Studies in Elocution: A Wide and Choice Selection of Poetry and Prose for Reading and Recitation; with an Introductory Essay on the Art of Elocution and a Scheme of Vocal Exercises for Public Speakers, and for Use in Colleges, Schools and Elocution ClassesG. Philip & Son, 1908 - 387 pages |
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... wind , Which I respect not . I did send to you For certain sums of gold , which you denied me ; - For I can raise no money by vile means : By heaven , I had rather coin my heart , And drop my blood for drachmas , than to wring From the ...
... wind , Which I respect not . I did send to you For certain sums of gold , which you denied me ; - For I can raise no money by vile means : By heaven , I had rather coin my heart , And drop my blood for drachmas , than to wring From the ...
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... winds , and rocks . The man is , notwithstanding , sufficient ; three thousand ducats : —I think I may take his bond . Bass . Be assured you may . Shy . I will be assured I may ; and , that I may be assured , I will bethink me . May I ...
... winds , and rocks . The man is , notwithstanding , sufficient ; three thousand ducats : —I think I may take his bond . Bass . Be assured you may . Shy . I will be assured I may ; and , that I may be assured , I will bethink me . May I ...
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... wind fair , and we will aboard . My Lord of Cambridge , my kind Lord of Masham , And you , my gentle knight , give me your thoughts : Think you not that the powers we bear with us Will cut their passage through the force of France ...
... wind fair , and we will aboard . My Lord of Cambridge , my kind Lord of Masham , And you , my gentle knight , give me your thoughts : Think you not that the powers we bear with us Will cut their passage through the force of France ...
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... wind , Thou art not so unkind As man's ingratitude ; Thy tooth is not so keen , Because thou art not seen , Although thy breath be rude . Freeze , freeze , thou bitter sky , That dost not bite so nigh As benefits forgot : Though thou ...
... wind , Thou art not so unkind As man's ingratitude ; Thy tooth is not so keen , Because thou art not seen , Although thy breath be rude . Freeze , freeze , thou bitter sky , That dost not bite so nigh As benefits forgot : Though thou ...
Page 87
... wind is northerly . Osr . It is indifferent cold , my lord , indeed . Ham . But yet methinks it is very sultry and hot , for my complexion . Osr . Exceedingly , my lord ; it is very sultry , -as ' twere , — I cannot tell how . -But , my ...
... wind is northerly . Osr . It is indifferent cold , my lord , indeed . Ham . But yet methinks it is very sultry and hot , for my complexion . Osr . Exceedingly , my lord ; it is very sultry , -as ' twere , — I cannot tell how . -But , my ...
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Popular passages
Page 9 - Cowards die many times before their deaths ; The valiant never taste of death but once. Of all the wonders that I yet have heard, It seems to me most strange that men should fear; Seeing that death, a necessary end, Will come when it will come.
Page 14 - But yesterday the word of Caesar might Have stood against the world: now lies he there, And none so poor to do him reverence.
Page 39 - Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounced it to you, trippingly on the tongue : but if you mouth it, as many of your players do, I had as lief the town-crier spoke my lines.
Page 19 - Julius bleed for justice' sake ? What villain touched his body, that did stab, And not for justice ? What, shall one of us, That struck the foremost man of all this world, But for supporting robbers, shall we now Contaminate our fingers with base bribes, And sell the mighty space of our large honours For so much trash as may be grasped thus ? I had rather be a dog, and bay the moon, Than such a Roman.
Page 87 - And say — to-morrow is Saint Crispian : Then will he strip his sleeve, and show his scars, And say, these wounds I had on Crispin's day. Old men forget ; yet all shall be forgot, But he'll remember, with advantages, What feats he did that day : Then shall our names. Familiar in...
Page 35 - Cromwell, I did not think to shed a tear In all my miseries ; but thou hast forced me, Out of thy honest truth, to play the woman. Let's dry our eyes : And thus far hear me, Cromwell...
Page 40 - ... twere, the mirror up to nature ; to show virtue her own feature, scorn her own image, and the very age and body of the time his form and pressure. Now this overdone or come tardy off, though it make the unskilful laugh, cannot but make the judicious grieve ; the censure of the which one must in your allowance o'erweigh a whole theatre of others.
Page 1 - The quality of mercy is not strain'd, It droppeth, as the gentle rain from heaven Upon the place beneath : it is twice bless'd ; It blesseth him that gives, and him that takes : 'Tis mightiest in the mightiest; it becomes The throned monarch better than his crown; His sceptre shows the force of temporal power, The attribute to awe and majesty, Wherein doth sit the dread and fear of kings ; But mercy is above this sceptred sway, It is enthroned in the hearts of kings, It is an attribute to God himself;...
Page 2 - Though justice be thy plea, consider this, That, in the course of justice, none of us Should see salvation: we do pray for mercy; And that same prayer doth teach us all to render The deeds of mercy.
Page viii - Their dearest action in the tented field ; And little of this great world can I speak, More than pertains to feats of broil and battle ; And therefore little shall I grace my cause, In speaking for myself : Yet, by your gracious patience...