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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... blood , and those irreg- ular , disturbed motions which they raise in the animal spirits . I scarce remember , in my own observation , to have met with many old men , or with such who , ( to use our English phrase ) wear well , that had ...
... blood , and those irreg- ular , disturbed motions which they raise in the animal spirits . I scarce remember , in my own observation , to have met with many old men , or with such who , ( to use our English phrase ) wear well , that had ...
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... blood in his veins than any pismire in the molehill . Don't you see how sensible he is of it , how slow he marches for- ward , how the whole rable of ants keep their distance ? Here you may observe one placed upon a little eminence ...
... blood in his veins than any pismire in the molehill . Don't you see how sensible he is of it , how slow he marches for- ward , how the whole rable of ants keep their distance ? Here you may observe one placed upon a little eminence ...
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... blood , and keep our temper in a discourse which turns upon every thing that is dear to us . Though our zeal breaks out in the finest tropes and figures , it is not able to stir a limb about us . It is certain that proper gestures and ...
... blood , and keep our temper in a discourse which turns upon every thing that is dear to us . Though our zeal breaks out in the finest tropes and figures , it is not able to stir a limb about us . It is certain that proper gestures and ...
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... blood , proposed to Hostilius , then king of Rome , to refer the destiny of both nations to three combatants of each side , and that empire should be the prize of the conquering party . The proposal was accepted . The Albans named the ...
... blood , proposed to Hostilius , then king of Rome , to refer the destiny of both nations to three combatants of each side , and that empire should be the prize of the conquering party . The proposal was accepted . The Albans named the ...
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... blood . Two of the Romans fell , and expired at the feet of the Albans , who were all three wounded . Upon their fall the Alban ar- my shouted for joy , while the Reman legions remained without hope , but not without concern , being ...
... blood . Two of the Romans fell , and expired at the feet of the Albans , who were all three wounded . Upon their fall the Alban ar- my shouted for joy , while the Reman legions remained without hope , but not without concern , being ...
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Página 366 - 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 350 - For I can raise no money by vile means: 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...
Página 236 - The boast of heraldry, the pomp of power, And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave, Await alike the inevitable hour: The paths of glory lead but to the grave.
Página 362 - Why shrinks the soul Back on herself, and startles at destruction ? 'Tis the divinity that stirs within us; 'Tis Heaven itself that points out an hereafter, And intimates eternity to man.
Página 261 - The praise of Bacchus then the sweet musician sung : Of Bacchus ever fair and ever young : The jolly god in triumph comes ! Sound the trumpets, beat the drums ! Flush'd with a purple grace He shows his honest face : Now give the hautboys breath; he comes, he comes! Bacchus, ever fair and young, Drinking joys did first ordain ; Bacchus...
Página 359 - tis nobler in the mind, to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune ; Or to take arms against a sea of troubles, And by opposing end them ? — To die, — to sleep, — No more ; and, by a sleep, to say we end The heart-ache, and the thousand natural shocks That flesh is heir to, — 'tis a consummation Devoutly to be wish'd. To die ; — to sleep : — To sleep ! perchance to dream : — ay, there's the rub ; For in that sleep of death what dreams may come, When we have shuffled off this...
Página 249 - Air, and ye Elements, the eldest birth Of Nature's womb, that in quaternion run Perpetual circle, multiform ; and mix And nourish all things ; let your ceaseless change Vary to our Great Maker still new praise.
Página 367 - 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. Bear with me; My heart is in the coffin there with Caesar, And I must pause till it come back to me.
Página 342 - Why, well : Never so truly happy, my good Cromwell. I know myself now ; and I feel within me A peace above all earthly dignities, A still and quiet conscience.
Página 351 - Suit the action to the word, the word to the action: with this special observance, that you o'erstep not the modesty of nature; for any thing so overdone is from the purpose of playing, whose end, both at the first, and now, was, and is, to hold, as '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.