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 ...Samuel Butler, 1804 - 291 páginas |
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... doubt not , many a gentleman would willingly acquire , at the expence of half his other improvements . The reader will naturally reflect here upon one impor-- tant use for good speaking , which was unknown to the an cients , viz . for ...
... doubt not , many a gentleman would willingly acquire , at the expence of half his other improvements . The reader will naturally reflect here upon one impor-- tant use for good speaking , which was unknown to the an cients , viz . for ...
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... doubt and anxiety . Desire differs from hope , as to expression , in this particular , that there are more appearance of doubt and anxiety in the former , than the latter . For it is one thing to desire what is agreeable , and another ...
... doubt and anxiety . Desire differs from hope , as to expression , in this particular , that there are more appearance of doubt and anxiety in the former , than the latter . For it is one thing to desire what is agreeable , and another ...
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... doubt not , but some of the narrower part of the clergy , as well as of the people , would think any other form of a pulpit , than the present , though much fitter for exhibiting the speaker to an advantge , an innovation likely to ...
... doubt not , but some of the narrower part of the clergy , as well as of the people , would think any other form of a pulpit , than the present , though much fitter for exhibiting the speaker to an advantge , an innovation likely to ...
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... doubt in his mind , of his friend's fidelity . The event shewed how well he knew him . He came in due time , and surrendered to that fate , which he had no reason to think he should escape ; and which he did not desire to escape by ...
... doubt in his mind , of his friend's fidelity . The event shewed how well he knew him . He came in due time , and surrendered to that fate , which he had no reason to think he should escape ; and which he did not desire to escape by ...
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... doubt , that there were , in former times , such men as Alex- ander and Cæsar , than whether all the angles of a plain triangle amount to the sum of one hun- dred and eighty degrees ; they cannot pretend that they believe the latter at ...
... doubt , that there were , in former times , such men as Alex- ander and Cæsar , than whether all the angles of a plain triangle amount to the sum of one hun- dred and eighty degrees ; they cannot pretend that they believe the latter at ...
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Términos y frases comunes
Accufing Affectation Alarm Anger Anxiety Apology Apprehen arms Authority Averfion Bevil blood body breast Cæsar Caius Verres Complaint Contempt countenance countrymen Courage daugh daughter dead death defence demnation Demosthenes Diodotus Doubt ducats 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 Majesty 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 soul speak speaker speech ſpoken Styx Submiffion thee thing thou thought thousand guineas tion utter Vexation virtue voice Volsci whole Wonder words
Pasajes populares
Página 157 - Is this a dagger which I see before me, The handle toward my hand? Come, let me clutch thee. I have thee not, and yet I see thee still. 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 139 - 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 propos'd, Caesar cried,
Página 124 - Omnipotent. Ay me ! they little know How dearly I abide that boast so vain, Under what torments inwardly I groan, While they adore me on the throne of Hell. With diadem and sceptre high advanced, The lower still I fall, only supreme In misery ; such joy ambition finds.
Página 218 - To be no more. Sad cure! for who would lose, Though full of pain, this intellectual being, Those thoughts that wander through eternity, To perish rather, swallowed up and lost In the wide womb of uncreated Night, Devoid of sense and motion?
Página 169 - Pray can I not, Though inclination be as sharp as will. My stronger guilt defeats my strong intent, And, like a man to double business bound, 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? Whereto serves mercy But to confront the visage of offence?
Página 89 - How much of other each is sure to cost ; How each for other oft is wholly lost ; How inconsistent greater goods with these ; How sometimes life is...
Página 124 - So farewell hope, and with hope farewell fear, Farewell remorse : all good to me is lost ; Evil, be thou my good ; by thee at least Divided empire with heav'n's King I hold; By thee, and more than half perhaps will reign ; As man ere long and this new world shall know.
Página 124 - And heavier fall ; so should I purchase dear Short intermission bought with double smart. This knows my punisher ; therefore as far From granting he, as I from begging peace...
Página 162 - 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 192 - With eyes darting fury, and a countenance distorted with cruelty, he orders the helpless victim of his rage to be stripped, and rods to be brought ; accusing him, but without the least shadow of evidence, or even of suspicion, of having come to Sicily as a spy.