Lessons in Elocution, Or, A Selection of Pieces in Prose and Verse: For the Improvement of Youth in Reading and Speaking, as Well as for the Perusal of Persons of Taste : with an Appendix, Containing Concise Lessons on a New Plan, and Principles of English GrammarC. Elliot, 1789 - 398 Seiten |
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... who have only a turn to a fong or an epigram , may put many va luable ftitches into a purfe , and crowd a thousand graces into a pair of garters . If H If I may , without breach of good manners , SECT . II . 55 IN READING .
... who have only a turn to a fong or an epigram , may put many va luable ftitches into a purfe , and crowd a thousand graces into a pair of garters . If H If I may , without breach of good manners , SECT . II . 55 IN READING .
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... thousand cheefes , and left my eldest girl with him to look af- ter his houfe in my abfence ; and who , I may venture to fay , is as pretty a housewife as any in the country . Rhadamanthus fmiled at the fimplicity of the good wo- man ...
... thousand cheefes , and left my eldest girl with him to look af- ter his houfe in my abfence ; and who , I may venture to fay , is as pretty a housewife as any in the country . Rhadamanthus fmiled at the fimplicity of the good wo- man ...
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... the robes of fancy , and fometimes fteps forth in the con- fidence of reafon . She wears a thousand dreffes , and in all is pleafing . His profe is the model of the middle ftyle ; His 74 ART I LESSONS Character of Addison as a writer,
... the robes of fancy , and fometimes fteps forth in the con- fidence of reafon . She wears a thousand dreffes , and in all is pleafing . His profe is the model of the middle ftyle ; His 74 ART I LESSONS Character of Addison as a writer,
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... thousand more , would be the fame thing he is at prefent . Were a human foul thus at a stand in her accomplishments ; were her faculties to be full blown , and incapable of farther enlargements ; I could imagine it might fall away ...
... thousand more , would be the fame thing he is at prefent . Were a human foul thus at a stand in her accomplishments ; were her faculties to be full blown , and incapable of farther enlargements ; I could imagine it might fall away ...
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... thousand spectators . Sixty - four vomito- ries ( for by that name the doors were very aptly diftin- guifhed ) poured forth the immenfe multitude ; and the entrances , paffages , and ftair - cafes , were contrived with fuch exquifite ...
... thousand spectators . Sixty - four vomito- ries ( for by that name the doors were very aptly diftin- guifhed ) poured forth the immenfe multitude ; and the entrances , paffages , and ftair - cafes , were contrived with fuch exquifite ...
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Seite 375 - I hate him for he is a Christian ; But more for that in low simplicity He lends out money gratis, and brings down The rate of usance here with us in Venice. If I can catch him once upon the hip, I will feed fat the ancient grudge I bear him.
Seite 321 - This many summers in a sea of glory; But far beyond my depth : my high-blown pride At length broke under me ; and now has left me, Weary, and old with service, to the mercy Of a rude stream, that must for ever hide me.
Seite 209 - One morn I missed him on the customed hill, Along the heath and near his favourite tree; Another came; nor yet beside the rill, Nor up the lawn, nor at the wood was he; 'The next with dirges due in sad array Slow through the church-way path we saw him borne. Approach and read (for thou can'st read) the lay, Graved on the stone beneath yon aged thorn.
Seite 220 - With store of ladies, whose bright eyes Rain influence, and judge the prize Of wit or arms, while both contend To win her grace, whom all commend.
Seite 109 - When I look upon the tombs of the great, every emotion of envy dies in me ; when I read the epitaphs of the beautiful, every inordinate desire goes out; when I meet with the grief of parents upon a tombstone, my heart melts with compassion ; when I see the tomb of the parents themselves, I consider the vanity of grieving for those whom we must quickly follow.
Seite 353 - tis no matter ; honour pricks me on. Yea, but how if honour prick me off when I come on ? how then ? Can honour set to a leg ? No. Or an arm ? No. Or take away the grief of a wound ? No. Honour hath no skill in surgery then ? No. What is honour ? A word. What is that word honour ? Air. A trim reckoning ! Who hath it ? He that died o
Seite 323 - Cromwell, I did not think to shed a tear In all my miseries; but thou hast forced me, Out of thy honest truth, to play the woman. Let's dry our eyes: and thus far hear me, Cromwell...
Seite 336 - The very head and front of my offending Hath this extent, no more. Rude am I in my speech, And little bless'd with the soft phrase of peace ; For since these arms of mine had seven years...
Seite 321 - O, how wretched Is that poor man that hangs on princes' favours ! There is, betwixt that smile we would aspire to, That sweet aspect of princes, and their ruin, More pangs and fears than wars or women have; And when he falls, he falls like Lucifer, Never to hope again.
Seite 187 - At church, with meek and unaffected grace, His looks adorn'd the venerable place ; Truth from his lips prevail'd with double sway, And fools, who came to scoff, remain'd to pray.