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... called upon to speak on the real business of life , he exhibits the humiliating spectacle of a person of mature age employed in the minute and puerile task of attending to inflections , tones , and gestures , and hence , too , that ...
... called upon to speak on the real business of life , he exhibits the humiliating spectacle of a person of mature age employed in the minute and puerile task of attending to inflections , tones , and gestures , and hence , too , that ...
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... called the Jew Bill , A. D. 1753 , .216 5. Arbitrary Power not given to Man , ..... .218 6. Extract from Henry Brougham's Speech at the Liverpool Election , 1812 ,. .219 .......... Page 7. The True Policy of Great Britain ...
... called the Jew Bill , A. D. 1753 , .216 5. Arbitrary Power not given to Man , ..... .218 6. Extract from Henry Brougham's Speech at the Liverpool Election , 1812 ,. .219 .......... Page 7. The True Policy of Great Britain ...
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... called the rising and falling inflection . We must carefully guard against mistaking the low tone at the begin- ning of the rising inflection for the falling inflection , and the high tone at the beginning of the falling inflection for ...
... called the rising and falling inflection . We must carefully guard against mistaking the low tone at the begin- ning of the rising inflection for the falling inflection , and the high tone at the beginning of the falling inflection for ...
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... called to go out into a place which he should after receive for an inheritance , obey- ed ' ; and he went out , not knowing whither he went . Note . When a sentence consists of several loose members which nei- ther modify nor are ...
... called to go out into a place which he should after receive for an inheritance , obey- ed ' ; and he went out , not knowing whither he went . Note . When a sentence consists of several loose members which nei- ther modify nor are ...
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... called a simple series . The series , whose members consist of two or more words , is called a compound series . INFLECTIONS ON THE SIMPLE SERIES . COMMENCING . CONCLUDING . No. of Members . 2 3 4 5 6 No. of Members . 12 ′ 1'2'3 ' 2 3 ...
... called a simple series . The series , whose members consist of two or more words , is called a compound series . INFLECTIONS ON THE SIMPLE SERIES . COMMENCING . CONCLUDING . No. of Members . 2 3 4 5 6 No. of Members . 12 ′ 1'2'3 ' 2 3 ...
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Common terms and phrases
accent acute accent admiration Æneid antithesis appear BALANCE OF HAPPINESS beauty brave Brutus Cæsar Cæsura calamities called character Cicero death degree delight Demosthenes DR JOHNSON dread Dryden earth emphasis emphatic word EXAMPLES falling inflection fame fear feel force give Godfrey of Bouillon grave accent Greece hand happiness hath heart heaven Homer honour human Iliad imagination inflection takes place king labour laws lives Lochinvar look Lord loud mankind manner mark MEMBERS.-RULE mind moral mountain nature Netherby never night noble o'er object observe passions pause peace perfect pleasure poet poetry Pope praise pronounced reason religion rising inflection Rome RULE scene Scythians sense sentence Shakspeare solemn soul speak spirit storm sublime syllable tempests thee thing thou thought thunder tion tone Trojan war truth verb verse Virgil virtue voice whole
Popular passages
Page 383 - With a bare bodkin ? who would fardels bear, To grunt and sweat under a weary life, But that the dread of something after death, The undiscover'd country from whose bourn No traveller returns, puzzles the will And makes us rather bear those ills we have Than fly to others that we know not of ? Thus conscience does make cowards of us all...
Page 72 - But yesterday, the word of Caesar might Have stood against the world ; now lies he there, And none so poor to do him reverence. 0 masters ! if I were disposed to stir Your hearts and minds to mutiny and rage, 1 should do Brutus wrong, and Cassius wrong, Who, you all know, are honorable men. I will not do them wrong ; I rather choose To wrong the dead, to wrong myself, and you, Than I will wrong such honorable men.
Page 381 - Wilt thou upon the high and giddy mast Seal up the ship-boy's eyes, and rock his brains In cradle of the rude imperious surge ; And in the visitation of the winds, Who take the ruffian billows by the top, Curling their monstrous heads, and hanging them With deafning clamours in the slippery clouds, That, with the hurly, death itself awakes ? Canst thou, O partial sleep!
Page 365 - 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 64 - 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 380 - ... twere, the mirror up to nature ; to show virtue her own feature, scorn her own image, and the very age and body of the time his form and pressure.
Page 314 - Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That last infirmity of noble mind) To scorn delights, and live laborious days ; But the fair guerdon when we hope to find, And think to burst out into sudden blaze, Comes the blind Fury with the abhorred shears And slits the thin-spun life.
Page 50 - O, you hard hearts, you cruel men of Rome, knew you not Pompey? Many a time and oft have you climbed up to walls and battlements, to towers and windows, yea, to chimney-tops, your infants in your arms, and there have sat the livelong day, with patient expectation, to see great Pompey pass the streets of Rome...
Page 363 - Most potent, grave, and reverend signiors, My very noble and approved good masters, That I have ta'en away this old man's daughter, It is most true ; true, I have married her : The very head and front of my offending Hath this extent, no more. Rude am I in my speech, And little bless'd with the soft phrase of peace ; For since these arms of mine had seven years...
Page 381 - O gentle sleep, Nature's soft nurse, how have I frighted thee, That thou no more wilt weigh my eyelids down, And steep my senses in forgetfulness...