Lessons in Elocution: Or, A Selection of Pieces, in Prose and Verse, for the Improvement of Youth in Reading and Speaking ...Hori Brown, 1820 - 407 pàgines |
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Pàgina 10
... reason for not at- tempting to give any discription of it . But there are many degrees between conveying a precise idea of a thing and no idea at all . Besides , in this part of deliv ery , instruction may be conveyed by the oye ; and ...
... reason for not at- tempting to give any discription of it . But there are many degrees between conveying a precise idea of a thing and no idea at all . Besides , in this part of deliv ery , instruction may be conveyed by the oye ; and ...
Pàgina 45
... reason . If he address- es heaven , he looks upward . If he speak to his fellow . creatures , he looks round upon them . The spirit of what he says , or is said to him , appears in his look . If he expressses amazement , or would excite ...
... reason . If he address- es heaven , he looks upward . If he speak to his fellow . creatures , he looks round upon them . The spirit of what he says , or is said to him , appears in his look . If he expressses amazement , or would excite ...
Pàgina 61
... reason by our own , is a plain act of injustice ; it is an encroachment on the common rights . of mankind . If you would tech secrecy to others , begin with yourself . How can you expect another will keep your secret , when yourself ...
... reason by our own , is a plain act of injustice ; it is an encroachment on the common rights . of mankind . If you would tech secrecy to others , begin with yourself . How can you expect another will keep your secret , when yourself ...
Pàgina 69
... reason to think he should escape ; and which he did not desire to escape , by leaving his friend to suffer in his place . Such fidelity softened even the savage heart of Dionysius himself . He pardoned the condemned ; he gave the two ...
... reason to think he should escape ; and which he did not desire to escape , by leaving his friend to suffer in his place . Such fidelity softened even the savage heart of Dionysius himself . He pardoned the condemned ; he gave the two ...
Pàgina 72
... reason we now find Luxury and Avarice taking possession of the same heart , and dividing the same person between them . To which I shall only add , that since the dis- carding of the counsellors above mentioned , Avarice supplies Luxury ...
... reason we now find Luxury and Avarice taking possession of the same heart , and dividing the same person between them . To which I shall only add , that since the dis- carding of the counsellors above mentioned , Avarice supplies Luxury ...
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Passatges populars
Pàgina 231 - Yet he was kind, or, if severe in aught, The love he bore to learning was in fault...
Pàgina 351 - Disguise fair nature with hard-favour'd rage; Then lend the eye a terrible aspect; Let it pry through the portage of the head Like the brass cannon: let the brow o'erwhelm it As fearfully as doth a galled rock O'erhang and jutty his confounded base, Swill'd with the wild and wasteful ocean. Now set the teeth and stretch the nostril wide; Hold hard the breath, and bend up every spirit To his full height.
Pàgina 224 - The boast of heraldry, the pomp of power, And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave, Await alike the inevitable hour: The paths of glory lead but to the grave.
Pàgina 347 - She lov'd me for the dangers I had pass'd, And I lov'd her that she did pity them.
Pàgina 243 - His praise, ye winds, that from four quarters blow, Breathe soft or loud ; and wave your tops, ye pines, With every plant, in sign of worship wave. • • Fountains, and ye that warble, as ye. flow, Melodious murmurs, warbling, tune his praise. Join voices, all ye living souls ! ye birds, That, singing, up to heaven's gate ascend, Bear on your wings and in your notes his praise.
Pàgina 224 - THE curfew tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herd winds slowly o'er the lea, The ploughman homeward plods his weary way, And leaves the world to darkness and to me. Now fades the glimmering landscape on the sight, And all the air a solemn stillness holds, Save where the beetle wheels his droning flight, And drowsy tinklings lull the distant folds...
Pàgina 224 - Their name, their years, spelt by th' unletter'd muse, The place of fame and elegy supply: And many a holy text around she strews, That teach the rustic moralist to die. For who to dumb Forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing anxious being e'er resign'd, Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day, Nor cast one longing ling'ring look behind?
Pàgina 117 - 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, HUGHES.
Pàgina 341 - I could weep My spirit from mine eyes ! — There is my dagger, And here my naked breast ; within, a heart Dearer than Plutus...
Pàgina 230 - Where village statesmen talk'd with looks profound, And news much older than their ale went round. Imagination fondly stoops to trace The...