The Speaker: Or Miscellaneous Pieces, Selected from the Best English Writers, and Disposed Under Proper Heads, with a View to Facilitate the Improvement of Youth in Reading and Speaking, to which are Prefixed Two Essays: I. On Elocution. II. On Reading Works of TasteWilliam Enfield Stereotyped by Andrew Wilson, 1823 - 346 من الصفحات |
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... nymph had a dejected appearance , but so soft and gentle a mien , that she was beloved to a de- gree of enthusiasm . Her voice was low and plaintive , but inexpressibly sweet ; and she loved to lie for hours together on the banks of ...
... nymph had a dejected appearance , but so soft and gentle a mien , that she was beloved to a de- gree of enthusiasm . Her voice was low and plaintive , but inexpressibly sweet ; and she loved to lie for hours together on the banks of ...
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... nymphs started at the sight ; The muses drop the learned lyre , And to their inmost shades retire . Howe'er the youth , with forward air , Bows to the sage , and mounts the car : The lash resounds , the coursers spring , The chariot ...
... nymphs started at the sight ; The muses drop the learned lyre , And to their inmost shades retire . Howe'er the youth , with forward air , Bows to the sage , and mounts the car : The lash resounds , the coursers spring , The chariot ...
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... nymph of quality admires our knight , He marries , bows at court , and grows polite : Leaves the dull cits , and joins ( to please the fair ) The wellbred cuckolds in St. James's air . In Britain's senate he a seat obtains , And one ...
... nymph of quality admires our knight , He marries , bows at court , and grows polite : Leaves the dull cits , and joins ( to please the fair ) The wellbred cuckolds in St. James's air . In Britain's senate he a seat obtains , And one ...
الصفحة 216
... stillness , height , and solemn shade , Invite , and contemplation aid ; Here nymphs from hollow oaks relate The dark decrees and will of fate ; And dreams beneath the spreading beech Inspire , and docile 216 BOOK VII . DESCRIPTIVE PIECES .
... stillness , height , and solemn shade , Invite , and contemplation aid ; Here nymphs from hollow oaks relate The dark decrees and will of fate ; And dreams beneath the spreading beech Inspire , and docile 216 BOOK VII . DESCRIPTIVE PIECES .
الصفحة 217
... nymphs on side of hills From plaything urns pour down the rills . Thus shelter'd , free from care and strife , May I enjoy a calm through life ; See faction , safe in low degree , As men at land see storms at sea ; And laugh at ...
... nymphs on side of hills From plaything urns pour down the rills . Thus shelter'd , free from care and strife , May I enjoy a calm through life ; See faction , safe in low degree , As men at land see storms at sea ; And laugh at ...
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الصفحة 325 - tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, Or to take arms against a sea of troubles, And by opposing end them? To die : to sleep...
الصفحة 217 - Perhaps in this neglected spot is laid Some heart once pregnant with celestial fire ; Hands, that the rod of empire might have sway'd, Or wak'd to ecstasy the living lyre.
الصفحة 311 - 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.
الصفحة 316 - For I can raise no money by vile means: By heaven, I had rather coin my heart, And drop my blood for drachmas, than to wring From the hard hands of peasants their vile trash By any indirection: I did send To you for gold to pay my legions, Which you denied me: was that done like Cassius?
الصفحة 305 - Let's dry our eyes: and thus far hear me, Cromwell; And, when I am forgotten, as I shall be, And sleep in dull cold marble, where no mention Of me more must be heard of, say, I taught thee...
الصفحة 150 - Let him depart; his passport shall be made, And crowns for convoy put into his purse: We would not die in that man's company That fears his fellowship to die with us. This day is call'd the feast of Crispian: He that outlives this day, and comes safe home, Will stand a tip-toe when this day is nam'd, And rouse him at the name of Crispian.
الصفحة 297 - No matter where ; of comfort no man speak : Let's talk of graves, of worms and epitaphs ; Make dust our paper and with rainy eyes Write sorrow on the bosom of the earth...
الصفحة 323 - But that I am forbid To tell the secrets of my prison-house, I could a tale unfold whose lightest word Would harrow up thy soul, freeze thy young blood, Make thy two eyes, like stars, start from their spheres, Thy knotted and combined locks to part And each particular hair to stand on end, Like quills upon the fretful porcupine : But this eternal blazon must not be To ears of flesh and blood.
الصفحة 184 - As a sick girl. Ye gods, it doth amaze me, A man of such a feeble temper should So get the start of the majestic world, And bear the palm alone.
الصفحة 334 - Thais led the way To light him to his prey, And like another Helen fired another Troy ! Thus long ago, Ere heaving bellows learned to blow, While organs yet were mute, Timotheus, to his breathing flute And sounding lyre, Could swell the soul to rage or kindle soft desire.