Literary Class Book; Or, Readings in English Literature: To which is Prefixed an Introductory Treatise on the Art of Reading and the Principles of Elocution |
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... desire , had it printed ; and I have now only to request your earnest and immediate attention to the principles and directions which it contains . It contains , as you will find , the fullest , and I may add , the best information that ...
... desire , had it printed ; and I have now only to request your earnest and immediate attention to the principles and directions which it contains . It contains , as you will find , the fullest , and I may add , the best information that ...
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... desire to become good readers . Now , it follows from this , that as a good reader is sure to employ on all occasions the inflections of voice that are natural and suitable , the shortest and easiest way of effecting the object would be ...
... desire to become good readers . Now , it follows from this , that as a good reader is sure to employ on all occasions the inflections of voice that are natural and suitable , the shortest and easiest way of effecting the object would be ...
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... desires to know whether the spade that is broken is his or not . Should he ask , " Who broke the spade ? " he will lay the emphasis on the word " who , " because , being already aware that the spade is broken , his object in making the ...
... desires to know whether the spade that is broken is his or not . Should he ask , " Who broke the spade ? " he will lay the emphasis on the word " who , " because , being already aware that the spade is broken , his object in making the ...
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... important words that we naturally desire to draw the special attention of the person or persons whom we address , and not to the ancillary or subordinate words . It may also be observed that Pronouns , though im- 336 LITERARY CLASS BOOK .
... important words that we naturally desire to draw the special attention of the person or persons whom we address , and not to the ancillary or subordinate words . It may also be observed that Pronouns , though im- 336 LITERARY CLASS BOOK .
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... desire , This longing after immortality` ? Or whence this secret dread , this inward horror Of falling into nought ' ? Why shrinks the soul Back on herself , and startles at destruction ' ? BOTH INFLECTIONS TOGETHER . RULE III . - Words ...
... desire , This longing after immortality` ? Or whence this secret dread , this inward horror Of falling into nought ' ? Why shrinks the soul Back on herself , and startles at destruction ' ? BOTH INFLECTIONS TOGETHER . RULE III . - Words ...
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Page 436 - O, it offends me to the soul, to hear a robustious periwig-pated fellow tear a passion to tatters, to very rags, to split the ears of the groundlings...
Page 389 - Love thyself last: cherish those hearts that hate thee; Corruption wins not more than honesty. Still in thy right hand carry gentle peace, To silence envious tongues. Be just, and fear not. Let all the ends thou aim'st at be thy country's, Thy God's, and truth's; then if thou fall'st, O Cromwell, Thou fall'st a blessed martyr!
Page 497 - There was a sound of revelry by night, And Belgium's capital had gather'd then Her Beauty and her Chivalry, and bright 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 look'd love to eyes which spake again, And all went merry as a marriage bell; But hush!
Page 331 - Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man. And therefore, if a man write little, he had need have a great memory; if he confer little, he had need have a present wit: and if he read little, he had need have much cunning, to seem to know that he doth not. Histories make men wise; poets witty; the mathematics subtile; natural philosophy deep; moral grave; logic and rhetoric able to contend.
Page 220 - Tis not enough no harshness gives offence, The sound must seem an echo to the sense : Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows ; But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse, rough verse should like the torrent roar : When Ajax strives some rock's vast- weight to throw, The line too labours, and the words move slow ; Not so, when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er th' unbending corn, and skims along the main.
Page 71 - He, above the rest In shape and gesture proudly eminent, Stood like a tower. His form had yet not lost All her original brightness, nor appeared Less than archangel ruined, and the excess Of glory obscured ; as when the sun, new risen, Looks through the horizontal misty air Shorn of his beams, or from behind the moon, In dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds On half the nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs.
Page 460 - Ay, but to die, and go we know not where ; To lie in cold obstruction and to rot ; This sensible warm motion to become A kneaded clod ; and the delighted spirit To bathe in fiery floods...
Page 496 - And monarchs tremble in their capitals, The oak leviathans, whose huge ribs make Their clay creator the vain title take Of lord of thee, and arbiter of war: These are thy toys, and, as the snowy flake, They melt into thy yeast of waves, which mar Alike the Armada's pride, or spoils of Trafalgar.
Page 387 - This many summers in a sea of glory; But far beyond my depth : my high-blown pride At length broke under me ; and now has left me, Weary, and old with service, to the mercy Of a rude stream, that must for ever hide me.
Page 387 - Farewell, a long farewell, to all my greatness ! This is the state of man ; to-day he puts forth The tender leaves of hope, to-morrow blossoms, And bears his blushing honours thick upon him : The third day comes a frost, a killing frost ; And,— when he thinks, good easy man, full surely His greatness is a ripening, — nips his root, And then he falls, as I do.