Lessons in Elocution: Or, A Selection of Pieces, in Prose and Verse, for the Improvement of Youth in Reading and Speaking ...Hori Brown, 1820 - 407 páginas |
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... enemy in your power , and yet to do him good , is the greatest heroism . Modesty , were it to be recommed red for nothing else , leaves a man at ease , by pretending to little , whereas vain glory requires perpetual labor , to appear ...
... enemy in your power , and yet to do him good , is the greatest heroism . Modesty , were it to be recommed red for nothing else , leaves a man at ease , by pretending to little , whereas vain glory requires perpetual labor , to appear ...
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... enemy , with a frankness of heart which is natural to him , that he be- lieved they two should be very good friends , were it not for the instigations of Poverty , that pernicious counsel- lor , who made an ill use of his ear , and ...
... enemy , with a frankness of heart which is natural to him , that he be- lieved they two should be very good friends , were it not for the instigations of Poverty , that pernicious counsel- lor , who made an ill use of his ear , and ...
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... enemies , and those who would injure my reputation , have given me the name of Pleasure . " By this time the other lady was come up , who ad- dressed herself to the young hero in a very different manner . " Hercules , " says she , " I ...
... enemies , and those who would injure my reputation , have given me the name of Pleasure . " By this time the other lady was come up , who ad- dressed herself to the young hero in a very different manner . " Hercules , " says she , " I ...
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... enemy's camp , which was appointed for the general rendezvous ofthese female carriers , being very desirous to look into theirsev- eral ladings . The first of them had a huge sack upon her shoulders , which she set down with great care ...
... enemy's camp , which was appointed for the general rendezvous ofthese female carriers , being very desirous to look into theirsev- eral ladings . The first of them had a huge sack upon her shoulders , which she set down with great care ...
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... enemy to your own enjoyment , if you enter on the discipline which leads to the attainment of a classical and liberal education , with reluctance . Value duly the opportunities you enjoy , and which are denied to thou- sands of your ...
... enemy to your own enjoyment , if you enter on the discipline which leads to the attainment of a classical and liberal education , with reluctance . Value duly the opportunities you enjoy , and which are denied to thou- sands of your ...
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Página 231 - Yet he was kind, or, if severe in aught, The love he bore to learning was in fault...
Página 351 - Disguise fair nature with hard-favour'd rage; Then lend the eye a terrible aspect; Let it pry through the portage of the head Like the brass cannon: let the brow o'erwhelm it As fearfully as doth a galled rock O'erhang and jutty his confounded base, Swill'd with the wild and wasteful ocean. Now set the teeth and stretch the nostril wide; Hold hard the breath, and bend up every spirit To his full height.
Página 224 - The boast of heraldry, the pomp of power, And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave, Await alike the inevitable hour: The paths of glory lead but to the grave.
Página 347 - She lov'd me for the dangers I had pass'd, And I lov'd her that she did pity them.
Página 243 - His praise, ye winds, that from four quarters blow, Breathe soft or loud ; and wave your tops, ye pines, With every plant, in sign of worship wave. • • Fountains, and ye that warble, as ye. flow, Melodious murmurs, warbling, tune his praise. Join voices, all ye living souls ! ye birds, That, singing, up to heaven's gate ascend, Bear on your wings and in your notes his praise.
Página 224 - THE curfew tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herd winds slowly o'er the lea, The ploughman homeward plods his weary way, And leaves the world to darkness and to me. Now fades the glimmering landscape on the sight, And all the air a solemn stillness holds, Save where the beetle wheels his droning flight, And drowsy tinklings lull the distant folds...
Página 224 - Their name, their years, spelt by th' unletter'd muse, The place of fame and elegy supply: And many a holy text around she strews, That teach the rustic moralist to die. For who to dumb Forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing anxious being e'er resign'd, Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day, Nor cast one longing ling'ring look behind?
Página 117 - Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar but not coarse, and elegant but not ostentatious, must give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison, HUGHES.
Página 341 - I could weep My spirit from mine eyes ! — There is my dagger, And here my naked breast ; within, a heart Dearer than Plutus...
Página 230 - Where village statesmen talk'd with looks profound, And news much older than their ale went round. Imagination fondly stoops to trace The...