An Essay on Elocution: With Elucidatory Passages from Various AuthorsW.C. Little, 1843 |
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... thoughts , how soon unsay What feign'd submission swore ? ease would recant Vows made in pain , as violent and void . For never can true reconcilement grow Where wounds of deadly hate have pierc'd so deep ; Which would but lead me to a ...
... thoughts , how soon unsay What feign'd submission swore ? ease would recant Vows made in pain , as violent and void . For never can true reconcilement grow Where wounds of deadly hate have pierc'd so deep ; Which would but lead me to a ...
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... thought who heard the strain , They saw in Tempe's vale , her native maids , Amidst the festal sounding shades , To some unwearied minstrel dancing : While , as his flying fingers kiss'd the strings , Love fram'd with Mirth a gay ...
... thought who heard the strain , They saw in Tempe's vale , her native maids , Amidst the festal sounding shades , To some unwearied minstrel dancing : While , as his flying fingers kiss'd the strings , Love fram'd with Mirth a gay ...
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... thought . " This power is capable of producing an effect nearly equal to scenic representation , in which each part is in- dividually performed . Indeed , if the reader or reciter be adequate to the task , he may elicit an approbation ...
... thought . " This power is capable of producing an effect nearly equal to scenic representation , in which each part is in- dividually performed . Indeed , if the reader or reciter be adequate to the task , he may elicit an approbation ...
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... thought , and pow'r divine . Spcak ye who best can tell , ye sons of light , Angels ; for ye behold him , and with songs And choral symphonies , day without night , Circle his throne rejoicing ; ye in heav'n , On earth , join all ye ...
... thought , and pow'r divine . Spcak ye who best can tell , ye sons of light , Angels ; for ye behold him , and with songs And choral symphonies , day without night , Circle his throne rejoicing ; ye in heav'n , On earth , join all ye ...
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... thought , the soul be not extinguished with the body ; may you enjoy a state of eternal felicity ! From that station behold your disconsolate family ; exalt our minds from fond regret and unavailing grief , to the contemplation of your ...
... thought , the soul be not extinguished with the body ; may you enjoy a state of eternal felicity ! From that station behold your disconsolate family ; exalt our minds from fond regret and unavailing grief , to the contemplation of your ...
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Page 233 - NOT a drum was heard, not a funeral note, As his corse to the rampart we hurried ; Not a soldier discharged his farewell shot O'er the grave where our hero we buried.
Page 76 - For if the dead rise not, then is not Christ raised; and if Christ be not raised, your faith is vain; ye are yet in your sins. Then they also which are fallen asleep in Christ are perished.
Page 119 - Peace — but there is no peace. The war is actually begun ! The next gale that sweeps from the north will bring to our ears the clash of resounding arms! Our brethren are already in the field! Why stand we here idle? What is it that gentlemen wish? What would they have? Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery ? Forbid it, Almighty God ! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!
Page 72 - And when thou prayest, thou shalt not be as the hypocrites are : for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and in the corners of the streets, that they may be seen of men. Verily I say unto you, they have their reward.
Page 237 - Near yonder copse, where once the garden smiled, And still where many a garden flower grows wild ; There, where a few torn shrubs the place disclose, The village preacher's modest mansion rose. A man he was to all the country dear, And passing rich with forty pounds a year; Remote from towns he ran his godly race, Nor e'er had changed, nor wished to change, his place.
Page 149 - As Caesar loved me, I weep for him ; as he was fortunate, I rejoice at it ; as he was valiant, I honour him : but, as he was ambitious, I slew him.
Page 270 - Ah! then and there was hurrying to and fro, And gathering tears, and tremblings of distress, And cheeks all pale, which, but an hour ago, Blushed at the praise of their own loveliness. And there were sudden partings, such as press The life from out young hearts, and choking sighs Which ne'er might be repeated...
Page 150 - ... 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. The noble Brutus Hath told you Caesar was ambitious: If it were so, it was a grievous fault, And grievously hath Caesar answer'd. it. Here, under leave of Brutus and the rest,— For Brutus is an honorable man; So are they all, all honorable men— Come I to speak in Caesar's funeral.
Page 136 - Whatever may be conceded to the influence of refined education on minds of peculiar structure, reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.
Page 44 - O thou, that, with surpassing glory crown'd, Look'st from thy sole dominion, like the god Of this new world ; at whose sight all the stars Hide their diminish'd heads ; to thee I call, But with no friendly voice, and add thy name, 0 sun ! to tell thee how I hate thy beams, That bring to my remembrance from what state 1 fell, how glorious once above thy sphere...