An Essay on Elocution: Designed for the Use of Schools and Private LearnersJohn W. Woods, printer, no. 1, N. Calvert street, 1834 - 341 pages |
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... erroneous , are more pernicious than any others ; for they prove either false guides , which lead their readers astray , or no guides , which leave them in darkness . - Hence , such books are worse than no books viii PREFACE .
... erroneous , are more pernicious than any others ; for they prove either false guides , which lead their readers astray , or no guides , which leave them in darkness . - Hence , such books are worse than no books viii PREFACE .
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... Darkness , Milton , 256 Byron , 257 Campbell , 259 261 Dr. Percival , 264 Lord Bacon , 266 Westminster Abbey , Addison , 267 Irving , 269 Flint , 272 Pleasures , Guardian , 274 281 , 284 Man was made to Mourn , a Philosophy of ...
... Darkness , Milton , 256 Byron , 257 Campbell , 259 261 Dr. Percival , 264 Lord Bacon , 266 Westminster Abbey , Addison , 267 Irving , 269 Flint , 272 Pleasures , Guardian , 274 281 , 284 Man was made to Mourn , a Philosophy of ...
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... islands and boundaries ; the logician , to penetrate the dark depths of errour and chaos , and bring up from among the rubbish the precious pearls and gems of truth ; the philosopher , to pierce the veil of ignorance and ELOCUTION . 21.
... islands and boundaries ; the logician , to penetrate the dark depths of errour and chaos , and bring up from among the rubbish the precious pearls and gems of truth ; the philosopher , to pierce the veil of ignorance and ELOCUTION . 21.
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... dark blue sea , Our thoughts as boundless , and our souls as free , Far as the breeze can bear , the billows foam , Survey our empire and behold our home ! Very low - Hark ! they whisper : angels say , ' Sister spirit , come away ...
... dark blue sea , Our thoughts as boundless , and our souls as free , Far as the breeze can bear , the billows foam , Survey our empire and behold our home ! Very low - Hark ! they whisper : angels say , ' Sister spirit , come away ...
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... darkness and to me ' . The author has marked the inflections and pauses in this passage , agreeably to the elocution which he thinks ought to be given to it . But who has not observed , that it is commonly read with the rising ...
... darkness and to me ' . The author has marked the inflections and pauses in this passage , agreeably to the elocution which he thinks ought to be given to it . But who has not observed , that it is commonly read with the rising ...
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Page 321 - With a bare bodkin ? who would fardels bear, To grunt and sweat under a weary life, But that the dread of something after death, The undiscover'd country from whose bourn No traveller returns, puzzles the will And makes us rather bear those ills we have Than fly to others that we know not of ? Thus conscience does make cowards of us all...
Page 306 - When my eyes shall be turned to behold, for the last time, the sun in heaven, may I not see him shining on the broken and dishonored fragments of a once glorious union ; on states dissevered, discordant, belligerent ; on a land rent with civil feuds, or drenched, it may be, in fraternal blood...
Page 252 - Thou carriest them away as with a flood; they are as a sleep: in the morning they are like grass which groweth up. In the morning it flourisheth, and groweth up; in the evening it is cut down, and withereth. For we are consumed by thine anger, and by thy wrath are we troubled. Thou hast set our iniquities before thee, our secret sins in the light of thy countenance. For all our days are passed away in thy wrath: we spend our years as a tale that is told.
Page 206 - And I have loved thee, Ocean ! and my joy Of youthful sports was on thy breast to be Borne, like thy bubbles, onward : from a boy I wantoned with thy breakers — they to me Were a delight : and if the freshening sea Made them a terror — 'twas a pleasing fear, For I was as it were a child of thee, And trusted to thy billows far and near, And laid my hand upon thy mane — as I do here.
Page 261 - 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.
Page 316 - When that the poor have cried, Caesar hath wept Ambition should be made of sterner stuff: Yet Brutus says he was ambitious; And Brutus is an honorable man. You all did see that on the Lupercal I thrice presented him a kingly crown, Which he did thrice refuse: was this ambition?
Page 66 - The lamps shone o'er fair women and brave men. A thousand hearts beat happily ; and when Music arose with its voluptuous swell, Soft eyes looked love to eyes which spake again, And all went merry as a marriage bell ; But hush ! Hark ! A deep sound strikes like a rising knell. Did ye not hear it ? — No ; 'twas but the wind, Or the car rattling o'er the stony street : On with the dance! Let joy be unconfined ; No sleep till morn, when youth and pleasure meet To chase the glowing hours with flying...
Page 257 - Yet not the more Cease I to wander where the Muses haunt Clear spring, or shady grove, or sunny hill, Smit with the love of sacred song...
Page 190 - And, when I am forgotten, as I shall be, And sleep in dull cold marble, where no mention Of me more must be heard of, say, I taught thee; Say, Wolsey, that once trod the ways of glory, And sounded all the depths and shoals of honour...
Page 215 - His parents answered them and said, we know that this is our son, and that he was born blind : but by what means he now seeth, we know not : or who hath opened his eyes, we know not : he is of age, ask him, he shall speak for himself.