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 páginas |
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... , creative love Still bade eternal Eden smile around . Heavy with instant fate her bosom heav'd Unwonted sighs ; and stealing oft a look Tow'rds the big gloom , on Celadon her eye Fell CHAP . XVI . 41 NARRATIVE PIECES .
... , creative love Still bade eternal Eden smile around . Heavy with instant fate her bosom heav'd Unwonted sighs ; and stealing oft a look Tow'rds the big gloom , on Celadon her eye Fell CHAP . XVI . 41 NARRATIVE PIECES .
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... eternal in the human breast ; Man never is , but always TO BE blest : The soul , uneasy and confin'd from home , Rests and expatiates in a life to come . Lo , the poor Indian ! whose untutor❜d mind Sees God in clouds , and hears him in ...
... eternal in the human breast ; Man never is , but always TO BE blest : The soul , uneasy and confin'd from home , Rests and expatiates in a life to come . Lo , the poor Indian ! whose untutor❜d mind Sees God in clouds , and hears him in ...
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... Eternal Cause . CHAP . XIII . ON THE ORDER OF NATURE . SEE through this air , this ocean , and this earth , All matter quick , and bursting into birth . Above , how high progressive life may go ! Around , how wide ! how deep extend ...
... Eternal Cause . CHAP . XIII . ON THE ORDER OF NATURE . SEE through this air , this ocean , and this earth , All matter quick , and bursting into birth . Above , how high progressive life may go ! Around , how wide ! how deep extend ...
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... eternal sigh , For which we bear to live , or dare to die ; Which still so near us , yet beyond us lies , O'erlook'd , seen double , by the fool , and wise ; Plant of celestial seed ! if dropp'd below , Say , in what mortal soil thou ...
... eternal sigh , For which we bear to live , or dare to die ; Which still so near us , yet beyond us lies , O'erlook'd , seen double , by the fool , and wise ; Plant of celestial seed ! if dropp'd below , Say , in what mortal soil thou ...
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... eternal scheme Involving all , and in a perfect whole Uniting as the prospect wider spreads , To Reason's eye refin'd clears up apace . Ye vainly wise ! ye blind presumptuous ! now , Confounded in the dust , adore that Pow'r , And ...
... eternal scheme Involving all , and in a perfect whole Uniting as the prospect wider spreads , To Reason's eye refin'd clears up apace . Ye vainly wise ! ye blind presumptuous ! now , Confounded in the dust , adore that Pow'r , And ...
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army Balaam beauty behold bliss bosom breast breath Brutus Cæsar CHAP cheerful cried death delight Dendermond divine earth endeavour eternal Eugenius Ev'n ev'ry fair fancy fate father fear feel fool fortune Fram give Gods grace Grongar Hill hand happy hath head hear heart Heav'n honour hope Iago kind king labour live look lord Macd mankind Maria means mind mortal motley fool Muse nature Nature's never night noble numbers Nymph o'er once pain pass'd passion peace perfection pity pleasure poor pow'r praise privy counsellor racter replied round Scythians sense septennial bill shade SHAKSPEARE Sir John smile SNEYD DAVIES soul sound speak spirit Sterl sweet Syphax taste tears tell Theana thee thing thought toil Trim truth uncle Toby virtue voice wind wisdom wise words Yorick youth
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Página 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...
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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?
Página 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...
Página 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.
Página 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...
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.