Enfield's Guide to Elocution: Improved and Classically Divided Into Six Parts, Viz., Grammar, Composition, Synonomy, Language, Orations, Poems, and Other Interesting SubjectsJohn Sabine |
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Adjective Adverb appear arms Auxiliary beauty Better boast breast Cæsar called censure charms composition Decemvirs DEFECTIVE VERBS e'en elegant English Language ev'ry EXAMPLE expressed eyes fame fools frequently Gender Genitive give glory grace hand happy heart Heav'n's heaven Hector honor Imperative Mood Imperfect Tense Indicative Mood Inelegant Infinitive Mood king kiss language Latin learn'd learned Lord means metaphors mind Mood nature never Nominative Nouns o'er Participle passion Passive Patricians peace Perfect persons pleas'd pleasure Plebeians Pluperfect Tense Plural poetry poets POPE POPE'S HOMER Potential Mood praise Preposition Present Tense pride Pronoun racters reign Romans Rome round RULE Scythians Second Future Tense sense sentence shew Singular smile soul sound speak speech style Subjunctive Mood Substantive sweet syllables thee thing thou thought thro tion to-morrow Verb virtue Volsci vowel wise words wouldst writing youth Ов
Popular passages
Page 150 - Who is here so base, that would be a bondman ? If any, speak ; for him have I offended. Who is here so rude, that would not be a Roman ? If any, speak ; for him have I offended. Who is here so vile, that will not love his country? If any, speak ; for him have I offended — I pause for a reply.
Page 230 - And every shepherd tells his tale Under the hawthorn in the dale. Straight mine eye hath caught new pleasures, Whilst the...
Page 255 - Stern o'er each bosom reason holds her state With daring aims irregularly great ; Pride in their port, defiance in their eye, I see the lords of human kind pass by...
Page 230 - Through the high wood echoing shrill: Some time walking, not unseen, By hedge-row elms, on hillocks green, Right against the eastern gate, Where the great sun begins his state...
Page 208 - Honour and shame from no condition rise ; Act well your part, there all the honour lies.
Page 259 - Now came still evening on, and twilight gray Had in her sober livery all things clad ; Silence accompanied ; for beast and bird, They to their grassy couch, these to their nests Were slunk, all but the wakeful nightingale ; She all night long her amorous descant sung...
Page 229 - 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. Come, and trip it as you go On the light fantastic toe...
Page 149 - 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 233 - And ever, against eating cares, Lap me in soft Lydian airs, Married to immortal verse, Such as the meeting soul may pierce, In notes with many a winding bout Of linked sweetness long drawn out With wanton heed and giddy cunning, The melting voice through mazes running, Untwisting all the chains that tie The hidden soul of harmony; That Orpheus...
Page 248 - Wept o'er his wounds or tales of sorrow done, Shouldered his crutch, and showed how fields were won. Pleased with his guests, the good man learned to glow, And quite forgot their vices in their woe ; Careless their merits or their faults to scan, His pity gave ere charity began.