Lessons in Elocution: Or, A Selection of Pieces in Prose and Verse, for the Improvement of Youth in Reading and SpeakingH. Brown, 1817 - 407 páginas |
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... tell us the story of a fa- mous siege in Germany , which I have since found relat- ed in my historical dictionary ; after the following manner . When the emperor Conrad III , had beseiged Guelphus , Duke of Bavaria , in the city of ...
... tell us the story of a fa- mous siege in Germany , which I have since found relat- ed in my historical dictionary ; after the following manner . When the emperor Conrad III , had beseiged Guelphus , Duke of Bavaria , in the city of ...
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... tell the company ingenuously , in case they had been in the siege abovementioned , and had the same offers made them as the good women of that place , what every one of them would have brought off with her , and have thought most worth ...
... tell the company ingenuously , in case they had been in the siege abovementioned , and had the same offers made them as the good women of that place , what every one of them would have brought off with her , and have thought most worth ...
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... tell us , that our discontent only hurts ourselves , without being able to make any altera- tion in our circumfey are forothers , that whatever evil be- fals us is derived to usa fatal necessity , to which the gods themselves are ...
... tell us , that our discontent only hurts ourselves , without being able to make any altera- tion in our circumfey are forothers , that whatever evil be- fals us is derived to usa fatal necessity , to which the gods themselves are ...
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... tell me , Nature , what else was it that made this morsel so sweet - and to what magic I owe it that the draught I took of their flaggon was so deli- cious with it , that it remains upon my palate to this hour ? If the supper was to my ...
... tell me , Nature , what else was it that made this morsel so sweet - and to what magic I owe it that the draught I took of their flaggon was so deli- cious with it , that it remains upon my palate to this hour ? If the supper was to my ...
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... to pro- duce a good crop of corn ; telling you , in the same breath , that he intends to plough up such part SECTION III The honor and advantage of a constant adherence to truth, Percival's Tales, Impertinence in discourse, Theophrastus,
... to pro- duce a good crop of corn ; telling you , in the same breath , that he intends to plough up such part SECTION III The honor and advantage of a constant adherence to truth, Percival's Tales, Impertinence in discourse, Theophrastus,
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Pasajes populares
Página 219 - Whilst all the stars that round her burn, And all the planets in their turn, Confirm the tidings as they roll, And spread the truth from pole to pole.
Página 369 - She'd come again, and with a greedy ear Devour up my discourse. Which I observing, Took once a pliant hour; and found good means To draw from her a prayer of earnest heart, That I would all my pilgrimage dilate...
Página 243 - 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; Silence was pleased. Now...
Página 361 - All this? ay, more: Fret till your proud heart break; Go, show your slaves how choleric you are, And make your bondmen tremble.
Página 237 - Yet he was kind, or if severe in aught, The love he bore to learning was in fault...
Página 220 - The sober herd that low'd to meet their young ; The noisy geese that gabbled o'er the pool, The playful children just let loose from school ; The watch-dog's voice, that bay'd the whispering wind, And the loud laugh that spoke the vacant mind ; These all in sweet confusion sought the shade, And fill'd each pause the nightingale had made.
Página 236 - Lives through all life, extends through all extent, Spreads undivided, operates unspent: Breathes in our soul, informs our mortal part, As full, as perfect, in a hair as heart; As full, as perfect, in vile man that mourns, As the rapt seraph that adores and burns: To him no high, no low, no great, no small; He fills, he bounds, connects, and equals all.
Página 354 - Why, well : Never so truly happy, my good Cromwell. I know myself now ; and I feel within me A peace above all earthly dignities, A still and quiet conscience.
Página 253 - Orphean lyre, I sung of Chaos and eternal Night ; Taught by the heavenly muse to venture down The dark descent, and up to reascend, Though hard and rare : thee I revisit safe, And feel thy sovereign vital lamp ; but thou Revisitest not these eyes, that roll in vain To find thy piercing ray, and find no dawn ; So thick a drop serene hath quenched their orbs, Or dim suffusion veiled.
Página 362 - There is no terror, Cassius, in your threats, For I am arm'd so strong in honesty That they pass by me as the idle wind, Which I respect not.