The Speaker: Or, Miscellaneous Pieces, Selected from the Best English Writers,: And Disposed Under Proper Heads, with a View to Facilitate the Improvement of Youth in Reading and Speaking. : To which is Prefixed An Essay on ElocutionJ. Johnson, 1785 - 405 sider |
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Side 162
... Parliaments by ancient usage ; and this ufage has been confirmed by feveral laws , which have been progreffively made by our ancestors , as often as they found it neceffary to infift on this effential privilege . PARLIAMENTS were ...
... Parliaments by ancient usage ; and this ufage has been confirmed by feveral laws , which have been progreffively made by our ancestors , as often as they found it neceffary to infift on this effential privilege . PARLIAMENTS were ...
Side 163
... Parliaments were wholly loft . This was that remarkable Parliament which so justly obtained the opprobrious name of the PEN- SION PARLIAMENT ; and was the model from which , I be lieve , fome later Parliaments have been exactly copied ...
... Parliaments were wholly loft . This was that remarkable Parliament which so justly obtained the opprobrious name of the PEN- SION PARLIAMENT ; and was the model from which , I be lieve , fome later Parliaments have been exactly copied ...
Side 164
... Parliaments , but it extended that fame Parliament beyond its natural duration ; and therefore carries this moft unjuft implication with it , That you may at any time ufurp the most indubitable , the most effential privilege of the ...
... Parliaments , but it extended that fame Parliament beyond its natural duration ; and therefore carries this moft unjuft implication with it , That you may at any time ufurp the most indubitable , the most effential privilege of the ...
Side 165
... Parliaments become therefore independent of the people , and when they do fo , there always happens a moft dangerous dependence elsewhere . LONG Parliaments give the minifter an opportunity of get- ting acquaintance with members , of ...
... Parliaments become therefore independent of the people , and when they do fo , there always happens a moft dangerous dependence elsewhere . LONG Parliaments give the minifter an opportunity of get- ting acquaintance with members , of ...
Side 166
... Parliaments , Sir , first introduced bribery , because they were worth purchafing at any rate : Country gentlemen , who have only their private fortunes to rely upon , and have no mercenary ends to serve , are unable to oppose it ...
... Parliaments , Sir , first introduced bribery , because they were worth purchafing at any rate : Country gentlemen , who have only their private fortunes to rely upon , and have no mercenary ends to serve , are unable to oppose it ...
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Side 375 - O, pardon me, thou bleeding piece of earth, That I am meek and gentle with these butchers; Thou art the ruins of the noblest man That ever lived in the tide of times. Woe to the hand that shed this costly blood ! Over thy wounds now do I prophesy...
Side 298 - Delightful task! to rear the tender thought, To teach the young idea how to shoot...
Side 213 - Tis but an hour ago since it was nine, And after one hour more 'twill be eleven ; And so, from hour to hour, we ripe and ripe, And then, from hour to hour, we rot and rot ; And thereby hangs a tale.
Side 327 - How lov'd, how honour'd once, avails thee not, To whom related, or by whom begot ; A heap of dust alone remains of thee, 'Tis all thou art, and all the proud shall be ! Poets themselves must fall, like those they sung, Deaf the prais'd ear, and mute the tuneful tongue.
Side 402 - Flushed with a purple grace He shows his honest face: Now give the hautboys breath; he comes, he comes! Bacchus , ever fair and young , Drinking joys did first ordain : Bacchus...
Side 376 - Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears; I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him. The evil, that men do, lives after them ; The good is oft interred with their bones ; So let it be with Caesar.
Side 274 - Haste thee, Nymph, and bring with thee Jest, and youthful Jollity, Quips and cranks, and wanton wiles, Nods and becks, and wreathed smiles, Such as hang on Hebe's cheek, And love to live in dimple sleek ; Sport that wrinkled Care derides, And Laughter holding both his sides.
Side 255 - The boast of heraldry, the pomp of pow'r, And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave, Await alike th' inevitable hour. The paths of glory lead but to the grave.
Side 378 - O, now you weep; and, I perceive, you feel The dint of pity : these are gracious drops. Kind souls, what ! weep you, when you but behold Our Caesar's vesture wounded ? Look you here, Here is himself, marr'd, as you see, with traitors.
Side 395 - tis seen the wicked prize itself Buys out the law. But 'tis not so above: There is no shuffling; there the action lies In his true nature; and we ourselves compell'd, Even to the teeth and forehead of our faults, To give in evidence.