Lessons in Elocution, Or, A Selection of Pieces in Prose and Verse: For the Improvement of Youth in Reading and SpeakingHill and Moore, 1820 - 384 páginas |
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... earth . Then floods of tears are seen to flow . The knees are bended ; or the body prostrated on the ground . The arms are spread in a sup- pliant posture , and the voice of deprecation is uttered with sighs , groans , timidity ...
... earth . Then floods of tears are seen to flow . The knees are bended ; or the body prostrated on the ground . The arms are spread in a sup- pliant posture , and the voice of deprecation is uttered with sighs , groans , timidity ...
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... a goblin rise , like an exhalation through the solid earth . Then he begins to rock from side to side , or backward and forward , like an aged pine on the side of an hill , when a brisk wind blows . The hands OF GESTURE . 39 .
... a goblin rise , like an exhalation through the solid earth . Then he begins to rock from side to side , or backward and forward , like an aged pine on the side of an hill , when a brisk wind blows . The hands OF GESTURE . 39 .
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... earth is covered with green , rather than with any other color , as being such a right mixture of light and shade , that it comforts and strengthens the eye , instead of weakening or grieving it . For this reason , several painters have ...
... earth is covered with green , rather than with any other color , as being such a right mixture of light and shade , that it comforts and strengthens the eye , instead of weakening or grieving it . For this reason , several painters have ...
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... earth gay and delightful , while she is carrying on her great work , and intent upon her own preserva- tion . The husbandman , after the same manner , is em ployed in laying out the whole country into a kind of garden or landscape , and ...
... earth gay and delightful , while she is carrying on her great work , and intent upon her own preserva- tion . The husbandman , after the same manner , is em ployed in laying out the whole country into a kind of garden or landscape , and ...
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... earth , or in the language of an ingenious French poet , of those pismires that people this heap of dirt , which human vanity has divi led into climates and regions . X11 . Journal of the life of Alexander Severus.— GIBBON ALEXANDER ...
... earth , or in the language of an ingenious French poet , of those pismires that people this heap of dirt , which human vanity has divi led into climates and regions . X11 . Journal of the life of Alexander Severus.— GIBBON ALEXANDER ...
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Página 349 - Cromwell, I did not think to shed a tear In all my miseries; but thou hast forc'd me Out of thy honest truth to play the woman. Let's dry our eyes: and thus far hear me, Cromwell ; And, — when I am forgotten, as I shall be ; And sleep in dull cold marble...
Página 230 - Soft roll your incense, herbs, and fruits, and flowers, In mingled clouds to Him whose Sun exalts, Whose breath perfumes you, and whose pencil paints. Ye forests, bend, ye harvests, wave to Him ; Breathe your still song into the reaper's heart, As home he goes beneath the joyous Moon.
Página 374 - I speak not to disprove what Brutus spoke, But here I am to speak what I do know. You all did love him once, not without cause ; What cause withholds you then to mourn for him ? O judgment ! thou art fled to brutish beasts, And men have lost their reason.
Página 373 - Romans, countrymen, and lovers ! 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 there be any in this assembly, any dear friend of Caesar's, to him I say that Brutus' love to Caesar was no less than his.
Página 356 - Caius Cassius so? When Marcus Brutus grows so covetous, To lock such rascal counters from his friends, Be ready, gods, with all your thunderbolts; Dash him to pieces!
Página 366 - The oppressor's wrong, the proud man's contumely, The pangs of despis'd love, the law's delay, The insolence of office, and the spurns That patient merit of the unworthy takes, When he himself might his quietus make With a bare bodkin...
Página 231 - tis nought to me; Since God is ever present, ever felt, In the void waste as in the city full ; And where He vital breathes there must be joy.
Página 254 - Married to immortal verse ; Such as the meeting soul may pierce, In notes, with many a winding bout Of linked sweetness long drawn out, With wanton heed and giddy cunning ; The melting voice through mazes running, Untwisting all the chains that tie The hidden soul of harmony ; That Orpheus...
Página 262 - The bottles twain, behind his back, were shattered at a blow. Down ran the wine into the road, most piteous to be seen, Which made his horse's flanks to smoke as they had basted been. But still he...
Página 363 - My story being done, She gave me for my pains a world of sighs: She swore, in faith, 'twas strange, 'twas passing strange; 'Twas pitiful, 'twas wondrous pitiful: She wish'd she had not heard it, yet she wish'd That heaven had made her such a man...