Lessons in Elocution: Or, A Selection of Pieces in Prose and Verse, for the Improvement of Youth in Reading and SpeakingH. Brown, 1817 - 407 страници |
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... sense of one's appearing to a disadvan- tage , before one's fellow creatures ; turns away the face from the beholders ; covers it with blushes ; hangs the head ; casts down the eyes ; draws down the eyebrows ; either strikes the person ...
... sense of one's appearing to a disadvan- tage , before one's fellow creatures ; turns away the face from the beholders ; covers it with blushes ; hangs the head ; casts down the eyes ; draws down the eyebrows ; either strikes the person ...
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... 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 rapidly , that this latter exercise ought generally to be made use of for a con- siderable ...
... 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 rapidly , that this latter exercise ought generally to be made use of for a con- siderable ...
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... sense must always appear confused and obscure , and often be misunderstood ; and the spirit and energy of the piece must be wholly lost . In executing this part of the office of a speaker , it will by no means be sufficient to attend to ...
... sense must always appear confused and obscure , and often be misunderstood ; and the spirit and energy of the piece must be wholly lost . In executing this part of the office of a speaker , it will by no means be sufficient to attend to ...
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... sense which requires the last sound to be elevated or emphatical , an easy fall sufficient to shew that the sense is finished , will be prop- er . And in pathetic pieces , especially those of the plaintive , tender or solemn kind , the ...
... sense which requires the last sound to be elevated or emphatical , an easy fall sufficient to shew that the sense is finished , will be prop- er . And in pathetic pieces , especially those of the plaintive , tender or solemn kind , the ...
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... sense ; the third , good humor ; the last , wit . The great error in conversation is , to be fonder of speaking than of hearing . Few show more complais- ance than to pretend to hearken , intent all the while up- on what they themselves ...
... sense ; the third , good humor ; the last , wit . The great error in conversation is , to be fonder of speaking than of hearing . Few show more complais- ance than to pretend to hearken , intent all the while up- on what they themselves ...
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Страница 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.
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Страница 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...
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Страница 237 - Yet he was kind, or if severe in aught, The love he bore to learning was in fault...
Страница 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.
Страница 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.
Страница 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.
Страница 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.
Страница 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.