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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... thought to be the most suitable employment for youth at school ; nor , when we reflect on the long interruption to the common school exercises , which the preparation for a play must neces- sarily occasion , shall we think it consistent ...
... thought to be the most suitable employment for youth at school ; nor , when we reflect on the long interruption to the common school exercises , which the preparation for a play must neces- sarily occasion , shall we think it consistent ...
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... thoughts and sentiments , either from memory or immediate conception : For , besides that there is an artificial uniformity which almost always distinguishes reading from speaking , the fixed posture , and the bending of the head ...
... thoughts and sentiments , either from memory or immediate conception : For , besides that there is an artificial uniformity which almost always distinguishes reading from speaking , the fixed posture , and the bending of the head ...
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... thought to the aged , which it was impossible to in- spire while they were young . Every man , however little , makes a figure in his own eyes . Self - partiality hides from us those very faults in our- selves , which we see and blame ...
... thought to the aged , which it was impossible to in- spire while they were young . Every man , however little , makes a figure in his own eyes . Self - partiality hides from us those very faults in our- selves , which we see and blame ...
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... thought just struck into my mind ; which , I am confident , will extricate us out of our dfficulty : Do you , said he to the Goat , on- ly rear yourself up upon your hind legs , and 62 [ PART I. LESSONS The fox and the goat, Dodsley's ...
... thought just struck into my mind ; which , I am confident , will extricate us out of our dfficulty : Do you , said he to the Goat , on- ly rear yourself up upon your hind legs , and 62 [ PART I. LESSONS The fox and the goat, Dodsley's ...
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... She had a wonderful con- fidence and assurance in her looks , and all the variety of colors in her dress , that she thought were the most proper to show her complexion to advantage . She cast 72 PPART I. LESSONS Hercules' choice, Tatler,
... She had a wonderful con- fidence and assurance in her looks , and all the variety of colors in her dress , that she thought were the most proper to show her complexion to advantage . She cast 72 PPART I. LESSONS Hercules' choice, Tatler,
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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...