Lessons in Elocution: Or, A Selection of Pieces in Prose and Verse, for the Improvement of Youth in Reading and SpeakingH. Brown, 1817 - 407 Seiten |
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... round upon them . The spirit of what he says , or is said to him , appears in his look . If he expresses amazement , or would excite it , he lifts up his hands and eyes . If he invites to virtue and happi- ness , he spreads his arms ...
... round upon them . The spirit of what he says , or is said to him , appears in his look . If he expresses amazement , or would excite it , he lifts up his hands and eyes . If he invites to virtue and happi- ness , he spreads his arms ...
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... round the country in order to discover a place where they might probably meet with water , they at length descried a clear spring , at the bottom of a well . They both eagerly descended ; and having sufficiently allayed their thirst ...
... round the country in order to discover a place where they might probably meet with water , they at length descried a clear spring , at the bottom of a well . They both eagerly descended ; and having sufficiently allayed their thirst ...
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... round all the Athenian benches . But on those occasions there were also particular places assigned for foreigners . When the good man skulked towards the boxes appointed for the Lacedemonians , that honest people , more virtuous than ...
... round all the Athenian benches . But on those occasions there were also particular places assigned for foreigners . When the good man skulked towards the boxes appointed for the Lacedemonians , that honest people , more virtuous than ...
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... round with the industry of their great grandtural weeray sir , take the Jaudable mystery of embroidery into your serious con- sideration , and as you have a great deal of the virtue of the last age in you , continue your endeavors to ...
... round with the industry of their great grandtural weeray sir , take the Jaudable mystery of embroidery into your serious con- sideration , and as you have a great deal of the virtue of the last age in you , continue your endeavors to ...
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... rounded , are voluble and easy . Whoever wishes to attain an English style , familiar but not coarse , and elegant but not ostentatious , must give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison . IV .--- Pleasure and Pain .--- SPECTATOR ...
... rounded , are voluble and easy . Whoever wishes to attain an English style , familiar but not coarse , and elegant but not ostentatious , must give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison . IV .--- Pleasure and Pain .--- SPECTATOR ...
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Seite 219 - Whilst all the stars that round her burn, And all the planets in their turn, Confirm the tidings as they roll, And spread the truth from pole to pole.
Seite 369 - She'd come again, and with a greedy ear Devour up my discourse. Which I observing, Took once a pliant hour; and found good means To draw from her a prayer of earnest heart, That I would all my pilgrimage dilate...
Seite 243 - Twilight gray had in her sober livery all things clad : Silence accompanied ; for Beast and Bird, they to their grassy couch, these to their nests, were slunk, — all but the wakeful nightingale; she, all night long, her amorous descant sung; Silence was pleased. Now...
Seite 361 - All this? ay, more: Fret till your proud heart break; Go, show your slaves how choleric you are, And make your bondmen tremble.
Seite 237 - Yet he was kind, or if severe in aught, The love he bore to learning was in fault...
Seite 220 - The sober herd that low'd to meet their young ; The noisy geese that gabbled o'er the pool, The playful children just let loose from school ; The watch-dog's voice, that bay'd the whispering wind, And the loud laugh that spoke the vacant mind ; These all in sweet confusion sought the shade, And fill'd each pause the nightingale had made.
Seite 236 - Lives through all life, extends through all extent, Spreads undivided, operates unspent: Breathes in our soul, informs our mortal part, As full, as perfect, in a hair as heart; As full, as perfect, in vile man that mourns, As the rapt seraph that adores and burns: To him no high, no low, no great, no small; He fills, he bounds, connects, and equals all.
Seite 354 - Why, well : Never so truly happy, my good Cromwell. I know myself now ; and I feel within me A peace above all earthly dignities, A still and quiet conscience.
Seite 253 - Orphean lyre, I sung of Chaos and eternal Night ; Taught by the heavenly muse to venture down The dark descent, and up to reascend, Though hard and rare : thee I revisit safe, And feel thy sovereign vital lamp ; but thou Revisitest not these eyes, that roll in vain To find thy piercing ray, and find no dawn ; So thick a drop serene hath quenched their orbs, Or dim suffusion veiled.
Seite 362 - There is no terror, Cassius, in your threats, For I am arm'd so strong in honesty That they pass by me as the idle wind, Which I respect not.