The speaker: or, Miscellaneous pieces selected from the best English writers. To which are prefixed two essays: i. On elocution. ii. On reading works of taste, by W. Enfield. Genuine ed., ed. with the addition of popular pieces from modern authors, by J. PycroftWilliam Enfield, James Pycroft 1851 |
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Pàgina xxxii
... fair inspir'd delight : but temper'd pow'rs Refine at length , and ev'ry passion wears A chaster , milder , more attractive mien . AKENSIDE . To all this must be added , as a material consideration in favour of the study of polite ...
... fair inspir'd delight : but temper'd pow'rs Refine at length , and ev'ry passion wears A chaster , milder , more attractive mien . AKENSIDE . To all this must be added , as a material consideration in favour of the study of polite ...
Pàgina xxxix
... fair forms , whether natural or moral , with the most lively colouring , are said to excel in the BEAUTIful . Moreover , since there is in human nature a principle of curiosity which leads us to contemplate unusual objects with the ...
... fair forms , whether natural or moral , with the most lively colouring , are said to excel in the BEAUTIful . Moreover , since there is in human nature a principle of curiosity which leads us to contemplate unusual objects with the ...
Pàgina 13
... fair looks , Lives like a drunken sailor on a mast , Ready with every nod to tumble down Into the fatal bowels of the deep . Who shall go about To cozen fortune , and be honourable Without the stamp of merit ? Let none presume To wear ...
... fair looks , Lives like a drunken sailor on a mast , Ready with every nod to tumble down Into the fatal bowels of the deep . Who shall go about To cozen fortune , and be honourable Without the stamp of merit ? Let none presume To wear ...
Pàgina 29
... fair , so quick - witted , and amiable a maid ; and better fate did Maria deserve , than to have her bans forbid by the intrigues of the curate of the parish who published them- He was going on , when Maria , who had made a short pause ...
... fair , so quick - witted , and amiable a maid ; and better fate did Maria deserve , than to have her bans forbid by the intrigues of the curate of the parish who published them- He was going on , when Maria , who had made a short pause ...
Pàgina 37
... fair ) The wellbred cuckolds in St. James's air . In Britain's senate he a seat obtains , And one more pensioner St. Stephen gains . My lady falls to play ; so bad her chance , He must repair it ; takes a bribe from France ; The house ...
... fair ) The wellbred cuckolds in St. James's air . In Britain's senate he a seat obtains , And one more pensioner St. Stephen gains . My lady falls to play ; so bad her chance , He must repair it ; takes a bribe from France ; The house ...
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Passatges populars
Pàgina 79 - ... accent of Christians nor the gait of Christian, pagan, nor man, have so strutted and bellowed that I have thought some of nature's journeymen had made men, and not made them well, they imitated humanity so abominably.
Pàgina 352 - By the struggling moonbeam's misty light, And the lantern dimly burning. No useless coffin enclosed his breast, Nor in sheet nor in shroud we wound him ; But he lay like a warrior taking his rest, With his martial cloak around him.
Pàgina 77 - Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man. And therefore, if a man write little, he had need have a great memory; if he confer little, he had need have a present wit: and if he read little, he had need have much cunning, to seem to know that he doth not. Histories make men wise; poets witty; the mathematics subtile; natural philosophy deep; moral grave; logic and rhetoric able to contend.
Pàgina 153 - Brutus' love to Caesar was no less than his. If then that friend demand why Brutus rose against Caesar, this is my answer; not that I loved Caesar less, but that I loved Rome more. Had you rather Caesar were living, and die all slaves, than that Caesar were dead, to live all freemen?
Pàgina 317 - Is this a dagger which I see before me, The handle toward my hand ? Come, let me clutch thee. I have thee not, and yet I see thee still. 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 ? I see thee yet, in form as palpable As this which now I draw. Thou marshall'st me the way that I was going ; And such an instrument I was to use. Mine eyes are made the fools o...
Pàgina 351 - NOT a drum was heard, not a funeral note, As his corse to the rampart we hurried ; Not a soldier discharged his farewell shot O'er the grave where our hero we buried. We buried him darkly at dead of night, The sods with our bayonets turning; By the struggling moonbeam's misty light, And the lantern dimly burning. No useless coffin enclosed his breast...
Pàgina 352 - THE Assyrian came down like the wolf on the fold, And his cohorts were gleaming in purple and gold; And the sheen of their spears was like stars on the sea. When the blue wave rolls nightly on deep Galilee.
Pàgina 248 - His youthful hose well sav'd, 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 325 - 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 192 - Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow world, Like a Colossus ; and we petty men Walk under his huge legs, and peep about To find ourselves dishonourable graves.