Lessons in Elocution: Or, A Selection of Pieces in Prose and Verse, for the Improvement of Youth in Reading and SpeakingH. Brown, 1817 - 407 Seiten |
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... can scarcely at- tain . In short , it is speaking rather , than acting , which school boys should be taught ; while the performance of plays is calculated to teach them acting , rather 20 ELEMENTS SECTION II Page SECTION II.
... can scarcely at- tain . In short , it is speaking rather , than acting , which school boys should be taught ; while the performance of plays is calculated to teach them acting , rather 20 ELEMENTS SECTION II Page SECTION II.
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... short ; the expressions satir- ical , with mock praise intermixed . There are instan- ces of raillery in scripture itself , as I. Kings xviii , and Isa . xliv . It is not , therefore , beneath the dignity of the pul- pit orator ...
... short ; the expressions satir- ical , with mock praise intermixed . There are instan- ces of raillery in scripture itself , as I. Kings xviii , and Isa . xliv . It is not , therefore , beneath the dignity of the pul- pit orator ...
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... short ; the whole body is thrown in- to a general tremor . The voice is weak and trembling ; the sentences are short , and the meaning confused and incoherent . Imminent danger , real or fancied , produ ces in timorous persons , as ...
... short ; the whole body is thrown in- to a general tremor . The voice is weak and trembling ; the sentences are short , and the meaning confused and incoherent . Imminent danger , real or fancied , produ ces in timorous persons , as ...
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... short , and abrupt . ment . Commendation , or approbation , from a superior , puts on the aspect of love , ( excluding Desire and Respect ) and expresses itself in a mild tone of voice ; the arms gen- tly spread ; the palms of the hands ...
... short , and abrupt . ment . Commendation , or approbation , from a superior , puts on the aspect of love , ( excluding Desire and Respect ) and expresses itself in a mild tone of voice ; the arms gen- tly spread ; the palms of the hands ...
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... short syllables come together ) and to read , at certain stated times , much slower than the sense and just speaking would require . Almost all persons , who have not studied the art of speaking , have a habit of uttering their words so ...
... short syllables come together ) and to read , at certain stated times , much slower than the sense and just speaking would require . Almost all persons , who have not studied the art of speaking , have a habit of uttering their words so ...
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action admire agreeable akimbo Alderman appear arms beauty body breast Calais cerned Cesar cheerful Chrysippus Cicero command consider countenance creatures Curiatii death delight Dendermond desire Dovedale earth elocution express eyebrows eyes fear fortune friends gestures give gnashes grace grief hand happy hath head heart heaven honor hope human Jugurtha Keswick kind labor Lady Lady G live look Lord manner mind modesty mouth nature ness never o'er object observe pain passion person Petrarch pleasure Pompey portunity praise privy counsellor pronunciation proper Quintillian Rhadamanthus rise Roman Rome says scene sense sentence shews Sicily side smile sometimes soul sound speaker speaking specta speech spirit sweet taste tears thee thing thou thought tion tone truth turn Twas uncle Toby utterance violent virtue voice whole words young youth
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 219 - Whilst all the stars that round her burn, And all the planets in their turn, Confirm the tidings as they roll, And spread the truth from pole to pole.
Seite 369 - She'd come again, and with a greedy ear Devour up my discourse. Which I observing, Took once a pliant hour; and found good means To draw from her a prayer of earnest heart, That I would all my pilgrimage dilate...
Seite 243 - Twilight gray had in her sober livery all things clad : Silence accompanied ; for Beast and Bird, they to their grassy couch, these to their nests, were slunk, — all but the wakeful nightingale; she, all night long, her amorous descant sung; Silence was pleased. Now...
Seite 361 - All this? ay, more: Fret till your proud heart break; Go, show your slaves how choleric you are, And make your bondmen tremble.
Seite 237 - Yet he was kind, or if severe in aught, The love he bore to learning was in fault...
Seite 220 - The sober herd that low'd to meet their young ; The noisy geese that gabbled o'er the pool, The playful children just let loose from school ; The watch-dog's voice, that bay'd the whispering wind, And the loud laugh that spoke the vacant mind ; These all in sweet confusion sought the shade, And fill'd each pause the nightingale had made.
Seite 236 - Lives through all life, extends through all extent, Spreads undivided, operates unspent: Breathes in our soul, informs our mortal part, As full, as perfect, in a hair as heart; As full, as perfect, in vile man that mourns, As the rapt seraph that adores and burns: To him no high, no low, no great, no small; He fills, he bounds, connects, and equals all.
Seite 354 - Why, well : Never so truly happy, my good Cromwell. I know myself now ; and I feel within me A peace above all earthly dignities, A still and quiet conscience.
Seite 253 - Orphean lyre, I sung of Chaos and eternal Night ; Taught by the heavenly muse to venture down The dark descent, and up to reascend, Though hard and rare : thee I revisit safe, And feel thy sovereign vital lamp ; but thou Revisitest not these eyes, that roll in vain To find thy piercing ray, and find no dawn ; So thick a drop serene hath quenched their orbs, Or dim suffusion veiled.
Seite 362 - There is no terror, Cassius, in your threats, For I am arm'd so strong in honesty That they pass by me as the idle wind, Which I respect not.