The Academical Speaker: A Selection of Extracts in Prose and Verse, from Ancient and Modern Authors, Adapted for Exercises in ElocutionBenjamin Dudley Emerson |
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... human race ! If you were hypocrites before , you were downright , frank , honest hypocrites to what you have . now made yourselves - and surely , for all you have ever done or ever been charged with , your worst enemies must be sa ...
... human race ! If you were hypocrites before , you were downright , frank , honest hypocrites to what you have . now made yourselves - and surely , for all you have ever done or ever been charged with , your worst enemies must be sa ...
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... human hearts - to what ? a dream alone . Can despots compass aught that hails their sway ? Or call with truth one span of earth their own , Save that wherein at last they crumble bone by bone ? Ges . DIALOGUE . Gesler and Albert ...
... human hearts - to what ? a dream alone . Can despots compass aught that hails their sway ? Or call with truth one span of earth their own , Save that wherein at last they crumble bone by bone ? Ges . DIALOGUE . Gesler and Albert ...
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... human blood , have been victorious : is that the cause of his disaffection ? He sickens in the midst of prosperity ; he pines at the flour- ishing state of his country ; he deserts the forum ; he threat- ens to abjure his country , and ...
... human blood , have been victorious : is that the cause of his disaffection ? He sickens in the midst of prosperity ; he pines at the flour- ishing state of his country ; he deserts the forum ; he threat- ens to abjure his country , and ...
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... humanity which earth hath ever seen . Never did meekness and genius combine to realize upon the character of man so rare an union ; so that while he stands forth to a wondering species upon the loftiest summit of intellectual elevation ...
... humanity which earth hath ever seen . Never did meekness and genius combine to realize upon the character of man so rare an union ; so that while he stands forth to a wondering species upon the loftiest summit of intellectual elevation ...
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... human knowledge , if their youth had been taught the rudiments , and their life allowed them leisure to prosecute the pursuit of it . The at- tention , that would have been crowned with splendid suc- cesses in the inquiry after truth ...
... human knowledge , if their youth had been taught the rudiments , and their life allowed them leisure to prosecute the pursuit of it . The at- tention , that would have been crowned with splendid suc- cesses in the inquiry after truth ...
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Page 322 - The battle, sir, is not to the strong alone; it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave. Besides, sir, we have no election. If we were base enough to desire it, it is now too late to retire from the contest. There is no retreat but in submission and slavery ! Our chains are forged. Their clanking may be heard on the plains of Boston! The war is inevitable, and let it come! I repeat it, sir, let it come! It is in vain, sir, to extenuate the matter. Gentlemen may cry peace! peace!
Page 278 - When a band of exiles moored their bark On the wild New England shore. Not as the conqueror comes, They, the true-hearted, came; Not with the roll of the stirring drums, And the trumpet that sings of fame. Not as the flying come, In silence and in fear: — They shook the depths of the desert gloom With their hymns of lofty cheer.
Page 150 - Sir, before God, I believe the hour is come. My judgment approves this measure, and my whole heart is in it. All that I have, and all that I am, and all that I hope, in this life, I am now ready here to stake upon it; and I leave off as I began, that live or die, survive or perish, I am for the Declaration. It is my living sentiment, and by the blessing of God it shall be my dying sentiment, Independence now, and Independence forever.
Page 278 - Why had they come to wither there, Away from their childhood's land? There was woman's fearless eye, Lit by her deep love's truth; There was manhood's brow serenely high, And the fiery heart of youth. 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.
Page 213 - Whilst we follow them among the tumbling mountains of ice, and behold them penetrating into the deepest frozen recesses of Hudson's Bay and Davis's Straits ; whilst we are looking for them beneath the arctic circle, we hear that they have pierced into the opposite region of polar cold, that they are at the antipodes, and engaged under the frozen serpent of the south. Falkland Island, which seemed too remote and romantic an object for the grasp of national ambition, is but a stage and resting place...
Page 85 - When my eyes shall be turned to behold for the last time the sun in heaven, may I not see him shining on the broken and dishonored fragments of a once glorious Union; on States dissevered, discordant, belligerent; on a land rent with civil feuds, or drenched, it may be, in fraternal blood!
Page 218 - But, I remember, when the fight was done, When I was dry with rage, and extreme toil, Breathless and faint, leaning upon my sword, Came there a certain lord, neat, trimly dress'd, Fresh as a bridegroom...
Page 242 - Cataracts of declamation thunder here, There forests of no meaning spread the page In which all comprehension wanders lost ; While fields of pleasantry amuse us there, With merry descants on a nation's woes. The rest appears a wilderness of strange But gay confusion, roses for the cheeks And lilies for the brows of faded age, Teeth for the toothless, ringlets for the bald...
Page 79 - THE stately Homes of England, How beautiful they stand! Amidst their tall ancestral trees, O'er all the pleasant land. The deer across their greensward bound, Through shade and sunny gleam, And the swan glides past them with the sound Of some rejoicing stream.
Page 84 - And, sir, where American liberty raised its first voice, and where its youth was nurtured and sustained, there it still lives in the strength of its manhood and full of its original spirit.