Readings from the Best Authors

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Archibald Hamilton Bryce
T. Nelson, 1869

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Vision of Sudden Death De Quincey
35
Lucy Fleming Professor Wilson
38
FICTION 1 Story of Le Fevre Sterne
43
The Brothers Dorrit Dickens
50
The Vision of Mirza Addison
53
MISCELLANEOUS I Character of Napoleon Phillips
58
Character of Washington Phillips
61
Science and Art Sir D Brewster
62
Mountains W Howitt
64
Inventive Genius and Labour Elihu Burritt
66
Duty of Forgiveness S Johnson
68
Marshal Bugeaud and Arab Chieftain W S Landor
70
The Deluge Dr Guthrie
73
ORATORY Page 1 Cicero for Milo
76
Pitts Reply to Walpole
80
P Henry on British Rule in America
82
Burkes Panegyric on Sheridan
84
Burkes Panegyric on Marie Antoinette
85
Adams on the Sword of Washington and the Staff of Franklin
86
Sheils Reply to Lord Lyndhurst
88
Curran on Freedom
89
Fox on the Suspension of the Habeas Corpus Act
90
Webster on Slavery in the United States
93
Brougham in Defence of Queen Caroline
94
Kossuth on the Hungarian Revolution
95
Gladstone on the Affairs of Greece
99
South on Man before the Fall
101
Archer Butler on the Majesty of Christ
103
POETRY SECTION 1 HISTORICAL AND DESCRIPTIVE 1 Triumphs of the English Language J G Lyons
107
The Threatened Invasion Campbell
109
The Abbot to Bruce Sir W Scott
110
Ancient Greece Byron
113
PresentState of Greece Byron
114
Battle of Killiecrankie Aytoun
116
Death of Leonidas Croly
118
The Plain of Marathon Byron
120
Alexanders Feast Dryden
122
Marco Bozzaris F Halleck
126
The Cids Funeral Procession Mrs Hemans
128
Franklin Sir John Punch
131
The Avenging Childe Lockhart
133
Battle of Bunkers Hill Cozzens
135

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Сторінка 283 - With a bare bodkin ? who would fardels bear, To grunt and sweat under a weary life, But that the dread of something after death, The undiscover'd country from whose bourn No traveller returns, puzzles the will And makes us rather bear those ills we have Than fly to others that we know not of ? Thus conscience does make cowards of us all...
Сторінка 287 - If a Jew wrong a Christian, what is his humility? revenge : If a Christian wrong a Jew, what should his sufferance be by Christian example ? why, revenge. The villainy you teach me I will execute ; and it shall go hard but I will better the instruction.
Сторінка 282 - It blesseth him that gives and him that takes. 'Tis mightiest in the mightiest; it becomes The throned monarch better than his crown; His sceptre shows the force of temporal power, The attribute to awe and majesty, Wherein doth sit the dread and fear of kings; But mercy is above this sceptred sway, It is enthroned in the hearts of kings, It is an attribute to God himself; And earthly power doth then show likest God's When mercy seasons justice.
Сторінка 302 - Dar'st thou, Cassius, now Leap in with me into this angry flood, And swim to yonder point ? Upon the word, Accoutred as I was, I plunged in, And bade him follow : so, indeed, he did. The torrent roared ; and we did buffet it With lusty sinews ; throwing it aside, And stemming it with hearts of controversy. But ere we could arrive the point proposed, Caesar cried, Help me, Cassius, or I sink.
Сторінка 301 - I had as lief not be as live to be In awe of such a thing as I myself.
Сторінка 132 - AT midnight, in his guarded tent, The Turk was dreaming of the hour When Greece, her knee in suppliance bent, Should tremble at his power ; In dreams, through camp and court, he bore The trophies of a conqueror ; In dreams his song of triumph heard. Then wore his monarch's signet ring, Then pressed that monarch's throne — a King ; As wild his thoughts, and gay of wing, As Eden's garden bird.
Сторінка 243 - Now came still evening on, and twilight gray Had in her sober livery all things clad; Silence accompanied; for beast and bird, They to their grassy couch, these to their nests Were slunk, all but .the wakeful nightingale; She all night long her amorous descant sung...
Сторінка 207 - Tis of the wave and not the rock ; ,Tis but the flapping of the sail, And not a rent made by the gale ! In spite of rock and tempest's roar. In spite of false lights on the shore, Sail on, nor fear to breast the sea ! Our hearts, our hopes, are all with thee...
Сторінка 128 - 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...
Сторінка 88 - No, sir, she has none. They are meant for us : they can be meant for no other. They are sent over to bind and rivet upon us those chains, which the British ministry have been so long forging.

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