Lessons in Elocution: Or, A Selection of Pieces in Prose and Verse, for the Improvement of Youth in Reading and SpeakingH. Brown, 1817 - 407 páginas |
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... present and a future state , 13. Uncle Toby's benevolence , ib . 175 Sterne , 178 14. Story of the siege of Calais , Fool of Quality , 179 SECTION V. 1. On grace in writing , 2. On the structure of animals , Fitzborne's Letters , 184 ...
... present and a future state , 13. Uncle Toby's benevolence , ib . 175 Sterne , 178 14. Story of the siege of Calais , Fool of Quality , 179 SECTION V. 1. On grace in writing , 2. On the structure of animals , Fitzborne's Letters , 184 ...
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... present publication . The difficulty of describing action by words , will be allowed by every one ; and if we were never to give any instructions , but such as should completely answer our wishes , this difficulty would be a good reason ...
... present publication . The difficulty of describing action by words , will be allowed by every one ; and if we were never to give any instructions , but such as should completely answer our wishes , this difficulty would be a good reason ...
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... present publication has ventured to attempt . A conviction of the necessity of teaching some system of ac- tion , and the abundant success of the present system , in one of the most respectable academies near London , has determined him ...
... present publication has ventured to attempt . A conviction of the necessity of teaching some system of ac- tion , and the abundant success of the present system , in one of the most respectable academies near London , has determined him ...
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... present state . The head is some- times erected , sometimes hung down , sometimes drawn suddenly back with an air of disdain , sometimes shews by a nod a particular person , or object ; gives assent , or denial , by different motions ...
... present state . The head is some- times erected , sometimes hung down , sometimes drawn suddenly back with an air of disdain , sometimes shews by a nod a particular person , or object ; gives assent , or denial , by different motions ...
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... present and visible object , with the look , all except the wildness , of fear . ( See Fear . ) If the hands hold any thing , at the time when the object of wonder appears , they immedi- ately let it drop , unconscious ; and the whole ...
... present and visible object , with the look , all except the wildness , of fear . ( See Fear . ) If the hands hold any thing , at the time when the object of wonder appears , they immedi- ately let it drop , unconscious ; and the whole ...
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Página 219 - Whilst all the stars that round her burn, And all the planets in their turn, Confirm the tidings as they roll, And spread the truth from pole to pole.
Página 369 - She'd come again, and with a greedy ear Devour up my discourse. Which 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...
Página 243 - Twilight gray had in her sober livery all things clad : Silence accompanied ; for Beast and Bird, they to their grassy couch, these to their nests, were slunk, — all but the wakeful nightingale; she, all night long, her amorous descant sung; Silence was pleased. Now...
Página 361 - All this? ay, more: Fret till your proud heart break; Go, show your slaves how choleric you are, And make your bondmen tremble.
Página 237 - Yet he was kind, or if severe in aught, The love he bore to learning was in fault...
Página 220 - The sober herd that low'd to meet their young ; The noisy geese that gabbled o'er the pool, The playful children just let loose from school ; The watch-dog's voice, that bay'd the whispering wind, And the loud laugh that spoke the vacant mind ; These all in sweet confusion sought the shade, And fill'd each pause the nightingale had made.
Página 236 - Lives through all life, extends through all extent, Spreads undivided, operates unspent: Breathes in our soul, informs our mortal part, As full, as perfect, in a hair as heart; As full, as perfect, in vile man that mourns, As the rapt seraph that adores and burns: To him no high, no low, no great, no small; He fills, he bounds, connects, and equals all.
Página 354 - 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 253 - Orphean lyre, I sung of Chaos and eternal Night ; Taught by the heavenly muse to venture down The dark descent, and up to reascend, Though hard and rare : thee I revisit safe, And feel thy sovereign vital lamp ; but thou Revisitest not these eyes, that roll in vain To find thy piercing ray, and find no dawn ; So thick a drop serene hath quenched their orbs, Or dim suffusion veiled.
Página 362 - 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.