The Free Speaker: A New Collection of Pieces for Declamation, Original as Well as Selected, Intended as a Companion to "The Hundred Dialogues."The author, 1859 - 326 páginas |
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... hands the sword clutch so grimly . The brave heads , late lifted , are solemnly bowed , And the riderless chargers stand quivering and cowed , As the burial service is chanted aloud , The groans of the death - stricken drowning , While ...
... hands the sword clutch so grimly . The brave heads , late lifted , are solemnly bowed , And the riderless chargers stand quivering and cowed , As the burial service is chanted aloud , The groans of the death - stricken drowning , While ...
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... hands To link this world to the supernal ; If men stored up Love's oil and wine , And on bruised human hearts would pour it ; If " yours " and " mine Would once combine , " " The world would be the better for it . If more would act the ...
... hands To link this world to the supernal ; If men stored up Love's oil and wine , And on bruised human hearts would pour it ; If " yours " and " mine Would once combine , " " The world would be the better for it . If more would act the ...
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... hands , Pressed it upon his lips , and murmured low , Master ! my daughter ! " * * * * * * * * * * The same silvery light , That shone upon the lone rock by the sea , Slept on the Ruler's lofty capitals , As at the door he stood , and ...
... hands , Pressed it upon his lips , and murmured low , Master ! my daughter ! " * * * * * * * * * * The same silvery light , That shone upon the lone rock by the sea , Slept on the Ruler's lofty capitals , As at the door he stood , and ...
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... hands . ' T was heavenly beautiful ! The Saviour raised Her hand from off her bosom , and spread out The snowy fingers in his palm , and said , " Maiden , arise ! " - and suddenly a flush Shot o'er her forehead , and along her lips ...
... hands . ' T was heavenly beautiful ! The Saviour raised Her hand from off her bosom , and spread out The snowy fingers in his palm , and said , " Maiden , arise ! " - and suddenly a flush Shot o'er her forehead , and along her lips ...
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... hand , his looks in hope , His heart in doubt and pain . Before them rose proud Stirling's hill , The way grew steep and strong ; The king spurred onward suddenly , And up swept all the throng . Kilspindie said within himself , " He ...
... hand , his looks in hope , His heart in doubt and pain . Before them rose proud Stirling's hill , The way grew steep and strong ; The king spurred onward suddenly , And up swept all the throng . Kilspindie said within himself , " He ...
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Página 32 - Determined to keep open a market where MEN should be bought and sold, he has prostituted his negative for suppressing every legislative attempt to prohibit or to restrain this execrable commerce.
Página 133 - OF all the rides since the birth of time, Told in story or sung in rhyme, — On Apuleius's Golden Ass, Or one-eyed Calendar's horse of brass, Witch astride of a human back, Islam's prophet on Al-Borak, — The strangest ride that ever was sped Was Ireson's, out from Marblehead ! Old Floyd Ireson, for his hard heart, Tarred and feathered and carried in a cart By the women of Marblehead...
Página 32 - waged cruel war against human nature itself, violating its most sacred rights of life and liberty in the persons of a distant people who never offended him, captivating and carrying them into slavery in another hemisphere, or to incur miserable death in their transportation thither.
Página 130 - The holy Elders with the gift of myrrh. But now the whole Round Table is dissolved Which was an image of the mighty world; And I, the last, go forth companionless, And the days darken round me, and the years, Among new men, strange faces, other minds.
Página 43 - Cannon to right of them, Cannon to left of them, Cannon in front of them Volleyed and thundered ; Stormed at with shot and shell, Boldly they rode and well ; Into the jaws of Death, Into the mouth of Hell, Rode the six hundred.
Página 265 - All are scattered now and fled, Some are married, some are dead ; And when I ask, with throbs of pain, "Ah! when shall they all meet again?
Página 106 - Ring out false pride in place and blood, The civic slander and the spite ; Ring in the love of truth and right, Ring in the common love of good. Ring out old shapes of foul disease, Ring out the narrowing lust of gold ; Ring out the thousand wars of old, Ring in the thousand years of peace.
Página 42 - Theirs not to make reply, Theirs not to reason why, Theirs but to do and die.
Página 225 - To Tubal Cain came many a one, As he wrought by his roaring fire, And each one prayed for a strong steel blade, As the crown of his desire. And he made them weapons sharp and strong, Till they shouted loud for glee, And gave him gifts of pearl and gold, And spoils of the forest free.
Página 246 - First in war, first in peace, first in the hearts of his countrymen," was originally used in the resolutions presented to Congress on the death of Washington, December, 1799.