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... learned professions , by increasing the sala- ries of instructers , so much as to enlist in this noble calling none but men of genuine talents and truly liberal acquire- ments , and , not only will bad books soon hide their dimin- ished ...
... learned professions , by increasing the sala- ries of instructers , so much as to enlist in this noble calling none but men of genuine talents and truly liberal acquire- ments , and , not only will bad books soon hide their dimin- ished ...
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... learned ; but farther than this , he can- not , legally , go . In pronouncing the words , jail , pail , sail , pray , lay , say , we give to the vowels ai and ay precisely the sound of long a in fate ; but an attentive observer will ...
... learned ; but farther than this , he can- not , legally , go . In pronouncing the words , jail , pail , sail , pray , lay , say , we give to the vowels ai and ay precisely the sound of long a in fate ; but an attentive observer will ...
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... learned to pronounce these examples correctly , let him reverse the process : that is , let him make the falling inflection , where the voice ought to rise , and the rising , where it should fall , and he will readily perceive , that ...
... learned to pronounce these examples correctly , let him reverse the process : that is , let him make the falling inflection , where the voice ought to rise , and the rising , where it should fall , and he will readily perceive , that ...
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... kind of sen- timent and conception , called poetick thought . The peculiar nature of poetick thought , however , is not to be learned from definition or description , any more than countenance is , Chap . V. 143 VERSIFICATION .
... kind of sen- timent and conception , called poetick thought . The peculiar nature of poetick thought , however , is not to be learned from definition or description , any more than countenance is , Chap . V. 143 VERSIFICATION .
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... learned , to walk , had he not exerted his capabilities for the attainment of this object , by repeated and persevering efforts . If , then , any one would excel in gesticula- tion , or in any other important qualification of an orator ...
... learned , to walk , had he not exerted his capabilities for the attainment of this object , by repeated and persevering efforts . If , then , any one would excel in gesticula- tion , or in any other important qualification of an orator ...
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Page 321 - With a bare bodkin ? who would fardels bear, To grunt and sweat under a weary life, But that the dread of something after death, The undiscover'd country from whose bourn No traveller returns, puzzles the will And makes us rather bear those ills we have Than fly to others that we know not of ? Thus conscience does make cowards of us all...
Page 306 - When my eyes shall be turned to behold, for the last time, the sun in heaven, may I not see him shining on the broken and dishonored fragments of a once glorious union ; on states dissevered, discordant, belligerent ; on a land rent with civil feuds, or drenched, it may be, in fraternal blood...
Page 252 - Thou carriest them away as with a flood; they are as a sleep: in the morning they are like grass which groweth up. In the morning it flourisheth, and groweth up; in the evening it is cut down, and withereth. For we are consumed by thine anger, and by thy wrath are we troubled. Thou hast set our iniquities before thee, our secret sins in the light of thy countenance. For all our days are passed away in thy wrath: we spend our years as a tale that is told.
Page 206 - And I have loved thee, Ocean ! and my joy Of youthful sports was on thy breast to be Borne, like thy bubbles, onward : from a boy I wantoned with thy breakers — they to me Were a delight : and if the freshening sea Made them a terror — 'twas a pleasing fear, For I was as it were a child of thee, And trusted to thy billows far and near, And laid my hand upon thy mane — as I do here.
Page 261 - THE curfew tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herd winds slowly o'er the lea. The ploughman homeward plods his weary way, And leaves the world to darkness and to me. Now fades the glimmering landscape on the sight, And all the air a solemn stillness holds, Save where the beetle wheels his droning flight, And drowsy tinklings lull the distant folds.
Page 316 - When that the poor have cried, Caesar hath wept Ambition should be made of sterner stuff: Yet Brutus says he was ambitious; And Brutus is an honorable man. You all did see that on the Lupercal I thrice presented him a kingly crown, Which he did thrice refuse: was this ambition?
Page 66 - 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 looked love to eyes which spake again, And all went merry as a marriage bell ; But hush ! Hark ! A deep sound strikes like a rising knell. Did ye not hear it ? — No ; 'twas but the wind, Or the car rattling o'er the stony street : On with the dance! Let joy be unconfined ; No sleep till morn, when youth and pleasure meet To chase the glowing hours with flying...
Page 257 - Yet not the more Cease I to wander where the Muses haunt Clear spring, or shady grove, or sunny hill, Smit with the love of sacred song...
Page 190 - And, when I am forgotten, as I shall be, And sleep in dull cold marble, where no mention Of me more must be heard of, say, I taught thee; Say, Wolsey, that once trod the ways of glory, And sounded all the depths and shoals of honour...
Page 215 - His parents answered them and said, we know that this is our son, and that he was born blind : but by what means he now seeth, we know not : or who hath opened his eyes, we know not : he is of age, ask him, he shall speak for himself.