The elementary elocutionist: a selection of pieces in prose and verse, by J. White |
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... and eligible as his mode of in- Those who wish to consult Walker farther on this part of the subject , will observe that our edition is the fifth- p . 123 . flecting these lines may be , there is nothing here xxxii INTRODUCTION .
... and eligible as his mode of in- Those who wish to consult Walker farther on this part of the subject , will observe that our edition is the fifth- p . 123 . flecting these lines may be , there is nothing here xxxii INTRODUCTION .
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... wish , however , to quarrel with those who will take another mode of reading sentences connected with the series . The general rule for the inflection of a compound series is , when a commencing series , the falling inflection is given ...
... wish , however , to quarrel with those who will take another mode of reading sentences connected with the series . The general rule for the inflection of a compound series is , when a commencing series , the falling inflection is given ...
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... wish . By those green banks , near which the sacred waters of the Toombudra flow , many aged parents have been carried forth , and exposed to perish , by those whose infancy they fostered . Better , thought I , better the wilderness ...
... wish . By those green banks , near which the sacred waters of the Toombudra flow , many aged parents have been carried forth , and exposed to perish , by those whose infancy they fostered . Better , thought I , better the wilderness ...
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... wish to propitiate favour . Rowena was ever ready to acknowledge the claims , and attend to the feelings of others . She arose , and would have conducted the lovely stranger to a seat ; but she looked at Elgitha , and again intimated a wish ...
... wish to propitiate favour . Rowena was ever ready to acknowledge the claims , and attend to the feelings of others . She arose , and would have conducted the lovely stranger to a seat ; but she looked at Elgitha , and again intimated a wish ...
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... wish . To you , therefore , the gift is of little value and to me , what I part with is of much less . Let me not think you deem so wretchedly ill of my na- tion as your commons believe . Think ye that I prize these sparkling fragments ...
... wish . To you , therefore , the gift is of little value and to me , what I part with is of much less . Let me not think you deem so wretchedly ill of my na- tion as your commons believe . Think ye that I prize these sparkling fragments ...
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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...