The Elocutionary Reader; Or, Rhetorical Class BookSimpkin, Marshall, and Company, 1847 - 12 ページ |
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... look well , and you choose to compliment me , say , " I think you look well . " " But , " you answer , " that is so common , and so plain , and what every body can say . " Well , and what if they can ? Is it so great a misfortune to be ...
... look well , and you choose to compliment me , say , " I think you look well . " " But , " you answer , " that is so common , and so plain , and what every body can say . " Well , and what if they can ? Is it so great a misfortune to be ...
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... What is the title by which they claim to rule you ? That they are an ancient institution . This looks all very well 1 ; but I should as soon think of suppressing the power - loom and annihilating the steam - engine , 27.
... What is the title by which they claim to rule you ? That they are an ancient institution . This looks all very well 1 ; but I should as soon think of suppressing the power - loom and annihilating the steam - engine , 27.
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... look back to British history , without feeling proud of belonging to the British nation . Though my country has suffered much , my heart throbs to exultation for the entire empire , and to participate in the blessings of a combined ...
... look back to British history , without feeling proud of belonging to the British nation . Though my country has suffered much , my heart throbs to exultation for the entire empire , and to participate in the blessings of a combined ...
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... look with more Christian charity upon the failings of his brother man , and the great study , " know thyself , " will be prosecuted with greater likelihood of success . The time , I prophesy , is not far distant , when the gratitude ...
... look with more Christian charity upon the failings of his brother man , and the great study , " know thyself , " will be prosecuted with greater likelihood of success . The time , I prophesy , is not far distant , when the gratitude ...
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... gladden the hearts of men , and make all nature look gay , the glorious sun of liberty shining full upon them in all its majestic splendour . Under the influence of its genial rays , the arts and sciences and literature have 35.
... gladden the hearts of men , and make all nature look gay , the glorious sun of liberty shining full upon them in all its majestic splendour . Under the influence of its genial rays , the arts and sciences and literature have 35.
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156 ページ - So stately his form, and so lovely her face, that never a hall such a galliard did grace; while her mother did fret, and her father did fume. and the bridegroom stood dangling his bonnet and plume ; and the bride-maidens whispered, "Twere better by far to have matched our fair cousin with young Lochinvar.
153 ページ - And Ardennes waves above them her green leaves, Dewy with nature's tear-drops as they pass, Grieving, if aught inanimate e'er grieves, Over the unreturning brave, - alas! Ere evening to be trodden like the grass Which now beneath them, but above shall grow In its next verdure, when this fiery mass Of living valour, rolling on the foe And burning with high hope shall moulder cold and low.
59 ページ - ... as if there were sought in knowledge a couch, whereupon to rest a searching and restless spirit ; or a terrace, for a wandering and variable mind to walk up and down with a fair prospect ; or a tower of state, for a proud mind to raise itself upon ; or a fort or commanding ground, for strife and contention ; or a shop, for profit, or sale ; and not a rich storehouse, for the glory of the Creator, and the relief of man's estate.
152 ページ - Ah ! then and there was hurrying to and fro, And gathering tears, and tremblings of distress, And cheeks all pale, which but an hour ago Blush'd at the praise of their own loveliness ; And there were sudden partings, such as press The life from out young hearts, and choking sighs, Which ne'er might be repeated...
156 ページ - The isles of Greece, the isles of Greece! Where burning Sappho loved and sung, Where grew the arts of war and peace, Where Delos rose, and Phoebus sprung! Eternal summer gilds them yet, But all, except their sun, is set.
159 ページ - Place me on Sunium's marbled steep — Where nothing, save the waves and I, May hear our mutual murmurs sweep ; There, swan-like, let me sing and die : A land of slaves shall ne'er be mine — Dash down yon cup of Samian wine ! LXXXVH.
15 ページ - ... twere the mirror up to nature ; to show virtue her own feature, scorn her own image, and the very age and body of the time his form and pressure. Now, this overdone, or come tardy off, though it make the unskilful laugh, cannot but make the judicious grieve ; the censure of which one must, in your allowance, o'erweigh a whole theatre of others.
16 ページ - And let those that play your clowns, speak no more than is set down for them : for there be of them, that will themselves laugh, to set on some quantity of barren spectators to laugh too ; though, in the mean time, some necessary question of the play be then to be considered: that's villainous; and . shows a most pitiful ambition in the fool that uses it.
151 ページ - 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...
161 ページ - And shake him from thee ; the vile strength he wields For earth's destruction, thou dost all despise, Spurning him from thy bosom to the skies. And send'st him, shivering, in thy playful spray, And howling, to his gods, where haply lies His petty hope in some near port or bay, And dashest him again to earth : there let him lay.