The elementary elocutionist: a selection of pieces in prose and verse, by J. White |
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... importance than it really can pretend to be , I should in so far have derived an additional plea- sure in subscribing myself , SIR , With much respect , Your most obedient Servant , J. W. 1 Preface . WHEN We began to think for ourselves.
... importance than it really can pretend to be , I should in so far have derived an additional plea- sure in subscribing myself , SIR , With much respect , Your most obedient Servant , J. W. 1 Preface . WHEN We began to think for ourselves.
Strana iii
... importance than it really can pretend to be , I should in so far have derived an additional plea- sure in subscribing myself , SIR , With much respect , Your most obedient Servant , J. W. ཝཱ ྃ Preface . WHEN We began to think for.
... importance than it really can pretend to be , I should in so far have derived an additional plea- sure in subscribing myself , SIR , With much respect , Your most obedient Servant , J. W. ཝཱ ྃ Preface . WHEN We began to think for.
Strana xvii
... sure answered by words in a similar state . Notice the fol- lowing : - But , whatever be the external evidence of testimony , or how- ever strong may be its visible characters of truth and honesty , is not the falsehood or the ...
... sure answered by words in a similar state . Notice the fol- lowing : - But , whatever be the external evidence of testimony , or how- ever strong may be its visible characters of truth and honesty , is not the falsehood or the ...
Strana xliii
... sure this is not Latin or Greek . But if they could inflect either of these languages with propriety , the difficulties of English , in so far as inflection is concerned , would soon disappear . From the time and attention be- stowed ...
... sure this is not Latin or Greek . But if they could inflect either of these languages with propriety , the difficulties of English , in so far as inflection is concerned , would soon disappear . From the time and attention be- stowed ...
Strana 59
... sure of the fallen mountain , in a single wave , had rushed with irresistible force over the opposite point of the Faro , which it entirely inundated . Thrown back towards the Calabrian coast , it passed with im- petuosity over the ...
... sure of the fallen mountain , in a single wave , had rushed with irresistible force over the opposite point of the Faro , which it entirely inundated . Thrown back towards the Calabrian coast , it passed with im- petuosity over the ...
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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...