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 ...Samuel Butler, 1804 - 291 pàgines |
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Pàgina 12
... lord from court to - day , who has told you bad news ? " If the inquirer wants only to know , whether myself , or some other person , has seen the supposed great man ; he will put the emphasis upon you . If he knows that I have seen ...
... lord from court to - day , who has told you bad news ? " If the inquirer wants only to know , whether myself , or some other person , has seen the supposed great man ; he will put the emphasis upon you . If he knows that I have seen ...
Pàgina 13
... Lord knew , that the Pharisees had heard that Jesus made , and baptized more disciples than John , ( though Jesus himself did not baptize , but his disciples ) he departed from Judea , and returned to Gallilee . " * A youth should not ...
... Lord knew , that the Pharisees had heard that Jesus made , and baptized more disciples than John , ( though Jesus himself did not baptize , but his disciples ) he departed from Judea , and returned to Gallilee . " * A youth should not ...
Pàgina 41
... Lord , of the worm that never dies , and the fire that is not quenched , and of future glory , honor , and immor- tality , of everlasting kingdoms , and heavenly thrones . I know it is common for preachers to plead , in excuse of the ...
... Lord , of the worm that never dies , and the fire that is not quenched , and of future glory , honor , and immor- tality , of everlasting kingdoms , and heavenly thrones . I know it is common for preachers to plead , in excuse of the ...
Pàgina 49
... Lord , I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked ; but rather that he turn from his wickedness , and live . Turn ye , turn ye , Why will ye die ? O Jerusalem ! Jerusalem ! thou that killest the prophets , and stonest them who are ...
... Lord , I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked ; but rather that he turn from his wickedness , and live . Turn ye , turn ye , Why will ye die ? O Jerusalem ! Jerusalem ! thou that killest the prophets , and stonest them who are ...
Pàgina 79
... Lord Peter's house ; a table covered with plates , knives , and forks , and a brown loaf in the middle of the table . LORD PETER , MARTIN , and JACK . Trepidation Horror Peter . BREAD , gentlemen , bread is the staff Dilating . of life ...
... Lord Peter's house ; a table covered with plates , knives , and forks , and a brown loaf in the middle of the table . LORD PETER , MARTIN , and JACK . Trepidation Horror Peter . BREAD , gentlemen , bread is the staff Dilating . of life ...
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Accufing Affectation Alarm Anger anguish Anxiety Apology Apprehen arms Authority Bevil blood body breast Cæsar Caius Verres Complaint Contempt countenance countrymen Courage daugh daughter dead death defend demnation Demosthenes Diodotus Doubt ducats earth enemy Exciting express expreſſed eyes father favour fear Ford gentleman Ghost give gods Greece Grief hand happiness hear heart heaven honour honour's worship hope Horror humour Humph Iago imagine Intreating Jugurtha king Longh look Lord Majesty mankind manner matter Merc mercy Micipsa mind mouth Narration nature Nick Bottom orator Othello passions patricians person Peter Quince phatical Pity Pray preachers pretend pride Queſtion Quintilian Refufing Remonftr Reproof Roman Scythians shame shew Shyl Shylock soul speak speaker speech ſpoken Styx Submiffion Surpriſe thee thing thou thought thousand guineas tion utter Vexation virtue voice Volsci whole Wonder words
Passatges populars
Pàgina 157 - Is this a dagger which I see before me, The handle toward my hand? Come, let me clutch thee. I have thee not, and yet I see thee still. 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 139 - 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 propos'd, Caesar cried,
Pàgina 124 - Omnipotent. Ay me ! they little know How dearly I abide that boast so vain, Under what torments inwardly I groan, While they adore me on the throne of Hell. With diadem and sceptre high advanced, The lower still I fall, only supreme In misery ; such joy ambition finds.
Pàgina 218 - To be no more. Sad cure! for who would lose, Though full of pain, this intellectual being, Those thoughts that wander through eternity, To perish rather, swallowed up and lost In the wide womb of uncreated Night, Devoid of sense and motion?
Pàgina 169 - Pray can I not, Though inclination be as sharp as will. My stronger guilt defeats my strong intent, And, like a man to double business bound, 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? Whereto serves mercy But to confront the visage of offence?
Pàgina 89 - How much of other each is sure to cost ; How each for other oft is wholly lost ; How inconsistent greater goods with these ; How sometimes life is...
Pàgina 124 - So farewell hope, and with hope farewell fear, Farewell remorse : all good to me is lost ; Evil, be thou my good ; by thee at least Divided empire with heav'n's King I hold; By thee, and more than half perhaps will reign ; As man ere long and this new world shall know.
Pàgina 124 - And heavier fall ; so should I purchase dear Short intermission bought with double smart. This knows my punisher ; therefore as far From granting he, as I from begging peace...
Pàgina 162 - 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 192 - With eyes darting fury, and a countenance distorted with cruelty, he orders the helpless victim of his rage to be stripped, and rods to be brought ; accusing him, but without the least shadow of evidence, or even of suspicion, of having come to Sicily as a spy.