The Book of Oratory: A New Collection of Extracts in Prose, Poetry and Dialogue, Containing Selections from Distinguished American and English Orators, Divines, and Poets |
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... hour of re- freshing sleep , -with regard to those powers , how few surpass their fellow - creatures of common information and moderate at- tainments ! how very few deserve distinction ! how rarely does one attain to eminence ! In ...
... hour of re- freshing sleep , -with regard to those powers , how few surpass their fellow - creatures of common information and moderate at- tainments ! how very few deserve distinction ! how rarely does one attain to eminence ! In ...
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... hour have passed away , to appeal to your own conscience , and ask of it , Was your charge as it ought to be - impartial and indifferent between the subject and the crown ? My lords , you may deem this language unbecoming in me , and ...
... hour have passed away , to appeal to your own conscience , and ask of it , Was your charge as it ought to be - impartial and indifferent between the subject and the crown ? My lords , you may deem this language unbecoming in me , and ...
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... be but to lament ? who , even in the hour of agony , would forget the friend over whom he mourns ? who , even when the tomb is closing upon the remains of her he most loved , and he feels his heart , as it were , crushed in Sprague Irving.
... be but to lament ? who , even in the hour of agony , would forget the friend over whom he mourns ? who , even when the tomb is closing upon the remains of her he most loved , and he feels his heart , as it were , crushed in Sprague Irving.
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... hour of gaiety , or spread a deeper sadness over the hour of gloom , yet who would exchange it even for the song of pleasure , or the burst of revelry ? No ; there is a voice from the tomb sweeter than song : there is a recollection of ...
... hour of gaiety , or spread a deeper sadness over the hour of gloom , yet who would exchange it even for the song of pleasure , or the burst of revelry ? No ; there is a voice from the tomb sweeter than song : there is a recollection of ...
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... hours , and is cut off from the practical enjoyment of all the blessings of genuine freedom . I am no candidate for any office in the gift of the people of these states , united or separated ; I never wish , never expect to be . Pass ...
... hours , and is cut off from the practical enjoyment of all the blessings of genuine freedom . I am no candidate for any office in the gift of the people of these states , united or separated ; I never wish , never expect to be . Pass ...
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Page 359 - TO him who in the love of nature holds Communion with her visible forms, she speaks A various language; for his gayer hours She has a voice of gladness, and a smile And eloquence of beauty, and she glides Into his darker musings, with a mild And healing sympathy, that steals away Their sharpness, ere he is aware.
Page 361 - When thou art gone, the solemn brood of care Plod on, and each one as before will chase His favorite phantom; yet all these shall leave Their mirth and their employments, and shall come And make their bed with thee.
Page 305 - And children coming home from school Look in at the open door ; They love to see the flaming forge, And hear the bellows roar, And catch the burning sparks that fly Like chaff from a threshing-floor.
Page 281 - All the world's a stage, And all the men and women merely players. They have their exits and their entrances, And one man in his time plays many parts, His acts being seven ages. At first the infant, Mewling and puking in the nurse's arms.
Page 290 - Tis not the balm, the sceptre, and the ball, The sword, the mace, the crown imperial, The intertissued robe of gold and pearl, The farced title running 'fore the King...
Page 287 - And, like a man to double business bound, I stand in pause where I shall first begin, And both neglect. What if this cursed hand Were thicker than itself with brother's blood, Is there not rain enough in the sweet heavens To wash it white as snow?
Page 279 - Love thyself last: cherish those hearts that hate thee; Corruption wins not more than honesty. Still in thy right hand carry gentle peace To silence envious tongues. Be just, and fear not: Let all the ends thou aim'st at be thy country's, Thy God's, and truth's; then if thou fall'st, O Cromwell, Thou fall'st a blessed martyr!
Page 277 - There is no terror, Cassius, in your threats ; For I am armed so strong in honesty That they pass by me as the idle wind, Which I respect not.
Page 279 - Let's dry our eyes: and thus far hear me, Cromwell; And, when I am forgotten, as I shall be, And sleep in dull cold marble, where no mention Of me more must be heard of, say, I taught thee; Say, Wolsey, that once trod the ways of glory, And sounded all the depths and shoals of honour...
Page 43 - Sink or swim, live or die, survive or perish, I give my hand and my heart to this vote.