An American Selection of Lessons in Reading and Speaking: Calculated to Improve the Minds and Refine the Taste of Youth : to which are Prefixed Rules in Elocution, and Directions for Expressing the Principal Passions of the MindFrom Sidney's Press for I. Beers and I. Cooke, 1804 - 225 pàgines |
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Pàgina 11
... she has fometimes made a fool , but a coxcomb is always of his own making . It is the infirmity of little minds to be taken with every ap- pearance , and dazzled with every thing that fparkles ; but great minds have but little ...
... she has fometimes made a fool , but a coxcomb is always of his own making . It is the infirmity of little minds to be taken with every ap- pearance , and dazzled with every thing that fparkles ; but great minds have but little ...
Pàgina 21
... She blushed , and confeffed her willingness . As she had an errand to town the next day , the opportunity of her abfence was chofen for making the propofal . You want to marry my daughter , faid the old man . houfe to cover her , or ...
... She blushed , and confeffed her willingness . As she had an errand to town the next day , the opportunity of her abfence was chofen for making the propofal . You want to marry my daughter , faid the old man . houfe to cover her , or ...
Pàgina 23
... she scarcely appears pretty ; but the more fhe is beheld , the more agreeable the appears . She gains when others lofe , and what the gains the never lofes . She is equalled by none in a fweet expreffion of countenance ; and without ...
... she scarcely appears pretty ; but the more fhe is beheld , the more agreeable the appears . She gains when others lofe , and what the gains the never lofes . She is equalled by none in a fweet expreffion of countenance ; and without ...
Pàgina 24
... She prepares herself for managing a family of her own , by managing that of her father . She 3. Cookery is familiar to her , with the price and quality of provifions ; and she is a ready accountant . Her chief view , however , is to ...
... She prepares herself for managing a family of her own , by managing that of her father . She 3. Cookery is familiar to her , with the price and quality of provifions ; and she is a ready accountant . Her chief view , however , is to ...
Pàgina 26
... she did not judge him unworthy of her esteem . 7. From this time he made her frequent vifits ; in every one of which he difcovered fome new perfection in the fair Calista . This is the characteristic of true merit ; it gains by being ex ...
... she did not judge him unworthy of her esteem . 7. From this time he made her frequent vifits ; in every one of which he difcovered fome new perfection in the fair Calista . This is the characteristic of true merit ; it gains by being ex ...
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Passatges populars
Pàgina 216 - By heaven, I had rather coin my heart, And drop my blood for drachmas, than to wring From the hard hands of peasants their vile trash By any indirection.
Pàgina 214 - Corruption wins not more than honesty. Still in thy right hand carry gentle peace, To silence envious tongues. Be just, and fear not ; Let all the ends thou aim'st at be thy country's, Thy God's, and truth's ; then, if thou fall'st, O Cromwell, Thou fall'st a blessed martyr.
Pàgina 213 - Cromwell, I did not think to shed a tear In all my miseries; but thou hast forced me, Out of thy honest truth, to play the woman. Let's dry our eyes: and thus far hear me, Cromwell...
Pàgina 221 - And then the whining schoolboy, with his satchel And shining morning face, creeping like snail Unwillingly to school. And then the lover, Sighing like furnace, with a woeful ballad Made to his mistress
Pàgina 190 - WE all of us complain of the Shortness of Time, saith Seneca, and yet have much more than we know what to do with. Our Lives, says he, are spent either in doing nothing at all, or in doing nothing to the purpose, or in doing nothing that we ought to do: We are always Complaining our Days are few, and Acting as though there would be no End of them.
Pàgina 169 - Who wickedly is wise, or madly brave, Is but the more a fool, the more a knave. Who noble ends by noble means obtains, Or failing, smiles in exile or in chains, Like good Aurelius let him reign, or bleed Like Socrates, that man is great indeed. What's fame? a fancied life in others' breath, A thing beyond us, ev'n before our death.
Pàgina 169 - The friar hooded, and the monarch crown'd. " What differ more (you cry) than crown and cowl !" I'll tell you, friend ! a wise man and a fool.
Pàgina 211 - Have faces flush'd with more exalted charms ; The sun that rolls his chariot o'er their heads, Works up more fire and colour in their cheeks : Were you with these, my prince, you'd soon forget, The pale, unripen'd beauties of the north.
Pàgina 62 - 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.
Pàgina 16 - The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together...