Lessons in Elocution: Or, A Selection of Pieces in Prose and Verse, for the Improvement of Youth in Reading and Speaking |
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You wrong me every way ; you wrong me , Brutus ; I said an elder soldier , not a better . Did I say better ? Bru . If you did I care not . Cas . When Cesar liv'd he durst not thus have mov'd me . Bru . Peace , peace ; you durst not so ...
You wrong me every way ; you wrong me , Brutus ; I said an elder soldier , not a better . Did I say better ? Bru . If you did I care not . Cas . When Cesar liv'd he durst not thus have mov'd me . Bru . Peace , peace ; you durst not so ...
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Page 221 - Whilst all the stars that round her burn, And all the planets in their turn, Confirm the tidings as they roll, And spread the truth from pole to pole.
Page 371 - She'd come again, and with a greedy ear Devour up my discourse. Which I observing, Took once a pliant hour; and found good means To draw from her a prayer of earnest heart, That I would all my pilgrimage dilate...
Page 245 - Twilight gray had in her sober livery all things clad : Silence accompanied ; for Beast and Bird, they to their grassy couch, these to their nests, were slunk, — all but the wakeful nightingale; she, all night long, her amorous descant sung; Silence was pleased. Now...
Page 363 - All this? ay, more: Fret till your proud heart break; Go, show your slaves how choleric you are, And make your bondmen tremble.
Page 239 - Yet he was kind, or if severe in aught, The love he bore to learning was in fault...
Page 222 - The sober herd that low'd to meet their young ; The noisy geese that gabbled o'er the pool, The playful children just let loose from school ; The watch-dog's voice, that bay'd the whispering wind, And the loud laugh that spoke the vacant mind ; These all in sweet confusion sought the shade, And fill'd each pause the nightingale had made.
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Page 255 - Orphean lyre, I sung of Chaos and eternal Night ; Taught by the heavenly muse to venture down The dark descent, and up to reascend, Though hard and rare : thee I revisit safe, And feel thy sovereign vital lamp ; but thou Revisitest not these eyes, that roll in vain To find thy piercing ray, and find no dawn ; So thick a drop serene hath quenched their orbs, Or dim suffusion veiled.
Page 364 - There is no terror, Cassius, in your threats, For I am arm'd so strong in honesty That they pass by me as the idle wind, Which I respect not.
Bibliographic information
| Title | Lessons in Elocution: Or, A Selection of Pieces in Prose and Verse, for the Improvement of Youth in Reading and Speaking |
| Author | William Scott |
| Publisher | I. Hill, 1817 |
| Original from | the New York Public Library |
| Digitized | 17 May 2007 |
| Length | 407 pages |
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