The Reader: Containing I. The Art of Delivery ... a Selection of Lessons in the Various Kinds of Prose. II. Poetick Numbers ... a Selection of Lessons in the Various Kinds of Verse. Being the Third Part of a Columbian Exercise ... an Easy and Systematical Method of Teaching of Learning the English Language |
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... respect to elegance , be- sides propriety , proportion of sound also is to be taken in ; and this regards the delivery of words as arranged in sen- tences . That which gives delight to the ear in the utter- ance of articulate sounds ...
... respect to elegance , be- sides propriety , proportion of sound also is to be taken in ; and this regards the delivery of words as arranged in sen- tences . That which gives delight to the ear in the utter- ance of articulate sounds ...
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... respect , as vulgar as it is wicked . CHESTERFIELD . LESSON LXXXII . THE TELLING OF STORIES . AVOID telling stories in company , unless they are very short indeed , and very applicable to the subject you are upon ; in this case relate ...
... respect , as vulgar as it is wicked . CHESTERFIELD . LESSON LXXXII . THE TELLING OF STORIES . AVOID telling stories in company , unless they are very short indeed , and very applicable to the subject you are upon ; in this case relate ...
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... respect to all worldly things ; to indulge mirth but seldom , excessive grief never ; but to keep up constantly an even cheerfulness of temper . BURGH . LESSON LXXXVIII . PRUDENCE IN ACTION . THE wisdom of behaviour is to communicate ...
... respect to all worldly things ; to indulge mirth but seldom , excessive grief never ; but to keep up constantly an even cheerfulness of temper . BURGH . LESSON LXXXVIII . PRUDENCE IN ACTION . THE wisdom of behaviour is to communicate ...
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... RESPECT TO OLD AGE . IT happened at Athens , during a publick representation of some play exhibited in honour of the commonwealth , that an old gentleman came too late for a place suitable to . his age and quality . Many of the young ...
... RESPECT TO OLD AGE . IT happened at Athens , during a publick representation of some play exhibited in honour of the commonwealth , that an old gentleman came too late for a place suitable to . his age and quality . Many of the young ...
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... respect to the number and order of the incidents of his life . Some things will be omitted by one and mentioned by ... respecting the circumstances of the fact , did not intralidate $ 4 THE READER .
... respect to the number and order of the incidents of his life . Some things will be omitted by one and mentioned by ... respecting the circumstances of the fact , did not intralidate $ 4 THE READER .
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Page 184 - I'm weary of conjectures — this must end them. [Laying his Hand on his Sword. Thus am I doubly arm'd : my death and life, My bane and antidote are both before me. This in a moment brings me to an end ; But this informs me I shall never die. The soul, secur'd in her existence, smiles At the drawn dagger, and defies its point. The stars shall fade away, the sun himself Grow dim with age, and nature sink in years, But thou shall flourish in immortal youth, Unhurt amidst the war of elements, The wreck...
Page 192 - The spacious firmament on high, With all the blue ethereal sky, And spangled Heavens, a shining frame, Their great Original proclaim. Th' unwearied sun from day to day Does his Creator's power display, And publishes to every land The work of an almighty hand. Soon as the evening shades prevail, The moon takes up the wondrous tale ; And nightly, to the...
Page 96 - If a Jew wrong a Christian, what is his humility ? revenge ; If a Christian wrong a Jew, what should his sufferance be by Christian example? why, revenge. The villainy, you teach me, I will execute ; and it shall go hard, but I will better the instruction.
Page 174 - THE EPITAPH Here rests his head upon the lap of earth A youth to fortune and to fame unknown: Fair science frowned not on his humble birth, And melancholy marked him for her own. Large was his bounty, and his soul sincere, . Heaven did a recompense as largely send: He gave to misery all he had, a tear: He gained from heaven ('twas all he wished) a friend.
Page 61 - As I darkened the little light he had, he lifted up a hopeless eye towards the door, then cast it down — shook his head, and went on with his work of affliction. I heard his chains upon his legs, as he turned his body to lay his little stick upon the bundle. — He gave a deep sigh — I saw the iron enter into his soul — I burst into tears — I could not sustain the picture of confinement which my fancy had drawn...
Page 180 - 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 173 - As one who, long in populous city pent, Where houses thick and sewers annoy the air, Forth issuing on a summer's morn, to breathe Among the pleasant villages and farms Adjoin'd, from each thing met conceives delight ; The smell of grain, or tedded grass, or kine, Or dairy, each rural sight, each rural sound...
Page 51 - At the same time that I think discretion the most useful talent a man can be master of, I look upon cunning to be the accomplishment of little, mean, ungenerous minds. Discretion points out the noblest ends to us, and pursues the most proper and laudable methods of attaining them. Cunning has only private selfish aims, and sticks at nothing which may make them succeed.
Page 170 - Delightful task! to rear the tender thought, To teach the young idea how to shoot, To pour the fresh instruction o'er the mind, To breathe the' enlivening spirit, and to fix The generous purpose in the glowing breast.
Page 61 - I beheld his body half wasted away with long expectation and confinement, and felt what kind of sickness of the heart it was which arises from hope deferred. Upon looking nearer, I saw him pale and feverish ; in thirty years the western breeze had not once fanned his blood ; — he had seen no sun, no moon, in all that time ; — nor had the voice of friend or kinsman breathed through his lattice ! — His children ! — But here my heart began to bleed ; and I was forced to go on with another part...