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
... Such is the force of ill - will , and ill - nature . It is harder to avoid cenfure , than to gain applause ; for this may be done by one great or wife action in an age ; but , to efcape cenfure , a man muft pafs his whole life without ...
... Such is the force of ill - will , and ill - nature . It is harder to avoid cenfure , than to gain applause ; for this may be done by one great or wife action in an age ; but , to efcape cenfure , a man muft pafs his whole life without ...
Pàgina 38
... Such a child too ! It becomes not me to speak of her virtues ; yet it is but grateful to mention them , because they were exerted towards myfelf . Not many days ago you faw her young , beautiful , virtuous and happy : ye who are parents ...
... Such a child too ! It becomes not me to speak of her virtues ; yet it is but grateful to mention them , because they were exerted towards myfelf . Not many days ago you faw her young , beautiful , virtuous and happy : ye who are parents ...
Pàgina 50
... Such thick vapors were raised by this conflict of adverse elements , that the fun was obscured and appeared like blood ; and the whole face of nature seemed to be changed . This dreadful fcene lasted several days , and the whole country ...
... Such thick vapors were raised by this conflict of adverse elements , that the fun was obscured and appeared like blood ; and the whole face of nature seemed to be changed . This dreadful fcene lasted several days , and the whole country ...
Pàgina 60
... Such a fituation may be confidered as the most favorable to focial happinefs of any which this world can af- ford . CONJUGAL AFFECTION . BARON HALLER , ON THE DEATH OF HIS WIFE , FROM " CURIOSITIES OF LITERATURE . " 1 . SHALL I fing thy ...
... Such a fituation may be confidered as the most favorable to focial happinefs of any which this world can af- ford . CONJUGAL AFFECTION . BARON HALLER , ON THE DEATH OF HIS WIFE , FROM " CURIOSITIES OF LITERATURE . " 1 . SHALL I fing thy ...
Pàgina 63
... Such was my love for the whites , that my countrymen pointed as they paffed by , and faid , Logan is the friend of white men . I had even thought to have lived with you , had it not been for the injuries of one man . Colonel Crefap ...
... Such was my love for the whites , that my countrymen pointed as they paffed by , and faid , Logan is the friend of white men . I had even thought to have lived with you , had it not been for the injuries of one man . Colonel Crefap ...
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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...