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The fringe of thin foam that their sepulcher binds Is as light as the clouds that are borne by the winds . Soft over its bosom the dim vapors hover In morning's first light : and the snowy winged plover , That skims o'er the deep Where ...
The fringe of thin foam that their sepulcher binds Is as light as the clouds that are borne by the winds . Soft over its bosom the dim vapors hover In morning's first light : and the snowy winged plover , That skims o'er the deep Where ...
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... Still through the gloom thy star serenely glows ; Like yon fair orb she gilds the brow of night With the mild magic of reflected light . eye And who can tell the triumphs of the mind By truth illumined and by taste refined ?
... Still through the gloom thy star serenely glows ; Like yon fair orb she gilds the brow of night With the mild magic of reflected light . eye And who can tell the triumphs of the mind By truth illumined and by taste refined ?
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The Greek rhetorician , Longinus , quotes from the Mosaic account of the creation what he calls the sublimest passage ever uttered : " God said , ' Let there be light , ' and there was light . " From the center of black immensity ...
The Greek rhetorician , Longinus , quotes from the Mosaic account of the creation what he calls the sublimest passage ever uttered : " God said , ' Let there be light , ' and there was light . " From the center of black immensity ...
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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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