Swinton's Reader and Speaker, Volume 5Ivison, Blakeman, Taylor, 1883 |
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... friends , I do not know that I have any thing to say to you , but I am very much . obliged to your teachers for asking me to address you this beautiful morning . — The morning is so beautiful after the refreshment of the night , that as ...
... friends , I do not know that I have any thing to say to you , but I am very much . obliged to your teachers for asking me to address you this beautiful morning . — The morning is so beautiful after the refreshment of the night , that as ...
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... friends , it is very hard for those who read and who listen . 6. The vice goes so far , indeed , that you may divide literature into two great classes of books . The smaller class of the two consists of the books written by people who ...
... friends , it is very hard for those who read and who listen . 6. The vice goes so far , indeed , that you may divide literature into two great classes of books . The smaller class of the two consists of the books written by people who ...
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... friend of mine used in accept- ing a hard post of duty . He said , - - - But my " I do not think I am fit for this post . friends say I am , and I trust them . I shall take it , and when I am in it , I shall do as well as I can . " 13 ...
... friend of mine used in accept- ing a hard post of duty . He said , - - - But my " I do not think I am fit for this post . friends say I am , and I trust them . I shall take it , and when I am in it , I shall do as well as I can . " 13 ...
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... friends , and the fire and the candles , have been all breathing one another's breaths over and over again , till the air has become unfit to support life . 4. You are doing your best to enact over again the Highland tragedy , when , at ...
... friends , and the fire and the candles , have been all breathing one another's breaths over and over again , till the air has become unfit to support life . 4. You are doing your best to enact over again the Highland tragedy , when , at ...
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... friends ; and from the moment of his arrival he never expressed a desire for any other home than the one to which he had come . 7. That he was my exclusive property , he fully un- derstood before a week had passed ; and , though he ...
... friends ; and from the moment of his arrival he never expressed a desire for any other home than the one to which he had come . 7. That he was my exclusive property , he fully un- derstood before a week had passed ; and , though he ...
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Page 401 - And Ardennes waves above them her green leaves, Dewy with nature's tear-drops, as they pass, Grieving, if aught inanimate e'er grieves, Over the unreturning brave,— alas! Ere evening to be trodden like the grass Which now beneath them, but above shall grow In its next verdure, when this fiery mass Of living valor, rolling on the foe, And burning with high hope, shall moulder cold and low.
Page 317 - ... accent of Christians nor the gait of Christian, pagan, nor man, have so strutted and bellowed that I have thought some of nature's journeymen had made men and not made them well, they imitated humanity so abominably.
Page 416 - Then this ebony bird beguiling my sad fancy into smiling, By the grave and stern decorum of the countenance it wore, "Though thy crest be shorn and shaven, thou," I said, "art sure no craven, Ghastly grim and ancient Raven wandering from the Nightly shore — Tell me what thy lordly name is on the Night's Plutonian shore!
Page 368 - The battle, sir, is not to the strong alone; it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave. Besides, sir, we have no election. If we were base enough to desire it, it is now too late to retire from the contest. There is no retreat but in submission and slavery! Our chains are forged. Their clanking may be heard on the plains of Boston! The war is inevitable, and let it come! I repeat it, sir, let it come! " It is in vain, sir, to extenuate the matter. Gentlemen may cry peace, peace; but there is no...
Page 426 - I speak not to disprove what Brutus spoke, But here I am to speak what I do know. You all did love him once, not without cause : What cause withholds you then to mourn for him? O judgment! thou art fled to brutish beasts, And men have lost their reason! Bear with me; My heart is in the coffin there with Caesar, And I must pause till it come back to me.
Page 403 - The Sixth no sooner had begun About the beast to grope, Than, seizing on the swinging tail That fell within his scope, "I see," quoth he, "the Elephant Is very like a rope!" And so these men of Indostan Disputed loud and long, Each in his own opinion Exceeding stiff and strong, Though each was partly in the right, And all were in the wrong!
Page 400 - 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; And the deep thunder peal on peal afar; And near, the beat of the alarming drum Roused up the soldier ere the morning star; While thronged the citizens with terror dumb, Or whispering, with white lips - 'The foe! they come! they come!' And wild and high the 'Cameron's gathering
Page 421 - Almighty's form Glasses itself in tempests; in all time, Calm or convulsed, — in breeze, or gale, or storm, Icing the pole, or in the torrid clime Dark heaving; — boundless, endless, and sublime. The image of eternity, the throne Of the Invisible; even from out thy slime The monsters of the deep are made; each zone Obeys thee; thou goest forth, dread, fathomless, alone.
Page 426 - Here, under leave of Brutus and the rest,— For Brutus is an honourable man; So are they all, all honorable men,— Come I to speak in Caesar's funeral. He was my friend, faithful and just to me: But Brutus says he was ambitious; And Brutus is an honourable man.
Page 429 - I am no orator, as Brutus is; But, as you know me all, a plain blunt man, That love my friend; and that they know full well That gave me public leave to speak of him: For I have neither wit, nor words, nor worth, Action, nor utterance, nor the power of speech, To stir men's blood: I only speak right on; I tell you that which you yourselves do know...