A System of Rhetoric: In a Method Entirely New; Ccontaining All the Tropes and Figures Necessary to Illustrate the Classics, Both Poetical and Historical |
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Page 67 - He had a fever when he was in Spain, And when the fit was on him, I did mark How he did shake...
Page 76 - Here comes his body, mourned by Mark Antony: who, though he had no hand in his death, shall receive the benefit of his dying, a place in the commonwealth ; As which of you shall not ? With this I depart ; That, as I slew my best lover for the good of Rome, I have the same dagger for myself, when it shall please my country to need my death.
Page 78 - tis his will : Let but the commons hear this testament, (Which, pardon me, I do not mean to read) And they would go and kiss dead Caesar's wounds, And dip their napkins in his sacred blood ; Yea, beg a hair of him for memory, And, dying, mention it within their wills, Bequeathing it, as a rich legacy, Unto their issue.
Page 68 - Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow world, Like a Colossus ; and we petty men Walk under his huge legs, and peep about To find ourselves dishonourable graves.
Page 76 - 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.
Page 67 - We both have fed as well, and we can both Endure the winter's cold as well as he...
Page 30 - Heaven that he ere long Intended to create ; and therein plant A generation, whom his choice regard Should favour equal to the sons of Heaven.
Page 32 - And I said, Who art thou, Lord? And he said I am Jesus whom thou persecutest. But rise and stand upon thy feet; for I have appeared unto thee for this purpose, to make thee a minister and a witness both of these things which thou hast seen and of those things in the which I will appear unto thee. Delivering thee from the people and from the Gentiles unto whom now I send thee...
Page 69 - Here will I hold. If there's a power above us — And that there is, all nature cries aloud Through all her works — He must delight in virtue; And that which He delights in must be happy.
Page 55 - How that might change his nature, there's the question: It is the bright day that brings forth the adder; And that craves wary walking. Crown him? — that? And then, I grant, we put a sting in him, That at his will he may do danger with.
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| Pealkiri | A System of Rhetoric: In a Method Entirely New; Ccontaining All the Tropes and Figures Necessary to Illustrate the Classics, Both Poetical and Historical |
| Autor | John Stirling |
| Publisher | A. Stewart, 1806 |
| Original from | California Ülikool |
| Digitized | 7 dets. 2007 |
| Length | 99 pages |
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