Sheridan's and Henderson's Practical Method of Reading and Reciting English Poetry: Elucidated by a Variety of Examples Taken from Some of Our Most Popular Poets, and the Manner Pointed Out in which They Were Read Or Recited by the Above Gentlemen; Intended for the Improvement of Youth, and as a Necessary Introduction to Dr. Enfield's Speaker |
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... keep your voice up as above . ( For fuch proceedings I am charg'd witha ! ) In a lower tone , and in a more eafy , careless delivery . I won his daughter with . Her father lov'd me , oft invited me ; Still queftioning me the story of my ...
... keep your voice up as above . ( For fuch proceedings I am charg'd witha ! ) In a lower tone , and in a more eafy , careless delivery . I won his daughter with . Her father lov'd me , oft invited me ; Still queftioning me the story of my ...
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... keeping up your voice , after the two words marked , ere you proceed with the lines , you will find that it will add confiderable beauty to them . They lov'd : Soft , and in an affectionate manner . but fuch their guileless paffion was ...
... keeping up your voice , after the two words marked , ere you proceed with the lines , you will find that it will add confiderable beauty to them . They lov'd : Soft , and in an affectionate manner . but fuch their guileless paffion was ...
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... keep pace with the gravity of the fenfe , and which particularly introduces with great effect the next fol- lowing words , as they must be spoken with tenderness and affection . 66 ever fmiles on thee " With kind regard . O'er thee ...
... keep pace with the gravity of the fenfe , and which particularly introduces with great effect the next fol- lowing words , as they must be spoken with tenderness and affection . 66 ever fmiles on thee " With kind regard . O'er thee ...
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... keep pace with this beautiful perfonification of Cheerfulness , and take care that you do not permit your expreffion to flag in fprightliness , but keep it up , with unabated spirit , to the end of the verfe . Laft came Joy's ecstatic ...
... keep pace with this beautiful perfonification of Cheerfulness , and take care that you do not permit your expreffion to flag in fprightliness , but keep it up , with unabated spirit , to the end of the verfe . Laft came Joy's ecstatic ...
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... keep yourself in unifon with the paf- fion depicted . Let there be a glow of joyful expreffion throughout the whole . We fhall leave out the remainder of the poem , as it affords no opportunity in which a reader can exercise his talents ...
... keep yourself in unifon with the paf- fion depicted . Let there be a glow of joyful expreffion throughout the whole . We fhall leave out the remainder of the poem , as it affords no opportunity in which a reader can exercise his talents ...
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Page 175 - Thee I revisit safe, And feel thy sovran vital lamp ; but thou Revisit'st not these eyes, that roll in vain To find thy piercing ray, and find no dawn ; So thick a drop serene hath quenched their orbs, Or dim suffusion veiled.
Page 176 - Thus with the year Seasons return, but not to me returns Day, or the sweet approach of even or morn, Or sight of vernal bloom, or summer's rose, Or flocks, or herds, or human face divine: But cloud instead, and ever-during dark Surrounds me, from the cheerful ways of men Cut off, and for the book of knowledge fair Presented with a universal blank Of nature's works, to me expunged and rased, And wisdom at one entrance quite shut out.
Page 81 - That lost in long futurity expire. Fond impious man, think'st thou yon sanguine cloud Raised by thy breath, has quench'd the orb of day? To-morrow he repairs the golden flood And warms the nations with redoubled ray. Enough for me : with joy I see The different doom our fates assign : Be thine Despair and sceptred Care, To triumph and to die are mine.
Page 58 - Without a vain, without a grudging heart, To him who gives us all, I yield a part ; From him you come, for him accept it here, A frank and sober, more than costly cheer.
Page 18 - No traveller returns, puzzles the will, And makes us rather bear those ills we have Than fly to others that we know not of?
Page 157 - The slender Fir, that taper grows, The sturdy Oak with broad-spread Boughs...
Page 139 - Ye mute companions of my toils, that bear In all my griefs a more than equal share...
Page 189 - Not a pine in my grove is there seen, But with tendrils of woodbine is bound; Not a beech's more beautiful green. But a sweet-briar entwines it around. Not my fields in the prime of the year, More charms than my cattle unfold; Not a brook that is limpid and clear, But it glitters with fishes of gold.
Page 62 - With heaping coals of fire upon its head ; In the kind warmth the metal learns to glow, And...
Page 76 - Robed in the sable garb of woe, With haggard eyes the Poet stood ; Loose his beard, and hoary hair Stream'd, like a meteor, to the troubled air And, with a Master's hand, and Prophet's fire, Struck the deep sorrows of his lyre.