The elementary elocutionist: a selection of pieces in prose and verse, by J. White |
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Side vi
... becomes us to say , that we have endeavoured to make them bear as much as possible upon the present state of so- ciety and literature to meet , and keep pace with the exigencies of the times a circum - 10 stance , in our opinion , of ...
... becomes us to say , that we have endeavoured to make them bear as much as possible upon the present state of so- ciety and literature to meet , and keep pace with the exigencies of the times a circum - 10 stance , in our opinion , of ...
Side viii
... becomes his instructor , and may teach him to avoid those rocks and quicksands , which have proved fatal to many public speakers , in despite of all their superior knowledge , and all their splendid and boasted classical attainments ...
... becomes his instructor , and may teach him to avoid those rocks and quicksands , which have proved fatal to many public speakers , in despite of all their superior knowledge , and all their splendid and boasted classical attainments ...
Side xii
... become accomplished Orators , neither indeed is it ne- cessary ; but " there is a wide interval , " as Blair observes , " between mediocrity and perfection . " Waving the sub- ject of difficulties , we are of opinion , that the little ...
... become accomplished Orators , neither indeed is it ne- cessary ; but " there is a wide interval , " as Blair observes , " between mediocrity and perfection . " Waving the sub- ject of difficulties , we are of opinion , that the little ...
Side xii
... become master of that knowledge which alone can enable him to know how , when , or where , to inflect with propriety a single sentence , or even to read with any tolerable decency without the knowledge of the hows , whens , or wheres ...
... become master of that knowledge which alone can enable him to know how , when , or where , to inflect with propriety a single sentence , or even to read with any tolerable decency without the knowledge of the hows , whens , or wheres ...
Side xii
... become so , by apply- ing to them one or other of these inflections - in short , that all sentences may assume the rising or the falling side , and that not in consequence of commencing with any par- ticular part of speech . We also ...
... become so , by apply- ing to them one or other of these inflections - in short , that all sentences may assume the rising or the falling side , and that not in consequence of commencing with any par- ticular part of speech . We also ...
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Side 205 - KNOW ye the land where the cypress and myrtle Are emblems of deeds that are done in their clime? Where the rage of the vulture, the love of the turtle, Now melt into sorrow, now madden to crime...
Side 238 - Thy shores are empires, changed in all save thee — Assyria, Greece, Rome, Carthage, what are they? Thy waters wasted them while they were free, And many a tyrant since ; their shores obey The stranger, slave or savage ; their decay Has dried up realms to deserts — not so thou Unchangeable, save to thy wild waves
Side 245 - They say it was a shocking sight After the field was won; For many thousand bodies here Lay rotting in the sun; But things like that, you know, must be After a famous victory. "Great praise the Duke of Marlbro' won, And our good Prince Eugene.
Side 232 - The spirits of your fathers Shall start from every wave ! — For the deck it was their field of fame, And Ocean was their grave...
Side 218 - Last noon beheld them full of lusty life, Last eve in Beauty's circle proudly gay, The midnight brought the signal-sound of strife, The morn the marshalling in arms — the day Battle's magnificently stern array...
Side 283 - With a bare bodkin ? who would fardels bear, To grunt and sweat under a weary life, But that the dread of something after death, The undiscover'd country from whose bourn No traveller returns, puzzles the will, And makes us rather bear those ills we have Than fly to others that we know not of ? Thus conscience does make cowards of us all...
Side 253 - As awaked from the dead, And amazed he stares around. Revenge, revenge, Timotheus cries, See the Furies arise ! See the snakes that they rear, How they hiss in their hair, And the sparkles that flash from their eyes!
Side 253 - Think, O think it worth enjoying! Lovely Thais sits beside thee, Take the good the gods provide thee!
Side 250 - I'll meet the raging of the skies, But not an angry father." The boat has left a stormy land, A stormy sea before her, — When, oh ! too strong for human hand. The tempest gathered o'er her.
Side 217 - There was a sound of revelry by night, And Belgium's capital had gathered then Her Beauty and her Chivalry, and bright The lamps shone o'er fair women and brave men...