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 EssaysA. Wilson, 1808 - 346 pagini |
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Pagina xviii
... thee be darkness , how great is THAT darkness ! In order to acquire a habit of speaking with a just and for- cible emphasis , nothing more is necessary , than previously to study the construction , meaning , and spirit of every sentence ...
... thee be darkness , how great is THAT darkness ! In order to acquire a habit of speaking with a just and for- cible emphasis , nothing more is necessary , than previously to study the construction , meaning , and spirit of every sentence ...
Pagina 7
... thee ? There is nothing so much worth as a mind well in- structed . The lips of talkers will be telling such things as pertain not unto them ; but the words of such as have understand- ing are weighed in the balance . The heart of fools ...
... thee ? There is nothing so much worth as a mind well in- structed . The lips of talkers will be telling such things as pertain not unto them ; but the words of such as have understand- ing are weighed in the balance . The heart of fools ...
Pagina 32
... thee to it and shelter thee ; thou shouldst eat of my own bread , and drink of my own cup - I would be kind to thy Sylvio - in all thy weaknesses and wanderings I would seek after thee and bring thee back - when the sun went down I ...
... thee to it and shelter thee ; thou shouldst eat of my own bread , and drink of my own cup - I would be kind to thy Sylvio - in all thy weaknesses and wanderings I would seek after thee and bring thee back - when the sun went down I ...
Pagina 36
... thee honour , virtue , sense , " And rais'd thee from a coachman's fate , " To govern men , and guide the state . " WHITEHEAD . CHAP . XIV . SIR BALAAM . WHERE London's column , pointing at the skies , Like a tall bully , lifts the head ...
... thee honour , virtue , sense , " And rais'd thee from a coachman's fate , " To govern men , and guide the state . " WHITEHEAD . CHAP . XIV . SIR BALAAM . WHERE London's column , pointing at the skies , Like a tall bully , lifts the head ...
Pagina 42
... thee " With kind regard . O'er thee the secret shaft " That wastes at midnight , or th ' undreaded hour " Of noon , flies harmless ; and that very voice , " Which thunders terrour through the guilty heart , " With tongues of seraphs ...
... thee " With kind regard . O'er thee the secret shaft " That wastes at midnight , or th ' undreaded hour " Of noon , flies harmless ; and that very voice , " Which thunders terrour through the guilty heart , " With tongues of seraphs ...
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The Speaker; Or, Miscellaneous Pieces: Selected from the Best English ... William Enfield Vizualizare completă - 1827 |
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anger army Balaam beauty bliss bosom breast Brutus Cæsar cæsura CHAP chill band country gentlemen cried daughter death divine earth elocution endeavour eternal ev'n ev'ry father fear feel fool fortune Fram Gauls genius give glory Gods grace Grongar Hill hand happy hast hath head hear heart Heav'n honour hope Iago imagination kind king labour live look lord Macd mankind manner Maria means mind motley fool Muse nature never noble o'er pain Parliament passion patricians pause peace perfection person pity pleasure poor pow'r praise present privy counsellor proper racter replied Roman Scythians sense sentence SHAKSPEARE Sir John smile SNEYD DAVIES soul speak spirit Sterl sweet Syphax taste tears tell Theana thee thing thou thought truth uncle Toby virtue voice whole wisdom wise words writing youth