The Art of Speaking: Containing. An Essay, in which are Given Rules for Expressing Properly the Principal Passions and Humours, which Occur in Reading, Or Public Speaking. And Lessons, Taken from the Ancients and Moderns; Exhibiting a Variety of Matter for Practice; the Emphatical Words Printed in Italics; with Notes of Direction Referring to the Essay ...S. Butler, 1804 - 291 pàgines |
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... kings , who arose against the people of Israel . The clergyman bears a very good character in the neighbour- hood ... kings to slaughter . Open the mouth of the cave , and bring out those five kings to me out of the cave ; " which he ...
... kings , who arose against the people of Israel . The clergyman bears a very good character in the neighbour- hood ... kings to slaughter . Open the mouth of the cave , and bring out those five kings to me out of the cave ; " which he ...
Pàgina 18
... Kings , xviii . and Isa . xliv . And the excellent Tillotson has not scrupled to indulge a strain of that sort now and then , especially in exposing the mock solem- nities of that most ludicrous ( as well as odious ) of all re- ligions ...
... Kings , xviii . and Isa . xliv . And the excellent Tillotson has not scrupled to indulge a strain of that sort now and then , especially in exposing the mock solem- nities of that most ludicrous ( as well as odious ) of all re- ligions ...
Pàgina 56
... kings upon all important matters , and , on account of their age , and care of their country , were called Fathers . Afterwards , when kingly power , which was orig- inally established for the preservation of liberty , and the advantage ...
... kings upon all important matters , and , on account of their age , and care of their country , were called Fathers . Afterwards , when kingly power , which was orig- inally established for the preservation of liberty , and the advantage ...
Pàgina 58
... king , " to taste this happiness , and know by experience , what my en .. joyments are , of which you have so high an idea ? Damocles gladly accepted the offer . Upon which the king ordered that a royal banquet should be prepared , and ...
... king , " to taste this happiness , and know by experience , what my en .. joyments are , of which you have so high an idea ? Damocles gladly accepted the offer . Upon which the king ordered that a royal banquet should be prepared , and ...
Pàgina 59
... king to restore him to his former humble condition , hav- ing no desire to enjoy any longer such a dreadful kind of happiness . [ Cic . Tusę . QUEST . ] C THE IV . NARRATION . HE præter had given up to the triumvir , Narration . a woman ...
... king to restore him to his former humble condition , hav- ing no desire to enjoy any longer such a dreadful kind of happiness . [ Cic . Tusę . QUEST . ] C THE IV . NARRATION . HE præter had given up to the triumvir , Narration . a woman ...
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Passatges populars
Pàgina 122 - It must be so — Plato, thou reasonest well ; Else whence this pleasing hope, this fond desire, This longing after immortality ? Or whence this secret dread, and inward horror, Of falling into nought ? 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 ! Eternity ! thou pleasing, dreadful thought ! Through what variety of untried being, Through what new scenes...
Pàgina 166 - It must not be; there is no power in Venice Can alter a decree established: 'Twill be recorded for a precedent; And many an error, by the same example, Will rush into the state: it cannot be.
Pàgina 173 - I stand in pause where I shall first begin, And both neglect. What if this cursed hand Were thicker than itself with brother's blood, Is there not rain enough in the sweet heavens To wash it white as snow?
Pàgina 143 - Cassius, now Leap in with me into this angry flood, And swim to yonder point ? ' Upon the word, Accoutred as I was, I plunged in And bade him follow : so indeed he did. The torrent roar'd, and we did buffet it With lusty sinews, throwing it aside And stemming it with hearts of controversy ; But ere we could arrive the point proposed, Caesar cried ' Help me, Cassius, or I sink...
Pàgina 143 - As a sick girl. Ye gods ! it doth amaze me A man of such a feeble temper should So get the start of the majestic world And bear the palm alone.
Pàgina 161 - Art thou not, fatal vision, sensible To feeling as to sight? or art thou but A dagger of the mind, a false creation, Proceeding from the heat-oppressed brain?
Pàgina 167 - Take then thy bond, take thou thy pound of flesh; But, in the cutting it, if thou dost shed One drop of Christian blood, thy lands and goods Are, by the laws of Venice, confiscate Unto the state of Venice.
Pàgina 125 - Nine years!' cries he, who, high in Drury Lane, Lull'd by soft zephyrs through the broken pane, Rhymes ere he wakes, and prints before Term ends, Obliged by hunger, and request of friends: 'The piece, you think, is incorrect? why take it, I'm all submission; what you'd have it, make it.
Pàgina 123 - To whom the goblin full of wrath replied. «Art thou that traitor- Angel, art thou He> Who first broke peace in Heaven ; and faith, till then Unbroken, and in proud rebellious arms Drew after him the third part of Heaven's sons...
Pàgina 122 - Here will I hold. If there's a power above us (And that there is, all Nature cries aloud Through all her works), he must delight in virtue ; And that which he delights in must be happy.