The Art of Speaking: Containing. An Essay, in which are Given Rules for Expressing Properly the Principal Passions and Humours, which Occur in Reading, Or Public Speaking. And Lessons, Taken from the Ancients and Moderns; Exhibiting a Variety of Matter for Practice; the Emphatical Words Printed in Italics; with Notes of Direction Referring to the Essay ...S. Butler, 1804 - 291 pàgines |
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Pàgina 59
... daughter have access to her in prison ; carefully searching her , how- ever , as she went in , lest she should carry with her any sustenance ; concluding , that in a fers days , the mother must , of course , perish for want , and that ...
... daughter have access to her in prison ; carefully searching her , how- ever , as she went in , lest she should carry with her any sustenance ; concluding , that in a fers days , the mother must , of course , perish for want , and that ...
Pàgina 60
... daughter the forfeited life of her condemned mother , but they were both maintained after- wards , by a pension settled on them for life . And the ground , upon which the prison stood , was consecrated , and a temple to Filial Piety ...
... daughter the forfeited life of her condemned mother , but they were both maintained after- wards , by a pension settled on them for life . And the ground , upon which the prison stood , was consecrated , and a temple to Filial Piety ...
Pàgina 73
... daughter of the dawn , Narration . Awe . Sprinkled with rosy light the dewy lawn ; When Jove conven'd the senate of the skies , Where high Olympus ' cloudy tops arise , The Sire of gods his awful silence broke ; The heavens , attentive ...
... daughter of the dawn , Narration . Awe . Sprinkled with rosy light the dewy lawn ; When Jove conven'd the senate of the skies , Where high Olympus ' cloudy tops arise , The Sire of gods his awful silence broke ; The heavens , attentive ...
Pàgina 89
... daughter without his consent , and being afterwards reduced to poverty , and soliciting his father - in - law to re- lieve his distress , receives the following treat- ment . ( VENICE PRESERVED . ] PRIULI and JAFFIER . Priuli . No more ...
... daughter without his consent , and being afterwards reduced to poverty , and soliciting his father - in - law to re- lieve his distress , receives the following treat- ment . ( VENICE PRESERVED . ] PRIULI and JAFFIER . Priuli . No more ...
Pàgina 90
... daughter's life ? You know , that , but for me Selfdefence You had been childless . I restor'd her d her to you , When sunk before your eyes amidst the waves , I hazarded my life for her's ; and she Has richly paid me with her generous ...
... daughter's life ? You know , that , but for me Selfdefence You had been childless . I restor'd her d her to you , When sunk before your eyes amidst the waves , I hazarded my life for her's ; and she Has richly paid me with her generous ...
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Passatges populars
Pàgina 122 - It must be so — Plato, thou reasonest well ; Else whence this pleasing hope, this fond desire, This longing after immortality ? Or whence this secret dread, and inward horror, Of falling into nought ? Why shrinks the soul Back on herself, and startles at destruction ? Tis the divinity that stirs within us ; 'Tis heaven itself, that points out an hereafter, And intimates eternity to man ! Eternity ! thou pleasing, dreadful thought ! Through what variety of untried being, Through what new scenes...
Pàgina 166 - It must not be; there is no power in Venice Can alter a decree established: 'Twill be recorded for a precedent; And many an error, by the same example, Will rush into the state: it cannot be.
Pàgina 173 - I stand in pause where I shall first begin, And both neglect. What if this cursed hand Were thicker than itself with brother's blood, Is there not rain enough in the sweet heavens To wash it white as snow?
Pàgina 143 - Cassius, now Leap in with me into this angry flood, And swim to yonder point ? ' Upon the word, Accoutred as I was, I plunged in And bade him follow : so indeed he did. The torrent roar'd, and we did buffet it With lusty sinews, throwing it aside And stemming it with hearts of controversy ; But ere we could arrive the point proposed, Caesar cried ' Help me, Cassius, or I sink...
Pàgina 143 - 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.
Pàgina 161 - Art thou not, fatal vision, sensible To feeling as to sight? or art thou but A dagger of the mind, a false creation, Proceeding from the heat-oppressed brain?
Pàgina 167 - Take then thy bond, take thou thy pound of flesh; But, in the cutting it, if thou dost shed One drop of Christian blood, thy lands and goods Are, by the laws of Venice, confiscate Unto the state of Venice.
Pàgina 125 - Nine years!' cries he, who, high in Drury Lane, Lull'd by soft zephyrs through the broken pane, Rhymes ere he wakes, and prints before Term ends, Obliged by hunger, and request of friends: 'The piece, you think, is incorrect? why take it, I'm all submission; what you'd have it, make it.
Pàgina 123 - To whom the goblin full of wrath replied. «Art thou that traitor- Angel, art thou He> Who first broke peace in Heaven ; and faith, till then Unbroken, and in proud rebellious arms Drew after him the third part of Heaven's sons...
Pàgina 122 - Here will I hold. If there's a power above us (And that there is, all Nature cries aloud Through all her works), he must delight in virtue ; And that which he delights in must be happy.