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 Art |
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... thou reason'st well- Else whence this pleasing hope , this fond desire , This longing after immortality ? Or whence this secret dread and inward horror Of falling into nought ? Why shrinks the soul Back on herself , and startles at ...
... thou reason'st well- Else whence this pleasing hope , this fond desire , This longing after immortality ? Or whence this secret dread and inward horror Of falling into nought ? Why shrinks the soul Back on herself , and startles at ...
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... thou art the man . ” 2d SAMUEL , 12th CHAPTER . V. CLIMAX . A climax is a figure in rhetoric , which rises in force and dignity of expression with the sense , and is pro- ductive of much grandeur and effect . The rule for reading or ...
... thou art the man . ” 2d SAMUEL , 12th CHAPTER . V. CLIMAX . A climax is a figure in rhetoric , which rises in force and dignity of expression with the sense , and is pro- ductive of much grandeur and effect . The rule for reading or ...
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... thou hast said in thine heart , I will ascend into heaven , I will exalt my throne above the stars of God ; I will sit , also , upon the mount of the congregation , in the sides of the north ; I will ascend above the heights of the ...
... thou hast said in thine heart , I will ascend into heaven , I will exalt my throne above the stars of God ; I will sit , also , upon the mount of the congregation , in the sides of the north ; I will ascend above the heights of the ...
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... thou pleasing , dreadful thought ! " ADDISON , Examples of the falling and rising Inflections . " The tear , The groan , the knell , the pall , the bier , And all we know , or dream , or fear- " An excursion on the highway may as ...
... thou pleasing , dreadful thought ! " ADDISON , Examples of the falling and rising Inflections . " The tear , The groan , the knell , the pall , the bier , And all we know , or dream , or fear- " An excursion on the highway may as ...
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... thou art the man . " 66 It is an attribute- -to God himself . " " Born for your use , I live but to obey you , Know then - ' twas I !! " TRAGEDY OF The Revenge , Act 5 . VIII . PARENTHESIS Parenthesis , says Dr. Johnson , is 14 ESSAY ON ...
... thou art the man . " 66 It is an attribute- -to God himself . " " Born for your use , I live but to obey you , Know then - ' twas I !! " TRAGEDY OF The Revenge , Act 5 . VIII . PARENTHESIS Parenthesis , says Dr. Johnson , is 14 ESSAY ON ...
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Page 73 - The light of the body is the eye : if therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light. But if thine eye be evil, thy whole body shall be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in thee be darkness, how great is that darkness...
Page 119 - If we were base enough to desire it, it is now too late to retire from the contest. There is no retreat but in submission and slavery ! Our chains are forged. Their clanking may be heard on the plains of Boston! The war is inevitable, and let it come! I repeat it, sir, let it come! It is in vain, sir, to extenuate the matter. Gentlemen may cry peace! peace! but there is no peace. The war is actually begun! The next gale that sweeps from the north will bring to our ears the clash of resounding arms!...
Page 38 - All the world's a stage, And all the men and women merely players : They have their exits and their entrances ; And one man in his time plays many parts, His acts being seven ages. At first the infant, Mewling and puking in the nurse's arms.
Page 151 - If you have tears, prepare to shed them now. You all do know this mantle: I remember The first time ever Caesar put it on; 'Twas on a summer's evening, in his tent; That day he overcame the Nervii : — Look ! In this place ran Cassius...
Page 76 - Now if Christ be preached that he rose from the dead, how say some among you that there is no resurrection of the dead ? " But if there be no resurrection of the dead, then is Christ not risen. "And if Christ be not risen, then is our preaching vain, and your faith is also vain...
Page 71 - 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 69 - Ye are the light of the world. A city that is set on a hill cannot be hid. Neither do men light a candle, and put it under a bushel, but on a candlestick; and it giveth light unto all that are in the house. Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven.
Page 17 - In thoughts from the visions of the night, when deep sleep falleth on men, fear came upon me, and trembling, which made all my bones to shake. Then a spirit passed before my face ; the hair of my flesh stood up. It stood still, but I could not discern the form thereof: an image was before mine eyes, there was silence, and I heard a voice, saying, "Shall mortal man be more just than God?
Page 237 - 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 72 - 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.