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 87
... hold , as ' twere , the mirror up to na- ture ; to fhew virtue her own feature , fcorn her own image , and the very age and body of the time , his form and preffure . Now , this overdone , or come tardy of , though it make the unskilful ...
... hold , as ' twere , the mirror up to na- ture ; to fhew virtue her own feature , fcorn her own image , and the very age and body of the time , his form and preffure . Now , this overdone , or come tardy of , though it make the unskilful ...
الصفحة 107
... hold Their vital lease . Laborious terms and hard ; But fuch the tenure of our earthly state ! Riches and fame are Induftry's reward ; The nimble runner courses Fortune down , And then he banquets , for fhe feeds the bold . Think what ...
... hold Their vital lease . Laborious terms and hard ; But fuch the tenure of our earthly state ! Riches and fame are Induftry's reward ; The nimble runner courses Fortune down , And then he banquets , for fhe feeds the bold . Think what ...
الصفحة 121
... Hold converfe : grow familiar , day by day , With his conceptions , act upon his plan ; And form to his , the relifh of their fouls . AKENSIDE . ВООК BOOK IV . ARGUMENTATIVE PIECES , CHA P. I. ON CHAP . XXVI . DIDACTIC PIECES . 121.
... Hold converfe : grow familiar , day by day , With his conceptions , act upon his plan ; And form to his , the relifh of their fouls . AKENSIDE . ВООК BOOK IV . ARGUMENTATIVE PIECES , CHA P. I. ON CHAP . XXVI . DIDACTIC PIECES . 121.
الصفحة 146
... hold on Europe . And if you should conquer all mankind , you feem difpofed to wage war with woods and fnows , with rivers and wild beafts , and to attempt to fubdue nature . But have you confidered the ufual courfe of things ? Have you ...
... hold on Europe . And if you should conquer all mankind , you feem difpofed to wage war with woods and fnows , with rivers and wild beafts , and to attempt to fubdue nature . But have you confidered the ufual courfe of things ? Have you ...
الصفحة 150
... the fcorn and derifion of his fellows ; fo , in this ancient house- hold of the world , we , as the laft and vileft , are fought " out for deftruction . For we have neither cultivated lands 150 ORATIONS AND HARANGUES . Book . V.
... the fcorn and derifion of his fellows ; fo , in this ancient house- hold of the world , we , as the laft and vileft , are fought " out for deftruction . For we have neither cultivated lands 150 ORATIONS AND HARANGUES . Book . V.
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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.