North-American Review and Miscellaneous JournalUniversity of Northern Iowa, 1857 |
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... true representative of the thought . In the an- cient treatises , in Dionysius of Halicarnassus , in Aristotle , and most especially in the precious and admirable work of Quintilian , the subject is handled with masterly ability . The ...
... true representative of the thought . In the an- cient treatises , in Dionysius of Halicarnassus , in Aristotle , and most especially in the precious and admirable work of Quintilian , the subject is handled with masterly ability . The ...
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... true , as we well re- member , that his sparing but most effectual sarcasm cast a sudden blight upon many gairish flowers of rhetoric , which had been cherished through the agonies of cultivating a hard and barren soil , and they ...
... true , as we well re- member , that his sparing but most effectual sarcasm cast a sudden blight upon many gairish flowers of rhetoric , which had been cherished through the agonies of cultivating a hard and barren soil , and they ...
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... true as it is well expressed : — " Of his conversational talent his friends need not be told , but it will be a pleasure to them to recall its charm . Natural , free , animat- ing , humorous , and , when need be , using against any ...
... true as it is well expressed : — " Of his conversational talent his friends need not be told , but it will be a pleasure to them to recall its charm . Natural , free , animat- ing , humorous , and , when need be , using against any ...
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... true that the imagination and passions do not predominate in modern eloquence ; they are not our turbulent masters . Still we think it a false philosophy which tells us that it can ever be the effect of general improvement to separate ...
... true that the imagination and passions do not predominate in modern eloquence ; they are not our turbulent masters . Still we think it a false philosophy which tells us that it can ever be the effect of general improvement to separate ...
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... true principles of rhetoric . Call him a natural or taught orator , it is all substantially the same , however true it may be that the few who can do nearly everything for themselves are greater men than the thousand who need help from ...
... true principles of rhetoric . Call him a natural or taught orator , it is all substantially the same , however true it may be that the few who can do nearly everything for themselves are greater men than the thousand who need help from ...
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Page 498 - You haste away so soon; As yet the early-rising Sun Has not attain'd his noon. Stay, stay Until the hasting day Has run But to the even-song; And, having pray'd together, we Will go with you along. We have short time to stay, as you, We have as short a Spring ; As quick a growth to meet decay As you, or any thing.
Page 543 - The soul of a true Christian, as I then wrote my meditations, appeared like such a little white flower as we see in the spring of the year : low, and humble on the ground, opening its bosom to receive the pleasant beams of the sun's glory ; rejoicing, as it were, in a calm rapture ; diffusing around a sweet fragrance ; standing peacefully and lovingly in the midst of other flowers round about; all in like manner opening their bosoms to drink in the light of the sun.
Page 578 - JACHIN AND BOAZ ; or, An Authentic Key to the Door of Freemasonry, both Ancient and Modern.
Page 496 - Moles eyes ; to these, the slain-stags teares : The unctuous dewlaps of a snaile ; The broke-heart of a nightingale Ore-come in musicke ; with a wine, Ne're ravisht from the flattering vine, But gently prest from the soft side Of the most sweet and dainty bride, Brought in a dainty duizie, which He fully quaffs up to bewitch His blood to height ; this done, commended Grace by his priest ; The feast is ended.
Page 15 - Lay me a green sod under my head, And another at my feet ; And lay my bent bow by my side, Which was my music sweet ; And make my grave of gravel and green, Which is most right and meet. Let me have length and breadth enough, With a green sod under my head ; That they may say, when I am dead, Here lies bold Robin Hood.
Page 18 - In this our spacious isle, I think there is not one, But he hath heard some talk of him and Little John ; And to the end of time, the tales shall ne'er be done, Of Scarlock, George-a-Green, and Much the miller's son, Of Tuck the merry friar, which many a sermon made In praise of Robin Hood, his outlaws, and their trade.
Page 417 - With clashing wheel, and lifting keel, And smoking torch on high, When winds are loud and billows reel, She thunders foaming by ; When seas are silent and serene, With even beam she glides — The sunshine glimmering through the green That skirts her gleaming sides.
Page 188 - The arm'd rhinoceros, or the Hyrcan tiger; Take any shape but that, and my firm nerves Shall never tremble: or be alive again, And dare me to the desert with thy sword ; If trembling I inhabit then, protest me The baby of a girl.
Page 251 - Whilst my physicians by their love are grown Cosmographers, and I their map, who lie Flat on this bed, that by them may be shown That this is my southwest discovery Per fretum febris, by these straits to die.
Page 497 - TO BLOSSOMS. Fair pledges of a fruitful tree, Why do ye fall so fast? Your date is not so past ; But you may stay yet here awhile, To blush and gently smile, And go at last. What, were ye born to be An hour or...