The American Speaker: Being a Collection of Pieces in Prose, Poetry, and Dialogue : Designed for Exercises in Declamation, Or for Occasional Reading in SchoolsA.S. Barnes, 1852 - 264 pàgines |
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Pàgina 10
... dust : the tem- ples of taste and religion have sunk into decay ; the pyramids themselves seem but mighty sepulchres has- tening to the same oblivion to which the dead they cover long since passed . But here , every successive ...
... dust : the tem- ples of taste and religion have sunk into decay ; the pyramids themselves seem but mighty sepulchres has- tening to the same oblivion to which the dead they cover long since passed . But here , every successive ...
Pàgina 14
... dust . Their council - fire has long since gone out on the shore , and their war - cry is fast dying to the untrodden west . Slowly and sadly they climb the distant mountains , and read their doom in the setting sun . They are shrinking ...
... dust . Their council - fire has long since gone out on the shore , and their war - cry is fast dying to the untrodden west . Slowly and sadly they climb the distant mountains , and read their doom in the setting sun . They are shrinking ...
Pàgina 28
... dust , yet beautiful in ruin . She fell not when the mighty were upon her . Her sons were united at Thermopyla and Marathon ; and the tide of her triumph rolled back upon the Hellespont . She was conquered by her own factions . She fell ...
... dust , yet beautiful in ruin . She fell not when the mighty were upon her . Her sons were united at Thermopyla and Marathon ; and the tide of her triumph rolled back upon the Hellespont . She was conquered by her own factions . She fell ...
Pàgina 48
... dust , and leave not a wreck behind ? Is that gay and eager mass , now teeming with young life and enjoyment , and shin- ing as if earth contained no tomb , nought but such stuff as dreams are made of ? Are they no more than the poor ...
... dust , and leave not a wreck behind ? Is that gay and eager mass , now teeming with young life and enjoyment , and shin- ing as if earth contained no tomb , nought but such stuff as dreams are made of ? Are they no more than the poor ...
Pàgina 50
... dust , the perishable part of our friend . The law of mortality , which knows no exception among the passing generations of our race , was executed in his case with as much tenderness and reserve , so to speak , as is ever permitted by ...
... dust , the perishable part of our friend . The law of mortality , which knows no exception among the passing generations of our race , was executed in his case with as much tenderness and reserve , so to speak , as is ever permitted by ...
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