An American Selection of Lessons in Reading and Speaking: Calculated to Improve the Minds and Refine the Taste of Youth : to which are Prefixed Rules in Elocution and Directions for Expressing the Principal Passions of the Mind : Being the Third Part of A Grammatical Institute of the English LanguageEvert Duyckinck, bookseller and stationer, 1804 - 236 pàgines |
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Pàgina 13
... virtue itself has its stated limits ; which not being strictly observed , it ceases to be virtue . It is wiser to prevent a quarrel beforehand , than to revenge it afterwards . 3 It is much better to reprove , than to be angry secretly ...
... virtue itself has its stated limits ; which not being strictly observed , it ceases to be virtue . It is wiser to prevent a quarrel beforehand , than to revenge it afterwards . 3 It is much better to reprove , than to be angry secretly ...
Pàgina 16
... virtues praise . Such is the force of ill will and ill nature . It is harder to avoid censure , than to gain applause ; for this may be done by one great or wise action in an age ; but to es- cape censure , a man must pass his whole ...
... virtues praise . Such is the force of ill will and ill nature . It is harder to avoid censure , than to gain applause ; for this may be done by one great or wise action in an age ; but to es- cape censure , a man must pass his whole ...
Pàgina 19
... Virtue should be considered as a part of taste ; and we should as much avoid deceit , or sinister meaning in discourse , as we should puns , bad language or false grammar . The higher character a person supports , the more he should ...
... Virtue should be considered as a part of taste ; and we should as much avoid deceit , or sinister meaning in discourse , as we should puns , bad language or false grammar . The higher character a person supports , the more he should ...
Pàgina 21
... virtues we write in water . The web of our life is of a mingled yarn , good and ill to- gether ; our virtues would be ... virtue that possession would not show us Whilst it was ours . Cowards die many times before their deaths ; The ...
... virtues we write in water . The web of our life is of a mingled yarn , good and ill to- gether ; our virtues would be ... virtue that possession would not show us Whilst it was ours . Cowards die many times before their deaths ; The ...
Pàgina 28
... virtue is Sophia's ruling passion . She loves it , because no other thing is so lovely : She loves it , because it is the glory of the female sex : She loves it , as the only road to happiness , misery being the sure attendant of a ...
... virtue is Sophia's ruling passion . She loves it , because no other thing is so lovely : She loves it , because it is the glory of the female sex : She loves it , as the only road to happiness , misery being the sure attendant of a ...
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Passatges populars
Pàgina 183 - You have done that you should be sorry for. 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.
Pàgina 181 - Corruption wins not more than honesty. Still in thy right hand carry gentle peace, To silence envious tongues. Be just, and fear not : Let all the ends thou aim'st at be thy country's, Thy God's, and truth's; then if thou fall'st...
Pàgina 179 - Like little wanton boys that swim on bladders, This many summers in a sea of glory; But far beyond my depth : my high-blown pride At length broke under me ; and now has left me, Weary, and old with service, to the mercy Of a rude stream, that must for ever hide me.
Pàgina 10 - How like a fawning publican he looks ! I hate him for he is a Christian ; But more for that in low simplicity He lends out money gratis, and brings down The rate of usance here with us in Venice. If I can catch him once upon the hip, I will feed fat the ancient grudge I bear him.
Pàgina 179 - Farewell, a long farewell, to all my greatness ! This is the state of man ; to-day he puts forth The tender leaves of hope, to-morrow blossoms, And bears his blushing...
Pàgina 10 - As in a theatre the eyes of men, After a well-graced actor leaves the stage, Are idly bent on him that enters next, Thinking his prattle to be tedious ; Even so, or with much more contempt, men's eyes Did scowl on gentle Richard : no man cried, God save him...
Pàgina 10 - God save him; No joyful tongue gave him his welcome home: But dust was thrown upon his sacred head ; Which with such gentle sorrow he shook off, — His face still combating with tears and smiles, The badges of his grief and patience, — That had not God, for some strong purpose, steel'd The hearts of men, they must perforce have melted, And barbarism itself have pitied him.
Pàgina 198 - With spectacles on nose and pouch on side, His youthful hose, well saved, a world too wide For his shrunk shank; and his big manly voice, Turning again toward childish treble, pipes And whistles in his sound. Last scene of all, That ends this strange eventful history, Is second childishness and mere oblivion, Sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans every thing.
Pàgina 195 - The whole strange purpose of their lives to find Or make an enemy of all mankind ! Not one looks backward, onward still he goes, Yet ne'er looks forward further than his nose.
Pàgina 182 - And not for justice? What, shall one of us, That struck the foremost man of all this world, But for supporting robbers; shall we now Contaminate our fingers with base bribes? And sell the mighty space of our large...