A system of elocution based upon grammatical analysisT. Laurie, 1869 - 432 страници |
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... expression and power unattainable by the mere literary artist . * This is no feeble and uncertain voice asserting the dignity and highly practical character of elocutionary art . Philip of Macedon professed to dread the eloquence of ...
... expression and power unattainable by the mere literary artist . * This is no feeble and uncertain voice asserting the dignity and highly practical character of elocutionary art . Philip of Macedon professed to dread the eloquence of ...
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... expression of the loftiest feeling and the most subtile thought , it is more than a feasible hypothesis that we have primarily an expression common to 2 A SYSTEM OF ELOCUTION .
... expression of the loftiest feeling and the most subtile thought , it is more than a feasible hypothesis that we have primarily an expression common to 2 A SYSTEM OF ELOCUTION .
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... expression , because with them it is polite and elegant to talk or pretend to talk in the absence of all impulse or emotion whatsoever , and words , to be more than the signs and signals of telegraphy , must be in- vested with something ...
... expression , because with them it is polite and elegant to talk or pretend to talk in the absence of all impulse or emotion whatsoever , and words , to be more than the signs and signals of telegraphy , must be in- vested with something ...
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... expression at the worst meaningless or absurd . For life is real and earnest , and he who thinks or affects to think otherwise can never attain to anything great or good , or obtain a passport in the world he de- spises to a higher and ...
... expression at the worst meaningless or absurd . For life is real and earnest , and he who thinks or affects to think otherwise can never attain to anything great or good , or obtain a passport in the world he de- spises to a higher and ...
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... expression of languish- ment , delight , and tenderness . The lips are neither aperient nor pressed together . The head is thrown slightly back , the frame has nothing of stiffness and rigidity . The open right hand is laid upon the ...
... expression of languish- ment , delight , and tenderness . The lips are neither aperient nor pressed together . The head is thrown slightly back , the frame has nothing of stiffness and rigidity . The open right hand is laid upon the ...
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Страница 81 - Thy waters wasted them while they were free, And many a tyrant since : their shores obey The stranger, slave, or savage ; their decay Has dried up realms to deserts : not so thou, Unchangeable save to thy wild waves' play — Time writes no wrinkle on thine azure brow — Such as creation's dawn beheld, thou rollest now.
Страница 139 - Then this ebony bird beguiling my sad fancy into smiling By the grave and stern decorum of the countenance it wore,— " Though thy crest be shorn and shaven, thou," I said, " art sure no craven, Ghastly grim and ancient Raven wandering from the Nightly shore: Tell me what thy lordly name is on the Night's Plutonian shore !" Quoth the Raven,
Страница 385 - Censure me in your wisdom, and awake your senses, that you may the better judge. If there be any in this assembly, any dear friend of Caesar's, to him I say that Brutus' love to Caesar was no less than his. If then that friend demand why Brutus rose against Caesar, this is my answer: not that I loved Caesar less, but that I loved Rome more.
Страница 390 - If you have tears, prepare to shed them now. You all do know this mantle : I remember The first time ever Caesar put it on : 'Twas on a summer's evening, in his tent; That day he overcame the " Nervii: Look, in this place ran Cassius...
Страница 348 - Thou know'st the mask of night is on my face, Else would a maiden blush bepaint my cheek For that which thou hast heard me speak to-night. Fain would I dwell on form, fain, fain deny What I have spoke: but farewell compliment! Dost thou love me? I know thou wilt say 'Ay,' And I will take thy word: yet, if thou swear'st, Thou mayst prove false; at lovers' perjuries, They say, Jove laughs.
Страница 386 - Who is here so base, that would be a bondman ? If any, speak ; for him have I offended. Who is here so rude, that would not be a Roman ? If any, speak ; for him have I offended.
Страница 347 - The orchard walls are high, and hard to climb; And the place death, considering who thou art, If any of my kinsmen find thee here.
Страница 51 - Forbear, my son," the Hermit cries, "To tempt the dangerous gloom; For yonder faithless phantom flies To lure thee to thy doom. "Here to the houseless child of want My door is open still; And though my portion is but scant, I give it with good will.
Страница 45 - O curse of marriage, That we can call these delicate creatures ours, And not their appetites! I had rather be a toad, And live upon the vapour of a dungeon, Than keep a corner in the thing I love, For others