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 80
... Surprise . Martin . My lord ! [ so Peter ordered his Submiffion . brothers to call him ] I doubt , with great sub- mision , here is some little mistake . In my hum- ble Peevishness Peter . What , you are merry ? Come , then , let us ...
... Surprise . Martin . My lord ! [ so Peter ordered his Submiffion . brothers to call him ] I doubt , with great sub- mision , here is some little mistake . In my hum- ble Peevishness Peter . What , you are merry ? Come , then , let us ...
Pàgina 111
... little in my favour . And then to think , only to think of my being drown'd ! -A man of my size ! For your fresh water swells you an ordinary man L Vexation . Surprise Vexation . Surprise . Question . Information LESSONS . 111.
... little in my favour . And then to think , only to think of my being drown'd ! -A man of my size ! For your fresh water swells you an ordinary man L Vexation . Surprise Vexation . Surprise . Question . Information LESSONS . 111.
Pàgina 112
... Surprise Vexation . Surprise . Question . Information ation . to the size of your middling porpus . As for me , an I were to be drown'd , I suppose there is ne'er a whale of them all , that would not be out of countenance at the sight ...
... Surprise Vexation . Surprise . Question . Information ation . to the size of your middling porpus . As for me , an I were to be drown'd , I suppose there is ne'er a whale of them all , that would not be out of countenance at the sight ...
Pàgina 118
... Surprise . Sullenness . [ Myrtle reads . ] " I hope it is consistent with the laws a woman ought to impose upon herself to acknowledge , that your manner of declining what has been proposed of a treaty of marriage in our family , and ...
... Surprise . Sullenness . [ Myrtle reads . ] " I hope it is consistent with the laws a woman ought to impose upon herself to acknowledge , that your manner of declining what has been proposed of a treaty of marriage in our family , and ...
Pàgina 124
... Surprise . " So strange thy outcry , and thy words so strange Alarım . Narration . Thou interposest , that my sudden hand Recollect . Prevented , spares to tell thee yet by deeds What it intends ; till first I know of thee , Question ...
... Surprise . " So strange thy outcry , and thy words so strange Alarım . Narration . Thou interposest , that my sudden hand Recollect . Prevented , spares to tell thee yet by deeds What it intends ; till first I know of thee , Question ...
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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.