Lessons in Elocution: Or, A Selection of Pieces, in Prose and Verse, for the Improvement of Youth in Reading and Speaking ...Hori Brown, 1820 - 407 страници |
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... nature , 3. Description of a country alehouse , Pope , 241 Goldsmith , 242 4. Character of a country schoolmaster , ib . 243 5. Story of Palemon and Lavinia , Thomson , ib . 6. Caledonia and Anielia , ib . 246 . 7. Description of Mab ...
... nature , 3. Description of a country alehouse , Pope , 241 Goldsmith , 242 4. Character of a country schoolmaster , ib . 243 5. Story of Palemon and Lavinia , Thomson , ib . 6. Caledonia and Anielia , ib . 246 . 7. Description of Mab ...
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... nature . Though school boys , therefore , ought not to be taught the fineness of acting , they should , as much as possible , be accustomed to speak such speeches , as require a full , open , animated pronunciation ; for which purpose ...
... nature . Though school boys , therefore , ought not to be taught the fineness of acting , they should , as much as possible , be accustomed to speak such speeches , as require a full , open , animated pronunciation ; for which purpose ...
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... nature . It is happy , however , that they do not leave that action to nature , which is ac- quired by dancing ; the deportment of their pupils , would soon convince them , they were imposed on by the -sound of words . Improved and ...
... nature . It is happy , however , that they do not leave that action to nature , which is ac- quired by dancing ; the deportment of their pupils , would soon convince them , they were imposed on by the -sound of words . Improved and ...
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... nature and fashioned by art . But the necessity of adopting some method of teach- ing action , is too evident to ... natural exertions . If they are left to themselves , they will , in all probabili- ty , fall into very wild and ...
... nature and fashioned by art . But the necessity of adopting some method of teach- ing action , is too evident to ... natural exertions . If they are left to themselves , they will , in all probabili- ty , fall into very wild and ...
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... the following manner , that nature expresses them . . Tranquility , or apathy , appears by the com osure of the countenance , and general reppse of the pody and i S limbs , without the exertion of any one muscle . OF GESTURE .
... the following manner , that nature expresses them . . Tranquility , or apathy , appears by the com osure of the countenance , and general reppse of the pody and i S limbs , without the exertion of any one muscle . OF GESTURE .
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Страница 243 - His praise, ye winds, that from four quarters blow, Breathe soft or loud ; and wave your tops, ye pines, With every plant, in sign of worship wave. • • Fountains, and ye that warble, as ye. flow, Melodious murmurs, warbling, tune his praise. Join voices, all ye living souls ! ye birds, That, singing, up to heaven's gate ascend, Bear on your wings and in your notes his praise.
Страница 224 - THE curfew tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herd winds slowly o'er the lea, The ploughman homeward plods his weary way, And leaves the world to darkness and to me. Now fades the glimmering landscape on the sight, And all the air a solemn stillness holds, Save where the beetle wheels his droning flight, And drowsy tinklings lull the distant folds...
Страница 224 - Their name, their years, spelt by th' unletter'd muse, The place of fame and elegy supply: And many a holy text around she strews, That teach the rustic moralist to die. For who to dumb Forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing anxious being e'er resign'd, Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day, Nor cast one longing ling'ring look behind?
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