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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... suffering ) but more moderate , as the painful feelings are only sympathetic , and therefore one remove , as it were , more distant from the soul , than what one feels in his own person . Grief , sudden , and violent , expresses itself ...
... suffering ) but more moderate , as the painful feelings are only sympathetic , and therefore one remove , as it were , more distant from the soul , than what one feels in his own person . Grief , sudden , and violent , expresses itself ...
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... suffer tears to flow ; yet the eye - balls will be red and inflamed , like those of an animal in a rabid state . The head is hung down upon the breast . The arms are bended at the elbows , the fists clenched hard the veins and muscles ...
... suffer tears to flow ; yet the eye - balls will be red and inflamed , like those of an animal in a rabid state . The head is hung down upon the breast . The arms are bended at the elbows , the fists clenched hard the veins and muscles ...
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... suffer in hisplace . Such fidelity softened even the savage heart of not most of the following paffages , taken both from the ancients and the moderns . For my defign was to put together a fet of leffons useful for practice , which did ...
... suffer in hisplace . Such fidelity softened even the savage heart of not most of the following paffages , taken both from the ancients and the moderns . For my defign was to put together a fet of leffons useful for practice , which did ...
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... Suffering . Arguing . Say , would'st thou be the man to whom they Question . fall ? To sigh for ribbands , if thou art so silly , Mark how they grace Lord Umbra , or Sir Billy . Is yellow dirt the passion of thy life ? Look but on ...
... Suffering . Arguing . Say , would'st thou be the man to whom they Question . fall ? To sigh for ribbands , if thou art so silly , Mark how they grace Lord Umbra , or Sir Billy . Is yellow dirt the passion of thy life ? Look but on ...
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... Master Brook , there was as great a variety of villainous smells , as there was of living things in Noah's ark . There I suffered the pangs of three unnatural deaths . First , the intolerable fear of being de- 112 LESSONS .
... Master Brook , there was as great a variety of villainous smells , as there was of living things in Noah's ark . There I suffered the pangs of three unnatural deaths . First , the intolerable fear of being de- 112 LESSONS .
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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.