Lessons in Elocution, Or, A Selection of Pieces in Prose and Verse: For the Improvement of Youth in Reading and SpeakingIsaiah Thomas, Jun., 1814 - 407 páginas |
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... hour of the night ; the sovereign , when he issues his edict ; the senator , when he harangues ; the lover , when he whispers his tender tale , do not differ more in the tones which they use , than in the key in which they speak ...
... hour of the night ; the sovereign , when he issues his edict ; the senator , when he harangues ; the lover , when he whispers his tender tale , do not differ more in the tones which they use , than in the key in which they speak ...
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... hours . He may place books before you , and compel you to fix your eyes upon them ; but no authority can chain down your mind . Your thoughts will escape from every external restraint , and , amidst the most serious lectures , may be ...
... hours . He may place books before you , and compel you to fix your eyes upon them ; but no authority can chain down your mind . Your thoughts will escape from every external restraint , and , amidst the most serious lectures , may be ...
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... hour , great influence in the republic . Power , founded on love and gratitude , was to him more pleasant than what is founded on sovereignty . His memory is reverenced by the Genoese ; and , in their histories and public monuments ...
... hour , great influence in the republic . Power , founded on love and gratitude , was to him more pleasant than what is founded on sovereignty . His memory is reverenced by the Genoese ; and , in their histories and public monuments ...
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... hours which in this age , are thrown away in dress , play , visits , and the like , were employed in my time in writing out receipts , or working beds , chairs , and hangings for the family . For my part , I have plied my needle these ...
... hours which in this age , are thrown away in dress , play , visits , and the like , were employed in my time in writing out receipts , or working beds , chairs , and hangings for the family . For my part , I have plied my needle these ...
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... hours were employed in council ; where he discussed public affairs , and d etermined private causes , with a ... hour of supper , the principal meal of the Romans , he was attended by his secretaries , with whom he read and ...
... hours were employed in council ; where he discussed public affairs , and d etermined private causes , with a ... hour of supper , the principal meal of the Romans , he was attended by his secretaries , with whom he read and ...
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action admire appear arms beauty behold body breast breath Brutus Calais Carthaginians cern Cesar charms Cicero countenance creatures Curiatii death delight Dendermond Dovedale e'en earth enemy eternal express eyes fair fame father fortune give glory grace hand happy hath head hear heart heaven honor hope hour human John Gilpin Jugurtha Keswick kind king Lady G live look Lord mankind manner Micipsa Milo mind mouth nature never night noble Numidia o'er object pain passion Patricians person Petrarch pleasure Plebeian Pompey praise privy counsellor Rhadamanthus rise Roman Rome scene sense Sicily side sight smile soul sound speak SPECTATOR spirit sweet tears tell thee thing thou thought tion Trim truth Twas uncle Toby virtue voice whole wise words young youth
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Página 256 - 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.
Página 377 - And you, good yeomen, Whose limbs were made in England, show us here The mettle of your pasture; let us swear That you are worth your breeding : which I doubt not; For there is none of you so mean and base, That hath not noble lustre in your eyes.
Página 382 - Yet Brutus says he was ambitious; And, sure, he is an honourable man. I speak not to disprove what Brutus spoke, But here I am to speak what I do know. You all did love him once, not without cause; What cause withholds you then to mourn for him ? O judgment, thou art fled to brutish beasts, And men have lost their reason! — Bear with me; My heart is in the coffin there with Caesar, And I must pause, till it come back to me.
Página 376 - The wide, the unbounded prospect lies before me : But shadows, clouds, and darkness, rest upon it. Here will I hold. If there's a power above us (And that there is, all Nature cries aloud Through all her works), he must delight in virtue ; And that which he delights in must be happy.
Página 245 - With charm of earliest birds; pleasant the sun, When first on this delightful land he spreads His orient beams, on herb, tree, fruit, and flower, Glistering with dew; fragrant the fertile earth After soft showers; and sweet the coming on Of grateful evening" mild; then silent night With this her solemn bird, and this fair moon, And these the gems of heaven, her starry train...
Página 380 - Caesar carelessly but nod on him. He had a fever when he was in Spain ; And, when the fit was on him, I did mark How he did shake : 'tis true, this god did shake : His coward lips did from their color fly ; And that same eye, whose bend doth awe the world, Did lose his lustre.
Página 371 - My story being done, She gave me for my pains a world of sighs: She swore, in faith, twas strange, 'twas passing strange, Twas pitiful, 'twas wondrous pitiful: She wish'd she had not heard it, yet she wish'd That heaven had made her such a man...
Página 380 - Why should that name be sounded more than yours? Write them together, yours is as fair a name; Sound them, it doth become the mouth as well; Weigh them, it is as heavy; conjure with 'em, Brutus will start a spirit as soon as Caesar.
Página 389 - True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, \ As those move easiest who have learn'd to dance. \ Tis not enough no harshness gives offence, The sound must seem an Echo to the sense...
Página 368 - My liege, I did deny no prisoners. But, I remember, when the fight was done, When I was dry with rage, and extreme toil, Breathless and faint, leaning upon my sword, Came there a certain lord, neat, trimly...