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 σελίδες |
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Σελίδα 6
... fall out with our mother tongue , on account of some hard and un - liquid syllables in it , how shall we bear the celebrated Roman language itself , in every sentence of which we find such sounds as tot , quot , sub , ad , sed , est ...
... fall out with our mother tongue , on account of some hard and un - liquid syllables in it , how shall we bear the celebrated Roman language itself , in every sentence of which we find such sounds as tot , quot , sub , ad , sed , est ...
Σελίδα 11
... falling . Cant , is , in speaking , as psalmody and ballad in music , a strain consisting of a few notes rising and ... fall at the end of sentences ; and to read without any particu lar whine , cant , or drawl , and with the natural ...
... falling . Cant , is , in speaking , as psalmody and ballad in music , a strain consisting of a few notes rising and ... fall at the end of sentences ; and to read without any particu lar whine , cant , or drawl , and with the natural ...
Σελίδα 20
... falls ; the lips pale , the eyes are cast down , half - shut , eyelids swelled and red , or livid ; tears trickling silent , and unwiped ; with a total inattention to every thing that passes . Words , if any , few , and those dragged ...
... falls ; the lips pale , the eyes are cast down , half - shut , eyelids swelled and red , or livid ; tears trickling silent , and unwiped ; with a total inattention to every thing that passes . Words , if any , few , and those dragged ...
Σελίδα 40
... their hearers , even to dozing , and some- times to profound sleep . But where does this complaint fall at last ? Even upon the preachers themselves , who address their hearers with such coldness and indifference as to [ 40 ]
... their hearers , even to dozing , and some- times to profound sleep . But where does this complaint fall at last ? Even upon the preachers themselves , who address their hearers with such coldness and indifference as to [ 40 ]
Σελίδα 80
... fall to , and spare not . Here is a shoulder of excellent Banstead mutton [ pointing to the brown loaf ] as ever was cut with knife . Here you may cut and come again . But , now I think on it , I had better help you myself , now my hand ...
... fall to , and spare not . Here is a shoulder of excellent Banstead mutton [ pointing to the brown loaf ] as ever was cut with knife . Here you may cut and come again . But , now I think on it , I had better help you myself , now my hand ...
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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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Σελίδα 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...
Σελίδα 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.
Σελίδα 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?
Σελίδα 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...
Σελίδα 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.
Σελίδα 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?
Σελίδα 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.
Σελίδα 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.
Σελίδα 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...
Σελίδα 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.