The Speaker: Or, Miscellaneous Pieces, Selected from the Best English Writers,: And Disposed Under Proper Heads, with a View to Facilitate the Improvement of Youth in Reading and Speaking. : To which is Prefixed An Essay on ElocutionJ. Johnson, 1785 - 405 Seiten |
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... true in the art of speaking , as well as in the art of living , that general precepts are of little use till they are unfolded , and applied to particular cafes . To obferve the various ways by which nature expref- fes the feveral ...
... true in the art of speaking , as well as in the art of living , that general precepts are of little use till they are unfolded , and applied to particular cafes . To obferve the various ways by which nature expref- fes the feveral ...
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... true learning , combine the eafe and elegance of genteel life . An attention to fuch models , and a free intercourfe with the polite world , are the best guards against the pe- culiarities and vulgarifms of provincial dialects . Those ...
... true learning , combine the eafe and elegance of genteel life . An attention to fuch models , and a free intercourfe with the polite world , are the best guards against the pe- culiarities and vulgarifms of provincial dialects . Those ...
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... , fometimes with contempt . We are pleased with the easy and * See Dean Swift's advice on this head in his Letter to a young Clergyman . graceful 1 graceful movements which the true gentleman has acquired by xxviii AN ESSAY ON.
... , fometimes with contempt . We are pleased with the easy and * See Dean Swift's advice on this head in his Letter to a young Clergyman . graceful 1 graceful movements which the true gentleman has acquired by xxviii AN ESSAY ON.
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... true gentleman has acquired by having learnt to dance ; but we are offended by the coxcomb , who is always ex- hibiting his formal dancing - bow , and minuet- step . So , we admire the manly eloquence and noble ardour of a British ...
... true gentleman has acquired by having learnt to dance ; but we are offended by the coxcomb , who is always ex- hibiting his formal dancing - bow , and minuet- step . So , we admire the manly eloquence and noble ardour of a British ...
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... true friends , that will be often changing them . PROSPERITY gains friends , and adverfity tries them . NOTHING more engages the affections of men , than a handfome addrefs , and graceful converfation . COMPLAISANCE renders a fuperior ...
... true friends , that will be often changing them . PROSPERITY gains friends , and adverfity tries them . NOTHING more engages the affections of men , than a handfome addrefs , and graceful converfation . COMPLAISANCE renders a fuperior ...
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Seite 375 - O, pardon me, thou bleeding piece of earth, That I am meek and gentle with these butchers; Thou art the ruins of the noblest man That ever lived in the tide of times. Woe to the hand that shed this costly blood ! Over thy wounds now do I prophesy...
Seite 298 - Delightful task! to rear the tender thought, To teach the young idea how to shoot...
Seite 213 - Tis but an hour ago since it was nine, And after one hour more 'twill be eleven ; And so, from hour to hour, we ripe and ripe, And then, from hour to hour, we rot and rot ; And thereby hangs a tale.
Seite 327 - How lov'd, how honour'd once, avails thee not, To whom related, or by whom begot ; A heap of dust alone remains of thee, 'Tis all thou art, and all the proud shall be ! Poets themselves must fall, like those they sung, Deaf the prais'd ear, and mute the tuneful tongue.
Seite 402 - Flushed with a purple grace He shows his honest face: Now give the hautboys breath; he comes, he comes! Bacchus , ever fair and young , Drinking joys did first ordain : Bacchus...
Seite 376 - Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears; I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him. The evil, that men do, lives after them ; The good is oft interred with their bones ; So let it be with Caesar.
Seite 274 - Haste thee, Nymph, and bring with thee Jest, and youthful Jollity, Quips and cranks, and wanton wiles, Nods and becks, and wreathed smiles, Such as hang on Hebe's cheek, And love to live in dimple sleek ; Sport that wrinkled Care derides, And Laughter holding both his sides.
Seite 255 - The boast of heraldry, the pomp of pow'r, And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave, Await alike th' inevitable hour. The paths of glory lead but to the grave.
Seite 378 - O, now you weep; and, I perceive, you feel The dint of pity : these are gracious drops. Kind souls, what ! weep you, when you but behold Our Caesar's vesture wounded ? Look you here, Here is himself, marr'd, as you see, with traitors.
Seite 395 - tis seen the wicked prize itself Buys out the law. But 'tis not so above: There is no shuffling; there the action lies In his true nature; and we ourselves compell'd, Even to the teeth and forehead of our faults, To give in evidence.