The speaker, or Miscellaneous pieces, selected from the best English writers. To which is prefixed An essay on elocution, by W. EnfieldLouis, 1804 - 376 pages |
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... virtue itself hath its stated limits ; which not being strictly observed , it ceases to be virtue . It is wiser to prevent a quarrel beforehand , than to revenge it afterwards . It is much better to reprove , than to be angry secretly ...
... virtue itself hath its stated limits ; which not being strictly observed , it ceases to be virtue . It is wiser to prevent a quarrel beforehand , than to revenge it afterwards . It is much better to reprove , than to be angry secretly ...
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... reproaches , than all his virtues , praise : such is the force of ill - will , and ill - nature . It is harder to avoid censure , than to gain applause ; for this may be done by one great A3 Chap . iv . SELECT SENTENCES . 5.
... reproaches , than all his virtues , praise : such is the force of ill - will , and ill - nature . It is harder to avoid censure , than to gain applause ; for this may be done by one great A3 Chap . iv . SELECT SENTENCES . 5.
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... virtues by which it ought to be obtained . Titles of honour con- ferred upon such as have no personal merit , are at best but the royal stamp set upon base metal . Though an honourable title may be conveyed to posterity , yet the ...
... virtues by which it ought to be obtained . Titles of honour con- ferred upon such as have no personal merit , are at best but the royal stamp set upon base metal . Though an honourable title may be conveyed to posterity , yet the ...
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... Virtue should be considered a part of taste ; and we should as much avoid deceit , or sinister meanings in discourse , as we would puns , back language , or false grammar . CHAP . VII . DEFERENCE is the most complicate , the most ...
... Virtue should be considered a part of taste ; and we should as much avoid deceit , or sinister meanings in discourse , as we would puns , back language , or false grammar . CHAP . VII . DEFERENCE is the most complicate , the most ...
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... virtues would be proud , if our faults whipped them not ; and our crimes would despair , if they were not cherished by our virtues . The sense of death is most in apprehension ; And the poor beetle that we tread upon , In corporal ...
... virtues would be proud , if our faults whipped them not ; and our crimes would despair , if they were not cherished by our virtues . The sense of death is most in apprehension ; And the poor beetle that we tread upon , In corporal ...
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Popular passages
Page 264 - All the world's a stage, And all the men and women merely players : They have their exits and their entrances ; And one man in his time plays many parts, His acts being seven ages. At first the infant, Mewling and puking in the nurse's arms.
Page 262 - Or call up him that left half told The Story of Cambuscan bold, Of Camball, and of Algarsife, And who had Canace to wife, That own'd the virtuous ring and glass, And of the wondrous horse of brass, On which the Tartar king did ride...
Page 243 - Forbade to wade through slaughter to a throne, And shut the gates of mercy on mankind. The struggling pangs of conscious truth to hide, To quench the blushes of ingenuous shame, Or heap the shrine of Luxury and Pride With incense kindled at the Muse's flame. Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife, Their sober wishes never learn'd to stray; Along the cool sequester'd vale of life They kept the noiseless tenor of their way. Yet ev'n these bones from insult to protect Some frail memorial still...
Page 80 - STUDIES serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability. Their chief use for delight, is in privateness and retiring; for ornament, is in discourse; and for ability, is in the judgment and disposition of business.
Page 342 - O, pardon me, thou bleeding piece of earth, That I am meek and gentle with these butchers; Thou art the ruins of the noblest man That ever lived in the tide of times. Woe to the hand that shed this costly blood ! Over thy wounds now do I prophesy (Which like dumb mouths do ope their ruby lips, To beg the voice and utterance of my tongue...
Page 257 - Where the great Sun begins his state Robed in flames and amber light, The clouds in thousand liveries dight ; While the ploughman, near at hand, Whistles o'er the furrow'd land, And the milkmaid singeth blithe, And the mower whets his scythe, And every shepherd tells his tale Under the hawthorn in the dale.
Page 218 - ... tis true, this god did shake ; His coward lips did from their colour fly; And that same eye whose bend doth awe the world Did lose his lustre : I did hear him groan : Ay, and that tongue of his that bade the Romans Mark him, and write his speeches in their books, Alas ! it cried, " Give me some drink, Titinius,
Page 335 - Why, well : Never so truly happy, my good Cromwell. I know myself now ; and I feel within me A peace above all earthly dignities, A still and quiet conscience.
Page 311 - IT must be so — Plato, thou reason'st 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.
Page 343 - I speak not to disprove what Brutus spoke, But here I am to speak what I do know. You all did love him once, not without cause ; What cause withholds you then to mourn for him...