The Standard Speaker: Containing Exercises in Prose and Poetry for Declamation in Schools, Academies, Lyceums, Colleges: Newly Translated Or Compiled from Celebrated Orators, Authors and Popular Debaters, Ancient and Modern. A Treatise on Oratory and Elocution. Notes Explanatory and BiographicalC. DeSilver & Sons, 1852 - 558 頁 |
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第 20 頁
... rest of the sentence is spoken . As the intermediate words are fre- quently the pivot on which the sense of the sentence turns , the mind is directed to it by a change of voice . The voice sinks at the beginning of the clause , but ...
... rest of the sentence is spoken . As the intermediate words are fre- quently the pivot on which the sense of the sentence turns , the mind is directed to it by a change of voice . The voice sinks at the beginning of the clause , but ...
第 28 頁
... rest , In shape and gesture proudly eminent , Stood like a tower . His form had yet not lost All her original brightness , nor appeared Less than archangel ruined , and the excess Of glory obscured as when the sun new - risen Looks ...
... rest , In shape and gesture proudly eminent , Stood like a tower . His form had yet not lost All her original brightness , nor appeared Less than archangel ruined , and the excess Of glory obscured as when the sun new - risen Looks ...
第 31 頁
... rest of the sentence . On the right management of the emphasis depend the whole life and spirit of every discourse . If no emphasis be placed on any word , not only is discourse rendered heavy and lifeless , but the meaning left often ...
... rest of the sentence . On the right management of the emphasis depend the whole life and spirit of every discourse . If no emphasis be placed on any word , not only is discourse rendered heavy and lifeless , but the meaning left often ...
第 40 頁
... rest become not the rest of stones , which , so long as they are torrent - tossed and thunder - stricken , main- tain their majesty , but , when the stream is silent , and the storm passed , suffer the grass to cover them and the lichen ...
... rest become not the rest of stones , which , so long as they are torrent - tossed and thunder - stricken , main- tain their majesty , but , when the stream is silent , and the storm passed , suffer the grass to cover them and the lichen ...
第 42 頁
... rest her Heaven - aspiring wing Beneath its native quarry . Tired of earth And this diurnal scene , she springs aloft Through fields of air ; pursues the flying storm ; Rides on the volleyed lightning through the Heavens Or , yoked with ...
... rest her Heaven - aspiring wing Beneath its native quarry . Tired of earth And this diurnal scene , she springs aloft Through fields of air ; pursues the flying storm ; Rides on the volleyed lightning through the Heavens Or , yoked with ...
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Adrastus American arms army Athens battle blessings blood Born brave breath Brutus Cæsar Catiline cause civil Cleon Constitution countrymen courage Crown Ctesiphon death Decemvir Demosthenes died earth Ebenezer Elliot elocution eloquence enemy England eternal Europe eyes fathers fear feel fight forever France freedom Gentlemen give glorious glory Government Greece hand hath heart Heaven Henry Grattan honor hope House human Ireland justice King labor land liberty live Livy look Lord Lucanian mind Mirabeau moral Nation nature never night noble o'er oppression orator Original Translation ourselves Parliament Patricians patriotism peace political principles religion Republic Revolution Roman Rome ruin sacred sentiment slaves soul sound Spain Sparta Spartacus speak speech spirit stand sword tell thee things thou thought tion triumph truth tyrant Union universal suffrage utterance victory virtue voice Warren Hastings words
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第 443 頁 - And there lay the rider distorted and pale, "With the dew on his brow, and the rust on his mail ; And the tents were all silent, the banners alone, The lances unlifted, the trumpet unblown.
第 148 頁 - When Freedom, from her mountain height, Unfurled her standard to the air, She tore the azure robe of night, And set the stars of glory there; She mingled with its gorgeous dyes The milky baldric of the skies, And striped its pure, celestial white With streakings of the morning light; Then, from his mansion in the sun, She called her eagle bearer down, And gave into his mighty hand, The symbol of her chosen land.
第 129 頁 - I am no orator, as Brutus is; But, as you know me all, a plain blunt man, That love my friend; and that they know full well That gave me public leave to speak of him: For I have neither wit, nor words, nor worth, Action, nor utterance, nor the power of speech, To stir men's blood: I only speak right on; I tell you that which you yourselves do know; Show you sweet Caesar's wounds, poor poor dumb mouths, And bid them speak for me...
第 128 頁 - Caesar might Have stood against the world : now lies he there, And none so poor to do him reverence. 0 masters ! if I were disposed to stir Your hearts and minds to mutiny and rage, 1 should do Brutus wrong, and Cassius wrong, Who, you all know, are honorable men : I will not do them wrong ; I rather choose To wrong the dead, to wrong myself, and you, Than I will wrong such honorable men.
第 339 頁 - 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.
第 415 頁 - LOCHINVAR. LADY HERON'S SONG. 12. O, young Lochinvar is come out of the west, Through all the wide Border his steed was the best, And save his good broad-sword he weapons had none ; He rode all unarmed, and he rode all alone. So faithful in love, and so dauntless in war, There never was knight like the young Lochinvar.
第 287 頁 - I have lived, sir, a long time, and the longer I live the more convincing proofs I see of this truth, that God governs in the affairs of men. And if a sparrow cannot fall to the ground without His notice, is it probable that an empire can rise without His aid ? We have been assured, 'sir, in the sacred writings, that, 'except the Lord build the house, they labor in vain that build it.
第 298 頁 - If there be any among us who would wish to dissolve this Union, or to change its republican form, let them stand undisturbed as monuments of the safety with which error of opinion may be tolerated, where reason is left free to combat it.
第 449 頁 - And though sometimes, each dreary pause between, Dejected Pity, at his side, Her soul-subduing voice applied, Yet still he kept his wild unaltered mien, While each strained ball of sight seemed bursting from his head.
第 157 頁 - 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.