The elementary elocutionist: a selection of pieces in prose and verse, by J. White |
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Արդյունքներ 41–ի 1-ից 5-ը:
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... we must not imagine that the difficulties of the subject are the only barriers in the way of their march towards improvement . Mentioning , as we do , difficulties , we wish neither to magnify nor to diminish them .
... we must not imagine that the difficulties of the subject are the only barriers in the way of their march towards improvement . Mentioning , as we do , difficulties , we wish neither to magnify nor to diminish them .
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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 ...
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Should we wish to call the attention of the answerer to that part of the idea or question which belongs to past time , since we have no doubt that man at the present time is considered 4 2 a sinful creature ; or if we do entertain some ...
Should we wish to call the attention of the answerer to that part of the idea or question which belongs to past time , since we have no doubt that man at the present time is considered 4 2 a sinful creature ; or if we do entertain some ...
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a sinful creature ; or if we do entertain some doubt , or what amounts to the same thing , should we wish to know , whether the answerer is aware that man , in past times , has been considered a sinful creature , has , will most ...
a sinful creature ; or if we do entertain some doubt , or what amounts to the same thing , should we wish to know , whether the answerer is aware that man , in past times , has been considered a sinful creature , has , will most ...
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... to which the Orator wishes the hearer to give attention , or there is liberty granted that the hearer may express his sentiments . Notice the following example :The region beyond the grave is not a solitary land .
... to which the Orator wishes the hearer to give attention , or there is liberty granted that the hearer may express his sentiments . Notice the following example :The region beyond the grave is not a solitary land .
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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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