The Standard Speaker: Containing Exercises in Prose and Poetry for Declamation in Schools, Academies, Lyceums, Colleges : Newly Translated Or Compiled from Celebrated Orators, Authors, and Popular Debaters, Ancient and Modern ... |
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... rest of the sentence is spoken . As th intermediate words are fre- quently the pivot on which the sense of the entence turns , the mind is directed to it by a change of voice . The voice sinks at the beginning of the clause , but rises ...
... rest of the sentence is spoken . As th intermediate words are fre- quently the pivot on which the sense of the entence turns , the mind is directed to it by a change of voice . The voice sinks at the beginning of the clause , but rises ...
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... rest , In shape and gesture proudly eminent , Stood like a tower . His form had yet not lost All her original brightness , nor appeared Less than archangel ruined , and the excess Of glory obscured : as when the sun new - risen Looks ...
... rest , In shape and gesture proudly eminent , Stood like a tower . His form had yet not lost All her original brightness , nor appeared Less than archangel ruined , and the excess Of glory obscured : as when the sun new - risen Looks ...
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... rest of the sentence . On the right management of the emphasis depend the whole life and spirit of every discourse . If no emphasis be placed on any word , not only is discourse rendered heavy and lifeless , but the meaning left often ...
... rest of the sentence . On the right management of the emphasis depend the whole life and spirit of every discourse . If no emphasis be placed on any word , not only is discourse rendered heavy and lifeless , but the meaning left often ...
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... rest become not the rest of stones , which , so long as they are torrent - tossed and thunder - stricken , main- tain their majesty , but , when the stream is silent , and the storm passed , suffer the grass to cover them and the lichen ...
... rest become not the rest of stones , which , so long as they are torrent - tossed and thunder - stricken , main- tain their majesty , but , when the stream is silent , and the storm passed , suffer the grass to cover them and the lichen ...
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... rest her Heaven - aspiring wing Beneath its native quarry . Tired of earth And this diurnal scene , she springs aloft Through fields of air ; pursues the flying storm ; Rides on the volleyed lightning through the Heavens Or , yoked with ...
... rest her Heaven - aspiring wing Beneath its native quarry . Tired of earth And this diurnal scene , she springs aloft Through fields of air ; pursues the flying storm ; Rides on the volleyed lightning through the Heavens Or , yoked with ...
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Page 208 - Prince ; your efforts are forever vain and impotent — doubly so from this mercenary aid on which you rely ; for it irritates to an incurable resentment, the minds of your enemies — to overrun them with the mercenary sons of rapine and plunder; devoting them and their possessions to the rapacity of hireling cruelty ! If I were an American, as I am an Englishman, while a foreign troop was landed in my country, I never would lay down my arms — never — never — never.
Page 223 - It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the queen of France, then the dauphiness, at Versailles; and surely never lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful vision.
Page 95 - Neither a borrower nor a lender be; For loan oft loses both itself and friend; And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry. This above all, — to thine own self be true ; And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man.
Page 423 - Shook off both my jack-boots, let go belt and all, Stood up in the stirrup, leaned, patted his ear, Called my Roland his pet-name, my horse without peer; Clapped my hands, laughed and sang, any noise, bad or good, Till at length into Aix Roland galloped and stood. And all I remember is, friends flocking round As I...
Page 443 - But through it there rolled not the breath of his pride; And the foam of his gasping lay white on the turf, And cold as the spray of the rock-beating surf. And there lay the rider, distorted and pale, With the dew on his brow, and the rust on his mail ; And the tents were all silent, the banners alone, The lances unlifted, the trumpet unblown.
Page 127 - Romans, countrymen, and lovers, hear me for my cause, and be silent, that you may hear. Believe me for mine honour, and have respect to mine honour, that you may believe. Censure me in your wisdom, and awake your senses, that you may the better judge. If there be any in this assembly, any dear friend of Caesar's, to him I say, that Brutus' love to Caesar was no less than his.
Page 423 - Aix' — for one heard the quick wheeze Of her chest, saw the stretched neck and staggering knees, And sunk tail, and horrible heave of the flank, As down on her haunches she shuddered and sank...
Page 422 - Not a word to each other; we kept the great pace Neck by neck, stride by stride, never changing our place ; I turned in my saddle and made its girths tight, Then shortened each stirrup, and set the pique right, Rebuckled the cheek-strap, chained slacker the bit, Nor galloped less steadily Roland a whit.
Page 503 - O! it offends me to the soul to hear a robustious periwig-pated fellow tear a passion to tatters, to very rags, to split the ears of the groundlings...
Page 496 - The stars shall fade away, the sun himself Grow dim with age, and Nature sink in years, But thou shalt flourish in immortal youth, Unhurt amidst the war of elements, The wreck of matter, and the crush of worlds.