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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... the whole body together . The arms are violently bent at the elbows , and the fists . strongly clenched . The voice is uttered in groans , las- mentations , and violent screams . produces fainting and death 4 OF GESTURE . 41.
... the whole body together . The arms are violently bent at the elbows , and the fists . strongly clenched . The voice is uttered in groans , las- mentations , and violent screams . produces fainting and death 4 OF GESTURE . 41.
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... death . Extreme torture Fatigue , from severe labor , gives a general languor to the whole body . The countenance is dejected . ( See Grief . ) The arms hang listless ; the body , if sitting , or lying along , be not the posture ...
... death . Extreme torture Fatigue , from severe labor , gives a general languor to the whole body . The countenance is dejected . ( See Grief . ) The arms hang listless ; the body , if sitting , or lying along , be not the posture ...
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... death , and after ripping up the bosom of the loved , suspected , hated , lamented fair one , he stabs himself to the heart , and exhibits a striking proof , how terrible a creature a puny mortal is , when agitat- ed by infernal passion ...
... death , and after ripping up the bosom of the loved , suspected , hated , lamented fair one , he stabs himself to the heart , and exhibits a striking proof , how terrible a creature a puny mortal is , when agitat- ed by infernal passion ...
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... Death , the awful end of all flesh ; which exhibits nothing in appearance different from what I have been just describing ; for fainting continued ends in death ; a subject almost too serious to be made a matter of arti ficial imitation ...
... Death , the awful end of all flesh ; which exhibits nothing in appearance different from what I have been just describing ; for fainting continued ends in death ; a subject almost too serious to be made a matter of arti ficial imitation ...
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... Death - IB . DEATH , the king of terrors , was determined to choose a prime minister ; and his pale courtiers , the ghastly train of diseases , were all summoned to attend ; when each preferred his claim to the honor of this il ...
... Death - IB . DEATH , the king of terrors , was determined to choose a prime minister ; and his pale courtiers , the ghastly train of diseases , were all summoned to attend ; when each preferred his claim to the honor of this il ...
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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?
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