A class-book of elocutionJohnstone and Hunter, 1853 - 360 pages |
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... hand that touched it . The study of elocution may con- fer grace and even , impressiveness upon a speaker , when the steps in the process under which that study is conducted are not too symbolical and complicated to be easily understood ...
... hand that touched it . The study of elocution may con- fer grace and even , impressiveness upon a speaker , when the steps in the process under which that study is conducted are not too symbolical and complicated to be easily understood ...
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J H. Aitken. tised by some speakers , which disposes of the right hand and then of the left , the right again and then the left , alternately , as if at the bidding of some hidden machi- nery ; irrespective altogether of feeling or ...
J H. Aitken. tised by some speakers , which disposes of the right hand and then of the left , the right again and then the left , alternately , as if at the bidding of some hidden machi- nery ; irrespective altogether of feeling or ...
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... hand the death of hèroes . O'ne was his love , and fair was shé ! the daughter of mighty Cònloch . - Shè appeared like a sunbēam amōng wòmen . Her háir was like the wing of the ràven . Her dogs were taught to the chase . - Her ...
... hand the death of hèroes . O'ne was his love , and fair was shé ! the daughter of mighty Cònloch . - Shè appeared like a sunbēam amōng wòmen . Her háir was like the wing of the ràven . Her dogs were taught to the chase . - Her ...
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... hand , and sits upon our lips , and is ready to drop out before we are aware ; whereas a lie is troublesome , and one trick needs a great many more to make it good . Add to all this , that sincerity is the most compendious wisdom , and ...
... hand , and sits upon our lips , and is ready to drop out before we are aware ; whereas a lie is troublesome , and one trick needs a great many more to make it good . Add to all this , that sincerity is the most compendious wisdom , and ...
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... hànd I'll not hurt a háir of thy head : Gò - says he , lifting up the sash , and opening his hand as he spoke , to let it escàpe - gò , poōr creāture ; gét thee gone ; why should I hurt thèe ? This world surely is wide enough to hold ...
... hànd I'll not hurt a háir of thy head : Gò - says he , lifting up the sash , and opening his hand as he spoke , to let it escàpe - gò , poōr creāture ; gét thee gone ; why should I hurt thèe ? This world surely is wide enough to hold ...
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Page 45 - Honour pricks me on. Yea, but how if honour prick me off when I come on ? how then ? Can honour set to a leg? No. Or an arm? No. Or take away the grief of a wound ? No. Honour hath no skill in surgery then ? No. What is honour? A word. What is in that word, honour? What is that honour? Air. A trim reckoning ! Who hath it? He that died o
Page 283 - Lands intersected by a narrow frith Abhor each other. Mountains interposed Make enemies of nations, who had else Like kindred drops been mingled into one.
Page 330 - Seems, madam! nay, it is; I know not seems. 'Tis not alone my inky cloak, good mother, Nor customary suits of solemn black, Nor windy suspiration of forc'd breath, No, nor the fruitful river in the eye.
Page 114 - The depth saith, It is not in me; and the sea saith, It is not with me. It cannot be gotten for gold, neither shall silver be weighed for the price thereof.
Page 265 - Is it far away in some region old, Where the rivers wander o'er sands of gold ? Where the burning rays of the ruby shine, And the diamond lights up the secret mine, And the pearl gleams forth from the coral strand Is it there, sweet mother, that better land ? Not there ; not there, my child.
Page 217 - ON Linden, when the sun was low, All bloodless lay the untrodden snow, And dark as winter was the flow Of Iser, rolling rapidly. But Linden saw another sight, When the drum beat at dead of night, Commanding fires of death to light The darkness of her scenery.
Page 275 - Few and short were the prayers we said, And we spoke not a word of sorrow But we steadfastly gazed on the face that was dead, And we bitterly thought of the morrow. We thought, as we hollowed his narrow bed, And smoothed down his lonely pillow, That the foe and the stranger would tread o'er his head, And we far away on the billow...
Page 94 - tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, Or to take arms against a sea of troubles, And by opposing end them ? To die to sleep No more ; and, by a sleep, to say we end The heartache, and the thousand natural shocks That flesh is heir to 'tis a consummation Devoutly to be wish'd. To die to sleep ; To sleep ! perchance to dream : ay, there's the rub ; For in that sleep of death what dreams may come, When we have shuffled off this mortal...
Page 208 - There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the lonely shore, There is society, where none intrudes, By the deep sea, and music in its roar...
Page 299 - 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.