Lessons in Elocution: Or, A Selection of Pieces, in Prose and Verse, for the Improvement of Youth in Reading and Speaking ...Hori Brown, 1820 - 407 páginas |
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... say nothing of distracting their attention with two very difficult things , at the same time . But that boys should stand motionless , while they are pro- nouncing the most impassioned language , is extremely absurd and unnatural ; and ...
... say nothing of distracting their attention with two very difficult things , at the same time . But that boys should stand motionless , while they are pro- nouncing the most impassioned language , is extremely absurd and unnatural ; and ...
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... -ture directs us to art , and art selects and polishes the beauties of nature : It is not sufficient for an orator , says Quintilian , that he is a man : He must be an improv ed and cultivated man ; he must be a man 3 OF GESTURE . 25 .
... -ture directs us to art , and art selects and polishes the beauties of nature : It is not sufficient for an orator , says Quintilian , that he is a man : He must be an improv ed and cultivated man ; he must be a man 3 OF GESTURE . 25 .
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... say any . thing in his own defence , causes his tongue to faulter and confounds his utterance ; and puts him upon mak- ing a thousand gestures and grimaces , to keep himself in countenance ; all of which only heighten the confu- sion of ...
... say any . thing in his own defence , causes his tongue to faulter and confounds his utterance ; and puts him upon mak- ing a thousand gestures and grimaces , to keep himself in countenance ; all of which only heighten the confu- sion of ...
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... the communion office . But ( i am sorry to say it ) they are toocommonly spoken in the same manner as the prayers , than which nothing can be more unnatural . Pardoning , differs from acquitting , in that the latter OF GESTURE . 35.
... the communion office . But ( i am sorry to say it ) they are toocommonly spoken in the same manner as the prayers , than which nothing can be more unnatural . Pardoning , differs from acquitting , in that the latter OF GESTURE . 35.
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... says , or is said to him , appears in his look . If he expressses amazement , or would excite it , he lifts up his hands and eyes . If he invites to virtue and happi- ness , he spreads his arms , and looks benevolent . If he threatens ...
... says , or is said to him , appears in his look . If he expressses amazement , or would excite it , he lifts up his hands and eyes . If he invites to virtue and happi- ness , he spreads his arms , and looks benevolent . If he threatens ...
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Página 231 - Yet he was kind, or, if severe in aught, The love he bore to learning was in fault...
Página 351 - Disguise fair nature with hard-favour'd rage; Then lend the eye a terrible aspect; Let it pry through the portage of the head Like the brass cannon: let the brow o'erwhelm it As fearfully as doth a galled rock O'erhang and jutty his confounded base, Swill'd with the wild and wasteful ocean. Now set the teeth and stretch the nostril wide; Hold hard the breath, and bend up every spirit To his full height.
Página 224 - The boast of heraldry, the pomp of power, And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave, Await alike the inevitable hour: The paths of glory lead but to the grave.
Página 347 - She lov'd me for the dangers I had pass'd, And I lov'd her that she did pity them.
Página 243 - His praise, ye winds, that from four quarters blow, Breathe soft or loud ; and wave your tops, ye pines, With every plant, in sign of worship wave. • • Fountains, and ye that warble, as ye. flow, Melodious murmurs, warbling, tune his praise. Join voices, all ye living souls ! ye birds, That, singing, up to heaven's gate ascend, Bear on your wings and in your notes his praise.
Página 224 - THE curfew tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herd winds slowly o'er the lea, The ploughman homeward plods his weary way, And leaves the world to darkness and to me. Now fades the glimmering landscape on the sight, And all the air a solemn stillness holds, Save where the beetle wheels his droning flight, And drowsy tinklings lull the distant folds...
Página 224 - Their name, their years, spelt by th' unletter'd muse, The place of fame and elegy supply: And many a holy text around she strews, That teach the rustic moralist to die. For who to dumb Forgetfulness a prey, This pleasing anxious being e'er resign'd, Left the warm precincts of the cheerful day, Nor cast one longing ling'ring look behind?
Página 117 - Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar but not coarse, and elegant but not ostentatious, must give his days and nights to the volumes of Addison, HUGHES.
Página 341 - I could weep My spirit from mine eyes ! — There is my dagger, And here my naked breast ; within, a heart Dearer than Plutus...
Página 230 - Where village statesmen talk'd with looks profound, And news much older than their ale went round. Imagination fondly stoops to trace The...