Lessons in Elocution: Or, A Selection of Pieces, in Prose and Verse, for the Improvement of Youth in Reading and Speaking ...Hori Brown, 1820 - 407 էջ |
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Արդյունքներ 100–ի 1-ից 5-ը:
Էջ 27
... heart against the next lesson ; and then the first boy must speak it , standing at some distance before the rest , in the manner directed in the Plates ; the second boy must suc- ceed him , and so on till they have all spoken . After ...
... heart against the next lesson ; and then the first boy must speak it , standing at some distance before the rest , in the manner directed in the Plates ; the second boy must suc- ceed him , and so on till they have all spoken . After ...
Էջ 32
... heart is too much hardened to suffer tears to flow ; yet the eyeballs will be red and inflamed like those of an animal in a rabid state . The head is hung down upon the breast . The arms are bended at the elbows , the fists are clenched ...
... heart is too much hardened to suffer tears to flow ; yet the eyeballs will be red and inflamed like those of an animal in a rabid state . The head is hung down upon the breast . The arms are bended at the elbows , the fists are clenched ...
Էջ 33
... heart beats violently ; the breath is fetched quick and short ; the whole body is thrown in- to a general tremor . The voice is weak and trembling ; the sentences are short , and the meaning confused and incoherent . Imminent danger ...
... heart beats violently ; the breath is fetched quick and short ; the whole body is thrown in- to a general tremor . The voice is weak and trembling ; the sentences are short , and the meaning confused and incoherent . Imminent danger ...
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... heart , and exhibits a striking proof , how terrible a creature a puny mortal is , when agitat- ed by infernal passion . Dotage , or infirm old age , shews itself by talkative- ness ; boasting of the past , hollowness of eyes and cheeks ...
... heart , and exhibits a striking proof , how terrible a creature a puny mortal is , when agitat- ed by infernal passion . Dotage , or infirm old age , shews itself by talkative- ness ; boasting of the past , hollowness of eyes and cheeks ...
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... heart . Hypocrisy is a homage that vice pays to virtue . Anxiety and constraint are the constant attendants of pride . Men make themselves ridiculous , not so much by the qualities they have , as by the affectation of those they have ...
... heart . Hypocrisy is a homage that vice pays to virtue . Anxiety and constraint are the constant attendants of pride . Men make themselves ridiculous , not so much by the qualities they have , as by the affectation of those they have ...
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Lessons in Elocution, Or, A Selection of Pieces in Prose and Verse: For the ... William Scott Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - 1831 |
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Էջ 231 - Yet he was kind, or, if severe in aught, The love he bore to learning was in fault...
Էջ 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.
Էջ 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.
Էջ 347 - She lov'd me for the dangers I had pass'd, And I lov'd her that she did pity them.
Էջ 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.
Էջ 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...
Էջ 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?
Էջ 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.
Էջ 341 - I could weep My spirit from mine eyes ! — There is my dagger, And here my naked breast ; within, a heart Dearer than Plutus...
Էջ 230 - Where village statesmen talk'd with looks profound, And news much older than their ale went round. Imagination fondly stoops to trace The...