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 Art |
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... stand unshaken , from within Or from without , to all temptations arm'd . Hadst thou the same free will and pow'r to stand ? Thou hadst : Whom hast thou then , or what to accuse , But heav'n's free love dealt equally to all ? Be then ...
... stand unshaken , from within Or from without , to all temptations arm'd . Hadst thou the same free will and pow'r to stand ? Thou hadst : Whom hast thou then , or what to accuse , But heav'n's free love dealt equally to all ? Be then ...
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... is surrounded with a hedge as it were set about it - That tribunal which from age to age has been fighting for the liberties of the people , and without the aid of which it would have been in vain for me to stand ESSAY ON ELOCUTION . 33.
... is surrounded with a hedge as it were set about it - That tribunal which from age to age has been fighting for the liberties of the people , and without the aid of which it would have been in vain for me to stand ESSAY ON ELOCUTION . 33.
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... stand up before you , or to think of looking round for assistance . " ERSKINE FOR TOOK , ON TRIAL BY JURY . " With thee conversing I forget all time , All seasons , and their change ; all please alike . Sweet is the breath of morn , her ...
... stand up before you , or to think of looking round for assistance . " ERSKINE FOR TOOK , ON TRIAL BY JURY . " With thee conversing I forget all time , All seasons , and their change ; all please alike . Sweet is the breath of morn , her ...
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... stands the oak , the monarch of the wood . " - HOME . " He is a rock opposed to the rude sea that beats against it G. COLMAN THE YOUNGER . " He arose a colossal pillar to perpetuate to future ages- DWYER . " 9 XX . COMPARISON . Metaphor ...
... stands the oak , the monarch of the wood . " - HOME . " He is a rock opposed to the rude sea that beats against it G. COLMAN THE YOUNGER . " He arose a colossal pillar to perpetuate to future ages- DWYER . " 9 XX . COMPARISON . Metaphor ...
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... stands alone , as " This book is mine . " In Scripture , the i in this word should have its long sound as in the substantive . In authors where dignity and sublimity do not occur , the full sound would appear stiff and pedantic ...
... stands alone , as " This book is mine . " In Scripture , the i in this word should have its long sound as in the substantive . In authors where dignity and sublimity do not occur , the full sound would appear stiff and pedantic ...
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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.