The Intermediate Standard Speaker: Containing Pieces for Declamation in Schools, Colleges, Etc. Introductory, Or Supplementary, to The Standard Speaker |
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... Hope , the balm of life , soothes us under every misfortune . Spenser , the poet , lived in the reign of Queen Elizabeth . RULE V. - Who and which , when in the nominative case , and the pronoun that , when used for who or which ...
... Hope , the balm of life , soothes us under every misfortune . Spenser , the poet , lived in the reign of Queen Elizabeth . RULE V. - Who and which , when in the nominative case , and the pronoun that , when used for who or which ...
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... hope he will petition no more to a parliament so equivocat- ing . However , I am not sorry they did so equivocate , because I think they have suggested one common remedy for the griev ances of both countries , and that remedy is , a ...
... hope he will petition no more to a parliament so equivocat- ing . However , I am not sorry they did so equivocate , because I think they have suggested one common remedy for the griev ances of both countries , and that remedy is , a ...
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... hope and pleasure to waft us joyously along ; but with resolved spirits , ready to meet , like true men , whatever of danger may descend upon our voyage , and to stand up gal- lantly for the treasure of honor and faith intrusted to our ...
... hope and pleasure to waft us joyously along ; but with resolved spirits , ready to meet , like true men , whatever of danger may descend upon our voyage , and to stand up gal- lantly for the treasure of honor and faith intrusted to our ...
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... hope of Chris- tianity , and the light of everlasting truth ! WEBSTER . ----- XXXII . - THE INTEMPERATE HUSBAND . A Ir is , my friends , in the degradation of a husband by intempe- rance , above all , that she , who has ventured every ...
... hope of Chris- tianity , and the light of everlasting truth ! WEBSTER . ----- XXXII . - THE INTEMPERATE HUSBAND . A Ir is , my friends , in the degradation of a husband by intempe- rance , above all , that she , who has ventured every ...
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... hope of the world , my inexpugnable consolation , in looking at the miseries of the world , is , that this is altering . Here and there , one does now find a man who knows , as of old , that this world is a truth , and no plausibility ...
... hope of the world , my inexpugnable consolation , in looking at the miseries of the world , is , that this is altering . Here and there , one does now find a man who knows , as of old , that this world is a truth , and no plausibility ...
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Page 70 - ... it is of infinite moment, that you should properly estimate the immense value of your national Union to your collective and individual happiness...
Page 374 - Approach, thou craven crouching slave : Say, is not this Thermopylae ? These waters blue that round you lave. Oh servile offspring of the free, Pronounce what sea, what shore is this : The gulf, the rock of Salamis ! These scenes, their story not unknown, Arise, and make again your own ; Snatch from the ashes of your sires The embers of their former fires ; And he who in the strife expires Will add to theirs a name of fear That Tyranny shall quake to hear...
Page 265 - Now, my co-mates and brothers in exile, Hath not old custom made this life more sweet Than that of painted pomp? Are not these woods More free from peril than the envious court? Here feel we but the penalty of Adam, — The seasons' difference : as the icy fang And churlish chiding of the winter's wind, Which when it bites and blows upon my body, Even till I shrink with cold, I smile and say, This is no flattery : these are counsellors That feelingly persuade me what I am.
Page 268 - Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounced it to you, trippingly on the tongue ; but if you mouth it, as many of our players do, I had as lief the town-crier spoke my lines. Nor do not saw the air too much with your hand, thus ; but use all gently ; for in the very torrent, tempest, and (as I may say) whirlwind of your passion, you must acquire and beget a temperance, that may give it smoothness.
Page 330 - twas a pleasing fear, For I was as it were a child of thee, And trusted to thy billows far and near, And laid my hand upon thy mane— as I do here.
Page 334 - You have the Pyrrhic dance as yet : Where is the Pyrrhic phalanx gone? Of two such lessons, why forget The nobler and the manlier one?
Page 272 - Why shrinks the soul Back on herself, and startles at destruction ? 'Tis the divinity that stirs within us; 'Tis Heaven itself that points out an hereafter, And intimates eternity to man.
Page 377 - And there was mounting in hot haste: the steed. The mustering squadron, and the clattering car. Went pouring forward with impetuous speed, And swiftly forming in the ranks of war...
Page 111 - Come as the winds come, when Forests are rended ; Come as the waves come, when Navies are stranded : Faster come, faster come, Faster and faster, Chief, vassal, page and groom, Tenant and master. Fast they come, fast they come ; See how they gather ! Wide waves the eagle plume, Blended with heather. Cast your plaids, draw your blades, Forward each man set ! Pibroch of Donuil Dhu, Knell for the onset ! NORA'S VOW.
Page 290 - He spoke not a word but went straight to his work, And filled all the stockings; then turned with a jerk, And laying his finger aside of his nose, And giving a nod, up the chimney he rose.