The American Orator: Comprising a Collection, Principally from American Authors, of the Most Admired Specimens of Congressional, Forensic, Pulpit and Popular Eloquence, with Dialogues and Poetical Extracts, Adapted to Public Recitation : and an Introduction, Embracing the Principle Rules Relating to Delivery and ActionPublished and sold by Daniel Fenton, Thomas T. Stiles, printer, 1815 - 324 ページ |
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... spirit of every sen- tence , and to adhere as nearly as possible to the manner in which we distinguish one word from another in conversa- tion ; for in familiar discourse we scarce ever fail to express ourselves emphatically , or place ...
... spirit of every sen- tence , and to adhere as nearly as possible to the manner in which we distinguish one word from another in conversa- tion ; for in familiar discourse we scarce ever fail to express ourselves emphatically , or place ...
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... spirit and energy of the piece must be wholly lost . In executing this part of the office of a speaker , it will by no means be sufficient to attend to the points used in prin- ting ; for these are far from marking all the pauses which ...
... spirit and energy of the piece must be wholly lost . In executing this part of the office of a speaker , it will by no means be sufficient to attend to the points used in prin- ting ; for these are far from marking all the pauses which ...
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... spirit which is mani- festing itself in gentlemen from the south . In the year 1805-6 , in a struggle for the carrying trade of bellige- rent colonial produce , this country has been most un- wisely brought into collision with the great ...
... spirit which is mani- festing itself in gentlemen from the south . In the year 1805-6 , in a struggle for the carrying trade of bellige- rent colonial produce , this country has been most un- wisely brought into collision with the great ...
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... spirit of honor , she will vigorously defend . In what situation would you then place some of the best men of the nation ? As Chatham and Burke , and the whole band of her patriots prayed for her defeat in 1776 , so must some of the ...
... spirit of honor , she will vigorously defend . In what situation would you then place some of the best men of the nation ? As Chatham and Burke , and the whole band of her patriots prayed for her defeat in 1776 , so must some of the ...
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... spirits exhausted , ) I could not give utterance to that strong detestation which I feel towards ( above all other works of the creation ) such characters as Zingis , Tamerlane , Kouli - Kan , or Bona- parte . My instincts involuntarily ...
... spirits exhausted , ) I could not give utterance to that strong detestation which I feel towards ( above all other works of the creation ) such characters as Zingis , Tamerlane , Kouli - Kan , or Bona- parte . My instincts involuntarily ...
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303 ページ - O Woman ! in our hours of ease Uncertain, coy, and hard to please, And variable as the shade By the light quivering aspen made; When pain and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou!
316 ページ - Twas but a kindred sound to move, For pity melts the mind to love. Softly sweet, in Lydian measures, Soon he soothed his soul to pleasures. War, he sung, is toil and trouble; Honour, but an empty bubble; Never ending, still beginning, Fighting still, and still destroying; If the world be worth thy winning, Think, O think it worth enjoying! Lovely Thais sits beside thee, Take the good the gods provide thee!
76 ページ - ... who think that nothing exists but what is gross and material ; and who therefore, far from being qualified to be directors of the great movement of empire, are not fit to turn a wheel in the machine.
177 ページ - He that hath pity upon the poor lendeth unto the LORD; and that which he hath given will he pay him again.
322 ページ - Why shrinks the soul Back on herself, and startles at destruction ? 'Tis the divinity that stirs within us; 'Tis Heaven itself that points out an hereafter, And intimates eternity to man.
313 ページ - When Cheerfulness, a nymph of healthiest hue, Her bow across her shoulder flung, Her buskins gem'd with morning dew, Blew an inspiring air, that dale and thicket rung, The hunter's call to Faun and Dryad known...
316 ページ - The princes applaud with a furious joy: And the King seized a flambeau with zeal to destroy; Thais led the way To light him to his prey, And like another Helen fired another Troy...
314 ページ - TWAS at the royal feast for Persia won By Philip's warlike son: Aloft in awful state The godlike hero sate On his imperial throne...