The Speaker: Or Miscellaneous Pieces, Selected from the Best English Writers, and Disposed Under Proper Heads, with a View to Facilitate the Improvement of Youth in Reading and Speaking, to which are Prefixed Two Essays: I. On Elocution. II. On Reading Works of TasteWilliam Enfield Stereotyped by Andrew Wilson, 1823 - 346 oldal |
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xxx. oldal
... sweet melody of the Mantuan pipe , plays gently about the fancy and the heart . Satire , in the mean time , provides entertainment for those who are disposed to laugh at folly , or indulge an honest indignation against vice , in the ...
... sweet melody of the Mantuan pipe , plays gently about the fancy and the heart . Satire , in the mean time , provides entertainment for those who are disposed to laugh at folly , or indulge an honest indignation against vice , in the ...
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... sweet life . < 3 Be in peace with many ; nevertheless , have but one coun- sellor of a thousand . Be not confident in a plain way . Let reason go before every enterprise , and counsel before every action . 1 CHAP . VI . THE latter part ...
... sweet life . < 3 Be in peace with many ; nevertheless , have but one coun- sellor of a thousand . Be not confident in a plain way . Let reason go before every enterprise , and counsel before every action . 1 CHAP . VI . THE latter part ...
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... sweet ; and she loved to lie for hours together on the banks of some wild and melancholy stream , singing to her lute . She taught men to weep , for she took a strange delight in tears ; and often , when the virgins of the hamlet were ...
... sweet ; and she loved to lie for hours together on the banks of some wild and melancholy stream , singing to her lute . She taught men to weep , for she took a strange delight in tears ; and often , when the virgins of the hamlet were ...
38. oldal
... sweet mornings break . Nor let the pride of great ones scorn The charmers of the plains ; That sun which bids their diamond blaze To deck our lily deigns . Long had she fir'd each youth with love , Each maiden with despair ; And though ...
... sweet mornings break . Nor let the pride of great ones scorn The charmers of the plains ; That sun which bids their diamond blaze To deck our lily deigns . Long had she fir'd each youth with love , Each maiden with despair ; And though ...
39. oldal
... " " Tis past , " he cried , " but if your souls " Sweet mercy yet can move , " Let these dim eyes once more behold " What they must ever love . " She came ; his cold hand softly touch'd , And CHAP . XV . 39 NARRATIVE PIECES .
... " " Tis past , " he cried , " but if your souls " Sweet mercy yet can move , " Let these dim eyes once more behold " What they must ever love . " She came ; his cold hand softly touch'd , And CHAP . XV . 39 NARRATIVE PIECES .
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325. oldal - tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, Or to take arms against a sea of troubles, And by opposing end them? To die : to sleep...
217. oldal - Perhaps in this neglected spot is laid Some heart once pregnant with celestial fire ; Hands, that the rod of empire might have sway'd, Or wak'd to ecstasy the living lyre.
311. oldal - Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears; •> I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him. The evil, that men do, lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones; \ So let it be with Caesar.
316. oldal - For I can raise no money by vile means: By heaven, I had rather coin my heart, And drop my blood for drachmas, than to wring From the hard hands of peasants their vile trash By any indirection: I did send To you for gold to pay my legions, Which you denied me: was that done like Cassius?
305. oldal - Let's dry our eyes: and thus far hear me, Cromwell; And, when I am forgotten, as I shall be, And sleep in dull cold marble, where no mention Of me more must be heard of, say, I taught thee...
150. oldal - Let him depart; his passport shall be made, And crowns for convoy put into his purse: We would not die in that man's company That fears his fellowship to die with us. This day is call'd the feast of Crispian: He that outlives this day, and comes safe home, Will stand a tip-toe when this day is nam'd, And rouse him at the name of Crispian.
297. oldal - No matter where ; of comfort no man speak : Let's talk of graves, of worms and epitaphs ; Make dust our paper and with rainy eyes Write sorrow on the bosom of the earth...
323. oldal - But that I am forbid To tell the secrets of my prison-house, I could a tale unfold whose lightest word Would harrow up thy soul, freeze thy young blood, Make thy two eyes, like stars, start from their spheres, Thy knotted and combined locks to part And each particular hair to stand on end, Like quills upon the fretful porcupine : But this eternal blazon must not be To ears of flesh and blood.
184. oldal - As a sick girl. Ye gods, it doth amaze me, A man of such a feeble temper should So get the start of the majestic world, And bear the palm alone.
334. oldal - Thais led the way To light him to his prey, And like another Helen fired another Troy ! Thus long ago, Ere heaving bellows learned to blow, While organs yet were mute, Timotheus, to his breathing flute And sounding lyre, Could swell the soul to rage or kindle soft desire.