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 15
... hath his quarrel juft : And he but naked ( tho ' lock'd up in fteel ) Whose conscience with injuftice is corrupted . " CHA P. IX . H , world , thy flippery turns ! Friends now faft fworn , Whose double bofoms feem to wear one heart ...
... hath his quarrel juft : And he but naked ( tho ' lock'd up in fteel ) Whose conscience with injuftice is corrupted . " CHA P. IX . H , world , thy flippery turns ! Friends now faft fworn , Whose double bofoms feem to wear one heart ...
Pàgina 59
... Hath this extent ; no more . Rude am I in speech , And little blefs'd with the fet phrase of peace ; For fince thefe arms of mine had seven years pith , Till now fome nine moons wafted , they have us'd Their dearest action in the tented ...
... Hath this extent ; no more . Rude am I in speech , And little blefs'd with the fet phrase of peace ; For fince thefe arms of mine had seven years pith , Till now fome nine moons wafted , they have us'd Their dearest action in the tented ...
Pàgina 69
... hath many advantages over all the artificial modes of diffimulation and deceit . It is much the plainer and eafier , much the fafer and more fecure way of dealing in the world : it hath lefs of trouble and dif- ficulty , of entanglement ...
... hath many advantages over all the artificial modes of diffimulation and deceit . It is much the plainer and eafier , much the fafer and more fecure way of dealing in the world : it hath lefs of trouble and dif- ficulty , of entanglement ...
Pàgina 70
... hath so many things to attend to , as make his life very perplexed and intricate thing . A liar hath need of a good memory , left he contradict at one time what he said at another ; but truth is always confiftent with itself , and needs ...
... hath so many things to attend to , as make his life very perplexed and intricate thing . A liar hath need of a good memory , left he contradict at one time what he said at another ; but truth is always confiftent with itself , and needs ...
Pàgina 117
... hath fown these early feeds Of love and admiration , yet in vain , Without fair culture's kind parental aid , Without enlivening funs , and genial fhow'rs , K 4 And And fhelter from the blaft , in vain we hope CHAP . XXV . DIDACTIC ...
... hath fown these early feeds Of love and admiration , yet in vain , Without fair culture's kind parental aid , Without enlivening funs , and genial fhow'rs , K 4 And And fhelter from the blaft , in vain we hope CHAP . XXV . DIDACTIC ...
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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.