Elocution, Or, Mental and Vocal Philosophy: Involving the Principles of Reading and Speaking, and Designed for the Development and Cultivation of Both Body and Mind, in Accordance with the Nature, Uses, and Destiny of Man : Illustrated by Two Or Three Hundred Choice Anecdotes, Three Thousand Oratorical and Poetical Readings, Five Thousand Proverbs, Maxims and Laconics, and Several Hundred Elegant EngravingsMorton & Griswold, 1845 - 320 oldal |
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29. oldal
... Pride - goes before , and shame - follows after . 8. Saying and doing , are two things . 9. Some are wise , and some - are otherwise . 10. That is but an empty purse , that is full of other folk's money . 11. Common fame is generally ...
... Pride - goes before , and shame - follows after . 8. Saying and doing , are two things . 9. Some are wise , and some - are otherwise . 10. That is but an empty purse , that is full of other folk's money . 11. Common fame is generally ...
31. oldal
... Pride , perceiving humility- HONORABLE , often borrows her cloke . 7. Say- well - is good ; but do - well - is better . 8. The eye , that sees all things , sees not itself . 9. The crow thinks her own birds the whitest . 10. The tears ...
... Pride , perceiving humility- HONORABLE , often borrows her cloke . 7. Say- well - is good ; but do - well - is better . 8. The eye , that sees all things , sees not itself . 9. The crow thinks her own birds the whitest . 10. The tears ...
32. oldal
... pride of man , Sits grim Forgetfulness . The warrior's arm Lies nerveless on the pillow of its shame : Hush'd is his stormy voice , and quenched the blaze Of his red eye - ball . of all parties and all classes . They have been produced ...
... pride of man , Sits grim Forgetfulness . The warrior's arm Lies nerveless on the pillow of its shame : Hush'd is his stormy voice , and quenched the blaze Of his red eye - ball . of all parties and all classes . They have been produced ...
35. oldal
... pride ; Where boasting - ends , there dignity - begins . The true , and only friend - is he , Who , like the Arbor - vite true , Will bear our image - on his heart . Whatever is excellent , in art , proceeds From labor and endurance ...
... pride ; Where boasting - ends , there dignity - begins . The true , and only friend - is he , Who , like the Arbor - vite true , Will bear our image - on his heart . Whatever is excellent , in art , proceeds From labor and endurance ...
40. oldal
... pride , not nature , that craves much . 10. Keep out of broils , and you will neither be a principal nor a witness . 11 . One dog barking , another soon joins him . 12 . Money - is a good servant , but a bad master . Changes . We see ...
... pride , not nature , that craves much . 10. Keep out of broils , and you will neither be a principal nor a witness . 11 . One dog barking , another soon joins him . 12 . Money - is a good servant , but a bad master . Changes . We see ...
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303. oldal - ... The sky is changed ! — and such a change ! Oh night, And storm, and darkness, ye are wondrous strong, Yet lovely in your strength, as is the light Of a dark eye in woman ! Far along, From peak to peak, the rattling crags among Leaps the live thunder ! Not from one lone cloud, But every mountain now hath found a tongue, And Jura answers, through her misty shroud, Back to the joyous Alps, who call to her aloud...
238. oldal - She walks in beauty, like the night Of cloudless climes and starry skies ; And all that's best of dark and bright Meet in her aspect and her eyes : Thus mellow'd to that tender light Which heaven to gaudy day denies.
299. oldal - His hair is crisp and black and long his face is like the tan, His brow is wet with honest sweat, he earns whate'er he can. And looks the whole world in the face, for he owes not any man.
242. oldal - Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow world, Like a Colossus ; and we petty men Walk under his huge legs, and peep about To find ourselves dishonourable graves.
287. oldal - To him who in the love of nature holds Communion with her visible forms, she speaks A various language; for his gayer hours She has a voice of gladness, and a smile And eloquence of beauty, and she glides Into his darker musings, with a mild And healing sympathy, that steals away Their sharpness, ere he is aware.
202. oldal - The poetry of earth is never dead: When all the birds are faint with the hot Sun, And hide in cooling trees, a voice will run From hedge to hedge about the new-mown mead. That is the grasshopper's : he takes the lead In summer luxury — he has never done With his delights, for when tired out with fun, He rests at ease beneath some pleasant weed.
287. oldal - Yet a few days, and thee The all-beholding sun shall see no more In all his course; nor yet in the cold ground, Where thy pale form was laid, with many tears, Nor in the embrace of ocean, shall exist Thy image.
254. oldal - And, sir, where American liberty raised its first voice, and where its youth was nurtured and sustained, there it still lives in the strength of its manhood and full of its original spirit.
286. oldal - Clearness, force and earnestness, are the qualities which produce conviction. True eloquence, indeed, does not consist in speech. It cannot be brought from far. Labor and learning may toil for it, but they will toil in vain. Words and phrases may be marshaled in every way, but they cannot compass it. It must exist in the man, in the subject, and in the occasion.
276. oldal - Be it a weakness, it deserves some praise, We love the playplace of our early days ; The scene is touching, and the heart is stone That feels not at that sight, and feels at none.