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The Monthly review. New and improved ser - Page 420
1799
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The Standard Speaker: Containing Exercises in Prose and Poetry for ...

Elocution - 1854 - 576 pages
...Then pealed the notes, omnipotent to charm, And the loud tocsin tolled their last alarm ! _--„ ' In vain, alas ! in vain, ye gallant few ! •;" / From rank to rank your volleyed thunder flew ; — • ,Jff • O ! bloodiest picture in the book of Time, — , ,*. Sarmatia...
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The American Speaker: Containing Numerous Rules, Observations, and Exercises ...

John Frost - Elocution - 1855 - 462 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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A System of Elocution: With Special Reference to Gesture, to the Treatment ...

Andrew Comstock - Elocution - 1855 - 444 pages
...a horrid fron<v they form ; | Still as the breeze1, j but dreadful as the storm, ; | Low, murmuring sounds along their banners fly, | Revenge', or death^,...and reply, ; | Then peal'd the notes, omnipotent to charm1, | And the loud tocsin told their last alarm, j In vain, alas ! in vain, ye gallant few ! |...
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The Pleasures of Hope

Thomas Campbell - 1856 - 144 pages
...and slow, a horrid front they form, Still as the breeze, but dreadful as the storm ; Low murm'ring sounds along their banners fly, Revenge, or death,...! in vain, ye gallant few ! From rank to rank your volley' d thunder flew : — Oh ! bloodiest picture in the book of Time, Sarmatia fell, unwept, without...
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Select specimens of English poetry

Edward Hughes - 1856 - 474 pages
...they form, Still as the hreeze, hut dreadful as the storm ; Low, murm'ring sounds along their hanners fly, Revenge or death, — the watchword and reply...charm, And the loud tocsin toll'd their last alarm I O Triumph. Generous. Poured. Waste. Oppression. Carn:ige. Brooded. Country. Tumultuous. Murmuring....
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An Essay on Elocution: With Elucidatory Passages from Various Authors to ...

John Hanbury Dwyer - Elocution - 1856 - 312 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,...peal'd the notes, omnipotent to charm, And the loud toesin toll'd their last alarm ! — In vain, alas! in vain, ye gallant few! From rank to rank your...
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The Rhetorical Reader

Ebenezer Porter - Elocution - 1856 - 320 pages
...breeze, 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...charm, And the loud tocsin toll'd their last alarm!— 4 (—) In vain, alas ! in vain, ye gallant few ! From rank to rank your volley'd thunder flew:—...
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Narrative of a journey from Heraut to Khiva, Moscow and St ..., Volume 2

sir James Abbott - 1856 - 424 pages
...and slow, a horrid front they form, Still as the breeze, yet dreadful as the storm. Low, murmuring sounds along their banners fly. Revenge or death, the watchword and reply. Then peal'd those notes, omnipotent to charm, And the loud tocsin toll'd their last alarm. In vain, alas ! hi vain,...
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The Book of Oratory: A New Collection of Extracts in Prose, Poetry and ...

Readers - 1856 - 518 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 ! — Oh ! bloodiest...
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McGuffey's New Sixth Eclectic Reader: Exercises in Rhetorical Reading, with ...

William Holmes McGuffey - Readers - 1857 - 456 pages
...murmuring sounds along their banners fly, Revenge, or death,—the watch-word ' and reply v ; (Ji) Then peal'd the notes, omnipotent to charm, And the loud tocsin toll'd their last alarm. 4. In vain, alas! in vain, ye gallant few! From rank to rank, your volley'd thunder flew! Oh bloodiest...
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