An American Selection of Lessons in Reading and Speaking: Calculated to Improve the Minds and Refine the Taste of Youth : to which are Prefixed Rules in Elocution, and Directions for Expressing the Principal Passions of the MindFrom Sidney's Press for I. Beers and I. Cooke, 1804 - 225 страница |
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... heaven , & c . Melancholy is gloomy and motionlefs , the lower jaw falls , the eyes are caft down and half fhut , words few , and interrupt- ed with fighs . Fear opens the eyes and mouth , fhortens the nofe , draws down the eye - brows ...
... heaven , & c . Melancholy is gloomy and motionlefs , the lower jaw falls , the eyes are caft down and half fhut , words few , and interrupt- ed with fighs . Fear opens the eyes and mouth , fhortens the nofe , draws down the eye - brows ...
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... Heaven would take him under its protection ; and the vicar being their friend , gave them frequently the public prayers of the congregation for him . 2. The banker was not lefs dutiful on his part ; for , fo foon as he was fettled , he ...
... Heaven would take him under its protection ; and the vicar being their friend , gave them frequently the public prayers of the congregation for him . 2. The banker was not lefs dutiful on his part ; for , fo foon as he was fettled , he ...
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... heaven , cries Perrin in a tranf- port , for being favorable to our wifhes . This will fatisfy your father , and make us happy . 5. In their way to her father's houfe , a thought struck Perrin : " This money is not ours - It belongs to ...
... heaven , cries Perrin in a tranf- port , for being favorable to our wifhes . This will fatisfy your father , and make us happy . 5. In their way to her father's houfe , a thought struck Perrin : " This money is not ours - It belongs to ...
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... Heaven blefs him for it ; I would he were a christian . " 14. " There is a pride in human knowledge , my child , " faid her father , " which often blinds men to the fublime truths of revelation ; hence there are oppofers of christianity ...
... Heaven blefs him for it ; I would he were a christian . " 14. " There is a pride in human knowledge , my child , " faid her father , " which often blinds men to the fublime truths of revelation ; hence there are oppofers of christianity ...
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... heaven ; and having wiped off a tear that was just about to drop from each , began to point out to his gueft fome of the most striking objects which the profpect afforded . The philofopher inter- preted all this ; and he could but ...
... heaven ; and having wiped off a tear that was just about to drop from each , began to point out to his gueft fome of the most striking objects which the profpect afforded . The philofopher inter- preted all this ; and he could but ...
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Страница 216 - 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.
Страница 214 - Corruption wins not more than honesty. Still in thy right hand carry gentle peace, To silence envious tongues. Be just, and fear not ; Let all the ends thou aim'st at be thy country's, Thy God's, and truth's ; then, if thou fall'st, O Cromwell, Thou fall'st a blessed martyr.
Страница 213 - Cromwell, I did not think to shed a tear In all my miseries; but thou hast forced me, Out of thy honest truth, to play the woman. Let's dry our eyes: and thus far hear me, Cromwell...
Страница 221 - And then the whining schoolboy, with his satchel And shining morning face, creeping like snail Unwillingly to school. And then the lover, Sighing like furnace, with a woeful ballad Made to his mistress
Страница 190 - WE all of us complain of the Shortness of Time, saith Seneca, and yet have much more than we know what to do with. Our Lives, says he, are spent either in doing nothing at all, or in doing nothing to the purpose, or in doing nothing that we ought to do: We are always Complaining our Days are few, and Acting as though there would be no End of them.
Страница 169 - Who wickedly is wise, or madly brave, Is but the more a fool, the more a knave. Who noble ends by noble means obtains, Or failing, smiles in exile or in chains, Like good Aurelius let him reign, or bleed Like Socrates, that man is great indeed. What's fame? a fancied life in others' breath, A thing beyond us, ev'n before our death.
Страница 169 - The friar hooded, and the monarch crown'd. " What differ more (you cry) than crown and cowl !" I'll tell you, friend ! a wise man and a fool.
Страница 211 - Have faces flush'd with more exalted charms ; The sun that rolls his chariot o'er their heads, Works up more fire and colour in their cheeks : Were you with these, my prince, you'd soon forget, The pale, unripen'd beauties of the north.
Страница 62 - There runs not a drop of my blood in the veins of any living creature. This called on me for revenge. I have sought it : I have killed many : I have fully glutted my vengeance : for my country I rejoice at the beams of peace. But do not harbor a thought that mine is the joy of fear.
Страница 16 - The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together...