Chironomia; or, A treatise on rhetorical deliveryT. Cadell and W. Davies, 1806 - 583 pàgines |
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Pàgina iv
... praise Mosheim for the eloquence of his orations , but says he failed in the graces of delivery . The example makes against his own observation . longer limiting myself to my original intention of relieving merely iv PREFACE .
... praise Mosheim for the eloquence of his orations , but says he failed in the graces of delivery . The example makes against his own observation . longer limiting myself to my original intention of relieving merely iv PREFACE .
Pàgina 1
... says , action is , as it were , the language of the body ; in another , that it is a specics of corporal eloquence . Under gesture he comprehends the 2.3 • Pronunciatio a plerisque actio dicitur , sed prius nomen a voce , sequens a ...
... says , action is , as it were , the language of the body ; in another , that it is a specics of corporal eloquence . Under gesture he comprehends the 2.3 • Pronunciatio a plerisque actio dicitur , sed prius nomen a voce , sequens a ...
Pàgina 4
... says was standing in his time , into which he descended every day to practise delivery ( ὑπόκρισιν ) , and to modulate his voice . In this he often remained two or three months , with a part only of his head shaved , in order to put it ...
... says was standing in his time , into which he descended every day to practise delivery ( ὑπόκρισιν ) , and to modulate his voice . In this he often remained two or three months , with a part only of his head shaved , in order to put it ...
Pàgina 8
... say how much " the preaching art would gain by it . Pronunciation would be " studied , an ear would be formed , the voice would be modu- " lated , every feature of the face , every motion of the hands , every posture of the body would ...
... say how much " the preaching art would gain by it . Pronunciation would be " studied , an ear would be formed , the voice would be modu- " lated , every feature of the face , every motion of the hands , every posture of the body would ...
Pàgina 10
... say , all the figures " of the mathematicians . Those , on the contrary , have hands so ponderous and so fastened down by terror , that they could more easily move beams of timber ; others labour so with their " elbows , that it is ...
... say , all the figures " of the mathematicians . Those , on the contrary , have hands so ponderous and so fastened down by terror , that they could more easily move beams of timber ; others labour so with their " elbows , that it is ...
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action actor affectation altogether ancient animi appears atque autem autres body celebrated character Cicero corporis countenance Cresol Cresollius deinde delivered delivery Demosthenes dicendi dicere digitis discourse doit elevated Elocutio eloquence enim etiam expression eyes feelings fingers geste grace hæc hand illa l'expression labour language magis manner manum manus marked mind modo modum motions motus mouvemens nature neque nihil notation object observed omnia omnis orator oratory palæstra pantomime passage passions Pathognomy perfection Plutarch Plutus pollice position primum principal gesture pronunciatio public speaker pulpit Pylades qu'il quæ quædam quam quid quidem Quint Quintilian quod quoque reading rhetorical sæpe sentiments significant gestures speaking suited sunt talents tamen tantum tion tones variety vero vocem vocis voice vultus whilst words γὰρ δὲ καὶ τὴν τῆς τὸ τὸν τῶν
Passatges populars
Pàgina 483 - But I will punish home: No, I will weep no more. In such a night To shut me out! Pour on; I will endure. In such a night as this! O Regan, Goneril! Your old kind father, whose frank heart gave all O, that way madness lies; let me shun that; No more of that.
Pàgina 281 - Pity it is, that the momentary beauties flowing from an harmonious elocution, cannot like those of poetry be their own record! That the animated graces of the player can live no longer than the instant breath and motion that presents them; or at best can but faintly glimmer through the memory, or imperfect attestation of a few surviving spectators.
Pàgina 80 - Why, what should be the fear ? I do not set my life at a pin's fee ; And for my soul, what can it do to that, Being a thing immortal as itself ? It waves me forth again : I'll follow it.
Pàgina 116 - The light of the body is the eye : therefore when thine eye is single, thy whole body also is full of light; but when thine eye is evil, thy body also is full of darkness. 35 Take heed therefore, that the light which is in thee be not darkness.
Pàgina 518 - The applause of listening senates to command, The threats of pain and ruin to despise, To scatter plenty o'er a smiling land, And read their history in a nation's eyes...
Pàgina 182 - Recherches d'Antiquite, gives us a curious story of the celebrated physiognomist Campanella. This man, it seems, had not only made very accurate observations on human faces, but was very expert in mimicking such as were any way remarkable. When he had a mind to penetrate into the inclinations...
Pàgina 318 - Tum, pietate gravem ac meritis si forte virum quem Conspexere, silent, arrectisque auribus adstant ; Ille regit dictis animos, et pectora mulcet...
Pàgina 53 - Oh, against all rule, my Lord, — most ungrammatically! betwixt the substantive and the adjective, which should agree together in number, case, and gender, he made a breach thus, — stopping, as if the point wanted settling; — and...
Pàgina 38 - In just articulation the words are not to be hurried over, nor precipitated syllable over syllable: nor, as it were, melted together into a mass of confusion : they should be neither abridged, nor prolonged, nor swallowed, nor forced, and, (if I may so express it,) shot from the mouth; they should not be trailed, nor drawled...
Pàgina 206 - ... haec studia adolescentiam alunt, senectutem oblectant, secundas res ornant, adversis perfugium ac solatium praebent, 'delectant domi, non impediunt foris, pernoctant nobiscum, peregrinantur, rusticantur.