Lessons in Elocution: Or, A Selection of Pieces, in Prose and Verse, for the Improvement of Youth in Reading and Speaking ...Hori Brown, 1820 - 407 oldal |
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... Curiatii , 14. On the power of Custom , 15. On pedantry , - 16. The journey of a day ; a picture of human life , ib . Hume , Spectator , 139 Livy , 141 Spectator , 144 Mirror , 146 Rambler , 148 SECTION IV . 1. Description of the ...
... Curiatii , 14. On the power of Custom , 15. On pedantry , - 16. The journey of a day ; a picture of human life , ib . Hume , Spectator , 139 Livy , 141 Spectator , 144 Mirror , 146 Rambler , 148 SECTION IV . 1. Description of the ...
141. oldal
... Curiatii . LIVY . THE combat of the Horatii and Curiatii is painted in a very natural and animated manner by Livy . The cause was this . The inhabitants of Alba and Rome , rous- ed by ambition and mutual complaints , took the field ...
... Curiatii . LIVY . THE combat of the Horatii and Curiatii is painted in a very natural and animated manner by Livy . The cause was this . The inhabitants of Alba and Rome , rous- ed by ambition and mutual complaints , took the field ...
142. oldal
... Curiatii pursuing , at a considerable distance from one another , and one of them very near him . He turned with all his fury upon the foremost ; and , while the Alban army were crying out to his broth- ers to succor him , Horatius ...
... Curiatii pursuing , at a considerable distance from one another , and one of them very near him . He turned with all his fury upon the foremost ; and , while the Alban army were crying out to his broth- ers to succor him , Horatius ...
143. oldal
... Curiatii . Seeing her brother dressed in her dover's coat of armor , which she herself had wrought , she could not contain her grief.- -She shed a flood of tears , she tore her hair , and in the transports of her sor- row uttered the ...
... Curiatii . Seeing her brother dressed in her dover's coat of armor , which she herself had wrought , she could not contain her grief.- -She shed a flood of tears , she tore her hair , and in the transports of her sor- row uttered the ...
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admire appear arms beauty behold body breast breath Brutus Cesar charms cheerful Cicero clouds countenance creatures Curiatii daugh death delight Dendermond Dovedale e'en earth enemy eternal express extinc eyes fair fame father fortune friends give glory grace grief hand happy hath head heart heaven honor hope hour human imagination Jugurtha Keswick kind king Lady G live look Lord lyre mankind manner mind morning mouth muse nature never night Numidia o'er object pain passion Patricians person pleasure Pompey poor praetor praise privy counsellor Rhadamanthus rise Roman Rome round sapience says sense Sicily side smiles soul sound speak speaker spirit sweet sweet oblivion tears tell thee thing thou thought tion tone Trim truth Twas uncle Toby virtue voice whole wise words youth
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231. oldal - Yet he was kind, or, if severe in aught, The love he bore to learning was in fault...
351. oldal - Disguise fair nature with hard-favour'd rage; Then lend the eye a terrible aspect; Let it pry through the portage of the head Like the brass cannon: let the brow o'erwhelm it As fearfully as doth a galled rock O'erhang and jutty his confounded base, Swill'd with the wild and wasteful ocean. Now set the teeth and stretch the nostril wide; Hold hard the breath, and bend up every spirit To his full height.
224. oldal - The boast of heraldry, the pomp of power, And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave, Await alike the inevitable hour: The paths of glory lead but to the grave.
347. oldal - She lov'd me for the dangers I had pass'd, And I lov'd her that she did pity them.
243. oldal - His praise, ye winds, that from four quarters blow, Breathe soft or loud ; and wave your tops, ye pines, With every plant, in sign of worship wave. • • Fountains, and ye that warble, as ye. flow, Melodious murmurs, warbling, tune his praise. Join voices, all ye living souls ! ye birds, That, singing, up to heaven's gate ascend, Bear on your wings and in your notes his praise.
224. oldal - THE curfew tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herd winds slowly o'er the lea, The ploughman homeward plods his weary way, And leaves the world to darkness and to me. Now fades the glimmering landscape on the sight, And all the air a solemn stillness holds, Save where the beetle wheels his droning flight, And drowsy tinklings lull the distant folds...
224. oldal - Their name, their years, spelt by th' unletter'd muse, The place of fame and elegy supply: And many a holy text around she strews, That teach the rustic moralist to die. For who to dumb Forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing anxious being e'er resign'd, Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day, Nor cast one longing ling'ring look behind?
117. oldal - Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar but not coarse, and elegant but not ostentatious, must give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison, HUGHES.
341. oldal - I could weep My spirit from mine eyes ! — There is my dagger, And here my naked breast ; within, a heart Dearer than Plutus...
230. oldal - Where village statesmen talk'd with looks profound, And news much older than their ale went round. Imagination fondly stoops to trace The...