Lessons in Elocution, Or, A Selection of Pieces in Prose and Verse: For the Improvement of Youth in Reading and SpeakingHill and Moore, 1820 - 384 páginas |
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... Delight or pleasure , as when one is entertained , or ravished with music , painting , oratory , or any such el- egancy , shews itself by the looks , gestures , and utter- ance of joy ; but moderate . Gravity or Seriousness , the mind ...
... Delight or pleasure , as when one is entertained , or ravished with music , painting , oratory , or any such el- egancy , shews itself by the looks , gestures , and utter- ance of joy ; but moderate . Gravity or Seriousness , the mind ...
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... delight was in vio- lence , slaughter , rapine and intestine confusion ; and such works were the employment of his earliest years . His constitution qualified him for bearing hunger , cold and want of sleep , to a degree exceeding ...
... delight was in vio- lence , slaughter , rapine and intestine confusion ; and such works were the employment of his earliest years . His constitution qualified him for bearing hunger , cold and want of sleep , to a degree exceeding ...
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... delights , this world of pleasure , and bid fare- well forever ' , to care , to pain , to business . " Hercules , hearing the lady talk after this manner , de- sired to know her name ; to which she answered , “ my friends , and those ...
... delights , this world of pleasure , and bid fare- well forever ' , to care , to pain , to business . " Hercules , hearing the lady talk after this manner , de- sired to know her name ; to which she answered , “ my friends , and those ...
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... , from the real or supposed inferi- ority of the persons ; and that delightful liberty of con- versation , among a few friends , is soon destroyed as lib- erty often has been , by being carried to licentiousness 80 [ PART I. LESSONS.
... , from the real or supposed inferi- ority of the persons ; and that delightful liberty of con- versation , among a few friends , is soon destroyed as lib- erty often has been , by being carried to licentiousness 80 [ PART I. LESSONS.
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... delights ; in order to feel its delights , you must ap- ply to it , however irksonie at first , closely , constantly , and for a considerable time . If you have resolution Secr . 1 . કર્મ IN READING .
... delights ; in order to feel its delights , you must ap- ply to it , however irksonie at first , closely , constantly , and for a considerable time . If you have resolution Secr . 1 . કર્મ IN READING .
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Página 349 - Cromwell, I did not think to shed a tear In all my miseries; but thou hast forc'd me Out of thy honest truth to play the woman. Let's dry our eyes: and thus far hear me, Cromwell ; And, — when I am forgotten, as I shall be ; And sleep in dull cold marble...
Página 230 - Soft roll your incense, herbs, and fruits, and flowers, In mingled clouds to Him whose Sun exalts, Whose breath perfumes you, and whose pencil paints. Ye forests, bend, ye harvests, wave to Him ; Breathe your still song into the reaper's heart, As home he goes beneath the joyous Moon.
Página 374 - 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.
Página 373 - Romans, countrymen, and lovers ! hear me for my cause, and be silent, that you may hear : believe me for mine honour, and have respect to mine honour, that you may believe : censure me in your wisdom, and awake your senses, that you may the better judge. If there be any in this assembly, any dear friend of Caesar's, to him I say that Brutus' love to Caesar was no less than his.
Página 356 - Caius Cassius so? When Marcus Brutus grows so covetous, To lock such rascal counters from his friends, Be ready, gods, with all your thunderbolts; Dash him to pieces!
Página 366 - The oppressor's wrong, the proud man's contumely, The pangs of despis'd love, the law's delay, The insolence of office, and the spurns That patient merit of the unworthy takes, When he himself might his quietus make With a bare bodkin...
Página 231 - tis nought to me; Since God is ever present, ever felt, In the void waste as in the city full ; And where He vital breathes there must be joy.
Página 254 - Married to immortal verse ; Such as the meeting soul may pierce, In notes, with many a winding bout Of linked sweetness long drawn out, With wanton heed and giddy cunning ; The melting voice through mazes running, Untwisting all the chains that tie The hidden soul of harmony ; That Orpheus...
Página 262 - The bottles twain, behind his back, were shattered at a blow. Down ran the wine into the road, most piteous to be seen, Which made his horse's flanks to smoke as they had basted been. But still he...
Página 363 - 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...