Lessons in Elocution, Or, A Selection of Pieces in Prose and Verse: For the Improvement of Youth in Reading and Speaking |
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So much the rather , thou , celestial light , Shine inward , and the mind , through all her powers , Irradiate ; there plant eyes ; all mist from thence , Purge and disperse ; that I may see and tell Of things invisible to mortal sight ...
So much the rather , thou , celestial light , Shine inward , and the mind , through all her powers , Irradiate ; there plant eyes ; all mist from thence , Purge and disperse ; that I may see and tell Of things invisible to mortal sight ...
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So much the rather , thou , celestial light , Shine inward , and the mind , through all her powers , Irradiate ; there plant eyes ; all mist from thence , Purge and disperse ; that I may see and tell Of things invisible to mortal sight ...
So much the rather , thou , celestial light , Shine inward , and the mind , through all her powers , Irradiate ; there plant eyes ; all mist from thence , Purge and disperse ; that I may see and tell Of things invisible to mortal sight ...
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Página 231 - Yet he was kind, or, if severe in aught, The love he bore to learning was in fault...
Página 353 - Disguise fair nature with hard-favour'd rage; Then lend the eye a terrible aspect; Let it pry through the portage of the head Like the brass cannon: let the brow o'erwhelm it As fearfully as doth a galled rock O'erhang and jutty his confounded base, Swill'd with the wild and wasteful ocean. Now set the teeth and stretch the nostril wide; Hold hard the breath, and bend up every spirit To his full height.
Página 224 - The boast of heraldry, the pomp of power, And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave, Await alike the inevitable hour: The paths of glory lead but to the grave.
Página 349 - She lov'd me for the dangers I had pass'd, And I lov'd her that she did pity them.
Página 243 - His praise, ye winds, that from four quarters blow, Breathe soft or loud ; and wave your tops, ye pines, With every plant, in sign of worship wave. • • Fountains, and ye that warble, as ye. flow, Melodious murmurs, warbling, tune his praise. Join voices, all ye living souls ! ye birds, That, singing, up to heaven's gate ascend, Bear on your wings and in your notes his praise.
Página 224 - 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...
Página 224 - Their name, their years, spelt by th' unletter'd muse, The place of fame and elegy supply: And many a holy text around she strews, That teach the rustic moralist to die. For who to dumb Forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing anxious being e'er resign'd, Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day, Nor cast one longing ling'ring look behind?
Página 117 - Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar but not coarse, and elegant but not ostentatious, must give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison, HUGHES.
Página 343 - I could weep My spirit from mine eyes ! — There is my dagger, And here my naked breast ; within, a heart Dearer than Plutus...
Página 230 - Where village statesmen talk'd with looks profound, And news much older than their ale went round. Imagination fondly stoops to trace The...
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| Título | Lessons in Elocution, Or, A Selection of Pieces in Prose and Verse: For the Improvement of Youth in Reading and Speaking |
| Autor | William Scott |
| Compilado por | William Scott |
| Editor | Hori Brown, 1820 |
| Procedencia del original | Universidad de Harvard |
| Digitalizado | 22 Mar 2007 |
| Largo | 407 páginas |
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