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 Mind |
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... whofe char- acters have been moft injured by flanderers ; as we ufually find that to be the fweeteft fruit , which the birds have been picking at . The eye of a critic is often like a microscope , made fo very fine and nice , that it ...
... whofe char- acters have been moft injured by flanderers ; as we ufually find that to be the fweeteft fruit , which the birds have been picking at . The eye of a critic is often like a microscope , made fo very fine and nice , that it ...
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... Whofe confcience with injuftice is corrupted . The cloud - capt towers , the gorgeous palaces , The folemn temples , the great globe itself , Yea , all which it inherits , fhall diffolve ; And , like the bafelefs fabric of a vifion ...
... Whofe confcience with injuftice is corrupted . The cloud - capt towers , the gorgeous palaces , The folemn temples , the great globe itself , Yea , all which it inherits , fhall diffolve ; And , like the bafelefs fabric of a vifion ...
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... Whofe edge is fharper than a fword ; whofe tongue Out - venoms all the worms of Nile ; whofe breath Rides on the pofting winds , and doth belie All corners of the world . Kings , queens and ftates , Maids , matrons , nay the fecrets of ...
... Whofe edge is fharper than a fword ; whofe tongue Out - venoms all the worms of Nile ; whofe breath Rides on the pofting winds , and doth belie All corners of the world . Kings , queens and ftates , Maids , matrons , nay the fecrets of ...
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... whofe laws our actions are governed , and who will suffer none to be finally punished for obedience . But , when in profpect of fome good , whether natural or moral , we break the rules prescribed to us , we withdraw from the direction ...
... whofe laws our actions are governed , and who will suffer none to be finally punished for obedience . But , when in profpect of fome good , whether natural or moral , we break the rules prescribed to us , we withdraw from the direction ...
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... whofe age very little exceeded hers , was wel ! made , brave and prudent . He had the good fortune to be introduced at Calista's , where his looks , wandering indifferently over a numerous circle , foon diftinguished and fixed upon her ...
... whofe age very little exceeded hers , was wel ! made , brave and prudent . He had the good fortune to be introduced at Calista's , where his looks , wandering indifferently over a numerous circle , foon diftinguished and fixed upon her ...
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Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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...
Page 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
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 16 - The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together...