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 páginas |
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... better be published . Whoever imagines the English tongue unfit for oratory has not a just notion of it . That , by reason of the dis- proportion between its vowels and consonants , it is not quite so tractable as the Italian , and ...
... better be published . Whoever imagines the English tongue unfit for oratory has not a just notion of it . That , by reason of the dis- proportion between its vowels and consonants , it is not quite so tractable as the Italian , and ...
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... better spoken , than by a gentleman , who yet had so little discernment in music , that he has often told me , the grinding of knives entertained him as much as Handel's organ . As soon as a child can read , without spelling , the words ...
... better spoken , than by a gentleman , who yet had so little discernment in music , that he has often told me , the grinding of knives entertained him as much as Handel's organ . As soon as a child can read , without spelling , the words ...
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... better grace for his having learned to dance in the most elegant manner . The orator may not have actual occasion to express anger , jealousy , malice , and some few others of the more violent passions , for which I have here given ...
... better grace for his having learned to dance in the most elegant manner . The orator may not have actual occasion to express anger , jealousy , malice , and some few others of the more violent passions , for which I have here given ...
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... better attitude , than those of an Egyptian mummy , than distorting himself into all the vio- lations of decorum , which affectation produces . Art , seen through , is execrable . Modesty ought ever to be conspicuous in the behaviour of ...
... better attitude , than those of an Egyptian mummy , than distorting himself into all the vio- lations of decorum , which affectation produces . Art , seen through , is execrable . Modesty ought ever to be conspicuous in the behaviour of ...
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... better than their neighbours . But what is the plain English of this lamentable out- cry ? Why , truly , that they find people loath to go to the places of public instruction to be disgusted or lulled to sleep . And , that when they ...
... better than their neighbours . But what is the plain English of this lamentable out- cry ? Why , truly , that they find people loath to go to the places of public instruction to be disgusted or lulled to sleep . And , that when they ...
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Accufing Affectation Alarm Anger anguish Anxiety Apology Apprehen arms Authority Bevil blood body breast Cæsar Caius Verres Complaint Contempt countenance countrymen Courage daugh daughter dead death defence demnation Demosthenes Diodotus Doubt 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 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 Sicily soul speak speaker speech ſpoken Styx Submiffion Surpriſe thee thing thou thought thousand guineas tion utter Vexation virtue voice Volsci whole Wonder words
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Página 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...
Página 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.
Página 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?
Página 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...
Página 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.
Página 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?
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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...
Página 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.