An Essay on Elocution: With Elucidatory Passages from Various Authors to which are Added Remarks on Reading Prose and Verse, with Suggestions to Instructors of the ArtWeare C. Little, 1846 - 300 pages |
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... delights which flow from eloquence , delights which do not rest merely in being capable of comprehending and feeling the ora- tions of a Demosthenes , a Cicero , a Curran , or the senatorial harangues of a Chatham , a Burke , a Fox , a ...
... delights which flow from eloquence , delights which do not rest merely in being capable of comprehending and feeling the ora- tions of a Demosthenes , a Cicero , a Curran , or the senatorial harangues of a Chatham , a Burke , a Fox , a ...
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... delight in virtue ; And that which he delights in , must be happy . But when ? or where ? -This world was made for Cæsar . I'm weary of conjectures - this must end ' em . Thus am I doubly arm'd . My death and life , My bane and antidote ...
... delight in virtue ; And that which he delights in , must be happy . But when ? or where ? -This world was made for Cæsar . I'm weary of conjectures - this must end ' em . Thus am I doubly arm'd . My death and life , My bane and antidote ...
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... delight in virtue . " TRAGEDY OF CATO . " 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 ...
... delight in virtue . " TRAGEDY OF CATO . " 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 ...
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... delightful power , would be in- deed vain and futile ; * nothing but being possessed of * Mr. Walker , and others , have made very ingenious remarks ty- pified on paper , on the inflections of the human voice ; but a just knowledge of ...
... delightful power , would be in- deed vain and futile ; * nothing but being possessed of * Mr. Walker , and others , have made very ingenious remarks ty- pified on paper , on the inflections of the human voice ; but a just knowledge of ...
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... delight , Mankind created , and for him this world . So farewell hope , and with hope farewell fear , Farewell remorse : All good to me is lost ; Evil be thou my good : By thee at least Divided empire with heav'n's King I hold , By thee ...
... delight , Mankind created , and for him this world . So farewell hope , and with hope farewell fear , Farewell remorse : All good to me is lost ; Evil be thou my good : By thee at least Divided empire with heav'n's King I hold , By thee ...
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Page 272 - The sky is changed ! — and such a change ! Oh night, <- : ) And storm, and darkness, ye are wondrous strong, Yet lovely in your strength, as is the light Of a dark eye in woman ! Far along, From peak to peak, the rattling crags among Leaps the live thunder ! Not from one lone cloud, But every mountain now hath found a tongue, And Jura answers, through her misty shroud, Back to the joyous Alps, who call to her aloud ! xciii.
Page 76 - For I am the least of the apostles, that am not meet to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God. But by the grace of God I am what I am: and his grace which was bestowed upon me was not in vain; but I laboured more abundantly than they all: yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me.
Page 150 - 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. The noble Brutus Hath told you Caesar was ambitious: If it were so it was a grievous fault; And grievously hath Caesar answer'd it. Here, under leave of Brutus, and the rest (For Brutus is an honorable man; So are they all, all honorable men), Come I to speak in Caesar's funeral.
Page 152 - I come not, friends, to steal away your hearts: I am no orator, as Brutus is; But, as you know me all, a plain blunt man, That love my friend; and that they know full well That gave me public leave to speak of him: For I have neither wit, nor words, nor worth, Action, nor utterance, nor the power of speech, To stir men's blood: I only speak right on; I tell you that which you yourselves do know...
Page 73 - The light of the body is the eye: if therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light. But if thine eye be evil, thy whole body shall be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in thee be darkness, how great is that darkness...
Page 150 - He hath brought many captives home to Rome, Whose ransoms did the general coffers fill; Did this in Caesar seem ambitious? When that the poor have cried, Caesar hath wept; Ambition should be made of sterner stuff: Yet Brutus says he was ambitious, And Brutus is an honorable man.
Page 271 - Cameron's gathering" rose, The war-note of Lochiel, which Albyn's hills Have heard,— and heard, too, have her Saxon foes; How in the noon of night that pibroch thrills Savage and shrill! But with the breath which fills Their...
Page 38 - Made to his mistress' eyebrow. Then a soldier, Full of strange oaths, and bearded like the pard, Jealous in honour, sudden and quick in quarrel, Seeking the bubble reputation Even in the cannon's mouth. And then the justice, In fair round belly with good capon...
Page 134 - It serves always to distract the Public Councils, and enfeeble the Public Administration. It agitates the Community with ill-founded jealousies and false alarms; kindles the animosity of one part against another, foments occasionally riot and insurrection.
Page 76 - For he hath put all things under his feet! "But when he saith all things are put under him, it is manifest that he is excepted which did put all things under him. And when all things shall be subdued unto him, then shall the Son also himself be subject unto him that put all things under him that God may be all in all.