The National Fifth Reader: Containing a Complete and Practical Treatise on Elocution ...: With Biographical Sketches, and Copious Notes: Adapted to the Use of Students in Literature, Book 5A.S. Barnes & Company, 1871 - 581 pages |
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Page 103
... characters . The domestic man has an inde- pendence of thought which puts him at ease in society , and a ... character rightly cast , has pleasures at home , which , though fitted to his highest nature , are INFLUENCE OF HOME ...
... characters . The domestic man has an inde- pendence of thought which puts him at ease in society , and a ... character rightly cast , has pleasures at home , which , though fitted to his highest nature , are INFLUENCE OF HOME ...
Page 371
... character , or , rather , that which forms the basis of it , as of all great characters , was his energy . We see it in his early youth , triumphing over the impediments of nature , and in spite of lameness , making him conspicuous in ...
... character , or , rather , that which forms the basis of it , as of all great characters , was his energy . We see it in his early youth , triumphing over the impediments of nature , and in spite of lameness , making him conspicuous in ...
Page 378
... character is most happily sketched by Prescott , p . 870 . SH III . 121. SHAKSPEARE . HAKSPEARE is , above all writers , -at least above all modern writers , -the poet of nature ; the poet that holds up to his readers a faithful mirror ...
... character is most happily sketched by Prescott , p . 870 . SH III . 121. SHAKSPEARE . HAKSPEARE is , above all writers , -at least above all modern writers , -the poet of nature ; the poet that holds up to his readers a faithful mirror ...
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