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 من الصفحات |
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... lives . * The convincing and irrefragable proof , that real and im- portant effects might be produced by preachers by a pro- per application of oratory to the purposes of instructing and amending mankind , is , That oratory has been in ...
... lives . * The convincing and irrefragable proof , that real and im- portant effects might be produced by preachers by a pro- per application of oratory to the purposes of instructing and amending mankind , is , That oratory has been in ...
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... lives , in the defence of the liber- ties of their country , their souls would be ordered , by the judges of the dead , to be placed in the Elysian fields , where were pleasant greens , and lucid streams , and frag- rant groves ; and ...
... lives , in the defence of the liber- ties of their country , their souls would be ordered , by the judges of the dead , to be placed in the Elysian fields , where were pleasant greens , and lucid streams , and frag- rant groves ; and ...
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... live , saith the 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 ...
... live , saith the 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 ...
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... lives . Neither is it rare to observe , among excellent and learned divines , a certain ungracious manner , or unhappy tone of voice , which they have never been able to shake off . " Are the faults complained of by these authors , who ...
... lives . Neither is it rare to observe , among excellent and learned divines , a certain ungracious manner , or unhappy tone of voice , which they have never been able to shake off . " Are the faults complained of by these authors , who ...
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... lives ; whereas the other answers no end , that has the least connection with common sense . It is by keeping clear of every thing disagreeable or grating , and by consulting all that may please , entertain , and strike , that the ...
... lives ; whereas the other answers no end , that has the least connection with common sense . It is by keeping clear of every thing disagreeable or grating , and by consulting all that may please , entertain , and strike , that the ...
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الصفحة 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...
الصفحة 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.
الصفحة 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?
الصفحة 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...
الصفحة 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.
الصفحة 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?
الصفحة 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.
الصفحة 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.
الصفحة 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...
الصفحة 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.