Lessons in Elocution: Or, A Selection of Pieces, in Prose and Verse, for the Improvement of Youth in Reading and Speaking ...Hori Brown, 1820 - Всего страниц: 407 |
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... fair . Then he roars out as one on the rack , when the cruel engine rends ev- ery joint , and every sinew bursts . Then he throws him- self on the ground . He beats his head against the pave- ment . Then he springs up , and with the ...
... fair . Then he roars out as one on the rack , when the cruel engine rends ev- ery joint , and every sinew bursts . Then he throws him- self on the ground . He beats his head against the pave- ment . Then he springs up , and with the ...
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... into the admiration of what is great ; glow with the love of what is fair and excellent ; and melt at the discovery of tenderness and goodness . Where can any object be found so proper to kindle these affections 90 [ PART I. LESSONS.
... into the admiration of what is great ; glow with the love of what is fair and excellent ; and melt at the discovery of tenderness and goodness . Where can any object be found so proper to kindle these affections 90 [ PART I. LESSONS.
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... fair sex , whom their native modesty , and the tenderness of men towards them , exempts from public business , to pass their hours in imitating fruits and flowers , and transplanting all the beauties of nature into their own dress , or ...
... fair sex , whom their native modesty , and the tenderness of men towards them , exempts from public business , to pass their hours in imitating fruits and flowers , and transplanting all the beauties of nature into their own dress , or ...
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... fair ladies from running out into expenses , but it is at the same time , an actual improvement . How mem- orable would that matron be , who should have it inscrib- ed upon her monument , " that she wrote out the whole Bible in tapestry ...
... fair ladies from running out into expenses , but it is at the same time , an actual improvement . How mem- orable would that matron be , who should have it inscrib- ed upon her monument , " that she wrote out the whole Bible in tapestry ...
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... fair lady , says he , what have you been doing these five and thirty years ? I have been doing no hurt , I assure you , sir , said she . That is well , said he : But what good have you been doing ? The lady was in great confusion at ...
... fair lady , says he , what have you been doing these five and thirty years ? I have been doing no hurt , I assure you , sir , said she . That is well , said he : But what good have you been doing ? The lady was in great confusion at ...
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Стр. 231 - Yet he was kind, or, if severe in aught, The love he bore to learning was in fault...
Стр. 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.
Стр. 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.
Стр. 347 - She lov'd me for the dangers I had pass'd, And I lov'd her that she did pity them.
Стр. 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.
Стр. 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...
Стр. 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?
Стр. 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.
Стр. 341 - I could weep My spirit from mine eyes ! — There is my dagger, And here my naked breast ; within, a heart Dearer than Plutus...
Стр. 230 - Where village statesmen talk'd with looks profound, And news much older than their ale went round. Imagination fondly stoops to trace The...