An American Selection of Lessons in Reading and Speaking ...: To which are Prefixed, Rules in Elocution, and Directions for Expressing ... Passions of the Mind: Being the Third Part of a Grammatical Institute of the English Language |
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... Fear opens the eyes and mouth , shortens the nose , draws down the eyebrows , gives the countenance an air of wildness ; the face becomes pale , the elbows are drawn back parallel with the sides , one foot is drawn back , the heart ...
... Fear opens the eyes and mouth , shortens the nose , draws down the eyebrows , gives the countenance an air of wildness ; the face becomes pale , the elbows are drawn back parallel with the sides , one foot is drawn back , the heart ...
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... fear nor pain to one another . Let us despise injury , malice , and detraction : and bear with an equal mind such tran sitory evils . While we speak , while we think , death comes up and closes the scence . [ Art of Thinking . Wonder ...
... fear nor pain to one another . Let us despise injury , malice , and detraction : and bear with an equal mind such tran sitory evils . While we speak , while we think , death comes up and closes the scence . [ Art of Thinking . Wonder ...
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... Fear . [ Masque of Alfred . How ill this taper burns ! -Ha ! who comes here ? I think it is the weakness of mine eyes That shapes this monstrous apparition ! It comes upon me --- Art thou any thing ? Art thou some god , some angel , or ...
... Fear . [ Masque of Alfred . How ill this taper burns ! -Ha ! who comes here ? I think it is the weakness of mine eyes That shapes this monstrous apparition ! It comes upon me --- Art thou any thing ? Art thou some god , some angel , or ...
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... fear who dares to die . There is but one way of fortifying the foul against all gloomy prefages and terrors of the mind ; and that is , by fecuring to ourselves the friendship and protection of that Being who difpofes of events , and ...
... fear who dares to die . There is but one way of fortifying the foul against all gloomy prefages and terrors of the mind ; and that is , by fecuring to ourselves the friendship and protection of that Being who difpofes of events , and ...
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... fears ; and to all these the consideration of mortality is a certain and adequate remedy . " Think , ( fays Epictetus ) " frequently on po- verty , banifhment , and death , and thou wilt never indulge violent defires , or give up thy ...
... fears ; and to all these the consideration of mortality is a certain and adequate remedy . " Think , ( fays Epictetus ) " frequently on po- verty , banifhment , and death , and thou wilt never indulge violent defires , or give up thy ...
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Page 203 - You say you are a better soldier: Let it appear so; make your vaunting true, And it shall please me well. For mine own part, I shall be glad to learn of noble men. Cas. You wrong me every way, you wrong me, Brutus; I said, an elder soldier, not a better: Did I say better?
Page 201 - Let's dry our eyes: and thus far hear me, Cromwell; 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...
Page 201 - O, my lord, Must I then leave you ? Must I needs forego So good, so noble, and so true a master ? Bear witness, all that have not hearts of iron, With what a sorrow Cromwell leaves his lord ; The king shall have my service, but my prayers For ever and for ever shall be yours.
Page 13 - And thus still doing, thus he pass'd along. Duch. Alas ! poor Richard ! where rides he the while ? York. As in a theatre, the eyes of men, After a well-graced actor leaves the stage, Are idly bent on him that enters next, Thinking his prattle to be tedious : Even so, or with much more contempt, men's eyes Did scowl on Richard ; no man cried, God save him...
Page 205 - Plutus' mine, richer than gold : If that thou be'st a Roman, take it forth ; I, that denied thee gold, will give my heart : Strike, as thou didst at Caesar ; for, I know, When thou didst hate him worst, thou lovedst him better Than ever thou lovedst Cassius.
Page 219 - They have their exits and their entrances ; And one man in his time plays many parts, His acts being seven ages. At first the infant, Mewling and puking in the nurse's arms.
Page 202 - I an itching palm ? You know that you are Brutus that speak this, Or, by the gods, this speech were else your last.
Page 202 - 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.
Page 76 - 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 202 - Corruption wins not more than honesty. Still in thy right hand carry gentle peace, To silence envious tongues. Be just, and fear not.