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 pages |
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... cause the audience are not prepared to go along with him . False and provincial accents are to be guarded against or corrected . The manner of pronouncing , which is usual among people of education , who are natives of the metropolis ...
... cause the audience are not prepared to go along with him . False and provincial accents are to be guarded against or corrected . The manner of pronouncing , which is usual among people of education , who are natives of the metropolis ...
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... in his own defence , causes his tongue to faulter , and con- founds his utterance ; and puts him upon making a thou- sand gestures and grimaces , to keep himself in counte- nance ; all which only heighten the confusion of his [ 21 ]
... in his own defence , causes his tongue to faulter , and con- founds his utterance ; and puts him upon making a thou- sand gestures and grimaces , to keep himself in counte- nance ; all which only heighten the confusion of his [ 21 ]
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... the object , if the cause of the passion be a present and visible object , with the look , all except the wildness , of fear . ( See Fear . ) If the hands hold any thing , at the time , when the object of wonder appears , they [ 26 ]
... the object , if the cause of the passion be a present and visible object , with the look , all except the wildness , of fear . ( See Fear . ) If the hands hold any thing , at the time , when the object of wonder appears , they [ 26 ]
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... cause . And yet , of the two , learning is much less necessary to a preacher , than skill in persuading . Quintilian * makes this latter the supreme excellence in his orator . Let the reader only consider , that a shoemaker , or a tay ...
... cause . And yet , of the two , learning is much less necessary to a preacher , than skill in persuading . Quintilian * makes this latter the supreme excellence in his orator . Let the reader only consider , that a shoemaker , or a tay ...
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... cause not only of the subversion of states and kingdoms , when luxury and corruption spread their fatal contagion , and leave a people the unthinking prey of tyranny and oppression ; but of utter irretrievable destruction of the souls ...
... cause not only of the subversion of states and kingdoms , when luxury and corruption spread their fatal contagion , and leave a people the unthinking prey of tyranny and oppression ; but of utter irretrievable destruction of the souls ...
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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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Page 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...
Page 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.
Page 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?
Page 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...
Page 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.
Page 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?
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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...
Page 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.