Sheridan's and Henderson's Practical Method of Reading and Reciting English Poetry: Elucidated by a Variety of Examples Taken from Some of Our Most Popular Poets, and the Manner Pointed Out in which They Were Read Or Recited by the Above Gentlemen; Intended for the Improvement of Youth, and as a Necessary Introduction to Dr. Enfield's SpeakerE. Newbery, 1796 - 264 páginas |
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Página vii
... scholar than any other publication that has appeared on the fub . ject . Many of the principal poems and extracts which will be found in the following felection , I have heard read or recited either in public or in the hour of focial ...
... scholar than any other publication that has appeared on the fub . ject . Many of the principal poems and extracts which will be found in the following felection , I have heard read or recited either in public or in the hour of focial ...
Página ix
... both by Sheri- dan and Henderfon ; and I fhall endeavour , throughout this work , to imprefs it on the mind of the scholar , as nearly as words can poffibly ef- feat fect it.Trufting , therefore , in the full conviction that ( ix )
... both by Sheri- dan and Henderfon ; and I fhall endeavour , throughout this work , to imprefs it on the mind of the scholar , as nearly as words can poffibly ef- feat fect it.Trufting , therefore , in the full conviction that ( ix )
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... scholar will repeat the line in the manner it is generally printed , and afterwards in the method adopted by that gentleman , we are convinced his own judgment will at once fee the great fuperiority of the latter . Let us now proceed ...
... scholar will repeat the line in the manner it is generally printed , and afterwards in the method adopted by that gentleman , we are convinced his own judgment will at once fee the great fuperiority of the latter . Let us now proceed ...
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... scholar , particularly recommending him never to lofe fight of that folemn mournful tone of utter- ance , throughout the whole , which impreffes the hearer with that awful gravity fo plainly the intention of the Poet . In the delivery ...
... scholar , particularly recommending him never to lofe fight of that folemn mournful tone of utter- ance , throughout the whole , which impreffes the hearer with that awful gravity fo plainly the intention of the Poet . In the delivery ...
Página 20
... scholar in the delivery , we found fo much difficulty in the fearch after words fufficiently appofite to the necessary mode of expref- fion , that we thought it better to leave them to the rea- der's own tafte , than ftrive to elucidate ...
... scholar in the delivery , we found fo much difficulty in the fearch after words fufficiently appofite to the necessary mode of expref- fion , that we thought it better to leave them to the rea- der's own tafte , than ftrive to elucidate ...
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Página 175 - Thee I revisit safe, And feel thy sovran vital lamp ; but thou Revisit'st not these eyes, that roll in vain To find thy piercing ray, and find no dawn ; So thick a drop serene hath quenched their orbs, Or dim suffusion veiled.
Página 176 - Thus with the year Seasons return, but not to me returns Day, or the sweet approach of even or morn, Or sight of vernal bloom, or summer's rose, Or flocks, or herds, or human face divine: But cloud instead, and ever-during dark Surrounds me, from the cheerful ways of men Cut off, and for the book of knowledge fair Presented with a universal blank Of nature's works, to me expunged and rased, And wisdom at one entrance quite shut out.
Página 81 - That lost in long futurity expire. Fond impious man, think'st thou yon sanguine cloud Raised by thy breath, has quench'd the orb of day? To-morrow he repairs the golden flood And warms the nations with redoubled ray. Enough for me : with joy I see The different doom our fates assign : Be thine Despair and sceptred Care, To triumph and to die are mine.
Página 58 - Without a vain, without a grudging heart, To him who gives us all, I yield a part ; From him you come, for him accept it here, A frank and sober, more than costly cheer.
Página 18 - No traveller returns, puzzles the will, And makes us rather bear those ills we have Than fly to others that we know not of?
Página 157 - The slender Fir, that taper grows, The sturdy Oak with broad-spread Boughs...
Página 139 - Ye mute companions of my toils, that bear In all my griefs a more than equal share...
Página 189 - Not a pine in my grove is there seen, But with tendrils of woodbine is bound; Not a beech's more beautiful green. But a sweet-briar entwines it around. Not my fields in the prime of the year, More charms than my cattle unfold; Not a brook that is limpid and clear, But it glitters with fishes of gold.
Página 62 - With heaping coals of fire upon its head ; In the kind warmth the metal learns to glow, And...
Página 76 - Robed in the sable garb of woe, With haggard eyes the Poet stood ; Loose his beard, and hoary hair Stream'd, like a meteor, to the troubled air And, with a Master's hand, and Prophet's fire, Struck the deep sorrows of his lyre.