The Elocutionary Reader; Or, Rhetorical Class BookSimpkin, Marshall, and Company, 1847 - 12 páginas |
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... hear a robustious periwig - pated fellow tear a passion to tatters , to very rags , to split the ears of the groundlings ; who , for the most part , are capable of nothing but inexplicable dumb shows , and noise I would have such a ...
... hear a robustious periwig - pated fellow tear a passion to tatters , to very rags , to split the ears of the groundlings ; who , for the most part , are capable of nothing but inexplicable dumb shows , and noise I would have such a ...
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... hear me for my cause ; and be silent , that you may hear . Believe me for mine honour , and have respect to mine honour , that you may believe . Censure me in your wisdom , and awake your senses , that you may the better judge . If ...
... hear me for my cause ; and be silent , that you may hear . Believe me for mine honour , and have respect to mine honour , that you may believe . Censure me in your wisdom , and awake your senses , that you may the better judge . If ...
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... Hear the growling winds Howl o'er the steady battlements , and all The sounding forest fluctuate in the storm . " The But to the benevolent ear the voice of such a wind bears with it thoughts of houseless wanderers , and vessels wrecked ...
... Hear the growling winds Howl o'er the steady battlements , and all The sounding forest fluctuate in the storm . " The But to the benevolent ear the voice of such a wind bears with it thoughts of houseless wanderers , and vessels wrecked ...
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... hear with patience , and to speak with humanity , to exhort the victim of the laws , and to offer with tender benignity his opinions of the motives by which he was actuated in the crime , of which he was adjudged guilty . That a judge ...
... hear with patience , and to speak with humanity , to exhort the victim of the laws , and to offer with tender benignity his opinions of the motives by which he was actuated in the crime , of which he was adjudged guilty . That a judge ...
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... hear such principles confessed ; to hear them avowed in this house , or in this country . My Lords , I did not intend to encroach so much on your attention , but I cannot repress my indignation - I feel myself impelled to speak . My ...
... hear such principles confessed ; to hear them avowed in this house , or in this country . My Lords , I did not intend to encroach so much on your attention , but I cannot repress my indignation - I feel myself impelled to speak . My ...
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The Elocutionary Reader; Or, Rhetorical Class Book Edited By Hugh Gawthrop Sin vista previa disponible - 2019 |
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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.