An Essay on Elocution: With Elucidatory Passages from Various Authors to which are Added Remarks on Reading Prose and Verse, with Suggestions to Instructors of the ArtWeare C. Little, 1846 - 300 pàgines |
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... land like ours , where the humblest of her sons has continually occasion to address his fellow - citi- zens . Eloquence has frequently been objected to , as having a tendency to bewilder the understanding by dressing fiction in the garb ...
... land like ours , where the humblest of her sons has continually occasion to address his fellow - citi- zens . Eloquence has frequently been objected to , as having a tendency to bewilder the understanding by dressing fiction in the garb ...
Pàgina 31
... lands , and depopulated these vil- ages - no civil discord has been felt , no disputed succession , no religious rage - no cruel enemy - no affliction of Providence , which , while it scourged for a moment , cut off the sources of re ...
... lands , and depopulated these vil- ages - no civil discord has been felt , no disputed succession , no religious rage - no cruel enemy - no affliction of Providence , which , while it scourged for a moment , cut off the sources of re ...
Pàgina 34
... land he spreads His orient beams , on herb , tree , fruit , and flower , Glistering with dew ; fragrant the fertile earth After soft showers , and sweet the coming on Of grateful evening mild ; then silent night With this her solemn ...
... land he spreads His orient beams , on herb , tree , fruit , and flower , Glistering with dew ; fragrant the fertile earth After soft showers , and sweet the coming on Of grateful evening mild ; then silent night With this her solemn ...
Pàgina 35
... land , And , noble Earl , receive my hand . ' But Douglas round him drew his cloak , Folded his arms and thus he spoke : ' My manors , halls , and bowers , shall still Be open at my Sovereign's will , To each one whom he lists , howe'er ...
... land , And , noble Earl , receive my hand . ' But Douglas round him drew his cloak , Folded his arms and thus he spoke : ' My manors , halls , and bowers , shall still Be open at my Sovereign's will , To each one whom he lists , howe'er ...
Pàgina 36
... land at harvest home , He was perfumed like a milliner ; And ' twixt his finger and his thumb , he held A pouncet - box , which ever and anon He gave his nose and took't away again ; SCOTT . And still he smil'd , and talked ; And as 36 ...
... land at harvest home , He was perfumed like a milliner ; And ' twixt his finger and his thumb , he held A pouncet - box , which ever and anon He gave his nose and took't away again ; SCOTT . And still he smil'd , and talked ; And as 36 ...
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Passatges populars
Pàgina 272 - The sky is changed ! — and such a change ! Oh night, <- : ) And storm, and darkness, ye are wondrous strong, Yet lovely in your strength, as is the light Of a dark eye in woman ! Far along, From peak to peak, the rattling crags among Leaps the live thunder ! Not from one lone cloud, But every mountain now hath found a tongue, And Jura answers, through her misty shroud, Back to the joyous Alps, who call to her aloud ! xciii.
Pàgina 76 - For I am the least of the apostles, that am not meet to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God. But by the grace of God I am what I am: and his grace which was bestowed upon me was not in vain; but I laboured more abundantly than they all: yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me.
Pàgina 150 - Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears; I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him. The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones; So let it be with Caesar. The noble Brutus Hath told you Caesar was ambitious: If it were so it was a grievous fault; And grievously hath Caesar answer'd it. Here, under leave of Brutus, and the rest (For Brutus is an honorable man; So are they all, all honorable men), Come I to speak in Caesar's funeral.
Pàgina 152 - I come not, friends, to steal away your hearts: I am no orator, as Brutus is; But, as you know me all, a plain blunt man, That love my friend; and that they know full well That gave me public leave to speak of him: For I have neither wit, nor words, nor worth, Action, nor utterance, nor the power of speech, To stir men's blood: I only speak right on; I tell you that which you yourselves do know...
Pàgina 73 - The light of the body is the eye: if therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light. But if thine eye be evil, thy whole body shall be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in thee be darkness, how great is that darkness...
Pàgina 150 - He hath brought many captives home to Rome, Whose ransoms did the general coffers fill; Did this in Caesar seem ambitious? When that the poor have cried, Caesar hath wept; Ambition should be made of sterner stuff: Yet Brutus says he was ambitious, And Brutus is an honorable man.
Pàgina 271 - Cameron's gathering" rose, The war-note of Lochiel, which Albyn's hills Have heard,— and heard, too, have her Saxon foes; How in the noon of night that pibroch thrills Savage and shrill! But with the breath which fills Their...
Pàgina 38 - Made to his mistress' eyebrow. Then a soldier, Full of strange oaths, and bearded like the pard, Jealous in honour, sudden and quick in quarrel, Seeking the bubble reputation Even in the cannon's mouth. And then the justice, In fair round belly with good capon...
Pàgina 134 - It serves always to distract the Public Councils, and enfeeble the Public Administration. It agitates the Community with ill-founded jealousies and false alarms; kindles the animosity of one part against another, foments occasionally riot and insurrection.
Pàgina 76 - For he hath put all things under his feet! "But when he saith all things are put under him, it is manifest that he is excepted which did put all things under him. And when all things shall be subdued unto him, then shall the Son also himself be subject unto him that put all things under him that God may be all in all.