Lessons in Elocution, Or, A Selection of Pieces in Prose and Verse: For the Improvement of Youth in Reading and SpeakingEzra Collier, 1825 - 372 oldal |
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... virtue , 7. Address to art , & Flattery , 9. The absent man , 10. The Monk , 11. On the head - dress of the ladies , 12. On the present and future state , 13. Uncle Toby's benevolence , 14. Story of the siege of Calais , 1. On grace in ...
... virtue , 7. Address to art , & Flattery , 9. The absent man , 10. The Monk , 11. On the head - dress of the ladies , 12. On the present and future state , 13. Uncle Toby's benevolence , 14. Story of the siege of Calais , 1. On grace in ...
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... Virtue man's highest interest , Harris , ib . 9. On the pleasure arising from objects of sight , Spectator , 179 10. Liberty and slavery , Sterne , 181 11. The cant of criticism , ibid . 182 12. Parallel between Pope and Dryden ...
... Virtue man's highest interest , Harris , ib . 9. On the pleasure arising from objects of sight , Spectator , 179 10. Liberty and slavery , Sterne , 181 11. The cant of criticism , ibid . 182 12. Parallel between Pope and Dryden ...
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... virtue , by exhibiting vice in a ludicrous appear- ance . Nor should I think raillery unworthy the attention of the lawyer ; as it may occasionally come in , not unuse- fully , in his pleadings , as well as any other stroke of orna ...
... virtue , by exhibiting vice in a ludicrous appear- ance . Nor should I think raillery unworthy the attention of the lawyer ; as it may occasionally come in , not unuse- fully , in his pleadings , as well as any other stroke of orna ...
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... virtue and happiness , he spreads his arms , and looks benevolent . If he threatens the vengeance of heaven against vice , he bends his eyebrows into wrath , and menaces with his arm and countenance . He does not needlessly saw the air ...
... virtue and happiness , he spreads his arms , and looks benevolent . If he threatens the vengeance of heaven against vice , he bends his eyebrows into wrath , and menaces with his arm and countenance . He does not needlessly saw the air ...
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... virtue . Anxiety and constraint are the constant attendants of pride . Men make themselves ridiculous , not so much by the qualities they have , as by the affectation of those they have not . Nothing blunts the edge of ridicule so ...
... virtue . Anxiety and constraint are the constant attendants of pride . Men make themselves ridiculous , not so much by the qualities they have , as by the affectation of those they have not . Nothing blunts the edge of ridicule so ...
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accent action appear arms beauty behold blood body breast Brutus Cæsar Caius Verres Carthage cheerfulness Cicero Clodius colours countenance Curiatii dear death delight e'en earth enemy express eyes father favour fear fortune friends give glory grace grief hand happy hath head hear heart heaven honour hope hour human John Gilpin Jugurtha kind king Lady G live look Lord manner Micipsa Milo mind mouth nature never night noble Numidia o'er object once pain passion Patricians person pleasure Plebeian Pompey praise privy counsellor pronounced racter Rhadamanthus rise Roman Rome Saguntum scene sense Sicily side smile soul sound speak speaker spirit sweet syllable tears tell tence thee thing thou thought tion truth Twas uncle Toby virtue voice vowel whole words youth
Népszerű szakaszok
186. oldal - 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.
330. oldal - And you, good yeomen, Whose limbs were made in England, show us here The mettle of your pasture; let us swear That you are worth your breeding, which I doubt not; For there is none of you so mean and base, ) That hath not noble lustre in your eyes. I see you stand like greyhounds in the slips, Straining upon the start. The game's afoot! Follow your spirit, and upon this charge Cry, "God for Harry! England and Saint George!
333. oldal - Who is here so base that would be a bondman ? If any, speak, for him have I offended. Who is here so rude that would not be a Roman? If any, speak, for him have I offended. Who is here so...
337. oldal - With eyes severe, and beard of formal cut, Full of wise saws and modern instances, And so he plays his part. The sixth age shifts Into the...
322. oldal - Was parmaceti for an inward bruise ; And that it was great pity, so it was, This villanous salt-petre should be digg'd Out of the bowels of the harmless earth, Which many a good tall fellow had destroy'd So cowardly ; and but for these vile guns, He would himself have been a soldier.
190. oldal - And decks the goddess with the glittering spoil. This casket India's glowing gems unlocks, And all Arabia breathes from yonder box. The tortoise here and elephant unite, Transform'd to combs, the speckled and the white. Here files of pins extend their shining rows, Puffs, powders, patches, bibles, billets-doux.
222. oldal - To hear the lark begin his flight And singing startle the dull night From his watch-tower in the skies, Till the dappled dawn doth rise; Then to come, in spite of sorrow, And at my window bid good-morrow Through the sweetbriar, or the vine, Or the twisted eglantine : While the cock with lively din Scatters the rear of darkness thin, And to the stack, or the barn-door, Stoutly struts his dames before...
213. oldal - 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...
324. oldal - Wilt thou upon the high and giddy mast Seal up the ship-boy's eyes, and rock his brains In cradle of the rude imperious surge ; And in the visitation of the winds, "Who take the ruffian billows by the top, Curling their monstrous heads, and hanging them With deaf'ning clamours in the slippery clouds, That, with the hurly * death itself awakes...
223. oldal - And ever, against eating cares, Lap me in soft Lydian airs, Married to immortal verse, Such as the meeting soul may pierce, In notes with many a winding bout Of linked sweetness long drawn out 140 With wanton heed and giddy cunning, The melting voice through mazes running, Untwisting all the chains that tie The hidden soul of harmony ; That Orpheus...