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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... standing the sense of the author , especially , where there was a thread of reasoning carried on . But we are now grown so nice , that we have found , the intermixture of two characters deforms the page , and gives it a speckled ...
... standing the sense of the author , especially , where there was a thread of reasoning carried on . But we are now grown so nice , that we have found , the intermixture of two characters deforms the page , and gives it a speckled ...
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... stand off bolder . For if the speaker has uttered a weaker passage with all the energy he is master of , what is he to do when he comes to the most pathetic parts ? The ease , with which a speaker goes through a long discourse , and his ...
... stand off bolder . For if the speaker has uttered a weaker passage with all the energy he is master of , what is he to do when he comes to the most pathetic parts ? The ease , with which a speaker goes through a long discourse , and his ...
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... standing , which scripture does not disa ! - low , bending forward , as ready to prostrate itself . The arms spread out , but modestly , as high as the breast ; the the hands open . The tone of the voice will be submissive timid , equal ...
... standing , which scripture does not disa ! - low , bending forward , as ready to prostrate itself . The arms spread out , but modestly , as high as the breast ; the the hands open . The tone of the voice will be submissive timid , equal ...
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... standing off from that which is next to it , so that they might be numbered as they proceed . The inflections of the voice are to be so distinctly suited to the matter , that the humor or passions might be known by the sound of the ...
... standing off from that which is next to it , so that they might be numbered as they proceed . The inflections of the voice are to be so distinctly suited to the matter , that the humor or passions might be known by the sound of the ...
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... stand fixed , as if the speaker had a perpetual crick in his neck . Nor is it to nod at every third word , as if he were acting Jupiter , or his would - be - son , Alexander . * A judicious speaker is master of such a variety of de ...
... stand fixed , as if the speaker had a perpetual crick in his neck . Nor is it to nod at every third word , as if he were acting Jupiter , or his would - be - son , Alexander . * A judicious speaker is master of such a variety of de ...
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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 defence demnation Demosthenes Diodotus Doubt enemy Exciting expreffed express eyes Falstaff father favour fear 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 mankind manner matter Merc mercy Micipsa mind mouth Narration nature Nick Bottom offended orator Othello passions patricians person Peter Quince phatical Pity Pray preachers pretend pride Queſtion Quin Quintilian Refufing Remonftr Reproof Roman Scythians shame shew Shyl Shylock Sicily soul speak speaker speech ſpoken Styx Submiffion Surpriſe thee thing thou thought thousand guineas tion utter Vexation virtue voice Volsci whole Wonder words
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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.