The Standard Speaker & Elocutionist ...Ward, Lock and Company, 1880 - Počet stran: 248 |
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Strana 8
... object of the speech is to solicit mercy , he will give prominence to the word that advances his suit ; thus : " It blesseth him that gives , and him that takes . " On this principle the reader shows that he has , 8 The Standard Speaker ...
... object of the speech is to solicit mercy , he will give prominence to the word that advances his suit ; thus : " It blesseth him that gives , and him that takes . " On this principle the reader shows that he has , 8 The Standard Speaker ...
Strana 17
... object of your read- ing , the effective consequence of the matter and spirit of the composition . The presence of the book before you will be necessary chiefly to give you confidence , and prevent the possi- bility of rambling . The ...
... object of your read- ing , the effective consequence of the matter and spirit of the composition . The presence of the book before you will be necessary chiefly to give you confidence , and prevent the possi- bility of rambling . The ...
Strana 22
... object to it , and claim that it has a mischievous tendency , are obliged to admit that they are essential where their omission would obscure the sense of the writer , and this is all we contend for . If you can bring out more vividly ...
... object to it , and claim that it has a mischievous tendency , are obliged to admit that they are essential where their omission would obscure the sense of the writer , and this is all we contend for . If you can bring out more vividly ...
Strana 40
... object of action should therefore be to assist the ex- pression , and to aid in emphasis . Hence the best kind will occur spontaneously , and be suggested by the sense of the words we are using . Such being the case , there can be no ...
... object of action should therefore be to assist the ex- pression , and to aid in emphasis . Hence the best kind will occur spontaneously , and be suggested by the sense of the words we are using . Such being the case , there can be no ...
Strana 47
... object is to be secured . As the poet expresses it : - " He who would adorn His envied temples with the Isthmian crown , Must either win , through effort of his own , The prize , or be content to see it worn By more deserving brows ...
... object is to be secured . As the poet expresses it : - " He who would adorn His envied temples with the Isthmian crown , Must either win , through effort of his own , The prize , or be content to see it worn By more deserving brows ...
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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,