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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... o'er with the pale cast of thought ; And enterprises of great pith and moment , With this regard their currents turn awry , And lose the name of action . " - 66 High on a throne of royal state , which far Outshone the wealth of Ormus ...
... o'er with the pale cast of thought ; And enterprises of great pith and moment , With this regard their currents turn awry , And lose the name of action . " - 66 High on a throne of royal state , which far Outshone the wealth of Ormus ...
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... o'er again ; And thrice he routed all his foes , and thrice he slew the slain The master saw the madness rise ; His glowing cheeks , his ardent eyes ; And while he heaven and earth defy'd , Chang'd his hand and check'd his pride He ...
... o'er again ; And thrice he routed all his foes , and thrice he slew the slain The master saw the madness rise ; His glowing cheeks , his ardent eyes ; And while he heaven and earth defy'd , Chang'd his hand and check'd his pride He ...
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... o'er some haunted stream with fond delay , Round a holy calm diffusing , Love of peace , and lonely musing , In hollow murmurs died away . But , Oh , how alter'd was its sprightlier tone ! When Cheerfulness , a nymph of healthiest hue ...
... o'er some haunted stream with fond delay , Round a holy calm diffusing , Love of peace , and lonely musing , In hollow murmurs died away . But , Oh , how alter'd was its sprightlier tone ! When Cheerfulness , a nymph of healthiest hue ...
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... O'er courtier's knees that dream on court'sies straight : O'er 4 ESSAY ON ELOCUTION . 37.
... O'er courtier's knees that dream on court'sies straight : O'er 4 ESSAY ON ELOCUTION . 37.
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... O'er lawyer's fingers , who straight dream on fees ; O'er ladies lips , who straight on kisses dream ; Sometimes she gallops o'er a lawyer's nose , And then dreams he of smelling out a suit ; And sometimes comes she with a tithe - pig's ...
... O'er lawyer's fingers , who straight dream on fees ; O'er ladies lips , who straight on kisses dream ; Sometimes she gallops o'er a lawyer's nose , And then dreams he of smelling out a suit ; And sometimes comes she with a tithe - pig's ...
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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,