The American Union Speaker: Containing Standard and Recent Selections in Prose and Poetry, for Recitation and Declamation, in Schools, Academies and Colleges. With Introductory Remarks on Elocution, and Explanatory Notes |
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... Cause for Indian Resentment . 53. Speech on the British Treaty . 54. Speech against a Libeller . 55. New England and the Union . 56. On sending Relief to Ireland . 57. The New England Common School . 58. Christianity the Source of ...
... Cause for Indian Resentment . 53. Speech on the British Treaty . 54. Speech against a Libeller . 55. New England and the Union . 56. On sending Relief to Ireland . 57. The New England Common School . 58. Christianity the Source of ...
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... Cause ..... 257. The Assault on Charles Sumner .. 258. Strength of the Government ... 259. The Higher Law .... 260. " Step to the Captain's Office and Settle " . 261. The Murder of the Soul .... 262. Judicial Tribunals . 263. The ...
... Cause ..... 257. The Assault on Charles Sumner .. 258. Strength of the Government ... 259. The Higher Law .... 260. " Step to the Captain's Office and Settle " . 261. The Murder of the Soul .... 262. Judicial Tribunals . 263. The ...
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... cause of much of the bronchial disease with which clergymen and other public speak- ers are afflicted . In the excellent work on Elocution , by Russell and Murdock , the following exercises in breathing are prescribed and explained ...
... cause of much of the bronchial disease with which clergymen and other public speak- ers are afflicted . In the excellent work on Elocution , by Russell and Murdock , the following exercises in breathing are prescribed and explained ...
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... caused by the due proportion of nasal effect , and the softening and sweetening influence of the head and mouth ... causes and remedies . To this negative process must be added the positive , namely - attention to the due and ...
... caused by the due proportion of nasal effect , and the softening and sweetening influence of the head and mouth ... causes and remedies . To this negative process must be added the positive , namely - attention to the due and ...
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... cause we are animated , but not try to appear animated by moving the arms . The countenance , especially the eye , should be made to speak as well as the tongue . It is said of Chatham , that such was the power of his eye , that he very ...
... cause we are animated , but not try to appear animated by moving the arms . The countenance , especially the eye , should be made to speak as well as the tongue . It is said of Chatham , that such was the power of his eye , that he very ...
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ambition American arms banner battle battle of Rocroi beneath Bingen blessings blood bosom brave breath brow Brutus Cæsar character civil Constitution dare dark dead death deep Demosthenes duty earth elocution eloquence England Erin go bragh eternal falchion fathers fear feel fire freedom give glorious glory grave Greece hallowed ground hand hath hear heard heart heaven honor hope hour human justice king labor land liberty light live Lochinvar look Lords Massachusetts mighty mind nation never Nevermore noble numbers o'er passion patriotism peace proud R. B. Sheridan R. H. Dana rise Rome sacred secession shore silent slavery slaves sleep soul sound South Carolina speak spirit stand stars stood sweet sword tears tell thee thou thought thousand throne thunder tion Union utterance victory virtue voice wave Webster words
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Page 321 - Not a drum was heard, not a funeral note, As his corse to the rampart we hurried ; Not a soldier discharged his farewell shot O'er the grave where our hero we buried. We buried him darkly at dead of night, The sods with our bayonets turning ; By the struggling moonbeam's misty light And the lantern dimly burning.
Page 211 - O'er the ramparts we watched, were so gallantly streaming! And the rockets' red glare, the bombs bursting in air, Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there: O say, does that star-spangled banner yet wave O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave?
Page 254 - Lives of great men all remind us We can make our lives sublime, And, departing, leave behind us, Footprints on the sands of time; Footprints, that perhaps another, Sailing o'er life's solemn main, A forlorn and shipwrecked brother, Seeing, shall take heart again.
Page 221 - Eske river where ford there was none; But, ere he alighted at Netherby gate, The bride had consented, the gallant came late; For a laggard in love, and a dastard in war, Was to wed the fair Ellen of brave Lochinvar. So boldly he entered the Netherby Hall, Among bridesmen, and kinsmen, and brothers, and all.
Page 342 - But yesterday the word of Caesar might Have stood against the world ; now lies he there, And none so poor to do him reverence. 0 masters, if I were disposed to stir Your hearts and minds to mutiny and rage, 1 should do Brutus wrong, and Cassius wrong, Who, you all know, are...
Page 335 - Roll on, thou deep and dark blue ocean, roll! Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain ; Man marks the earth with ruin — his control Stops with the shore ; upon the watery plain The wrecks are all thy deed, nor doth remain A shadow of man's ravage, save his own, When, for a moment, like a drop of rain, He sinks into thy depths with bubbling groan, Without a grave, unknelled, uncoffined and unknown.
Page 218 - But the raven, sitting lonely on the placid bust, spoke only That one word, as if his soul in that one word he did outpour. Nothing further then he uttered - not a feather then he fluttered Till I scarcely more than muttered, 'Other friends have flown before On the morrow he will leave me, as my hopes have flown before.
Page 342 - tis his will : Let but the commons hear this testament, (Which, pardon me, I do not mean to read) And they would go and kiss dead Caesar's wounds, And dip their napkins in his sacred blood ; Yea, beg a hair of him for memory, And, dying, mention it within their wills, Bequeathing it, as a rich legacy, Unto their issue.
Page 397 - Who hath measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, and meted out heaven with the span, and comprehended the dust of the earth in a measure, and weighed the mountains in scales, and the hills in a balance?
Page 220 - BREATHES there the man, with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my native land ? Whose heart hath ne'er within him burned, As home his footsteps he hath turned From wandering on a foreign strand ? If such there breathe, go, mark him well...