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, 1845 - 300 pages |
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... death and life , My bane and antidote are both before me . This in a moment brings me to an end ; But this informs me I shall never die . The soul , secur'd in her existence , smiles At the drawn dagger , and defies its point : The ...
... death and life , My bane and antidote are both before me . This in a moment brings me to an end ; But this informs me I shall never die . The soul , secur'd in her existence , smiles At the drawn dagger , and defies its point : The ...
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... death with the consent of all , that he would choose to do it with the disap- probation of many ? Can you believe that the person whom he scrupled to slay , when he might have done so with full justice - in a convenient place - at a ...
... death with the consent of all , that he would choose to do it with the disap- probation of many ? Can you believe that the person whom he scrupled to slay , when he might have done so with full justice - in a convenient place - at a ...
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... death , That undiscover'd country , from whose bourn No traveller returns , -puzzles the will , And makes us rather bear those ills we have , Than fly to others that we know not of ? Thus conscience does make cowards of us all ; And ...
... death , That undiscover'd country , from whose bourn No traveller returns , -puzzles the will , And makes us rather bear those ills we have , Than fly to others that we know not of ? Thus conscience does make cowards of us all ; And ...
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... death to light The darkness of her scenery . III . By torch and trumpet fast array'd Each horseman drew his battle blade , And furious every charger neigh'd , To join the dreadful revelry . IV . Then shook the hills with thunder riv'n ...
... death to light The darkness of her scenery . III . By torch and trumpet fast array'd Each horseman drew his battle blade , And furious every charger neigh'd , To join the dreadful revelry . IV . Then shook the hills with thunder riv'n ...
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... death of the cross , a Roman citizen ? Shall neither the cries of innocence expiring in ago- ny , nor the tears of pitying spectators , nor the majesty of the Ro- man Commonwealth , nor the fear of the justice of his country , re ...
... death of the cross , a Roman citizen ? Shall neither the cries of innocence expiring in ago- ny , nor the tears of pitying spectators , nor the majesty of the Ro- man Commonwealth , nor the fear of the justice of his country , re ...
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Page 69 - Having therefore obtained help of God, I continue unto this day, witnessing both to small and great, saying none other things than those which the prophets and Moses did say should come : that Christ should suffer, and that he should be the first that should rise from the dead, and should shew light unto the people, and to the Gentiles.
Page 117 - tis his will : Let but the commons hear this testament, (Which, pardon me, I do not mean to read) And they would go and kiss dead Caesar's wounds, And dip their napkins in his sacred blood ; Yea, beg a hair of him for memory, And, dying, mention it within their wills, Bequeathing it, as a rich legacy, Unto their issue.
Page 179 - Near yonder copse, where once the garden smiled, And still where many a garden flower grows wild ; There, where a few torn shrubs the place disclose, The village preacher's modest mansion rose. A man he was to all the country dear, And passing rich with forty pounds a year; Remote from towns he ran his godly race, Nor e'er had changed, nor wished to change, his place.
Page 206 - Almighty's form Glasses itself in tempests; in all time, Calm or convulsed, — in breeze, or gale, or storm, Icing the pole, or in the torrid clime Dark heaving; — boundless, endless, and sublime. The image of eternity, the throne Of the Invisible; even from out thy slime The monsters of the deep are made; each zone Obeys thee; thou goest forth, dread, fathomless, alone.
Page 116 - 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.
Page 177 - O'er the grave where our hero we buried. We buried him darkly at dead of night, The sods with our bayonets turning; By the struggling moonbeam's misty light, And the lantern dimly burning.
Page 61 - Ye have heard that it hath been said, An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth: But I say unto you, That ye resist not evil: but whosoever shall smite thee on thy right cheek, turn to him the other also. And if any man will sue thee at the law, and take away thy coat, let him have thy cloak also. And whosoever shall compel thee to go a mile, go with him twain. Give to him that asketh thee, and from him that would borrow of thee turn not thou away.
Page 206 - Thy waters wasted them while they were free, And many a tyrant since; their shores obey The stranger, slave, or savage; their decay Has dried up realms to deserts: — not so thou, Unchangeable save to thy wild waves' play — Time writes no wrinkle on thine azure brow — Such as creation's dawn beheld thou rollest now.
Page 106 - ... a cordial, habitual and immovable attachment to it ; accustoming yourselves to think and speak of it as of the palladium of your political safety and prosperity ; watching for its preservation with jealous anxiety ; discountenancing whatever may suggest even a suspicion that it can in any event be abandoned ; and indignantly frowning upon the first dawning of every attempt to alienate any portion of our country from the rest, or to enfeeble the sacred ties which now link together the various...
Page 62 - But thou, when thou prayest, enter into thy closet, and when thou hast shut thy door, pray to thy Father which is in secret; and thy Father which seeth in secret shall reward thee openly. But when ye pray use not vain repetitions, as the heathen do: for they think that they shall be heard for their much speaking. Be not ye therefore like unto them: for your Father knoweth what things ye have need of before ye ask him.