A System of Elocution: With Special Reference to Gesture, to the Treatment of Stammering, and Defective Articulation ...E.H. Butler & Company, 1855 - 381 من الصفحات |
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... beauty , evidently drawn from nature . It expresses the most tender and affectionate emotions : we hear it in those little gusts of passion which mothers use in caressing their infants ; it is one of the most endearing tones in the ...
... beauty , evidently drawn from nature . It expresses the most tender and affectionate emotions : we hear it in those little gusts of passion which mothers use in caressing their infants ; it is one of the most endearing tones in the ...
الصفحة 49
... beauty ; in his voice it imparts a tenderness not to be described . " + The sliding notes above described are analagous to drawling notes of speech . Speech , to be natural , requires each syllable to be uttered with a certain degree of ...
... beauty ; in his voice it imparts a tenderness not to be described . " + The sliding notes above described are analagous to drawling notes of speech . Speech , to be natural , requires each syllable to be uttered with a certain degree of ...
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... beauty from the clouds , | ( g ) and laughest at the storm . [ ( h ) But , to Ossian , thou lookest in vain . Staff a , in Diagram 13 , is designed for the first sec- tion in the above extract ; staff b , for the second sec- tion , and ...
... beauty from the clouds , | ( g ) and laughest at the storm . [ ( h ) But , to Ossian , thou lookest in vain . Staff a , in Diagram 13 , is designed for the first sec- tion in the above extract ; staff b , for the second sec- tion , and ...
الصفحة 131
... beauty of the painter , and of the sculptor , is not commonly to be found in the indi- vidual living model , but to be collected from the various excellencies of the many . Neither true grace , nor consummate eloquence , can be acquired ...
... beauty of the painter , and of the sculptor , is not commonly to be found in the indi- vidual living model , but to be collected from the various excellencies of the many . Neither true grace , nor consummate eloquence , can be acquired ...
الصفحة 133
... beauty . * When action is considered independent of language and sentiment , this definition will , perhaps , be found generally correct . Rhetorical action , however , derives its grace , not only from the actual motions of the speaker ...
... beauty . * When action is considered independent of language and sentiment , this definition will , perhaps , be found generally correct . Rhetorical action , however , derives its grace , not only from the actual motions of the speaker ...
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الصفحة 242 - When thoughts Of the last bitter hour come like a blight Over thy spirit, and sad images Of the stern agony and shroud and pall And breathless darkness and the narrow house Make thee to shudder and grow sick at heart, Go forth under the open sky and list To Nature's teachings, while from all around — Earth and her waters and the depths of air — Comes a still voice...
الصفحة 260 - There is no longer any room for hope. If we wish to be free — if we mean to preserve inviolate those inestimable privileges for which we have been so long contending — if we mean not basely to abandon...
الصفحة 242 - Thou shalt lie down With patriarchs of the infant world — with kings, The powerful of the earth — the wise, the good, Fair forms, and hoary seers of ages past, All in one mighty sepulchre.
الصفحة 337 - So stately his form, and so lovely her face, That never a hall such a galliard did grace, While her mother did fret, and her father did fume, And the bridegroom stood dangling his bonnet and plume ; And the bride-maidens whispered, " 'Twere better by far To have matched our fair cousin with young Lochinvar.
الصفحة 335 - And there lay the rider distorted and pale, With the dew on his brow, and the rust on his mail; And the tents were all silent, the banners alone, The lances unlifted, the trumpet unblown.
الصفحة 204 - ON Linden, when the sun was low, All bloodless lay the untrodden snow, And dark as winter was the flow Of Iser, rolling rapidly. But Linden saw another sight, When the drum beat, at dead of night, Commanding fires of death to light The darkness of her scenery.
الصفحة 179 - I AM monarch of all I survey, My right there is none to dispute ; From the centre all round to the sea I am lord of the fowl and the brute.
الصفحة 303 - He gained from heaven ('twas all he wished) a friend. No farther seek his merits to disclose, Or draw his frailties from their dread abode, (There they alike in trembling hope repose) The bosom of his father and his God.
الصفحة 260 - We have held the subject up in every light of which it is capable ; but it has been all in vain. Shall we resort to entreaty and humble supplication?
الصفحة 303 - There at the foot of yonder nodding beech That wreathes its old fantastic roots so high, His listless length at noon-tide would he stretch, And pore upon the brook that babbles by.