The elementary elocutionist: a selection of pieces in prose and verse, by J. White |
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Strana xii
... once appear that there is one grand object , for the attainment of which , all our guardians , and parents , and schools , appear deter- mined , we were about to say , to sacrifice every other ob- ject , every other consideration . The ...
... once appear that there is one grand object , for the attainment of which , all our guardians , and parents , and schools , appear deter- mined , we were about to say , to sacrifice every other ob- ject , every other consideration . The ...
Strana xv
... Once more : Suppose we are favoured with this answer , He is considered a sinful creature — an answer which , if we have not applied the emphasis to the proper word , may be given -we are at once sensible that this is not the answer ...
... Once more : Suppose we are favoured with this answer , He is considered a sinful creature — an answer which , if we have not applied the emphasis to the proper word , may be given -we are at once sensible that this is not the answer ...
Strana xvi
... once properly given , leads him , almost without an effort , to the downward slide . It were easy to give other examples , but we must not forget the limits assigned to our Introduction . These , how- ever , can satisfactorily account ...
... once properly given , leads him , almost without an effort , to the downward slide . It were easy to give other examples , but we must not forget the limits assigned to our Introduction . These , how- ever , can satisfactorily account ...
Strana xxiv
... negative rule . For nothing is more evident than the fact , that some concessive members termi- nate with the rising and some with the falling slide ; for which our rule at once accounts . From our preceding xxiv INTRODUCTION .
... negative rule . For nothing is more evident than the fact , that some concessive members termi- nate with the rising and some with the falling slide ; for which our rule at once accounts . From our preceding xxiv INTRODUCTION .
Strana xxv
John White (A.M.). which our rule at once accounts . From our preceding remarks in illustration of the rule , it will at once be obvi- ous how we should inflect the following and all similar sen- tences : -D I come to bury Cæsar , not to ...
John White (A.M.). which our rule at once accounts . From our preceding remarks in illustration of the rule , it will at once be obvi- ous how we should inflect the following and all similar sen- tences : -D I come to bury Cæsar , not to ...
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Strana 205 - KNOW ye the land where the cypress and myrtle Are emblems of deeds that are done in their clime? Where the rage of the vulture, the love of the turtle, Now melt into sorrow, now madden to crime...
Strana 238 - Thy shores are empires, changed in all save thee — Assyria, Greece, Rome, Carthage, what are they? Thy waters wasted them while they were free, And many a tyrant since ; their shores obey The stranger, slave or savage ; their decay Has dried up realms to deserts — not so thou Unchangeable, save to thy wild waves
Strana 245 - They say it was a shocking sight After the field was won; For many thousand bodies here Lay rotting in the sun; But things like that, you know, must be After a famous victory. "Great praise the Duke of Marlbro' won, And our good Prince Eugene.
Strana 232 - The spirits of your fathers Shall start from every wave ! — For the deck it was their field of fame, And Ocean was their grave...
Strana 218 - Last noon beheld them full of lusty life, Last eve in Beauty's circle proudly gay, The midnight brought the signal-sound of strife, The morn the marshalling in arms — the day Battle's magnificently stern array...
Strana 283 - With a bare bodkin ? who would fardels bear, To grunt and sweat under a weary life, But that the dread of something after death, The undiscover'd country from whose bourn No traveller returns, puzzles the will, And makes us rather bear those ills we have Than fly to others that we know not of ? Thus conscience does make cowards of us all...
Strana 253 - As awaked from the dead, And amazed he stares around. Revenge, revenge, Timotheus cries, See the Furies arise ! See the snakes that they rear, How they hiss in their hair, And the sparkles that flash from their eyes!
Strana 253 - Think, O think it worth enjoying! Lovely Thais sits beside thee, Take the good the gods provide thee!
Strana 250 - I'll meet the raging of the skies, But not an angry father." The boat has left a stormy land, A stormy sea before her, — When, oh ! too strong for human hand. The tempest gathered o'er her.
Strana 217 - There was a sound of revelry by night, And Belgium's capital had gathered then Her Beauty and her Chivalry, and bright The lamps shone o'er fair women and brave men...