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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... of fools is in their mouth , but the tongue of the wife is in their heart . To labour , and to be content with that a man hath , is a Sweet life . BE BE in peace with many ; nevertheless , have but 8 BOOK I. SELECT SENTENCES .
... of fools is in their mouth , but the tongue of the wife is in their heart . To labour , and to be content with that a man hath , is a Sweet life . BE BE in peace with many ; nevertheless , have but 8 BOOK I. SELECT SENTENCES .
الصفحة 9
... peace with many ; nevertheless , have but one counsellor of a thousand . BE not confident in a plain way . LET reafon go before every enterprize , and counsel be- fore every action . CHA P. VI . THE latter part of a wife man's life is ...
... peace with many ; nevertheless , have but one counsellor of a thousand . BE not confident in a plain way . LET reafon go before every enterprize , and counsel be- fore every action . CHA P. VI . THE latter part of a wife man's life is ...
الصفحة 22
... that each of them should immediately difmifs his privy - counfel- lor . When things were thus far adjusted towards a peace , all all other differences were foon accommodated , infomuch that for 22 Book II . NARRATIVE PIECES .
... that each of them should immediately difmifs his privy - counfel- lor . When things were thus far adjusted towards a peace , all all other differences were foon accommodated , infomuch that for 22 Book II . NARRATIVE PIECES .
الصفحة 28
... peace fhall have no power to difturb you . Your whole employment fhall be to make your life eafy , and to entertain every fense with its proper gratifications . Sumptuous tables , beds of roses , clouds of perfumes , concerts of mufic ...
... peace fhall have no power to difturb you . Your whole employment fhall be to make your life eafy , and to entertain every fense with its proper gratifications . Sumptuous tables , beds of roses , clouds of perfumes , concerts of mufic ...
الصفحة 29
... peace , you must become mafter of all the qualifications that can make you fo . These are the only terms and conditions upon which I can propose happiness . The Goddefs of Pleasure here broke in upon her difcourfe : You fee , faid fhe ...
... peace , you must become mafter of all the qualifications that can make you fo . These are the only terms and conditions upon which I can propose happiness . The Goddefs of Pleasure here broke in upon her difcourfe : You fee , faid fhe ...
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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.