An Essay on Elocution: With Elucidatory Passages from Various Authors to which are Added Remarks on Reading Prose and Verse, with Suggestions to Instructors of the ArtW. C. Little, 1856 - 300 páginas |
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... Italy , bind , scourge , torture with fire and red hot plates of iron , and at last , put to the infamous death of the cross , a Roman citizen ? Shall neither the cries of innocence expiring in ago- ny , nor the tears of pitying ...
... Italy , bind , scourge , torture with fire and red hot plates of iron , and at last , put to the infamous death of the cross , a Roman citizen ? Shall neither the cries of innocence expiring in ago- ny , nor the tears of pitying ...
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... Italian a in father . We e may give full force to this letter at the beginning of a word , without producing any harshness to the ear , thus Rome , river , rage , may have the full forcible sound of r , but bar , bard , card and regard ...
... Italian a in father . We e may give full force to this letter at the beginning of a word , without producing any harshness to the ear , thus Rome , river , rage , may have the full forcible sound of r , but bar , bard , card and regard ...
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... Italy , every city another Rome . With her laws and franchi- ses she communicated to them her arts and sciences ; wherever the Roman eagles penetrated , schools were opened , and public teachers were pensioned . Aque- ducts AND ...
... Italy , every city another Rome . With her laws and franchi- ses she communicated to them her arts and sciences ; wherever the Roman eagles penetrated , schools were opened , and public teachers were pensioned . Aque- ducts AND ...
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... Italy . The destruction of this wonderful fabric is to be ascribed to causes more active in gene- ral in the erection than in the demolition of magnifi- cent buildings , to taste and vanity . ace . When Rome began to revive , and ...
... Italy . The destruction of this wonderful fabric is to be ascribed to causes more active in gene- ral in the erection than in the demolition of magnifi- cent buildings , to taste and vanity . ace . When Rome began to revive , and ...
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... Italy , a lofty canopy rises above it , and forms an intermediate break or repose for the eye be- tween it and the immensity of the dome above . The form , materials , and magnitude of this decoration are equally astonishing . Below the ...
... Italy , a lofty canopy rises above it , and forms an intermediate break or repose for the eye be- tween it and the immensity of the dome above . The form , materials , and magnitude of this decoration are equally astonishing . Below the ...
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Página 74 - Let me pull out the mote out of thine eye ; and, behold, a beam is in thine own eye ? Thou hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of thine own eye; and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother's eye. Give not that which is holy unto
Página 152 - wounds, poor poor dumb Here is himself—marr'd as you see. by traitors. mouths, And bid them speak for me. But, were I Brutus, And Brutus Antony, there were an Antony Would ruffle up your spirits, and put a tongue In every wound of Caesar, that should move The stones of Rome to rise and mutiny.
Página 237 - each art, reprov'd each dull delay, Allur'd to brighter worlds and led the way. Beside the bed where parting life was laid, And sorrow, guilt, and pain, by turns dismay'd, The reverend champion stood, at his control, Despair and anguish fled the struggling soul; Comfort came down the trembling wretch to raise, And
Página 151 - fell. O what a fall was there, my countrymen ! Then I and you and all of us fell down; Whilst bloody treason flourished over us. The dint of pity ! These are gracious drops. O, now you weep; and I perceive you feel Kind souls ! What, weep you when you but behold Our Caesar's vesture wounded ? Look
Página 73 - than meat, and the body than raiment ? Behold the fowls of the air: for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly father fecdeth them. Are ye not much better than they? Which of you by taking thought, can add one cubit unto his stature ? And why take ye thought for
Página 72 - you, They have their reward. But thou, when thou fastest, anoint thine head and wash thy face ; that thou appear not unto men to fast, but unto thy Father which is in secret: and thy Father which seeth in secret, shall reward thee openly. The light of the body is the eve: if therefore thine eye be single, thy
Página 280 - form Glasses itself in tempests; in all time, Calm orconvuls'd—in breeze, or gale, or storm, Icing the pole, or in the torrid clime Dark heaving;—boundless, endless, and sublime—- The image of Eternity—the throne Of the invisible; even from out thy slime The monsters of the deep are made; each zone Obeys thee; thou goest forth, dread, fathomless, alone.
Página 12 - For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God ; I will sit, also, upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north; I will ascend above the heights of
Página 43 - He stood, and measured the earth: he beheld, and drove asunder the nations; and the everlasting mountains were scattered, the perpetual hills did bow; his ways are everlasting. The mountains saw thee, and they trembled; the overflowing of the water passed by; the deep uttered his voice, and lifted up his hands on high.
Página 34 - With thee conversing I forget all time, All seasons, and their change; all please alike. Sweet is the breath of morn, her rising sweet, With charm of earliest birds; pleasant the sun When first on this delightful land he spreads His orient beams, on herb,