Lessons in Elocution, Or, A Selection of Pieces in Prose and Verse: For the Improvement of Youth in Reading and SpeakingHill and Moore, 1820 - 384 pàgines |
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Pàgina 19
... master will be a little discouraged , at the awkward figure his pupil makes , in his first at- tempts to teach him . But this is no more than what happens in dancing , fencing , or any other exercise which depends on habit . By practice ...
... master will be a little discouraged , at the awkward figure his pupil makes , in his first at- tempts to teach him . But this is no more than what happens in dancing , fencing , or any other exercise which depends on habit . By practice ...
Pàgina 58
... master , of his lady mother's making . She blows him up with self conceit and there she stops . She makes a man of him at twelve , and a boy all his life after . An infalliable way to make your child miserable , is to satisfy all his ...
... master , of his lady mother's making . She blows him up with self conceit and there she stops . She makes a man of him at twelve , and a boy all his life after . An infalliable way to make your child miserable , is to satisfy all his ...
Pàgina 74
... master of all the qualifications that can make you so . These are the only terms and condi- tions upon which I can propose happiness . " The god- dess of Pleasure here broke in upon her discourse : " You see , " said she , " Herculos ...
... master of all the qualifications that can make you so . These are the only terms and condi- tions upon which I can propose happiness . " The god- dess of Pleasure here broke in upon her discourse : " You see , " said she , " Herculos ...
Pàgina 104
... master of the greatest part of the world . His table was served with the most frugal simplicity ; and whenever he was at liberty to consult his own inclination , the company consisted of a few select friends , men of learning and virtue ...
... master of the greatest part of the world . His table was served with the most frugal simplicity ; and whenever he was at liberty to consult his own inclination , the company consisted of a few select friends , men of learning and virtue ...
Pàgina 105
... master only of the politer arts , but conversant also with the most abstruse and critical parts of learning ; and , among other works which he published , addressed two books to Cicero , on the analogy of language , or the art of ...
... master only of the politer arts , but conversant also with the most abstruse and critical parts of learning ; and , among other works which he published , addressed two books to Cicero , on the analogy of language , or the art of ...
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Passatges populars
Pàgina 349 - Cromwell, I did not think to shed a tear In all my miseries; but thou hast forc'd me Out of thy honest truth to play the woman. 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...
Pàgina 230 - Soft roll your incense, herbs, and fruits, and flowers, In mingled clouds to Him whose Sun exalts, Whose breath perfumes you, and whose pencil paints. Ye forests, bend, ye harvests, wave to Him ; Breathe your still song into the reaper's heart, As home he goes beneath the joyous Moon.
Pàgina 374 - I speak not to disprove what Brutus spoke, But here I am to speak what I do know. You all did love him once, not without cause ; What cause withholds you then to mourn for him ? O judgment ! thou art fled to brutish beasts, And men have lost their reason.
Pàgina 373 - Romans, countrymen, and lovers ! hear me for my cause, and be silent, that you may hear : believe me for mine honour, and have respect to mine honour, that you may believe : censure me in your wisdom, and awake your senses, that you may the better judge. If there be any in this assembly, any dear friend of Caesar's, to him I say that Brutus' love to Caesar was no less than his.
Pàgina 356 - Caius Cassius so? When Marcus Brutus grows so covetous, To lock such rascal counters from his friends, Be ready, gods, with all your thunderbolts; Dash him to pieces!
Pàgina 366 - The oppressor's wrong, the proud man's contumely, The pangs of despis'd love, the law's delay, The insolence of office, and the spurns That patient merit of the unworthy takes, When he himself might his quietus make With a bare bodkin...
Pàgina 231 - tis nought to me; Since God is ever present, ever felt, In the void waste as in the city full ; And where He vital breathes there must be joy.
Pàgina 254 - Married to immortal verse ; Such as the meeting soul may pierce, In notes, with many a winding bout Of linked sweetness long drawn out, With wanton heed and giddy cunning ; The melting voice through mazes running, Untwisting all the chains that tie The hidden soul of harmony ; That Orpheus...
Pàgina 262 - The bottles twain, behind his back, were shattered at a blow. Down ran the wine into the road, most piteous to be seen, Which made his horse's flanks to smoke as they had basted been. But still he...
Pàgina 363 - My story being done, She gave me for my pains a world of sighs: She swore, in faith, 'twas strange, 'twas passing strange; 'Twas pitiful, 'twas wondrous pitiful: She wish'd she had not heard it, yet she wish'd That heaven had made her such a man...