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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... waves engulfed , or tempests driven No other frail bark from its haven ? Why is the Mayflower's landing held A mighty fact unparalleled ? Poor human vision saw not then That those few , free , God - guided men Were planting in this ...
... waves engulfed , or tempests driven No other frail bark from its haven ? Why is the Mayflower's landing held A mighty fact unparalleled ? Poor human vision saw not then That those few , free , God - guided men Were planting in this ...
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... ; but all his wit Could never find a ship or boat , Except the waves , on which to float Across the Irish Sea . The Saint , With loss of blood a little faint , Prepared to swim , but how the deuce To manage 16 FOWLE'S SPEAKER .
... ; but all his wit Could never find a ship or boat , Except the waves , on which to float Across the Irish Sea . The Saint , With loss of blood a little faint , Prepared to swim , but how the deuce To manage 16 FOWLE'S SPEAKER .
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... wave retreating , spent , moaning , and slow ; They are fled , they are gone ; but O , not as they came , Ere the mists had rolled up to the sky . Never more shall they boast of a glorious name , For the hero must conquer or die . The ...
... wave retreating , spent , moaning , and slow ; They are fled , they are gone ; but O , not as they came , Ere the mists had rolled up to the sky . Never more shall they boast of a glorious name , For the hero must conquer or die . The ...
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... waves played low upon the beach Their constant music , but the air beside Was still as starlight , and the Saviour's voice , In its rich cadences unearthly sweet , Seemed like some just - born harmony in the air , Waked by the power of ...
... waves played low upon the beach Their constant music , but the air beside Was still as starlight , and the Saviour's voice , In its rich cadences unearthly sweet , Seemed like some just - born harmony in the air , Waked by the power of ...
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... waves that lash the reefs along St. George's bank , Cold on the shore of Labrador the fog lies white and dank ; Through storm and wave and blinding mist stout are the hearts which man The fishing - smacks of Marblehead , the sea - boats ...
... waves that lash the reefs along St. George's bank , Cold on the shore of Labrador the fog lies white and dank ; Through storm and wave and blinding mist stout are the hearts which man The fishing - smacks of Marblehead , the sea - boats ...
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The Free Speaker: A New Collection of Pieces for Declamation, Original as ... William Bentley Fowle Sin vista previa disponible - 2016 |
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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.