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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... fear ; spread forth with the hands open , to express desire or affection ; the hands clapped in surprise , and in sudden joy and grief ; the right hand clenched , and the arms brandished , to threaten ; the two arms set akimbo , to look ...
... fear ; spread forth with the hands open , to express desire or affection ; the hands clapped in surprise , and in sudden joy and grief ; the right hand clenched , and the arms brandished , to threaten ; the two arms set akimbo , to look ...
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... fear and uneasiness , draws all the parts of the body together , gathers up the arms upon the breast , unless one hand covers the eyes , or rubs the forehead ; draws down the eyebrows ; hangs the head upon the breast ; casts down the ...
... fear and uneasiness , draws all the parts of the body together , gathers up the arms upon the breast , unless one hand covers the eyes , or rubs the forehead ; draws down the eyebrows ; hangs the head upon the breast ; casts down the ...
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... Fear , violent and sudden , opens very wide the eyes and mouth ; shortens the nose ; draws down the eyebrows ; gives the countenance an air of wildness ; covers it with a deadly paleness ; draws back the elbows parallel with the sides ...
... Fear , violent and sudden , opens very wide the eyes and mouth ; shortens the nose ; draws down the eyebrows ; gives the countenance an air of wildness ; covers it with a deadly paleness ; draws back the elbows parallel with the sides ...
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... fear ) to the throne of heavenly mercy ; and immediately cast down again to the earth . Then floods of tears are seen to flow . The knees are bended ; or the body prostrated on the ground . The arins are spread in a suppliant pos- ture ...
... fear ) to the throne of heavenly mercy ; and immediately cast down again to the earth . Then floods of tears are seen to flow . The knees are bended ; or the body prostrated on the ground . The arins are spread in a suppliant pos- ture ...
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... the skies ; but oftener , and more expressively , fixes them on the object ; if the cause of the passion be a present and visible object , with the look , all except the wildness , of fear . ( See Fear . ) If the hands 38 ELEMENTS.
... the skies ; but oftener , and more expressively , fixes them on the object ; if the cause of the passion be a present and visible object , with the look , all except the wildness , of fear . ( See Fear . ) If the hands 38 ELEMENTS.
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Términos y frases comunes
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.