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A good articulation is to the ear , in speaking , what a fair and regular hand is to
the eye , in writing ; and exactness in sounding the words rightly corresponds to
propriety in spelling . Let us , therefore , take a glance at a few of what we may
call ...
A good articulation is to the ear , in speaking , what a fair and regular hand is to
the eye , in writing ; and exactness in sounding the words rightly corresponds to
propriety in spelling . Let us , therefore , take a glance at a few of what we may
call ...
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One touch to her hand , and one word in her ear , When they reach ' d the hall
door , and the charger stood near , So light to the croupe the fair lady he swung ,
So light to the saddle before her he sprung ? “ She is won ! we are gone , over ...
One touch to her hand , and one word in her ear , When they reach ' d the hall
door , and the charger stood near , So light to the croupe the fair lady he swung ,
So light to the saddle before her he sprung ? “ She is won ! we are gone , over ...
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... Living , shall forfeit fair renown , And doubly dying , shall go down To the vile
dust from whence he sprung , Unwept , unhonoured , and unsung ! High PITch . .
. This is proper for stirring description , or animated narration . It is also needful ...
... Living , shall forfeit fair renown , And doubly dying , shall go down To the vile
dust from whence he sprung , Unwept , unhonoured , and unsung ! High PITch . .
. This is proper for stirring description , or animated narration . It is also needful ...
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But thou , O Hope ! with eyes so fair , What was thy delighted measure ? Still it
whispered promised pleasure , And bade the lovely scenes at distance hail . Still
would her touch the strain prolong , And from the rocks , the woods , the vale ,
She ...
But thou , O Hope ! with eyes so fair , What was thy delighted measure ? Still it
whispered promised pleasure , And bade the lovely scenes at distance hail . Still
would her touch the strain prolong , And from the rocks , the woods , the vale ,
She ...
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Erewhile they fierce were coming , and when we , To entertain them fair with
open front And breast , ( what could we more ? ) propounded terms Of
composition , straight they changed their minds , Flew off , and into strange
vagaries fell , As ...
Erewhile they fierce were coming , and when we , To entertain them fair with
open front And breast , ( what could we more ? ) propounded terms Of
composition , straight they changed their minds , Flew off , and into strange
vagaries fell , As ...
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Página 60 - For I can raise no money by vile means: By heaven, I had rather coin my heart, And drop my blood for drachmas, than to wring From the hard hands of peasants their' vile trash By any indirection.
Página 82 - Dark-heaving; boundless, endless, and sublime — The image of Eternity — the throne Of the Invisible; even from out thy slime The monsters of the deep are made; each zone Obeys thee; thou goest forth, dread, fathomless, alone.
Página 186 - 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...
Página 152 - God ! sing, ye meadow-streams, with gladsome voice! Ye pine-groves, with your soft and soul-like sounds ! And they, too, have a voice, yon piles of snow, And in their perilous fall, shall thunder, God...
Página 65 - I'll leave you till night; you are welcome to Elsinore. Ros. Good my lord ! [Exeunt Rosencrantz and Giiildenstern. Ham. Ay, so, God be wi' ye :—Now I am alone. O, what a rogue and 'peasant slave am I ! Is it not monstrous that this player here, But in a fiction, in a dream of passion, Could force his soul so to his own conceit...
Página 57 - WE watched her breathing through the night, Her breathing soft and low, As in her breast the wave of life . Kept heaving to and fro. So silently we...
Página 151 - Risest from forth thy silent sea of pines, How silently ! Around thee and above Deep is the air and dark, substantial, black, An ebon mass : methinks thou piercest it As with a wedge ! But when I look again, It is thine own calm home, thy crystal shrine, Thy habitation from eternity ' 0 dread and silent Mount ! I gazed upon thee Till thou, still present to the bodily sense, Didst vanish from my thought : entranced in prayer 1 worshipped the Invisible alone.
Página 72 - The angels, not half so happy in heaven, Went envying her and me; Yes! that was the reason (as all men know, In this kingdom by the sea) That the wind came out of the cloud by night, Chilling and killing my Annabel Lee.
Página 82 - O, young Lochinvar is come out of the west, Through all the wide Border his steed was the best ; And save his good broad-sword he weapon had none, He rode all unarmed, and he rode all alone. So faithful in love, and so dauntless in war, There never was knight like the young Lochinvar.
Página 21 - One touch to her hand, and one word in her ear. When they reached the hall door, and the charger stood near; So light to the croupe the fair lady he swung, So light to the saddle before her he sprung! "She is won! we are gone, over bank, bush, and scaur: They'll have fleet steeds that follow,
Información bibliográfica
| Título | The Standard speaker and elocutionist Kirton's Standard Reciters |
| Autor | John William Kirton |
| Editor | Ward, Lock and Company, 1880 |
| Procedencia del original | Universidad de Oxford |
| Digitalizado | 28 Jul. 2006 |
| Largo | 248 páginas |
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