Literary Class Book; Or, Readings in English Literature: To which is Prefixed an Introductory Treatise on the Art of Reading and the Principles of ElocutionSullivan, 1861 - 504 pages |
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... manner . The vulgar proverb , As the old cock crows the young one learns , ' is so applicable to this branch of teaching , that I may be excused for quoting it . Though a homely , it is , in fact , a perfect illustration of the subject ...
... manner . The vulgar proverb , As the old cock crows the young one learns , ' is so applicable to this branch of teaching , that I may be excused for quoting it . Though a homely , it is , in fact , a perfect illustration of the subject ...
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... Manners , Vulgarity , . Ibid . 316 . Tillotson , Chesterfield , 318 · 320 • Ibid . • 322 Good - breeding , Gentleness of Manners with Firmness of Mind , On Study , Westminster Abbey , On the Swiftness of Time , Discontent the Common Lot ...
... Manners , Vulgarity , . Ibid . 316 . Tillotson , Chesterfield , 318 · 320 • Ibid . • 322 Good - breeding , Gentleness of Manners with Firmness of Mind , On Study , Westminster Abbey , On the Swiftness of Time , Discontent the Common Lot ...
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... manner as to be utterly absurd ; for it is possible to pronounce the emphatic word three ' in such a tone as to indicate that since he has but two ears he cannot hear . ' Again , the following passage , ( Mark iv . 21 , ) Is a candle ...
... manner as to be utterly absurd ; for it is possible to pronounce the emphatic word three ' in such a tone as to indicate that since he has but two ears he cannot hear . ' Again , the following passage , ( Mark iv . 21 , ) Is a candle ...
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... manner , with a view to the impressiveness of the delivery , he who not only feels it , but is exclusively absorbed with that feeling , will be likely to read as if he felt it , and to communicate the impression to his hearers . But ...
... manner , with a view to the impressiveness of the delivery , he who not only feels it , but is exclusively absorbed with that feeling , will be likely to read as if he felt it , and to communicate the impression to his hearers . But ...
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... manner , and to the degree now proposed . The thoughts of one who is reading any thing very familiar to him , are apt to wander to other subjects , though perhaps such as are connected with that which is before him ; if , again , it be ...
... manner , and to the degree now proposed . The thoughts of one who is reading any thing very familiar to him , are apt to wander to other subjects , though perhaps such as are connected with that which is before him ; if , again , it be ...
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Popular passages
Page 436 - O, it offends me to the soul, to hear a robustious periwig-pated fellow tear a passion to tatters, to very rags, to split the ears of the groundlings...
Page 389 - Love thyself last: cherish those hearts that hate thee; 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!
Page 497 - There was a sound of revelry by night, And Belgium's capital had gather'd then Her Beauty and her Chivalry, and bright The lamps shone o'er fair women and brave men; A thousand hearts beat happily; and when Music arose with its voluptuous swell, Soft eyes look'd love to eyes which spake again, And all went merry as a marriage bell; But hush!
Page 331 - Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man. And therefore, if a man write little, he had need have a great memory; if he confer little, he had need have a present wit: and if he read little, he had need have much cunning, to seem to know that he doth not. Histories make men wise; poets witty; the mathematics subtile; natural philosophy deep; moral grave; logic and rhetoric able to contend.
Page 220 - Tis not enough no harshness gives offence, The sound must seem an echo to the sense : Soft is the strain when Zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows ; But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse, rough verse should like the torrent roar : When Ajax strives some rock's vast- weight to throw, The line too labours, and the words move slow ; Not so, when swift Camilla scours the plain, Flies o'er th' unbending corn, and skims along the main.
Page 71 - He, above the rest In shape and gesture proudly eminent, Stood like a tower. His form had yet not lost All her original brightness, nor appeared Less than archangel ruined, and the excess Of glory obscured ; as when the sun, new risen, Looks through the horizontal misty air Shorn of his beams, or from behind the moon, In dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds On half the nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs.
Page 460 - 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...
Page 496 - And monarchs tremble in their capitals, The oak leviathans, whose huge ribs make Their clay creator the vain title take Of lord of thee, and arbiter of war: These are thy toys, and, as the snowy flake, They melt into thy yeast of waves, which mar Alike the Armada's pride, or spoils of Trafalgar.
Page 387 - This many summers in a sea of glory; But far beyond my depth : my high-blown pride At length broke under me ; and now has left me, Weary, and old with service, to the mercy Of a rude stream, that must for ever hide me.
Page 387 - Farewell, a long farewell, to all my greatness ! This is the state of man ; to-day he puts forth The tender leaves of hope, to-morrow blossoms, And bears his blushing honours thick upon him : The third day comes a frost, a killing frost ; And,— when he thinks, good easy man, full surely His greatness is a ripening, — nips his root, And then he falls, as I do.