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 pages |
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... the high purpose , the firm resolve , the dauntless spirit , speaking on the tongue , beaming in the eye , informing every feature , and urging the whole man 1442.15.33 21 VM HARV EC The Gift of the Compiler ( 11 ) FOWLE'S SPEAKER. ...
... the high purpose , the firm resolve , the dauntless spirit , speaking on the tongue , beaming in the eye , informing every feature , and urging the whole man 1442.15.33 21 VM HARV EC The Gift of the Compiler ( 11 ) FOWLE'S SPEAKER. ...
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... the high purpose , the firm resolve , the dauntless spirit , speaking on the tongue , beaming in the eye , informing every feature , and urging the whole man - onward , right onward to his object , this ( 11 ) FOWLE'S SPEAKER. ...
... the high purpose , the firm resolve , the dauntless spirit , speaking on the tongue , beaming in the eye , informing every feature , and urging the whole man - onward , right onward to his object , this ( 11 ) FOWLE'S SPEAKER. ...
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... eyes fixed so steadfast and dimly , As they wait that last trump , which they may not defy , Whose cold hands the sword clutch so grimly . The brave heads , late lifted , are solemnly bowed , And the riderless chargers stand quivering ...
... eyes fixed so steadfast and dimly , As they wait that last trump , which they may not defy , Whose cold hands the sword clutch so grimly . The brave heads , late lifted , are solemnly bowed , And the riderless chargers stand quivering ...
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... eyes of beauty o'er thee roll , And song and dance thy power confess , I will not touch thee ; for there clings A scorpion to thy side , that stings ! Thou crystal glass ! like Eden's tree Thy melted ruby tempts the eye , And , as from ...
... eyes of beauty o'er thee roll , And song and dance thy power confess , I will not touch thee ; for there clings A scorpion to thy side , that stings ! Thou crystal glass ! like Eden's tree Thy melted ruby tempts the eye , And , as from ...
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... eyes on Jesus . Closer drew The twelve disciples to their Master's side ; And silently the people shrunk away , And left the haughty Ruler in the midst , Alone . A moment longer on the face Of the meek Nazarene he kept his gaze , And ...
... eyes on Jesus . Closer drew The twelve disciples to their Master's side ; And silently the people shrunk away , And left the haughty Ruler in the midst , Alone . A moment longer on the face Of the meek Nazarene he kept his gaze , And ...
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Page 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.
Page 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...
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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?
Page 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.
Page 42 - Theirs not to make reply, Theirs not to reason why, Theirs but to do and die.
Page 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.
Page 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.