The Speaker: Or Miscellaneous Pieces, Selected from the Best English Writers, and Disposed Under Proper Heads, with a View to Facilitate the Improvement of Youth in Reading and Speaking, to which are Prefixed Two Essays: I. On Elocution. II. On Reading Works of TasteWilliam Enfield Stereotyped by Andrew Wilson, 1823 - 346 páginas |
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... light up glory through her wide domain ; Their various tastes in diff'rent arts display'd , Like temper'd harmony of lignt and shade , With friendly union in one mass shall blend , And this adorn the state , and that defend . I am ...
... light up glory through her wide domain ; Their various tastes in diff'rent arts display'd , Like temper'd harmony of lignt and shade , With friendly union in one mass shall blend , And this adorn the state , and that defend . I am ...
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... light that is IN thee be darkness , how great is THAT darkness ! In order to acquire a habit of speaking with a just and for- cible emphasis , nothing more is necessary , than previously to study the construction , meaning , and spirit ...
... light that is IN thee be darkness , how great is THAT darkness ! In order to acquire a habit of speaking with a just and for- cible emphasis , nothing more is necessary , than previously to study the construction , meaning , and spirit ...
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... light , than as a trial of skill , and a display of oratory . Hence the cha- racter of an Orator is often treated with ridicule , sometimes with contempt . We are pleased with the easy and graceful movements , which the true gentleman ...
... light , than as a trial of skill , and a display of oratory . Hence the cha- racter of an Orator is often treated with ridicule , sometimes with contempt . We are pleased with the easy and graceful movements , which the true gentleman ...
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... light them for themselves : for if our virtues Did not go forth of us , ' twere all alike As if we had them not . Spirits are not finely touch'd , But to fine issues : nor nature never lends The smallest scruple of her excellence , But ...
... light them for themselves : for if our virtues Did not go forth of us , ' twere all alike As if we had them not . Spirits are not finely touch'd , But to fine issues : nor nature never lends The smallest scruple of her excellence , But ...
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... light and dark- ness . The one of them lived in Heaven , and the other in Hell . The youngest descendant of the first family was Plea sure , who was the daughter of Happiness , who was the child of Virtue , who was the offspring of the ...
... light and dark- ness . The one of them lived in Heaven , and the other in Hell . The youngest descendant of the first family was Plea sure , who was the daughter of Happiness , who was the child of Virtue , who was the offspring of the ...
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Palavras e frases frequentes
army Balaam beauty behold bliss bosom breast breath Brutus Cæsar CHAP cheerful cried death delight Dendermond divine earth endeavour eternal Eugenius Ev'n ev'ry fair fancy fate father fear feel fool fortune Fram give Gods grace Grongar Hill hand happy hath head hear heart Heav'n honour hope Iago kind king labour live look lord Macd mankind Maria means mind mortal motley fool Muse nature Nature's never night noble numbers Nymph o'er once pain pass'd passion peace perfection pity pleasure poor pow'r praise privy counsellor racter replied round Scythians sense septennial bill shade SHAKSPEARE Sir John smile SNEYD DAVIES soul sound speak spirit Sterl sweet Syphax taste tears tell Theana thee thing thought toil Trim truth uncle Toby virtue voice wind wisdom wise words Yorick youth
Passagens conhecidas
Página 325 - tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, Or to take arms against a sea of troubles, And by opposing end them? To die : to sleep...
Página 217 - Perhaps in this neglected spot is laid Some heart once pregnant with celestial fire ; Hands, that the rod of empire might have sway'd, Or wak'd to ecstasy the living lyre.
Página 311 - Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears; •> I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him. The evil, that men do, lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones; \ So let it be with Caesar.
Página 316 - 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: I did send To you for gold to pay my legions, Which you denied me: was that done like Cassius?
Página 305 - Let's dry our eyes: and thus far hear me, Cromwell; And, when I am forgotten, as I shall be, And sleep in dull cold marble, where no mention Of me more must be heard of, say, I taught thee...
Página 150 - Let him depart; his passport shall be made, And crowns for convoy put into his purse: We would not die in that man's company That fears his fellowship to die with us. This day is call'd the feast of Crispian: He that outlives this day, and comes safe home, Will stand a tip-toe when this day is nam'd, And rouse him at the name of Crispian.
Página 297 - No matter where ; of comfort no man speak : Let's talk of graves, of worms and epitaphs ; Make dust our paper and with rainy eyes Write sorrow on the bosom of the earth...
Página 323 - But that I am forbid To tell the secrets of my prison-house, I could a tale unfold whose lightest word Would harrow up thy soul, freeze thy young blood, Make thy two eyes, like stars, start from their spheres, Thy knotted and combined locks to part And each particular hair to stand on end, Like quills upon the fretful porcupine : But this eternal blazon must not be To ears of flesh and blood.
Página 184 - As a sick girl. Ye gods, it doth amaze me, A man of such a feeble temper should So get the start of the majestic world, And bear the palm alone.
Página 334 - Thais led the way To light him to his prey, And like another Helen fired another Troy ! Thus long ago, Ere heaving bellows learned to blow, While organs yet were mute, Timotheus, to his breathing flute And sounding lyre, Could swell the soul to rage or kindle soft desire.