The Making of an OratorG.P. Putnam's sons, 1906 - 361 páginas |
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Página 104
... noble cause , be it the defence of an innocent person , the impeachment of an oppressor , the vindica- tion of a ... Lord Coleridge if he had ever felt 104 The Making of an Orator.
... noble cause , be it the defence of an innocent person , the impeachment of an oppressor , the vindica- tion of a ... Lord Coleridge if he had ever felt 104 The Making of an Orator.
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... Lord help you , sir , they are not angry with one another ; they have now no cause of quarrel — but their coun- try ... noble sentiment , but the affections of social nature , and in the prosecution of this system you spread terror and ...
... Lord help you , sir , they are not angry with one another ; they have now no cause of quarrel — but their coun- try ... noble sentiment , but the affections of social nature , and in the prosecution of this system you spread terror and ...
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... noble lord is asleep , " he answered , " I wish to God I was . During the American war he had occasion to announce at a city dinner , the receipt of in- telligence of an important advantage gained over the " rebels , " and being taken ...
... noble lord is asleep , " he answered , " I wish to God I was . During the American war he had occasion to announce at a city dinner , the receipt of in- telligence of an important advantage gained over the " rebels , " and being taken ...
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... noble lord the member for Stamford . The noble lord saw in this amendment , of which I have given the House the plain history I say the plain and true history - the noble lord saw in the language of the amendment great cause for ...
... noble lord the member for Stamford . The noble lord saw in this amendment , of which I have given the House the plain history I say the plain and true history - the noble lord saw in the language of the amendment great cause for ...
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... noble lord is that they invariably produce an echo from the other side . That , it seems to me , is now almost a parliamentary law . When the bark is heard on this side , the right hon . member for Calne 2 emerges , I will not say from ...
... noble lord is that they invariably produce an echo from the other side . That , it seems to me , is now almost a parliamentary law . When the bark is heard on this side , the right hon . member for Calne 2 emerges , I will not say from ...
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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.