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... heart and soul of eloquence - pathos . Every animal gives expression to its feelings by appro- priate tones . The hen when the hawk is in sight ex- presses her terror , and calls together her brood by a particular cluck . How different ...
... heart and soul of eloquence - pathos . Every animal gives expression to its feelings by appro- priate tones . The hen when the hawk is in sight ex- presses her terror , and calls together her brood by a particular cluck . How different ...
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... hearts of lettuces , of cabbages , & c . , are naturally white . + Vegetables in tropical regions flourish in a manner far superior to what they do with us ; and discous vegetables , as the sun - flower , always turn towards the sun ...
... hearts of lettuces , of cabbages , & c . , are naturally white . + Vegetables in tropical regions flourish in a manner far superior to what they do with us ; and discous vegetables , as the sun - flower , always turn towards the sun ...
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... heart and arteries , and is the cause of animal heat . Oxygen combines with all combustible bodies , disengaging at the same time its caloric , and producing a strong light and flame . It also combines with metals , which act of com ...
... heart and arteries , and is the cause of animal heat . Oxygen combines with all combustible bodies , disengaging at the same time its caloric , and producing a strong light and flame . It also combines with metals , which act of com ...
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... Hearts beating At meeting ; Tears starting At parting . The Iambic Monometer Acatalectic consists of one Iambic metre , or of two Iambic feet ; as , " With ravish'd ears The monarch hears , Assumes the god , Affects to nod . " The ...
... Hearts beating At meeting ; Tears starting At parting . The Iambic Monometer Acatalectic consists of one Iambic metre , or of two Iambic feet ; as , " With ravish'd ears The monarch hears , Assumes the god , Affects to nod . " The ...
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... hearts where'er we rove , To those we've left behind us . " Moore . The above kinds of verse are used generally to give variety to Odes and Songs . The Iambic Dimeter Acatalectic consists exactly of two metres , or four feet ; as ...
... hearts where'er we rove , To those we've left behind us . " Moore . The above kinds of verse are used generally to give variety to Odes and Songs . The Iambic Dimeter Acatalectic consists exactly of two metres , or four feet ; as ...
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Сторінка 119 - And now I'm in the world alone, Upon the wide, wide sea: But why should I for others groan, When none will sigh for me? Perchance my dog will whine in vain, Till fed by stranger ,hands; But long ere I come back again, He'd tear me where he stands.
Сторінка 173 - ... the infidel savage — against whom ? against your Protestant brethren ; to lay waste their country, to desolate their dwellings, and extirpate their race and name with these horrible hell-hounds of savage war — hell-hounds, I say, of savage war!
Сторінка 117 - Eternal HOPE ! when yonder spheres sublime Peal'd their first notes to sound the march of Time, Thy joyous youth began — but not to fade. — When all the sister planets have...
Сторінка 126 - Prayer is the burden of a sigh ; The falling of a tear, The upward glancing of an eye, When none but God is near.
Сторінка 168 - Bid him disband his legions, Restore the commonwealth to liberty, Submit his actions to the public censure, And stand the judgment of a Roman senate. Bid him do this, and Cato is his friend.
Сторінка 165 - Which of the two to choose, slavery or death ! No, let us rise at once, gird on our swords, And, at the head of our remaining troops, Attack the foe, break through the thick array Of his throng'd legions, and charge home upon him. Perhaps some arm, more lucky than the rest, May reach his heart, and free the world from bondage.
Сторінка 117 - The strife is o'er — the pangs of Nature close, And life's last rapture triumphs o'er her woes. Hark ! as the spirit eyes, with eagle gaze, The noon of Heaven undazzled by the blaze, On Heavenly winds that waft her...
Сторінка 95 - Farewell, a long farewell, to all my greatness ! This is the state of man ; to-day he puts forth The tender leaves of hope, to-morrow blossoms, And bears his blushing honours thick upon him : The third day comes a frost, a killing frost ; And,— when he thinks, good easy man, full surely His greatness is a ripening, — nips his root, And then he falls, as I do.
Сторінка 122 - Come, brightly wafting through the gloom Our Peace-branch from above ? Then sorrow, touched by Thee, grows bright With more than rapture's ray ; As darkness shows us worlds of light We never saw by day...
Сторінка 163 - I've had wrongs To stir a fever in the blood of age, Or make the infant's sinews strong as steel. This day's the birth of sorrow ; this hour's work Will breed proscriptions ! Look to your hearths, my Lords! For there, henceforth, shall sit, for household gods, Shapes hot from Tartarus ; all shames and crimes ; Wan Treachery, with his thirsty dagger drawn ; Suspicion, poisoning his brother's cup ; Naked Rebellion, with the torch and axe, Making his wild sport of your blazing thrones; Till Anarchy...