The Elocutionary Reader; Or, Rhetorical Class BookSimpkin, Marshall, and Company, 1847 - 12 páginas |
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... thou- sands and thousands of zealous opponents , who have spared no pains to overturn the system- who have not hesitated to spread abroad the most audacious falsehoods , and calumniated both it and its supporters in every way their ...
... thou- sands and thousands of zealous opponents , who have spared no pains to overturn the system- who have not hesitated to spread abroad the most audacious falsehoods , and calumniated both it and its supporters in every way their ...
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... thou mayest raise thy- self by study , but no higher ! Time is continually passing away ; and he who keeps adding fresh knowledge to his stock , is surely more likely to make advancement towards greatness than he , who , however ...
... thou mayest raise thy- self by study , but no higher ! Time is continually passing away ; and he who keeps adding fresh knowledge to his stock , is surely more likely to make advancement towards greatness than he , who , however ...
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... Thou of such majestic form , Thou that brav'st the angry storm , Thou whose piercing fiery eye With the lightning's flash may vie ; Who hath dared to bind thee here ? Who hath lured thee from thy sphere ? How they've humbled thee ...
... Thou of such majestic form , Thou that brav'st the angry storm , Thou whose piercing fiery eye With the lightning's flash may vie ; Who hath dared to bind thee here ? Who hath lured thee from thy sphere ? How they've humbled thee ...
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... Thou wert feared by all below , Dreadful wert thou to thy foe Little then thou thought'st thine age Would be lingered in this cage . ; Thou remindest me of the fate , Of earth's proud , ambitious great , Who , like thee , have soared on ...
... Thou wert feared by all below , Dreadful wert thou to thy foe Little then thou thought'st thine age Would be lingered in this cage . ; Thou remindest me of the fate , Of earth's proud , ambitious great , Who , like thee , have soared on ...
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... thou should'st shun . To thee may Wisdom's path be early known , And beauteous Virtue's face to thee be shown ; Oh ! may'st thou in the former love to tread , And with the latter be securely wed . Then surely length of happy days thou ...
... thou should'st shun . To thee may Wisdom's path be early known , And beauteous Virtue's face to thee be shown ; Oh ! may'st thou in the former love to tread , And with the latter be securely wed . Then surely length of happy days thou ...
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Página 156 - So stately his form, and so lovely her face, that never a hall such a galliard did grace; while her mother did fret, and her father did fume. and the bridegroom stood dangling his bonnet and plume ; and the bride-maidens whispered, "Twere better by far to have matched our fair cousin with young Lochinvar.
Página 153 - And Ardennes waves above them her green leaves, Dewy with nature's tear-drops as they pass, Grieving, if aught inanimate e'er grieves, Over the unreturning brave, - alas! Ere evening to be trodden like the grass Which now beneath them, but above shall grow In its next verdure, when this fiery mass Of living valour, rolling on the foe And burning with high hope shall moulder cold and low.
Página 59 - ... as if there were sought in knowledge a couch, whereupon to rest a searching and restless spirit ; or a terrace, for a wandering and variable mind to walk up and down with a fair prospect ; or a tower of state, for a proud mind to raise itself upon ; or a fort or commanding ground, for strife and contention ; or a shop, for profit, or sale ; and not a rich storehouse, for the glory of the Creator, and the relief of man's estate.
Página 152 - Ah ! then and there was hurrying to and fro, And gathering tears, and tremblings of distress, And cheeks all pale, which but an hour ago Blush'd at the praise of their own loveliness ; And there were sudden partings, such as press The life from out young hearts, and choking sighs, Which ne'er might be repeated...
Página 156 - The isles of Greece, the isles of Greece! Where burning Sappho loved and sung, Where grew the arts of war and peace, Where Delos rose, and Phoebus sprung! Eternal summer gilds them yet, But all, except their sun, is set.
Página 159 - Place me on Sunium's marbled steep — Where nothing, save the waves and I, May hear our mutual murmurs sweep ; There, swan-like, let me sing and die : A land of slaves shall ne'er be mine — Dash down yon cup of Samian wine ! LXXXVH.
Página 15 - ... twere the mirror up to nature ; to show virtue her own feature, scorn her own image, and the very age and body of the time his form and pressure. Now, this overdone, or come tardy off, though it make the unskilful laugh, cannot but make the judicious grieve ; the censure of which one must, in your allowance, o'erweigh a whole theatre of others.
Página 16 - And let those that play your clowns, speak no more than is set down for them : for there be of them, that will themselves laugh, to set on some quantity of barren spectators to laugh too ; though, in the mean time, some necessary question of the play be then to be considered: that's villainous; and . shows a most pitiful ambition in the fool that uses it.
Página 151 - 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...
Página 161 - And shake him from thee ; the vile strength he wields For earth's destruction, thou dost all despise, Spurning him from thy bosom to the skies. And send'st him, shivering, in thy playful spray, And howling, to his gods, where haply lies His petty hope in some near port or bay, And dashest him again to earth : there let him lay.