North American First Class Reader: The Sixth Book of Tower's Series for Common Schools, in which the Higher Principles of Elocution are Explained and Illustrated by Appropriate Exercises |
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... Taste and Genius , The Cultivation of Taste , ...... Elegy written in a Country Churchyard , Notice of Thomas Gray , .. .Blair . 121 Gray . 124 and Lady Suffolk , Letter on Punning ,. 129 Walter Scott . 13C 134 Page . Rob Roy , Frank ...
... Taste and Genius , The Cultivation of Taste , ...... Elegy written in a Country Churchyard , Notice of Thomas Gray , .. .Blair . 121 Gray . 124 and Lady Suffolk , Letter on Punning ,. 129 Walter Scott . 13C 134 Page . Rob Roy , Frank ...
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... taste which directs their application . To the ignorant , principles are stumbling - blocks ; to the indolent and uncultivated , they seem foolishness . With the single exception of reason , is there any thing of such intrinsic value as ...
... taste which directs their application . To the ignorant , principles are stumbling - blocks ; to the indolent and uncultivated , they seem foolishness . With the single exception of reason , is there any thing of such intrinsic value as ...
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... taste , improve the understanding , ennoble the feelings , or elevate the soul . But what use can a teacher of high accomplishments , of deep and earnest purpose , make of a book containing selec- tions recommended on the ground that ...
... taste , improve the understanding , ennoble the feelings , or elevate the soul . But what use can a teacher of high accomplishments , of deep and earnest purpose , make of a book containing selec- tions recommended on the ground that ...
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... taste is to be formed . Then , instead of laying before him what is bad in taste , loose in style , faulty in construction , and wanting in sense , and requiring him , year after year , to look at words jumbled into sentences by some ...
... taste is to be formed . Then , instead of laying before him what is bad in taste , loose in style , faulty in construction , and wanting in sense , and requiring him , year after year , to look at words jumbled into sentences by some ...
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... taste for the writings of those who have struck out such images of thought , and apparelled them in such select language , that they have gone forth and peopled the minds of intelligent and admiring readers ? and by a destiny which no ...
... taste for the writings of those who have struck out such images of thought , and apparelled them in such select language , that they have gone forth and peopled the minds of intelligent and admiring readers ? and by a destiny which no ...
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Page 267 - tis his will : Let but the commons hear this testament, (Which, pardon me, I do not mean to read) And they would go and kiss dead Caesar's wounds, And dip their napkins in his sacred blood ; Yea, beg a hair of him for memory, And, dying, mention it within their wills, Bequeathing it, as a rich legacy, Unto their issue.
Page 346 - It blesseth him that gives, and him that takes; 'Tis mightiest in the mightiest; it becomes The throned monarch better than his crown; His sceptre shows the force of temporal power, The attribute to awe and majesty, Wherein doth sit the dread and fear of kings; But mercy is above this sceptred sway, It is enthroned in the hearts of kings, It is an attribute to God himself; And earthly power doth then show likest God's When mercy seasons justice.
Page 124 - The curfew tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herd winds slowly o'er the lea, The ploughman homeward plods his weary way, And leaves the world to darkness and to me. Now fades the glimmering landscape on the sight, And all the air a solemn stillness holds, Save where the beetle wheels his droning flight, And drowsy tinklings lull the distant folds...
Page 266 - I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him. The evil that men do lives after them ; The good is oft interred with their bones : So let it be with Caesar. The noble Brutus Hath told you Caesar was ambitious: If it were so, it was a grievous fault; And grievously hath Caesar answer'd it. Here, under leave of Brutus and the rest, — For Brutus is an honorable man ; So are they all, all honorable men, — Come I to speak in Caesar's funeral.
Page 144 - Thus to relieve the wretched was his pride, And e'en his failings leaned to Virtue's side; But in his duty prompt at every call, He watched and wept, he prayed and felt, for all. And, as a bird each fond endearment tries To tempt its new-fledged offspring to the skies, He tried each art, reproved each dull delay, Allured to brighter worlds, and led the way.
Page 179 - All murder'd: for within the hollow crown That rounds the mortal temples of a king Keeps Death his court, and there the antic sits, Scoffing his state and grinning at his pomp...
Page 38 - Now, my co-mates and brothers in exile, Hath not old custom made this life more sweet Than that of painted pomp? Are not these woods More free from peril than the envious court? Here feel we but the penalty of Adam, — The seasons' difference : as the icy fang And churlish chiding of the winter's wind, Which when it bites and blows upon my body, Even till I shrink with cold, I smile and say, This is no flattery : these are counsellors That feelingly persuade me what I am.
Page 32 - In thoughts from the visions of the night, when deep sleep falleth on men, fear came upon me, and trembling, which made all my bones to shake. Then a spirit passed before my face ; the hair of my flesh stood up : it stood still, but I could not discern the form thereof : an image was before mine eyes ; there was silence, and I heard a voice...
Page 27 - It must be so — Plato, thou reasonest well ; Else whence this pleasing hope, this fond desire, This longing after immortality ? Or whence this secret dread, and inward horror, Of falling into nought ? Why shrinks the soul Back on herself, and startles at destruction ? Tis the divinity that stirs within us ; 'Tis heaven itself, that points out an hereafter, And intimates eternity to man ! Eternity ! thou pleasing, dreadful thought ! Through what variety of untried being, Through what new scenes...
Page 264 - Romans, countrymen, and lovers ! hear me for my cause, and be silent that you may hear : believe me for mine honor, and have respect to mine honor, 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.