The Speaker Or Miscellaneous Pieces Selected from the Best English Writers: Essay on Elocution and Directions for ReadingF. Louis, 1804 - 376 pages |
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... hour of the night ; the sovereign , when he issues his edict ; the senator , when he harangues ; the lover , when he whispers his tender tale ; do not differ more in the tones which they use , than in the key in which they speak ...
... hour of the night ; the sovereign , when he issues his edict ; the senator , when he harangues ; the lover , when he whispers his tender tale ; do not differ more in the tones which they use , than in the key in which they speak ...
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... hours , whose bed , whose meal , and exercise Are still together ; who twine , as ' twere , in love Inseparable ; shall within this hour , On a dissension of a doit , break out To bitterest enmity . So fellest foes Whose passions and ...
... hours , whose bed , whose meal , and exercise Are still together ; who twine , as ' twere , in love Inseparable ; shall within this hour , On a dissension of a doit , break out To bitterest enmity . So fellest foes Whose passions and ...
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... That struts and frets his hour upon the stage , And then is heard no more ! It is a tale Told by an idiot , full of sound and fury Signifying nothing . BOOK I I. 1 NARRATIVE PIECES . CHA P. I. Chap . ix . 17 SELECT SENTENCES .
... That struts and frets his hour upon the stage , And then is heard no more ! It is a tale Told by an idiot , full of sound and fury Signifying nothing . BOOK I I. 1 NARRATIVE PIECES . CHA P. I. Chap . ix . 17 SELECT SENTENCES .
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... hours together on the banks of some wild and melancholy stream , singing to her lute . She taught men to weep , for she took a strange delight in tears and often , when the virgins of the hamlet were assembled at their evening sports ...
... hours together on the banks of some wild and melancholy stream , singing to her lute . She taught men to weep , for she took a strange delight in tears and often , when the virgins of the hamlet were assembled at their evening sports ...
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... hours of heartfelt bliss Did love on both bestow ! But bliss too mighty long to last , Where fortune proves a foe . His sister who like envy form'd , Like her in mischief joy'd , To work them harm , with wicked skill Each darker art ...
... hours of heartfelt bliss Did love on both bestow ! But bliss too mighty long to last , Where fortune proves a foe . His sister who like envy form'd , Like her in mischief joy'd , To work them harm , with wicked skill Each darker art ...
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