De Witt's Perfect Orator: Comprising a Great Number of Readings, Recitations, Dialogues and Harangues ... Added to which are Very Carefully Composed Prefatory Remarks ... Together with a Number of Useful Suggestions as to the Stage Arrangements, Making the Costumes, Scenery ...Henry Llewellyn Williams |
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... thought or idea calculated to sully the pure mind of youth . For we believe that no depth of intellect , no brilliancy of expression , can palliate the slightest devia- tion from recititude and morality . Second - That every piece ...
... thought or idea calculated to sully the pure mind of youth . For we believe that no depth of intellect , no brilliancy of expression , can palliate the slightest devia- tion from recititude and morality . Second - That every piece ...
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... thoughts of Shakspeare appear as lifeless as " the dull weed that rots by Lethe's wharf . " There is as much difference in . Elocution as in Music . Listen to a soulless artist drawling through an aria of Bel- lini's - then hear the ...
... thoughts of Shakspeare appear as lifeless as " the dull weed that rots by Lethe's wharf . " There is as much difference in . Elocution as in Music . Listen to a soulless artist drawling through an aria of Bel- lini's - then hear the ...
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... thoughts ! and let Appearances be what they may - you Shall never shape them so , that evil men Will not their own construction put upon them . Father , it was the precept of my father . ANT . He little knew the world . MAR . He knew ...
... thoughts ! and let Appearances be what they may - you Shall never shape them so , that evil men Will not their own construction put upon them . Father , it was the precept of my father . ANT . He little knew the world . MAR . He knew ...
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... thoughts of charity . What were thy words I know not , but thy acts Have been the comment of the Court to - day . Of eyes that gaped with marvel - groups that stood Gazing upon thee - leaning ears to lips , Whose whispers , were their ...
... thoughts of charity . What were thy words I know not , but thy acts Have been the comment of the Court to - day . Of eyes that gaped with marvel - groups that stood Gazing upon thee - leaning ears to lips , Whose whispers , were their ...
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... thought . " ] " TWAS in the prime of summer time , An evening calm and cool , And four - and - twenty happy boys Came bounding out of school : There were some that ran , and some that leapt , Like troutlets in a pool . Like sportive ...
... thought . " ] " TWAS in the prime of summer time , An evening calm and cool , And four - and - twenty happy boys Came bounding out of school : There were some that ran , and some that leapt , Like troutlets in a pool . Like sportive ...
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Page 134 - Nor any drop to drink. The very deep did rot; O Christ! That ever this should be! Yea, slimy things did crawl with legs Upon the slimy sea!
Page 47 - tis not to me she speaks: Two of the fairest stars in all the heaven, Having some business, do entreat her eyes To twinkle in their spheres till they return. What if her eyes were there, they in her head? The brightness of her cheek would shame those stars, As daylight doth a lamp; her eyes in heaven Would through the airy region stream so bright That birds would sing and think it were not night.
Page 150 - Shoots into port at some well-haven'd isle, Where spices breathe, and brighter seasons smile, There sits quiescent on the floods that show Her beauteous form reflected clear below, While airs impregnated with incense play Around her, fanning light her streamers gay ; So thou, with sails how swift ! hast reached the shore, ' Where tempests never beat nor billows roar,' * And thy loved consort on the dangerous tide Of life long since has anchor'd by thy side.
Page 48 - What's Montague? it is nor hand, nor foot, Nor arm, nor face, nor any other part Belonging to a man. O, be some other name ! What's in a name? that which we call a rose By any other name would smell as sweet; So Romeo would, were he not Romeo call'd, Retain that dear perfection which he owes Without that title.
Page 94 - O Caledonia ! stern and wild, Meet nurse for a poetic child ! Land of brown heath and shaggy wood, Land of the mountain and the flood, Land of my sires ? What mortal hand Can e'er untie the filial band That knits me to thy rugged strand...
Page 91 - And with them the Being Beauteous, Who unto my youth was given, More than all things else to love me, And is now a saint in heaven. With a slow and noiseless footstep, Comes that messenger divine, Takes the vacant chair beside me, Lays her gentle hand in mine. And she sits and gazes at me, With those deep and tender eyes, Like the stars, so still and saint-like, Looking downward from the skies.
Page 96 - All scatter'd in the bottom of the sea. Some lay in dead men's skulls; and, in those holes Where eyes did once inhabit, there were crept (As 'twere in scorn of eyes,) reflecting gems, That woo'd the slimy bottom of the deep, And mock'd the dead bones that lay scatter'd by.
Page 135 - O, young Lochinvar is come out of the west, Through all the wide Border his steed was the best ; And save his good broad-sword he weapon had none, He rode all unarmed, and he rode all alone. So faithful in love, and so dauntless in war, There never was knight like the young Lochinvar.
Page 50 - My bounty is as boundless as the sea, My love as deep; the more I give to thee, The more I have, for both are infinite.
Page 57 - Tell me not, in mournful numbers, Life is but an empty dream! — For the soul is dead that slumbers, And things are not what they seem. Life is real! Life is earnest! And the grave is not its goal; Dust thou art, to dust returnest, Was not spoken of the soul.