Wiley's Elocution and Oratory: Giving a Thorough Treatise on the Art of Reading and Speaking. Containing Numerous and Choice Selections of Didactic, Humorous, and Dramatic Styles, from the Most Celebrated Authors ...Clark & Maynard, 1869 - 444 páginas |
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... Death's Final Conquest . Tell Me , Ye Winged Winds .. Once I was Pure .. What is Time .. A Psalm of Life . Affectation in the Pulpit . Cleon and I ..... The Family Meeting .. Elegy in a Church - Yard ... The Closing Year ... Thanatopsis ...
... Death's Final Conquest . Tell Me , Ye Winged Winds .. Once I was Pure .. What is Time .. A Psalm of Life . Affectation in the Pulpit . Cleon and I ..... The Family Meeting .. Elegy in a Church - Yard ... The Closing Year ... Thanatopsis ...
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... Death - Bed of Benedict Arnold . What the Sea Said to Me .. Right Triumphant ... .... The Drunkard's Daughter ... .Geo . Leppard . 62 66 .Shakspeare . 67 73 MISCELLANEOUS . 5. - Thoughts of a Schoolmate , Once CONTENTS . ix.
... Death - Bed of Benedict Arnold . What the Sea Said to Me .. Right Triumphant ... .... The Drunkard's Daughter ... .Geo . Leppard . 62 66 .Shakspeare . 67 73 MISCELLANEOUS . 5. - Thoughts of a Schoolmate , Once CONTENTS . ix.
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... Death of Lucretia .. Richard II . on the Vanity of Power . Tell on His Native Hills . Macbeth to the Dagger . The Indian Hunter . .... The Fireman ... Lay of the Madman .. Time's Mid - Night Voice .. The Gladiator .... Henry V. at ...
... Death of Lucretia .. Richard II . on the Vanity of Power . Tell on His Native Hills . Macbeth to the Dagger . The Indian Hunter . .... The Fireman ... Lay of the Madman .. Time's Mid - Night Voice .. The Gladiator .... Henry V. at ...
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... Death . Belshazzar's Feast ..... The Church Yard .. Marmion taking leave of Douglas . Death of Marmion . Maud Muller .... Rain on the Roof . The Ship - wreck .. Catiline to his Friends . Catiline's Defiance ... Tell among the Mountains ...
... Death . Belshazzar's Feast ..... The Church Yard .. Marmion taking leave of Douglas . Death of Marmion . Maud Muller .... Rain on the Roof . The Ship - wreck .. Catiline to his Friends . Catiline's Defiance ... Tell among the Mountains ...
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... Death .. Parody - The Old Oaken Bucket .. DIALOGUES . Scene from The Lady of Lyons . The Sensitive Author ... From Nolens Volens . Gil Blas and the Archbishop . Conversations After Marriage .. .Blackwood's Mag . 368 ..... 370 Charles ...
... Death .. Parody - The Old Oaken Bucket .. DIALOGUES . Scene from The Lady of Lyons . The Sensitive Author ... From Nolens Volens . Gil Blas and the Archbishop . Conversations After Marriage .. .Blackwood's Mag . 368 ..... 370 Charles ...
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Wiley's Elocution and Oratory: Giving a Thorough Treatise on the Art of ... Charles A. Wiley Visualização integral - 1881 |
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angel arms art thou battle bells beneath bless blood bosom breast breath bright brow Cæsar Catiline CHARLES MACKAY Cleon cloud cold cried dare dark dead death deep dread dream ears earth eternal falchion father fear feel fire forever friends gaze GEORGE CROLY glorious glory grave Greece hand hath head hear heard heart Heaven honor hope hour human king land liberty light lips living look Lord mighty Mount Tabor mountain N. P. WILLIS never Nevermore night noble o'er once passed peace proud Quoth the raven R. H. DANA Rhine roar rolling Rome round ruin Samian wine shore shout shriek silent sleep smile soul spirit stand stars stood sweet tears tell thee There's thou hast thought tomb Toussaint L'Ouverture trembling Union voice waves wild wind words youth
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Página 106 - And saw within the moonlight in his room, Making it rich, and like a lily in bloom, An angel writing in a book of gold. Exceeding peace had made Ben Adhem bold, And to the presence in the room he said, "What writest thou?" The vision raised its head, And with a look made of all sweet accord, Answered, "The names of those who love the Lord." "And is mine one?" said Abou. "Nay, not so,
Página 93 - ... When my eyes shall be turned to behold for the last time the sun in heaven, may I not see him shining on the broken and dishonored fragments of a once glorious Union ; on States dissevered, discordant, belligerent; on a land rent with civil feuds, or drenched, it may be, in fraternal blood ! Let their last feeble and lingering glance, rather, behold the gorgeous ensign of the Republic, now known and honored throughout the earth, still full high advanced, its arms and trophies streaming in their...
Página 156 - As a sick girl. Ye gods, it doth amaze me A man of such a feeble temper should So get the start of the majestic world And bear the palm alone. Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow world Like a Colossus, and we petty men Walk under his huge legs and peep about To find ourselves dishonourable graves.
Página 55 - If a Jew wrong a Christian, what is his humility ? revenge : If a Christian wrong a Jew, what should his sufferance be by Christian example ? why, revenge. The villainy, you teach me, I will execute; and it shall go hard, but I will better the instruction.
Página 172 - But he lay like a warrior taking his rest With his martial cloak around him. Few and short were the prayers...
Página 198 - tis a consummation Devoutly to be wish'd. To die, to sleep; To sleep: perchance to dream: ay, there's the rub: For in that sleep of death what dreams may come When we have shuffled off this mortal coil...
Página 301 - One-eighth of the whole population were colored slaves, not distributed generally over the Union but localized in the southern part of it. These slaves constituted a peculiar and powerful interest. All knew that this interest was somehow the cause of the war.
Página 301 - Both parties deprecated war, but one of them would make war rather than let the nation survive, and the other would accept war rather than let it perish. And the war came.
Página 284 - 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 !" Quoth the Raven,
Página 285 - This I sat engaged in guessing, but no syllable expressing To the fowl whose fiery eyes now burned into my bosom's core; This and more I sat divining, with my head at ease reclining On the cushion's velvet lining that the lamp-light gloated o'er, But whose velvet violet lining, with the lamp-light gloating o'er, She shall press, ah, nevermore! Then, methought, the air grew denser, perfumed from an unseen censer Swung by seraphim whose footfalls tinkled on the tufted floor. "Wretch!