The elementary elocutionist: a selection of pieces in prose and verse, by J. White |
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In several places , Blair alludes to this sube ject : “ How little reason to wonder , ” says he , after speaking of the qualifications of an Orator , “ that a perfect and an accomplished Orator should be one of the characters that is ...
In several places , Blair alludes to this sube ject : “ How little reason to wonder , ” says he , after speaking of the qualifications of an Orator , “ that a perfect and an accomplished Orator should be one of the characters that is ...
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We have frequently thought that Nature is a much greater lover of generalization , order , and consistency , than he has represented her ; and after investigating the subject , we have found no reason to change our opinion .
We have frequently thought that Nature is a much greater lover of generalization , order , and consistency , than he has represented her ; and after investigating the subject , we have found no reason to change our opinion .
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... occasion neither the rising nor the falling inflection . And since these rules cannot account for the proper inflections , there must , it is plain , be some reason why nature inflects with so much propriety and so much х INTRODUCTION .
... occasion neither the rising nor the falling inflection . And since these rules cannot account for the proper inflections , there must , it is plain , be some reason why nature inflects with so much propriety and so much х INTRODUCTION .
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None of his observations or rules , however , account for it , or give us a single reason why some of these sentences take the falling and others the rising slide . His negative rule , like his other rules ...
None of his observations or rules , however , account for it , or give us a single reason why some of these sentences take the falling and others the rising slide . His negative rule , like his other rules ...
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Labouring strenuously and alone in the dark , he exclaims “ whatever may be the reason why the positive member of a sentence should adopt the emphasis with the falling inflection , and the negative member the rising ; certain it is ...
Labouring strenuously and alone in the dark , he exclaims “ whatever may be the reason why the positive member of a sentence should adopt the emphasis with the falling inflection , and the negative member the rising ; certain it is ...
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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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