Modern Eloquence: Vol Ii, After-Dinner Speeches E-O
Modern Eloquence: Vol Ii, After-Dinner Speeches E-O
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* * * * * THE STAGE [Speech of James Russell Lowell at a breakfast given to American actors at the Savage Club, London, August, 1880. Charles Dickens [the son of the novelist] occupied the post of chairman and called upon Mr. Lowell to respond to the toast proposed in his honor: "The Health of the American Minister. "] MR. CHAIRMAN AND GENTLEMEN:--In listening to the kind words andstill more in hearing the name of the gentleman who was kind enough topropose the toast to which I am replying,... I cannot help recalling thewords of one of your English poets:-- "Oh, for the touch of a vanished hand, And the sound of a voice that is still!" I was honored with the acquaintance, in some sort, I may say, with thefriendship of the father of the gentleman who proposed my name, andbefore saying anything further you will allow me to remark that mycountrymen are always ready to recognize the hereditary claims whenbased upon hereditary merit. ["Hear! Hear!"] Gentlemen, it is a great pleasure to me to be here, but in some sense Iregard it also as a kind of duty to be present on any occasion when thestar-spangled banner and the red cross of England hang opposite eachother, in friendly converse.
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