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 стор. |
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... Rome , after building the city , 2. Hannibal to Scipio Africanus , 3. Scipio's reply . 4. Calisthenes ' reproof of Cleon's flattery to Alexander , 5. Caius Marius to the Romans , 6. Publius Scipio to the Roman army , 7. Hannibal to the ...
... Rome , after building the city , 2. Hannibal to Scipio Africanus , 3. Scipio's reply . 4. Calisthenes ' reproof of Cleon's flattery to Alexander , 5. Caius Marius to the Romans , 6. Publius Scipio to the Roman army , 7. Hannibal to the ...
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... Rome ever bred : And Quintillian- says , that he spoke with the same force with which he fought ; and , if he had devoted himself to the bar , would have been the only man capable oftivalling Cicero . Nor was he a master only ofthe ...
... Rome ever bred : And Quintillian- says , that he spoke with the same force with which he fought ; and , if he had devoted himself to the bar , would have been the only man capable oftivalling Cicero . Nor was he a master only ofthe ...
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... Rome ; but , disdaining the condition of a sub- ject , he could never rest till he had made himself a monarch . In acting this last part , his usual prudence seemed to fail him ; as if the height to which he was mounted had turned his ...
... Rome ; but , disdaining the condition of a sub- ject , he could never rest till he had made himself a monarch . In acting this last part , his usual prudence seemed to fail him ; as if the height to which he was mounted had turned his ...
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... Rome . We can talk of life and death in cold blood , and keep our temper in a discourse which turns upon every thing that is dear to us . Though our zeal breaks out in the finest tropes and figures , it is not able to stir a limb about ...
... Rome . We can talk of life and death in cold blood , and keep our temper in a discourse which turns upon every thing that is dear to us . Though our zeal breaks out in the finest tropes and figures , it is not able to stir a limb about ...
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... Rome . I must add , that history is not only a valuable part of knowledge , but opens the door to many other parts of knowledge , and affords materials to most of the scien ces . And , indeed , if we consider the shortness of human life ...
... Rome . I must add , that history is not only a valuable part of knowledge , but opens the door to many other parts of knowledge , and affords materials to most of the scien ces . And , indeed , if we consider the shortness of human life ...
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Сторінка 231 - Yet he was kind, or, if severe in aught, The love he bore to learning was in fault...
Сторінка 351 - 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.
Сторінка 224 - 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.
Сторінка 347 - She lov'd me for the dangers I had pass'd, And I lov'd her that she did pity them.
Сторінка 243 - 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.
Сторінка 224 - 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...
Сторінка 224 - 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?
Сторінка 117 - 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.
Сторінка 341 - I could weep My spirit from mine eyes ! — There is my dagger, And here my naked breast ; within, a heart Dearer than Plutus...
Сторінка 230 - Where village statesmen talk'd with looks profound, And news much older than their ale went round. Imagination fondly stoops to trace The...