Lessons in Elocution, Or, A Selection of Pieces in Prose and Verse: For the Improvement of Youth in Reading and SpeakingHill and Moore, 1820 - 384 páginas |
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... better to conceive the position of two speakers in a scene , a Plate is given , representing their respective at titudes : And it must be carefully noted , that , when they are not speaking , the arms must hang in their natural place ...
... better to conceive the position of two speakers in a scene , a Plate is given , representing their respective at titudes : And it must be carefully noted , that , when they are not speaking , the arms must hang in their natural place ...
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... Better reign in hell , than serve in heaven . He rais'd a mortal to the skies ; She brought an angel down . Emphasis likewise serves to express some particular meaning not immediately arising from the words , but de pending upon the ...
... Better reign in hell , than serve in heaven . He rais'd a mortal to the skies ; She brought an angel down . Emphasis likewise serves to express some particular meaning not immediately arising from the words , but de pending upon the ...
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... a great mind . A man who gives his children a habit of industry , pro- vides for them better than giving them a stock of money . : II . Oh good or bad fortune , depends PART I-LESSONS IN READING to 3 Select Sentences,
... a great mind . A man who gives his children a habit of industry , pro- vides for them better than giving them a stock of money . : II . Oh good or bad fortune , depends PART I-LESSONS IN READING to 3 Select Sentences,
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... better . The pomp which distinguishes the great man from the mob , defends him not from the fever , nor from grief . Give a prince all the names of majesty that are found in a folio dictionary , the first attack of the gout will make ...
... better . The pomp which distinguishes the great man from the mob , defends him not from the fever , nor from grief . Give a prince all the names of majesty that are found in a folio dictionary , the first attack of the gout will make ...
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... better than his life . The next came towards us with her son upon her back , who we are told , was the greasest rake in the place , but so much the mother's darling , that she left her hushand behind , with a large family of hopeful ...
... better than his life . The next came towards us with her son upon her back , who we are told , was the greasest rake in the place , but so much the mother's darling , that she left her hushand behind , with a large family of hopeful ...
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Página 366 - Romans, countrymen, and lovers ! hear me for my cause, and be silent, that you may hear : believe me for mine honour, and have respect to mine honour, that you may believe : censure me in your wisdom, and awake your senses, that you may the better judge. If there be any in this assembly, any dear friend of Caesar's, to him I say that Brutus' love to Caesar was no less than his.
Página 350 - For I can raise no money by vile means: By heaven, I had rather coin my heart, And drop my blood for drachmas, than to wring From the hard hands of peasants their vile trash By any indirection...
Página 236 - The boast of heraldry, the pomp of power, And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave, Await alike the inevitable hour: The paths of glory lead but to the grave.
Página 362 - Why shrinks the soul Back on herself, and startles at destruction ? 'Tis the divinity that stirs within us; 'Tis Heaven itself that points out an hereafter, And intimates eternity to man.
Página 261 - The praise of Bacchus then the sweet musician sung : Of Bacchus ever fair and ever young : The jolly god in triumph comes ! Sound the trumpets, beat the drums ! Flush'd 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...
Página 359 - tis nobler in the mind, to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune ; Or to take arms against a sea of troubles, And by opposing end them ? — To die, — to sleep, — No more ; and, by a sleep, to say we end The heart-ache, and the thousand natural shocks That flesh is heir to, — 'tis a consummation Devoutly to be wish'd. To die ; — to sleep : — To sleep ! perchance to dream : — ay, there's the rub ; For in that sleep of death what dreams may come, When we have shuffled off this...
Página 249 - Air, and ye Elements, the eldest birth Of Nature's womb, that in quaternion run Perpetual circle, multiform ; and mix And nourish all things ; let your ceaseless change Vary to our Great Maker still new praise.
Página 367 - I speak not to disprove what Brutus spoke, But here I am to speak what I do know. You all did love him once, not without cause: What cause withholds you then to mourn for him? O judgment! thou art fled to brutish beasts, And men have lost their reason. Bear with me; My heart is in the coffin there with Caesar, And I must pause till it come back to me.
Página 342 - Why, well : Never so truly happy, my good Cromwell. I know myself now ; and I feel within me A peace above all earthly dignities, A still and quiet conscience.
Página 351 - 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 any thing 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.