A class-book of elocutionJohnstone and Hunter, 1853 - 360 pages |
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Page 91
... hope of a lofty or virtuous future . You feel abject , and spiritless , and self - disgusted , and have nearly made up your mind to saunter slip - shod down the road to ruin . You do not remember your Elder Brother , for he had left ...
... hope of a lofty or virtuous future . You feel abject , and spiritless , and self - disgusted , and have nearly made up your mind to saunter slip - shod down the road to ruin . You do not remember your Elder Brother , for he had left ...
Page 99
... hope or a wish unsatisfied ? Did he carry in his mind no refer- ence to futurity - no longing of the soul after some remote or inaccessible object - no day - dream which played its en- chantments around him , and which , even when ...
... hope or a wish unsatisfied ? Did he carry in his mind no refer- ence to futurity - no longing of the soul after some remote or inaccessible object - no day - dream which played its en- chantments around him , and which , even when ...
Page 100
... hope with the lifelessness of possession , and observe the whole history of his day to be made up of one fa- tiguing race of vanity , and restlessness , and disappointment : And , like the glittering of an idiot's toy , 66 Doth fancy ...
... hope with the lifelessness of possession , and observe the whole history of his day to be made up of one fa- tiguing race of vanity , and restlessness , and disappointment : And , like the glittering of an idiot's toy , 66 Doth fancy ...
Page 107
... hope to be of any utility to their fellow- creatures , by affecting the character of reprovers . To them , more particularly , may the advice of our Lord apply , " Judge not , that ye be not judged ; " for seldom are they aware how much ...
... hope to be of any utility to their fellow- creatures , by affecting the character of reprovers . To them , more particularly , may the advice of our Lord apply , " Judge not , that ye be not judged ; " for seldom are they aware how much ...
Page 130
... hope when restricted to time , an expectation doomed to disappointment . There are certain limits within which the race improves - civilization is better than the want of it , and the taught superior to the untaught man . There is a ...
... hope when restricted to time , an expectation doomed to disappointment . There are certain limits within which the race improves - civilization is better than the want of it , and the taught superior to the untaught man . There is a ...
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Page 45 - Honour pricks me on. Yea, but how if honour prick me off when I come on ? how then ? Can honour set to a leg? No. Or an arm? No. Or take away the grief of a wound ? No. Honour hath no skill in surgery then ? No. What is honour? A word. What is in that word, honour? What is that honour? Air. A trim reckoning ! — Who hath it? He that died o
Page 283 - Lands intersected by a narrow frith Abhor each other. Mountains interposed Make enemies of nations, who had else Like kindred drops been mingled into one.
Page 330 - Seems, madam! nay, it is; I know not seems. 'Tis not alone my inky cloak, good mother, Nor customary suits of solemn black, Nor windy suspiration of forc'd breath, No, nor the fruitful river in the eye.
Page 114 - The depth saith, It is not in me; and the sea saith, It is not with me. It cannot be gotten for gold, neither shall silver be weighed for the price thereof.
Page 265 - Is it far away in some region old, Where the rivers wander o'er sands of gold ? Where the burning rays of the ruby shine, And the diamond lights up the secret mine, And the pearl gleams forth from the coral strand — Is it there, sweet mother, that better land ? Not there ; not there, my child.
Page 217 - ON Linden, when the sun was low, All bloodless lay the untrodden snow, And dark as winter was the flow Of Iser, rolling rapidly. But Linden saw another sight, When the drum beat at dead of night, Commanding fires of death to light The darkness of her scenery.
Page 275 - Few and short were the prayers we said, And we spoke not a word of sorrow But we steadfastly gazed on the face that was dead, And we bitterly thought of the morrow. We thought, as we hollowed his narrow bed, And smoothed down his lonely pillow, That the foe and the stranger would tread o'er his head, And we far away on the billow...
Page 94 - tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, Or to take arms against a sea of troubles, And by opposing end them ? — To die — to sleep — No more ; and, by a sleep, to say we end The heartache, and the thousand natural shocks That flesh is heir to — 'tis a consummation Devoutly to be wish'd. To die — to sleep ; — To sleep ! perchance to dream : — ay, there's the rub ; For in that sleep of death what dreams may come, When we have shuffled off this mortal...
Page 208 - There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the lonely shore, There is society, where none intrudes, By the deep sea, and music in its roar...
Page 299 - Why shrinks the soul Back on herself, and startles at destruction ? 'Tis the divinity that stirs within us; 'Tis Heaven itself that points out an hereafter, And intimates eternity to man.