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 pàgines |
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Pàgina 7
... say , what fellow is this ? MANY have fallen by the edge of the fword , but not so many as have fallen by the tongue . Well is he that is de- fended from it , and hath not paffed through the venom thereof ; who hath not drawn the yoke ...
... say , what fellow is this ? MANY have fallen by the edge of the fword , but not so many as have fallen by the tongue . Well is he that is de- fended from it , and hath not paffed through the venom thereof ; who hath not drawn the yoke ...
Pàgina 11
... of the most powerful and excellent things in the world in skilful hands ; in unskilful , moft mifchievous . A MAN fhould never be ashamed to own he has been in the the wrong ; which is but saying , in other CHAP . VII . SELECT SENTENCES .
... of the most powerful and excellent things in the world in skilful hands ; in unskilful , moft mifchievous . A MAN fhould never be ashamed to own he has been in the the wrong ; which is but saying , in other CHAP . VII . SELECT SENTENCES .
Pàgina 12
... saying , in other words , that he is wifer to day than he was yesterday . WHEREVER I find a great deal of gratitude in a poor man , I take it for granted there would be as much genero fity if he were a rich man . FLOWERS of rhetoric in ...
... saying , in other words , that he is wifer to day than he was yesterday . WHEREVER I find a great deal of gratitude in a poor man , I take it for granted there would be as much genero fity if he were a rich man . FLOWERS of rhetoric in ...
Pàgina 20
... saying to one another ; liften to their discourse and give me an account of it . The vifier approached the tree , pretending to be very attentive to the two owls . Upon his return to the Sul , tan , Sir , fays he , I have heard part of ...
... saying to one another ; liften to their discourse and give me an account of it . The vifier approached the tree , pretending to be very attentive to the two owls . Upon his return to the Sul , tan , Sir , fays he , I have heard part of ...
Pàgina 26
... thought own ? Yes , fays the man . fo , replied the other , by your loading him fo unmercifully . You and your fon are better able to carry the poor beast than he he you . Any thing to please , says the 26 Book II . NARRATIVE PIECES .
... thought own ? Yes , fays the man . fo , replied the other , by your loading him fo unmercifully . You and your fon are better able to carry the poor beast than he he you . Any thing to please , says the 26 Book II . NARRATIVE PIECES .
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Passatges populars
Pàgina 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...
Pàgina 298 - Delightful task! to rear the tender thought, To teach the young idea how to shoot...
Pàgina 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.
Pàgina 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.
Pàgina 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...
Pàgina 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.
Pàgina 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.
Pàgina 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.
Pàgina 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.
Pàgina 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.