Lessons in Elocution: Or, A Selection of Pieces, in Prose and Verse, for the Improvement of Youth in Reading and Speaking ...Hori Brown, 1820 - 407 من الصفحات |
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الصفحة 109
... gave the sign to take her cff . Upon the approach of the keeper of Erebus , her color faded , her face was puckered up with wrinkles , and her whole person lost in deformity . I was then surprised with a distant sound of a whole troop ...
... gave the sign to take her cff . Upon the approach of the keeper of Erebus , her color faded , her face was puckered up with wrinkles , and her whole person lost in deformity . I was then surprised with a distant sound of a whole troop ...
الصفحة 114
... so . When supper was over , the old man gave a knock upon the table with the haft of his knife , to bid them prepare for the dance . The moment the signal was giv- en , the women and girls ran altogether into the 114 [ PART I. LESSONS.
... so . When supper was over , the old man gave a knock upon the table with the haft of his knife , to bid them prepare for the dance . The moment the signal was giv- en , the women and girls ran altogether into the 114 [ PART I. LESSONS.
الصفحة 141
... gave their whole attention to a sight , which could not but alarm them . The signal is given . The combatants engage with hostile weapons , and show themselves inspired with the intrepidity of two mighty armies . Both parties , equally ...
... gave their whole attention to a sight , which could not but alarm them . The signal is given . The combatants engage with hostile weapons , and show themselves inspired with the intrepidity of two mighty armies . Both parties , equally ...
الصفحة 161
... disease , and scarce- ly half alive , he gave them one in the prime of life , accustomed already to govern , and who added to the vigor of youth , all the attention and sagacity of 14 * SECT . IV . ] 161 IN READING .
... disease , and scarce- ly half alive , he gave them one in the prime of life , accustomed already to govern , and who added to the vigor of youth , all the attention and sagacity of 14 * SECT . IV . ] 161 IN READING .
الصفحة 171
... gave a slight glance with his cye downwards upon the sleeve of his tunic - I felt the full force of the appeal - I acknowl- edge it , said 1-3 coarse habit , and that but once in three years , with a meager diet - are no great matters ...
... gave a slight glance with his cye downwards upon the sleeve of his tunic - I felt the full force of the appeal - I acknowl- edge it , said 1-3 coarse habit , and that but once in three years , with a meager diet - are no great matters ...
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الصفحة 231 - Yet he was kind, or, if severe in aught, The love he bore to learning was in fault...
الصفحة 351 - Disguise fair nature with hard-favour'd rage; Then lend the eye a terrible aspect; Let it pry through the portage of the head Like the brass cannon: let the brow o'erwhelm it As fearfully as doth a galled rock O'erhang and jutty his confounded base, Swill'd with the wild and wasteful ocean. Now set the teeth and stretch the nostril wide; Hold hard the breath, and bend up every spirit To his full height.
الصفحة 224 - The boast of heraldry, the pomp of power, And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave, Await alike the inevitable hour: The paths of glory lead but to the grave.
الصفحة 347 - She lov'd me for the dangers I had pass'd, And I lov'd her that she did pity them.
الصفحة 243 - His praise, ye winds, that from four quarters blow, Breathe soft or loud ; and wave your tops, ye pines, With every plant, in sign of worship wave. • • Fountains, and ye that warble, as ye. flow, Melodious murmurs, warbling, tune his praise. Join voices, all ye living souls ! ye birds, That, singing, up to heaven's gate ascend, Bear on your wings and in your notes his praise.
الصفحة 224 - THE curfew tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herd winds slowly o'er the lea, The ploughman homeward plods his weary way, And leaves the world to darkness and to me. Now fades the glimmering landscape on the sight, And all the air a solemn stillness holds, Save where the beetle wheels his droning flight, And drowsy tinklings lull the distant folds...
الصفحة 224 - Their name, their years, spelt by th' unletter'd muse, The place of fame and elegy supply: And many a holy text around she strews, That teach the rustic moralist to die. For who to dumb Forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing anxious being e'er resign'd, Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day, Nor cast one longing ling'ring look behind?
الصفحة 117 - Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar but not coarse, and elegant but not ostentatious, must give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison, HUGHES.
الصفحة 341 - I could weep My spirit from mine eyes ! — There is my dagger, And here my naked breast ; within, a heart Dearer than Plutus...
الصفحة 230 - Where village statesmen talk'd with looks profound, And news much older than their ale went round. Imagination fondly stoops to trace The...