The elementary elocutionist: a selection of pieces in prose and verse, by J. White |
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Արդյունքներ 37–ի 1-ից 5-ը:
Էջ xi
By it , we not only hope and trust , but we see , in fact , feel , that we can satisfactorily account for the mays , and the mights , and the generallys , and for other incongruities so conspicuous in the formi . dable and bulky system ...
By it , we not only hope and trust , but we see , in fact , feel , that we can satisfactorily account for the mays , and the mights , and the generallys , and for other incongruities so conspicuous in the formi . dable and bulky system ...
Էջ xii
It may , it is true , be now and then doomed to feel the rude and vulgar grasp of ignoble minds , who , stirred up by envy , malice , or prejudice , wish to confound in a mass , as ignoble as their origin , all that is splendid , great ...
It may , it is true , be now and then doomed to feel the rude and vulgar grasp of ignoble minds , who , stirred up by envy , malice , or prejudice , wish to confound in a mass , as ignoble as their origin , all that is splendid , great ...
Էջ 53
... chiefly to address them ; and that the warmth of feeling , arising from a sense of the reality of all they were hearing , should not sometimes have been cooled by the recollection of the artificial display they were witnessing .
... chiefly to address them ; and that the warmth of feeling , arising from a sense of the reality of all they were hearing , should not sometimes have been cooled by the recollection of the artificial display they were witnessing .
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This is deeply to be lamented ; such a service , if read with due feeling , emphasis , and solem . nity , could scarcely fail to rivet the attention , and reach the hearts of any congregation whatever . The Dissenters 60 MISCELLANEOUS ...
This is deeply to be lamented ; such a service , if read with due feeling , emphasis , and solem . nity , could scarcely fail to rivet the attention , and reach the hearts of any congregation whatever . The Dissenters 60 MISCELLANEOUS ...
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Yet all the suspicion that we feel upon this subject annexes to the former ; and the apostles and evangelists , with evidence in their favour which it is in the power of testimony to furnish , are , in fact , degraded from the place ...
Yet all the suspicion that we feel upon this subject annexes to the former ; and the apostles and evangelists , with evidence in their favour which it is in the power of testimony to furnish , are , in fact , degraded from the place ...
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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...