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 Seiten |
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... live ; instead of living as many do , in order to eat and drink . Be moderate in your pleasures , that your relish for them may continue . Time is requisite to bring great projects to maturity . Precipitation ruins the best contrived ...
... live ; instead of living as many do , in order to eat and drink . Be moderate in your pleasures , that your relish for them may continue . Time is requisite to bring great projects to maturity . Precipitation ruins the best contrived ...
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... live as good friend and con- * federates , and to share between them whatever con- quests were made on either side . For this reason we now find Luxury and Avarice taking possession of the same heart , and dividing the same person ...
... live as good friend and con- * federates , and to share between them whatever con- quests were made on either side . For this reason we now find Luxury and Avarice taking possession of the same heart , and dividing the same person ...
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... live long ; and that to show her tender regard for him , she had saved that which the poor man loved better than his life . The next came towards us with her son upon her back , who we were told , was the greatest rake in the place ...
... live long ; and that to show her tender regard for him , she had saved that which the poor man loved better than his life . The next came towards us with her son upon her back , who we were told , was the greatest rake in the place ...
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... live in a kind of splen- did poverty ; and are perpetually wanting , because , in- stead of acquiescing in the solid pleasures of life , they endeavor to outvie one another in shadows and appear . ances . Men of sense have at all times ...
... live in a kind of splen- did poverty ; and are perpetually wanting , because , in- stead of acquiescing in the solid pleasures of life , they endeavor to outvie one another in shadows and appear . ances . Men of sense have at all times ...
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... lives , make themselves wiser or better than they were before . After having been taken up for some time in this course of thought , I diverted myself with a book , according to my usual custom , in order to unbend my mind before I went ...
... lives , make themselves wiser or better than they were before . After having been taken up for some time in this course of thought , I diverted myself with a book , according to my usual custom , in order to unbend my mind before I went ...
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Seite 231 - Yet he was kind, or, if severe in aught, The love he bore to learning was in fault...
Seite 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.
Seite 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.
Seite 347 - She lov'd me for the dangers I had pass'd, And I lov'd her that she did pity them.
Seite 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.
Seite 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...
Seite 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?
Seite 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.
Seite 341 - I could weep My spirit from mine eyes ! — There is my dagger, And here my naked breast ; within, a heart Dearer than Plutus...
Seite 230 - Where village statesmen talk'd with looks profound, And news much older than their ale went round. Imagination fondly stoops to trace The...