The Making of an OratorG.P. Putnam's sons, 1906 - 361 páginas |
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... important than all , he knows from previous en- counters his own strength and his own weak- ness . On occasions of a social or ceremonial character speeches are frequently written , for more depends , in these cases , upon the taste and ...
... important than all , he knows from previous en- counters his own strength and his own weak- ness . On occasions of a social or ceremonial character speeches are frequently written , for more depends , in these cases , upon the taste and ...
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... importance of different subjects and different occasions . He forced himself into the Government , however , and managed to keep his place during their first term of of- fice , but on their resumption of a second term he had talked away ...
... importance of different subjects and different occasions . He forced himself into the Government , however , and managed to keep his place during their first term of of- fice , but on their resumption of a second term he had talked away ...
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... important in written composi- tions , are of still greater importance in those which are spoken , and he who would acquire a good method cannot too early learn how to make a plain statement of facts , in the man- ner best adapted to the ...
... important in written composi- tions , are of still greater importance in those which are spoken , and he who would acquire a good method cannot too early learn how to make a plain statement of facts , in the man- ner best adapted to the ...
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... importance . They are ac- customed to concern themselves more with the ornamental features of a speech , forgetting that the humbler parts are really fundamental . How often has one heard in the course of a rhetorically fervid address ...
... importance . They are ac- customed to concern themselves more with the ornamental features of a speech , forgetting that the humbler parts are really fundamental . How often has one heard in the course of a rhetorically fervid address ...
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... importance can be duly appreciated . He must not hope to ac- complish all this at the first or second attempt , for the power of speaking lucidly , even in simple unadorned narrative , comes only with that of thinking lucidly . Both ...
... importance can be duly appreciated . He must not hope to ac- complish all this at the first or second attempt , for the power of speaking lucidly , even in simple unadorned narrative , comes only with that of thinking lucidly . Both ...
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Página 127 - And let those that play your clowns, speak no more than is set down for them : for there be of them, that will themselves laugh, to set on some quantity of barren spectators to laugh too ; though, in the mean time, some necessary question of the play be then to be considered: that's villainous; and . shows a most pitiful ambition in the fool that uses it.
Página 260 - Because half a dozen grasshoppers under a fern make the field ring with their importunate chink, whilst thousands of great cattle, reposed beneath the shadow of the British oak, chew the cud and are silent, pray do not imagine that those who make the noise are the only inhabitants of the field; that, of course, they are many in number; or that, after all, they are other than the little, shrivelled, meagre, hopping, though loud and troublesome insects of the hour.
Página 237 - I rejoice that America has resisted. Three millions of people, so dead to all the feelings of liberty as voluntarily to submit to be slaves, would have been fit instruments to make slaves of the rest.
Página 123 - O, it offends me to the soul to hear a robustious periwig-pated fellow tear a passion to tatters, to very rags, to split the ears of the groundlings...
Página 123 - Be not too tame, neither, but let your own discretion be your tutor; suit the action to the word, the word to the action; with this special observance, that you o'erstep not the modesty of nature; for anything so overdone is from the purpose of playing, whose end, both at the first and now, was and is to hold, as 'twere, the mirror up to nature; to show virtue her own feature, scorn her own image, and the very age and body of the time his form and pressure.
Página 237 - In such a cause, your success would be hazardous. America, if she fell, would fall like the strong man. She would embrace the pillars of the state, and pull down the constitution along with her.
Página 299 - England that the eyes of the oppressed were always turned — to this favourite, this darling home of so much privilege and so much happiness, where the people that had built up a noble edifice for themselves would, it was well known, be ready to do what in them lay to secure the benefit of the same inestimable boon for others. You talk to me of the established tradition and policy in regard to Turkey.
Página 122 - Nor do not saw the air too much with your hand, thus, but use all gently ; for in the very torrent, tempest, and, as I may say, the whirlwind of passion, you must acquire and beget a temperance that may give it smoothness.
Página 120 - Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounced it to you, trippingly on the tongue : but if you mouth it, as many of your players do, I had as lief the town-crier spoke my lines.