The American Popular Speaker: Designed for the Use of Schools, Lyceums, Temperance Societies, Etc., EtcPorter & Coates, 1870 - 384 Seiten |
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... Field , JOHN G. WHITTIER , FITZ GREENE HALLECK , ALFRED TENNYSON , JOHN PIERPONT , No Sect in Heaven , E. H. J. CLEVELAND , Nothing but Leaves , Night Before Christmas , The , Night After Christmas , • Old Clock on the Stairs , The ...
... Field , JOHN G. WHITTIER , FITZ GREENE HALLECK , ALFRED TENNYSON , JOHN PIERPONT , No Sect in Heaven , E. H. J. CLEVELAND , Nothing but Leaves , Night Before Christmas , The , Night After Christmas , • Old Clock on the Stairs , The ...
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... field of blood , that the fortune of the day may be decided by the exactness of manual exercise ; and the art of displaying a column or directing a charge may turn the balance of victory , and change the history of the world . The ...
... field of blood , that the fortune of the day may be decided by the exactness of manual exercise ; and the art of displaying a column or directing a charge may turn the balance of victory , and change the history of the world . The ...
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... field of religious and moral victory in the pulpit . THE ORATOR'S GIFT - ABBÉ BAUTAIN . ART may develop and perfect the talent of a speaker , but cannot produce it . The exercises of grammar and of rhetoric will teach a person how to ...
... field of religious and moral victory in the pulpit . THE ORATOR'S GIFT - ABBÉ BAUTAIN . ART may develop and perfect the talent of a speaker , but cannot produce it . The exercises of grammar and of rhetoric will teach a person how to ...
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... fields of literature , and can you not be persuaded to cultivate the sacred as well as the profane ? Is there no flowery height but Helicon , no golden stream but Hermes ? Is there no virtue but in the dreams of Plato , no immortality ...
... fields of literature , and can you not be persuaded to cultivate the sacred as well as the profane ? Is there no flowery height but Helicon , no golden stream but Hermes ? Is there no virtue but in the dreams of Plato , no immortality ...
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... field for the most rational conjecture ! At the end of the very next century , if she pro- ceeds as she seems to promise , what a wondrous spectacle may she not exhibit ! Who shall say for what purpose mysterious Providence may not have ...
... field for the most rational conjecture ! At the end of the very next century , if she pro- ceeds as she seems to promise , what a wondrous spectacle may she not exhibit ! Who shall say for what purpose mysterious Providence may not have ...
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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
American arms beautiful snow behold bells beneath bill of rights Bingen bless blood brave breath Brutus built by blood Cæsar Catiline Christian constitution crime dare darkness dead death Demosthenes dread dream dying earth eloquence Elsie England father feel freedom friends genius glorious glory graptolites grave Greece hand happy hath hear heard heart heaven helmet of Navarre Henry of Navarre holy honor hope human immortal intemperance justice land liberty light live Lochinvar look Lord maddening bowl mighty mind moral morning nation native fastnesses never Nevermore night noble o'er oppression patriotism proud Quoth the Raven religion Ring Rome Senate sentiment Shamus soul speak spirit stand stars sword tears tell thee things thou thought thousand tion truth unto virtue voice wave word young
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 263 - All the world's a stage, And all the men and women merely players : They have their exits and their entrances ; And one man in his time plays many parts, His acts being seven ages. At first the infant, Mewling and puking in the nurse's arms.
Seite 287 - What sought they thus afar? Bright jewels of the mine? The wealth of seas, the spoils of war? — They sought a faith's pure shrine. Ay, call it holy ground, — The soil where first they trod! They have left unstained what there they found — Freedom to worship God ! Felicia Hemans.
Seite 263 - And Ardennes waves above them her green leaves, Dewy with nature's tear-drops as they pass, Grieving, if aught inanimate e'er grieves, Over the unreturning brave, - alas! Ere evening to be trodden like the grass...
Seite 245 - 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,
Seite 262 - 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!
Seite 179 - In the world's broad field of battle, In the bivouac of Life, Be not like dumb, driven cattle! Be a hero in the strife!
Seite 246 - Nevermore." "Prophet!" said I, "thing of evil! prophet still, if bird or devil! Whether Tempter sent, or whether tempest tossed thee here ashore, Desolate, yet all undaunted, on this desert land enchanted — On this home by Horror haunted — tell me truly, I implore: Is there — is there balm in Gilead? — tell me — tell me, I implore!
Seite 182 - Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears ; I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him. The evil that men do lives after them ; The good is oft interred with their bones ; So let it be with Caesar. The noble Brutus Hath told you Caesar was ambitious : If it were so, it was a grievous fault ; And grievously hath Caesar answered it.
Seite 183 - Nervii. Look, in this place ran Cassius' dagger through; See what a rent the envious Casca made; Through this the well-beloved Brutus...
Seite 76 - Romans, countrymen, and lovers! hear me for my cause ; and be silent that you may hear : believe me for mine honour; and have respect to mine honour, that you may believe: censure me in your wisdom; and awake your senses that you may the better judge. If there be any in this assembly, any dear friend of Caesar's, to him I say, that Brutus' love to Caesar was no less than his.