An Essay on Elocution: With Elucidatory Passages from Various Authors to which are Added Remarks on Reading Prose and Verse, with Suggestions to Instructors of the ArtWeare C. Little, 1860 - 300 sider |
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... hath done this thing shall surely die ; " And he shall restore the lamb fourfold , because he did this thing , and because he had no pity . " And Nathan said to David , thou art the man . " 2d SAMUEL , 12th CHAPTER . V. CLIMAX . A ...
... hath done this thing shall surely die ; " And he shall restore the lamb fourfold , because he did this thing , and because he had no pity . " And Nathan said to David , thou art the man . " 2d SAMUEL , 12th CHAPTER . V. CLIMAX . A ...
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... hath comprised all those misdeeds in one single crime ; a crime , in its own nature detestable ; in a woman prodigicus ; in a mother , incredible ; and perpetrated against one whose age called for compassion , whose near relation ...
... hath comprised all those misdeeds in one single crime ; a crime , in its own nature detestable ; in a woman prodigicus ; in a mother , incredible ; and perpetrated against one whose age called for compassion , whose near relation ...
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... hath a sound , And sense , and sight of sweetness . " " Unknell'd , uncoffined , and unknown . " LORD BYRON . Ibid . Ibid . " He rush'd into the field , and foremost fighting fell . " Ibid . " The humanity , harmony , and happiness ...
... hath a sound , And sense , and sight of sweetness . " " Unknell'd , uncoffined , and unknown . " LORD BYRON . Ibid . Ibid . " He rush'd into the field , and foremost fighting fell . " Ibid . " The humanity , harmony , and happiness ...
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... Hath he said ? and shall he not do it ? or hath he spoken ? and shall he not make it good ? ” Demosthenes addressing himself to the Athenians , says , " Tell me , will you still go about and ask one another , what news ? What can be ...
... Hath he said ? and shall he not do it ? or hath he spoken ? and shall he not make it good ? ” Demosthenes addressing himself to the Athenians , says , " Tell me , will you still go about and ask one another , what news ? What can be ...
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... hath the oppressor ceased ! the golden city ceased ! The Lord hath broken the staff of the wicked , and the sceptre of the rulers . He who'smote the people in wrath with a continual stroke , he that ruled the nations in anger , is ...
... hath the oppressor ceased ! the golden city ceased ! The Lord hath broken the staff of the wicked , and the sceptre of the rulers . He who'smote the people in wrath with a continual stroke , he that ruled the nations in anger , is ...
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Side 119 - It is in vain, sir, to extenuate the matter. Gentlemen may cry, Peace, Peace — but there is no peace. The war is actually begun! The next gale that sweeps from the north will bring to our ears the clash of resounding arms! Our brethren are already in the field! Why stand we here idle? What is it that gentlemen wish ? What would they have ? Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery ? Forbid it, Almighty God ! I know not what course others may take;...
Side 150 - When that the poor have cried, Caesar hath wept; Ambition should be made of sterner stuff. Yet Brutus says he was ambitious, And Brutus is an honorable man.
Side 237 - Near yonder copse, where once the garden smiled, And still where many a garden flower grows wild ; There, where a few torn shrubs the place disclose, The village preacher's modest mansion rose. A man he was to all the country dear, And passing rich with forty pounds a year; Remote from towns he ran his godly race, Nor e'er had changed, nor wished to change, his place.
Side 150 - Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears; •> I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him. The evil, that men do, lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones; \ So let it be with Caesar.
Side 72 - 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.
Side 17 - In thoughts from the visions of the night, when deep sleep falleth on men, fear came upon me, and trembling, which made all my bones to shake. Then a spirit passed before my face ; the hair of my flesh stood up. It stood still, but I could not discern the form thereof: an image was before mine eyes, there was silence, and I heard a voice, saying, "Shall mortal man be more just than God?
Side 131 - Northern and Southern; Atlantic and Western; whence designing men may endeavor to excite a belief that there is a real difference of local interests and views. One of the expedients of Party to acquire influence, within particular districts, is to misrepresent the opinions and aims of other Districts. You cannot shield yourselves too much against the jealousies and heart burnings which spring from these misrepresentations. They tend to render Alien to each other those who ought to be bound together...
Side 270 - twas but the wind, Or the car rattling o'er the stony street; On with the dance! let joy be unconfined; No sleep till morn, when Youth and Pleasure meet To chase the glowing Hours with flying feet.— But hark!
Side 273 - I STOOD in Venice, on the Bridge of Sighs ; A palace and a prison on each hand : I saw from out the wave her structures rise As from the stroke of the enchanter's wand : A thousand years their cloudy wings expand Around me, and a dying Glory smiles O'er the far times, when many a subject land Look'd to the winged Lion's marble piles, Where Venice sate in state, throned on her hundred isles...
Side 128 - ... a cordial, habitual and immovable attachment to it ; accustoming yourselves to think and speak of it as of the palladium of your political safety and prosperity ; watching for its preservation with jealous anxiety ; discountenancing whatever may suggest even a suspicion that it can in any event be abandoned ; and indignantly frowning upon the first dawning of every attempt to alienate any portion of our country from the rest, or to enfeeble the sacred ties which now link together the various...