The elementary elocutionist: a selection of pieces in prose and verse, by J. White |
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... leave to refer our readers . * Now that we have dismissed our observations on system , at least for the meantime , we come to that view of the * A few months ago , we lectured publicly in Aberdeen on Education , in which we noticed some ...
... leave to refer our readers . * Now that we have dismissed our observations on system , at least for the meantime , we come to that view of the * A few months ago , we lectured publicly in Aberdeen on Education , in which we noticed some ...
Էջ xii
... leave , at the mercy of a may , or a might , or a generally , her unequivocal feelings , and her definite and pointed expressions ? It cannot be . Whatever man's character is , her character is consistency . However men may represent ...
... leave , at the mercy of a may , or a might , or a generally , her unequivocal feelings , and her definite and pointed expressions ? It cannot be . Whatever man's character is , her character is consistency . However men may represent ...
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... leaves us . He could not see what we have to affirm , that these same sentences when beheld in another sense must take the fall- ing inflection - at all events he could not account for it . Should a person accost the Orator thus , Is it ...
... leaves us . He could not see what we have to affirm , that these same sentences when beheld in another sense must take the fall- ing inflection - at all events he could not account for it . Should a person accost the Orator thus , Is it ...
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... leave the walls of a mansion which ap- peared scarcely able to resist further concussion , and seek his safety in flight towards the mountains , where he possessed a magnificent residence , called La - Melia . But the road that led out ...
... leave the walls of a mansion which ap- peared scarcely able to resist further concussion , and seek his safety in flight towards the mountains , where he possessed a magnificent residence , called La - Melia . But the road that led out ...
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... leaving on their flat roofs , and among the branches of the trees which grew out of the impending rocks , the mangled bodies of the victims it had destroyed . But these were not many ; for the mass , including the Prince of Scylla ...
... leaving on their flat roofs , and among the branches of the trees which grew out of the impending rocks , the mangled bodies of the victims it had destroyed . But these were not many ; for the mass , including the Prince of Scylla ...
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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...