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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... thing and no idea at all . Besides , in this part of delivery , instruction may be conveyed by the eye ; and this organ is a much more rapid vehicle of knowledge than the ear . This ve- hicle is addressed on the present occasion ; and ...
... thing and no idea at all . Besides , in this part of delivery , instruction may be conveyed by the eye ; and this organ is a much more rapid vehicle of knowledge than the ear . This ve- hicle is addressed on the present occasion ; and ...
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... thing , which is vehement and forcible , as theatrical . It is an odd trick , to depreciate what we cannot attain ; and calling a spirited pronunciation theatrical , is but an artful method . of hiding an utter inability of speaking ...
... thing , which is vehement and forcible , as theatrical . It is an odd trick , to depreciate what we cannot attain ; and calling a spirited pronunciation theatrical , is but an artful method . of hiding an utter inability of speaking ...
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... thing like a pic- turesque grouping of objects , and without it , that is , if both speakers use the right hand , and stand exactly front- ing each other , the impropriety will be palpable , and the spectacle disgusting . It need ...
... thing like a pic- turesque grouping of objects , and without it , that is , if both speakers use the right hand , and stand exactly front- ing each other , the impropriety will be palpable , and the spectacle disgusting . It need ...
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... thing that passes . Words , if any few , and those dragged out , rather than spoken ; the accents weak , and interrupted , sighs breaking into the middle of sentences and words . Despair , as in a condemned criminal , or one , who has ...
... thing that passes . Words , if any few , and those dragged out , rather than spoken ; the accents weak , and interrupted , sighs breaking into the middle of sentences and words . Despair , as in a condemned criminal , or one , who has ...
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... thing in his own defence , causes his tongue to faulter and confounds his utterance ; and puts him upon making a thousand gestures and grimaces , to keep himself in coun- tenance ; all of which only heighten the confusion of his ...
... thing in his own defence , causes his tongue to faulter and confounds his utterance ; and puts him upon making a thousand gestures and grimaces , to keep himself in coun- tenance ; all of which only heighten the confusion of his ...
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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.