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 من الصفحات |
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... thee a piece of advice , which may be of service to thee here- after , if thou shouldst have the good fortune to make thy escape Never venture into a well again , before thou hast well considered how to get out of it . VII - The Fox and ...
... thee a piece of advice , which may be of service to thee here- after , if thou shouldst have the good fortune to make thy escape Never venture into a well again , before thou hast well considered how to get out of it . VII - The Fox and ...
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... cannot conclude my letter , dear Spec , without telling thee one very odd whim in this my dream . I me thought , a dozen women employed in bringing off one man : I could not guess who it 7 *** SECT . I.J 77 IN READING .
... cannot conclude my letter , dear Spec , without telling thee one very odd whim in this my dream . I me thought , a dozen women employed in bringing off one man : I could not guess who it 7 *** SECT . I.J 77 IN READING .
الصفحة 78
... thee off , and that it was on condition that thou shouldst continue the Spectator . If thou thinkest this dream will make a tolerable one , it is at thy service , from , dear Spec , thine , sleeping and waking , WILL HONEYCOMB . ' The ...
... thee off , and that it was on condition that thou shouldst continue the Spectator . If thou thinkest this dream will make a tolerable one , it is at thy service , from , dear Spec , thine , sleeping and waking , WILL HONEYCOMB . ' The ...
الصفحة 143
... thee prefer a dead en- emy to the glory of thy country . ' Every body detested an action so cruel and inhuman . The murderer was im- mediately seized , and dragged before the Duumviri , the proper judges of such crimes . Horatius was ...
... thee prefer a dead en- emy to the glory of thy country . ' Every body detested an action so cruel and inhuman . The murderer was im- mediately seized , and dragged before the Duumviri , the proper judges of such crimes . Horatius was ...
الصفحة 165
... thee , the meanest genius grows de- serving , and has a just demand for a portion of our es- teem ; devoid of thee , the brightest of our kind lie lost and useless , and are but poorly distinguished from the most despicable and base ...
... thee , the meanest genius grows de- serving , and has a just demand for a portion of our es- teem ; devoid of thee , the brightest of our kind lie lost and useless , and are but poorly distinguished from the most despicable and base ...
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الصفحة 231 - Yet he was kind, or, if severe in aught, The love he bore to learning was in fault...
الصفحة 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.
الصفحة 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.
الصفحة 347 - She lov'd me for the dangers I had pass'd, And I lov'd her that she did pity them.
الصفحة 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.
الصفحة 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...
الصفحة 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?
الصفحة 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.
الصفحة 341 - I could weep My spirit from mine eyes ! — There is my dagger, And here my naked breast ; within, a heart Dearer than Plutus...
الصفحة 230 - Where village statesmen talk'd with looks profound, And news much older than their ale went round. Imagination fondly stoops to trace The...