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 pages |
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... racter of an Orator is often treated with ridicule , sometimes with contempt . We are pleased with the easy and graceful movements , which the true gentleman has acquired by hav- ing learned to dance ; but we are offended by the coxcomb ...
... racter of an Orator is often treated with ridicule , sometimes with contempt . We are pleased with the easy and graceful movements , which the true gentleman has acquired by hav- ing learned to dance ; but we are offended by the coxcomb ...
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... racter , and diffuse a graceful air over his whole conversation and manners . It is not unreasonable even to expect , that they who are habitually conversant with beautiful forms in nature and art , and are frequently employed in ...
... racter , and diffuse a graceful air over his whole conversation and manners . It is not unreasonable even to expect , that they who are habitually conversant with beautiful forms in nature and art , and are frequently employed in ...
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... racter of thought in good writing - is the basis of perspicuity . A writer , whose feeble mind produces only half - formed em- * Scribendi rectè sapere est et principium et fons .-- Hor . brios of thought , or whose impetuosity will not ...
... racter of thought in good writing - is the basis of perspicuity . A writer , whose feeble mind produces only half - formed em- * Scribendi rectè sapere est et principium et fons .-- Hor . brios of thought , or whose impetuosity will not ...
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... racter ; but at present is very often used to signify a sheepish awkward fellow , who has neither good - breeding , politeness , nor any knowledge of the world . Again , a man of assurance , though at first it only denoted a person of a ...
... racter ; but at present is very often used to signify a sheepish awkward fellow , who has neither good - breeding , politeness , nor any knowledge of the world . Again , a man of assurance , though at first it only denoted a person of a ...
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... racter , or of mine ; what would they answer , but that they should wish the worthiest to be their sons ? If the patricians have reason to despise me , let them likewise despise their ancestors , whose nobility was the fruit of their ...
... racter , or of mine ; what would they answer , but that they should wish the worthiest to be their sons ? If the patricians have reason to despise me , let them likewise despise their ancestors , whose nobility was the fruit of their ...
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Page 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...
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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?
Page 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...
Page 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.
Page 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...
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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.