The orator's guide, or The practice and power of eloquence, Volumen 150 |
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... fame , and that their names live on from age to age . The brilliant wit and genius that shine in their language , the enthusiastic bursts of thought that flash from period to period , these , while they surprise and delight , serve to ...
... fame , and that their names live on from age to age . The brilliant wit and genius that shine in their language , the enthusiastic bursts of thought that flash from period to period , these , while they surprise and delight , serve to ...
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... Fame ? They were eminently truthful , as well as ardently earnest ; and to this , rather than to any external graces , they owed their success . This was the charm and the power , even their sincerity . It is true , the occasion may ...
... Fame ? They were eminently truthful , as well as ardently earnest ; and to this , rather than to any external graces , they owed their success . This was the charm and the power , even their sincerity . It is true , the occasion may ...
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... ON A POOR AND VIRTUOUS MAN . Stop , Reader , here ! and deign to look On one without a Name : Ne'er entered in the ample Book Of Fortune or of Fame . Studious of peace , he hated strife , Meek Virtues 46 RHETORICAL FIGURES .
... ON A POOR AND VIRTUOUS MAN . Stop , Reader , here ! and deign to look On one without a Name : Ne'er entered in the ample Book Of Fortune or of Fame . Studious of peace , he hated strife , Meek Virtues 46 RHETORICAL FIGURES .
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... Fame resounds ; Not the loud Torrent louder roars , Or wider Devastation pours . On GANGES ' banks the CHIEF appears ; The affrighted Flood his thunder hears ; That , from his hand resistless hurled , Bows to his beck the Eastern world ...
... Fame resounds ; Not the loud Torrent louder roars , Or wider Devastation pours . On GANGES ' banks the CHIEF appears ; The affrighted Flood his thunder hears ; That , from his hand resistless hurled , Bows to his beck the Eastern world ...
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... FAME to every other con- sideration ; " instead of saying , " You love to labour , " & c . In the following passage , ARCHBISHOP TILLOTSON is alluding throughout to Death , without once naming it . He says , " When we consider that we ...
... FAME to every other con- sideration ; " instead of saying , " You love to labour , " & c . In the following passage , ARCHBISHOP TILLOTSON is alluding throughout to Death , without once naming it . He says , " When we consider that we ...
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Página 101 - When He made a decree for the rain, and a way for the lightning of the thunder, then did He see it, and declare it : He prepared it, yea, and searched it out.
Página 123 - So may the outward shows be least themselves : The world is still deceiv'd with ornament. In law, what plea so tainted and corrupt, But being season'd with a gracious voice Obscures the show of evil ? In religion, What damned error, but some sober brow Will bless it, and approve it with a text...
Página 53 - Hope humbly then ; with trembling pinions soar, Wait the great teacher, Death ; and God adore. What future bliss, he gives not thee to know, But gives that hope to be thy blessing now. Hope springs eternal in the human breast : Man never Is, but always to be blest ; The soul, uneasy, and confined from home, Rests and expatiates in a life to come.
Página 90 - I will be as the dew unto Israel : he shall grow as the lily, and cast forth his roots as Lebanon. His branches shall spread, and his beauty shall be as the olive tree, and his smell as Lebanon. They that dwell under his shadow shall return ; they shall revive as the corn, and grow as the vine : the scent thereof shall be as the wine of Lebanon.
Página 124 - For honour travels in a strait so narrow, Where one but goes abreast ; keep, then, the path ; For Emulation hath a thousand sons That one by one pursue ; if you give way, Or hedge aside from the direct forthright, Like to an enter'd tide, they all rush by, And leave you hindmost.
Página 48 - Behold the child, by nature's kindly law, Pleas'd with a rattle, tickled with a straw; Some livelier plaything gives his youth delight, A little louder, but as empty quite ; Scarfs, garters, gold, amuse his riper stage, And beads and prayer-books are the toys of age ;* Pleas'd with this bauble still, as that before ; Till tired he sleeps, and life's poor play is o'er!
Página 78 - And, besides this, giving all diligence, add to your faith, virtue ; and to virtue, knowledge ; And to knowledge, temperance ; and to temperance, patience ; and to patience, godliness ; And to godliness, brotherly kindness ; and to brotherly kindness, charity. For if these things be in you, and abound, they make you that ye shall neither be barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Página 110 - Canst thou bind the sweet influences of Pleiades, or loose the bands of Orion? Canst thou bring forth Mazzaroth in his season? or canst thou guide Arcturus with his sons?
Página 52 - The only point where human bliss stands still, And tastes the good without the fall to ill ; Where only merit constant pay receives, Is...
Página 114 - Euphrosyne, And by men heart-easing Mirth; Whom lovely Venus, at a birth, With two sister Graces more, To ivy-crowned Bacchus bore...