A System of Elocution: With Special Reference to Gesture, to the Treatment of Stammering and Defective Articulation, Comprising Numerous Diagrams and Engraved Figures, Illustrative of the Subject |
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The thought was happy , pertinent , and true ; | Methinks a genius might the plan pursue . | - I ( can you pardon my presumption ? ) , | I , No wit , no genius , yet , for once , will try . | I Various the paper , various wants produce ...
The thought was happy , pertinent , and true ; | Methinks a genius might the plan pursue . | - I ( can you pardon my presumption ? ) , | I , No wit , no genius , yet , for once , will try . | I Various the paper , various wants produce ...
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Стр. 337 - So stately his form, and so lovely her face, That never a hall such a galliard did grace, While her mother did fret, and her father did fume, And the bridegroom stood dangling his bonnet and plume ; And the bride-maidens whispered, " 'Twere better by far To have matched our fair cousin with young Lochinvar.
Стр. 335 - And there lay the rider distorted and pale, With the dew on his brow, and the rust on his mail; And the tents were all silent, the banners alone, The lances unlifted, the trumpet unblown.
Стр. 204 - ON Linden, when the sun was low, All bloodless lay the untrodden snow, And dark as winter was the flow Of Iser, rolling rapidly. But Linden saw another sight, When the drum beat, at dead of night, Commanding fires of death to light The darkness of her scenery.
Стр. 179 - I AM monarch of all I survey, My right there is none to dispute ; From the centre all round to the sea I am lord of the fowl and the brute.
Стр. 303 - He gained from heaven ('twas all he wished) a friend. No farther seek his merits to disclose, Or draw his frailties from their dread abode, (There they alike in trembling hope repose) The bosom of his father and his God.
Стр. 260 - We have held the subject up in every light of which it is capable ; but it has been all in vain. Shall we resort to entreaty and humble supplication?
Стр. 303 - There at the foot of yonder nodding beech That wreathes its old fantastic roots so high, His listless length at noon-tide would he stretch, And pore upon the brook that babbles by.