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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... PASSIONS , & c . OF THE MIND . ALSO , AN APPENDIX , CONTAINING LESSONS ON A NEW PLAN . LEICESTER : PRINTED BY HORI BROWN , HARVARD COLLEGE LIBRARY FROM THE ESTATE OF ARTEMUS WARD DECEMBER 18201 LESSONS IN ELOCUTION ,
... PASSIONS , & c . OF THE MIND . ALSO , AN APPENDIX , CONTAINING LESSONS ON A NEW PLAN . LEICESTER : PRINTED BY HORI BROWN , HARVARD COLLEGE LIBRARY FROM THE ESTATE OF ARTEMUS WARD DECEMBER 18201 LESSONS IN ELOCUTION ,
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... passions and humors , which occur in reading or public speaking , Rules respecting elocution , 20 Burgh , 28 Walker , 46 PART I - LESSONS IN READING . SECTION I. 1. to 5. Select sentences , Art of Thinking , 57 6. The fox and the goat ...
... passions and humors , which occur in reading or public speaking , Rules respecting elocution , 20 Burgh , 28 Walker , 46 PART I - LESSONS IN READING . SECTION I. 1. to 5. Select sentences , Art of Thinking , 57 6. The fox and the goat ...
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... Passions . - An ode , Collins , 256 SECTION VIII . 1. Lamentation for the loss of sight , 2. L'Allegro , or the merry man , 3. On the pursuits of mankind , 4. Adam and Eve's morning hymn , 5. Parting of Hector and Adromache , 6 ...
... Passions . - An ode , Collins , 256 SECTION VIII . 1. Lamentation for the loss of sight , 2. L'Allegro , or the merry man , 3. On the pursuits of mankind , 4. Adam and Eve's morning hymn , 5. Parting of Hector and Adromache , 6 ...
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... passions ; and has shown us how they appear in the countenance , and operate on the body ; but this system , however useful to people of riper years , is too delicate and com- plicated to be taught in schols . Indeed the exact adap ...
... passions ; and has shown us how they appear in the countenance , and operate on the body ; but this system , however useful to people of riper years , is too delicate and com- plicated to be taught in schols . Indeed the exact adap ...
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... passion , shall not be incen- sistent with the expression of any passion ; which shall always keep the body in a graceful position , and shall so vary its motions , at proper intervals , as to see the sub- ject operating on the speaker ...
... passion , shall not be incen- sistent with the expression of any passion ; which shall always keep the body in a graceful position , and shall so vary its motions , at proper intervals , as to see the sub- ject operating on the speaker ...
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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...