The illustrated public school speaker and reader based on grammatical analysis: a selection of pieces, by A.K. Isbister1870 - Oratory - 382 pages |
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... Cato , Sempronius , and Lucius Scene from The Critic ' The Rivals Shakspeare Shakspeare Shakspeare Shakspeare Lytton . · • • • PAGE 224 • 225 228 . 228 231 · Chatham 232 Thurlow 233 • Chatham 234 Grattan . • 236 Webster 237 Brougham ...
... Cato , Sempronius , and Lucius Scene from The Critic ' The Rivals Shakspeare Shakspeare Shakspeare Shakspeare Lytton . · • • • PAGE 224 • 225 228 . 228 231 · Chatham 232 Thurlow 233 • Chatham 234 Grattan . • 236 Webster 237 Brougham ...
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... Cato firm , like Aristides just , Like rigid Cincinnatus nobly poor , - A dauntless soul erect , who smiled on death . Frugal and wise , a Walsingham is thine ; A Drake , who made thee mistress of the deep , And bore thy name in thunder ...
... Cato firm , like Aristides just , Like rigid Cincinnatus nobly poor , - A dauntless soul erect , who smiled on death . Frugal and wise , a Walsingham is thine ; A Drake , who made thee mistress of the deep , And bore thy name in thunder ...
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... Cato , Sempronius , and Lucius . Cato . Fathers , we once again are met in council . Cæsar's approach has summoned us together , And Rome attends her fate from our resolves . How shall we treat this bold , aspiring man ? Success still ...
... Cato , Sempronius , and Lucius . Cato . Fathers , we once again are met in council . Cæsar's approach has summoned us together , And Rome attends her fate from our resolves . How shall we treat this bold , aspiring man ? Success still ...
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... Cato . Let not a torrent of impetuous zeal Transport thee thus beyond the bounds of reason : True fortitude is seen in great exploits That justice warrants , and that wisdom guides : All else is towering phrenzy and distraction . Are ...
... Cato . Let not a torrent of impetuous zeal Transport thee thus beyond the bounds of reason : True fortitude is seen in great exploits That justice warrants , and that wisdom guides : All else is towering phrenzy and distraction . Are ...
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... Cato send this answer back to Cæsar , For all his generous cares , and proffered friendship ? Cato . His cares for me are insolent and vain : Presumptuous man ! The gods take care of Cato . Would Cæsar show the greatness of his soul ...
... Cato send this answer back to Cæsar , For all his generous cares , and proffered friendship ? Cato . His cares for me are insolent and vain : Presumptuous man ! The gods take care of Cato . Would Cæsar show the greatness of his soul ...
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Page 191 - 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,
Page 55 - What writest thou?" The vision raised its head, And with a look made of all sweet accord, Answered, "The names of those who love the Lord.
Page 159 - 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...
Page 156 - By the struggling moonbeam's misty light, And the lantern dimly burning. No useless coffin enclosed his breast, Not in sheet nor in shroud we wound him; But he lay like a warrior taking his rest, With his martial cloak around him.
Page 159 - Ere evening to be trodden like the grass Which now beneath them, but above shall grow In its next verdure, when this fiery mass Of living valour, rolling on the foe And burning with high hope, shall moulder cold and low.
Page 72 - Hear the tolling of the bells — Iron bells! What a world of solemn thought their monody compels) In the silence of the night, How we shiver with affright, At the melancholy menace of their tone! For every sound that floats From the rust within their throats Is a groan.
Page 217 - 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...
Page 250 - I could weep My spirit from mine eyes ! There is my dagger, And here my naked breast ; within, a heart Dearer than Plutus' mine, richer than gold ; If that thou be'st a Roman, take it forth ; I, that denied thee gold, will give my heart ; Strike, as thou didst at Caesar ; for I know, When thou didst hate him worst, thou lovedst him better Than ever thou lovedst Cassius.
Page 179 - THE isles of Greece, the isles of Greece, Where burning Sappho loved and sung, Where grew the arts of war and peace, Where Delos rose and Phoebus sprung! Eternal summer gilds them yet, But all, except their sun, is set. The Scian and the Teian muse, The hero's harp, the lover's lute, Have found the fame your shores refuse; Their place of birth alone is mute To sounds which echo further west Than your sires
Page 53 - Power whose care Teaches thy way along that pathless coast, — The desert and illimitable air, — Lone wandering, but not lost. All day thy wings have fanned, At that far height, the cold thin atmosphere, Yet stoop not, weary, to the welcome land, Though the dark night is near. And soon that toil shall end ; Soon shalt thou find a summer home and rest, And scream among thy fellows ; reeds shall bend, Soon, o'er thy sheltered nest.