The elementary elocutionist: a selection of pieces in prose and verse, by J. White |
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... Considering the great importance of the emphatic rising and falling inflections , is it wonderful that Walker should appear , on many occasions , so very anxious to discover the cause ? And though he extended , as he says , his specula ...
... Considering the great importance of the emphatic rising and falling inflections , is it wonderful that Walker should appear , on many occasions , so very anxious to discover the cause ? And though he extended , as he says , his specula ...
Էջ xxv
... considers the words , I come to bury Cæsar , a sufficient and an unmodified answer . But bury and praise are inseparably connected ; therefore the hypothesis is absurd — and , as an unavoidable consequence of this absurdity , the ...
... considers the words , I come to bury Cæsar , a sufficient and an unmodified answer . But bury and praise are inseparably connected ; therefore the hypothesis is absurd — and , as an unavoidable consequence of this absurdity , the ...
Էջ xxx
... consider it and his other interrogative rules mere creatures of his own brain . We apply the same mode of reasoning here as we did to some of his other rules . If they are built upon a right foundation , whence all these exceptions . If ...
... consider it and his other interrogative rules mere creatures of his own brain . We apply the same mode of reasoning here as we did to some of his other rules . If they are built upon a right foundation , whence all these exceptions . If ...
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... consider , as we always do , the import of the sentence , and if elliptical , we supply , so as to make the cause of the inflection more evident and satisfactory . There might have been only one word , grows , which not unfrequently ...
... consider , as we always do , the import of the sentence , and if elliptical , we supply , so as to make the cause of the inflection more evident and satisfactory . There might have been only one word , grows , which not unfrequently ...
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... consider it in this state . It is easy to make theories , but it is another thing to show that they are well founded or practicable . In proposing any other mode for the reading of sentences including a number of particulars , we are to ...
... consider it in this state . It is easy to make theories , but it is another thing to show that they are well founded or practicable . In proposing any other mode for the reading of sentences including a number of particulars , we are to ...
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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...