The Young Ladies' Reader: Containing Rules, Observations, and Exercises and Articulation, Pauses, Inflections, and Emphasis: Also Exercises in Reading, in Prose and Poetry |
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... happy by all the different faculties , or ways of acting ; that it may be endowed with several latent faculties , which it is not at present in a condition to exert ; that we can- not believe the soul is endowed with any faculty which ...
... happy by all the different faculties , or ways of acting ; that it may be endowed with several latent faculties , which it is not at present in a condition to exert ; that we can- not believe the soul is endowed with any faculty which ...
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... happy when he gains his own approbation ; and the fool , when he recommends himself to the applause of those about him . Europe was one great field of battle , where the weak struggled for freedom , and the strong for dominion . The ...
... happy when he gains his own approbation ; and the fool , when he recommends himself to the applause of those about him . Europe was one great field of battle , where the weak struggled for freedom , and the strong for dominion . The ...
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... happy , or completely miserable . If the feelings of pleas- ure are more numerous and more lively in the higher departments of life , so also are those of pain . If greatness flatters our vanity , it multiplies our dangers . If opulence ...
... happy , or completely miserable . If the feelings of pleas- ure are more numerous and more lively in the higher departments of life , so also are those of pain . If greatness flatters our vanity , it multiplies our dangers . If opulence ...
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... happy conversation . He who resigns the world has no temptation to envy , hatred , malice , or anger , but is in constant possession of a serene mind : he who follows the pleasures of it — which are in their very nature disappointing ...
... happy conversation . He who resigns the world has no temptation to envy , hatred , malice , or anger , but is in constant possession of a serene mind : he who follows the pleasures of it — which are in their very nature disappointing ...
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... a lecture or oration , makes the softest accents of the speaker audible , at the same time that it affords a happy occasion for introducing a variety of voice , without which every address must 56 PRINCIPLES OF ELOCUTION .
... a lecture or oration , makes the softest accents of the speaker audible , at the same time that it affords a happy occasion for introducing a variety of voice , without which every address must 56 PRINCIPLES OF ELOCUTION .
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Page 58 - NOW, my co-mates, and brothers in exile, Hath not old custom made this life more sweet Than that of painted pomp ? Are not these woods More free from peril than the envious court ? Here feel we but the penalty of Adam, The seasons...
Page 66 - Thou preparedst room before it, And didst cause it to take deep root, and it filled the land. The hills were covered with the shadow of it, And the boughs thereof were like the goodly cedars. She sent out her boughs unto the sea, And her branches unto the river.
Page 242 - In happy homes he saw the light Of household fires gleam warm and bright; Above, the spectral glaciers shone, And from his lips escaped a groan, Excelsior! "Try not the Pass!
Page 44 - That, changed through all, and yet in all the same; Great in the earth, as in th' ethereal frame; Warms in the sun, refreshes in the breeze, Glows in the stars, and blossoms in the trees, Lives through all life, extends through all extent, Spreads undivided, operates unspent...
Page 61 - Out of the bowels of the harmless earth, Which many a good tall fellow had destroy'd So cowardly ; and but for these vile guns He would himself have been a soldier.
Page 60 - My liege, I did deny no prisoners. But, I remember, when the fight was done, When I was dry with rage, and extreme toil, Breathless and faint, leaning upon my sword, Came there a certain lord, neat, trimly...
Page 33 - With charm of earliest birds ; pleasant the sun, When first on this delightful land he spreads His orient beams, on herb, tree, fruit, and flower, Glistering with dew ; fragrant the fertile earth After soft showers ; and sweet the coming on Of grateful evening mild ; then silent night, With this her solemn bird, and this fair moon, And these the gems of heaven, her starry train...
Page 62 - 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 forced breath, No, nor the fruitful river in the eye, Nor the dejected haviour of the visage, Together with all forms, moods, shapes of grief, That can denote me truly : these indeed seem, For they are actions that a man might play : But I have that within which passeth show ; These but the trappings and the suits of woe.
Page 38 - Gul in her bloom ; Where the citron and olive are fairest of fruit, And the voice of the nightingale never is mute ; Where the tints of the earth, and the hues of the sky, In colour though varied, in beauty may vie...
Page 330 - mid cloisters dim, And saw nought lovely but the sky and stars. But thou, my babe ! shalt wander like a breeze By lakes and sandy shores, beneath the crags Of ancient mountain, and beneath the clouds, Which image in their bulk both lakes and shores And mountain crags : so shalt thou see and hear The lovely shapes and sounds intelligible Of that eternal language, which thy God Utters, who from eternity doth teach Himself in all, and all things in himself.