Elocution, Or, Mental and Vocal Philosophy: Involving the Principles of Reading and Speaking, and Designed for the Development and Cultivation of Both Body and Mind, in Accordance with the Nature, Uses, and Destiny of Man : Illustrated by Two Or Three Hundred Choice Anecdotes, Three Thousand Oratorical and Poetical Readings, Five Thousand Proverbs, Maxims and Laconics, and Several Hundred Elegant Engravings |
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... eternity ! Varieties . 1. How many years inter- vened - between the discovery of the mar- iner's compass , in 1302 , and the discovery of America ? 2. The covetous man - is as much deprived of what he has , as of what he has not ; for ...
... eternity ! Varieties . 1. How many years inter- vened - between the discovery of the mar- iner's compass , in 1302 , and the discovery of America ? 2. The covetous man - is as much deprived of what he has , as of what he has not ; for ...
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... eternity for those transitory enjoyments of time and sense , which are at variance with the principles of truth and goodness . Both worlds are best taken care of , when they are cared for together , and each has its attention ...
... eternity for those transitory enjoyments of time and sense , which are at variance with the principles of truth and goodness . Both worlds are best taken care of , when they are cared for together , and each has its attention ...
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... eternity . " 46 The Difference . Why is it , that many have the reading of the Bible , as well as professors of religion are so reluctant , to speaking and singing , conducted in a cor- rect and proper manner ? Should not the greatest ...
... eternity . " 46 The Difference . Why is it , that many have the reading of the Bible , as well as professors of religion are so reluctant , to speaking and singing , conducted in a cor- rect and proper manner ? Should not the greatest ...
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... All farewells - should be sudden , when forever , Else , they make an eternity - of moments , - And clog the last - sad sands of life - with tears predominating ; and then there will be case , grace PRINCIPLES OF ELOCUTION . 63.
... All farewells - should be sudden , when forever , Else , they make an eternity - of moments , - And clog the last - sad sands of life - with tears predominating ; and then there will be case , grace PRINCIPLES OF ELOCUTION . 63.
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... eternity . THE MOTHER'S INJUNCTION , ON PRESENTING HER SƠN WITH A BIBLE . Remember love , who gave thee this , When other days shall come : When she , who had thy earliest kiss , Sleeps - in her narrow home , Remember , ' twas a mother ...
... eternity . THE MOTHER'S INJUNCTION , ON PRESENTING HER SƠN WITH A BIBLE . Remember love , who gave thee this , When other days shall come : When she , who had thy earliest kiss , Sleeps - in her narrow home , Remember , ' twas a mother ...
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Page 294 - With charm of earliest birds : pleasant the sun, When first on this delightful land he spreads His orient beams, on herb, tree, fruit, and flower, Glistering with dew : fragrant the fertile earth After soft showers ; and sweet the coming on Of grateful evening mild ; then silent night, With this her solemn bird, and this fair moon, And these the gems of heaven, her starry train...
Page 95 - 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!
Page 242 - Dar'st thou, Cassius, now Leap in with me into this angry flood, And swim to yonder point?" Upon the word, Accoutred as I was, I plunged in And bade him follow; so indeed he did. The torrent roared, and we did buffet it With lusty sinews, throwing it aside And stemming it with hearts of controversy; But ere we could arrive the point proposed, Caesar cried, "Help me, Cassius, or I sink!
Page 242 - 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. Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow world Like a Colossus, and we petty men Walk under his huge legs and peep about To find ourselves dishonourable graves.
Page 141 - He that hath pity upon the poor lendeth unto the LORD; and that which he hath given will he pay him again.
Page 185 - Ay, but to die, and go we know not where ; To lie in cold obstruction, and to rot ; This sensible warm motion to become A kneaded clod ; and the delighted spirit To bathe in fiery floods, or to reside In thrilling regions of thick-ribbed ice ; To be imprison'd in the viewless winds, And blown with restless violence round about The pendent world...
Page 255 - Liberty first and Union afterwards ; but everywhere, spread all over in characters of living light, blazing on all its ample folds, as they float over the sea and over the land, and in every wind under the whole heavens, that other sentiment, dear to every true American heart, Liberty and Union, Now and Forever, One and Inseparable.
Page 202 - THE poetry of earth is never dead : When all the birds are faint with the hot sun, And hide in cooling trees, a voice will run From hedge to hedge about the new-mown mead ; That is the Grasshopper's — he takes the lead In summer luxury, — he has never done With his delights ; for when tired out with fun He rests at ease beneath some pleasant weed.
Page 208 - The crow doth sing as sweetly as the lark, When neither is attended ; and, I think The nightingale, if she should sing by day, When every goose is cackling, would be thought No better a musician than the wren.
Page 202 - THREE Poets, in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy, and England did adorn. The first in loftiness of thought surpassed; The next in majesty •, In both the last. The force of Nature could no further go ; To make a third, she joined the former two.