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 is Prefixed An Essay on ElocutionJ. Johnson, 1785 - 405 Seiten |
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... last word requires a stronger emphafis than any of the preceding ; whilft others admit of being clofed with a foft and gentle found . Where there is nothing in the fenfe which requires the laft found to be elevated or emphatical , an ...
... last word requires a stronger emphafis than any of the preceding ; whilft others admit of being clofed with a foft and gentle found . Where there is nothing in the fenfe which requires the laft found to be elevated or emphatical , an ...
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... - morrow , and to - morrow , Creeps in this petty space from day to day , To the last syllable of recorded time , And all our yesterdays have lighted fools D 2 The The way to dufky death . Out , out , CHAP . IX . 17 SELECT SENTENCES .
... - morrow , and to - morrow , Creeps in this petty space from day to day , To the last syllable of recorded time , And all our yesterdays have lighted fools D 2 The The way to dufky death . Out , out , CHAP . IX . 17 SELECT SENTENCES .
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... through towns and villages , till at last they arrived at the capital of the kingdom . At their entrance into the great city , the Mo- ther ther conjured her daughters never to lofe fight of her CHAP . V. 25 NARRATIVE PIECES .
... through towns and villages , till at last they arrived at the capital of the kingdom . At their entrance into the great city , the Mo- ther ther conjured her daughters never to lofe fight of her CHAP . V. 25 NARRATIVE PIECES .
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... last feized by Laffitude in her way , and died in mifery . WORLD . CHA P. VI . THE OLD MAN AND HIS A S S. A N old man and a little boy were driving an afs to the next market to fell . What a fool is this fellow ( fays a man upon the ...
... last feized by Laffitude in her way , and died in mifery . WORLD . CHA P. VI . THE OLD MAN AND HIS A S S. A N old man and a little boy were driving an afs to the next market to fell . What a fool is this fellow ( fays a man upon the ...
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... last from Spain , where he had been from the furtheft borders of Franconia ; and had got fo far on his return home , when his afs died . Every one seemed defirous to know what bufinefs could have taken fo old and poor a man fo far a ...
... last from Spain , where he had been from the furtheft borders of Franconia ; and had got fo far on his return home , when his afs died . Every one seemed defirous to know what bufinefs could have taken fo old and poor a man fo far a ...
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Seite 375 - O, pardon me, thou bleeding piece of earth, That I am meek and gentle with these butchers; Thou art the ruins of the noblest man That ever lived in the tide of times. Woe to the hand that shed this costly blood ! Over thy wounds now do I prophesy...
Seite 298 - Delightful task! to rear the tender thought, To teach the young idea how to shoot...
Seite 213 - Tis but an hour ago since it was nine, And after one hour more 'twill be eleven ; And so, from hour to hour, we ripe and ripe, And then, from hour to hour, we rot and rot ; And thereby hangs a tale.
Seite 327 - How lov'd, how honour'd once, avails thee not, To whom related, or by whom begot ; A heap of dust alone remains of thee, 'Tis all thou art, and all the proud shall be ! Poets themselves must fall, like those they sung, Deaf the prais'd ear, and mute the tuneful tongue.
Seite 402 - Flushed with a purple grace He shows his honest face: Now give the hautboys breath; he comes, he comes! Bacchus , ever fair and young , Drinking joys did first ordain : Bacchus...
Seite 376 - 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.
Seite 274 - Haste thee, Nymph, and bring with thee Jest, and youthful Jollity, Quips and cranks, and wanton wiles, Nods and becks, and wreathed smiles, Such as hang on Hebe's cheek, And love to live in dimple sleek ; Sport that wrinkled Care derides, And Laughter holding both his sides.
Seite 255 - The boast of heraldry, the pomp of pow'r, And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave, Await alike th' inevitable hour. The paths of glory lead but to the grave.
Seite 378 - O, now you weep; and, I perceive, you feel The dint of pity : these are gracious drops. Kind souls, what ! weep you, when you but behold Our Caesar's vesture wounded ? Look you here, Here is himself, marr'd, as you see, with traitors.
Seite 395 - tis seen the wicked prize itself Buys out the law. But 'tis not so above: There is no shuffling; there the action lies In his true nature; and we ourselves compell'd, Even to the teeth and forehead of our faults, To give in evidence.