An American Selection of Lessons in Reading and Speaking: Calculated to Improve the Minds and Refine the Taste of Youth : to which are Prefixed Rules in Elocution and Directions for Expressing the Principal Passions of the Mind : Being the Third Part of A Grammatical Institute of the English LanguageEvert Duyckinck, bookseller and stationer, 1804 - 236 páginas |
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... thee ? said the sun ; I am very sure that I intend it . O no ! replies the moon ; but I now perceive the reason . I see that dirty planet the earth has got between us . Dodsley's Fables . Life is short and uncertain ; we have not a ...
... thee ? said the sun ; I am very sure that I intend it . O no ! replies the moon ; but I now perceive the reason . I see that dirty planet the earth has got between us . Dodsley's Fables . Life is short and uncertain ; we have not a ...
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... That mak'st my blood cold , and my hair to stand ? Speak to me , what art thou ? LOVE . Who can behold such beauty , and be silent ? Oh ! I could talk of thee forever ; Forever fix and gaze on those dear eyes ; For AMERICAN SELECTION .
... That mak'st my blood cold , and my hair to stand ? Speak to me , what art thou ? LOVE . Who can behold such beauty , and be silent ? Oh ! I could talk of thee forever ; Forever fix and gaze on those dear eyes ; For AMERICAN SELECTION .
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... thee forever from our sight And kingdom . If , when three days are expired , Thy hated trunk be found in our dominions , That moment is thy death . - Away ! By Jupiter this shall not be revok'd . CONTEMPT . Orphan . Tray . of Lear ...
... thee forever from our sight And kingdom . If , when three days are expired , Thy hated trunk be found in our dominions , That moment is thy death . - Away ! By Jupiter this shall not be revok'd . CONTEMPT . Orphan . Tray . of Lear ...
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... thee from that friendly grove . BOASTING . My arm a nobler victory ne'er gain'd : And I am prouder to have pass'd that stream , Boadicea . Than that I drove a million o'er the plain . Lee's Alexander . PERPLEXITY . Go , fellow , get thee ...
... thee from that friendly grove . BOASTING . My arm a nobler victory ne'er gain'd : And I am prouder to have pass'd that stream , Boadicea . Than that I drove a million o'er the plain . Lee's Alexander . PERPLEXITY . Go , fellow , get thee ...
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... thee ? There is nothing of so much worth as a mind well instructed . The lips of talkers will be telling such things as pertain not unto them ; but the words of such as have understanding are weighed in the balance . The heart of fools ...
... thee ? There is nothing of so much worth as a mind well instructed . The lips of talkers will be telling such things as pertain not unto them ; but the words of such as have understanding are weighed in the balance . The heart of fools ...
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Palavras e frases frequentes
Agathocles America appear arms army beauty Belfield Blithe blood body British British parliament Caius Verres Calista character cheerfulness citizens colonies Columbus command conduct Count d'Estaing daugh daughter dear death Delv Delvill duty enemy eyes Fair Penitent father favor fear feel fifth of March fire fortune Gent give glory Great-Britain hand happiness heard heart heaven Hispaniola honor hope human Hunks Indians inhabitants justice king Lady laws live look Lord Lord Cornwallis lumbus Madam mankind manner marriage married mind Miss Wal nature never night object obliged passions Patricians peace Perrin person pleasure Plebeian Powhatan prisoner Putnam render Roche Roman savage soon soul Spain speak suffered Syph Syphax tears thee thing thou thought tion took town treaty troops virtue voice whole word wounded young
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Página 183 - You have done that you should be sorry for. There is no terror, Cassius, in your threats; For I am arm'd so strong in honesty, That they pass by me as the idle wind Which I respect not.
Página 181 - Corruption wins not more than honesty. Still in thy right hand carry gentle peace, To silence envious tongues. Be just, and fear not : Let all the ends thou aim'st at be thy country's, Thy God's, and truth's; then if thou fall'st...
Página 179 - Like little wanton boys that swim on bladders, This many summers in a sea of glory; But far beyond my depth : my high-blown pride At length broke under me ; and now has left me, Weary, and old with service, to the mercy Of a rude stream, that must for ever hide me.
Página 10 - How like a fawning publican he looks ! I hate him for he is a Christian ; But more for that in low simplicity He lends out money gratis, and brings down The rate of usance here with us in Venice. If I can catch him once upon the hip, I will feed fat the ancient grudge I bear him.
Página 179 - Farewell, a long farewell, to all my greatness ! This is the state of man ; to-day he puts forth The tender leaves of hope, to-morrow blossoms, And bears his blushing...
Página 10 - As in a theatre the eyes of men, After a well-graced actor leaves the stage, Are idly bent on him that enters next, Thinking his prattle to be tedious ; Even so, or with much more contempt, men's eyes Did scowl on gentle Richard : no man cried, God save him...
Página 10 - God save him; No joyful tongue gave him his welcome home: But dust was thrown upon his sacred head ; Which with such gentle sorrow he shook off, — His face still combating with tears and smiles, The badges of his grief and patience, — That had not God, for some strong purpose, steel'd The hearts of men, they must perforce have melted, And barbarism itself have pitied him.
Página 198 - With spectacles on nose and pouch on side, His youthful hose, well saved, a world too wide For his shrunk shank; and his big manly voice, Turning again toward childish treble, pipes And whistles in his sound. Last scene of all, That ends this strange eventful history, Is second childishness and mere oblivion, Sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans every thing.
Página 195 - The whole strange purpose of their lives to find Or make an enemy of all mankind ! Not one looks backward, onward still he goes, Yet ne'er looks forward further than his nose.
Página 182 - And not for justice? What, shall one of us, That struck the foremost man of all this world, But for supporting robbers; shall we now Contaminate our fingers with base bribes? And sell the mighty space of our large...