The elementary elocutionist: a selection of pieces in prose and verse, by J. White |
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As to the extracts , it becomes us to say , that : we have endeavoured to make them bear as much as possible upon the present state of so- , } , ciety and literature — to meet , and keep pace : - with the exigencies of the times a ...
As to the extracts , it becomes us to say , that : we have endeavoured to make them bear as much as possible upon the present state of so- , } , ciety and literature — to meet , and keep pace : - with the exigencies of the times a ...
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Now we say that Cæsar , country , and obey , ought not to be read with the downward slide , which is done by those who read according to Walker's negative rule , unless it can be shown that these words bear no relation to the words that ...
Now we say that Cæsar , country , and obey , ought not to be read with the downward slide , which is done by those who read according to Walker's negative rule , unless it can be shown that these words bear no relation to the words that ...
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But , alas ! they have to bear in mind , that even all these rules and observations , modified as they may be by a thousand circumstances , are founded only on equivocation that they rest but on the baseless fabric of a may or a ...
But , alas ! they have to bear in mind , that even all these rules and observations , modified as they may be by a thousand circumstances , are founded only on equivocation that they rest but on the baseless fabric of a may or a ...
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... that is to say , that the relations which words bear to each other are more strictly analagous to the relations between the ideas which they represent , in Latin than in English , we venture to doubt the fact .
... that is to say , that the relations which words bear to each other are more strictly analagous to the relations between the ideas which they represent , in Latin than in English , we venture to doubt the fact .
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... did they who advocate its designs also bear their part in the expenses of them ; and it would do much to allay the fermentation that now is among the West India planters , could they have any satisfying demonstration from Parliament ...
... did they who advocate its designs also bear their part in the expenses of them ; and it would do much to allay the fermentation that now is among the West India planters , could they have any satisfying demonstration from Parliament ...
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Էջ 205 - KNOW ye the land where the cypress and myrtle Are emblems of deeds that are done in their clime? Where the rage of the vulture, the love of the turtle, Now melt into sorrow, now madden to crime...
Էջ 238 - Thy shores are empires, changed in all save thee — Assyria, Greece, Rome, Carthage, what are they? Thy waters wasted them while they were free, And many a tyrant since ; their shores obey The stranger, slave or savage ; their decay Has dried up realms to deserts — not so thou Unchangeable, save to thy wild waves
Էջ 245 - They say it was a shocking sight After the field was won; For many thousand bodies here Lay rotting in the sun; But things like that, you know, must be After a famous victory. "Great praise the Duke of Marlbro' won, And our good Prince Eugene.
Էջ 232 - The spirits of your fathers Shall start from every wave ! — For the deck it was their field of fame, And Ocean was their grave...
Էջ 218 - Last noon beheld them full of lusty life, Last eve in Beauty's circle proudly gay, The midnight brought the signal-sound of strife, The morn the marshalling in arms — the day Battle's magnificently stern array...
Էջ 283 - With a bare bodkin ? who would fardels bear, To grunt and sweat under a weary life, But that the dread of something after death, The undiscover'd country from whose bourn No traveller returns, puzzles the will, And makes us rather bear those ills we have Than fly to others that we know not of ? Thus conscience does make cowards of us all...
Էջ 253 - As awaked from the dead, And amazed he stares around. Revenge, revenge, Timotheus cries, See the Furies arise ! See the snakes that they rear, How they hiss in their hair, And the sparkles that flash from their eyes!
Էջ 253 - Think, O think it worth enjoying! Lovely Thais sits beside thee, Take the good the gods provide thee!
Էջ 250 - I'll meet the raging of the skies, But not an angry father." The boat has left a stormy land, A stormy sea before her, — When, oh ! too strong for human hand. The tempest gathered o'er her.
Էջ 217 - There was a sound of revelry by night, And Belgium's capital had gathered then Her Beauty and her Chivalry, and bright The lamps shone o'er fair women and brave men...
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| Վերնագիր | The elementary elocutionist: a selection of pieces in prose and verse, by J. White |
| Հեղինակ | John White (A.M.) |
| Editor | John White (A.M.) |
| Հրատարակված | 1826 |
| Original from | Օքսֆորդի համալսարան |
| Digitized | 21 Մարտ 2006 |
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