The Academical Speaker: A Selection of Extracts in Prose and Verse, from Ancient and Modern AuthorsBenjamin Dudley Emerson Richardson, Lord and Holbrook, 1830 - 321 ページ |
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... Rome's bravest gathered round ; Each seeming , yet with startled ear , The Oracle's dread voice to hear . Young CURTIUS on his war - horse sprung ' Mid plaudits deep - not loud , For admiration checked each tongue In all the circling ...
... Rome's bravest gathered round ; Each seeming , yet with startled ear , The Oracle's dread voice to hear . Young CURTIUS on his war - horse sprung ' Mid plaudits deep - not loud , For admiration checked each tongue In all the circling ...
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... Rome came , and unconscious- ly avenged the insulted name of freedom ; the master and the slave were bowed together ; the dungeon was made the common dwelling of all . SONG OF THE PILGRIM S. Upham . THE breeze has swelled the whitening ...
... Rome came , and unconscious- ly avenged the insulted name of freedom ; the master and the slave were bowed together ; the dungeon was made the common dwelling of all . SONG OF THE PILGRIM S. Upham . THE breeze has swelled the whitening ...
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... Rome ! what's banished , but set free From daily contact of the things I loathe ? ' Tried and convicted traitor ! ' - Who says this ? Who'll prove it , at his peril , on my head ? Banished ? —I thank you for ' t . It breaks I held some ...
... Rome ! what's banished , but set free From daily contact of the things I loathe ? ' Tried and convicted traitor ! ' - Who says this ? Who'll prove it , at his peril , on my head ? Banished ? —I thank you for ' t . It breaks I held some ...
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... Rome , To grace in captive bonds his chariot wheels ? You blocks , you stones , you worse than senseless things ! O you hard hearts ! you cruel men of Rome ! Knew you not Pompey ? many a time and oft Have you climbed up to walls and ...
... Rome , To grace in captive bonds his chariot wheels ? You blocks , you stones , you worse than senseless things ! O you hard hearts ! you cruel men of Rome ! Knew you not Pompey ? many a time and oft Have you climbed up to walls and ...
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... Rome was arbitress of my deserving . Doubt ye of peace or war ? oh ! know ye not The pangs which yielding honesty must prove , When vice and tyranny demand its homage ? Gods ! could I smile with Varus : smile when Germans Dragged the ...
... Rome was arbitress of my deserving . Doubt ye of peace or war ? oh ! know ye not The pangs which yielding honesty must prove , When vice and tyranny demand its homage ? Gods ! could I smile with Varus : smile when Germans Dragged the ...
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ACADEMICAL SPEAKER Altorf America Arminius arms blessings blood bosom brave breath Cæsar Capt Catiline cause Chabrias character Cherusci constitution crowned Curtius Montanus danger dare dark death Demosthenes earth enemy England EXTRACT eyes fathers fear feel flame forever freedom friends gamboge gentlemen give glorious glory grave Greece hallowed ground hand happiness hath hear heart Heaven honour hope human Iphicrates king land laws liberty light live look lord MADAME ROLAND ment mighty mind mountains nations nature never night noble o'er once oppression ourselves Palæstras passed passion patriotism peace Philotas principles privy counsellor proud Puff Roman ROMAN SENATE Rome round ruin scammony Sir F slave slavery smile Sneer soul SPEECH spirit stand storm strength sword tell thee things thou thought throne tion tyrant virtue voice waves wild William Penn wind Zounds
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71 ページ - 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," God grant it, — God grant it!
73 ページ - Strike -till the last armed foe expires ; Strike — for your altars and your fires ; Strike — for the green graves of your sires ; God — and your native land...
173 ページ - once again he cried, " If I may yet be gone ? " — And but the booming shots replied, And fast the flames rolled on.
209 ページ - Now stir the fire, and close the shutters fast, Let fall the curtains, wheel the sofa round, And while the bubbling and loud hissing urn Throws up a steamy column, and the cups That cheer but not inebriate, wait on each, So let us welcome peaceful evening in.
251 ページ - Not as the conqueror comes, They, the true-hearted, came; Not with the roll of the stirring drums, And the trumpet that sings of fame; Not as the flying come, In silence and in fear;— They shook the depths of the desert gloom With their hymns of lofty cheer.
73 ページ - That close the pestilence, are broke, And crowded cities wail its stroke, — Come in consumption's ghastly form — The earthquake shock — the ocean storm — Come when the heart beats high and warm, With banquet-song, and dance, and wine — And thou art terrible — the tear, The groan, the knell, the pall, the bier ; And all we know, or dream, or fear Of agony, are thine.
63 ページ - THE stately homes of England, How beautiful they stand, Amidst their tall ancestral trees, O'er all the pleasant land ! The deer across their greensward bound Through shade and sunny gleam, And the swan glides past them with the sound Of some rejoicing stream.
69 ページ - Massachusetts — she needs none. There she is — behold her, and judge for yourselves. There is her history — the world knows it by heart. The past, at least, is secure. There is Boston, and Concord, and Lexington, and Bunker Hill ; and there they will remain forever.
136 ページ - What the devil good can passion do? — Passion is of no service, you impudent, insolent, overbearing reprobate! — There, you sneer again! don't provoke me! — but you rely upon the mildness of my temper — you do, you dog! you play upon the meekness of my disposition! — Yet take care — the patience of a saint may be overcome at last!
70 ページ - I profess, sir, in my career hitherto, to have kept steadily in view the prosperity and honor of the whole. country, and the preservation of our Federal Union. It is to that Union we owe our safety at home, and our consideration and dignity abroad.