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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... heaven .. The force of attitude and looks alone appears in a wondrously striking manner , in the works of the painter and statuary ; who have the delicate art of making the flat canvass and rocky marble utter every passion of the human ...
... heaven .. The force of attitude and looks alone appears in a wondrously striking manner , in the works of the painter and statuary ; who have the delicate art of making the flat canvass and rocky marble utter every passion of the human ...
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... and violent , expresses itself by clapping of hands , and exultation or leaping 1 he eyes are opened wide ; perhaps filled with tears ; often raised to heaven , especially by devout persons . The counte-- 30 ELEMENTS.
... and violent , expresses itself by clapping of hands , and exultation or leaping 1 he eyes are opened wide ; perhaps filled with tears ; often raised to heaven , especially by devout persons . The counte-- 30 ELEMENTS.
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... heaven , especially by devout persons . The counte-- nance is smiling not composedly , but with features ag itated . The voice raises , from time to time , to very high notes . Delight or pleasure , as when one is entertained , or ...
... heaven , especially by devout persons . The counte-- nance is smiling not composedly , but with features ag itated . The voice raises , from time to time , to very high notes . Delight or pleasure , as when one is entertained , or ...
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... heaven ; hurrying to and fro , running distracted , or fainting a- way , sometimes without recovery . Sometimes violent grief produces a torpid silence , resembling total apathy . Melancholy , or fixed grief , is gloomy , sedentary , mo ...
... heaven ; hurrying to and fro , running distracted , or fainting a- way , sometimes without recovery . Sometimes violent grief produces a torpid silence , resembling total apathy . Melancholy , or fixed grief , is gloomy , sedentary , mo ...
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... heaven ; or , if conscience is appealed to , by laying the right hand upon the breast . Denying , is expressed by pushing the open right hand from one ; and turning the face the contrary way . See Aversion . Differing , in sentiment ...
... heaven ; or , if conscience is appealed to , by laying the right hand upon the breast . Denying , is expressed by pushing the open right hand from one ; and turning the face the contrary way . See Aversion . Differing , in sentiment ...
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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...