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 are Prefixed Two Essays: I. On Elocution. II. On Reading Works of TasteWilliam Enfield Stereotyped by Andrew Wilson, 1823 - 346 pagini |
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Pagina 6
... stand first , and then rebuke . If thou wouldst get a friend , prove him first , and be not hasty to credit him ; for some men are friends for their own occasions , and will not abide in the day of thy trouble . Forsake not an old ...
... stand first , and then rebuke . If thou wouldst get a friend , prove him first , and be not hasty to credit him ; for some men are friends for their own occasions , and will not abide in the day of thy trouble . Forsake not an old ...
Pagina 13
... stand bare ! How many be commanded , that command ! Oh who can hold a fire in his hand By thinking on the frosty Caucasus ? Or cloy the hungry edge of appetite By bare imagination of a feast ? Or wallow naked in December's snow By ...
... stand bare ! How many be commanded , that command ! Oh who can hold a fire in his hand By thinking on the frosty Caucasus ? Or cloy the hungry edge of appetite By bare imagination of a feast ? Or wallow naked in December's snow By ...
Pagina 70
... stand up in a corrupt age for what has not it's immediate reward joined to it . The talents , interest , or ... stands as a blot in the annals of his country , who arrives at the temple of honour by any other way than through that of ...
... stand up in a corrupt age for what has not it's immediate reward joined to it . The talents , interest , or ... stands as a blot in the annals of his country , who arrives at the temple of honour by any other way than through that of ...
Pagina 74
... stand a helpless spectator of a thousand vexa- tions , which fret away happiness , and which nothing is re- quired to remove but a little dexterity of conduct and readi- ness of expedients . No degree of knowledge attainable by man is ...
... stand a helpless spectator of a thousand vexa- tions , which fret away happiness , and which nothing is re- quired to remove but a little dexterity of conduct and readi- ness of expedients . No degree of knowledge attainable by man is ...
Pagina 99
... stand Around the deathbed of their dearest friends , And point the parting anguish . - Thought fond man Of these , and all the thousand nameless ills , That one incessant struggle render life , One scene of toil , of suff'ring , and of ...
... stand Around the deathbed of their dearest friends , And point the parting anguish . - Thought fond man Of these , and all the thousand nameless ills , That one incessant struggle render life , One scene of toil , of suff'ring , and of ...
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The Speaker, Or, Miscellaneous Pieces Selected from the Best English Writers ... William Enfield Vizualizare completă - 1815 |
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Pagina 325 - tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, Or to take arms against a sea of troubles, And by opposing end them? To die : to sleep...
Pagina 217 - Perhaps in this neglected spot is laid Some heart once pregnant with celestial fire ; Hands, that the rod of empire might have sway'd, Or wak'd to ecstasy the living lyre.
Pagina 311 - 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 316 - 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 hard hands of peasants their vile trash By any indirection: I did send To you for gold to pay my legions, Which you denied me: was that done like Cassius?
Pagina 305 - Let's dry our eyes: and thus far hear me, Cromwell; 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...
Pagina 150 - Let him depart; his passport shall be made, And crowns for convoy put into his purse: We would not die in that man's company That fears his fellowship to die with us. This day is call'd the feast of Crispian: He that outlives this day, and comes safe home, Will stand a tip-toe when this day is nam'd, And rouse him at the name of Crispian.
Pagina 297 - No matter where ; of comfort no man speak : Let's talk of graves, of worms and epitaphs ; Make dust our paper and with rainy eyes Write sorrow on the bosom of the earth...
Pagina 323 - But that I am forbid To tell the secrets of my prison-house, I could a tale unfold whose lightest word Would harrow up thy soul, freeze thy young blood, Make thy two eyes, like stars, start from their spheres, Thy knotted and combined locks to part And each particular hair to stand on end, Like quills upon the fretful porcupine : But this eternal blazon must not be To ears of flesh and blood.
Pagina 184 - As a sick girl. Ye gods, it doth amaze me, A man of such a feeble temper should So get the start of the majestic world, And bear the palm alone.
Pagina 334 - Thais led the way To light him to his prey, And like another Helen fired another Troy ! Thus long ago, Ere heaving bellows learned to blow, While organs yet were mute, Timotheus, to his breathing flute And sounding lyre, Could swell the soul to rage or kindle soft desire.