The American Orator, Or, Elegant Extracts in Prose and Poetry: Comprehending a Diversity of Oratorical Specimens, of the Eloquence of Popular Assemblies, of the Bar, of the Pulpit, &c. Principally Intended for the Use of Schools and Academies. To which are Prefixed a Dissertation on Oratorical Delivery and the Outlines of GestureSidney's Press, for John Babcock & Son, New-Haven, and S. & W.R. Babcock, Charleston, S.C., 1819 - 408 Seiten |
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... feeling , and inspired like the poet himself , with a degree of enthusiasm . Of Recitation and Declamation . If the public ... feel , and recommend them as his own . When the composition thus delivered is poetical , this mode of public ...
... feeling , and inspired like the poet himself , with a degree of enthusiasm . Of Recitation and Declamation . If the public ... feel , and recommend them as his own . When the composition thus delivered is poetical , this mode of public ...
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... feel their way , The positive pronounce without delay . Love , hope , and joy , fair pleasure's smiling train , Hate , fear , and grief , the family of pain ' ; These mix'd with art , and to due bounds confin'd , Make and maintain the ...
... feel their way , The positive pronounce without delay . Love , hope , and joy , fair pleasure's smiling train , Hate , fear , and grief , the family of pain ' ; These mix'd with art , and to due bounds confin'd , Make and maintain the ...
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... feel Our power sufficient to disturb his heaven , And with perpetual inroad to alarm , Though inaccessible , his fatal throne ; Which , if not victory , -is yet revenge . High Key . What was the part of a faithful citizen ? of a pru ...
... feel Our power sufficient to disturb his heaven , And with perpetual inroad to alarm , Though inaccessible , his fatal throne ; Which , if not victory , -is yet revenge . High Key . What was the part of a faithful citizen ? of a pru ...
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... feel himself warranted to pronounce with- out the most deliberate consideration , and where such consideration might perhaps terminate in ap- plause . By the unhappy excesses of irregular pleasures in youth , how many amiable ...
... feel himself warranted to pronounce with- out the most deliberate consideration , and where such consideration might perhaps terminate in ap- plause . By the unhappy excesses of irregular pleasures in youth , how many amiable ...
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... feel- ings . Innumerable are the instances in which the fear of a calamity of the greatest magnitude , has greatly exceeded the evils it brought with it ; and the mind has resumed a tranquility under misfortunes , which in retrospect ...
... feel- ings . Innumerable are the instances in which the fear of a calamity of the greatest magnitude , has greatly exceeded the evils it brought with it ; and the mind has resumed a tranquility under misfortunes , which in retrospect ...
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Seite 286 - The rich man had exceeding many flocks and herds; but the poor man had nothing, save one little ewe lamb, which he had bought, and nourished up ; and it grew up together with him, and with his children : it did eat of his own meat, and drank of his own cup, and lay in his bosom, and was unto him as a daughter.
Seite 365 - Twilight gray had in her sober livery all things clad : Silence accompanied ; for Beast and Bird, they to their grassy couch, these to their nests, were slunk, — all but the wakeful nightingale; she, all night long, her amorous descant sung; Silence was pleased. Now...
Seite 356 - The NORTH, in an unrestrained intercourse with the SOUTH, protected by the equal laws of a common government, finds in the productions of the latter, great additional resources of maritime and commercial enterprise, and precious materials of manufacturing industry. The SOUTH, in the same intercourse benefiting by the agency of the NORTH, sees its agriculture grow, and its commerce expand.
Seite 245 - I send thee ; to open their eyes, and to turn them from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan unto God ; that they may receive forgiveness of sins, and inheritance among them which are sanctified, by faith that is in me.
Seite 118 - To spend too much time in studies, is sloth; to use them too much for ornament, is affectation; to make judgment wholly by their rules, is the humor of a scholar; they perfect nature, and are perfected by experience...
Seite 369 - I would not have a slave to till my ground, To carry me, to fan me while I sleep, And tremble when I wake, for all the wealth That sinews bought and sold have ever earn'd.
Seite 364 - She'd come again, and with a greedy ear Devour up my discourse: which I, observing, Took once a pliant hour, and found good means To draw from her a prayer of earnest heart That. I would all my pilgrimage dilate...
Seite 358 - 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 by fraternal affection.
Seite 372 - True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, As those move easiest, who have learned to dance : 'Tis not enough no harshness gives offence, The sound must seem an echo to the sense.
Seite 364 - I had a friend that lov'd her, I should but teach him how to tell my story, And that would woo her.