The elementary elocutionist: a selection of pieces in prose and verse, by J. White |
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... look at the few of the thousands who have surpassed their fellow creatures . In several places , Blair alludes to this sub- ject : " How little reason to wonder , " says he , after speak- ing of the qualifications of an Orator , " that ...
... look at the few of the thousands who have surpassed their fellow creatures . In several places , Blair alludes to this sub- ject : " How little reason to wonder , " says he , after speak- ing of the qualifications of an Orator , " that ...
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... look at the thousands that are yearly ushered into the Latin , and we have no doubt of these observations receiving an unconditional confirmation . But whatever may be said , we affirm , they cannot be de- nied . With such a state of ...
... look at the thousands that are yearly ushered into the Latin , and we have no doubt of these observations receiving an unconditional confirmation . But whatever may be said , we affirm , they cannot be de- nied . With such a state of ...
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... look upon all sentences in no other light than as questions and answers ; and consequently , belonging to one or other , or to both , of these states . These observations prepare us for the assertion , that Walker's rules for the ...
... look upon all sentences in no other light than as questions and answers ; and consequently , belonging to one or other , or to both , of these states . These observations prepare us for the assertion , that Walker's rules for the ...
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... look merely at their external appearances , no difference is discernible ? Is she so capri- cious , so vague , and indefinite , so ignorant of the language of the human heart , as to leave , at the mercy of a may , or a might , or a ...
... look merely at their external appearances , no difference is discernible ? Is she so capri- cious , so vague , and indefinite , so ignorant of the language of the human heart , as to leave , at the mercy of a may , or a might , or a ...
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... look upon sentences in no other light than as questions and answers : which view , may be considered as bearing some relation to the rule which we now give . RULE . The questioning part , or that part intimating that some expression is ...
... look upon sentences in no other light than as questions and answers : which view , may be considered as bearing some relation to the rule which we now give . RULE . The questioning part , or that part intimating that some expression is ...
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Страница 205 - KNOW ye the land where the cypress and myrtle Are emblems of deeds that are done in their clime? Where the rage of the vulture, the love of the turtle, Now melt into sorrow, now madden to crime...
Страница 238 - Thy shores are empires, changed in all save thee — Assyria, Greece, Rome, Carthage, what are they? Thy waters wasted them while they were free, And many a tyrant since ; their shores obey The stranger, slave or savage ; their decay Has dried up realms to deserts — not so thou Unchangeable, save to thy wild waves
Страница 245 - They say it was a shocking sight After the field was won; For many thousand bodies here Lay rotting in the sun; But things like that, you know, must be After a famous victory. "Great praise the Duke of Marlbro' won, And our good Prince Eugene.
Страница 232 - The spirits of your fathers Shall start from every wave ! — For the deck it was their field of fame, And Ocean was their grave...
Страница 218 - Last noon beheld them full of lusty life, Last eve in Beauty's circle proudly gay, The midnight brought the signal-sound of strife, The morn the marshalling in arms — the day Battle's magnificently stern array...
Страница 283 - With a bare bodkin ? who would fardels bear, To grunt and sweat under a weary life, But that the dread of something after death, The undiscover'd country from whose bourn No traveller returns, puzzles the will, And makes us rather bear those ills we have Than fly to others that we know not of ? Thus conscience does make cowards of us all...
Страница 253 - As awaked from the dead, And amazed he stares around. Revenge, revenge, Timotheus cries, See the Furies arise ! See the snakes that they rear, How they hiss in their hair, And the sparkles that flash from their eyes!
Страница 253 - Think, O think it worth enjoying! Lovely Thais sits beside thee, Take the good the gods provide thee!
Страница 250 - I'll meet the raging of the skies, But not an angry father." The boat has left a stormy land, A stormy sea before her, — When, oh ! too strong for human hand. The tempest gathered o'er her.
Страница 217 - There was a sound of revelry by night, And Belgium's capital had gathered then Her Beauty and her Chivalry, and bright The lamps shone o'er fair women and brave men...