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The Monthly review. New and improved ser - Page 420
1799
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The scientific reader and practical elocutionist

R T. Linnington - 1837 - 274 pages
...as the breeze, but dreadful as the storm ; Low murmuring sounds along their banners fly, REVENOE|| or DEATH ! the watchword and reply ; Then peal'd the notes omnipotent to charm, And the loud tocsin tolled their last alarm ! In H vain, alas ! in vain, ye gallant few ! * Solemn manner. •)• Ardent,...
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The Young Man's Book of Elegant Poetry: Comprising Selections from the Works ...

American poetry - 1838 - 332 pages
...and slow, a horrid front they form, Still as the breeze, but dreadful as the storm ; Low murmuring sounds along their banners fly, Revenge, or death,...the notes, omnipotent to charm, And the loud tocsin toil'd their last alarm! In vain, alas! in vain, ye gallant few! From rank to rank your volley'd thunder...
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The Rhetorical Reader: Consisting of Instructions for Regulating the Voice ...

Ebenezer Porter - Elocution - 1838 - 316 pages
...and slow, a horrid front they form, Still as the breeze, but dreadful as the storm; Low, murmuring sounds along their banners fly, Revenge, or death, — the watchword and reply; (<)Then pealed the notes, omnipotent to charm, And the loud tocsin tolled their last alarm ! — 4 ( — )...
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The poetic reciter; or, Beauties of the British poets: adapted for reading ...

Henry Marlen - 1838 - 342 pages
...and slow, a horrid front they form, Still as the breeze, but dreadful as the storm ; Low murmuring sounds along their banners fly, Revenge, or death, — the watch-word and reply ; •Then pealed the notes, omnipotent to charm, And the loud tocsin tolled their last alarm ! — In vain, alas...
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The Rhetorical Reader Consisting of Instructions for Regulating the Voice ...

Ebenezer Porter - 1839 - 316 pages
...and slow, a horrid front they form, Still as the breeze, but dreadful as the storm; Low, murmuring sounds along their banners fly, Revenge, or death, — the watchword and reply; (<)Then pealed the notes, omnipotent to charm, And the loud tocsin tolled their last alarm! — 4 ( — ) In...
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The Haileybury observer

East India college - 1840 - 204 pages
...the strife — The Whigs their numbers rate, And out of thirty members, they were — eight !!!!!!!! In vain, alas ! in vain, ye gallant few, From rank to rank your vollied thunders flew : Tory oppression's cause prevails, and ye Though faithful, loyal, patriotic,...
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The Poems of the Pleasures: Consisting of The Pleasures of Imagination, by ...

Friendship - 1841 - 358 pages
...and slow, a horrid front they form, Still as the breeze, but dreadful as the storm ; Low, murmuring sounds along their banners fly, Revenge, or death,...few ! From rank to rank your volley'd thunder flew : — O ! bloodiest picture in the book of time, Sarmatia fell, unwept, without a crime ; Found not...
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The Poetical Works of Thomas Campbell: Including Poland &c

Thomas Campbell - 1841 - 332 pages
...slow, a horrid front they form, Still an the breeze, but dreadful as the storm; Low murmuring Bounds along their banners fly, Revenge, or death, — the...vain, alas! in vain, ye gallant few! From rank to rank ynurvolley'd thunder flew: — Oh, bloodiest picture in the bonk of Time, Sarmatia fell, unwept, without...
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The Book of Pleasures

Hope - 1841 - 200 pages
...but dreadful as the storm; Low, murmuring sounds along their banners fly, Revenge, or death,—the watchword and reply; Then peal'd the notes omnipotent...alarm !— In vain, alas! in vain, ye gallant few! Prom rank to rank your volley'd thunder flew:— Oh! bloodiest picture in the book of Time, Sarmatia...
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A System of Elocution: With Special Reference to Gesture, to the Treatment ...

Andrew Comstock - Elocution - 1841 - 410 pages
...a horrid front' they form ; | Still as the breeze', | but dreadful as the storm, ; | Low, murmuring sounds , along their banners fly, | Revenge', or death,,...notes, omnipotent to charm', | And the loud tocsin , told their last alarm,. | In vain, alas ! | in vain, ye gallant few ! | From ranA to rank, your volley'd...
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