The Academical Speaker: A Selection of Extracts in Prose and Verse, from Ancient and Modern AuthorsBenjamin Dudley Emerson Richardson, Lord and Holbrook, 1830 - 321 páginas |
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... Sneer National Glory · Speech of Vindex against Nero Salathiel to Titus Character of William Penn Speech of Ringan Gilhaize Manfred to the Sorceress The Sword Speech in the National Convention of France The same continued The same ...
... Sneer National Glory · Speech of Vindex against Nero Salathiel to Titus Character of William Penn Speech of Ringan Gilhaize Manfred to the Sorceress The Sword Speech in the National Convention of France The same continued The same ...
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... Sneer Right of England to tax America American Colonists defended Close of the same Oration Speech of Onias Speech of Salathiel Answer of Lewis to the Pope's Legate American Forest Girl - Edward Glendinning to the Sub - Prior Conscience ...
... Sneer Right of England to tax America American Colonists defended Close of the same Oration Speech of Onias Speech of Salathiel Answer of Lewis to the Pope's Legate American Forest Girl - Edward Glendinning to the Sub - Prior Conscience ...
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... sneer at public merit , because it happened to spring up beyond the little limits of my own state or neighbourhood ; when I refuse , for any such cause , THE ACADEMICAL SPEAKER . 79 or for any cause , 78 THE ACADEMICAL SPEAKER .
... sneer at public merit , because it happened to spring up beyond the little limits of my own state or neighbourhood ; when I refuse , for any such cause , THE ACADEMICAL SPEAKER . 79 or for any cause , 78 THE ACADEMICAL SPEAKER .
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... the grandeur of his forms with futile and ostentatious anatomy . These faults met with armies of copyists , whilst his grandeur had no rival . DIALOGUE . Sheridan . PUFF , DANGLE AND SNEER . 86 THE ACADEMICAL SPEAKER .
... the grandeur of his forms with futile and ostentatious anatomy . These faults met with armies of copyists , whilst his grandeur had no rival . DIALOGUE . Sheridan . PUFF , DANGLE AND SNEER . 86 THE ACADEMICAL SPEAKER .
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... Sneer , give me leave to introduce Mr Puff to you . Puff . Mr Sneer is this ? Sir , he is a gentleman whom I have long panted for the honor of knowing - a gentleman whose critical talents and transcendent judgment— Sneer . Dear sir ...
... Sneer , give me leave to introduce Mr Puff to you . Puff . Mr Sneer is this ? Sir , he is a gentleman whom I have long panted for the honor of knowing - a gentleman whose critical talents and transcendent judgment— Sneer . Dear sir ...
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Términos y frases comunes
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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Página 71 - 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!
Página 73 - 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...
Página 173 - once again he cried, " If I may yet be gone ? " — And but the booming shots replied, And fast the flames rolled on.
Página 209 - 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.
Página 251 - 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.
Página 73 - 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.
Página 63 - 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.
Página 69 - 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.
Página 136 - 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!
Página 70 - 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.