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Page 203
Like chaff before the wind of heaven , The archery appear : For life ! for life ! their flight they plyAnd shriek , and shout , and battle - cry , And plaids and bonnets waving high , And broad - swords flashing to the sky ...
Like chaff before the wind of heaven , The archery appear : For life ! for life ! their flight they plyAnd shriek , and shout , and battle - cry , And plaids and bonnets waving high , And broad - swords flashing to the sky ...
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he cried , Then ran with arms extended wide , As if his dearest friend to clasp ;Ten spears he swept within his grasp :" Make way for liberty ! " he cried : Their keen points met from side to side ;He bowed amongst them like a tree ...
he cried , Then ran with arms extended wide , As if his dearest friend to clasp ;Ten spears he swept within his grasp :" Make way for liberty ! " he cried : Their keen points met from side to side ;He bowed amongst them like a tree ...
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thankful , and cry to Charles Stuart , O king , live for ever ! — for he has but cast us into a fiery furnace and a lion's den . In truth , friends , Mr. Renwick is quite right . This feeling of indignation against our oppressors is a ...
thankful , and cry to Charles Stuart , O king , live for ever ! — for he has but cast us into a fiery furnace and a lion's den . In truth , friends , Mr. Renwick is quite right . This feeling of indignation against our oppressors is a ...
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| Title | The New York Speaker: A Selection of Pieces Designed for Academic Exercises in Elocution |
| Author | Warren P. Edgarton |
| Edition | revised |
| Publisher | Mason Brothers, 1860 |
| Original from | the New York Public Library |
| Digitized | 30 May 2007 |
| Length | 502 pages |
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