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 pàgines |
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... command of face is some- what difficult ; though not so hard , I should think , as to restrain the contrary sympathy , I inean of weeping with those who weep . Joy , when sudden and violent , expresses itself by clap- ping of hands ...
... command of face is some- what difficult ; though not so hard , I should think , as to restrain the contrary sympathy , I inean of weeping with those who weep . Joy , when sudden and violent , expresses itself by clap- ping of hands ...
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... command ; preserve your body in an erect attitude while you are speaking ; let all the consonant sounds be expressed with a full im- pulse or percussion of the breath , and a forcible action of the organs employed in forming them ; and ...
... command ; preserve your body in an erect attitude while you are speaking ; let all the consonant sounds be expressed with a full im- pulse or percussion of the breath , and a forcible action of the organs employed in forming them ; and ...
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... command a servant , to utter exclamations of anger or rage , and to pour forth lamentations and sorrows , not on- ly with different tones , but different elevations of voice.— Men at different ages of life , and in different situations ...
... command a servant , to utter exclamations of anger or rage , and to pour forth lamentations and sorrows , not on- ly with different tones , but different elevations of voice.— Men at different ages of life , and in different situations ...
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... command of voice , emphasis or cadence : And he should content himself with reading and speaking with an immediate view to the correcting of his fundamental faults , before he aims at any thing higher . This may be irksome and disagree ...
... command of voice , emphasis or cadence : And he should content himself with reading and speaking with an immediate view to the correcting of his fundamental faults , before he aims at any thing higher . This may be irksome and disagree ...
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... commands with the greatest readiness , and the most pro- found submission . Neither ointments , chaplets of flowers , nor rich perfumes were wanting . The table was loaded with the most exquisite delicacies of every kind . Damo- cles ...
... commands with the greatest readiness , and the most pro- found submission . Neither ointments , chaplets of flowers , nor rich perfumes were wanting . The table was loaded with the most exquisite delicacies of every kind . Damo- cles ...
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Passatges populars
Pàgina 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
Pàgina 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
Pàgina 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
Pàgina 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
Pàgina 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
Pàgina 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
Pàgina 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
Pàgina 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
Pàgina 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
Pàgina 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.