The Elocutionary Reader; Or, Rhetorical Class BookSimpkin, Marshall, and Company, 1847 - 12 páginas |
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... Hast- ings at the bar of the Lords had actually com- menced long before its publication . There the most august and striking spectacle was daily ex- hibited , which the world ever witnessed ; a vast stage of justice was erected , awful ...
... Hast- ings at the bar of the Lords had actually com- menced long before its publication . There the most august and striking spectacle was daily ex- hibited , which the world ever witnessed ; a vast stage of justice was erected , awful ...
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... hast been ; Ruffled now thy pinions are , Sluggish is thy mien with care . Bright thine eye , but far more bright Was it in thy native height ; Still it flashes as in scorn , Of the base , the lowly born . M1 When thy matchless wing was ...
... hast been ; Ruffled now thy pinions are , Sluggish is thy mien with care . Bright thine eye , but far more bright Was it in thy native height ; Still it flashes as in scorn , Of the base , the lowly born . M1 When thy matchless wing was ...
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... hast nobly done . When thou these lines shalt read some future day , ( Mayhap when he who penned them shall be clay , ) May they , within thy soul , a rage inspire , And to great deeds thy emulation fire . Methinks I see thee now a ...
... hast nobly done . When thou these lines shalt read some future day , ( Mayhap when he who penned them shall be clay , ) May they , within thy soul , a rage inspire , And to great deeds thy emulation fire . Methinks I see thee now a ...
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... sweet hope , for I have felt thy charms , Have tasted oft the solace thou dost bring : For whilst I have embraced thee in my arms , Thou hast extracted Fear's most painful sting . I've seen thee hov'ring o'er my aching head , When 128.
... sweet hope , for I have felt thy charms , Have tasted oft the solace thou dost bring : For whilst I have embraced thee in my arms , Thou hast extracted Fear's most painful sting . I've seen thee hov'ring o'er my aching head , When 128.
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... hast journeyed with me from my birth , And proved thyself the kindest friend I have : Thou art , indeed , an angel on the earth ; Still travel with me to the silent grave . Editor . ON SLEEP . " TIS sweet to the ploughman who cuts the ...
... hast journeyed with me from my birth , And proved thyself the kindest friend I have : Thou art , indeed , an angel on the earth ; Still travel with me to the silent grave . Editor . ON SLEEP . " TIS sweet to the ploughman who cuts the ...
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The Elocutionary Reader; Or, Rhetorical Class Book Edited By Hugh Gawthrop Sin vista previa disponible - 2019 |
The Elocutionary Reader; Or, Rhetorical Class Book Edited By Hugh Gawthrop Sin vista previa disponible - 2019 |
Términos y frases comunes
admiration ambition ancient arms beautiful behold Birkenhead blood bosom brave bright brow Brutus Buttermere Cæsar CATTERPILLAR character common court dark death delight Demosthenes dost dream'd duty earth Editor Elizabeth eloquence ev'ry evil eyes fame fathers fear feel friends genius Glenara grave Greece hand happy hast hath hear heart heaven honour hope HORACE WALPOLE House of Lords human Ibid justice king KING LEAR liberty living look Lord LORD CHATHAM Lord Sandwiche loved thee Macbeth Mary Robinson mighty mind nations nature ne'er Netherby never night noble o'er once orator passions peace period Petrarch phrenology pleasure poet reign RIVER MERSEY Roman Rome ruin Samian wine scene Shakspeare slave sleep smiling soul sound speak speech spirit suffered sweet tears tell thing thou thought throne tion truth virtue voice ween wife wretched young Lochinvar youth
Pasajes populares
Página 156 - 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.
Página 153 - 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.
Página 59 - ... 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.
Página 152 - 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...
Página 156 - 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.
Página 159 - 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.
Página 15 - ... 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.
Página 16 - 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.
Página 151 - 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...
Página 161 - 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.