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... reason contrary to all ' , a man is likely to pass his time but ill who has so many different parties to please . Were the miser's repentance upon the neglect of a good bargain ' , his sorrow for being overreached ' , his hope of ...
... reason contrary to all ' , a man is likely to pass his time but ill who has so many different parties to please . Were the miser's repentance upon the neglect of a good bargain ' , his sorrow for being overreached ' , his hope of ...
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... reason given why the question asked by a pronoun should terminate differently from that asked by a verb . Who , strictly speaking , is no more an interroga- tive word than the verb ; and though it were interrogative , there is no reason ...
... reason given why the question asked by a pronoun should terminate differently from that asked by a verb . Who , strictly speaking , is no more an interroga- tive word than the verb ; and though it were interrogative , there is no reason ...
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... reason of this is found in the strong confidence of the speaker , who thus , by the rising slide , seems to challenge an answer . What we assume as an undoubted truth , then , will naturally take this artful confident turn of the voice ...
... reason of this is found in the strong confidence of the speaker , who thus , by the rising slide , seems to challenge an answer . What we assume as an undoubted truth , then , will naturally take this artful confident turn of the voice ...
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... reason and argument . An excellent example of this figure is in Cicero's Oration for Archias- 1 How many examples of the bravest men have the Greek and Latin writers left us , not only to contemplate , but to imitate ! These illustrious ...
... reason and argument . An excellent example of this figure is in Cicero's Oration for Archias- 1 How many examples of the bravest men have the Greek and Latin writers left us , not only to contemplate , but to imitate ! These illustrious ...
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... reason , the speaker must lower his tone into a solemn monotone , and continue in his lower tone with increasing force to the end . PASSION - ITS MODULATION . The management of passion in accordance with the character that is ...
... reason , the speaker must lower his tone into a solemn monotone , and continue in his lower tone with increasing force to the end . PASSION - ITS MODULATION . The management of passion in accordance with the character that is ...
Términos y frases comunes
accent adverbs army articulation beauty behold betwixt blót bosom breast breath cadence called circumflex clause clouds consonant dark death deep Demosthenes earth elocution emphasis emphatic word expressed eyes falling inflexion father fear feel force frequently friends give given glory glottis hand happy hath hear heard heart heaven helmet of Navarre honour hope human human voice Ivanhoe king labour Lady G light lips live look Lord loud marked measure ment mind minor third MODULATION mouth nature never night o'er passion pause Pompey pronounced pronunciation pupil question asked rising inflexion rising slide round rule Samian wine scene sense senseless things simple series sleep smile soft soul sound speaker speaking speech stars sweet swell syllable tears termination thee thing thou thought tion tone tongue Twas verb voice vowel Walker wild wind
Pasajes populares
Página 117 - Heav'n from all creatures hides the book of Fate, All but the page prescrib'd, their present state: From brutes what men, from men what spirits know : Or who could suffer Being here below? The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed to-day, Had he thy Reason, would he skip and play? Pleas'd to the last, he crops the flow'ry food, And licks the hand just rais'd to shed his blood.
Página 332 - Last noon beheld them full of lusty life, Last eve in Beauty's circle proudly gay, The midnight brought the signal-sound of strife, The morn the marshalling in arms, — the day Battle's magnificently stern array...
Página 216 - And God set them in the firmament of heaven to give light upon the earth, And to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness: and God saw that it was good. And the evening and the morning were the fourth day.
Página 100 - Or hear'st thou rather, pure ethereal stream, Whose fountain who shall tell ? Before the sun, Before the heavens thou wert, and at the voice Of God, as with a mantle, didst invest The rising world of waters dark and deep, Won from the void and formless infinite.
Página 154 - The hunter's call, to Faun and Dryad known ; The oak-crowned sisters, and their chaste-eyed queen, Satyrs and sylvan boys were seen Peeping from forth their alleys green ; Brown Exercise rejoiced to hear, And Sport leaped up, and seized his beechen spear.
Página 77 - Tis not enough no harshness gives offence, The sound must seem an echo to the sense. Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows; But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse, rough verse should like the torrent roar. When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw, The line too labours, and the words move slow; Not so, when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er th' unbending corn, and skims along the main.
Página 123 - I BRING fresh showers for the thirsting flowers From the seas and the streams. I bear light shade for the leaves when laid In their noon-day dreams. From my wings are shaken the dews that waken The sweet buds every one, When rocked to rest on their mother's breast, As she dances about the sun.
Página 98 - An ebon mass : methinks thou piercest it, As with a wedge ! But when I look again, It is thine own calm home, thy crystal shrine, Thy habitation from eternity ! 0 dread and silent Mount ! I gazed upon thee, Till thou, still present to the bodily sense, Didst vanish from my thought : entranced in prayer 1 worshipped the Invisible alone.
Página 292 - It must be so — Plato, thou reasonest well ; Else whence this pleasing hope, this fond desire, This longing after immortality ? Or whence this secret dread, and inward horror, Of falling into nought ? 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 152 - WHEN Music, heavenly maid, was young, While yet in early Greece she sung, The Passions oft, to hear her shell, Thronged around her magic cell...