The Science and Art of Elocution, Or How to Read and Speak: Embracing a Comprehensive and Systematic Series of Exercises for Gesture Calisthenics and the Cultivation of the Voice; with a Collection of Nearly One Hundred and Fifty Literary Gems for Reading Or SpeakingJ.E. Potter, 1878 |
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... fell , like a falling star- " Excelsior ! " * * 24. ( — ) HIGH on a THRONE of ROYAL state , which FAR Outshone the WEALTH of ORMUS and of Ind , Or WHERE the gorgeous east , with richest hand SHOWERS on her kings , BARBARIC pearls and ...
... fell , like a falling star- " Excelsior ! " * * 24. ( — ) HIGH on a THRONE of ROYAL state , which FAR Outshone the WEALTH of ORMUS and of Ind , Or WHERE the gorgeous east , with richest hand SHOWERS on her kings , BARBARIC pearls and ...
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... fell from hands that made the flower . Is there no God ? The silvery ocean spray At the vile question startles in dismay ; And , tossing mad against earth's impious clod , Impatient thunders - yes , there is a God ! Is there no God ...
... fell from hands that made the flower . Is there no God ? The silvery ocean spray At the vile question startles in dismay ; And , tossing mad against earth's impious clod , Impatient thunders - yes , there is a God ! Is there no God ...
Page 125
... fell and miserably died . They buried him - ah ! little recks it where His bloated form was given to the worms . No stone marked that neglected , lonely spot ; No mourner sorrowing at evening came To pray by that unhallowed mound ; no ...
... fell and miserably died . They buried him - ah ! little recks it where His bloated form was given to the worms . No stone marked that neglected , lonely spot ; No mourner sorrowing at evening came To pray by that unhallowed mound ; no ...
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... Fell from that cloud . The towering tree Was shivered by the lightning's vengeful stroke , And laid its coronal of glory low . A happy home was ruined ; want and woe Played with his children , and the joy of youth Left their sweet faces ...
... Fell from that cloud . The towering tree Was shivered by the lightning's vengeful stroke , And laid its coronal of glory low . A happy home was ruined ; want and woe Played with his children , and the joy of youth Left their sweet faces ...
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... fell on my ear , As I lay in my dream : yet was it a chime That told of the flow of the stream of Time ; For a beautiful clock from the ceiling hung , And a plump little girl , for a pendulum , swung , ( As you've sometimes seen , in a ...
... fell on my ear , As I lay in my dream : yet was it a chime That told of the flow of the stream of Time ; For a beautiful clock from the ceiling hung , And a plump little girl , for a pendulum , swung , ( As you've sometimes seen , in a ...
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Page 183 - Tis of the wave, and not the rock; Tis but the flapping of the sail, And not a rent made by the gale! In spite of rock and tempest roar, In spite of false lights on the shore, Sail on, nor fear to breast the sea! Our hearts, our hopes, are all with thee...
Page 96 - Liberty first and Union afterwards'; but everywhere, spread all over in characters of living light, blazing on all its ample folds, as they float over the sea and over the land, and in every wind under the whole heavens, that other sentiment, dear to every true American heart, Liberty and Union, now and forever, one and inseparable...
Page 296 - But the Consul's brow was sad, And the Consul's speech was low, And darkly looked he at the wall, And darkly at the foe. 'Their van will be upon us Before the bridge goes down; And if they once may win the bridge, What hope to save the town?
Page 249 - Cannon to right of them, Cannon to left of them, Cannon in front of them Volley'd and thunder'd; Storm'd at with shot and shell, Boldly they rode and well, Into the jaws of Death, Into the mouth of hell Rode the six hundred. Flash'd all their sabres bare, Flash'd as they turn'd in air Sabring the gunners there, Charging an army, while All the world wonder'd. Plunged in the battery-smoke Right thro' the line they broke; Cossack and Russian Reel'd from the sabre-stroke Shatter'd and sunder'd.
Page 249 - HALF a league, half a league, Half a league onward, All in the valley of Death Rode the six hundred. " Forward, the Light Brigade! Charge for the guns," he said: Into the valley of Death Rode the six hundred. "Forward, the Light Brigade!
Page 36 - Ring out, wild bells, to the wild sky, The flying cloud, the frosty light; The year is dying in the night; Ring out, wild bells, and let him die. Ring out the old, ring in the new, Ring, happy bells, across the snow; The year is going, let him go; Ring out the false, ring in the true.
Page 96 - ... 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 original lustre, not a stripe erased or polluted, nor a single star obscured,...
Page 68 - O, it offends me to the soul to hear a robustious periwig-pated fellow tear a passion to tatters, to very rags, to split the ears of the groundlings...
Page 183 - Thou, too, sail on. O Ship of State ! Sail on, O UNION, strong and great ! Humanity, with all its fears, With all the hopes of future years, Is hanging breathless on thy fate...
Page 62 - Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more : Or close the wall up with our English dead. In peace there's nothing- so becomes a man As modest stillness and humility: But when the blast of war blows in our ears. Then imitate the action of the tiger...