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... Interest , Comal and Galvina , The Author of Don Roderick unable to doom to to obscurity Sir John Moore , A remarkable Instance of Friendship , Character of John Knox , - Ibid . 75 Harris , 76 Chalmers , 73 Ossian , 80 Edinburgh Review ...
... Interest , Comal and Galvina , The Author of Don Roderick unable to doom to to obscurity Sir John Moore , A remarkable Instance of Friendship , Character of John Knox , - Ibid . 75 Harris , 76 Chalmers , 73 Ossian , 80 Edinburgh Review ...
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... interests of Reading and Elocution , and most evidently those of Oratory . But it would be endless to enumerate the baneful effects , and the wide - extending destructive ramifications of such a sys- tem , or trace its influence over ...
... interests of Reading and Elocution , and most evidently those of Oratory . But it would be endless to enumerate the baneful effects , and the wide - extending destructive ramifications of such a sys- tem , or trace its influence over ...
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... interests , and the unalienable rights of sovereign intellect . 66 However , speaking of the influence of emphasis , Walker says , Emphasis which controls every other rule in Read- ing , forms an exception to this . " Had this ...
... interests , and the unalienable rights of sovereign intellect . 66 However , speaking of the influence of emphasis , Walker says , Emphasis which controls every other rule in Read- ing , forms an exception to this . " Had this ...
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... interests . They seem to have forgot the end for which all this knowledge of theirs is intended or hoarded up . They seem to have forgot the influence which true and natural oratory must ever exer- cise over a people learned or ...
... interests . They seem to have forgot the end for which all this knowledge of theirs is intended or hoarded up . They seem to have forgot the influence which true and natural oratory must ever exer- cise over a people learned or ...
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... interests . Not content with acknowledging , in general terms , an over - ru- ling Providence , they habitually ascribed every event to the will of the Great Being for whose power no thing was too vast , for whose inspection nothing was ...
... interests . Not content with acknowledging , in general terms , an over - ru- ling Providence , they habitually ascribed every event to the will of the Great Being for whose power no thing was too vast , for whose inspection nothing was ...
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Seite 205 - KNOW ye the land where the cypress and myrtle Are emblems of deeds that are done in their clime? Where the rage of the vulture, the love of the turtle, Now melt into sorrow, now madden to crime...
Seite 238 - Thy shores are empires, changed in all save thee — Assyria, Greece, Rome, Carthage, what are they? Thy waters wasted them while they were free, And many a tyrant since ; their shores obey The stranger, slave or savage ; their decay Has dried up realms to deserts — not so thou Unchangeable, save to thy wild waves
Seite 245 - They say it was a shocking sight After the field was won; For many thousand bodies here Lay rotting in the sun; But things like that, you know, must be After a famous victory. "Great praise the Duke of Marlbro' won, And our good Prince Eugene.
Seite 232 - The spirits of your fathers Shall start from every wave ! — For the deck it was their field of fame, And Ocean was their grave...
Seite 218 - Last noon beheld them full of lusty life, Last eve in Beauty's circle proudly gay, The midnight brought the signal-sound of strife, The morn the marshalling in arms — the day Battle's magnificently stern array...
Seite 283 - With a bare bodkin ? who would fardels bear, To grunt and sweat under a weary life, But that the dread of something after death, The undiscover'd country from whose bourn No traveller returns, puzzles the will, And makes us rather bear those ills we have Than fly to others that we know not of ? Thus conscience does make cowards of us all...
Seite 253 - As awaked from the dead, And amazed he stares around. Revenge, revenge, Timotheus cries, See the Furies arise ! See the snakes that they rear, How they hiss in their hair, And the sparkles that flash from their eyes!
Seite 253 - Think, O think it worth enjoying! Lovely Thais sits beside thee, Take the good the gods provide thee!
Seite 250 - I'll meet the raging of the skies, But not an angry father." The boat has left a stormy land, A stormy sea before her, — When, oh ! too strong for human hand. The tempest gathered o'er her.
Seite 217 - There was a sound of revelry by night, And Belgium's capital had gathered then Her Beauty and her Chivalry, and bright The lamps shone o'er fair women and brave men...