The American Union Speaker: Containing Standard and Recent Selections in Prose and Poetry : for Recitation and Declamation, in Schools, Academies and Colleges : with Introductory Remarks on Elocution, and Explanatory Notes |
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... civil discords ; what disputed succession ; what religious zeal ; what fabled monster has stalked abroad , and , with malice and mortal enmity to man , withered by the grasp of death every growth of nature and humanity , all means of ...
... civil discords ; what disputed succession ; what religious zeal ; what fabled monster has stalked abroad , and , with malice and mortal enmity to man , withered by the grasp of death every growth of nature and humanity , all means of ...
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... civil obedience . For such a people the sword , the law of violence , did and could do nothing but sever the bonds which bound her colonial wards to their unnatural guardian . They redeemed their pledge , sword in hand ; but the sword ...
... civil obedience . For such a people the sword , the law of violence , did and could do nothing but sever the bonds which bound her colonial wards to their unnatural guardian . They redeemed their pledge , sword in hand ; but the sword ...
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... civil liber- ties , to our prosperity , happiness , and improvement . If , indeed , we desire to behold a literature like that which has sculptured with so much energy of expression , which has painted so faithfully and vividly , the ...
... civil liber- ties , to our prosperity , happiness , and improvement . If , indeed , we desire to behold a literature like that which has sculptured with so much energy of expression , which has painted so faithfully and vividly , the ...
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... civil war it might survive for refuge and de- fence ! R. Choate . BUT - XXV . THE CITY OF OUR LIBERTY . - UT now that our service of commemoration is ended , let us go hence and meditate on all that it has taught us . You see how long ...
... civil war it might survive for refuge and de- fence ! R. Choate . BUT - XXV . THE CITY OF OUR LIBERTY . - UT now that our service of commemoration is ended , let us go hence and meditate on all that it has taught us . You see how long ...
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... civil war , observes , " How long did he pause upon the brink of the Rubicon ! " How came he to the brink of that river ? How dared he cross it ? Shall private men respect the boundaries of private property , and shall a man pay no ...
... civil war , observes , " How long did he pause upon the brink of the Rubicon ! " How came he to the brink of that river ? How dared he cross it ? Shall private men respect the boundaries of private property , and shall a man pay no ...
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Aaron Burr ambition American arms battle battle of Rocroi beneath Bingen blessings blood bosom brave breath brow Cæsar character common crime dare dark dead death deep Demosthenes earth eloquence England Erin go bragh eternal falchion fame fathers fear feel fire freedom genius give glorious glory grave hallowed ground hand hath hear heard heart Heaven honor hope hour human immortal Ireland justice king labor land liberty light live look Lord Lord Brougham mighty mind N. P. Willis nation never noble o'er ocean passion patriotism pause peace proud R. B. Sheridan rise Rome sacred shore slavery slaves soul sound South Carolina speak spirit stand Star-Spangled Banner stood sweet sword tears tell thee thou thought thousand throne thunder tion toil Union utterance victory virtue voice wave Webster words
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Page 205 - O'er the ramparts we watched, were so gallantly streaming! And the rockets' red glare, the bombs bursting in air, Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there: O say, does that star-spangled banner yet wave O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave?
Page 330 - Dark-heaving; boundless, endless, and sublime — The image of Eternity — the throne Of the Invisible ; even from out thy slime The monsters of the deep are made; each zone Obeys thee ; thou goest forth, dread, fathomless, alone.
Page 175 - Be not too tame, neither, but let your own discretion be your tutor; suit the action to the word, the word to the action; with this special observance, that you o'erstep not the modesty of nature; for anything so overdone is from the purpose of playing, whose end, both at the first and now, was and is to hold, as 'twere, the mirror up to nature; to show virtue her own feature, scorn her own image, and the very age and body of the time his form and pressure.
Page 251 - Workmen wrought thy ribs of steel, Who made each mast, and sail, and rope, What anvils rang, what hammers beat, In what a forge, and what a heat Were shaped the anchors of thy hope!
Page 242 - With fingers weary and worn, With eyelids heavy and red, A woman sat, in unwomanly rags, Plying her needle and thread — Stitch — stitch — stitch ! In poverty, hunger, and dirt, And still with a voice of dolorous pitch, — Would that its tone could reach the Rich ! She sang this " Song of the Shirt !
Page 343 - tis not to me she speaks: Two of the fairest stars in all the heaven, Having some business, do entreat her eyes To twinkle in their spheres, till they return. What if her eyes were there, they in her head; The brightness of her cheek would shame those stars, As daylight doth a lamp; her eye in heaven Would through the airy region stream so bright, That birds would sing, and think it were not night. See, how she leans her cheek upon her hand! O, that I were a glove upon that hand, That I might touch...
Page 309 - Strike — till the last armed foe expires; Strike — for your altars and your fires; Strike — for the green graves of your sires; God — and your native land!
Page 208 - Hear the sledges with the bells — Silver bells! What a world of merriment their melody foretells! How they tinkle, tinkle, tinkle, In the icy air of night! While the stars that oversprinkle All the heavens, seem to twinkle With a crystalline delight...
Page 43 - 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; but there is no peace.
Page 214 - thing of evil!— prophet still, if bird or devil! By that Heaven that bends above us— by that God we both adore — Tell this soul with sorrow laden if, within the distant Aidenn, It shall clasp a sainted maiden whom the angels name Lenore— Clasp a rare and radiant maiden whom the angels name Lenore.