Knowles' Elocutionist: A First-class Rhetorical Reader and Recitation Book, Containing the Only Essential Principles of Elocution, Directions for Managing the Voice, Etc., Simplified and Expanded on a Novel Plan, with Numerous Pieces for Reading and Declamation, Designed for the Use of Schools and CollegesC.J. Riker, 1847 - 322 páginas |
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... battle or in council , was as per- fect as might be expected from this pure and steady tem- per of soul . A perfect just man , with a thoroughly firm resolution never to be misled by others , any more than to be by others overawed ...
... battle or in council , was as per- fect as might be expected from this pure and steady tem- per of soul . A perfect just man , with a thoroughly firm resolution never to be misled by others , any more than to be by others overawed ...
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... this world's broad field of battle- In the bivouac of life , Be not like dumb , driven cattle ; Be a hero in the strife ! Trust no Future , howe'er pleasant ; Let the dead D2 PIECES FOR READING AND DECLAMATION . 111 H W LONGFELLOW.
... this world's broad field of battle- In the bivouac of life , Be not like dumb , driven cattle ; Be a hero in the strife ! Trust no Future , howe'er pleasant ; Let the dead D2 PIECES FOR READING AND DECLAMATION . 111 H W LONGFELLOW.
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... battle of Cressy , laid siege to Calais . He had fortified his camp in so impregnable a manner , that all the efforts of France proved ineffectual to raise the siege , or throw succours into the city . The citi- zens , under Count ...
... battle of Cressy , laid siege to Calais . He had fortified his camp in so impregnable a manner , that all the efforts of France proved ineffectual to raise the siege , or throw succours into the city . The citi- zens , under Count ...
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... battle . These fanatics brought to civil and military affairs a coolness of judgment and an immutability of purpose , which some writers have thought inconsistent with their religious zeal , but which were in fact the necessary effects ...
... battle . These fanatics brought to civil and military affairs a coolness of judgment and an immutability of purpose , which some writers have thought inconsistent with their religious zeal , but which were in fact the necessary effects ...
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... battle - shout , And burst the cannon's roar ; The meteor of the ocean air Shall sweep the clouds no more ! Her deck , once red with heroes ' blood , Where knelt the vanquish'd foe , When winds were hurrying o'er the flood , And waves ...
... battle - shout , And burst the cannon's roar ; The meteor of the ocean air Shall sweep the clouds no more ! Her deck , once red with heroes ' blood , Where knelt the vanquish'd foe , When winds were hurrying o'er the flood , And waves ...
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Términos y frases comunes
admiration Agasias of Ephesus America arms art thou battle beauty beneath bless blood breath Brutus Cæsar Calais calm character child dark dead death deep Demosthenes dream dust earth eloquence eternal fall fame father fear feel flame give glorious glory grave Greece grey plover hand hath heard heart heaven honour hope hour human inflection king land Legaré LESSON liberty Lictors light live Lochiel look Lord Lord Byron mankind Mauny ment mighty mind mystic tide nature never night noble o'er ocean passed passion peace pride proud Pythias realms of passion rise Rome round sacred scorn shore silent slave smile soul speak spirit stand stars sweet Swells Ocean sword tears tell thee thine thing thou art thought thousand throne tion tomb truth virtue voice waves words youth
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Página 251 - 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...
Página 148 - And there lay the steed with his nostril all wide, But through it there roll'd not the breath of his pride : And the foam of his gasping lay white on the turf, And cold as the spray of the rock-beating surf. And there lay the rider distorted and pale, With the dew on his brow, and the rust on his mail ; And the tents were all silent, the banners alone, The lances unlifted, the trumpet unblown.
Página 125 - The applause of listening senates to command, The threats of pain and ruin to despise, To scatter plenty o'er a smiling land, And read their history in a nation's eyes...
Página 244 - Equal and exact justice to all men, of whatever state or persuasion, religious or political: peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none: the support of the State governments in all their rights, as the most competent administrations for our domestic concerns, and the surest bulwarks against anti-republican tendencies...
Página 243 - If there be any among us who would wish to dissolve this Union or to change its republican form, let them stand undisturbed as monuments of the safety with which error of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it.
Página 72 - Ask yourselves how this gracious reception of our petition comports with those warlike preparations which cover our waters and darken our land. Are fleets and armies necessary to a work of love and reconciliation? Have we shown ourselves so unwilling to be reconciled that force must be called in to win back our love ? Let us not deceive ourselves, sir.
Página 250 - 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.
Página 148 - Arve and Arveiron at thy base Rave ceaselessly ; but thou, most awful form, Risest from forth thy silent sea of pines, How silently ! Around thee and above Deep is the air and dark, substantial, black, An ebon mass : methinks thou piercest it, As with a wedge ! But when I look again, It is thine own calm home, thy crystal shrine, Thy habitation from eternity ! 0 dread and silent mount ! I gazed upon thee, Till thou, still present to the bodily sense, Didst vanish from my thought : entranced in prayer,...
Página 109 - And God set them in the firmament of heaven to give light upon the earth, And to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness: and God saw that it was good. And the evening and the morning were the fourth day.
Página 249 - As Caesar loved me, I weep for him; as he was fortunate, I rejoice at it; as he was valiant, I honour him; but, as he was ambitious, I slew him.