The Standard Speaker & Elocutionist ...Ward, Lock and Company, 1880 - 248 páginas |
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... head well up and the shoulders well back ; to endeavour to be natural by avoiding all stiffness or restraint in manner ; to guard in every action that it does not degenerate into any kind of buffoonery or vulgar mannerism . It will aid ...
... head well up and the shoulders well back ; to endeavour to be natural by avoiding all stiffness or restraint in manner ; to guard in every action that it does not degenerate into any kind of buffoonery or vulgar mannerism . It will aid ...
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... HEAD AND FACE . The hanging down of the head denotes shame or grief ; the holding of it up , pride or courage . To nod forward implies assent ; to move it from side to side , dissent ; to toss it back- wards , contemptuous and impatient ...
... HEAD AND FACE . The hanging down of the head denotes shame or grief ; the holding of it up , pride or courage . To nod forward implies assent ; to move it from side to side , dissent ; to toss it back- wards , contemptuous and impatient ...
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John William Kirton. of the head implies diffidence or languor . The head is averted in dislike or horror . It leans forward in attention . EYES . The eyes are raised in prayer , They weep in sorrow . They burn in anger . They are ...
John William Kirton. of the head implies diffidence or languor . The head is averted in dislike or horror . It leans forward in attention . EYES . The eyes are raised in prayer , They weep in sorrow . They burn in anger . They are ...
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... head ; And this our life exempt from public haunts , Finds tongues in trees , books in the running brooks , Sermons in stones and good in everything . MIRTH . As You Like It . When joy arises from ludicrous or innocent amusements in ...
... head ; And this our life exempt from public haunts , Finds tongues in trees , books in the running brooks , Sermons in stones and good in everything . MIRTH . As You Like It . When joy arises from ludicrous or innocent amusements in ...
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... head shaken , the voice low , as if abhorring , and the whole body expressive of aversion . Some . times it is marked with dignified spirit , as in the following : - Reproaching with Want of Friendship . You have done that you should be ...
... head shaken , the voice low , as if abhorring , and the whole body expressive of aversion . Some . times it is marked with dignified spirit , as in the following : - Reproaching with Want of Friendship . You have done that you should be ...
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Página 60 - 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.
Página 82 - Dark-heaving; boundless, endless, and sublime — The image of Eternity — the throne Of the Invisible; even from out thy slime The monsters of the deep are made; each zone Obeys thee; thou goest forth, dread, fathomless, alone.
Página 186 - Caesar carelessly but nod on him. He had a fever when he was in Spain, And when the fit was on him, I did mark How he did shake...
Página 152 - God ! sing, ye meadow-streams, with gladsome voice! Ye pine-groves, with your soft and soul-like sounds ! And they, too, have a voice, yon piles of snow, And in their perilous fall, shall thunder, God...
Página 65 - I'll leave you till night; you are welcome to Elsinore. Ros. Good my lord ! [Exeunt Rosencrantz and Giiildenstern. Ham. Ay, so, God be wi' ye :—Now I am alone. O, what a rogue and 'peasant slave am I ! Is it not monstrous that this player here, But in a fiction, in a dream of passion, Could force his soul so to his own conceit...
Página 57 - WE watched her breathing through the night, Her breathing soft and low, As in her breast the wave of life . Kept heaving to and fro. So silently we...
Página 151 - Risest from forth thy silent sea of pines, How silently ! Around thee and above Deep is the air and dark, substantial, black, An ebon mass : methinks thou piercest it As with a wedge ! But when I look again, It is thine own calm home, thy crystal shrine, Thy habitation from eternity ' 0 dread and silent Mount ! I gazed upon thee Till thou, still present to the bodily sense, Didst vanish from my thought : entranced in prayer 1 worshipped the Invisible alone.
Página 72 - The angels, not half so happy in heaven, Went envying her and me; Yes! that was the reason (as all men know, In this kingdom by the sea) That the wind came out of the cloud by night, Chilling and killing my Annabel Lee.
Página 82 - O, young Lochinvar is come out of the west, Through all the wide Border his steed was the best ; And save his good broad-sword he weapon had none, He rode all unarmed, and he rode all alone. So faithful in love, and so dauntless in war, There never was knight like the young Lochinvar.
Página 21 - One touch to her hand, and one word in her ear. When they reached the hall door, and the charger stood near; So light to the croupe the fair lady he swung, So light to the saddle before her he sprung! "She is won! we are gone, over bank, bush, and scaur: They'll have fleet steeds that follow,