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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... tell thee how I hate thy beams , That bring to my remembrance from what state I fell , how glorious once above thy sphere ; Till pride and worse ambition threw me down , Warring in heav'n against heav'n's matchless King . Ah wherefore ...
... tell thee how I hate thy beams , That bring to my remembrance from what state I fell , how glorious once above thy sphere ; Till pride and worse ambition threw me down , Warring in heav'n against heav'n's matchless King . Ah wherefore ...
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... Tell me , will you still go about and ask one another , what news ? What can be more astonishing news than this , that the man of Macedon makes war upon the Athenians , and disposes of the affairs of Greece ? Is Philip dead ? No , but ...
... Tell me , will you still go about and ask one another , what news ? What can be more astonishing news than this , that the man of Macedon makes war upon the Athenians , and disposes of the affairs of Greece ? Is Philip dead ? No , but ...
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... shook his very frame for ire ; And This to me ! ' he said ; An t'were not for thy hoary beard , Such hand as Marmion's had not spared To cleave the Douglas ' head ! And first , I tell thee , haughty peer , ESSAY ON ELOCUTION . 35.
... shook his very frame for ire ; And This to me ! ' he said ; An t'were not for thy hoary beard , Such hand as Marmion's had not spared To cleave the Douglas ' head ! And first , I tell thee , haughty peer , ESSAY ON ELOCUTION . 35.
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... tell thee , haughty peer , He , who does England's message here , Although the meanest of her state , May well , proud Angus , be thy mate : And , Douglas , more I tell thee here , E'en in thy pitch of pride , Here in thy hold , thy ...
... tell thee , haughty peer , He , who does England's message here , Although the meanest of her state , May well , proud Angus , be thy mate : And , Douglas , more I tell thee here , E'en in thy pitch of pride , Here in thy hold , thy ...
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... telling me " the sovereign'st thing on earth Was parmaceti , for an inward bruise ; And that it was great pity , so it was , That villanous salt petre should be digg'd Out of the bowels of the harmless earth , Which many a good tall ...
... telling me " the sovereign'st thing on earth Was parmaceti , for an inward bruise ; And that it was great pity , so it was , That villanous salt petre should be digg'd Out of the bowels of the harmless earth , Which many a good tall ...
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Page 69 - But I say unto you, Swear not at all : neither by heaven ; for it is GOD'S throne : nor by the earth ; for it is his footstool : neither by Jerusalem ; for it is the city of the great King : neither shalt thou swear by thy head ; because thou canst not make one hair white or black. But let your communication be Yea, yea ; Nay, nay : for whatsoever is more than these cometh of evil.
Page 74 - Then cometh the end, when he shall have delivered up the kingdom to God, even the Father ; when he shall have put down all rule and all authority and power. For he must reign, till he hath put all enemies under his feet. The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death ; for he hath put all things under his feet. But when he saith, all things are put under him, it is manifest that he is excepted, which did put all things under him.
Page 74 - For I am the least of the apostles, that am not meet to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God. But by the grace of God I am what I am; and his grace which was bestowed upon me was not in vain; but I laboured more abundantly than they all; yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me.
Page 115 - 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! Our brethren are already in the field! Why stand we here idle? What is it that gentlemen wish ? What would they have ? Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery ? Forbid it, Almighty God ! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!
Page 115 - We have petitioned, we have remonstrated, we have supplicated, we have prostrated ourselves before the throne, and have implored its interposition to arrest the tyrannical hands of the ministry and parliament. Our petitions have been slighted, our remonstrances have produced additional violence and insult, our supplications have been disregarded, and we have been spurned with contempt from the foot of the throne.
Page 231 - 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 73 - BRETHREN, I declare unto you the gospel which I preached unto you, which also ye have received, and wherein ye stand ; by which also ye are saved, if ye keep in memory what I preached unto you, unless ye have believed in vain. For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures...
Page 127 - To the efficacy and permanency of your Union, a government for the whole is indispensable. No alliances, however strict, between the parts, can be an adequate substitute; they must inevitably experience the infractions and interruptions which all alliances in all times have experienced. Sensible of this momentous truth, you have improved upon your first essay by the adoption of a constitution of government better calculated than your former for an intimate union, and for the efficacious management...
Page 144 - 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 41 - Angels: for ye behold him, and with songs And choral symphonies, day without night Circle his throne rejoicing; ye in heaven, On earth join all ye creatures to extol Him first, him last, him midst, and without end. Fairest of stars, last in the train of night, If better thou belong not to the dawn, Sure pledge of day, that crown'st the smiling morn With thy bright circlet, praise him in thy sphere, While day arises, that sweet hour of prime.