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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... shew in general its present state . The head is sometimes erected , sometimes hung down , sometimes drawn suddenly back with an air of disdain , sometimes shews by a nod , a partic- ular person , or object ; gives assent , or denial ...
... shew in general its present state . The head is sometimes erected , sometimes hung down , sometimes drawn suddenly back with an air of disdain , sometimes shews by a nod , a partic- ular person , or object ; gives assent , or denial ...
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... shew tranquillity or joy . Mirth opens the mouth towards the ears , crisps the nose , half - shuts the eyes , and sometimes fills them with tears . The front wrinkled into frowns , and the eyebrows over - hanging the eyes , like clouds ...
... shew tranquillity or joy . Mirth opens the mouth towards the ears , crisps the nose , half - shuts the eyes , and sometimes fills them with tears . The front wrinkled into frowns , and the eyebrows over - hanging the eyes , like clouds ...
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... shew fear , or sensibility of pain ; but not in the same manner as a girl would express those sensa- tions . Grief may be expressed by a person reading a me- lancholy story , or description , in a room . It may be acted upon the stage ...
... shew fear , or sensibility of pain ; but not in the same manner as a girl would express those sensa- tions . Grief may be expressed by a person reading a me- lancholy story , or description , in a room . It may be acted upon the stage ...
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... shew- ing legerdemain tricks . Above all things , the public speaker is never to forget the great rule , ARS EST CELARE ARTEM . It would be infinitely more pleasing to see him deliver himself with as litsle motion , and no better ...
... shew- ing legerdemain tricks . Above all things , the public speaker is never to forget the great rule , ARS EST CELARE ARTEM . It would be infinitely more pleasing to see him deliver himself with as litsle motion , and no better ...
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... shew their taste , would frequent them . Could all frequent them and none profit ? It is common to hear complaints from the clergy , of the inattention of their hearers , even to dozing , and some- times to profound sleep . But where ...
... shew their taste , would frequent them . Could all frequent them and none profit ? It is common to hear complaints from the clergy , of the inattention of their hearers , even to dozing , and some- times to profound sleep . But where ...
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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.