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Hence if it is remarked that to speak or read well , will require study and
preparation , at once evidence of positive aversion is manifested by those who , if
wisely directed , would be found to profit by good advice . It has been the author '
s ...
Hence if it is remarked that to speak or read well , will require study and
preparation , at once evidence of positive aversion is manifested by those who , if
wisely directed , would be found to profit by good advice . It has been the author '
s ...
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... and deliberate decision of everyone who sincerely wishes to excel either as a
Reader or a Speaker . Can anything be more contemptible than to be merely a
copyist ? Indeed , all rightminded persons will at once confess , that it is sickening
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... and deliberate decision of everyone who sincerely wishes to excel either as a
Reader or a Speaker . Can anything be more contemptible than to be merely a
copyist ? Indeed , all rightminded persons will at once confess , that it is sickening
...
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Rome was not built in a day , ” it is often said , neither is perfection in any
department of life attained all at once . Speaking of the celebrated painter ,
Vigneul Marville says : “ When I was at Rome I frequently saw Claude , who was
then ...
Rome was not built in a day , ” it is often said , neither is perfection in any
department of life attained all at once . Speaking of the celebrated painter ,
Vigneul Marville says : “ When I was at Rome I frequently saw Claude , who was
then ...
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It is in this way , also , his own taste is improved , as it becomes assimilated with
the excellences of those he tries to become acquainted with . It is so with music .
No one expects , by just running over a piece carelessly once or twice , to be able
...
It is in this way , also , his own taste is improved , as it becomes assimilated with
the excellences of those he tries to become acquainted with . It is so with music .
No one expects , by just running over a piece carelessly once or twice , to be able
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... according to the most approved custom of pronouncing it ; and in making such
distinction between the syllables of which words are composed that the ear shall ,
without difficulty , acknowledge their number , and perceive , at once , to which ...
... according to the most approved custom of pronouncing it ; and in making such
distinction between the syllables of which words are composed that the ear shall ,
without difficulty , acknowledge their number , and perceive , at once , to which ...
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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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