An Essay on Elocution: With Elucidatory Passages from Various Authorsauthor, 1828 - 298 стор. |
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... Wave , Munich , all thy banners wave ! And charge with all thy chivalry ! VIII . Ah ! few shall part where many meet The snow shall be their winding sheet , And every turf beneath their feet , Shall be a soldier's sepulchre . CAMPBELL ...
... Wave , Munich , all thy banners wave ! And charge with all thy chivalry ! VIII . Ah ! few shall part where many meet The snow shall be their winding sheet , And every turf beneath their feet , Shall be a soldier's sepulchre . CAMPBELL ...
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... wave , and world defy . " XV . INTERROGATION . Of all figures this is the most overwhelming and rapid ; but it should never be employed in unfolding the principles upon which a discourse is established ; for it causes obscurity , and a ...
... wave , and world defy . " XV . INTERROGATION . Of all figures this is the most overwhelming and rapid ; but it should never be employed in unfolding the principles upon which a discourse is established ; for it causes obscurity , and a ...
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... wave , Culloden ! that reeks with the blood of the brave . LOCHIEL . Go , preach to the coward , thou death - telling seer ! Or , if gory Culloden so dreadful appear , Draw , dotard , around thy old wavering sight ! This mantle , to ...
... wave , Culloden ! that reeks with the blood of the brave . LOCHIEL . Go , preach to the coward , thou death - telling seer ! Or , if gory Culloden so dreadful appear , Draw , dotard , around thy old wavering sight ! This mantle , to ...
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... wave , banished , forlorn , Like a limb from his country cast bleeding and torn ? Ah no ! for a darker departure is near ; The war - drum is muffled , and black is the bier ; His death - bell is tolling ; oh ! mercy dispel , Yon sight ...
... wave , banished , forlorn , Like a limb from his country cast bleeding and torn ? Ah no ! for a darker departure is near ; The war - drum is muffled , and black is the bier ; His death - bell is tolling ; oh ! mercy dispel , Yon sight ...
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... 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 ...
... 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 ...
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arch of Titus awful beautiful behold beneath blessings breath brow Caracalla cause character Christian Cicero dark dead dead rise death deep delight Demosthenes dread earth ELOCUTION eloquence eternal Father feel feet fire George Somers give glorious glory grace grave Greece hand happiness hath heard heart heaven honour hope human justice king liberty light living Lochiel look Lord LORD CHATHAM ment mercy mind mountain nation nature never night noble o'er object ocean passions patriotism peace pride raised religion Richard Henry Lee rising rocks Roman Roman Forum Rome ruin say unto scene seemed shore side sion soul sound speak spirit sublime sweet tears tempest temples thee THERMÆ thine things thou thought throne tion trembling vale VALE OF TEMPE Vespasian virtue voice wave whole wild wind wings youth
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Сторінка 63 - Moreover, when ye fast, be not, as the hypocrites, of a sad countenance : for they disfigure their faces, that they may appear unto men to fast. Verily I say unto you, They have their reward. But thou, when thou fastest, anoint thine head, and wash thy face; that thou appear not unto men to fast, but unto thy Father which is in secret: and thy Father which seeth in secret shall reward thee openly.
Сторінка 62 - That ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven ; for he maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust. For if ye love them which love you, what reward have ye ? do not even the publicans the same ? And if ye salute your brethren only, what do ye more than others ? do not even the publicans so ? Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect.
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Сторінка 44 - On earth join all ye creatures to extol Him first, him last, him midst, and without end. Fairest of stars, last in the train of night, If better thou belong not to the dawn, Sure pledge of day, that crown'st the smiling morn With thy bright circlet, praise him in thy sphere, While day arises, that sweet hour of prime.
Сторінка 43 - Hell from beneath is moved for thee to meet thee at thy coming ; it stirreth up the dead for thee, even all the chief ones of the earth; it hath raised up from their thrones all the kings of the nations. All they shall speak, and say unto thee, Art thou also become weak as we ? art thou become like unto us ? Thy pomp is brought down to the grave, and the noise of thy viols : the worm is spread under thee, and the worms cover thee.
Сторінка 131 - If, in the opinion •of the people, the distribution or modification of the constitutional powers be in any particular wrong, let it be corrected by an amendment in the way which the constitution designates. But let there be no change by usurpation ; for though this, in one instance, may be the instrument of good, it is the customary weapon by which free governments are destroyed.
Сторінка 34 - Nor do not saw the air too much with your hand, thus: but use all gently: for in the very torrent, tempest, and (as I may say) whirlwind of your passion, you must acquire and beget a temperance, that may give it smoothness.
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