Composition and Rhetoric by Practice: With Exercises, Adapted for Use in High Schools and CollegesHeath, 1892 - 329 páginas |
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Página 249 - 6. But were I Brutus, and Brutus Antony, there were an Antony would ruffle up your spirits and put a tongue in every wound of Caesar that should move the stones of Rome to rise and mutiny.
Página 262 - heavenly radiance; while the whole noise of timorous and flocking birds, with those also that love the twilight, flutter about, amazed at what she means, and in their envious gabble would prognosticate a year of sects and schisms.
Página 262 - mewing her mighty youth, and kindling her undazzled eyes at the full midday beam ; purging and unsealing her long-abused sight at the fountain itself of the heavenly radiance; while the whole noise of timorous and flocking birds, with those also that love the twilight, flutter about,
Página 262 - the baseless fabric of this vision, the cloud-capped towers, the gorgeous palaces, the solemn temples, the great globe itself, yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve, and, like this unsubstantial pageant faded, leave not a rock behind.
Página 204 - thou go To mix for ever with the elements, — To be a brother to the insensible rock, And to the sluggish clod, which the rude swain Turns with his share, and treads upon. The oak Shall send his roots abroad, and pierce thy mould. Yet not to thine eternal resting-place Shalt thou retire alone : — nor couldst thou wish Couch more magnificent. Thou shalt
Página 249 - read the several dates of the tombs, of some that died yesterday, and some six hundred years ago, I consider that great day when we shall all of us be contemporaries, and make our appearance together. 5.
Página 260 - dead. No sleep so beautiful and calm, so free from trace of pain, so fair to look upon. She seemed a creature fresh from the hand of God, and waiting for the breath of life, not one who had lived and suffered death.
Página 318 - 2. A correspondence in the sound of the vowels at the close of two lines is called Assonantal Rhyme ; as, — " It fortifies my soul to know That, though I perish, truth is so
Página 260 - Look not mournfully into the past. It comes not back. Wisely improve the present. It is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy future, without fear and with a manly heart. 2.
Página 250 - And the king was much moved and went up to the chamber over the gate, and wept; and as he went thus he said, "O my son