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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Pàgina 8
... pretends to question ? Art is but nature improved upon and refined . And before improvement is applied , genius is but a mass of ore in the mine , without lustre , and with- out value , because unknown and unthought of . The an- cients ...
... pretends to question ? Art is but nature improved upon and refined . And before improvement is applied , genius is but a mass of ore in the mine , without lustre , and with- out value , because unknown and unthought of . The an- cients ...
Pàgina 26
... pretended , are accompanied with much the same looks and gestures as express love ; but more moderate . Wonder , or amazement ( without any other interesting passion , as love , esteem , & c . ) opens the eyes , and makes them appear ...
... pretended , are accompanied with much the same looks and gestures as express love ; but more moderate . Wonder , or amazement ( without any other interesting passion , as love , esteem , & c . ) opens the eyes , and makes them appear ...
Pàgina 44
... , how forcible our manner of treating of what we pretend firmly to believe ; of what we know the Author of our religion confirmed by actually rising from. * Hon . vid . II . 1 . * " Straight is the gate , and narrow the [ 44 ]
... , how forcible our manner of treating of what we pretend firmly to believe ; of what we know the Author of our religion confirmed by actually rising from. * Hon . vid . II . 1 . * " Straight is the gate , and narrow the [ 44 ]
Pàgina 62
... pretend that they believe the latter at all more firmly than the former . Yet they have geometrical demon- stration for the latter , and nothing more than mere moral evidence for the former . Does not this shew , that many things are to ...
... pretend that they believe the latter at all more firmly than the former . Yet they have geometrical demon- stration for the latter , and nothing more than mere moral evidence for the former . Does not this shew , that many things are to ...
Pàgina 69
... pretend to no right to live a life of indulgence . All I ask , Beseeching . is , to change one punishment for another . And I beseech your Majesty to have some consideration for my past services ; and that a year's impris- onment , five ...
... pretend to no right to live a life of indulgence . All I ask , Beseeching . is , to change one punishment for another . And I beseech your Majesty to have some consideration for my past services ; and that a year's impris- onment , five ...
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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.