The Speaker: Or, Miscellaneous Pieces, Selected from the Best English Writers,: And Disposed Under Proper Heads, with a View to Facilitate the Improvement of Youth in Reading and Speaking. : To which is Prefixed An Essay on ElocutionJ. Johnson, 1785 - 405 páginas |
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Página xxxii
... . I. Senfibility . Sterne . 232 II . Liberty and Slavery . ibid . 233 III . Corporal Trim's Eloquence . ibid . 235 IV . The Man of Rofs . Pope . 236 V. The Ode on a diftant Profpect of Eton College . Elegy xxxii THE CONTENTS .
... . I. Senfibility . Sterne . 232 II . Liberty and Slavery . ibid . 233 III . Corporal Trim's Eloquence . ibid . 235 IV . The Man of Rofs . Pope . 236 V. The Ode on a diftant Profpect of Eton College . Elegy xxxii THE CONTENTS .
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... Trim ; and fome difmal winter's evening , when your honour is in the humour , they fhall be told you with the reft of Tom's ftory , for it makes a part of it- THEN do not forget , Trim , faid my uncle Toby . A NEGRO has a foul , an ...
... Trim ; and fome difmal winter's evening , when your honour is in the humour , they fhall be told you with the reft of Tom's ftory , for it makes a part of it- THEN do not forget , Trim , faid my uncle Toby . A NEGRO has a foul , an ...
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... Trim , quoth my uncle Toby , which recommends her to protection , and her brethren with her ; - ' tis the fortune of war which has put the whip into our hands nowwhere it may be hereafter , Heaven knows ! but be it where it will , the ...
... Trim , quoth my uncle Toby , which recommends her to protection , and her brethren with her ; - ' tis the fortune of war which has put the whip into our hands nowwhere it may be hereafter , Heaven knows ! but be it where it will , the ...
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... trim . STOCK . Well , Mr. Belcour , it is a rough fample you have had of my countrymen's spirit ; but , I truft , you will not think the worfe of them for it . BEL . Not at all , not at all ; I like them the better ; was I only a ...
... trim . STOCK . Well , Mr. Belcour , it is a rough fample you have had of my countrymen's spirit ; but , I truft , you will not think the worfe of them for it . BEL . Not at all , not at all ; I like them the better ; was I only a ...
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... TRIM's ELOQUENCE . MY young mafter in London is dead , faid Obadiah- -HERE is fad news , Trim , cried Sufannah , wiping her eyes as Trim ftepped into the kitchen , -master Bobby is dead . I LAMENT for him from my heart and my foul , faid ...
... TRIM's ELOQUENCE . MY young mafter in London is dead , faid Obadiah- -HERE is fad news , Trim , cried Sufannah , wiping her eyes as Trim ftepped into the kitchen , -master Bobby is dead . I LAMENT for him from my heart and my foul , faid ...
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Página 375 - O, pardon me, thou bleeding piece of earth, That I am meek and gentle with these butchers; Thou art the ruins of the noblest man That ever lived in the tide of times. Woe to the hand that shed this costly blood ! Over thy wounds now do I prophesy...
Página 298 - Delightful task! to rear the tender thought, To teach the young idea how to shoot...
Página 213 - Tis but an hour ago since it was nine, And after one hour more 'twill be eleven ; And so, from hour to hour, we ripe and ripe, And then, from hour to hour, we rot and rot ; And thereby hangs a tale.
Página 327 - How lov'd, how honour'd once, avails thee not, To whom related, or by whom begot ; A heap of dust alone remains of thee, 'Tis all thou art, and all the proud shall be ! Poets themselves must fall, like those they sung, Deaf the prais'd ear, and mute the tuneful tongue.
Página 402 - Flushed with a purple grace He shows his honest face: Now give the hautboys breath; he comes, he comes! Bacchus , ever fair and young , Drinking joys did first ordain : Bacchus...
Página 376 - Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears; I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him. The evil, that men do, lives after them ; The good is oft interred with their bones ; So let it be with Caesar.
Página 274 - Haste thee, Nymph, and bring with thee Jest, and youthful Jollity, Quips and cranks, and wanton wiles, Nods and becks, and wreathed smiles, Such as hang on Hebe's cheek, And love to live in dimple sleek ; Sport that wrinkled Care derides, And Laughter holding both his sides.
Página 255 - The boast of heraldry, the pomp of pow'r, And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave, Await alike th' inevitable hour. The paths of glory lead but to the grave.
Página 378 - O, now you weep; and, I perceive, you feel The dint of pity : these are gracious drops. Kind souls, what ! weep you, when you but behold Our Caesar's vesture wounded ? Look you here, Here is himself, marr'd, as you see, with traitors.
Página 395 - tis seen the wicked prize itself Buys out the law. But 'tis not so above: There is no shuffling; there the action lies In his true nature; and we ourselves compell'd, Even to the teeth and forehead of our faults, To give in evidence.