The Standard Speaker & Elocutionist ...Ward, Lock and Company, 1880 - Počet stran: 248 |
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Strana 23
... Death is the season | which brings our affections to the test . Riches pleasure | and health | become evils to those who do not know how to use them . The preceding illustrations show the " point of rest— ” the word on which the voice ...
... Death is the season | which brings our affections to the test . Riches pleasure | and health | become evils to those who do not know how to use them . The preceding illustrations show the " point of rest— ” the word on which the voice ...
Strana 49
... death . These are the effects of stammering ; but , therefore , to call a misapplication of the tongue , the jaws , the throat , or the breath , a disease , appears to me a ridiculous error . ' Hence he observes again ' Most rational ...
... death . These are the effects of stammering ; but , therefore , to call a misapplication of the tongue , the jaws , the throat , or the breath , a disease , appears to me a ridiculous error . ' Hence he observes again ' Most rational ...
Strana 57
... DEATH - BED . We watched her breathing through the night , Her breathing , soft and low , As in her breast the wave of life Kept heaving to and fro . So silently we seemed to speak , So slowly moved about , As we had lent her half our ...
... DEATH - BED . We watched her breathing through the night , Her breathing , soft and low , As in her breast the wave of life Kept heaving to and fro . So silently we seemed to speak , So slowly moved about , As we had lent her half our ...
Strana 65
... death , Is all the grace I beg . - Measure for Measure . GRAVITY . Gravity , or seriousness , as when the mind is fixed , or de- liberating on some important subject , smooths the countenance , and gives it an air of melancholy ; the ...
... death , Is all the grace I beg . - Measure for Measure . GRAVITY . Gravity , or seriousness , as when the mind is fixed , or de- liberating on some important subject , smooths the countenance , and gives it an air of melancholy ; the ...
Strana 66
... death ? Numidia's burning sands Still smoke with blood ; ' tis time we should decree What course to take our foe advances on us , And envies us even Libya's sultry deserts . Fathers , pronounce your thoughts ; are they still fixed , To ...
... death ? Numidia's burning sands Still smoke with blood ; ' tis time we should decree What course to take our foe advances on us , And envies us even Libya's sultry deserts . Fathers , pronounce your thoughts ; are they still fixed , To ...
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Strana 60 - For I can raise no money by vile means: 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.
Strana 82 - Dark-heaving; boundless, endless, and sublime — The image of Eternity — the throne Of the Invisible; even from out thy slime The monsters of the deep are made; each zone Obeys thee; thou goest forth, dread, fathomless, alone.
Strana 186 - Caesar carelessly but nod on him. He had a fever when he was in Spain, And when the fit was on him, I did mark How he did shake...
Strana 152 - God ! sing, ye meadow-streams, with gladsome voice! Ye pine-groves, with your soft and soul-like sounds ! And they, too, have a voice, yon piles of snow, And in their perilous fall, shall thunder, God...
Strana 65 - I'll leave you till night; you are welcome to Elsinore. Ros. Good my lord ! [Exeunt Rosencrantz and Giiildenstern. Ham. Ay, so, God be wi' ye :—Now I am alone. O, what a rogue and 'peasant slave am I ! Is it not monstrous that this player here, But in a fiction, in a dream of passion, Could force his soul so to his own conceit...
Strana 57 - WE watched her breathing through the night, Her breathing soft and low, As in her breast the wave of life . Kept heaving to and fro. So silently we...
Strana 151 - Risest from forth thy silent sea of pines, How silently ! Around thee and above Deep is the air and dark, substantial, black, An ebon mass : methinks thou piercest it As with a wedge ! But when I look again, It is thine own calm home, thy crystal shrine, Thy habitation from eternity ' 0 dread and silent Mount ! I gazed upon thee Till thou, still present to the bodily sense, Didst vanish from my thought : entranced in prayer 1 worshipped the Invisible alone.
Strana 72 - The angels, not half so happy in heaven, Went envying her and me; Yes! that was the reason (as all men know, In this kingdom by the sea) That the wind came out of the cloud by night, Chilling and killing my Annabel Lee.
Strana 82 - O, young Lochinvar is come out of the west, Through all the wide Border his steed was the best ; And save his good broad-sword he weapon had none, He rode all unarmed, and he rode all alone. So faithful in love, and so dauntless in war, There never was knight like the young Lochinvar.
Strana 21 - One touch to her hand, and one word in her ear. When they reached the hall door, and the charger stood near; So light to the croupe the fair lady he swung, So light to the saddle before her he sprung! "She is won! we are gone, over bank, bush, and scaur: They'll have fleet steeds that follow,