The Speaker; Or Miscellaneous Pieces: Selected from the Best English Writers, Disposed Under Proper Heads for the Improvement of Youth, in Reading and Speaking; to which is Prefixed An Essay on ElocutionJoseph Larkin, 1808 - 400 páginas |
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... thoughts and senti- ments either from memory or immediate con- ception ; for , besides that there is an artificial uniformity , which almost always distinguishes reading from speaking , the fixed posture , and the bending of the head ...
... thoughts and senti- ments either from memory or immediate con- ception ; for , besides that there is an artificial uniformity , which almost always distinguishes reading from speaking , the fixed posture , and the bending of the head ...
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... thought to do great things , who are but tools and instruments ; like the fool who fancied he played upon the organ , when he only blew the bellows . Though a man may become learned by anothers learn- ing ; he never can be wise but by ...
... thought to do great things , who are but tools and instruments ; like the fool who fancied he played upon the organ , when he only blew the bellows . Though a man may become learned by anothers learn- ing ; he never can be wise but by ...
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... thought which he thinks worth exhibiting . It is wise to fix this pretty high , although it occasions one to talk the less . To endeavour all one's days to fortify our minds with learning and philosophy , is to spend so much in armour ...
... thought which he thinks worth exhibiting . It is wise to fix this pretty high , although it occasions one to talk the less . To endeavour all one's days to fortify our minds with learning and philosophy , is to spend so much in armour ...
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... thought on but sleeps in oblivion , buried in rubish , which no one thinks it worth his pains to rake into , much less to remove . Honour is but a fictitious kind of honesty ; a mean , but a necessary substitute for it , in societies ...
... thought on but sleeps in oblivion , buried in rubish , which no one thinks it worth his pains to rake into , much less to remove . Honour is but a fictitious kind of honesty ; a mean , but a necessary substitute for it , in societies ...
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... thought so , replied the other , by your loading him so unmercifully . You and and your son are better able to carry the poor beast than he you ? Any thing to please , says the owner ; and alight- ing with his son , they tied the legs ...
... thought so , replied the other , by your loading him so unmercifully . You and and your son are better able to carry the poor beast than he you ? Any thing to please , says the owner ; and alight- ing with his son , they tied the legs ...
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Página 96 - Be not too tame neither, but let your own discretion be your tutor : suit the action to the word, the word to the action ; with this special observance, that you o'erstep not the modesty of nature...
Página 15 - Heaven doth with us as we with torches do, Not light them for themselves ; for if our virtues Did not go forth of us, 'twere all alike As if we had them not. Spirits are not finely touch'd But to fine issues, nor Nature never lends The smallest scruple of her excellence, But, like a thrifty goddess, she determines Herself the glory of a creditor, Both thanks and use.
Página 16 - Cowards die many times before their deaths ; The valiant never taste of death but once. Of all the wonders that I yet have heard, It seems to me most strange that men should fear ; Seeing that death, a necessary end, Will come, when it will come.
Página 372 - Yet Brutus says he was ambitious; And, sure, he is an honourable man. 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 376 - You have done that you should be sorry for. There is no terror, Cassius, in your threats ; For I am arm'd so strong in honesty, That they pass by me as the idle wind. Which I respect not.
Página 277 - The sixth age shifts Into the lean and slipper'd pantaloon, With spectacles on nose, and pouch on side ; His youthful hose, well sav'd, a world too wide For his shrunk shank, and his big manly voice, Turning again toward childish treble, pipes And whistles in his sound.
Página 58 - I observing, Took once a pliant hour; and found good means To draw from her a prayer of earnest heart, That I would all my pilgrimage dilate, Whereof by parcels she had something heard, But not intentively...
Página 108 - In the bright muse, tho' thousand charms conspire, Her voice is all these tuneful fools admire; Who haunt Parnassus but to please their ear, Not mend their minds; as some to church repair, Not for the doctrine, but the music there. These equal syllables alone require, Tho...
Página 364 - O my lord, Must I, then, leave you? must I needs forego So good, so noble, and so true a master? Bear witness, all that have not hearts of iron, With what a sorrow Cromwell leaves his lord. The king shall have my service ; but my prayers For ever and for ever shall be yours.
Página 284 - The traces, of the smallest spider's web ; The collars, of the moonshine's watery beams : Her whip, of cricket's bone ; the lash, of film : Her...