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 MindFrom Sidney's Press for I. Beers and I. Cooke, 1804 - 225 ページ |
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... nature of the fubject . A femicolon , for exam- ple , requires a longer pause in a grave difcourfe , than in lively and fpirited declamation . However as children are incapa- ble of nice distinctions , it may be best to adopt , at first ...
... nature of the fubject . A femicolon , for exam- ple , requires a longer pause in a grave difcourfe , than in lively and fpirited declamation . However as children are incapa- ble of nice distinctions , it may be best to adopt , at first ...
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... natural pitch of voice is that in which we speak in common converfation . Whenever the voice is raised above this key , pronunciation is difficult and fatiguing . There is a difference between a loud and a high voice . A perfon may ...
... natural pitch of voice is that in which we speak in common converfation . Whenever the voice is raised above this key , pronunciation is difficult and fatiguing . There is a difference between a loud and a high voice . A perfon may ...
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... nature ; to be fo to the utmost of our abilities , is the glory of man . No man was ever caft down with the injuries of fortune , un- lefs he had before fuffered himself to be deceived by her favors . Anger may glance into the breaft of ...
... nature ; to be fo to the utmost of our abilities , is the glory of man . No man was ever caft down with the injuries of fortune , un- lefs he had before fuffered himself to be deceived by her favors . Anger may glance into the breaft of ...
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... Nature , in her whole drama , never drew fuch a part ; she has fometimes made a fool , but a coxcomb is always of his own making . It is the infirmity of little minds to be taken with every ap- pearance , and dazzled with every thing ...
... Nature , in her whole drama , never drew fuch a part ; she has fometimes made a fool , but a coxcomb is always of his own making . It is the infirmity of little minds to be taken with every ap- pearance , and dazzled with every thing ...
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... nature , as to feek happiness by changing any thing but his own difpofi- tion , will wafte his life in fruitlefs efforts , and multiply griefs which he purposes to remove . No rank in life precludes the efficacy of a well timed com ...
... nature , as to feek happiness by changing any thing but his own difpofi- tion , will wafte his life in fruitlefs efforts , and multiply griefs which he purposes to remove . No rank in life precludes the efficacy of a well timed com ...
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216 ページ - 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.
214 ページ - 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, O Cromwell, Thou fall'st a blessed martyr.
213 ページ - Cromwell, I did not think to shed a tear In all my miseries; but thou hast forced me, Out of thy honest truth, to play the woman. Let's dry our eyes: and thus far hear me, Cromwell...
221 ページ - And then the whining schoolboy, with his satchel And shining morning face, creeping like snail Unwillingly to school. And then the lover, Sighing like furnace, with a woeful ballad Made to his mistress
190 ページ - WE all of us complain of the Shortness of Time, saith Seneca, and yet have much more than we know what to do with. Our Lives, says he, are spent either in doing nothing at all, or in doing nothing to the purpose, or in doing nothing that we ought to do: We are always Complaining our Days are few, and Acting as though there would be no End of them.
169 ページ - Who wickedly is wise, or madly brave, Is but the more a fool, the more a knave. Who noble ends by noble means obtains, Or failing, smiles in exile or in chains, Like good Aurelius let him reign, or bleed Like Socrates, that man is great indeed. What's fame? a fancied life in others' breath, A thing beyond us, ev'n before our death.
169 ページ - The friar hooded, and the monarch crown'd. " What differ more (you cry) than crown and cowl !" I'll tell you, friend ! a wise man and a fool.
211 ページ - Have faces flush'd with more exalted charms ; The sun that rolls his chariot o'er their heads, Works up more fire and colour in their cheeks : Were you with these, my prince, you'd soon forget, The pale, unripen'd beauties of the north.
62 ページ - There runs not a drop of my blood in the veins of any living creature. This called on me for revenge. I have sought it : I have killed many : I have fully glutted my vengeance : for my country I rejoice at the beams of peace. But do not harbor a thought that mine is the joy of fear.
16 ページ - The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together...