 | Recitations - 1877 - 448 pages
...sounds of preparation — the music of the boisterous drums — the silver voices of heroic bugles. We hear the appeals of orators ; we see the pale cheeks of women, and the flushed faces of men ; we see all the dead whose dust we have covered with flowers. We lose sight of them no more. We are... | |
 | Oliver Ernesto Branch - Readers - 1878 - 278 pages
...race." A VISION OF THE PAST. EOBT. C. INCERSOLL. The past rises before me like a dream. Again we arc in the great struggle for national life. We hear the sounds of preparation—the music of tho bcisterous drums, the silver voices of heroic bugles. Wo see thousands... | |
 | Allen Ayrault Griffith - Elocution - 1879 - 348 pages
...gloriously triumphed. God speed the day ! COL. RG INGERSOLL'S ADDRESS TO THE UNION SOLDIERS AT INDIANAPOLIS. The past rises before me like a dream. Again we are...We hear the sounds of preparation — the music of the boisterous drums, the silver voices of heroic bugles. We see thousands of assemblages, and hear... | |
 | Luther Tracy Townsend - Oratory - 1881 - 272 pages
...Edward Everett. The following is one of the most touching examples of vision in English literature : "The past rises before me like a dream. Again we are...We hear the sounds of preparation — the music of the boisterous drums, the silver voices of heroic bugles. We see thousands of assemblages, and hear... | |
 | Robert Green Ingersoll - Funeral orations - 1881 - 172 pages
...REMARKABLE VISION — ONE OF THE MOST ELOQUENT EXTRACTS IN THE ENGLISH LA.NGtTAGE. The p;ist, as it were, rises before me like a dream. Again we are in the great struggle for national life. We hear the sound <if preparation — the music of the boisterous drums — the silver voi ;es of heroic bugles.... | |
 | Robert Green Ingersoll - Funeral orations - 1882 - 174 pages
...ELOQUENT EXTRACTS IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE. The past, as it were, rises before me like a dream. Agai; we are in the great struggle for national life. We hear the sound of preparation — the music of the boisterous drums — the silver voices of heroic bugles.... | |
 | Robert Green Ingersoll - Bible - 1883 - 210 pages
...me like Hream* Extract from a Speech delivered at the Soldiers' Reunion at Indianapolis, 1876. TEE past rises before me like a dream. Again we are in...struggle for national life. We hear the sounds of preparations — the music of boisterous drums — the silver voices of heroic bugles. We see thousands... | |
 | Thomas W. Handford - Recitations, American - 1881 - 438 pages
...sounds of preparation — the music of the boisterous drums — the silver voices of heroic bugles. We hear the appeals of orators; we see the pale cheeks of women, and the flushed faces of men ; we see all the dead whose dust we have covered with flowers. We lose sight of them no more. We are... | |
 | George Arthur Gaskell - Authorship - 1884 - 164 pages
...specimen of the grand style. It is truly grand, both in language and thought : The past, as it were, rises before me like a dream. Again we are in the great struggle for national life. We hear the sound of preparation — the music of the boisterous drums— the silver voices of heroic bugles. We... | |
 | Elocution - 1885 - 332 pages
...throughout the land who had lost loved ones in the war for the nation's honor.] The past, as It were, rises before me like a dream. Again we are in the great struggle for national life. We hear the sound of preparation — the music of the boisterous drums — the silver voices of heroic bugles.... | |
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The past rises before me like a dream. Again we are in the great struggle for national life. We hear the sounds of preparation — the music of boisterous drums — the silver voices of heroic bugles. We see thousands of assemblages, and hear the appeals... 
