Psychology of the Spoken WordR. G. Badger, 1914 - 370 pages |
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... death ; " then comes the great answer of that great situa- tion : - " I will fear no evil . " Then comes another pause which creates interrogation ; and this is answered , “ for Thou art with me ; " again , the mind questions through ...
... death ; " then comes the great answer of that great situa- tion : - " I will fear no evil . " Then comes another pause which creates interrogation ; and this is answered , “ for Thou art with me ; " again , the mind questions through ...
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... Death Rode the six hundred . " Forward , the Light Brigade ! Charge for the guns ! " he said : Into the valley of Death Rode the six hundred . " Forward , the Light Brigade ! " Was there a man dismayed ? Not though the soldiers knew ...
... Death Rode the six hundred . " Forward , the Light Brigade ! Charge for the guns ! " he said : Into the valley of Death Rode the six hundred . " Forward , the Light Brigade ! " Was there a man dismayed ? Not though the soldiers knew ...
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... Death , Back from the mouth of Hell , All that was left of them , Left of six hundred . When can their glory fade ? Oh , the wild charge they made ! All the world wondered . Honor the charge they made ! Honor the Light Brigade , Noble ...
... Death , Back from the mouth of Hell , All that was left of them , Left of six hundred . When can their glory fade ? Oh , the wild charge they made ! All the world wondered . Honor the charge they made ! Honor the Light Brigade , Noble ...
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... death and shame . When Death and Shame would woo him last , From under the trees they drew him last , " Twas on a tree they slew him - last , When out of the woods he came . VIII . Transition The great mistake made by most public ...
... death and shame . When Death and Shame would woo him last , From under the trees they drew him last , " Twas on a tree they slew him - last , When out of the woods he came . VIII . Transition The great mistake made by most public ...
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... death.- The grass withers , the tale is ended , The bird is flown , the dew ascended . The hour is short , the span is long , The swan's near death , -man's life is done . XII . Sustention Of all steps contained in the subject of the ...
... death.- The grass withers , the tale is ended , The bird is flown , the dew ascended . The hour is short , the span is long , The swan's near death , -man's life is done . XII . Sustention Of all steps contained in the subject of the ...
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Alfred Tennyson banner bells bird blood blue Bob-o'-link bonnie Dundee brave breast breath Bregenz brow CAPT chee cried dark dead dear death dhey dream earth Elizabeth Akers Allen eyes face father fear flag flowers forever give glory gray hand hark hath hear heard heart heaven hill honor hope idea inflection Jack king liberty light Litotes live look Lord merry Metonomy mind morn mother nearer never night o'er poem poetry river Lee Robert Browning rocks rolling Rose Hartwick Thorpe round Sam Walter Foss shine silent sing Sir Launfal sleep song soul sound speaker speech Spoken Word Spondee stand star-spangled banner stars steed sweet Synecdoche tears tell thee thine things thou thought Toussaint L'Ouverture twas Vere voice Vrom wave wild wind
Popular passages
Page 35 - Cannon to right of them, Cannon to left of them, Cannon in front of them, Volleyed and thundered. Stormed at with shot and shell, Boldly they rode and well ; Into the jaws of Death, Into the mouth of Hell. Rode the six hundred.
Page 124 - 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...
Page 73 - The law of the Lord is perfect, converting the soul: the testimony of the Lord is sure, making wise the simple. The statutes of the Lord are right, rejoicing the heart: the commandment of the Lord is pure, enlightening the eyes. The fear of the Lord is clean, enduring for ever: the judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether.
Page 73 - I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills, from whence cometh my help. My help cometh from the Lord, which made heaven and earth. He will not suffer thy foot to be moved: he that keepeth thee will not slumber. Behold, he that keepeth Israel shall neither slumber nor sleep. The Lord is thy keeper: the Lord is thy shade upon thy right hand. The sun shall not smite thee by day, nor the moon by night. The Lord shall preserve thee from all evil: he shall preserve thy soul. The Lord shall preserve thy going...
Page 71 - I will say of the Lord, He is my refuge and my fortress : my God ; in him will I trust. Surely he shall deliver thee from the snare of the fowler, and from the noisome pestilence. He shall cover thee with his feathers, and under his wings shalt thou trust: his truth shall be thy shield and buckler.
Page 124 - gainst self -slaughter! O God! O God! How weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable Seem to me all the uses of this world. Fie on 't! O fie! 'tis an unweeded garden, That grows to seed; things rank and gross in nature Possess it merely.
Page 14 - Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears ; I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him. The evil that men do lives after them ; The good is oft interred with their bones ; So let it be with Caesar. The noble Brutus Hath told you Caesar was ambitious : If it were so, it was a grievous fault ; And grievously hath Caesar answered it.
Page 18 - 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.
Page 33 - Their dearest action in the tented field, And little of this great world can I speak, More than pertains to feats of broil and battle, And therefore little shall I grace my cause In speaking for myself. Yet, by your gracious patience, I will a round...
Page 360 - O'er the land of the free, and the home of the brave ! And where is that band who so vauntingly swore That the havoc of war and the battle's confusion A home and a country should leave us no more ? Their blood has wash'd out their foul footsteps