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The School Orator, or Exercises in Elocution
The School Orator or Exercises in Elocution Author:James Wright General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1833 Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million book... more »s for free. Excerpt: ' Older and abler pass'd you by! ' How strong are those! how weak am I! ' Should I presume to bear you hence, ' Those friends of mine may take offence. ' Excuse me, then. You know my heart; ' But dearest friends, alas! must part: ' How shall we all lament! Adieu! ' For see, the hounds are just in view.' THE CUR, THE HORSE, AND THE SHEPHERD'S DOG. The lad of all-sufficient merit, With modesty ne'er damps his spirit, Presuming on his own deserts, On all alike his tongue exerts ; His noisy jokes at random throws, And pertly spatters friends and foes; In wit and war, the bully race Contribute to their own disgrace. Too late the forward youth shall find That jokes are sometimes paid in kind; Or if they canker in the breast, He makes a foe who makes a jest. A village cur, of snappish race, The pertest puppy of the place, Imagin'd that his treble throat Was blest with music's sweetest note; In the mid-road he basking lay, The yelping nuisance of the way; For not a creature pass'd along But had a sample of his song. Soon as the trotting steed he hears, He starts, he cocks his dapper ears; Away he scours, assaults his hoof, Now near him snarls, now barks aloof; With shrill impertinence attends, Nor leaves him till the village ends. It chanc'd, upon his evil day, A Pad came pacing down the way; The Cur, with never-ceasing tongue, Upon the passing traveller sprung, The Horse, from scorn provok'd to ire, Flung backward; rolling in the mire, The puppy howl'd, and bleeding lay; The Pad in peace pursu'd his way. A Shepherd's Dog, ...« less