The Speaker: Or Miscellaneous Pieces, Selected from the Best English Writers, and Disposed Under Proper Heads, with a View to Facilitate the Improvement of Youth in Reading and Speaking, to which are Prefixed Two Essays: I. On Elocution. II. On Reading Works of TasteWilliam Enfield Stereotyped by Andrew Wilson, 1823 - 346 Seiten |
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... observe , the same effects produced , and that the scene will be realised , which our POETESS has so beautifully described : When this , this little group their Country calls From academic shades and learned halls , To fix her laws ...
... observe , the same effects produced , and that the scene will be realised , which our POETESS has so beautifully described : When this , this little group their Country calls From academic shades and learned halls , To fix her laws ...
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... observe the manner in which the several passions and feelings are expressed in real life ; and when you attempt to express any passion , inspire yourself with that secondary kind of feeling , which imagination is able to excite ; and ...
... observe the manner in which the several passions and feelings are expressed in real life ; and when you attempt to express any passion , inspire yourself with that secondary kind of feeling , which imagination is able to excite ; and ...
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... observe , produced indeed such a general resemblance , as must always be found among disciples of the same school : and sometimes we find them copying with too much.servility the works of other artists . But there were few among them ...
... observe , produced indeed such a general resemblance , as must always be found among disciples of the same school : and sometimes we find them copying with too much.servility the works of other artists . But there were few among them ...
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... observe in your conduct ; it is suavitèr in modo , fortitèr in re . I do not know any one rule so unexception- ably useful and necessary in every part of life . The suavitèr in modo alone would degenerate and sink into a mean , timid ...
... observe in your conduct ; it is suavitèr in modo , fortitèr in re . I do not know any one rule so unexception- ably useful and necessary in every part of life . The suavitèr in modo alone would degenerate and sink into a mean , timid ...
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... observe , that those who have conversed more with men than with books , whose wisdom is derived rather from experience than con- templation , generally possess this happy talent with superior perfection . For good sense , though it ...
... observe , that those who have conversed more with men than with books , whose wisdom is derived rather from experience than con- templation , generally possess this happy talent with superior perfection . For good sense , though it ...
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Seite 325 - tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, Or to take arms against a sea of troubles, And by opposing end them? To die : to sleep...
Seite 217 - Perhaps in this neglected spot is laid Some heart once pregnant with celestial fire ; Hands, that the rod of empire might have sway'd, Or wak'd to ecstasy the living lyre.
Seite 311 - Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears; •> I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him. The evil, that men do, lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones; \ So let it be with Caesar.
Seite 316 - For I can raise no money by vile means: By heaven, I had rather coin my heart, And drop my blood for drachmas, than to wring From the hard hands of peasants their vile trash By any indirection: I did send To you for gold to pay my legions, Which you denied me: was that done like Cassius?
Seite 305 - Let's dry our eyes: and thus far hear me, Cromwell; And, when I am forgotten, as I shall be, And sleep in dull cold marble, where no mention Of me more must be heard of, say, I taught thee...
Seite 150 - Let him depart; his passport shall be made, And crowns for convoy put into his purse: We would not die in that man's company That fears his fellowship to die with us. This day is call'd the feast of Crispian: He that outlives this day, and comes safe home, Will stand a tip-toe when this day is nam'd, And rouse him at the name of Crispian.
Seite 297 - No matter where ; of comfort no man speak : Let's talk of graves, of worms and epitaphs ; Make dust our paper and with rainy eyes Write sorrow on the bosom of the earth...
Seite 323 - But that I am forbid To tell the secrets of my prison-house, I could a tale unfold whose lightest word Would harrow up thy soul, freeze thy young blood, Make thy two eyes, like stars, start from their spheres, Thy knotted and combined locks to part And each particular hair to stand on end, Like quills upon the fretful porcupine : But this eternal blazon must not be To ears of flesh and blood.
Seite 184 - As a sick girl. Ye gods, it doth amaze me, A man of such a feeble temper should So get the start of the majestic world, And bear the palm alone.
Seite 334 - Thais led the way To light him to his prey, And like another Helen fired another Troy ! Thus long ago, Ere heaving bellows learned to blow, While organs yet were mute, Timotheus, to his breathing flute And sounding lyre, Could swell the soul to rage or kindle soft desire.