The Standard Speaker & Elocutionist ...Ward, Lock and Company, 1880 - 248 páginas |
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... o'er the wave ; Reason the rudder , to direct and save . A friend cannot be known in prosperity ; and an enemy can- not be hidden in adversity . He raised a mortal to the skies , She drew an angel down . It will thus be seen that , as a ...
... o'er the wave ; Reason the rudder , to direct and save . A friend cannot be known in prosperity ; and an enemy can- not be hidden in adversity . He raised a mortal to the skies , She drew an angel down . It will thus be seen that , as a ...
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... o'er fields of ice and snow . We travelled o'er fields of vice and snow . An improper repetition of a final consonant at the beginning of the following word is a common error ; for example : - My brothers ought to owe nothing . My ...
... o'er fields of ice and snow . We travelled o'er fields of vice and snow . An improper repetition of a final consonant at the beginning of the following word is a common error ; for example : - My brothers ought to owe nothing . My ...
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... o'er the one - half world Nature seems dead , and wicked dreams abuse The curtain'd sleep ; now witchcraft celebrates Pale Hecate's offerings , and wither'd Murder , Alarum'd by his sentinel , the wolf , Whose howl's his watch , then ...
... o'er the one - half world Nature seems dead , and wicked dreams abuse The curtain'd sleep ; now witchcraft celebrates Pale Hecate's offerings , and wither'd Murder , Alarum'd by his sentinel , the wolf , Whose howl's his watch , then ...
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... o'er her ? Her mainmast's gone , but she will drive on To the fatal rock before her . The lifeboat ! Man the lifeboat ! And here it is needful also to add a word of caution . 66 Guard carefully against dropping into the song style of ...
... o'er her ? Her mainmast's gone , but she will drive on To the fatal rock before her . The lifeboat ! Man the lifeboat ! And here it is needful also to add a word of caution . 66 Guard carefully against dropping into the song style of ...
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... o'er- Being whom we call GOD , and know no more ! " " 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 ...
... o'er- Being whom we call GOD , and know no more ! " " 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 ...
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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,