The Art of Speaking: Containing, an Essay, in which are Given Rules for Expressing Properly the Principal Passions and Humours, which Occur in Reading, Or Public Speaking, and Lessons, Taken from the Ancients and Moderns ...Samuel Butler, 1804 - 291 страници |
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... common English book , as the SPECTATOR , he ought to be taught the use of the stops , and accustomed , from the beginning , to pay the same regard to them as to the words . The common rule , for holding them out to their just length ...
... common English book , as the SPECTATOR , he ought to be taught the use of the stops , and accustomed , from the beginning , to pay the same regard to them as to the words . The common rule , for holding them out to their just length ...
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... common to all nations , The legs advance , or retreat , to express desire , or aver- sion , love , or hatred , courage , or fear , and produce exulta- tion , or leaping in sudden joy ; and the stamping of the foot expresses earnestness ...
... common to all nations , The legs advance , or retreat , to express desire , or aver- sion , love , or hatred , courage , or fear , and produce exulta- tion , or leaping in sudden joy ; and the stamping of the foot expresses earnestness ...
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... common ! Were the educators of youth , intended for the ministry , of the opinion of the prince of orators , viz . that delivery is the first , second and third part of oratory , they would spare sometime from the many less necessary ...
... common ! Were the educators of youth , intended for the ministry , of the opinion of the prince of orators , viz . that delivery is the first , second and third part of oratory , they would spare sometime from the many less necessary ...
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... common for preachers to plead , in excuse of the frigidity of their manner , in addressing their audiences , their modesty , and fear of being accused of affectation . But are these any hindrance to the elocution of the actors , or even ...
... common for preachers to plead , in excuse of the frigidity of their manner , in addressing their audiences , their modesty , and fear of being accused of affectation . But are these any hindrance to the elocution of the actors , or even ...
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... common prayers is of so great importance , and so much neglected , that I take the liberty to offer to your consideration some particulars on that sub- ject . And what more worthy your observation than this ? A thing so public , and of ...
... common prayers is of so great importance , and so much neglected , that I take the liberty to offer to your consideration some particulars on that sub- ject . And what more worthy your observation than this ? A thing so public , and of ...
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Accufing Affectation Alarm Anger Anxiety Apology Apprehen arms Authority Averfion Bevil blood body breast Cæsar Caius Verres Complaint Contempt countenance countrymen Courage daugh daughter dead death defence demnation Demosthenes Diodotus Doubt ducats enemy Exciting expreffed express eyes Falstaff father favour fear gentleman Ghost give gods Greece Grief hand happiness hear heart heaven honour honour's worship hope Horror humour Humph Iago imagine Intreating Jugurtha king Longh look Lord Majesty mankind manner matter Merc mercy Micipsa mind mouth Narration nature Nick Bottom offended orator Othello passions patricians person Peter Quince phatical Pity Pray preachers pretend pride Queſtion Quin Quintilian Refufing Remonftr Reproof Roman Scythians shame shew Shyl Shylock soul speak speaker speech ſpoken Styx Submiffion thee thing thou thought thousand guineas tion utter Vexation virtue voice Volsci whole Wonder words
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Страница 157 - Is this a dagger which I see before me, The handle toward my hand? Come, let me clutch thee. I have thee not, and yet I see thee still. Art thou not, fatal* vision, sensible To feeling as to sight? or art thou but A dagger of the mind, a false creation, Proceeding from the heat-oppressed brain?
Страница 139 - Cassius, now Leap in with me into this angry flood, And swim to yonder point?' Upon the word, Accoutred as I was, I plunged in, And bade him follow; so, indeed, he did. The torrent roar'd, and we did buffet it With lusty sinews, throwing it aside, And stemming it with hearts of controversy. But ere we could arrive the point propos'd, Caesar cried,
Страница 124 - Omnipotent. Ay me ! they little know How dearly I abide that boast so vain, Under what torments inwardly I groan, While they adore me on the throne of Hell. With diadem and sceptre high advanced, The lower still I fall, only supreme In misery ; such joy ambition finds.
Страница 218 - To be no more. Sad cure! for who would lose, Though full of pain, this intellectual being, Those thoughts that wander through eternity, To perish rather, swallowed up and lost In the wide womb of uncreated Night, Devoid of sense and motion?
Страница 169 - Pray can I not, Though inclination be as sharp as will. My stronger guilt defeats my strong intent, And, like a man to double business bound, I stand in pause where I shall first begin, And both neglect. What if this cursed hand Were thicker than itself with brother's blood, Is there not rain enough in the sweet heavens To wash it white as snow? Whereto serves mercy But to confront the visage of offence?
Страница 89 - How much of other each is sure to cost ; How each for other oft is wholly lost ; How inconsistent greater goods with these ; How sometimes life is...
Страница 124 - So farewell hope, and with hope farewell fear, Farewell remorse : all good to me is lost ; Evil, be thou my good ; by thee at least Divided empire with heav'n's King I hold; By thee, and more than half perhaps will reign ; As man ere long and this new world shall know.
Страница 124 - And heavier fall ; so should I purchase dear Short intermission bought with double smart. This knows my punisher ; therefore as far From granting he, as I from begging peace...
Страница 162 - It must not be; there is no power in Venice Can alter a decree established: 'Twill be recorded for a precedent; And many an error, by the same example, Will rush into the state: it cannot be.
Страница 192 - With eyes darting fury, and a countenance distorted with cruelty, he orders the helpless victim of his rage to be stripped, and rods to be brought ; accusing him, but without the least shadow of evidence, or even of suspicion, of having come to Sicily as a spy.