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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... telling fuch things as pertain not unto them ; but the words of fuch as have understand- ing are weighed in the balance . The heart of fools is in their mouth , but the tongue of the wife is in their heart . To labour , and to be ...
... telling fuch things as pertain not unto them ; but the words of fuch as have understand- ing are weighed in the balance . The heart of fools is in their mouth , but the tongue of the wife is in their heart . To labour , and to be ...
الصفحة 20
... the tree , pretending to be very attentive to the two owls . Upon his return to the Sul , tan , Sir , fays he , I have heard part of their conversation , but but dare not tell you what it is . The 20 Book II . NARRATIVE PIECES .
... the tree , pretending to be very attentive to the two owls . Upon his return to the Sul , tan , Sir , fays he , I have heard part of their conversation , but but dare not tell you what it is . The 20 Book II . NARRATIVE PIECES .
الصفحة 21
... tell you what it is . The Sultan would not be fatisfied with fuch an answer , but forced him to repeat word for word every thing the owls had faid . You must know then , faid the Vifier , that one of these owls has a fon , and the other ...
... tell you what it is . The Sultan would not be fatisfied with fuch an answer , but forced him to repeat word for word every thing the owls had faid . You must know then , faid the Vifier , that one of these owls has a fon , and the other ...
الصفحة 34
... tell the causes which gradually brought the houfe d'E **** in Britany into decay . The Marquis d'E **** had fought up against his condition with great firmnefs ; wifhing to preferve and ftill fhew to the world some little fragments of ...
... tell the causes which gradually brought the houfe d'E **** in Britany into decay . The Marquis d'E **** had fought up against his condition with great firmnefs ; wifhing to preferve and ftill fhew to the world some little fragments of ...
الصفحة 40
... tell - but God tempers the wind , faid Maria , to the fhorn lamb . SHORN indeed ! and to the quick , faid I ; and waft thou in my own land , where I have a cottage , I would take thee to it and shelter thee ; thou fhouldft eat of my own ...
... tell - but God tempers the wind , faid Maria , to the fhorn lamb . SHORN indeed ! and to the quick , faid I ; and waft thou in my own land , where I have a cottage , I would take thee to it and shelter thee ; thou fhouldft eat of my own ...
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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.