The new hand-book of elocution |
From inside the book
Results 1-5 of 39
Page 9
... took ; The mute expression Served in lieu of confession , And , being thus coupled with full restitution , The Jackdaw got plenary absolution ! -When those words were heard , That poor little bird Was so changed in a moment , ' twas ...
... took ; The mute expression Served in lieu of confession , And , being thus coupled with full restitution , The Jackdaw got plenary absolution ! -When those words were heard , That poor little bird Was so changed in a moment , ' twas ...
Page 20
... took at once to horse . A moment pale and motionless the poet stood - nor spoke- Look'd with fix'd eyes as in a trance - neither the silence broke . He spurned the jewels with his foot , then knelt to kiss her hand- He the poor vagrant ...
... took at once to horse . A moment pale and motionless the poet stood - nor spoke- Look'd with fix'd eyes as in a trance - neither the silence broke . He spurned the jewels with his foot , then knelt to kiss her hand- He the poor vagrant ...
Page 22
... took him home to Number 2 , the house beside " The Foy , " I bade him wipe his dirty shoes — that little vulgar Boy— And then I said to Mistress Jones , the kindest of her sex , Pray be so good as go and fetch a pint of double X ! " 66 ...
... took him home to Number 2 , the house beside " The Foy , " I bade him wipe his dirty shoes — that little vulgar Boy— And then I said to Mistress Jones , the kindest of her sex , Pray be so good as go and fetch a pint of double X ! " 66 ...
Page 34
... took . The shadow mark'd the fitting place , King Saturn ruled the hour , The devil floating o'er his slave smiled at his puny power ; Hans Memling plied his crowbar fast - the thirteenth blow he gave , The ponderous statue fell and ...
... took . The shadow mark'd the fitting place , King Saturn ruled the hour , The devil floating o'er his slave smiled at his puny power ; Hans Memling plied his crowbar fast - the thirteenth blow he gave , The ponderous statue fell and ...
Page 60
... took her , from All trials and temptations here , To His eternal home ; And you shall see her in a place Where death can never part . " She looked up in that angel's face : ' Twas her own Golden - heart . The lofty music rose again From ...
... took her , from All trials and temptations here , To His eternal home ; And you shall see her in a place Where death can never part . " She looked up in that angel's face : ' Twas her own Golden - heart . The lofty music rose again From ...
Contents
177 | |
186 | |
204 | |
208 | |
216 | |
222 | |
225 | |
232 | |
70 | |
77 | |
79 | |
90 | |
106 | |
117 | |
135 | |
145 | |
155 | |
162 | |
167 | |
175 | |
236 | |
247 | |
258 | |
267 | |
273 | |
283 | |
285 | |
289 | |
291 | |
296 | |
297 | |
307 | |
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
Annabel Lee answer blessed blood breath Catiline CHARLES DICKENS Charlotte Corday Chas child Clif cried dark daughter dead dear death Dogb Donatello door Dora dream ducats Duke Eger eyes face father fear give glad grave guilders hand Hans Memling hast hath head hear heard heart Heaven honour horse hour Ivanhoe Jackdaw Kath kind permission King Lady Lapstone Lars Porsena light live look lord madam married Master Master Constable Miss morning mother never Nick Bottom night o'er once Peter Quince poor pray Prince Proggles Puff Pyramus Queen Quince roar round Shamus shew Shylock Sir Anth Sir John sleep smiled soul speak stood sweet sword tell thee there's thing thou thought Tomlinson Tumbleton Twas umbrella uncle Toby voice wife wild word young
Popular passages
Page 26 - Though justice be thy plea, consider this, That in the course of justice none of us Should see salvation : we do pray for mercy, And that same prayer doth teach us all to render The deeds of mercy.
Page 265 - Half a league, half a league, Half a league onward, All in the valley of Death Rode the six hundred. "Forward, the Light Brigade! Charge for the guns!" he said. Into the valley of Death Rode the six hundred. "Forward, the Light Brigade!
Page 268 - Cameron's gathering" rose ! The war-note of Lochiel, which Albyn's hills Have heard, and heard, too, have her Saxon foes : — How in the noon of night that pibroch thrills, Savage and shrill ! But with the breath which fills Their...
Page 232 - And this maiden she lived with no other thought Than to love and be loved by me. I was a child and she was a child, In this kingdom by the sea: But we loved with a love that was more than love I and my ANNABEL LEE; With a love that the winged seraphs of heaven Coveted her and me. And this was the reason that, long ago, In this kingdom by the sea...
Page 134 - ... rim. Then I cast loose my buffcoat, each holster let fall, Shook off both my jack-boots, let go belt and all, Stood up in the stirrup, leaned, patted his ear, Called my Roland his pet-name, my horse without peer ; Clapped my hands, laughed and sang, any noise, bad or good, Till at length into Aix Roland galloped and stood. And all I remember is, friends flocking round As I sat with his head 'twixt my knees on the ground; And no voice but was praising this Roland of mine, As I poured down his...
Page 234 - ACCENT of Christians nor the GAIT of Christian — PAGAN — nor MAN -have so STRUTTED and BELLOWED -that I have thought some of Nature's JOURNEYMEN had made men and not made them WELL they imitated humanity so ABOMINABLY...
Page 273 - With charm of earliest birds; pleasant the sun, When first on this delightful land he spreads His orient beams, on herb, tree, fruit, and flower, Glistering with dew; fragrant the fertile earth After soft showers; and sweet the coming on Of grateful evening mild: then silent night, With this her solemn bird, and this fair moon, And these the gems of heaven, her starry train...
Page 268 - And Ardennes waves above them her green leaves, Dewy with nature's tear-drops, as they pass, Grieving, if aught inanimate e'er grieves, Over the unreturning brave — alas ! Ere evening to be trodden like the grass...
Page 62 - For saddle-tree scarce reached had he, His journey to begin, When, turning round his head, he saw Three customers come in. So down he came ; for loss of time, Although it grieved him sore, Yet loss of pence, full well he knew, Would trouble him much more. 'Twas long before the customers Were suited to their mind, When Betty screaming came down stairs, " The wine is left behind ! " " Good lack ! " quoth he ; " yet bring it me, My leathern belt likewise, In which I bear my trusty sword When I do exercise.
Page 296 - The boy ! — oh, where was he ? Ask of the winds, that far around With fragments strewed the sea, — With mast, and helm, and pennon fair, That well had borne their part ; But the noblest thing that perished there, Was that young faithful heart ! THOMAS CAMPBELL.