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 pagini |
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Pagina 17
... hold a fire in his hand , By thinking on the frofty Caucafus ? Or cloy the hungry edge of appetite , By bare imagination of a feast ? Or wallow naked in December fnow , By thinking on fantaftic fummer's heat ? Oh , no ! the apprehenfion ...
... hold a fire in his hand , By thinking on the frofty Caucafus ? Or cloy the hungry edge of appetite , By bare imagination of a feast ? Or wallow naked in December fnow , By thinking on fantaftic fummer's heat ? Oh , no ! the apprehenfion ...
Pagina 42
... Hold there , the other quick replies , " " Tis green - I saw it with thefe eyes , " As late with open mouth it lay , " And warm'd it in the funny ray ; " Stretch'd at its ease the beast I view'd , " And faw it eat the air for food ...
... Hold there , the other quick replies , " " Tis green - I saw it with thefe eyes , " As late with open mouth it lay , " And warm'd it in the funny ray ; " Stretch'd at its ease the beast I view'd , " And faw it eat the air for food ...
Pagina 69
... hold out and laft longest . The arts of deceit and cunning continually grow weaker and less effectual and ferviceable to those that practise them ; whereas integrity gains ftrength by use , and the more and longer any man practifeth it ...
... hold out and laft longest . The arts of deceit and cunning continually grow weaker and less effectual and ferviceable to those that practise them ; whereas integrity gains ftrength by use , and the more and longer any man practifeth it ...
Pagina 70
... the advantage of reputation whilft he is in it , let him make use of truth and fincerity in all his words and actions , for nothing but this will hold out 3 to the end . All other arts may fail , 70 Book III . DIDACTIC PIECES .
... the advantage of reputation whilft he is in it , let him make use of truth and fincerity in all his words and actions , for nothing but this will hold out 3 to the end . All other arts may fail , 70 Book III . DIDACTIC PIECES .
Pagina 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 ...
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Pagina 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...
Pagina 298 - Delightful task! to rear the tender thought, To teach the young idea how to shoot...
Pagina 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.
Pagina 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.
Pagina 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...
Pagina 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.
Pagina 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.
Pagina 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.
Pagina 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.
Pagina 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.