The elementary elocutionist: a selection of pieces in prose and verse, by J. White |
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Pàgina vii
... pass over the exercises . In hastening to the conclusion of the preface , we entreat all to notice the importance of the ⠀⠀⠀ subject . When we say that there is no person or station which it cannot adorn , we assert , that we neither ...
... pass over the exercises . In hastening to the conclusion of the preface , we entreat all to notice the importance of the ⠀⠀⠀ subject . When we say that there is no person or station which it cannot adorn , we assert , that we neither ...
Pàgina xl
... pass through Macedonia ; -for I do pass through Macedonià - and it may xl INTRODUCTION .
... pass through Macedonia ; -for I do pass through Macedonià - and it may xl INTRODUCTION .
Pàgina xli
John White (A.M.). -for I do pass through Macedonià - and it may be that I will abide , yea , and winter with you , that you may bring me on my journey whithersoever I go . But , as our Introduction has enlarged considerably be- yond ...
John White (A.M.). -for I do pass through Macedonià - and it may be that I will abide , yea , and winter with you , that you may bring me on my journey whithersoever I go . But , as our Introduction has enlarged considerably be- yond ...
Pàgina xlvii
... , we have refrained from enlarging in the Introduction . There are many things , in themselves very important , which we might term minutiæ , but which we must pass un- ' noticed . There are also other things , such INTRODUCTION . xlvii.
... , we have refrained from enlarging in the Introduction . There are many things , in themselves very important , which we might term minutiæ , but which we must pass un- ' noticed . There are also other things , such INTRODUCTION . xlvii.
Pàgina 54
... pass on through this wilderness , the desolating judgments on other renowned cities , so solemnly foretold , so dread- fully fulfilled , rise naturally to your recollection . Now , as you tread , the wild peacock , with a start- ling ...
... pass on through this wilderness , the desolating judgments on other renowned cities , so solemnly foretold , so dread- fully fulfilled , rise naturally to your recollection . Now , as you tread , the wild peacock , with a start- ling ...
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Pàgina 205 - KNOW ye the land where the cypress and myrtle Are emblems of deeds that are done in their clime? Where the rage of the vulture, the love of the turtle, Now melt into sorrow, now madden to crime...
Pàgina 238 - Thy shores are empires, changed in all save thee — Assyria, Greece, Rome, Carthage, what are they? Thy waters wasted them while they were free, And many a tyrant since ; their shores obey The stranger, slave or savage ; their decay Has dried up realms to deserts — not so thou Unchangeable, save to thy wild waves
Pàgina 245 - They say it was a shocking sight After the field was won; For many thousand bodies here Lay rotting in the sun; But things like that, you know, must be After a famous victory. "Great praise the Duke of Marlbro' won, And our good Prince Eugene.
Pàgina 232 - The spirits of your fathers Shall start from every wave ! — For the deck it was their field of fame, And Ocean was their grave...
Pàgina 218 - Last noon beheld them full of lusty life, Last eve in Beauty's circle proudly gay, The midnight brought the signal-sound of strife, The morn the marshalling in arms — the day Battle's magnificently stern array...
Pàgina 283 - With a bare bodkin ? who would fardels bear, To grunt and sweat under a weary life, But that the dread of something after death, The undiscover'd country from whose bourn No traveller returns, puzzles the will, And makes us rather bear those ills we have Than fly to others that we know not of ? Thus conscience does make cowards of us all...
Pàgina 253 - As awaked from the dead, And amazed he stares around. Revenge, revenge, Timotheus cries, See the Furies arise ! See the snakes that they rear, How they hiss in their hair, And the sparkles that flash from their eyes!
Pàgina 253 - Think, O think it worth enjoying! Lovely Thais sits beside thee, Take the good the gods provide thee!
Pàgina 250 - I'll meet the raging of the skies, But not an angry father." The boat has left a stormy land, A stormy sea before her, — When, oh ! too strong for human hand. The tempest gathered o'er her.
Pàgina 217 - There was a sound of revelry by night, And Belgium's capital had gathered then Her Beauty and her Chivalry, and bright The lamps shone o'er fair women and brave men...