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 من الصفحات |
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الصفحة xxix
... noble ardour of a British Legislator , rifing up in defence of the rights of his country ; the quick recollection , the forcible reasoning , and the ready utterance of the accomplished Bar- rifter ; and the fublime devotion , genuine ...
... noble ardour of a British Legislator , rifing up in defence of the rights of his country ; the quick recollection , the forcible reasoning , and the ready utterance of the accomplished Bar- rifter ; and the fublime devotion , genuine ...
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... noble defcent would then indeed be a very valuable privilege . TRUTH is always confiftent with itself , and needs nothing to help it out . It is always near at hand , and fits upon our lips , and is ready to drop out before we are aware ...
... noble defcent would then indeed be a very valuable privilege . TRUTH is always confiftent with itself , and needs nothing to help it out . It is always near at hand , and fits upon our lips , and is ready to drop out before we are aware ...
الصفحة 13
... noble truth and fentiment was expreffed by the former in a natural man- ner , in word and phrase fimple , perfpicuous , and incapable of improvement . What then remained for later writers , but affectation , witticism , and conceit ...
... noble truth and fentiment was expreffed by the former in a natural man- ner , in word and phrase fimple , perfpicuous , and incapable of improvement . What then remained for later writers , but affectation , witticism , and conceit ...
الصفحة 27
... noble air , and graceful deportment ; her beauty was natural and easy , her perfon clean and un- fpotted , her eyes caft towards the ground with an agree- able reserve , her motion and behaviour full of modesty , and her raiment as ...
... noble air , and graceful deportment ; her beauty was natural and easy , her perfon clean and un- fpotted , her eyes caft towards the ground with an agree- able reserve , her motion and behaviour full of modesty , and her raiment as ...
الصفحة 29
... noble pleasure . If you would gain the favour of the Deity , you must be at the pains of worshipping him ; if the friendship of good men , you must ftudy to oblige them ; if you would be honoured by your country , you must take care to ...
... noble pleasure . If you would gain the favour of the Deity , you must be at the pains of worshipping him ; if the friendship of good men , you must ftudy to oblige them ; if you would be honoured by your country , you must take care to ...
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الصفحة 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...
الصفحة 298 - Delightful task! to rear the tender thought, To teach the young idea how to shoot...
الصفحة 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.
الصفحة 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.
الصفحة 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...
الصفحة 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.
الصفحة 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.
الصفحة 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.
الصفحة 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.
الصفحة 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.