The speaker: or, Miscellaneous pieces selected from the best English writers. To which are prefixed two essays: i. On elocution. ii. On reading works of taste, by W. Enfield. Genuine ed., ed. with the addition of popular pieces from modern authors, by J. PycroftWilliam Enfield, James Pycroft 1851 |
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... stand first , and then rebuke . If thou wouldst get a friend , prove him first , and be not hasty to credit him ; for some men are friends for their own occasions , and will not abide in the day of thy trouble . Forsake not an old ...
... stand first , and then rebuke . If thou wouldst get a friend , prove him first , and be not hasty to credit him ; for some men are friends for their own occasions , and will not abide in the day of thy trouble . Forsake not an old ...
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... stand bare ! How many be commanded , that command ! # Oh who can hold a fire in his hand By thinking on the frosty Caucasus ? Or cloy the hungry edge of appetite By bare imagination of a feast ? Or wallow naked in December's snow By ...
... stand bare ! How many be commanded , that command ! # Oh who can hold a fire in his hand By thinking on the frosty Caucasus ? Or cloy the hungry edge of appetite By bare imagination of a feast ? Or wallow naked in December's snow By ...
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... stands , For ever silent and for ever sad . THOMSON . CHAPTER XVII . JUNIO AND THEANA . Soon as young reason dawn'd in Junio's breast , His father sent him from these genial isles , To where old Thames with conscious pride surveys Green ...
... stands , For ever silent and for ever sad . THOMSON . CHAPTER XVII . JUNIO AND THEANA . Soon as young reason dawn'd in Junio's breast , His father sent him from these genial isles , To where old Thames with conscious pride surveys Green ...
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... standing here ; " Come fiend , come fury , giant , monster , blast " From earth or hell , we can but plunge at last . " While thus she spake , I fainter heard the peals , For reynard , close attended at his heels By panting dog , tir'd ...
... standing here ; " Come fiend , come fury , giant , monster , blast " From earth or hell , we can but plunge at last . " While thus she spake , I fainter heard the peals , For reynard , close attended at his heels By panting dog , tir'd ...
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... stand up in a corrupt age for what has not its imme- diate reward joined to it . The talents , interest , or expe ... stands as a blot in the annals of his country who arrives at the temple of honour by any other way than through that of ...
... stand up in a corrupt age for what has not its imme- diate reward joined to it . The talents , interest , or expe ... stands as a blot in the annals of his country who arrives at the temple of honour by any other way than through that of ...
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Page 79 - ... accent of Christians nor the gait of Christian, pagan, nor man, have so strutted and bellowed that I have thought some of nature's journeymen had made men, and not made them well, they imitated humanity so abominably.
Page 352 - By the struggling moonbeam's misty light, And the lantern dimly burning. No useless coffin enclosed his breast, Nor in sheet nor in shroud we wound him ; But he lay like a warrior taking his rest, With his martial cloak around him.
Page 77 - 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 153 - Brutus' love to Caesar was no less than his. If then that friend demand why Brutus rose against Caesar, this is my answer; not that I loved Caesar less, but that I loved Rome more. Had you rather Caesar were living, and die all slaves, than that Caesar were dead, to live all freemen?
Page 317 - Is this a dagger which I see before me, The handle toward my hand ? Come, let me clutch thee. I have thee not, and yet I see thee still. Art thou not, fatal vision, sensible To feeling as to sight ? or art thou but A dagger of the mind, a false creation, Proceeding from the heat-oppressed brain ? I see thee yet, in form as palpable As this which now I draw. Thou marshall'st me the way that I was going ; And such an instrument I was to use. Mine eyes are made the fools o...
Page 351 - NOT a drum was heard, not a funeral note, As his corse to the rampart we hurried ; Not a soldier discharged his farewell shot O'er the grave where our hero we buried. We buried him darkly at dead of night, The sods with our bayonets turning; By the struggling moonbeam's misty light, And the lantern dimly burning. No useless coffin enclosed his breast...
Page 352 - THE Assyrian came down like the wolf on the fold, And his cohorts were gleaming in purple and gold; And the sheen of their spears was like stars on the sea. When the blue wave rolls nightly on deep Galilee.
Page 248 - His youthful hose well sav'd, a world too wide For his shrunk shank ; and his big manly voice, Turning again toward childish treble, pipes And whistles in his sound. Last scene of all, That ends this strange eventful history, Is second childishness and mere oblivion, Sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans every thing.
Page 325 - You have done that you should be sorry for. There is no terror, Cassius, in your threats; For I am arm'd so strong in honesty, That they pass by me as the idle wind Which I respect not.
Page 192 - Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow world, Like a Colossus ; and we petty men Walk under his huge legs, and peep about To find ourselves dishonourable graves.