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The Pleasures of Hope: With Other Poems - Page 18
by Thomas Campbell - 1804 - 160 pages
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An Essay on Elocution: With Elucidatory Passages from Various Authors to ...

John Hanbury Dwyer - Elocution - 1860 - 372 pages
...storm; Low, murmuring sounds along their banners fly, Revenge, or death, — the watchword and repjy; Then peal'd the notes, omnipotent to charm, And the...alas! in vain, ye gallant few! From rank to rank your vollcy'd thunder fic» : — Oh bloodiest picture in the Book of Time, Sarmatia fell, unwept, without...
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The New Speaker. With an Essay on Elocution

John Connery - Elocution - 1861 - 416 pages
...but dreadful as the storm ! Low, murmuring sounds along their banners fly, Revenge or death— -the watchword and reply; Then peal'd the notes, omnipotent...: — Oh ! bloodiest picture in the book of time, Samartia fell, unwept, without a crime, Found not a generous friend, a pitying foe, Strength in her...
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Gleanings from the English poets, Chaucer to Tennyson, with biogr. notices ...

English poets - 1862 - 626 pages
...but dreadful as the storm; Low murmuring sounds along their banners fly, Revenge, or Death, — the watchword and reply; Then peal'd the notes, omnipotent...alas! in vain, ye gallant few ! From rank to rank your volley' d thunder flew: — Oh, bloodiest picture in the book of Time, Sarmatia fell, unwept, without...
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The Standard Speaker: Containing Exercises in Prose and Poetry for ...

Epes Sargent - Elocution - 1862 - 564 pages
...— the watchword and reply ; Then pealed the notes, omnipotent to charm, And the loud tocsin tolled their last alarm ! In vain, alas ! in vain, ye gallant few ! From rank to rank your volleyed thunder flew ;— 0 ! bloodiest picture in the book of Time, Sarmatia fell, unwept, without...
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The Sixth Reader: Consisting of Extracts in Prose and Verse, with ...

George Stillman Hillard - Elocution - 1863 - 530 pages
...murmuring sounds along their banners fly, 10 Revenge, or death, — the watchword and reply; Then pcal'd the notes, omnipotent to charm, And the loud tocsin...few ! From rank to rank your volley'd thunder flew ; — 150, bloodiest picture in the book of Time, Sarmatia fell, unwept, without a crime ; Found not...
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Grammar of English grammars; or Advanced manual of English grammar and language

Jacob Lowres - 1863 - 338 pages
...breeze, but dreadful as the storm; Low murmuring sounds along their banners ', Revenge or death — the watchword and reply; Then peal'd the notes, omnipotent...charm, And the loud tocsin toll'd their last alarm ! ' — Campbell. EXERCISE 2. Supply one necessary word in each of the following sentences. Your remark...
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The Sixth Reader: Consisting of Extracts in Prose and Verse, with ...

George Stillman Hillard - Elocution - 1863 - 528 pages
...death, — the watchword and reply; Then pcal'd the notes, omnipotent to charm, And the loud toesin toll'd their last alarm ! — In vain, alas ! in vain, ye gallant few ! From rank to rank your volley' d thunder flew: — 15 O, bloodiest picture in the book of Time, Sarmatia fell, unwept, without...
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The advanced reader

Scottish school-book assoc - 1863 - 438 pages
...death,—the watchword and reply: Then pealed the notes1 omnipotent to charm, And the loud tocsin1 tolled their last alarm!— In vain, alas! in vain, ye gallant few! From rank to rank 1 your volleyed thunder 1 flew;— Oh! bloodiest picture1 in the book of Time, Sarmatia 1 fell, unwept,...
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The National Fifth Reader: Containing a Treatise on Elocution, Exercises in ...

Richard Green Parker, James Madison Watson - Readers (Elementary) - 1863 - 614 pages
...murmuring sounds along theii banners fly, Ucvengc or death ! — the watchword and reply : Then pcal'd the notes omnipotent to charm, And the loud tocsin toll'd their last alarm. 4. In vain, alas ! in vain, ye gallant few ! Sarmatia1 fell, unwept, without a crime ! Found not a...
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Foliorum silvula, selections for translation into Latin and Greek ..., Volume 2

Hubert Ashton Holden - 1864 - 692 pages
...murmuring sounds along their banners fly, revenge, or death, — the watch-word and reply; then pcal'd the notes, omnipotent to charm, and the loud tocsin...few! from rank to rank your volley'd thunder flew: — O, bloodiest picture in the book of Time, Sarmatia fell, unwept, without a crime; found not a generous...
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