Enfield's Guide to Elocution: Improved and Classically Divided Into Six Parts, Viz., Grammar, Composition, Synonomy, Language, Orations, Poems, and Other Interesting SubjectsJohn Sabine Tegg, 1810 - 295 էջ |
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... eye , for my eye . I ' OB . 15. In the complaisant style , it is common to use you , instead of thou , when we speak to one person only ; and in that case , it has a plural , Verb joined with it ; as , * You are my brother . OB . 16 ...
... eye , for my eye . I ' OB . 15. In the complaisant style , it is common to use you , instead of thou , when we speak to one person only ; and in that case , it has a plural , Verb joined with it ; as , * You are my brother . OB . 16 ...
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... eye . If I happen to have leisure to - morrow . He was seized with wonderment at all he saw . Better thus . I am weary . I know not . Better thus . By the force of argu ment . He is not in any de- gree better . He insists upon secu rity ...
... eye . If I happen to have leisure to - morrow . He was seized with wonderment at all he saw . Better thus . I am weary . I know not . Better thus . By the force of argu ment . He is not in any de- gree better . He insists upon secu rity ...
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... be forgotten . By reviewing our work with a cool and critical eye , as if it were the performance of another , we shall discern many imperfections 5 imperfections which at first escaped our observation . It is 120 COMPOSITION .
... be forgotten . By reviewing our work with a cool and critical eye , as if it were the performance of another , we shall discern many imperfections 5 imperfections which at first escaped our observation . It is 120 COMPOSITION .
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... eye as soon as they are formed in the mind , by certain determinate characters , are the wonderful properties of letters . The pictures of the Mexicans , and the hieroglyphics of the Egyptians , were without doubt very ingenious devices ...
... eye as soon as they are formed in the mind , by certain determinate characters , are the wonderful properties of letters . The pictures of the Mexicans , and the hieroglyphics of the Egyptians , were without doubt very ingenious devices ...
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... various periods of time , into different countries . art . Can any two sets of letters appear to the eye more dissimilar , than the Hebrew and the English ? Yet it H 2 is is highly probable , that the latter were derived from LANGUAGE .
... various periods of time , into different countries . art . Can any two sets of letters appear to the eye more dissimilar , than the Hebrew and the English ? Yet it H 2 is is highly probable , that the latter were derived from LANGUAGE .
Common terms and phrases
Adjective Adverb appear arms Auxiliary beauty Better boast breast Cæsar censure charms composition Decemvirs DEFECTIVE VERBS e'en elegant English English Language ev'ry EXAMPLE expression eyes fame fools frequently Future Tense Gender Genitive give glory grace hand happy heart Heav'n's heaven Hector honor Imperative Mood Imperfect Tense Indicative Mood Inelegant Infinitive Mood king kiss language Latin learn'd learned Lord means metaphors might,could mind Mood nature never Nominative Nouns o'er Participle passion Passive Patricians peace Perfect persons pleas'd pleasure Plebeians Pluperfect Tense Plural poetry poets POPE POPE'S HOMER Potential Mood praise Preposition Present Tense pride Pronoun proper racters reason reign Romans Rome round RULE Scythians sense sentence shew Singular smile soul sound speak speech style Subjunctive Mood Substantive sweet syllables thee thing thou thought thro tion to-morrow Verb virtue vowel wise words writing youth
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Էջ 154 - Who is here so base, that would be a bondman ? If any, speak ; for him have I offended. Who is here so rude, that would not be a Roman ? If any, speak ; for him have I offended. Who is here so vile, that will not love his country? If any, speak ; for him have I offended — I pause for a reply.
Էջ 234 - And every shepherd tells his tale Under the hawthorn in the dale. Straight mine eye hath caught new pleasures, Whilst the...
Էջ 259 - Stern o'er each bosom reason holds her state With daring aims irregularly great ; Pride in their port, defiance in their eye, I see the lords of human kind pass by...
Էջ 234 - Through the high wood echoing shrill: Some time walking, not unseen, By hedge-row elms, on hillocks green, Right against the eastern gate, Where the great sun begins his state...
Էջ 212 - Honour and shame from no condition rise ; Act well your part, there all the honour lies.
Էջ 263 - Now came still evening on, and twilight gray Had in her sober livery all things clad ; Silence accompanied ; for beast and bird, They to their grassy couch, these to their nests Were slunk, all but the wakeful nightingale ; She all night long her amorous descant sung...
Էջ 233 - Haste thee, nymph, and bring with* thee Jest and youthful Jollity. Quips and cranks, and wanton wiles, Nods and becks, and wreathed smiles, Such as hang on Hebe's cheek, And love to live in dimple sleek; Sport that wrinkled Care derides, And Laughter holding both his sides. Come, and trip it as you go On the light fantastic toe...
Էջ 153 - Romans, countrymen, and lovers! hear me for my cause ; and be silent that you may hear : believe me for mine honour; and have respect to mine honour, that you may believe: censure me in your wisdom; and awake your senses that you may the better judge. If there be any in this assembly, any dear friend of Caesar's, to him I say, that Brutus' love to Caesar was no less than his.
Էջ 237 - And ever, against eating cares, Lap me in soft Lydian airs, Married to immortal verse, Such as the meeting soul may pierce, In notes with many a winding bout Of linked sweetness long drawn out With wanton heed and giddy cunning, The melting voice through mazes running, Untwisting all the chains that tie The hidden soul of harmony; That Orpheus...
Էջ 252 - Wept o'er his wounds or tales of sorrow done, Shouldered his crutch, and showed how fields were won. Pleased with his guests, the good man learned to glow, And quite forgot their vices in their woe ; Careless their merits or their faults to scan, His pity gave ere charity began.