An Essay on Elocution; With Elucidatory Passages from Various Authors (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1850. Excerpt: ...--On heaven and on thy lady call, And enter the enchanted hall." M jyiy hope, my heaven, my trust mu9t be, My gentle guide, in following thee." QUARREL BETWEEN RODERICK DHU AND FITZ-JAMES. The shades of eve come slowly down, The woods are wrapp'd in deeper brown, The owl awakens from her dell, The fox is heard upon the fell; Enough remains of glimmering light To guide the wanderer's steps aright, Yet not enough from far to show His figure to the watchful foe. With cautious step, and ear awake, He climbs the crag and threads the brake; And not the summer solstice there, TemperM the midnight mountain air, But every breeze, that swept the wold, Benumbed his drenched limbs with cold. In dread, in danger, and alone. Famished and chilled, through ways unknown; Tangled and steep, he journeyed on; Till, as a rock's huge point he turned, A watch-fire close before him burned. Beside its embers red and clear, Basked, in his plaid, a mountaineer; And up he sprung with sword in hand, --"Thy name and purpose Saxon, stand "--"A stranger."--"What dost thou require?"--' Rest and a guide, and food and fire. My life's beset, my path is lost, The gale has chilled my limbs with frost." Art thou a friend to Roderick?"--" No." "Thou darest not call thyself a foe?"--"I darel to him and all the band He brings to aid his murderous hand."--"Bold words --but, though the beast of game The privilege of chase may claim, Though space and law the stag we lend, Ere hound we slip, or bow we bend, Who ever reck'd, where, how, or when, The prowling fox was trapp'd or slain? Thus treacherous scouts, --yet sure they lie, Who say thou earnest a secret spy " "They do, by heaven --Come Roderick Dhu, And of his clan the boldest two, And let me but till morning rest, I write the falsehood on their cr...