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The burden of his declamation was the oppressive and unlawful system of taxation devised by Great Britain against her. From Wordnik.com. [The Farmer Boy, and How He Became Commander-In-Chief] Reference
And this coolness often prevents our being carried away by a stream of eloquence, which the prejudiced mind terms declamation -- a pomp of words. From Wordnik.com. [Posthumous Works of the Author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman] Reference
The singing is a kind of declamation, with long slurs, frequent staccatos, and abrupt endings. From Wordnik.com. [The Manóbos of Mindanáo Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume XXIII, First Memoir] Reference
Lofty declamation is always the character of the play. From Wordnik.com. [Classic French Course in English] Reference
The declamation is unnatural, and void of vigour and emphasis. From Wordnik.com. [The Philippine Islands] Reference
The phrase, I am aware, is vague, and often serves for mere declamation. From Wordnik.com. [Harvard Classics Volume 28 Essays English and American] Reference
In contrast to Kemble's declamation, Kean's acting was vehement and passionate. From Wordnik.com. [The Facts About Shakespeare] Reference
Poetry is not declamation, it is not propaganda, it is breathing natural breaths. From Wordnik.com. [Adventures in the Arts Informal Chapters on Painters, Vaudeville, and Poets] Reference
They will believe that his power of oratory DOES NOT betray him into random declamation. From Wordnik.com. [Life in the Grey Nunnery at Montreal] Reference
If we go into a school exhibition, our ears are deafened by declamation addressed to ambition. From Wordnik.com. [Lessons in Life A Series of Familiar Essays] Reference
Here I fell down upon my knees, but not a single verse for declamation could I recall to my memory. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 62, No. 384, October 1847] Reference
In Greece, declamation was regarded as the principal step to honour and advancement in public life. From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor, Vol. I, No. 5, May 1810] Reference
The father appeared to pay no attention to the fault-finding, shrill declamation of the unhappy voice. From Wordnik.com. [Ruth Fielding of the Red Mill Or, Jasper Parloe's Secret] Reference
He prefers foreign writers and poets, whom he quotes with some taste, though with too much declamation. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
The increasing power of the government at Washington has been a favorite theme for Democratic declamation. From Wordnik.com. [The Life, Public Services and Select Speeches of Rutherford B. Hayes] Reference
= -- A collection of exercises for declamation and recitation, with many dialogues never before published. From Wordnik.com. [The Nursery, January 1877, Volume XXI, No. 1 A Monthly Magazine for Youngest Readers] Reference
And yet how men have contrived to mystify the whole question by vague declamation about the rights of States!. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 3, September 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
Borso's wary eyes at the commencement of this piece, and to see them drop their fence as the declamation went on. From Wordnik.com. [Little Novels of Italy Madonna Of The Peach-Tree, Ippolita In The Hills, The Duchess Of Nona, Messer Cino And The Live Coal, The Judgment Of Borso] Reference
At the most Maria would sometimes accord the young poet, still agitated by the declamation of his lines, a careless. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
We have warned you against moralising: let us now say a word or two on the subjects of description and declamation. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 379, May, 1847] Reference
But it is in the ballad of Virginia that his besetting tendency towards declamation becomes most thoroughly apparent. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 379, May, 1847] Reference
There is no loud declamation, no melodramatic denunciation, no springing at each other's throats, or flashing of swords. From Wordnik.com. [Nell, of Shorne Mills or, One Heart's Burden] Reference
So that, while empty declamation is avoided, the principles of truth are meant to be investigated by reason and experience. From Wordnik.com. [A Treatise on Foreign Teas Abstracted From An Ingenious Work, Lately Published, Entitled An Essay On the Nerves] Reference
These were the cuttle-fish of the party, whose appointed duty it was to obscure popular vision by clouds of loyal declamation. From Wordnik.com. [Destruction and Reconstruction: Personal Experiences of the Late War] Reference
The truth is, slavery is right, and is proved to be so, notwithstanding all the noisy declamation we hear about human equality. From Wordnik.com. [The Right of American Slavery] Reference
The gallantry of Wolfe still throws its lustre over the concluding years of the second George; and the brilliant declamation of. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 378, April, 1847] Reference
Note, also, that in spoken declamation, accent applies to a syllable only; in singing, the verbal accent affects an entire word. From Wordnik.com. [Style in Singing] Reference
He has heard Faust's voice and from its excited tones has concluded that he is practising declamation -- reciting perhaps a Greek play. From Wordnik.com. [The Faust-Legend and Goethe's 'Faust'] Reference
= -- A collection of exercises in declamation and recitation, for advanced classes, comprising many dialogues and select pieces never before published. From Wordnik.com. [The Nursery, January 1877, Volume XXI, No. 1 A Monthly Magazine for Youngest Readers] Reference
The playful but searching satire which the author has ever at command just touches the declamation of his opponent, and it falls like a house of cards. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 102, April, 1866] Reference
African; your feelings are enlisted, and your purse strings unloosed, and this often by the hypocritical declamation of some self-styled philanthropist. From Wordnik.com. [Cotton is King, and Pro-Slavery Arguments Comprising the Writings of Hammond, Harper, Christy, Stringfellow, Hodge, Bledsoe, and Cartrwright on This Important Subject] Reference
His, voice, his gestures, his solemn pauses, followed by lofty and sustained declamation, proved irresistible and sometimes overwhelming in their effect. From Wordnik.com. [A Political History of the State of New York, Volumes 1-3] Reference
As though she feels that her power of melodramatic declamation has been weakened, Miss Neilson in the graveyard seems to rely more on melodramatic action. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 24, March, 1873] Reference
declamation against militarism has no more serious place in an earnest and intelligent movement for righteousness in this country than declamation against the worship of. From Wordnik.com. [State of the Union Address (1790-2001)] Reference
Unfortunately, Tanquerel's treasonable thesis and Hans's excited declamation were not mere harmless speculations which might never be of any practical importance to the state. From Wordnik.com. [The Rise of the Hugenots, Vol. 1 (of 2)] Reference
By combating the position -- "the popular belief," as he calls it -- that "slavery is a national institution," he lays open a wide field for his peculiar powers of declamation. From Wordnik.com. [Cotton is King, and Pro-Slavery Arguments Comprising the Writings of Hammond, Harper, Christy, Stringfellow, Hodge, Bledsoe, and Cartrwright on This Important Subject] Reference
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