Practical Illustrations of Rhetorical Gesture and ActionSherwood, Neely and Jones, 1822 - 393 páginas |
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Practical Illustrations of Rhetorical Gesture and Action Johann Jacob Engel,Henry Siddons Vista completa - 1822 |
Practical Illustrations of Rhetorical Gesture and Action Johann Jacob Engel,Henry Siddons Vista de fragmentos - 1968 |
Practical Illustrations of Rhetorical Gesture and Action Johann Jacob Engel Vista de fragmentos - 1807 |
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Página 76 - Whilst he that hears makes fearful action, With wrinkled brows, with nods, with rolling eyes. I saw a smith stand with his hammer, thus, The whilst his iron did on the anvil cool, With open mouth swallowing a tailor's news ; Who, with his shears and measure in his hand, Standing on slippers, (which his nimble haste Had falsely thrust upon contrary feet...
Página 209 - Nay, do not think I flatter, For what advancement may I hope from thee That no revenue hast but thy good spirits To feed and clothe thee? Why should the poor be flatter'd? No, let the candied tongue lick absurd pomp, And crook the pregnant" hinges of the knee Where thrift
Página 45 - 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 210 - That they are not a pipe for fortune's finger To sound what stop she please. Give me that man That is not passion's slave, and I will wear him In my heart's core, ay, in my heart of heart, As I do thee.
Página 387 - My brave associates — partners of my toil, my feelings, and my fame ! — can Rolla's words add vigour to the virtuous energies which inspire your hearts ? No ! You have judged, as I have, the foulness of the crafty plea by which these bold invaders would delude you. Your generous spirit has compared, as mine has, the motives which, in a war like this, can animate their minds...
Página 342 - Now, if we consider the human mind, we shall find, that, with regard to the passions, it is not of the nature of a wind-instrument of music, which, in running over all the notes, immediately loses the sound after the breath ceases ; but rather resembles a string-instrument, where, after each stroke, the vibrations still retain some sound, which gradually and insensibly decays.
Página 343 - ... the fancy may change its views with great celerity, each stroke will not produce a clear and distinct note of passion, but the one passion will always be mixed and confounded with the other.
Página 375 - Ash. Ees, zur, quite cool — by reason the roof be tumbled in. Sir Abel. Better and better — " the whole capable of the greatest improvement." — Come, that seems true however — I shall have plenty to do, that's one comfort — I'll have such contrivances ! I'll have a canal run through my kitchen. — I must give this rustic some idea of my consequence. [Aside.] You must know...
Página 383 - I'll curee thee with my last, my parting breath, And keep the courage of my life, in death ; Then boldly venture on that world unknown : It cannot use me worse than this has done.