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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... fall , if lifted up to show that the body does not bear upon it . The knees should be straight , and braced , and the body , though perfectly straight , not per- pendicular , but inclining as far to the right as a firm posi- tion on the ...
... fall , if lifted up to show that the body does not bear upon it . The knees should be straight , and braced , and the body , though perfectly straight , not per- pendicular , but inclining as far to the right as a firm posi- tion on the ...
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... fall into naturally ; and , if they are such as are really graceful and becoming ( and such it is presumed are those which have been just de- scribed ) they will be adopted , with more facility than any other that can be taught him ...
... fall into naturally ; and , if they are such as are really graceful and becoming ( and such it is presumed are those which have been just de- scribed ) they will be adopted , with more facility than any other that can be taught him ...
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... fall in- to very wild and ungraceful action , which , when once formed into habit , can scarcely ever be corrected : Giving them therefore , a general outline of good action , must be of the utmost consequence to their progress and ...
... fall in- to very wild and ungraceful action , which , when once formed into habit , can scarcely ever be corrected : Giving them therefore , a general outline of good action , must be of the utmost consequence to their progress and ...
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... a torpid silence , resembling total apathy . Melancholy , or fixed grief , is gloomy sedentary , mo- tionless . The lower jaw falls ; the lips pale , the eyes are cast down , half shut , eyelids swelled and red 32 ELEMENTS.
... a torpid silence , resembling total apathy . Melancholy , or fixed grief , is gloomy sedentary , mo- tionless . The lower jaw falls ; the lips pale , the eyes are cast down , half shut , eyelids swelled and red 32 ELEMENTS.
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... fall it at the end of a sentence . Interroga- tives , where the speaker seems to expect an answer , should almost always be elevated at the close , with a particular tone , to indicate that a question is asked . Some sentences are so ...
... fall it at the end of a sentence . Interroga- tives , where the speaker seems to expect an answer , should almost always be elevated at the close , with a particular tone , to indicate that a question is asked . Some sentences are so ...
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action admiration agreeable appear arms beauty body breast Caius Verres Calais Carthage Cesar charms cheerfulness Cicero colours consider countenance creatures Curiatii death delight Dendermond desire Dovedale e'en earth enemy eternity express eyes father friends give glory grace hand happy hath head heart heaven honour hope hour human Jugurtha Keswick kind king labour Lady G live look Lord mankind manner master Mauny Micipsa mind mouth nature never night Numidia o'er object observe pain pass passion Patricians person pleasure Plebian Pompey praise privy counsellor Rhadamanthus riety rise Roman Rome says sense Sicily side smile soul sound speak speaker spirit stancy superiour sweet taste tears thee thing thou thought tion tone Trim truth Twas uncle Toby virtue voice whole words young youth
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Página 258 - Seasons return—but not to me returns Day, or the sweet approach of even or morn, Or sight of vernal bloom, or summer's rose, Or flocks or herds, or human face divine; But cloud instead, and ever during dark' Surround me, from the cheerful ways of men Cut off, and for the
Página 354 - a long farewell to all my greatness! This is the state of man ; to day he puts forth. The tender leaves of hope \ tomorrow blossoms, And bears his blushing honours thick upon him 5 The third day conies a frost, a killing frost, And when he thinks, good easy man, full
Página 365 - Pray you avoid it. 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'er step not the modesty of nature ; for any thing so overdone is from the purpose of
Página 384 - 1 I am no orator, as Brutus is ; But, as you know me all, a plain, blunt man, That love my friend—and that they know full well, That gave me public leave to speak of him .' For I have neither wit, nor words, nor worth, Action, nor utterance, nor power of speech, To stir men's
Página 407 - means, warmed and cooled by the same summer and winter, as a Christian is ? •If you prick us, do we not bleed ? If you tickle us, do we not laugh ? If you poison us, do we not die? And if you wrong us, shall we not revenge? If we
Página 376 - untried being, Through what new scenes and changes must we pass ! The wide, th' unbounded prospect lies before me ; But shadows, clouds and darkness rest upon it. Here will I hold. If there's a Power above us, (And that there is, all nature cries aloud Through all her works) be mus,t delight in virtue; And
Página 236 - mansion, skill'd to rule, The village master taught his little school. A man severe he was, and stern to view; I knew him well, and every truant knew. , Well had the boding tremblers learn'd to trace • * The day's disasters in his morning face: 'Full well they laugh'd, and counterfeited glee, At all
Página 250 - him for her own. Large was his bounty, and his soul sincere; Heaven did a recompense as largely send. He gave to mis'ry all he had—a tear; He gain'd from heaven ('twas all he wish'd)— a friend. . . No farther seek his merits to disclose, Or draw his frailties
Página 390 - not enough no harshness gives ofience ; The sound must seem an echo to the sense. Soft is the strain when zephyr gently blows, And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows ; But when loud surges lash the sounding shore, The hoarse rough verse should like the torrent roar. When Ajax strives some reek's vast weight to
Página 250 - Grav'd on the stone beneath yon aged thorn. THE EPITAPH. HERE rests his head upon the lap of earth, A youth to fortune and to fame unknown : Fair Science frown'd not on his humble birth, And Melancholy rnark'd him for her own. Large was his bounty, and his soul sincere; Heaven did a recompense as largely send.