Read full poem →FOR YOUNG PEOPLE
ESSAYS # ORATORY
POETRY & DRAMA
Dictionary Entry
A private chapel or prayer room.
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Common Phrases
. oratoryoratory politicaloratory pulpit
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Poetry examples for “oratory”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →than prose; as Byron said of Sheridan's speeches, neither poetry nor
oratory, but better than either. It was no difficult matter to pass
from Chase Henry:
Read full poem →populace but she soon became so owing to her striking appearance,
telling voice and gift of oratory. All the arts she had learnt as
David Williams she displayed now in pleading the woman's cause at
Read full poem →But write thy best, and top; and in each line,
Sir Formal's oratory will be thine.
Sir Formal, though unsought, attends thy quill,
Read full poem →Its walls there was a steed caparisoned:
Within an antique Oratory stood
The Boy of whom I spake;--he was alone,[44]
Read full poem →The self-same aspect, and the quivering shock[50] 150
That in the antique Oratory shook
His bosom in its solitude; and then--
Read full poem →tices. Edited by F. J. Child, Boylston Professor of
Rhetoric and Oratory in Harvard College.
Read full poem →SCENE.--_Hall in the house of_ COUNTESS CATHLEEN. _At the Left an
oratory with steps leading up to it. At the Right a tapestried
wall, more or less repeating the form of the oratory, and a great