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 σελίδες |
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... 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- tation of the action to the word , and the word to 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- tation of the action to the word , and the word to the ...
Σελίδα 29
... is nearly in the following manner , that nature expresses them . . Tranquility , or apathy , appears by the com osure of the countenance , and general reppse of the pody and i S limbs , without the exertion of any one muscle . OF GESTURE .
... is nearly in the following manner , that nature expresses them . . Tranquility , or apathy , appears by the com osure of the countenance , and general reppse of the pody and i S limbs , without the exertion of any one muscle . OF GESTURE .
Σελίδα 30
... countenance open ; the forehead smooth ; the eyebrows arched ; the mouth just not shut ; and the eyes passing with an easy motion from object to object , but not dwel- ling long upon any one . Cheerfulness , adds a smile , opening the ...
... countenance open ; the forehead smooth ; the eyebrows arched ; the mouth just not shut ; and the eyes passing with an easy motion from object to object , but not dwel- ling long upon any one . Cheerfulness , adds a smile , opening the ...
Σελίδα 33
... countenance ; all of which only heighten the confu- sion of his appearance . Remorse , or a painful sense of guilt , casts down the countenance , and clouds it with anxiety ; hangs down the head , draws the eyebrows down upon the eyes ...
... countenance ; all of which only heighten the confu- sion of his appearance . Remorse , or a painful sense of guilt , casts down the countenance , and clouds it with anxiety ; hangs down the head , draws the eyebrows down upon the eyes ...
Σελίδα 34
... countenance , gives the whole form an erect and graceful air . The accents are strong , fullmouthed and articulate , the voice firm and even . Boasting , or affected courage , isloud , blustering , threat- ening . The eyes stare ; the ...
... countenance , gives the whole form an erect and graceful air . The accents are strong , fullmouthed and articulate , the voice firm and even . Boasting , or affected courage , isloud , blustering , threat- ening . The eyes stare ; the ...
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Σελίδα 231 - Yet he was kind, or, if severe in aught, The love he bore to learning was in fault...
Σελίδα 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.
Σελίδα 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.
Σελίδα 347 - She lov'd me for the dangers I had pass'd, And I lov'd her that she did pity them.
Σελίδα 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.
Σελίδα 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...
Σελίδα 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?
Σελίδα 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.
Σελίδα 341 - I could weep My spirit from mine eyes ! — There is my dagger, And here my naked breast ; within, a heart Dearer than Plutus...
Σελίδα 230 - Where village statesmen talk'd with looks profound, And news much older than their ale went round. Imagination fondly stoops to trace The...