The Speaker: Or Miscellaneous Pieces, Selected from the Best English Writers, and Disposed Under Proper Heads, with a View to Facilitate the Improvement of Youth in Reading and Speaking, to which are Prefixed Two Essays: I. On Elocution. II. On Reading Works of TasteWilliam Enfield Stereotyped by Andrew Wilson, 1823 - 346 páginas |
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... looks , and gestures . THERE is unquestionably a language of emotions and pas- sions , as well as a language of ideas . Words are the arbitrary signs , by which our conceptions and judgments are commu- ricated ; and for this end they ...
... looks , and gestures . THERE is unquestionably a language of emotions and pas- sions , as well as a language of ideas . Words are the arbitrary signs , by which our conceptions and judgments are commu- ricated ; and for this end they ...
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... looks , and gestures . When anger , fear , joy , grief , love , or any other passion is raised within us , we naturally discover it by the manner in which we utter our words , by the features of the face , and by other well - known ...
... looks , and gestures . When anger , fear , joy , grief , love , or any other passion is raised within us , we naturally discover it by the manner in which we utter our words , by the features of the face , and by other well - known ...
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... looks , and gesture . It were much to be wished , that all public speakers would deliver their thoughts and sentiments , either from memory , or immediate conception : for , beside that there is an arti- ficial uniformity , which almost ...
... looks , and gesture . It were much to be wished , that all public speakers would deliver their thoughts and sentiments , either from memory , or immediate conception : for , beside that there is an arti- ficial uniformity , which almost ...
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... look , what he saith they extol it to the clouds ; but if a poor man speak , they say , what fellow is this ? Many have fallen by the edge of the sword , but not so many as have fallen by the tongue . Well is he that is de- fended from ...
... look , what he saith they extol it to the clouds ; but if a poor man speak , they say , what fellow is this ? Many have fallen by the edge of the sword , but not so many as have fallen by the tongue . Well is he that is de- fended from ...
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... looks , Lives like a drunken sailor on a mast , Ready with every nod to tumble down Into the fatal bowels of the deep .. - Who shall go about Το cozen fortune , and be honourable Without the stamp of merit ? Let none presume To wear an ...
... looks , Lives like a drunken sailor on a mast , Ready with every nod to tumble down Into the fatal bowels of the deep .. - Who shall go about Το cozen fortune , and be honourable Without the stamp of merit ? Let none presume To wear an ...
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Página 335 - tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, Or to take arms against a sea of troubles, And by opposing end them? To die : to sleep...
Página 227 - Perhaps in this neglected spot is laid Some heart once pregnant with celestial fire ; Hands, that the rod of empire might have sway'd, Or wak'd to ecstasy the living lyre.
Página 321 - Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears; •> I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him. The evil, that men do, lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones; \ So let it be with Caesar.
Página 326 - For I can raise no money by vile means: By heaven, I had rather coin my heart, And drop my blood for drachmas, than to wring From the hard hands of peasants their vile trash By any indirection: I did send To you for gold to pay my legions, Which you denied me: was that done like Cassius?
Página 315 - Let's dry our eyes: and thus far hear me, Cromwell; And, when I am forgotten, as I shall be, And sleep in dull cold marble, where no mention Of me more must be heard of, say, I taught thee...
Página 157 - Let him depart; his passport shall be made, And crowns for convoy put into his purse: We would not die in that man's company That fears his fellowship to die with us. This day is call'd the feast of Crispian: He that outlives this day, and comes safe home, Will stand a tip-toe when this day is nam'd, And rouse him at the name of Crispian.
Página 307 - No matter where ; of comfort no man speak : Let's talk of graves, of worms and epitaphs ; Make dust our paper and with rainy eyes Write sorrow on the bosom of the earth...
Página 333 - But that I am forbid To tell the secrets of my prison-house, I could a tale unfold whose lightest word Would harrow up thy soul, freeze thy young blood, Make thy two eyes, like stars, start from their spheres, Thy knotted and combined locks to part And each particular hair to stand on end, Like quills upon the fretful porcupine : But this eternal blazon must not be To ears of flesh and blood.
Página 194 - 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.
Página 344 - Thais led the way To light him to his prey, And like another Helen fired another Troy ! Thus long ago, Ere heaving bellows learned to blow, While organs yet were mute, Timotheus, to his breathing flute And sounding lyre, Could swell the soul to rage or kindle soft desire.