The United States Speaker: a Copious Selection of Exercises in Elocution: Consisting of Prose, Poetry and Dialogue: Drawn Chiefly from the Most Approved Writers of Great Britain and America ... |
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... Or substance might be called that shadow seemed ; For each seemed either ; black it stood as night , Fierce as ten furies , terrible as hell , And shook a dreadful dart ; what seemed his head The likeness of a kingly crown had on .
... Or substance might be called that shadow seemed ; For each seemed either ; black it stood as night , Fierce as ten furies , terrible as hell , And shook a dreadful dart ; what seemed his head The likeness of a kingly crown had on .
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| Title | The United States Speaker: a Copious Selection of Exercises in Elocution: Consisting of Prose, Poetry and Dialogue: Drawn Chiefly from the Most Approved Writers of Great Britain and America ... |
| Author | John Epy Lovell |
| Compiled by | John Epy Lovell |
| Publisher | S. Babcock, 1846 |
| Original from | the New York Public Library |
| Digitized | May 17, 2007 |
| Length | 504 pages |
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