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; Exhibiting a Variety of Matter for Practice; the Emphatical Words Printed in Italics; with Notes of Direction Referring to the Essay ...S. Butler, 1804 - 291 sider |
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... proper places whereas , in most of the former editions , they were so much abbreviated and misplaced , that it was with difficulty the Master , much less the Scholar , could comprehend their meaning . An elegant Ode ( page 270 ) has ...
... proper places whereas , in most of the former editions , they were so much abbreviated and misplaced , that it was with difficulty the Master , much less the Scholar , could comprehend their meaning . An elegant Ode ( page 270 ) has ...
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... proper manner a speech containing a considerable variety of different humours or passions . So that some * The PRECEPTOR , a work of two volumes , 8vo . has fome leffons for prac- tice ; but not the variety of humours or paffions ...
... proper manner a speech containing a considerable variety of different humours or passions . So that some * The PRECEPTOR , a work of two volumes , 8vo . has fome leffons for prac- tice ; but not the variety of humours or paffions ...
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... proper length of the stop ; particularly when any thing remarkably striking has been uttered ; by which means the hearers have time to rumi- Yet : Quintilian would have his orator by all means ftudy mufic . C. viii . nate upon it ...
... proper length of the stop ; particularly when any thing remarkably striking has been uttered ; by which means the hearers have time to rumi- Yet : Quintilian would have his orator by all means ftudy mufic . C. viii . nate upon it ...
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... proper key , † and at a due - pitch of loudness . If he begins in too high a tone or sets out too loud , how is he afterwards to rise to a higher note , or swell his voice louder , as the more pathetic strains may require ? The command ...
... proper key , † and at a due - pitch of loudness . If he begins in too high a tone or sets out too loud , how is he afterwards to rise to a higher note , or swell his voice louder , as the more pathetic strains may require ? The command ...
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... proper manner of pronouncing the commandments in the communion office . But ( I am sorry to say it ) they are too commonly spoken in the same manner as the prayers , than which nothing can be more unnatural . Pardoning differs from ...
... proper manner of pronouncing the commandments in the communion office . But ( I am sorry to say it ) they are too commonly spoken in the same manner as the prayers , than which nothing can be more unnatural . Pardoning differs from ...
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The Art of Speaking: Containing, an Essay, in which are Given Rules for ... James Burgh Uten tilgangsbegrensning - 1804 |
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Side 122 - It must be so — Plato, thou reasonest well ; Else whence this pleasing hope, this fond desire, This longing after immortality ? Or whence this secret dread, and inward horror, Of falling into nought ? Why shrinks the soul Back on herself, and startles at destruction ? Tis the divinity that stirs within us ; 'Tis heaven itself, that points out an hereafter, And intimates eternity to man ! Eternity ! thou pleasing, dreadful thought ! Through what variety of untried being, Through what new scenes...
Side 166 - 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.
Side 173 - 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?
Side 143 - 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 proposed, Caesar cried ' Help me, Cassius, or I sink...
Side 143 - As a sick girl. Ye gods ! it doth amaze me A man of such a feeble temper should So get the start of the majestic world And bear the palm alone.
Side 161 - 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?
Side 167 - Take then thy bond, take thou thy pound of flesh; But, in the cutting it, if thou dost shed One drop of Christian blood, thy lands and goods Are, by the laws of Venice, confiscate Unto the state of Venice.
Side 125 - Nine years!' cries he, who, high in Drury Lane, Lull'd by soft zephyrs through the broken pane, Rhymes ere he wakes, and prints before Term ends, Obliged by hunger, and request of friends: 'The piece, you think, is incorrect? why take it, I'm all submission; what you'd have it, make it.
Side 123 - To whom the goblin full of wrath replied. «Art thou that traitor- Angel, art thou He> Who first broke peace in Heaven ; and faith, till then Unbroken, and in proud rebellious arms Drew after him the third part of Heaven's sons...
Side 122 - Here will I hold. If there's a power above us (And that there is, all Nature cries aloud Through all her works), he must delight in virtue ; And that which he delights in must be happy.