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 13
... page , and gives it a speckled appearance . As if it were not of infinitely more con- sequence to make sure of edifying the reader , than of * John iv . 1 , 2 , 3 . pleasing his eye . But to return to emphasis , [ 13 [
... page , and gives it a speckled appearance . As if it were not of infinitely more con- sequence to make sure of edifying the reader , than of * John iv . 1 , 2 , 3 . pleasing his eye . But to return to emphasis , [ 13 [
Σελίδα 36
... sure so truly rational , that a Plato , or a Socrates , need not be ashamed to declare their sensibility of it . But here again , the eye has not its gratification . For the opera ( in which action is joined with music , in order to ...
... sure so truly rational , that a Plato , or a Socrates , need not be ashamed to declare their sensibility of it . But here again , the eye has not its gratification . For the opera ( in which action is joined with music , in order to ...
Σελίδα 64
... sure to mark the rising and setting of the heaven- ly bodies , and to understand that their established Courses have been going on from age to age . When they have surveyed and considered all these things , 64 LESSON S.
... sure to mark the rising and setting of the heaven- ly bodies , and to understand that their established Courses have been going on from age to age . When they have surveyed and considered all these things , 64 LESSON S.
Σελίδα 77
... Sure mounded , and with num'rous turrets crown'd , Aeriel spires and citadels , the seat Of kings and heroes resolute in war ; Fam'd Ariconium ; uncontroll'd and free , Till all - subduing Latian arms prevail'd . Then likewise , tho ...
... Sure mounded , and with num'rous turrets crown'd , Aeriel spires and citadels , the seat Of kings and heroes resolute in war ; Fam'd Ariconium ; uncontroll'd and free , Till all - subduing Latian arms prevail'd . Then likewise , tho ...
Σελίδα 88
... Sure pledge of day , that crown'st the smiling morn With thy bright circlet ! praise him in thy sphere While morn arises , that sweet hour of prime . Admiration ( 3 ) Thou sun , of this great world both eye and soul , Lowly Sub ...
... Sure pledge of day , that crown'st the smiling morn With thy bright circlet ! praise him in thy sphere While morn arises , that sweet hour of prime . Admiration ( 3 ) Thou sun , of this great world both eye and soul , Lowly Sub ...
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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.