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THE ART OF SPEAKING

... ultimate In ill success. The moment they try to speak, all tlseir asfeelings, thoughts, facts, and purposes, either crowd to the tongue or fly altogether, and leave it d.utterly bankrupt of words. Those who can speak r asdo 'not often hring credit on the gift ...

POETRY

... Lord, oh speak ! thy servant bears: For I'm thy Servant, and B'll still be so: Speak words of Comfort in my willing Ears; And since my Tongue is in thy praises slow, And since that thino all Rhetorick exceeds, Speak thou in words, but let me speak in deeds ...

POETRY

... POETRY. SPEAK NOT HARSHLY. Speak not harshly: much of care Every hnunan heart must bear; Enough of shadows sadly play Aronnd the very sunniest way; Enough of sorrows darkly lie Veiled withiD the merriest eye. By the childhoods gushing tears By the griefs ...

POETRY

... The love I have for thee; For fate forbids my tongne should tell How dear thou art to me. II. Thou eanst not kosow, I cannot speak, The nogaish that I feel, By namrsing in my heart a love I never may reveal. IIn. For thoughl I've toiled to fix moy feet On ...

Literary Notices

... utterance. All men, bellmen and hawkers excepted, speak much more than they spout. Indeethere are numbers-we do not allude to ladies of eburse-wlto tnever speak ia. publir, 'and yet possess a capacity of speaking in private 'whicho is absolutely boundless ...

POETRY

... the serf to-day dare stand these Islemen of the West ? Speak ! from your bristling sides, ye ships, as Nelson spoke before- Speak ! whilst the world is waiting for your thunder burst of yore; Speak !r whilst your Islemen stand besides each hot and smoking ...

LITERATURE

... preliminaries to the d he art of speaking. His chief advice in regard to reading v e is that the reader should understand what the author A a means, and seek to give expression to the meaning. In ir A, regard tito speaking, his advice may he summarised as ...

MR C. & READ, M.P., ON THE DEPRESSION OF TRADE

... MR Cc. THE DEPRESSION OF TRADE. Speaking at a largely-attended meeting at iast night, Mr C. 5. Read, spoke of the present position of as the simple deveiupment of Free ‘Lraue, winch was a one-sided system. As to England ever being starved, there was ing ...

THE THEATRES

... finest periormance of the Colloen Bawn we have seen in Glasgow, the representation of last evening is by no weans the worst. Speaking first of the ladies, we do not know that Mrs Margaret Eburne's 21rs Cregan, or Miss Clara Rose's SIheelah., has been surpassed ...

POETRY

... the love we bore him, tl That we loved him long and well. Let it speak of kindliest nature, vI Of the large, yet subtle mind, Of a heart all overflowing With affection for his kind. J, Speak of honour-trust-and frankness, W Of a hand preventing need, pi ...

DR COLENSOS BOOK

... His whole soul revolted against the notion, ?? the Great and Blessed God, the iAlerci. ful Father of all naulkind, would speak of a servant or mnaid as inere I money,' and allow a horrible crime Ito go unpunished, because the victim of the brutal usage ...

SINGULAR STORY

... Orleans. The letters are addressed Dear Julia and Children. The first ones speak of having sent her money, with some doubt in one case whether it was honestly ?? The late ones speak of want, not having been plt sickness, &o., and at least intimate a request ...