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 ページ |
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... sense of one's appearing to a disadvantage , before one's fellow creatures ; turns away the face from the beholders ; covers it with blushes ; hangs the head ; casts down the eyes ; draws down the eyebrows ; either strikes the person ...
... sense of one's appearing to a disadvantage , before one's fellow creatures ; turns away the face from the beholders ; covers it with blushes ; hangs the head ; casts down the eyes ; draws down the eyebrows ; either strikes the person ...
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... sense and just speaking would require . Almost all persons , who have not studied the art of speaking , have a habit of uttering their words so rapidly , that this latter exercise ought generally to be made use of for a considerable ...
... sense and just speaking would require . Almost all persons , who have not studied the art of speaking , have a habit of uttering their words so rapidly , that this latter exercise ought generally to be made use of for a considerable ...
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... sense must always appear confused and obscure , and often be misunderstood ; and the spirit and ener- gy of the piece must be wholly lost . In executing this part of the office of a speaker , it will by no means be sufficient to attend ...
... sense must always appear confused and obscure , and often be misunderstood ; and the spirit and ener- gy of the piece must be wholly lost . In executing this part of the office of a speaker , it will by no means be sufficient to attend ...
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... sense which requires the last sound to be elevated or emphatical , an easy fall sufficient to shew that the sense is finished , will be prop- er . And in pathetic pieces , especially those of the plaintive , tender or solemn kind , the ...
... sense which requires the last sound to be elevated or emphatical , an easy fall sufficient to shew that the sense is finished , will be prop- er . And in pathetic pieces , especially those of the plaintive , tender or solemn kind , the ...
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... sense ; the third good humor ; the last , wit . The great error in conversation is , to be fonder of speaking than of hearing . Few show more complais- ance than to pretend to hearken , intent all the while up- on what they themselves ...
... sense ; the third good humor ; the last , wit . The great error in conversation is , to be fonder of speaking than of hearing . Few show more complais- ance than to pretend to hearken , intent all the while up- on what they themselves ...
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231 ページ - Yet he was kind, or, if severe in aught, The love he bore to learning was in fault...
351 ページ - 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.
224 ページ - 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.
347 ページ - She lov'd me for the dangers I had pass'd, And I lov'd her that she did pity them.
243 ページ - 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.
224 ページ - 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...
224 ページ - 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?
117 ページ - 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.
341 ページ - I could weep My spirit from mine eyes ! — There is my dagger, And here my naked breast ; within, a heart Dearer than Plutus...
230 ページ - Where village statesmen talk'd with looks profound, And news much older than their ale went round. Imagination fondly stoops to trace The...