Lessons in Elocution: Or, A Selection of Pieces in Prose and Verse, for the Improvement of Youth in Reading and SpeakingI. Hill, 1817 - 407 страници |
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... earth . Then floods of tears are seen to flow . The knees are bended ; or the body prostrated on the ground . The arms are spread in a suppliant posture , and the voice of deprecation is utter- ed with sighs , groans , timidity ...
... earth . Then floods of tears are seen to flow . The knees are bended ; or the body prostrated on the ground . The arms are spread in a suppliant posture , and the voice of deprecation is utter- ed with sighs , groans , timidity ...
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... a goblin rise , like an exhalation through the solid earth . Then he begins to rock from side to side , or backward and forward , like an aged pine on the side of an hill , when a brisk wind blows . The hands OF GESTURE . 39.
... a goblin rise , like an exhalation through the solid earth . Then he begins to rock from side to side , or backward and forward , like an aged pine on the side of an hill , when a brisk wind blows . The hands OF GESTURE . 39.
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... earth is covered with green , rather than with any other color , as being such a right mixture of light and shade , that it comforts and strengthens the eye , instead of weakening or grieving it . For this reason , several painters have ...
... earth is covered with green , rather than with any other color , as being such a right mixture of light and shade , that it comforts and strengthens the eye , instead of weakening or grieving it . For this reason , several painters have ...
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... earth gay and delightful , while she is carrying on her great work , and intent upon her own preservation . The husbandman , after the same manner , is employed in laying out the whole country into a kind of gar- den or landscape , and ...
... earth gay and delightful , while she is carrying on her great work , and intent upon her own preservation . The husbandman , after the same manner , is employed in laying out the whole country into a kind of gar- den or landscape , and ...
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... earth , or in the language of an ingenious French poet , of those pismires that people this heap of dirt , which human vanity has divided into climates and regions . XIII . Journal of the life of Alexander Severus.- GIBBON . ALEXANDER ...
... earth , or in the language of an ingenious French poet , of those pismires that people this heap of dirt , which human vanity has divided into climates and regions . XIII . Journal of the life of Alexander Severus.- GIBBON . ALEXANDER ...
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Страница 219 - Whilst all the stars that round her burn, And all the planets in their turn, Confirm the tidings as they roll, And spread the truth from pole to pole.
Страница 369 - She'd come again, and with a greedy ear Devour up my discourse. Which I observing, Took once a pliant hour; and found good means To draw from her a prayer of earnest heart, That I would all my pilgrimage dilate...
Страница 243 - Twilight gray had in her sober livery all things clad : Silence accompanied ; for Beast and Bird, they to their grassy couch, these to their nests, were slunk, — all but the wakeful nightingale; she, all night long, her amorous descant sung; Silence was pleased. Now...
Страница 361 - All this? ay, more: Fret till your proud heart break; Go, show your slaves how choleric you are, And make your bondmen tremble.
Страница 237 - Yet he was kind, or if severe in aught, The love he bore to learning was in fault...
Страница 220 - The sober herd that low'd to meet their young ; The noisy geese that gabbled o'er the pool, The playful children just let loose from school ; The watch-dog's voice, that bay'd the whispering wind, And the loud laugh that spoke the vacant mind ; These all in sweet confusion sought the shade, And fill'd each pause the nightingale had made.
Страница 236 - Lives through all life, extends through all extent, Spreads undivided, operates unspent: Breathes in our soul, informs our mortal part, As full, as perfect, in a hair as heart; As full, as perfect, in vile man that mourns, As the rapt seraph that adores and burns: To him no high, no low, no great, no small; He fills, he bounds, connects, and equals all.
Страница 354 - Why, well : Never so truly happy, my good Cromwell. I know myself now ; and I feel within me A peace above all earthly dignities, A still and quiet conscience.
Страница 253 - Orphean lyre, I sung of Chaos and eternal Night ; Taught by the heavenly muse to venture down The dark descent, and up to reascend, Though hard and rare : thee I revisit safe, And feel thy sovereign vital lamp ; but thou Revisitest not these eyes, that roll in vain To find thy piercing ray, and find no dawn ; So thick a drop serene hath quenched their orbs, Or dim suffusion veiled.
Страница 362 - 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.