anonymous 83 Soliloquy of Manfred ....... ..Byron 278 The Utility of Spectacles ; or , Helps to Read .. Byrom 280 The Newcastle Apothecary ... Colman 281 The Monk and the Jew , or the Catholic Con ...
... King of England .. ..N . Biddle 270 .Anonymous 83 Soliloquy of Manfred ....... ..Byron 278 The Utility of Spectacles ; or , Helps to Read .. Byrom 280 The Newcastle Apothecary ... Colman 281 The Monk and the Jew , or the Catholic Con ...
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... kings barburic , pearl and gold , Satan exalted sat ! Or in the following from one of Sheridan's speeches . The hour is not far distant when an awful knell shall tell you that the unburied remains of your revered patriot are passing to ...
... kings barburic , pearl and gold , Satan exalted sat ! Or in the following from one of Sheridan's speeches . The hour is not far distant when an awful knell shall tell you that the unburied remains of your revered patriot are passing to ...
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... kings we lose the conquests gained before , By vain ambition still to make them more ; Each might his several province well command , Would all but stoop to what they understand . In repeating these lines , we shall find it ne- .52 ...
... kings we lose the conquests gained before , By vain ambition still to make them more ; Each might his several province well command , Would all but stoop to what they understand . In repeating these lines , we shall find it ne- .52 ...
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... King ! Father ! Royal Dane ! oh ! answer me ! Eternity ! thou pleasing dreadful thought ! How much vanity is in the pursuits of men ! Live ! live ! ye incomparable pair ! What a noble scene is before us ! How charming is the face of ...
... King ! Father ! Royal Dane ! oh ! answer me ! Eternity ! thou pleasing dreadful thought ! How much vanity is in the pursuits of men ! Live ! live ! ye incomparable pair ! What a noble scene is before us ! How charming is the face of ...
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... king of Sparta , being asked , what things he thought most proper for boys to learn , answered , " Those which they ought to practise when they come to be men . " A wiser than Agesilaus has inculcated the same senti- ment : " Train up a ...
... king of Sparta , being asked , what things he thought most proper for boys to learn , answered , " Those which they ought to practise when they come to be men . " A wiser than Agesilaus has inculcated the same senti- ment : " Train up a ...
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Page 205 - If we were base enough to desire it, it is now too late to retire from the contest. There is no retreat but in submission and slavery ! Our chains are forged. Their clanking may be heard on the plains of Boston ! The war is inevitable — and let it come ! I repeat it, sir, let it come ! It is in vain, sir, to extenuate the matter. Gentlemen may cry peace, peace, — but there is no peace.
Page 213 - 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! - that heavy sound breaks in once more, As if the clouds its echo would repeat; And nearer, clearer, deadlier than before! Arm! Arm! it is - it is - the cannon's opening roar!
Page 325 - When thoughts Of the last bitter hour come like a blight Over thy spirit, and sad images Of the stern agony and shroud and pall And breathless darkness and the narrow house...
Page 183 - Canst thou not minister to a mind diseased ; Pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow ; Raze out the written troubles of the brain ; And, with some sweet, oblivious antidote, Cleanse the stuffed bosom of that perilous stuff, Which weighs upon the heart ? Doct.
Page 214 - Last noon beheld them full of lusty life, Last eve in Beauty's circle proudly gay, The midnight brought the signal-sound of strife, The morn the marshalling in arms, — the day Battle's...
Page 218 - They fought like brave men, long and well; They piled that ground with Moslem slain; They conquered; but Bozzaris fell, Bleeding at every vein. His few surviving comrades saw His smile when rang their proud hurrah, And the red field was won, Then saw in death his eyelids close, Calmly as to a night's repose— Like flowers at set of sun.
Page 217 - At midnight, in his guarded tent, The Turk was dreaming of the hour "When Greece, her knee in suppliance bent, Should tremble at his power ; In dreams, through camp and court, he bore The trophies of a conqueror...
Page 326 - Or lose thyself in the continuous woods Where rolls the Oregon, and hears no sound Save his own dashings — yet the dead are there ! And millions in those solitudes, since first The flight of years began, have laid them down In their last sleep — the dead reign there alone.
Page 218 - But to the hero, when his sword Has won the battle for the free, Thy voice sounds like a prophet's word, And in its hollow tones are heard The thanks of millions yet to be.
Page 221 - I call upon the honour of your lordships to reverence the dignity of your ancestors, and to maintain your own. I call upon the spirit and humanity of my country to vindicate the national character. I invoke the genius of the constitution. From the tapestry that adorns these walls, the immortal ancestor of this noble lord frowns with indignation at the disgrace of his country.