The Standard Speaker: Containing Exercises in Prose and Poetry for Declamation in Schools, Academies, Lyceums, Colleges: Newly Tr. Or Comp. from Celebrated Orators, Authors, and Popular Debaters, Ancient and Modern. A Treatise on Oratory and Elocution. Notes Explanatory and BiographicalThomas, Cowperthwait & Company, 1852 - 558 Seiten |
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... eternal Jove , When guilt brings down the thunder , called aloud On Tully's name , and shook his crimson steel , And bade the father of his country hail ? For lo ! the tyrant prostrate in the dust , And Rome again is free ! 7. THE TRUE ...
... eternal Jove , When guilt brings down the thunder , called aloud On Tully's name , and shook his crimson steel , And bade the father of his country hail ? For lo ! the tyrant prostrate in the dust , And Rome again is free ! 7. THE TRUE ...
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... eternal hope to the tomb , where Pericles could bring only tributary lamentations and tears . If , with the Roman orator , he commemorates the warrior fallen on the field of battle , he gives to the soul of the departed that immortality ...
... eternal hope to the tomb , where Pericles could bring only tributary lamentations and tears . If , with the Roman orator , he commemorates the warrior fallen on the field of battle , he gives to the soul of the departed that immortality ...
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... Eternal God , who seest the end with the beginning , Thou alone canst tell the ultimate grandeur of this People ! Such , Gentlemen , is the sphere , present and future , in which God calls us to work for Him , for our country , and for ...
... Eternal God , who seest the end with the beginning , Thou alone canst tell the ultimate grandeur of this People ! Such , Gentlemen , is the sphere , present and future , in which God calls us to work for Him , for our country , and for ...
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... eternal city yet remains , proud even in her desolation , noble in her decline , venerable in the majesty of religion , and calm as in the composure of death . The malaria has but travelled in the paths worn by her destroyers . More ...
... eternal city yet remains , proud even in her desolation , noble in her decline , venerable in the majesty of religion , and calm as in the composure of death . The malaria has but travelled in the paths worn by her destroyers . More ...
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... way , Tracks through tempestuous snows his savage prey , Or , wrestling with the might of raging seas , Where round the Pole the eternal billows freeze , Plucks from their jaws the stricken whale , in vain 72 122 THE STANDARD SPEAKER .
... way , Tracks through tempestuous snows his savage prey , Or , wrestling with the might of raging seas , Where round the Pole the eternal billows freeze , Plucks from their jaws the stricken whale , in vain 72 122 THE STANDARD SPEAKER .
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Beliebte Passagen
Seite 63 - That, changed through all, and yet in all the same, Great in the Earth, as in the ethereal frame, Warms in the Sun, refreshes in the breeze, Glows in the stars, and blossoms in the trees, Lives through all life, extends through all extent, Spreads undivided, operates unspent ; Breathes in our soul, informs...