An American Selection of Lessons in Reading and Speaking: Calculated to Improve the Minds and Refine the Taste of Youth : to which are Prefixed Rules in Elocution, and Directions for Expressing the Principal Passions of the MindFrom Sidney's Press for I. Beers and I. Cooke, 1804 - 225 páginas |
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... took more courage that day : He addressed Califta in a moft obliging manner , and had the happiness to converfe with her for the first time . As yet he had feen only her outward charms ; but now he discovered the beauty of her mind ...
... took more courage that day : He addressed Califta in a moft obliging manner , and had the happiness to converfe with her for the first time . As yet he had feen only her outward charms ; but now he discovered the beauty of her mind ...
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... took her hand with an air of kindness - fhe drew it away from him in filence ; threw down her eyes to the ground , and left the room . " I have been thanking God , " said the good La Roche , " for my recovery . ' " That is right ...
... took her hand with an air of kindness - fhe drew it away from him in filence ; threw down her eyes to the ground , and left the room . " I have been thanking God , " said the good La Roche , " for my recovery . ' " That is right ...
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... took her hand , kiffed it twice , preffed it to his bofom , threw up his eyes to heaven ; and having wiped off a tear that was just about to drop from each , began to point out to his gueft fome of the most striking objects which the ...
... took her hand , kiffed it twice , preffed it to his bofom , threw up his eyes to heaven ; and having wiped off a tear that was just about to drop from each , began to point out to his gueft fome of the most striking objects which the ...
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... took his prom- ife , that if ever he came within fifty leagues of their dwelling , he would travel thofe fifty leagues to vifit them . 41 About three years after , our philofopher was on a visit at Geneva ; the promife he made to La ...
... took his prom- ife , that if ever he came within fifty leagues of their dwelling , he would travel thofe fifty leagues to vifit them . 41 About three years after , our philofopher was on a visit at Geneva ; the promife he made to La ...
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... took fire . An orderly fergeant of the grenadiers , with great hazard of fuffocation , dragged out the first perfon he caught hold of . It proved to be the Major . 6. It happened , that in the fame inftant , his lady , not knowing what ...
... took fire . An orderly fergeant of the grenadiers , with great hazard of fuffocation , dragged out the first perfon he caught hold of . It proved to be the Major . 6. It happened , that in the fame inftant , his lady , not knowing what ...
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Página 216 - By heaven, I had rather coin my heart, And drop my blood for drachmas, than to wring From the hard hands of peasants their vile trash By any indirection.
Página 214 - Corruption wins not more than honesty. Still in thy right hand carry gentle peace, To silence envious tongues. Be just, and fear not ; Let all the ends thou aim'st at be thy country's, Thy God's, and truth's ; then, if thou fall'st, O Cromwell, Thou fall'st a blessed martyr.
Página 213 - Cromwell, I did not think to shed a tear In all my miseries; but thou hast forced me, Out of thy honest truth, to play the woman. Let's dry our eyes: and thus far hear me, Cromwell...
Página 221 - And then the whining schoolboy, with his satchel And shining morning face, creeping like snail Unwillingly to school. And then the lover, Sighing like furnace, with a woeful ballad Made to his mistress
Página 190 - WE all of us complain of the Shortness of Time, saith Seneca, and yet have much more than we know what to do with. Our Lives, says he, are spent either in doing nothing at all, or in doing nothing to the purpose, or in doing nothing that we ought to do: We are always Complaining our Days are few, and Acting as though there would be no End of them.
Página 169 - Who wickedly is wise, or madly brave, Is but the more a fool, the more a knave. Who noble ends by noble means obtains, Or failing, smiles in exile or in chains, Like good Aurelius let him reign, or bleed Like Socrates, that man is great indeed. What's fame? a fancied life in others' breath, A thing beyond us, ev'n before our death.
Página 169 - The friar hooded, and the monarch crown'd. " What differ more (you cry) than crown and cowl !" I'll tell you, friend ! a wise man and a fool.
Página 211 - Have faces flush'd with more exalted charms ; The sun that rolls his chariot o'er their heads, Works up more fire and colour in their cheeks : Were you with these, my prince, you'd soon forget, The pale, unripen'd beauties of the north.
Página 62 - There runs not a drop of my blood in the veins of any living creature. This called on me for revenge. I have sought it : I have killed many : I have fully glutted my vengeance : for my country I rejoice at the beams of peace. But do not harbor a thought that mine is the joy of fear.
Página 16 - The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together...